skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Bay Area VC-funded companies are now the conservative, boring choice. They don't involve much risk"

The question I love to ask around is whether any of these VCs or so-called "angels" of today would write a check to a smelly barefoot bum in a garage working with two other nerds on some unknown unproven electronic board. (in other words, how Mark Markkulla wrote the check to Steve Jobs to fund Apple)

> "I don't know where the next emerging opportunities are"

I am not sure either, but if I was 22 today I would be packing my stuff and buying a one-way ticket to China. (I did live 2 years in China and left recently due to family reasons, but I am almost 40 now).
Disable your dedicated GPU.

http://gfx.io/
It depends on what side of AI/ML you end up on, though. The research-heavy side involves lots of math and requires a PhD (or a MS + experience, in industry); the data engineering & infrastructure side is almost solely coding (and distributed systems design).
This is what I see as soon as the page opens: http://i.imgur.com/XQlQfXl.jpg?1

Note that it's hard to read the white text in the foreground.
Job-hopping or not is the ultimate question
So, what’s the advantage over YQL? http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Quick question- are you aiming for a computer science/software job with lots of math, or a math job that involves computing?

It's an important distinction. The people who are doing math with the help of computers (rather than doing software that uses math) are much more involved in mathematics.
Two things:

1. Ross posted online using his real email address, which was found with subpoenas

2. The Silk Road server had a public IP address used for server admin
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he can buy a lot of cigarettes
There's a machine learning path that fits this: study math/stats/algorithms, get a graduate degree, work on research in industry or academia.

Your question is somewhat vague, though. Do you want to spend the majority of your time working on math? Even machine learning researchers only spend a majority of their time on annoying data cleanup issues, model coding, or data infrastructure. Further, as you become more successful you worry about grant-writing, lab management, or stressing about tenure (or, if industry, department cuts). What's your motivation for entering a "slow" field? Regression is going nowhere but ML's research frontiers are expanding rapidly right now.

Note also that you won't land this work with just an undergrad degree, so you should add another 2-5 years of schooling if considering ML.
China employs 2 million analysts to monitor web activity
This is an excellent point, although I disagree with 90%. Lots of a developer's time goes into QA/testing, design, and conversations about requirements and goals. I think developers spend much less than 90% of their time with an IDE open.
I'm not disagreeing with you re: the Tesla S is way out of reach of someone "only" making $100k.

I was just pointing out that besides housing (especially owning) the cost of almost everything in CA is the same if you move somewhere where the cost of living is lower yet the salaries elsewhere are significantly less. So there is an opportunity to save a lot of money if you are willing to compromise somewhat on your living conditions.

I suppose it depends on whether you think it's important to own your home and/or you mind having roommates. When I first moved to CA I had severe sticker shock re: the rents so I rented a room in nice houses with other young professionals for the first 5 or so years I lived here.
While this article contains many interesting points the premise is just silly: criticizing a (very good) 90 minute movie based on a 5 minute trailer. Perhaps some of the "problems" we're explained away in the other 85 minutes?

SPOILER ALERT

Problem 1: debris - The debris were created after the space walk started by a chain of collisions began by a Russian anti-satellite weapon. So they could would not know to abort the spacewalk before it began.

Problem 2: Clooney's jetpack - The movie explains that he is testing an experimental jetpack that has very long duration. He could apparently set a spacewalk duration record while fly around almost continuously. Maybe this is impossible but the move seem to take place in the future, there is a Chinese space station, and/or alternate reality, the Space Shuttle still flies.

Problem 3: Clooney's Superman impersonation - As explained above this was a more advance jetpack than ever actually used by NASA.

Problem 4: Clooney's rescue attempt - Again the advance jetpack means it would make sense for her to rescue her.

The BIIIIIIG problem 5: From HST to ISS - Since it is an alternate and/or future world there is no reason orbits have to as they are today. It may even make sense to have the HST in a close orbit to IIS to make repairs such as this. And again the more advanced jetpack would make such a journey easier.

Problem 6: Suit abuse - Here I think the article may have a good point seems like the suits would not be able to take all the damage.
What tooling and support are you talking about that RHEL has that is not available for Ubuntu?
I have used NetBSD for years (2000-2005 timeframe), it is one of the cleanest UNIX systems that really sticks to the UNIX philosophy. Unfortunately, it never gained much traction, leading to a shortage of drivers, etc. In some ways it is surprising, you'd think that appliance vendors would love a good UNIX system under a liberal license.
I think South San Jose/Campbell and Fremont (via Dumbarton) should be good bets for you.
Thanks a bunch, I kept dragging and dropping, thinking I was doing something collosally wrong
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As someone who gets asked many more questions than he asks himself, I think this is a fantastic rule of thumb. It's annoying when somebody asks me a question which I can tell they spent no time troubleshooting. But, it's possibly even more annoying when I go check in with somebody and find out they have been spinning their wheels for a day and a half on a 5-minute problem without telling anybody. I would rather they err on the side of bothering me than burn hours upon hours of time.
Many Americans also pay for both of those without being eligible to receive either of those benefits. I count both of those items as additional taxation, in my case.
Well, they aren't really intended for the same type of service. BART is rather unusual by combining what is in some places almost commuter-rail station spacing with full grade separation ($$$), but it's still best when running more high-demand, high-frequency service. I wouldn't expect local SJ-SF BART service to be a lot faster than local Caltrain - faster acceleration would help a bit, but at that stop spacing it's not a huge factor.

In the long term there would definitely be utility for round-the-bay BART service, but right now Caltrain provides way better nortbound service than San Jose-East Bay connections, so that extension does make more sense for having more priority. With any luck, Caltrain electrification driven by the HSR project might happen before Santa Clara gets around to funding BART to Mountain View, further reducing the need.
DSP related jobs are pretty math heavy, albeit in a very particular focused area of math. These jobs are in demand and highly specialized, so you aren't going to see a thousand job postings, but when you find one, if you are good, they will want you.
He gets points for brevity. You gotta admit that :)
Oh man, come on!

I know Twitters can be hard to read but that is just unprofessional.

It looks like a kid wrote it.
To use webrtc with more than 2 users you would need a webrtc streaming server that receives an incoming webrtc packet and sends it to all listening connections. Like a pub-sub model
As Elizabeth Warren said:

“I have heard the argument that transparency would undermine the Trade Representative’s policy to complete the trade agreement because public opposition would be significant,” Warren explained. “In other words, if people knew what was going on, they would stop it. This argument is exactly backwards. If transparency would lead to widespread public opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States.”

watch her here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=kAgJaIwdXLI

democracynow has more info out yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-x5SlcPPM
I have said this time and time again, the only way to be properly safe when using a VPN is if the supplier can guarantee that NO logs at all are saved - of course, no one can guarantee that without showing you the system.

Setting up your own private fully encrypted (Harddrive) OpenVPN is quite easy and the only "secure" alternative.
Why We Cry on Planes - The Atlantic
Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall Street up at night
i5(Ivy bridge), 9cell internal, slice battery, ssd, 16gb ram. The internal is one year old, the slice is two or three months. I have it set to always drain the slice first, which maintains the internal battery well, but shortens the long-term life of the slices. I can get 4ish(?) hours on the slice alone.

13ish hours is my number from a few weeks ago on top of Mt. Diablo. I was running a VM, making decent use of my 4g connection, and doing otherwise reasonably intensive tasks with the screen brightness all the way up. I've never done a video-loop at 75% brightness type test, so I can't give you an apples to apples comparison.
You probably want to live in the San Jose area. There are a lot of good neighborhoods like Willow Glen or Campbell. Get a place close to I-280 rather than US-101. 101 is not as well maintained and it's crowded all day.

San Mateo is not a bad place to live, especially if you like urban areas. Rent is more expensive there, though, and there is more traffic.
"Seizing" is:

1. Taking control of them

2. Removing control of them from anyone else

The second point is specific to a digital asset which can be duplicated (in this case we are also talking about any passwords).

Bitcoin, by definition, allows the second point, but requires a transaction. So the FBI should have made a transaction immediately (or have the means of invalidating any transaction of those bitcoin).

This is novel and critical to the story, but the Guardian article seemed to tangentially miss it.
A general solution for this kind of problem: get other content above them in Google. This is not hard; mugshot pages and the like have very little PageRank mojo. The only reason they're at the top of the results is that there's nothing else with your name to compete.

All you have to do is make a few interesting things (blog posts, github, etc.) with your name on them and post them to sites like reddit, and they'll easily beat any data-combing reputation smear site.
Any of them properly equipped for strength training? Went ot at least a couple in the area where they didn't want people to use chalk and the floors were not meant to hold anything heavy, so they'd forbid you to deadlift.
Economic question: won't this just eventually result in a rise in prices to reflect the fact that everyone has more money? I guess imported goods will remain about the same price, but things produced locally would almost definitely go up in price. If I knew all of my customers had $2500/month more, I'd raise prices.
> and just in a league of its own for concurrency.

Not really. Other languages are far superior in this regard (see Scala or Rust for instance).
Hacking the intel fan for fun
it is not required just when i send you email it can look more human. you can put anything you want.
I would think he could get some very high quality legal representation w/ $80 million lurking out there. Although it might be complicated by the fact that he won't be allowed out on pre-trial release. And let's face it; he could very well be the fall guy for the originators of Silk Road and not the "real" Dread Pirate Roberts at all.
Using 'the' to refer to a freeway is a dead give away you are not a native as is "San Fran" or "Frisco".

However, "the city" and "the bay" are perfectly acceptable.
Can I suggest not using alpha/beta - they are labels used to indicate the state of a proprietary project - how "polished" it is - whereas you are continuously exploring. if you must I suggest using a target audience - contributors, early adopters. etc etc
The latter part of my argument, about neighborhood and building-scale self-sufficiency (a concept I believe to be somewhat silly) was indeed premised on Western living patterns... but not the rest.

Thanks for the admission of poor premise. I'm just not clear what "the rest" was.

You continue to talk about "unused" land near major population centers, then combine rice-yield statistics from tropical, water-rich environments with an example of Beijing, an arid climate with relatively extreme temperature fluctuation making it a very poor yielding area for rice (though it is grown, you get only one instead of two and often three crops per year in tropical/subtropical zones).

I admire your optimism with regards to solar and share your concerns around world energy usage and the need to actively consider alternative energy generation, but I think the sad reality is that cities are a lot less space-rich than you assume and that solar yields in places like Beijing are too space inefficient to give the types of returns you are looking for.

You will have, of course, noticed that right next to Beijing (>21 million) are also the cities of Chengde (173km; ~4 million), Datong (265km; ~3.5 million), Tianjian (112km; >13 million), Shijiazhuang (267km; >10 million), Tangshan (157km; ~8 million), Zhangjiakou (160km; ~4.5 million)?

Despite this density, Chinese are well fed, a fact which derives from very high efficiency land use with strong government support for agricultural research and technology. Huge projects such as the Grand Canal[1] have supported these populations for millenia.

It's great to discuss these things, but the reality on the ground is very different to napkin-world. In short, I'm sorry but you're probably more than one magnitude out... "guaranteed".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_%28China%29
> ou are mixing up what people can afford to what people think they need.

Last time I heard this in 1980s in Communistic Poland from Communistic Party Propaganda Minister Urban explaining to Polish people living under communistic rule why buses are better than cars. You just think you need a car, bus will do :-) Interestingly enough they (communist party) also used the argumentation of lack of private cars ownership as being beneficial to the natural environment.

I'm not confusing anything my friend. You are the one confused by marxist propaganda spread in Europe by people like its President ex-Maoist Barroso. This what I'm talking about is standard of living. I could care less about average income in Switzerland of 100k chf a year if it doesn't buy me a mortgage for a nice house and 2 new cars in the driveway. Enjoy your trains!
To many of the commenters, have a look at this: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html

This is from the CDC.

* 9.5 of all kids diagnosed with ADHD
* 13.2% of boys
* 22% increase of children with a parent-reported ADHD diagnosis between 2003 and 2007

Really? You think this is OK?
"whether they like it or not"

Basically they admit that this is a scraping tool for doing things you shouldn't.

Companies that want to sell you data do. Companies that provide data for free to use how you like do. This is basically automating stealing.

I have really low moral standards but I can see the wrongness of this.
> but it surprises me so many people jump to Go for performance similar to what you'd get on a modern JVM language

In a word: hype. If Go did not have the Google brand name attached to it, it wouldn't have gone anywhere.
It's an interesting point, but I'm not sure I agree. In order to work people are needed to drive the bus I take to work, make me coffee in Starbucks, make me lunch in McDonald's, clean and maintain the building I work in, etc. If I'm not working I don't need other people's human labour to do that, I can do those things myself. Ok you could argue that those people aren't needed for me to work, it is just the lifestyle I choose, but I think that is the point - most people who seek financial independence don't want to have the same lifestyle they currently have.
World gym has 3 combo cages/deadlift platforms and rubber plates that people drop from above their heads all time. I see people use chalk as well.
Fortunately we have the freedom to not care about what FSF thinks.
Birthday attack
Like they know what the hell is going on?

Most people don't know the difference between Windows and Word. This is just going to confuse them further which is not a great way to win market share.
it looks like yql is only for some sites and you need the sites api key, and this is any site "whether they like it or not" and it takes 2 clicks.

cool project thought about doing this myself, gl!.
The message I got was that POSIX advisory locking needs to be ripped out.
Yes, some arguments require complicated reasoning. However, even in such cases the author still is responsible for keeping the reader's interest. For this it is for example helpful to start with an introduction to the topic and end with a summary. Writing is also better if it doesn't contain phrases that add little to nothing to the content.
It was UTF8 so no guarantee about character versus byte size.
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As well as a number of beta testers (who when they offer useful feedback can be worth their weight in gold).
Thanks for the link.

To my eyes, the build scripts are pretty clear. I like the way the scripts are nicely organized using 'apply'. Maybe the only script that may look complex to someone starting with gradle is 'convention.gradle', but again, nothing impossibly hard to grasp for a developer.
Do you even know what SoundCloud is? The music is uploaded by the artists themselves so this is perfectly legal.
I don't see a particular reason why one should mention "PC narrative of all civilizations being equal" in this context. This article is merely an example of how stone-age "technology" can perform a certain task.

I also take issue with the automatism of accusing "political correctness". Nobody says civilizations are equal, there are numerous obvious differences. Somehow whenever I dig deeper and ask about what those people think, I get to hear/read profound racist undertones. The "PC" curse is really most common as a defense to accusations of racism.

The actual problem arises when people go on to make value-judgements along ethnical boundaries (racism). And then they go even further, using these not necessarily well founded judgements to pose "scientific facts" about how one ethnicity is genetically superior (because they believe all differences between two sets of humans have to come down to genetics/evolution)and thus are somehow entitled to more wealth than another ethnicity.

Their is no right to wealth and no birth right to it. That does not however imply a redistribution of wealth in the slightest way.

There are strong factors which contributed to the economic rise of Europe "first" and which have nothing to do with human genetics. Agriculture benefits from certain climates and soil conditions (ask the mayans about their collapse...). It also benefits a lot from domesticateable animals, and most animals are not nearly as well suited as for example horses and cows. Then the coastlines and rivers in Europe have shown to be much more conducive to commerce (before industrialization) than in Africa or America.

Systems are complex. Don't simplify them to justify judgements.
Kentucky Marketplace: ‘WARNING: No Explicit or Implicit Expectation of Privacy’
For children, there is Intuniv and Kapvay.

For adults, only straterra.

You do sometimes see wellbutrin as an off-label use.

I'm also curious which side-effect you experience from strattera. In my mid-20's, I moved off amphetamines onto it, and have had no side-effects at all.

There is essentially no progress in this area because nobody cares. They keep finding new amphetamine derivatives to make, and they are quite cheap to produce, and still patentable.
If it really is public information then it's perfectly OK to publish it. Complain to the politicians if you don't like arrest records being public. If you're supposed to have a "clean" record then you should just lie to your employer and say "I wasn't convicted". That's what a cleaned record does anyway. Mr. Birnbaum would have been telling as much of a lie by not mentioning his conviction like he'd hoped to.
Soup Tasting
Why can't you buy your own devices? I live in the UK and have always bought my own devices, it often works out at about half the price over the term of the contract.
It's not pointless if your goal was to justify racism and discrimination. Then the argument makes perfect sense while still being wrong.
China pays 2 million to monitor Internet
I love SBT, but the learning curve is quite steep for the average developer.

Also the plugin ecosystem is not as wide as Gradle and SBT lacks a daemon, which makes builds 3X/4X faster in Gradle.

For Java builds (especially multi-modules builds) I still prefer Gradle.
The best way to get people to stop talking about political correctness is to be politically correct. Pragmatically speaking, it makes sense to make a good effort to not offend people in your writing, since it detracts from the core message.
I agree. People need to assess whatever information they find before acting on it. The more well-known these become, the less influential they should be on any one individual.
>>He added that the sites do, in fact, run afoul of a Google guideline, though he declined to say which one

BULLSH*T. Everyone is guilty and Google chooses when to use the hammer for profit or good press. That's how much integrity their results have. Google has known about these sites for ages, yet after NYT writes all of the sudden they are not relevant for users. Total BS.

Also the business of asking MC, VISA and Paypal to terminate services stinks, we saw this with Wikileaks.

Their business is repulsive, personally I'd favor a $5 wrench http://xkcd.com/538/ removal service over this.
econometrics + algorithmic trading
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