skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course companies need to verify you can actually do the work for which they are potentially going to hire you.

However, if you hand me such a task (or glassdoor says you will), I have to be really excited about your company to spend my time that way. A 20 minute shared-coding session in one of the dozen online collaborative edit tools would probably give you most of the same information while saving a lot of the candidate's time.
You can do both of those in vim.
A political hit job? I'm sorry, but any high level federal employee with a high security clearance sending all official email communications from their personal email server should be investigated. The government is going to have a system in place far better than most can provide.

The only two reasons I can think of why she would choose private over government issued is ease of use and control over access. If it is too bothersome for her to use a government account, then she shouldn't be in the position. If she's afraid she'll leave incriminating evidence, we don't need her.
I think the insight with DeepMind is that it's built on layers upon layers. There might be a "manager" algorithm that is taking input from your memories, another from your mood, and a "manager of managers", and so on.

A photo evokes a deeper meaning than is contained within the individual pixels. Similarly, I think the right algorithm may be able to extract more intelligent behavior from a larger set of myopic probability functions.
From the comments in the article, it appears to be the Paper app for iOS/iPad and a stylus.
I use ifttt + pushbullet for these kinds of tasks.

Pushbullet also has an api so you can directly push notifications to your device(s).

I wouldn't mind a clone of ifttt that let me customize my own channels.

The problem with these notification tools is that if something isn't already defined for you you're kind of sol. You can sort of hack it by making the thing-you-don't-have-a-channel-for output to a channel that is supported. E.g., if you want to be notified when your local library has a book in stock, you can get your library to email you, and then filter that in gmail, and have ifttt trigger on that email to pushbullet.

Kind of a hassle. #firstworldproblems
Freeway isn't a driving game. It's a chicken-crossing-the-road game.

I'm looking forward to the upcoming entry in next week's New Yorker "Corrections" section.
This is excellent. How do you get data into the system? Scrape amazon? I did a PoC correlating data between the manufacturer's site and amazon, messy business.
.....the fuck did I just read?
It's a totally reasonable question. If you were working for the same person and you signed a contract that obliged the company to do/purchase something and there was un undefined number in there, you'd probably find yourself fired.

"The service level agreement says if something goes wrong we'll get 50% of their staff working on it."

"How many staff do they have?"

"I dunno, but 50% of it sounds like a lot!"

Ask them if they want employees who would sign contracts which lack key bits of information.
For certain connotations of "hacky", sure. But I don't think it's hacky in the sense of being unreliable.
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The video referenced at the beginning of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ
It is an excellent question but one where the answer might surprise you. From a technical perspective the purpose of 'slowing down' voting is a function of feedback control. Voting (whether it be on posts or on ballot issues) is a system where the system can change as a result of a vote and those changes can then cause more voting things. At the extreme end, where anyone could call a vote any time and your 'vote unit' would beep at you, give you the summary of the question and ask you to put your thumb on 'yay' or 'nay', not only would you find yourself sitting there with this thing going off constantly, the rules and regulations would change so quickly that nobody would be able to reliably follow them, even if they wanted to.

Under damped voting systems can oscillate out of control to self destruction just as effectively as circuits can.

But once you start down this path, what you'll really start to uncover is how the institutions of government are designed to work. So its a great place to start.
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I still remember my mom using them at a "drive thru" at our bank in the early 1980s. Instead of a window you'd pull up to a tube station. Slips of papers would go in and come out. I think she even did withdrawals this way. (No idea how this was secure, given how far the observation window was from the farthest tube stations. Maybe there were cameras.)
If applets weren't terrible, maybe.
This is great. But two gripes:

1) No hotkey?

2) No support? The only thing you have is a form for me to suggest an App that is actually just a newsletter sign up. Not promising, especially for paid software.
Will there be any way to connect local USB peripherals (like phones, audio interfaces, game controllers, etc.) either to the Paperweight (better named the Puck) or to a local computer for service by the remote one?
cf. Searle's Chinese Room argument!
Just turn off Javascript.
Didn't work for me in Dropbox. But I'll be looking forward to the solution. The system is great so far, so I have no doubt you'll be able to continue improving it.
My primary school education was at a small rural church school. We had 3 classrooms for grades 1-8. I believe it was mostly broken into 1-2, 3-5, 6-8.

The teacher for one of the rooms would have to break up the day to teach separate sub-sets of the room their own lessons. This wound up leaving ample time to work solo and in small groups on assignments. I rarely had to make schoolwork into homework.

While it was certainly a lot of work for the teacher to juggle, it also prevented them from trying to consume too much of the students time with active instruction. This is contrasted to the typical high school scenario where students are bounced between multiple rooms throughout the day where each teacher sees that they only have 40-60 minutes to cram their lesson through.

I don't think I can emphasize enough how important it was to be to be able to work on my 8th grade algebra homework on a couch cushion in the back of the room while other kids were doing their science lesson.

Obviously the shared room model is directly akin to modern open office layouts which are chaotic and can be confusing even for well leveled people.

I think my point is that kids should have plenty of unstructured time to do the vast majority (if not all) of their work at school.
I fully agree. It seems that the author is this guy:

http://howtowreckanicebeach.com/?page_id=16

"a former columnist for The Wire, writes frequently about hip-hop and popular music."

And I don't have the wish to compare his other writing with this.
This is impressive. The current approach will work only for games where the whole state is on-screen and planning isn't required. A pure reactive system will work for that.

I used to say that a key component of AI that was missing was the ability to get through the next few seconds of life without falling down or bumping into anything. I went through Stanford CS when the top-down logicians were in charge of AI. That approach was totally incapable of dealing with the real world. Now we're seeing the systems needed to deal with the real world in the short term starting to work.

Once you can deal with the next few seconds, a strategy module can be added to give goals to the low level system. This is very clear in the video game context. As the game playing programs advance beyond the 2D full-screen games, they'll need a low-level system to handle the next moves ("don't fall off platform", "jump to next platform", "shoot at target" are primitives for the 2D sidescroller era) and some level of planner to handle tactical matters and strategy.

It's possible to explicitly build hierarchical systems like that now, using classical planning techniques to modify the goals of a machine learning system. It's not yet possible to get a hierarchical system to emerge from machine learning. Medium term planning as an emergent behavior is a near term big challenge for AI.

Beyond such a two-level system, we're going to need intercommunicating components that do different parts of the problem. The components may be evolved, while the architecture may be designed. When AI systems can design such architectures, they're probably ready to take over.
I would be more afraid of the day they put those things on humans.

Oh this implant can be used to reduce violent behaviour of humans lets put it into prisoners.

Oh this python script exploits a zero day vulnerability in the implant making the prisoners go ham.

msf> use exploit/generic/implants/human/prisoner_implant_hijacker...
Yes. My Chihuahua has seen the best improvements after being out of our home for a week while we went on vacation- we also felt better too.

I assumed we had a mold problem, but those test recently came up negative.

I should note I have the least issues, but I spend the least amount of time at home.
I think there is a deeper conversation to be had over here -- many outfits in the valley seduce engineers and the talent with this spiel of making money, while as you say the chances of this happening is very rare. In expectation, one would probably make more money working at FB/Google/Apple over a lifetime than at a random startup. Founders would likely prosper, and of course investors will likely recoup their money but most of the time a staff engineer wouldn't make much. I feel that the VCs in the valley are running this racket of seducing and exploiting talent, all the while knowing that most folks wouldn't get much out of the hard work. I suppose one can make a case of Wall Street being more fair in terms of wages distributed as a function of effort (and ensuing results) put in.
I hope it is :)
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You might be interested to know that "The Thing" was filmed in my hometown[1]. I remember visiting the sets as a kid, seeing the freaky dog models, etc. The local museum still has some of the film props.

And yes, my town gets a lot of snow, typically around five-six metres. The "Antarctic base" in the movie was just a short drive away up a road that led to an old mine site[2]. We used to get rides up there and hike around when we were kids.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart,_British_Columbia

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granduc_Mine
Also Draw by Adobe has similar results (free!)
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Usually recruiters are told not to tell people the number. And usually they don't know themselves. So it's probably coming from the top.
I hate doing memes, but sometimes they're so spot on.

"Stop trying to make monoids happen. They're not going to happen."
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I love how the writer phrased Google's incentive for investing as "Google has a practical goal in linking up with SpaceX. It wants to beam the Internet to hard-to-reach regions of the planet so it can take in more advertising revenue."

While...

"'Space-based applications, like imaging satellites, can help people more easily access important information, so we’re excited to support SpaceX’s growth,' Google spokesman Aaron Stein said in a statement."
I honestly can't think of a single thing they could do to improve this.

This isn't your typical "smart" people doing stupid things. This is a bunch of smart and capable people completely overmatched by something far beyond their understanding.

It's darn near a perfect movie.
It's only the same as long as your search string doesn't contain any special characters as far as regex is concerned.
Ah, I was not clear. I mean copy/paste without the need of a runtime. With Delphi (go?) you just ship the exe (and can even put inside it the resources).

Having a kind of packaging for shipping is more or less popular now...
SpaceX will IPO when their Mars Colonial Transporter is making regular trips between Earth and Mars. Elon thinks that taking the company public before then would result in a potential derailment of Mars colonization plans. Having MCT making regular Earth-Mars trips before going public will ensure that quarterly-return-investors won't try to interfere with sending millions of people to go live on Mars.

Citation: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/342566837852200960
> big problems that can be addressed with technology and big problems with technology itself (see internet centralization and spying)

You might be interested in the SAFE Network (http://systemdocs.maidsafe.net/content/en/what_it_is/README....). It's not quite ready yet (but it's expected to launch this year, perhaps in the summer).
In the case of the cartels there's varying degrees of "voluntarily." Mexican and Colombian cartels have long been able to coerce "voluntary" cooperation from people they need by posing them a choice: plata o plomo, "silver or lead." In other words, you can cooperate with the cartel and be rewarded with cash, or not cooperate and be "rewarded" with bullets. It's your choice! But it's not much of a choice, of course.

What's interesting here (to me, anyway) is the need to physically kidnap and hold the person, rather than just coercing the behavior the cartels want via the plata o plomo approach. The cartels certainly have enough plata to hire talent, if it's needed; and once hired, the threat of the plomo should keep them quiet, right? So what would the cartel gain by enslaving the person? I'm not sure.
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And while 60 Minutes is entirely untrustworthy ...

Wait, what? Any proof for that statement? How come they are still on air? Why wasn't their parent broadcaster sued out of existence, if what you claim is true?
off-topic: what font is that in the first picture?
It could have been a spiteful neighbor who took advantage of the irrationality and craziness surrounding "children being hurt". Cut the yard too close to the fence -- that's a call to child protective services.

It caused a lot of shameful conversions, calls to work from police, visits to the house, and stuff like that.

And they never figured out yet who it was...
The code exercise we distribute shouldn't take a competent developer more than 20 minutes. I agree that you don't need to waste a lot of the dev's time.
The latest Hobbit was a tour de force compared to the second one. What an absolute piece of garbage that was. Talk about milking the book for all it's worth. One 3 hour movie probably would have sufficed to the tell the Hobbit story.
Sure, and those experiments will be dangerous. This is like saying that banging two rocks together to make sparks is a dangerous experiment because one day we'll be able to create hydrogen bombs.
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For anyone that isn't aware, this is actually what Elon Musk has stated in interviews in the past.
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Sort of like the common response to questions about non-competes: "Oh, we never enforce that!"

"...then why can't we take it out?"
Any type with a suffix _t is reserved as per POSIX but nobody really follows this so I can't blame you.

Use of glibc specifics, from what I saw last time it was things like rawmemchr in place of strlen which if you look at the generated asm rawmemchr is worse and glibc specific.I would use perf and see what the bottlenecks were I doubt its strlen or even the non portable pthread np api.

The use of __linux__ when you meant __GLIBC__, you shouldn't assume Linux == glibc either. I think you removed all that though.

I'll look over it again tonight.
It's possible that austenallred can't relate well to farmers. It's also possible that he's like me in that he lived in a small town that had very few (or no) farmers.

I've lived in The Sticks, surrounded by farmers.[0] I've also lived in small towns that contain no more than a couple of farmers. I'm not claiming that every small town lacks farmers, but I do know that some of them do.

[0] It's hard to say that you're surrounded by people when your second-closest neighbor is a ten minute drive away, but that's the nature of back-country.
Amusingly, my iPhone 5 would do also reboot in-call once in a while (iOS7) but the call didn't drop... perhaps it was just re-laucnhing the WM (Springboard)?
Lawtonfogle changed the original statement regarding reading a contract that required an affirmation to the more nebulous "the full license for all software they use."

One does not require a software license in order to use it. An elevator may be controlled by software, without having to sign an EULA. I have seen Stallman using a network connection where the router ran a non-free OS and where he did not sign a license agreement in order to use it.
There's everything related to narcocultura, with music and images and what not that seem to worship drug lords power, that certainly seems to influence some people and wishing they could do/become that. From my personal anecdotal experience, that people are usually low-middle class and with no higher education.

I'm not sure if it's government embarrassment what makes them unwilling to acknowledge the problem. It is well known here that most of the time they work together. [0][1] (Two different governors)

[0] http://www.sinembargo.mx/03-07-2014/1046494 : title translation DEA links Tamaulipas former governor to Zetas

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/sanantonio/press-releases/2013/former-gov...
I love how Wilford Brimley was probing the alien with a pencil, then starts tapping his lips with the same pencil. The Thing is a true classic.
I think they've said 'not until after Mars'.
Actually, that 'off target' 1995 anti-Internet column was amazingly on-target
Wages vs salary
They control scheduling and occupancy. That is an issue with a shared launch pad but not with one you own and can schedule.
All that automation you're talking about is at least a decade out.

The most important aspect of the new launch site is that it is simply another site they can launch from. SpaceX has the rockets, they just need a couple weeks between launches at the moment to get the launch pad squared away and prepped for the next launch. By adding a second site[1], they have double their throughput.

[1] Technically it's the third site, but Vandy is limited in what it can launch, as you can only launch into very high inclination orbits from there.
austenallred stated it was a farming community, but you are right that not all small communities are farming communities.
Recurrent neural networks with e.g. Long Short Term Memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_short_term_memory) can model very long term dependencies effectively, and there has been some work lately that get good results with simpler models.

They don't use it because it's computationally expensive and totally unnecessary for Atari games, but it's certainly possible.
100% correct. We hope that we will be able to float those amounts to the employees (as bonus) as we get to later stages of growth, but what I have discussed with our GC looks closer to the conversion bonus when and if that happens.

The boundary cases where there is a contentious firing will have to be taken case by case but then whatever that portion of the taxes are due for the percentage vested we would compensate the bonus as though it was 100% vested based on the agreement.
ID is now owned by the biggest lawyer scumbag in gaming history, ZeniMax Media's Altman. They dont license, they sue people.
I am someone that just can't stand java script I am wondering are we getting to the point where I have an option to use something like this instead? Last time I looked 18 months ago everything that was to replace java script caused me to have to go through the compiled code and deal with java script more then if I just wrote in java script in the first place.
There aren't pain receptors in the brain, so stimulation like this is unlikely to be painful.
There was a guy here who provisioned 'secure phones' to a bunch of gangsters and they shot him when they turned out to be not as secure as advertised.
great thanks for the good feedback and I assure you as long as it's possible we will continue to improve this.
Then why work at a start-up at all?
It's a much different world than it was even 10 years ago, when I was in school.

I help raise my 14 year old nice and most of her non-math homework tends to be typing questions directly into Google, and writing the first thing that makes sense.

Sometimes we check her work, find that obvious, and discuss the answer. Sometimes we don't.

The Googling of answers has caused many problems with vocabulary words, where the words have slightly (or even vastly) different applications to different domains.

If she gets something wrong, she quickly moves onto the next subject without much reflection, because homework is usually graded on completeness (rather than accuracy). From what she says, they rarely review homework in class, so they never revisit subject areas that are problematic.

My #1 criticism with homework is that it's a tool that is used for reenforcement, but that sometimes the wrong methods/ideas/facts are reenforced.
I meant "just like," not "just" in the sense you mean.
This is just what I needed to filter the signal from the noise. Please add Github tracking for repositories that receive more than X stars in one day: https://github.com/trending?since=daily (and variations on this theme). I will be a long time user. Keep up the great work and integrate more services!
It would be the opposite for me. Everyone around me uses Windows and Android. The people with a different perspective are the ones with an Apple logo.
I don't think the death rate is anywhere near high enough for survivor bias to be a major factor.
Always wondered how to do this and never figured out how. My solution was to roll up the paper into a circle and slowly crease at the right roll amount. Reminds me of my old compass and straight edge lessons...
But then you wouldn't have clicked the link, would you? ;)
It was definitely a farming community; almost the entire town either farmed alfalfa for the biggest farm in town (my father-in-law's, incidentally), or had very small dairy farms. You either had a very small farm/ranch, herded sheep, or were a "sprinkler boy." It was/is definitely on the "dying" side of the innovation curve, though somehow those types hold on seemingly indefinitely on almost nothing (which I certainly respect). Certainly no robotics, no one would even know what "software" is. A couple people had iPads; they called them "machines."

I guess not all small towns are identical :)
In 99% of cases my guess is they just don't know it is an option because it takes extra work on the company side and is not typically something that a GC or accountant would offer.
Sure. I would imagine most of those San Franciscans would prefer for the tech crowd to keep amongst themselves though...
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I'll admit I jumped the gun on that one.
almost 8 billion too few.

nations should be something you subscribe to, because you like their culture, are willing to learn the local language, and so on.

beyond that, pay taxes to whatever community you live in (infrastructure use fee).
Yes, an 83b election is required.
That being said, most of my co-workers are avid hockey players. We have a team that is mainly programmers, a few designers and some managers.

No need to base all your hobbies around chess, you will still be a good programmer if you have hobbies that make you sweat!
Are there plans/other networks which distribute blockchain storage and mining somehow?