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I knew something like this had to exist. Shouldn't this approach extend to modern hardware? E.g. surely there must be cases where it is effective to use custom FPGA-based hardware fit for the job, rather than (or in addition to) CPU and GPGPU?

I heard counter-arguments to the tune of 'hardly anyone wants to program their FPGA' which sounf strange to me: after all, hardly anyone wants to program their pixel shaders, either.
Due Diligence Dossier: EdTech in College Admissions
Skimlinks| London

We are looking for data scientists to work on NLP and online behavioral modeling.

Skimlinks allows publishers to send traffic to retailers and receive a premium commission for it. Over 1.5 million sites use Skimlinks, including major publishers like Gawker Media, Condé Nast, Hearst UK, and The Huffington Post.

If you like machine learning on spark you should apply.

We’re looking for a Data Scientist with the following:

Experience of statistical modelling on large data sets
An Advanced Degree (Masters/PhD) degree in statistics, machine learning or related field.
You’ll probably have an interest in techniques such as HMMs, MCMC, semi-supervised learning, deep learning or NLP
When Google makes an AI (and they WILL be first), the world will end
How 802.11ad could reshape the future of gadgets
Amazon bought Kiva for $775M, so it may be close.
This app costs 6 Euro in Germany and has nearly no functionality. I would suggest buying Pixelmator over that, since you have a fully fledged Image Editing Program, that could make way more than just 3 things for 6 Euro..
Not sure how he even made any money..
> in-the-fly reconfiguration for specific computations

I always wondered, given that Intel's processors already have a pretty large gap between their instruction set and their real microcode, whether it would make sense to have a nominal "CPU" that, when fed an instruction stream, executes it normally on general-purpose cores, but also runs a tracing+profiling JIT over it to eventually generate a VHDL gate-equivalent program to jam into an on-core FPGA. "Hardware JIT", basically, with no explicit programming step needed.
Idk, that seems kinda specious to me (though I realize you're not necessarily defending the reasoning). If I yelled something racist into the microphone instead of "baba booey", very few people would shrug it off as "oh hah hah he's just being fun with the uptight reporter."

Which I guess proves my point even further - if you can't see the difference between the two and then decide to go on and vocalize this ignorance in front of a television reporter (rather than just keeping it contained to your social circle), maybe you shouldn't be in charge of anything important.
PhD in applied and computational mathematics with published research in statistics and numerical analysis. Strong interest in software development/engineering. Loves algorithms and programming challenges. Willing to learn anything. Happy to do statistics/data analysis as well. Comfortable with Agile/Scrum development methodology.

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

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> Where possible, and relevant, take control over that infomation and unlink it from data linked to you. For example, you can control the From field by creating a new email account.

I genuinely wonder, what's the point of rotating different From: addresses?

If a message has been GPG signed, it is trivial to discover the corresponding public key. Thus, a form of identity — the public key, typically along with email, name, and/or other "user id" information publicly associated with the key — is available to an attacker rergardless of the content of the message.

The sender could refrain from signing the message, but then every time (s)he rotates a new address into the From: field, (s)he must communicate through some other trusted channel that the new address is associated with his/her identity and existing public key.

Then there's the practical concern that most gpg implementations are going to, by default, lookup in the keyring based on the To: address in the email and the user-ids of the keys in the keyring. This will fail, unless the new address is added as a user-id to the public key, which defeats the whole purpose of rotating the From: address.
I totally agree. IMO it doesn't even have to be a CS course; my experience TAing calculus helped immensely with whiteboard interviews.

I think it's the process of pacing yourself through the problem. If I see some fancy integral, I might be able to solve it in one or two lines. But if I want the students to understand, I'm not allowed to skip steps so it'll take more like 15 lines, and I'll have to verbally explain each line as I write it. It's getting used to switching back and forth between dictation and logical process.
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As a former Burmese monk and a long-term meditator, I will just say that labeling yourself a "buddhist" does not in itself improve your behavior or grant you special wisdom, even if you're wearing colorful robes.

E.g., s/Why are Sri Lankan Buddhists espousing racist ideologies?/Why are American Christians espousing anti-gay ideologies?/ and you understand the context just fine.

Even in Burma, a place where about 1 in 120 citizens are monastics, I met many, many monks with little wisdom or deep commitment to practice. Some were doing it because their family was poor, and joining the monastic orders was a way to get regular meals. Many liked having the respect of the community, but didn't really aim for enlightenment. Some are scholarly, and were essentially confusing the menu with the meal. Some people are super into self-denial, and joining the monastic order can be a great way to make yourself suffer like that. Some were earnest, but assumed that rebirth meant they didn't have to meditate now, they could get around to that in a later life.

I even saw one monk in Thailand messing around on Candy Crush only minutes after joking to my gf that the one thing I hadn't yet seen a monk do was playing Candy Crush.
Not sure if this is entirely accurate. Intel's process tend to be optimized towards high performance chips since this is where the big margins are.

I'm not sure they are ready to devote production capacity (and process development resources) towards very lower power products which are also less profitable.

That was one of the reasons they failed when trying to enter the cellular market.
I am afraid it does not work that way in practice. I have been using HN since its inception, or very close to it, when it was all about startup news and products. Yet I rarely visit the New posts page. If everyone were like me, the front page would be static. Heck I do not even go past the first 30 links. There is a lot of great content I am sure that never makes it to the homepage because it is not getting upvoted. Asking for upvotes is unfortunately the solution to this issue until we have built systems which are intelligent enough to surface quality content even when it is not being upvoted. In theory some content should find their way into the top 5 links as soon as shared, but that is not the case. Waiting for upvotes is like saying "If you build it they will come." They won't unless you market and yell it.
'Your Call Is Important to Us': Designing the Best 'on Hold' Experience
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Maybe the GAO forced it?

The GAO has been critical of the TSA before:
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-159
Pretty much how it worked with Mojang. Notch joke-tweeted that he was ready to sell, and the Mojang CEO got a call from Microsoft within minutes.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/3/8144453/minecraft-sale-micro...
That you know of, anyway :)
And how many employees doing these interviews can actually write code on a board? Not to sound too wimpy, but holding your arms up like this is physically taxing for the unpracticed. Unless you're pulling in a lecturer for an interview, it's just not natural for an actual programmer.

And why would you want to disadvantage actual programmers when you're hiring one? It just makes no sense. Whiteboards are for argumentation during design discussions. They're great for high-level block diagrams and all that. They're NOT great for long runs of text, and especially bad for code.

If you're in-person, pair program. If you're remote, find a good online code-friendy (syntax-highlighting, monospace) scratchpad and use it with a voice or video chat solution. And if you can't schedule time with them, ask them to submit a repository with a solution to a harder problem. If they need to explain why they did something, that's what commit messages and READMEs are for. If they don't understand that, that's a mark against them.

It's already enough of a conceit to ask someone to e.g. reverse a linked list when they're practically never going to be doing that in their day job. To ask them to do so using a dry-erase marker writing with 4" lettering on a whiteboard while standing is crossing into the ludicrous.
Elon Musk: Out to change the way we live on Earth and in space. [audio]
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Yeah, I tried Wunderlist after Astrid shut down, and I much preferred Astrid. A damn shame it got shut down.
That's not completely true. There are some species that have adapted well to human domination. To give a trivial example: there are bacteria that only live in human bodies. They wouldn't do well if there weren't so many humans. :)

Pet species like dogs and cats are other trivial examples.

But there are larger non-pet species that have adapted
to live in an environment dominated by humans. Rats are one such example.

Yes: I'm being pedantic. Your point still stands.
Why would the airline give her an $85 gift if she didn't have a lot of miles, and therefore a lot of "status" as the airlines call it? I see a lot of people in this thread suggesting that more miles equals more likelihood of the airline giving it to you.
Data First: Never Trust a Dashboard
A First Look at Googles 3D Scanning Project Tango Tablet
Thinking Functionally with Haskell, Richard Bird
You may be interested in "Tasks", an open source replacement for Astrid. I don't believe it does everything Astrid did, but it has worked wonderfully for my needs.

https://github.com/tasks/tasks
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks
I make at least one round trip flight at least once a week. The thoroughness and extent of my search varies greatly depending on which co-workers I am traveling with. When I am traveling with mostly white co-workers it's very quick. When I am traveling with non-white co-workers we always end up waiting on at least one or two people who have been selected for a secondary screening.

Nice to know that this time consuming, expensive and racist process is also pointless.
For what it is worth, this is just a draft.
Waste from brewers, coffee makers gets second life on farms
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ArmorText is helping organizations replace existing communication tools with a modern, secure alternative that puts them in control of their own data. We're passionate about great design, strong security, and making products that our users love.

We're currently looking to add 2-3 members to our 8-person team in the Washington, D.C. area:

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I am happy with MIDI.

MIDI just freaking works. I've seen someone fight to setup OSC for about 20 minutes (and failing) in a particular DAW, and the creative process of just plugging my hardware synths together with a sequencer - no computers involved, and having it work is awesome.

I agree channel routing is annoying, but for most things I do (electronic music) it's not limiting. Am I wanting to sequence a Harken (sp) Continuum with full aftertouch and funky envelopes? Not so much.

I dread the day everything requires a computer, and the MIDI cable is an amazing beast for having lived as long as it's lived. It's somewhat like a shark or crocodile in that respect.

I agree it's not beautiful to automate a smooth filter sweep but in general, it's a great thing.
LaCour Probably Fabricated an Integrity Document
Ulbricht punished for political dissent; you should find this outrageous
Show HN: Studio – Role-play messaging app
When you think about it, the most successful terrorist ever is Richard Reid. He might not have killed anyone but following up his failed attempt to blow a bomb hidden in his shoes, literally billions of people have had to remove their shoes at the airport. This guy changed the society ..

PS: while I hate removing my shoes every time I go through security in the US, I am glad Richard didn't opt for using his arse as a C4 stash :P
In order to make the game work, they need the ROM and/or CHD file. I doubt every developer has gotten the rights to license the ROM etc and just pirated it to get it to work.

In the late 1990s people used to earn money selling MAME CDs with the ROMs on them. People thought they were getting legit ROMs, but it was just more pirating.

StarROMS sold some Atari ROMs and I think it was legit but they got shut down.

If only there was some sort of system that sells ROMs legally and gets permission to sell the ROMs and build it into MAME or MESS so each ROM or Floppy can be bought and the original ROM developers make money from the sales. But such a system isn't in place so most get their ROMs via piracy.
I get that it's a background check. That's very clear to me.

My mother didn't apply for it, nor did she pay for it. If it costs money to get, why would the airline give it to her? It's not because she's "high status" as she doesn't have an appreciable number of miles.
Could it be accelerated with massive amounts of computing power?

Is the limitation here sensor speed or computing speed?

Certainly not motor speed, I see once the robot determines what to do, it immediately moves much more quickly.
Why personalized marketing has become the norm?
There's many more grading points to a computer solution. You're not graded for code style on the whiteboard; from what I've gathered, having an algorithm + code to implement is sufficient (not counting the verbal part). On the computer, however, you bet they're going to grade you on style, syntax, leverage of oop. etc. It's not something I realized when I did it which is why it probably (they never actually told me the result) failed. I just did an easy solution- I had good seperation of functions, leveraged access modifiers, etc but I didn't wow them.

Right, I can't speak for my interviewers but I was given several whiteboard questions and a computer question. They probably wanted to see what my code was actually like on the computer, while they tested my problem solving skills on the whiteboard. I guess if you chose just the computer as an exam you'd treat it more like a whiteboard.
That's typical computer lingo / semantic issue. the `const` mean shallow/pointer constant, not deep/structurally constant.
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This tutorial is very easy to follow, and will get you set up from scratch.

https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
Generally speaking, games are based on mutation of entities: to move an existing entity, we mutate their position, not recreate them in the new position.

Actually, games are generally an area where immutability is relatively easy to use. All of the mutation code can be isolated in one place that handles the transition to the next "tick", leaving nothing but immutables in the game logic itself. This is analogous to how ReactJS manages things through diffing.
$100-$200 million!?

I'm dumbfounded with this.

How many users did the app have?

Granted it's a more than a TODO list. But it looks like an exorbitant amount of money for it.
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I always opt out and when they explain the pat down to me and use the "till I meet resistance" euphemism, I look at the officer and say "excuse me, im unclear as to what you mean by resistance. do you mean my penis?". Similarly a woman might say vulva. One time an officer said no, its the groin and I pointed out to him where the groin actually is (between the belly and the genitals)
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- our product is providing professional ground transportation across the globe (https://blacklane.com/en/how-it-works)

- we’re looking for a good communicator with strong software development skills and a great deal of humility

- you should know your way around the shell

- we’ll help with relocation and provide a competitive salary

- here’s a sample of engineers working at Blacklane:
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https://github.com/isaiah

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Creativity, intelligence, and/or Node expertise are almost assuredly necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for employment there.
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So, it's not like Intel is struggling really? I heard news of them laying off a large part of their workforce, while relocating to Hillsboro.
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