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Yes Python is fine for teaching the imperative algorithms needed for a graduate to pass his/her Google interview. But computer science and SICP is/was so much more than that. Even if these institutions want to be vocational, typical software development roles do not require recalling famous algorithms, they require glueing code together. To be good at this, you need a sound grounding in abstraction and composition - the mathematics of program construction. Python will not help people learn this.
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What's wrong with Amazon Prime on the Xbox One? I use it all the time and have had less problems with it than Netflix on the Xbox One...

The android thing is annoying.
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So i ran Watson's output through Watson:

You are confident, generous and helpful.

You are assertive: you tend to speak up and take charge of situations, and you are comfortable leading groups. You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. And you are calm under pressure: you handle unexpected events calmly and effectively.

Experiences that give a sense of well-being hold some appeal to you.

You are relatively unconcerned with taking pleasure in life: you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment. You consider achieving success to guide a large part of what you do: you seek out opportunities to improve yourself and demonstrate that you are a capable person."

Hmm....

Got my wife down to a tee from an extract of an academic paper she just finished (Tis pot o mousomantis)
My opinion is that they are serving me data, I can view/consume that data however I would like. It's not my responsibility to view the ads they put on their page, and if I want to increase the font size or disable javascript, that's my business.
So all of us are a bit autist :-)
I work in this field. The short of it is: there is more money out there for PIs to get defense related grants vs cure for cancer type grants. Some of it is for good, e.g. modeling where to dispatch mobile hospitals for the Ebola outbreak.
Modeling the world's population doing things like fleeing a dirty bomb takes an astonishing amount of compute if you want answers in a timely fashion.
But that specific content going into the apps won't be available on the web. Users who want that content won't find it there. It will be in the apps, where the ads can't be easily blocked (without reverse engineering and altering on an app-by-app basis).
I think this do not advanced more just because of economic reasons.

I have have read last 10 years that Processing is a lot more cheaper did by network of computers and clusters, instead of a expensive supercomputer that also demands an appropriate building and infrastructure.
i upgraded Win 10 on my old laptop last night, guess what? Win 10 kept crashing and restarting after i logged in. i had to restore it to factory setting, reinstall all Win 8.1 updates and some software. fortunately i tried it on less used machine first...

Will never upgrade to Win 10 again till Win 8.1 is EOL.
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Bingo!!!

That's the real and legitimate conspiracy here. They are trying to leverage their ... qualitative ... market dominance to "urge" news content providers to shift their content to the News app where the Apple ad network is king.

I would also like to point out that Apple is not only strong-arming the news content sector, but they are also actively damaging if not destroying various other app companies that are in that space with their unfair advantage. The unfair advantage basically comes into play because they are the effective governmental regulatory body of the Apple ecosystem and therefore have disproportionate leverage and power over those in their ecosystem.

You may say, so what, it's their ecosystem, but that is inherently contradictory to having a fair and level playing-field where you compete based on merits, value, and worth.

It's quite odd that Apple really doesn't like to compete and is rather lazy when it comes to competing. They would rather strong-arm people to extract profits, which really isn't all that different than a protection racket ... "Oh, you want ad revenue? It would be a shame if you didn't get any ad revenue because something happened to your shitty little store and all the ads were stripped out. But we here at Apple would like to offer you a brand new opportunity to protect your ad revenue with Apple News."
"the the the ... the the"

You are analytical, rational and can be perceived as insensitive.

You are adventurous: you are eager to experience new things. You are calm under pressure: you handle unexpected events calmly and effectively. And you are self-controlled: you have control over your desires, which are not particularly intense... etc
I wholeheartedly agree. A convincing argument can be made that the reason Apple is so successful is precisely because Apple business goals are in alignment with their customers' and users' interest.
Perhaps. Living in China. In terms of finance, similar :)

Term adoption probably related to HTFs and the only ~5 year ago widespread recognition they started to get. Gotta call it something. Established players jump on the term to show they're relevant.
Which job links are paid for on HN? That's news to me.

I have no problem with this actually, because such things are on a separate page and its obvious the content you are getting is relevant to you (unlike lots of online advertising). Good luck to pg and the devs and mods behind HN if they want to generate cash to keep the site going.
ha, that was my initial thought.
I've heard that its recommended to try and be transferred to a neurologist that specializes in ASD cases. Psychologists may misinterpret behaviour and perception.
Philip K Dick was right. Asimov may be right at some point in the future, but he's not right now. Heinlen had a bit of a crazy streak - he's mostly right, but when he's wrong, he's dead wrong.

Philip K Dick, though, was right about so many aspects of modern culture - the changing perception towards rights, humanity, drugs, and classes. The massive shift from nationalism to corporatism (which we're continuing to see become more like Paycheck), and the alarming trend of humanity being more driven by a handful of people than any flavor of democracy.

Moorcock is a good writer, but he is definitely much more of a Robert Jordan or RA Salvatore than a Tolkien or Asimov.
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I wish more people knew the details surrounding this - its a clear case of bullying masquerading as social justice, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
> the claim that [...]

What are you talking about? The comment I replied to didn't make any such claims!

> passwords must be changeable

Not necessarily. What about fingerprints?

> usernames need not be changeable

Not necessarily. What about National Insurance / Social Security numbers?
>I can't trim it any further

It seems pretty obvious that you could reduce your page size by 70% by simply removing Google and Facebook scripts.
It varies a lot by city and state what the available resources are. google and ask around for local autism experts. There are often autism specialist centers of various kinds, for example at universities, and there are also psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize. It works a bit differently in every city.
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Fascism has no perfect definition but the conflation of race, nation, and morality that is implicit throughout Tolkien is pretty much at the core of fascism (it's also responsible for many of the worst fantasy tropes).

Calling Tolkien a crypto fascist is a bit much — I doubt Tolkien had a fascist agenda — but Tolkien's tacitly assumed worldview is pretty disturbing upon examination.
Apps can be written to refuse to run if they can't fetch their ads. This can be baked into compiled code.

Apps can be written to download and cache ads periodically as part of their "update" process, and display these ads even when you don't have an internet connection.
If they are not able to update these ads for some time (say 60 days), they can then refuse to run: "the application has expired and needs an update; please connect to the Internet". New ads are fetched when the user connects and lets the app update.
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I guess my statement is more accurate in recent history, post-2001. US-chartered banks are getting extremely vigilant about AML. The attitude of US bankers I've worked with is much more cooperative than Europeans, who view this AML focus as the Yankees trying to impose US law where it doesn't belong (a fair criticism).
Are they doing anything illegal in their "tax-dodging"? If not, why would they ever choose to pay more? I've never understood the point of vilifying companies for using "loopholes" to pay less taxes. If there was a loophole that allowed me to pay less income tax, I would absolutely take advantage of it. Why give away more of my money than I have to? If you want them to pay more, close the loophole that allows them to pay less.
Yesterday I started looking for an ad blocker that would randomly click ads in some of the sites I visit so as not to punish the website for the ads they are adding. I couldn't find anything, does anyone know if that exits?
20 years ago I had just graduated from high school. 120 Minutes was still the best thing on MTV and yeah, Beavis and Butthead and the rest of Liquid Television were great. I still consider "The Real World" the start of when MTV (and TV in general) started moving in a direction I personally didn't like. It was MTV's big move toward scripted and unscripted dramas and away from music videos and some other "experimental" video like the aforementioned Liquid TV.

I get that it was a market-driven move. Networks show what gets the viewers and viewers wanted Real World/Road Rules. Just bummed me out when those shows started pre-empting or replacing the stuff I enjoyed like Beavis and Butthead and Sifl and Olly before eventually replacing the music videos themselves.

At least there are way more avenues for finding music and videos these days so I can't really be too annoyed outside of curmudgeonly nostalgia.
Is google crawling the site every search, or is it using the same indexed version for all tests?
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I must assume you consider it a non-issue because you didn't see a clip of, e.g., the "slope" incident, which is unmistakeably a racial reference. The shot in question makes no sense otherwise. Allowing "clever" references like this continue to signal that it's A-OK to use these terms casually.

It is not a non-issue. And I suggest you would not consider it a non-issue if it were the word "nigger".
Or shift the responsibility for displaying content onto the ad network! At least the page might load more quickly if Google are serving it.
Because it does happen all the time, and it is one of the primary causes of road fatalities. And yes, we do have a huge death rate from it, which dwarfs things like drug or terrorism-related deaths.

People are irresponsible. Many drivers in particular think they're above-average and smarter than the people who designed the traffic signs. Treating speed limits as "just a suggestion" makes it more difficult for people with actual understanding of traffic patterns to design them to ensure optimal flow of cars. Most of the drivers I personally know are textbook cases of https://xkcd.com/277/ (though I do know a few responsible ones, and I respect them deeply for that).
This is not remotely true for a wide range of codes that matter to the supercomputing industry.
Those addresses are websocket servers that seem to publish wikipedia changes. The app is just subscribing to the changes by opening a websocket connection to the appropriate server.

Looking at their other repos and the addresses you linked to, looks like the project for publishing the changes is at https://github.com/hatnote/wikimon, which is in turn getting changes from an IRC feed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data#IRC_Feeds
I'll admit, I scoffed at the idea. I ended up giving it a try though, and find I quite like it.
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While the lads are great, the cinematography, writing, crazy ideas (eg attack-helicopter race) - and actually making them happen - are what make the show IMHO. The hosts surely contribute a lot of the writing and ideas, though I don't know how much, but much less execution.

I understand the show runner also left with them.

Unfortunately, they can't copy the format of TG due to copyright (eg game-show formats are protected copyright subject matter). It's possible they'll come up with something even better, but more likely to be like Titanfall after CoD.
I think the reason dc.js works so well is that it is tightly coupled to crossfilter (http://square.github.io/crossfilter/). This manages the multi-dimensional views that dc.js leverages to render charts.

When developing, the chart bit is usually the easiest bit to implement. Getting the data set into the views you need is where you spend a lot of time.

Good luck with the chart engine!
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Don't we already have a exabyte-scale supercomputer in Utah run by the NSA?
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If the could nail "issues" like they have "wiki" and can add a chat product of similar quality the $2B valuation looks not just plausible but perhaps an undervaluation.

They have a kick arse API and there's a busy ecosystem around it, but I wouldn't mind seeing github write a few new client / products that supersede issues themselves. If they dogwood issues with collaborating external organisations in private perhaps they'll find the nirvana we all crave?
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Yes, but google could trivially remove all searches which contains the words 'free', 'watch' and 'online', or at least not autocomplete on those words. Would it stop all bad guys? No, but it would make it a bit harder, which means the searcher is more likely to get a link to e.g netflix.
> But fascist philosophy was all about superhumans making their own laws and morality.

This is kind of a weird comparison. Tolkien may not have been arguing for fascism in his world, but his world had a definite morality and order. A subset of the themes in this order—namely, hierarchical races—is uncomfortably close to the order espoused by Nazi-flavored fascist rhetoric.

So long as it's not prescriptive (as it is CLEARLY not—it is an extremely violent world, and not one better than our own), Tolkien should not be labeled a fascist. However, I wouldn't blame anyone who avoided reading the series because it is uncomfortably close to romantic ideals that are similar to romantic ideals held by racist fascists.

I might also point out that british and german culture weren't so terribly different than you might think, especially preceeding World War I. I would also argue that it's not Catholic mythology, it's British mythology, including subtle Christian flavors (divine hierarchies, christ patterns, prophets, rebel patterns) including racial mythology. There are deep, deep common roots of race in german culture.

And let's not forget, one of the main characteristics of fascism is systematic oppression, something that Tolkien is careful to avoid with humans in everything I've read.
Going down to modeling at the level of proteins instead of neurons adds a LOT of quantitative complexity - it could be quicker to obtain enough knowledge to start that, but it could easily add 20-30 extra years of waiting for the available computing power to arrive after the already many years we still need to wait for computing power needed for a full brain simulation at neuronal level.
Yes, this seems to be the root of most of the problems described by OP and some comment threads here. In old school print ads, the publisher decides what is appropriate advertising for their readers. This needs to be possible for web site publishers, too. With status quo ad networks, AFAICT it's not possible.

It seems that ad networks are a necessary evil to match many small advertisers with many small web sites. (No revolutionary "disintermediation" here; quite the opposite.) The question with distributors is, which end do they feel they work for? Today's ad networks view advertisers as the customer to serve. Instead, although I don't know if it's economically viable, it seems like we need ad networks who view the web site publisher as a client to serve. And who give publishers the tools to accept only ads they deem appropriate in terms of content as well as ad tech.
I received a 35 and I'm actually on the schizophrenia spectrum with a disorder that actually requires ruling out ASD.

I wouldn't give this or any other online test anything more than extreme skepticism.
Are you extolling the virtues of a world that was shaped by the threat of nuclear annihilation for multiple generations?
Could be a good idea for Windows 10 - blocking all ads by default, including those delivered through browsers. It could seriously affect and even kill many current and potential Microsoft competitors like Google and Facebook.
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He assaulted a co-worker. I'm sorry but he only has himself to blame.

I genuinely don't understand why people think his sacking was part of some grand BBC conspiracy. He was good for ratings, they paid him well, it was in both parties' interests to keep him around as long as possible. Remember we're talking about the most popular TV show in the world here.

Unfortunately he put them in a situation where they really had no other choice.
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We're (pretty much) fine with violence, it's sexuality that makes some parts of the US go wonky and revert to a puritanical default.
Yeah, but everyone knows that thing's doing illegal stuff (illegal now or soon-to-be illegal), and Obama doesn't want that on his record.
FAKE is awesome. The entire F# ecosystem is pretty impressive.
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I suppose it depends on the show. The Superbowl is widely considered to be a family friendly event with lots of children watching. I can see a nip slip being more of an issue with that audience.
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Er, do we?
There are dual-use systems which run classified and non-classified codes (they can be partitioned.. They typically live at LANL or LLNL rather than ANL or Berkeley (Berkeley in particlar doesn't do any classified work). Note that most classified codes are actually physics/material/explosion/plasma physics simulations and you can't always tell they are running on your system.

I checked the list of projects running on ALCF and I see some pretty obvious nuclear weapon stockpile stewardship and weapon design projects, such as "Validation Simulations of Macroscopic Burning-Plasma Dynamics"
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A temporary way to opt-out of some of these things might be a good thing.

I am on the glass half empty side of if user passwords will improve on a scale required. Even if you get to 90% of users using a good enough password, that still seems too low. For an average user, it is difficult to use a different password AND remember it, and that barrier probably will not change much. Many users still aren't going to start using a password safe.

The article mentions but dismisses multi-factor as degrading the user experience. But I think with the dominance of mobile devices, that providing a simple multi-factor token has become easier than carrying an RSA dongle. I find Google's use of the SMS token to be quite convenient.
The web would become a second class citizen on iOS and native apps would be the only way to access content. Those cheering this have not thought this through.
Indeed, even my favourite blogger whose articles I enjoy moved to Patreon and I'm planning to budget money for him from next paycheck :). I'm much happier to support people this way than through ads.

I'll be very happy to pay for content now that I am an adult and earn money (there's a problem though; I owe my career in part thanks to a lot of free content I could use as a kid). But I suspect that prices will have to drop - the typical use pattern of the Internet is that of breadth, not depth. Myself I visit many dozen different sites daily, often different the next day than the day before. I derive value from all of them, but not enough to pay each of them a few dollars of monthly subscription.

Or maybe this will finally incentivize people to build their websites to attract and keep customers instead of clickbaiting and carpet-bombing with unwanted ads.
You can't deny that some of that stuff is pretty sweet. And ignoring where it came from requires rewriting history.
Professional diagnosis would involve a standardized set of questions, like ADI-R http://www.wpspublish.com/store/p/2645/autism-diagnostic-int... or ADOS module 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Diagnostic_Observation_...
Often the clinician would also want to interview parents, spouses, friends to get a third-party perspective on a person's behavior or ask about their behavior as a child.

It is a relatively objective process - it does screen out 99% of people, and clinicians usually (80%-ish of the time IIRC) get the same yes-or-no answer for the same person.

There's no medical test because (like most of the DSM) autism is a description, rather than an underlying cause. That is, if you diagnose flu using a set of symptoms, you're using the symptoms to predict that the virus exists. If you diagnose autism using the checklist in the DSM, you're simply saying that you saw the stuff on the list - there's nothing said about cause. See also here: http://intellectualizing.net/2015/03/31/not-explaining-autis...

This is a fundamental difference between DSM diagnosis (which is putting people in descriptive categories, without explaining "why") and medical diagnosis of many conditions with a known cause (which means identifying an explanation such as a virus).
> How do you square these claims with the public outcry over a brief glimpse of Jannet Jackson's tit?

"America", perhaps? Clarkson is racist and violent; Jackson is a human being with human body parts - the latter crime is far more severe.
Why do you think punishing the advertisers is any better? They seem to be even less deserving of it.
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^ This can become one of the best deterrents to doping. Put a rigorous system in place and notify athletes that their samples will be re-tested for 'new' drugs every 5 years for the next 20 years. Some athletes may be too focused on the immediate fame and wealth to care, but if enough high profile athletes, like Armstrong, eventually get busted, then perhaps that will help deter the younger generation from trying new drugs.
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Not sure who the audience is here. If the text is in the DOM, it's gonna get indexed. Computer's don't care if text is white on a white background.

That being said, Google getting dynamically generated content (ajax) is newish (I don't think it's new enough to be "news").

More interesting is if Google can "parse" things like <noscript> or if the CSS hides content, or if text is too small and decide to rank based on that (contributing factors to a "quality" rating).

I'd guess "yeah, probably". After all, they can rank based on if your site is mobile-friendly, and that must take some interesting metrics to decide.

Google specifically fighting "black hat" SEO techniques is really, extremely old news. Google being good at indexing "all the things" - also old news.
I would not have wagered the world for what we got out of it. The fact that we're around to talk about it is fine and all, but the last century is not a good model for any century.