skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In ear monitors are often a combination of ear plugs and headphones. Mine are rated at -30Db rather evenly across the spectrum. I have to take them off to effectively engage in conversation below shouting level even when the audio input is silent. On the other hand, they also are quite expensive. At any rate, if you do have effective noise cancellation it can be quite alarming when someone tries to interact with you by tapping your shoulder and such.
The consensus is that Mochizuki's theory, at least insofar as it claims to prove ABC, is probably incorrect. (Otherwise this workshop would be a lot more popular.)

But not definitely incorrect. Mochizuki is certainly not an obvious crank. His theory may be right, perhaps only partially -- in which case it will be enormously consequential. So it's still worth paying attention to. (In Minhyong Kim's judgment, which carries a hell of a lot more weight than mine.)

I do stand corrected a little bit: I see that a couple other reputable mathematicians have already invested some time digesting his work, and further that Mochizuki has decided to be more open to answering questions.
You did an 8 hour test for them at full concentration, and they didn't even get back to you?

Please name these idiots.
Are you sure that doesn't just refer to a preference for using 'they/them' as opposed to 'him' when it's a generic singular pronoun? People who knew her are using "her":

http://drbacchus.com/festina-lente/
Cooking will scale nicely. I spent a summer in a commercial kitchen and 15 people cooked enough for 2500 with no issues.

Delivery can scale if you get people to order in groups and have a minimum group size or something.

Actually having high quality fresh ingredients is a much bigger challenge. Look at Subway. They always have tomatoes but they're rarely good tomatoes. Even Chipotle can have very substandard pico or guacamole and that's basically their only really fresh ingredients (save lettuce).

All the other big restaurant chains use little to no truly fresh ingredients and for a good reason. It's a legitimate problem with few great solutions at scale.

That's part of why the local/seasonal food movement has taken off; restaurants can't deliver on a perfectly consistent and great menu year-round. But once you introduce the idea of local and seasonal then their hands are no longer tied and you can alter the menu at will. People might complain if they show up for a particular meal and can't order it, but ostensibly they knew that was a risk if the restaurant made this clear.

Given that you record preferences and emphasize the "surprise" aspect you might be able to scale appropriately.

But you may still find it's difficult to find any good ingredients at certain times of the year and have problems keeping the rotation from week to week large enough to keep customers happy.
Not mentioned: read a book
The whole point of startup investing is to search for outliers. The way returns are distributed in the tech industry, it's not unusual for 1-2 companies to be responsible for 90%+ of a fund's financial returns.

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html

Including Uber would probably have made most of the data meaningless - since their conclusions are valuation-weighted, their data would show that the ideal startup founder is...Garrett Camp. But then, that's how the startup investing business actually works - your data is useless unless you find the one outlier that everyone else missed.

Edit: It occurs to me that this effect could be overcome by taking the log of valuation (or whatever metric is of interest) and then running your statistics over that. That's standard procedure when trying to do statistics over a Zipfian or other power-law distribution; it lets the outliers count, but prevents them from distorting the averages too much.
Software developers huh! What other role requires you to complete an exam to be considered for a job (or even just an interview). Moreover a 4-8 hour exam with no syllabus. No 'past papers' etc.

I think this should stop. In it's place, developers can have a pet open-source project, which they submit with their application. The point is that the same project can be submitted for a hundred applications if needed, saving the candidate dozens or hundreds of hours of wasted time.

They could put that time into the project instead and even if they don't get a single offer, the open source community benefits, and the candidate got to do something interesting rather than convert roman numerals or aggregate an array.

I seriously wonder if we should all boycott dev tests. If they give a test, just give them a github link and say "Please review this as a good example of my work.". If they can't review code that isn't tied to a silly question maybe they are not worth working for.

I say this having done some such tests recently myself. (To be fair one of them said a Github submission is OK, I just didn't feel my Github was good enough at the time.). I kind of feel bad contributing to the madness!
A similar (more strongly worded) comment from one university's computer security course (re phishing etc)

> “If only it weren't for those gullible users” is arrogant and idiotic
Google helped me find this very detailed article on the probe: http://www.spaceflight101.com/hayabusa-2.html

Which says the solar panels are designed to produce 1,400 watts at the furthest distance from the sun. So it gets this 200 Mhz 64 bit MIPS chip, whereas the ~200 watts at Pluto New Horizons uses a 12 Mhz 32 bit MIPS chip (and the power gets steadily lower as it heads out and hopefully looks at a Kuiper belt object).
Wow. Good to know. I actually just created an account at gitlab.com earlier today because of this. Now I know that was a waste of my time.

You want to know where to draw the line? Draw it at staying out of other peoples' business.
I can't believe there is still no clear official statement on how the licensing works. From some sources[1] they seem to imply that retail licenses (Win7/8) turn into what is basically an OEM license, but then there are some sources that state the exact opposite[2][3].

I don't want to lose my retail Win8 license, as they say that it will be "consumed" by the upgrade (wth is that supposed to mean), so I'm going to sit and wait on this, maybe try to get an answer from their helpdesk.

They try so hard to make this easy for people, to make windows popular again, and they still fucked it up. I am disappointed.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/media-creation...

"If you upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC by taking advantage of the free upgrade offer and successfully activated Windows 10 on this PC in the past, you won't have a Windows 10 product key, and you can skip the product key page by selecting the Skip button. Your PC will activate online automatically so long as the same edition of Windows 10 was successfully activated on this PC by using the free Windows 10 upgrade offer."

[2] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-...

"From the Windows 10 end user license agreement:

b. Stand-alone software.

If you acquired the software as stand-alone software (and also if you upgraded from software you acquired as stand-alone software), you may transfer the software to another device that belongs to you. You may also transfer the software to a device owned by someone else if (i) you are the first licensed user of the software and (ii) the new user agrees to the terms of this agreement. You may use the backup copy we allow you to make or the media that the software came on to transfer the software. Every time you transfer the software to a new device, you must remove the software from the prior device. You may not transfer the software to share licenses between devices."

[3] http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/operating-systems/14...

"After your computer has upgraded to Windows 10 it will have a new licence key. You'll need this if you want to perform a clean installation of Windows 10, as you can input your existing Windows 7 or 8 code into the installation routine. To get your key fire up the Magical Jelly Bean KeyFinder app and you'll see your Windows 10 key at the top of the list."
Just FYI, "under the table" means getting paid without proper documentation or withholding of taxes, FICA, etc. Doesn't really apply to 1099 situations.
Yes. The appeal (Court of Appeals Docket #: 14-35576) and the district court case (Docket #:3:14-cv-00146) are both accurately categorized as huge messes.

The allegation that Plunkett actually sent the "threat" flowers to herself (allegedly backed up by the credit card data and order history from the merchant) is noteworthy for the utter wildness involved.

But it looks like nothing has happened recently in the cases (since June 25th) while waiting on part of the appeal. So GGP's line of inquiry seems to be answered with a probably not?
I wonder if Newegg's much publicized fights against patent trolls could be advantageous for them by deterring trolls from going after them for royalties.

N expensive lawsuits might be cheaper than M cheap settlements, if M is sufficiently larger than N.
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But oh-so-important!
But my rent is due the Friday after next and I need to know if I should send out another wave of resumes.

It isn't but it strikes me we are looking very hard to find a new way to do things, when the old way was pretty damn good.

Sit me down and talk about technology for ~thirty minutes. If I don't have the social skills to successfully do this (minority issue) I likely would not be able to communicate well with a team and thus should not be a candidate anyways. You will then know immediately whether you want to hire me (or progress me to another round) or not.

I then get a call two days later and can progress with my life.

People pretend like all this hiring strategy is for the good of the candidate. It's not. As with everything else its for the good of the company and its investors.

Here's a thought:

Invest in a competent hiring manager who can see through applicant bull shit and identify talent within a reasonable range. Includes basic negotiation skills. And assume the rightful risk that is employing another human being.
Ok I am open minded. Today I will just do it and post back some results :-).

And perhaps I should buy a certain brand of trainers?
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"That ones work might be re-purposed for nefarious purposes is not an argument against attempting to avoid industries where nefarious use is the purpose of the work."

I think there's a centrally misguided notion in this thread that AI for autonomous weapons is somehow more dangerous than AI. I don't see that as the case at all. Successful AI can be instantly weaponized with little to no effort.

So to the extent that the parent comment is rejecting AI as an industry (not just autonomous weapons AI), I have to wonder: where can one work to avoid an industry that won't heartily embrace AI as soon as its cost effective?
"these findings won’t dictate how we choose to invest"

What is the value of performing an analysis if the results don't help you to improve future decision making?
I went ahead and ordered some Fine Jersey Short Sleeve T-Shirts. Thanks for that recommendation!
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There is an app called Waygo that's already capable of handling Chinese, so I guess it's not too far.
As everyone knows in industry, this is not really a "win". Patent trolls are setup in such a way that if they win they make lot of money and if they lose then they lose very little. In many cases, they don't have to even pay damage or lawyers fee for other party. If they are ever ordered to do so then they would just announce bankruptcy of their shell company. They don't even lose their portfolio because it's allocated in to hundreds of shell companies. So in nutshell, Newegg has done very little damage to the troll. The troll already made $45M and now they will just move on to next patent in their next shell company.

All the other efforts like preventing bad patents through StackExchange etc also have very little impact on troll business model. The only real weapon you can use against them is crafting laws that strongly discourage trolling. One would think tech industry with 100s of billions in bank have enough lobby power to get this done quickly. The issue again is that tech industry itself want to own such lousy patents to use against each other. So the industry will only support weaker forms of laws against trolling. I would highly suspect there would be end of trolling anytime soon. Industry as a whole would be more than willing to absorb this cost instead of giving up on their own ammo.
I thought Gayle Laakman McDowell, who wrote "Cracking the Coding Interview", wrote a good article about the problems of take-home interviews.

http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-cand...

At the core of the problem is that this approach can be used to burn a lot of a candidate's time without an equivalent investment from the company.

I've mentioned this before - I applied (maybe 5 years ago) to a company that first asked me to take a Java test (about 1 hour of work). Then the recruiter called me and sent me a take home project that should take "5-7 hours". I did this, crickets chirped for a month, though I did check in with the recruiter for a while (I gave up eventually). Finally the recruiter called me with a one-line brush off "we've decided not to move forward at this time…"

Granted, this was a bad experience, and it won't always be like this. But I'm pretty close to saying "never" to these exams.

I thought Gayle's suggestions were good. She goes so far as to suggest a 90% passage rate - that you should not be giving these tests to people who are unlikely to pass then, using them to confirm, not screen.
I'm sorry to hear you feel this way. Staying out of other peoples' business was not an option with GamerGate, and I'm afraid it will not be an option in the future. I would love a clear choice in these matters but I don't see one.
Dah! No need to read any further.
First off, we should acknowledge that your argument has shifted significantly - from an ontological to a practical concern. The ontological question, whether the archive exists or not, is independent from the practical question of whether or not it is useful. Initially you said that no archive could contain more than ~10^80 objects because the number of atoms in the universe placed an upper limit on its contents. Now you say that this website does not contain its books because of the amount of work necessary to retrieve them. Would you consider this to be different if the quantity of texts was less than 10^80? If not, we should recognize that you have shifted from your earlier argument, which was untenable.

As for your present argument, i would first point out that you should not treat quantitative differences as essential differences. Any archival system requires some sort of key system for retrieval. Print libraries have the Dewey decimal system, the internet has URLs, and libraryofbabel.info has its book locations, strings of letters and numbers which you are correct to point out are just as information-rich as the texts themselves. But you claim that because of the size of keys, the texts in this digital archive do not exist - this is fallacious. How large must a key-value system get before it ceases to exist? If a poem's title is longer than its text does it cease to exist? Greek philosophers parodied the confusion of quantitative and qualitative thought by asking how many grains of sand we needed to add together before we had a heap. Once again, you have confused a practical and an ontological argument - the length of keys (and quantity of text) may affect the usefulness of libraryofbabel.info, but they cannot affect its existence.

You consider three heterogeneous things in your examples - a floating point register and the set of possible floating point numbers, libraryofbabel.info and the texts it contains, the human mind and what it "actually thinks about". Let us begin with the last - you claim that the human mind only contains what it "actually thinks about." If this is so, what is a memory? Your failure to grapple with the difficult category of possibility leads to the ontological confusion in your argument.

If we limit our consideration to practicality, I would agree that the libraryofbabel.info is not useful in the same way as a digital archive like JSTOR. In other libraries, one can find texts by subject matter, author, period, etc. and learn something new from their contents. libraryofbabel.info exists to show us the same language we have encountered already in a new context. This allows us to reflect on the essence of language, which is not restricted to the intentions of a conscious and rational speaking subject (as you imagine when you speak of what we "actually think about"), but is always open on irrational excess.
This seems an apropos place to recycle a rant from Reddit:

[...] This happens when the managers/executives try to push the problem onto IT/engineering, blithely assuring everyone that "The New System" will somehow paper over and solve their org/process inconsistencies.

This means that the engineering teams gets requirements for one tool to handle the multiple teams' workflows and business-logic, stuff which nobody seems truly interested in harmonizing long-term. Thus your tool needs a fuckton of special-case logic and workarounds, leading it to become a monolith of spaghetti. Even if it started as a bunch of separate systems, they become slowly woven and pulled together by all special-case webservice calls and database state-sharing.

Then, after release, some people in suits spend a while patting each-other on the back, claiming to have materially improved "how we do things"... up until somebody wants to make a seemingly-simple change that conflicts with all of the other pick-up sticks.

P.S.: In a weird way, the implication that the programmers can fix those big issues is flattering, but it fades quickly as you realize:

1. You probably aren't actually being given the freedom/power to solve the real problem.

2. If you were to solve the real problem, the company would be underpaying you.

3. Even if the first two things cancel-out, the end-result is a PITA.
When your battery runs out, you'll wish you had a paper map.
Um, you really can't interview for that person, thanks. That person is someone who is already in your company and gets promoted to "trusted lieutenant". Promotion to "completely trusted lieutenant" is only awarded posthumously. :)

If that kind of situation is happening more than once in a blue moon, something is very wrong at your company.
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Opt-out via using a different platform?
>If the majority of people in this country were really racist, we wouldn't have people of color in pretty much every position of power and occupation..including the presidency.

Funny. I take the exact same anecdotes and conclude, "Wow, black Americans are pretty resilient."

>Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political violence was visited upon blacks wantonly, with special treatment meted out toward black people of ambition. Black schools and churches were burned to the ground. Black voters and the political candidates who attempted to rally them were intimidated, and some were murdered. At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform. The demobilization of soldiers after the war, which put white and black veterans into competition for scarce jobs, produced the Red Summer of 1919: a succession of racist pogroms against dozens of cities ranging from Longview, Texas, to Chicago to Washington, D.C. Organized white violence against blacks continued into the 1920s—in 1921 a white mob leveled Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street,” and in 1923 another one razed the black town of Rosewood, Florida—and virtually no one was punished.

>Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices. They were terrorized. In the Deep South, a second slavery ruled. In the North, legislatures, mayors, civic associations, banks, and citizens all colluded to pin black people into ghettos, where they were overcrowded, overcharged, and undereducated. Businesses discriminated against them, awarding them the worst jobs and the worst wages. Police brutalized them in the streets. And the notion that black lives, black bodies, and black wealth were rightful targets remained deeply rooted in the broader society. Now we have half-stepped away from our long centuries of despoilment, promising, “Never again.” But still we are haunted. It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill and, having pledged to charge no more, remain befuddled that the balance does not disappear. The effects of that balance, interest accruing daily, are all around us.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...
> Feminism is an umbrella term for a group of ideologies, some of who do not agree with either of those definitions. In that sense my statement is not accurate. However it is still far more accurate that your attempt to use the latin root of the word to define its meaning while ignoring its use and history.

In other words, you just keep moving the endposts so nothing is really "Feminism" unless you agree to it. Got it.

> Here's one: I am a feminist and I support equal rights for men as well women.

Repeat after me: The plural of Anecdote is not 'Data'

Feminism only sees to female rights in reference to 'leveling the playing field'. Any other "but they really also do ..." is just being disingenuous and deceitful.

If you support equal rights for men and women, that's egalitarianism.
Credit card data with an ex-spouse means very little. It's possible (if the ex knew their credentials) the ex made them pay for their own threat.

Regardless, this forum is probably the wrong venue to discuss the circumstances of the personal life of the deceased.
Vote with your wallet. Support companies which provide this service with yout purchases.
Twilio is a great product in my opinion, i have used them in a number of large projects. I am surprised they aren't in the black yet. I figured streamlining and then reselling access to telephony and mobile networks would be pretty profitable.
Because agencies specialising in licensing a patent (i) are non practising entities, and many people's view a troll is pretty much defined by the concept of acquiring IP without the intention of doing anything with it other than seeking fees, and (ii) occupy their time sending legal threats to firms already using aspects of the patented invention rather than delivering sales pitches to people searching for technological breakthroughs, because "the right to develop your own technology which does X using Y" is a really hard sell.
Sure, it was in the last paragraph on page 1 of the article.
Take home interviews are a great indicator of a company's hubris. "Its so awesome to work here people are going to jump at the chance to do my 3 hour homework assignment".

The problem with them is fundamental:
"You will only get someone desperate enough to take your exam."

If the person is qualified they will be swimming in opportunities and will likely throw your exam directly in the trash heap. If they aren't you probably don't want them working for you. I suppose these might work if the entire industry colluded on it but then ... prisoner's dilemma.

Maybe a more useful indicator is weeding out the candidates that didn't say "no thanks." Cause really why are they so desperate for a job and why do they have all this free time? but then ... ethics.
I see a reference to link [1] but not the link itself. I assume you are referring to https://www.reddit.com/rules/ I think I just saw them introduce other rules last week or so that were much more ambiguous.