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by itg 12y ago
I use fastmail, not free but I think it's worth it.
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by itg 12y ago
Well here's one data point. I studied chemistry in undergrad and worked in various labs for about 6 years with a salary that left much to be desired. I've also programmed on the side for a few years during that time and eventually
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by itg 12y ago
Used Ubuntu for a while, now mostly Arch Linux
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Another funny thing happened on the way to the STEM shortage(sciencecareers.sciencemag.org)
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'Rise of the Machines' Is Not a Likely Future(livescience.com)
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by itg 12y ago
You're falling into the "exponentation extrapolation" trap. We could be at the start of a logarthmic curve, or in the middle of an S curve.
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by itg 12y ago
Thank you, I'm really tired of some high profile people as of late (ex: Elon Musk) who don't know much about AI making statements about how dangerous AI will be.
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by itg 12y ago
I don't see anyone being upset. It's a hypothetical that asks a few people what would be the impact if sports didn't exist or play a major role in American culture.
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by itg 12y ago
The "90 days" policy is a completely arbitrary Google-only policy. There is no reason they couldn't wait a bit longer before disclosing.
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by itg 12y ago
A well reasoned argument gets down-voted by idealogues. No wonder hn gets mocked so often.
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No one likes working with Elon Musk, claims SpaceX employee(ibtimes.co.uk)
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by itg 12y ago
There's one on Coursera taught by Jeff Ullman but OP said he avoided adding stuff you can find on MOOC's.
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by itg 12y ago
The Uber controversy showed me what journalism is all about. It's ok for them to dig as much dirt on you as possible and present half-facts, but they go into a rage the moment you question their motives and try to find any info on them
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by itg 12y ago
Read: We don't want to train workers or pay them a good salary. We expect them to know everything beforehand and be content with crappy wages, then wonder why the brightest kids are going into fields like medicine and high finance.
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Latest in Sony leak: Zuckerberg tried to stop Facebook movie(fastcompany.com)
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by itg 12y ago
So should people stop talking about the pros/cons of programming languages at all? Because this can also go the other way. Another person can say: "If you enjoy programming in Go, then use it but keep quiet and stop promoting it a
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by itg 12y ago
"More diversity (in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in schools) would certainly help" I'm not so sure. I went to a very diverse and large high school in NJ and what ends up happening is self segregation. All the ethnic groups w
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by itg 12y ago
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by itg 12y ago
Let's see if this story gets flagged off hn like all the other negative stories about uber.
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by itg 12y ago
Worked out pretty well for the medical profession
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by itg 12y ago
They are shutting down NFC terminals so this also impacts Google Wallet and any other method that would use NFC. If they want to use their own implementation, let them, I'll be taking my business elsewhere.
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by itg 12y ago
>How do I delete the records of my searches saved on Apple's serves? (Google lets me delete my search history.) Google deletes the search history you see but everything is still stored on the servers.
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by itg 12y ago
Especially when you can do the same thing by going into system preferences. What a click bait title that leads people to run a script.
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by itg 12y ago
Yosemite has been great but I still run into a few bugs here and there with iOS 8.0.2. I think they should consider decoupling hardware and software releases.
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by itg 12y ago
HBO announcement probably also had something to do with it.
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by itg 12y ago
Now if they will allow us to unlink our YouTube accounts. I put the YouTube app on my phone, and since I already am signed in with the Gmail app, it links my account. No choice is given and there is no way, that I know of, to undo this.
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by itg 12y ago
It would be nice if the city allowed more skyscrapers to be built.
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by itg 12y ago
I saw this submitted before and it was removed. Nice censorship from HN/YC. Nothing but weird comments from new users here.
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by itg 12y ago
>My main criticism is that TrueNorth implements networks of integrate-and-fire spiking neurons...Spiking neurons have binary outputs (like neurons in the brain). Isn't this better. LeCun is looking at this only from a machine learni
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by itg 13y ago
"The people" is the exact reason I prefer urban settings to suburban.

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