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by pzh 10y ago
"The problem with quotes found on the Internet is that they are often not true." --Abraham Lincoln
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He is not going to follow through on absolutely any of those things. They were just campaign 'promises' that are going to be broken. It seems people forget really fast how politicians always renege on their promises--e.g. how Obam
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Maybe I misunderstand the metric, but isn't turnout calculated as the average tenure of people who leave? If the companies just add more engineers, this shouldn't affect the metric (unless you also count the tenure of people who a
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Actually, I remember reading that Google and Amazon engineers have an average time on the job of about 1 year. It seems most people just want to work there so they can put it on their resume, or maybe once they pass the interview process, t
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Isn't that a bit like "security through obscurity"? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the cryptographic algorithm that the AI comes up with isn't guaranteed to be based on a provably NP-hard problem, so there a
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I'm curious... could you explain what you specifically meant by ear-buds being damaging to your hearing? Were you blasting the volume to drown out environment noise or were you talking about noise-canceling earphones? (I personally use
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How would you determine the cost of your downtime? If you're assuming that all you're going to do after you leave a company is become a wage slave at another one, then getting paid the same wage for a few years might be enough to
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by pzh 10y ago
Is it possible that the auto-submit link that says "Discuss on hacker news" right after the article could be contributing to these submissions?
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Wasn't the multicast storm issue related to the fact that most hardware implementations have limited-size Bloom filters that are used to manage subscriptions, and once they're full, they deliver every packet to everybody? Or is th
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Nothing in particular. I was just looking for a bit of a change and to gain more rounded experience. Being pigeonholed into one specific area (3D/CAD/CAM C++ development) for many years isn't that great for future career pros
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That's not so surprising with Google, I'm afraid. I had the exact same questions (apparently for SRE-SWE prescreen), but a slightly more intelligent recruiter (who had actually chased me for 2 years before I agreed to interview, s
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Here's a truly riveting explanation of that profound question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFdJsZKyPA8 After watching it, you should be able to handle your next interview like a pro.
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Born in France doesn't mean socially and culturally integrated. Many of these attackers were children of immigrants who either didn't integrate because of their own cultural beliefs or because the host society didn't provide
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But you always pay taxes at the federal level, which distributes some of that income to states. Also the individual states have the mechanism to recover taxes you owe them from previous years and to pursue you for whatever violations you ha
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This is a very idealistic goal, but we still have no solution to issues like how the state would balance the books if the population is in constant flux. If the number of contributors suddenly decreases or the number of consumers of social
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>> Why should a French, German or Romanian arbitrarily have special rights to enter my country, while an Indian, Mexican or Nigerian is subjected to ever harsher visa rules? Without saying that this is right, the general logic is that
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Not necessarily. Swift uses ARC by default, and you'd really have to go out of your way to do any manual memory management.
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Yeah, but why use another patch on top of a patch where there are modern type-safe languages like Swift. JS has its uses, but it's difficult to debug, doesn't take advantage of all the advances in modern languages design that help
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The author of the article, Vivek Wadhwa, is one of the most famous academic proponents of the H-1B visa. When I read the title, I initially thought the article would be about innovation and the startup climate in SV, but as I was progressin
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Yet real system design is usually so complex that no single technique can cover it. I shudder when I hear TDD proponents claiming that this technique can even be used for emergent design. An amusing example is Ron Jeffries's Sudoku sol
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Something tells me that the French baguettes don't have as much HFCS as the ones around here....
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I found Lyle McDonald's "The Ketogenic Diet" really helpful in explaining why low-carb diets work. It's also a great starting point for your own research into these diets (with lots of great references).
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Assuming you're taking about Andrew Ng's Stanford ML course, I had the same impression until I realized that the actual Stanford ML course is a lot harder and theory-heavy. Basically, the Coursera thing is a more practical, watere
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To be honest, I don't really know why this hasn't picked up yet. Maybe the scientific community is not very easy to get organized, as researchers are pretty busy with research, teaching, writing grant proposals, serving on committ
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I think you'd be amazed how small most of the scientific communities in certain areas of research are. If you have the names of a few well-known researchers on the editorial board or in the list of reviewers of an open-access/elec
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I recommend watching "Welcome to Sweden" ;)
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Is that really the case? Apple operates in Ireland and it pays taxes there based on a certain competitive rate it has. If Apple sells phones in certain countries, it has a network of suppliers there and it pays taxes on their business opera
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Just out of curiosity, why would tax competition be considered bad? It is generally accepted that monopolies and cartels are bad for the free market, but when it comes to governments and the services they provide, we're completely OK w
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But if this money is collected by Ireland and goes into the Irish budget, wouldn't Brussels get a cut?
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I've always taken it for granted that discrimination and inequality would be the natural result of any optimization/ML algorithm, especially when maximizing for profit or any other utilitarian goal. I wonder why people would be su

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