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The new thing to do is put employees on a contract agreement for 30 days such that even IF you complete the ridiculous interview gauntlet, you are still a "tentative" employee and have to prove yourself. I did this for a YC company this spring and it was awful.
Seriously, how can we make matrix multiplication and gradient descent safe?
You should see the amount of esoteric knowledge on the reviews of Grateful Dead shows hosted on the Archive. It's impressive.
They literally just made up a random number
Cool citation
Apparently more people were watching Yogi Bear reruns than CNN in the US a few weeks ago during prime time.
lol fake news much? You got that from Sean Hannity's tweets. Cable news are reporting huge viewership
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cable-news-ratings-cnn-fox-n...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sean-hannity-mocks-reruns-...
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf
Bitcoin is widely regarded as the first broadly successful ecash system. An oft-cited concern, though, is that mining Bitcoins wastes computational resources. Indeed, Bitcoin’s underlying mining mechanism, which we call a scratch-off puzzle (SOP), involves continuously attempting to solve computational puzzles that have no intrinsic utility. We propose a modification to Bitcoin that repurposes its mining resources to achieve a more broadly useful goal: distributed storage of archival data. We call our new scheme Permacoin. Unlike Bitcoin and its proposed alternatives, Permacoin requires clients to invest not just computational resources, but also storage. Our scheme involves an alternative scratch-off puzzle for Bitcoin based on Proofs-ofRetrievability (PORs). Successfully minting money with this SOP requires local, random access to a copy of a file. Given the competition among mining clients in Bitcoin, this modi- fied SOP gives rise to highly decentralized file storage, thus reducing the overall waste of Bitcoin. Using a model of rational economic agents we show that our modified SOP preserves the essential properties of the original Bitcoin puzzle. We also provide parameterizations and calculations based on realistic hardware constraints to demonstrate the practicality of Permacoin as a whole.
But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors.
What about all the women through the 40s up until the 80s who worked as computer programmers? For a while it was a seriously female dominated field. A woman wrote the first compiler. A woman wrote the code to help get us to the moon. A woman taught my CS courses in high school and i had two female CS professors in college (and just about half my graduating class in that major was female).
Did biology change? Where's the science that says women as a whole don't enjoy IT as much? You crow on and on about science but provide no citations, no logical coherent argument.
When I see posts like this on HN, it makes me think you haven't worked closely with women. Or even know any lol
Well, we had Robert Moses and look how that turned out
These two instances are not at all remotely comparable lol
Have there been any articles / pieces about it from women working at Google? I'd be interested in hearing that perspective.
Uh like none of this happened when the dumpster bombs went off in Chelsea last year. They closed the streets for the investigation and to look for more bombs but it wasn't even close to a "lockdown of all public buildings", I'm pretty sure they just halted traffic. You could even - yes- walk around the area where the bomb went off the next day. It was a block from my office.
So reading the article above it didn't make clear - are these memes generated by AI or is it just an internal meme creation / sharing site?
internal meme network
i really want to believe that at Google there is a massive distributed cluster dedicated solely to facilitating meme throughput
The issue gets even more interesting when you factor in working from home.
Is it wrong to smoke weed while "on the clock" in your panties on the couch? Perhaps if it compromises the deliverable but if the employee is productive, efficient, and timely - should it matter if they are st0ned or not?
This book is amazing. Thank you for this
It was a war started to invade a nation with whom we made a treaty (Treaty of Fort Laramie) to respect their sovereignty. So, we broke the treaty which is illegal and then we proceeded to plunder their sacred lands in the name of God and gold.
Does Trump still use an Android as POTUS? Any info on what make, OS?
I don't think it's worth the time to argue with these people who conceive of the human body as a "turing machine" and that genes are as simple as "config file".
This is also the guy who says that "Activism does not work. Grand social movements do not work." But I guess the Civil Rights Movement, women's liberation, and the LGBTQ movement don't count?
This is a serious problem I see with many tech / CS inclined people: in which useful abstractions become the map in which they see the territory.
What's the gene for racism you plan on editing?
The human body isn't a config file
I think there's more wisdom to be found in the error page than the original article
How about this for inspiring? https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific...
Bandcamp, with its "Courier New" interface, has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in value to its users and artists. And it's still growing.
That's cute that soundcloud made a bunch of blog posts about their super elite containerized microserviced architecture. How's their business doing? Who's making money on there besides industry plants?
Light is not just on/off, it's a million different shades and intensities, some more appropriate depending on the time of day.
Yea so you install one of these http://www.homedepot.com/b/Electrical-Dimmers-Switches-Outle...
Try to imagine a house where there's a thousand different machines just there to make your life nicer.
Now try to imagine all the gaping security holes emanating from your house. And oh man it's gonna suck when the remote server goes down and your thermostat can't phone home so you're stuck at 55F during the winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd91c5ZwSf0
Excellent talk from last year's HOPE about the vulnerability of medical devices - he even connects to some live
lol want to make a bet on that?
Lol yea I forgot that just paying out money solves all injustice and policing issues
it encourages competition, just like in nature.
you know that cooperation occurs in nature too?
Apparently it's an issue with the initWallet() function which is used to set the owner of the wallet
You can only fight ideas with better ideas. Kicking them out and silencing them, says to them you can't compete.
Lol okay dude hop onto stormfront and engage in some civic discourse, offer some arguments, see how that goes.