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awesomepantsm··on Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time
Buddha lived literally over 2000 years ago. Please go read a book.
awesomepantsm··on Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo?
This reminds me of the advice: Don't write articles that can be answered with a single word "no".

Unlike startups, it's not like Google's business depends on investors supporting lofty goals. There would seem to be no benefit to faking a demo like this.

Not revealing the business location is likely just because they consider their business partners to be business data that they don't want to give away to competitors. Clean auto could easily just be done via a simple noise filter, just for the sake of the demo. When you have a little noise in your ear, it's not bad. But when you need to broadcast sound to an entire stadium, you need to rebalance it. This story is a load of nonsense.

awesomepantsm··on Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time
"Ego" is a European word so why would Buddha use it? Please try to stay on topic.
awesomepantsm··on The False Allure of Hashing for Anonymization
Differential privacy is basically a buzzword. Don't believe the hype.
awesomepantsm··on FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew
There was a case I read which said roughly that, yes, if you clear your cache, and are not technically savvy enough to know the files could be recovered, then as far as you knew, the files were actually gone, and you no longer "possess" them legally.

Of course, proving that you are an idiot is always a great start to a trial, but it's worked in the past.

awesomepantsm··on Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
I got the feeling there was more stuff he said that never leaked but who knows
awesomepantsm··on Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
It's not though, because it wasn't withdrawn it was rejected.
awesomepantsm··on Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
Are you implying the lawyers in the case didn't read the citations? Please.
awesomepantsm··on A man accused of cheating at video games may lose his Guinness World Record
With only 5.1 seconds of input, you could brute force it if you really wanted.
awesomepantsm··on Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction
Except the value of a CryptoKitty or Rare Pepe is unlikely to continue to be worth anything in a few years, because let's be honest, it's not very interesting art.
awesomepantsm··on Serial Swatter Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes
Haha, my sweet child. No one says on 9/11 "Those guys did a great job showing us a vulnerability in our security!"

Being indifferent to death of innocent people is the opposite of maturity.

awesomepantsm··on Ask HN: What's the best way to recover from burnout?
> take a couple months off

Yep, as with many people, usually the role is still a good fit, you just need a break from it. That time will help you figure out your next steps, which likely is some variation of what you're already doing, but with a clean slate that a new position provides.

awesomepantsm··on How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
>brought down the internet

Oh bugger off with your clickbait.

awesomepantsm··on My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
That's nice, why should I care what you think about how some random person in the 7 billion people in the world should dress.
awesomepantsm··on Gmail Launches Add-ons
You probably think "I'll love you forever" to means someone is promising to be around for you until the heat death of the universe.
awesomepantsm··on Style2Paints: AI colorization of images
This is the result of the brightest minds working on advertising.

Who do you think made TensorFlow? Hint: it was Google.

awesomepantsm··on Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story
Things that happened 6 years ago aren't really considered news...
awesomepantsm··on I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
>do internship

>no conversion hire

the purpose of the internship is to let the company consider hiring someone who normally wouldn't qualify. So, yeah no conversion is similar to getting fired.

awesomepantsm··on I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
> I’ve been working and adulting for years

Also, lol, you are in your teens (17-19) and are tired of "adulting". Let me laugh a little more

awesomepantsm··on I'm young and I'm already burnt out on tech work. Could I get some life advice?
>the more I have a realization that a lot of the corporate speak they’re telling us at these companies is for the company’s interest.

Are you joking? Who's interest would it be in? Do you think the world revolves around you?

>in reality they’re just using me for money

Not to sound pedantic, but... why do you think they pay you?

>But I’m just really good at this

Citation needed. You said you get fired every 3 months. If they don't hire you back, you're not "really good".

awesomepantsm··on The Icewind Dale Problem
I don't really get why you wouldn't approach it as a dynamic programming question. The size of the table would only be about ~38 rows, according to the description, and ~38 columns. If you were given the probabilities of each sum (of which I'm sure is available) you could do it by hand, likely in an excel sheet.
awesomepantsm··on 99.99 + 0.02 = 100.00999999999999
If I was clippy, I'd say "Are you trying to ask a question on StackOverflow?" Please don't post things even a 1st year student already knows.
awesomepantsm··on Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
You watch too many movies. FBI doesn't recruit people by kidnapping them.
awesomepantsm··on Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
>If no one knows where he is, it's more likely that it's what Marcus wants at the moment rather than what the FBI wants.

Oh come on...

awesomepantsm··on Graph Data Structure Interview Questions
To be fair, almost all the problems after 6 are just variations on BFS and DFS, just different ways to ask the question.

For example, (11. Check if an undirected graph contains cycle or not) can easily be solved by just performing a DFS with some exit conditions.

awesomepantsm··on Graph Data Structure Interview Questions
You didn't miss anything. This is why these are good interview questions, because it weeds out the people who are asleep.
awesomepantsm··on When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are
The implication of the article is that Dan has had more than 12 weeks to make his side of the story known, and has chosen not to.

What's Dan's side of the story going to be that would change your mind about raising pitchforks? That actually Jacob wasn't fired for sexual harassment from a previous job?

awesomepantsm··on How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree
>when better instruction is available for free online?

Have you watched khan academy videos? Or online lectures in general?

90% of it is complete garbage. You can listen to Sal repeat every sentence 5 times if you really want to, but are you actually learning?

awesomepantsm··on Algorithms
Talked to someone who wanted to work at one of the big megacorps as a software engineer, asked for advice to pass the interview. I asked them if they could implement quicksort. They said maybe, but they didn't really want to study algorithms. I guess they really didn't want the job after all.
awesomepantsm··on (2013) George W. Bush is smarter than you
for what it's worth, this article was posted about a week ago, already.
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