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Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017 on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:55PM (#14168903)
Why not? 4.5 million people without SSNS filed last year.

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dip...

Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010) on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:01PM (#14103190)
I went through a pretty intense major depressive episode (6 months not getting out of bed) plus chronic dissociation and depression. End to end from the onset of the episode to reaching a point where I feel I'm "fully actualized" took 6 years. During that process I went from being one of the angriest and most unpleasant people to being very happy with many close relationships, and a clear sense of purpose.

My mental health crisis was absolutely a wake up call. It lead me to make significant structural changes to my approach to phenomenology, aesthetics, morality, and epistemology. I totally restructured my moment to moment experience of existence.

Re:Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 2) on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:25AM (#14094737)
I dunno about revolving. The pay in the private sector is very good. Tons of folks who worked in the IDF end up at tech companies for two reasons:

(1) almost everyone goes through the IDF thanks to mandatory service

(2) if you have aptitude you end up in the signal Corp, who are good at what they do.

I wouldn't call this a conspiracy, and the parents speculation is very thin. If the author got this from the IDF they almost certainly wouldn't be publishing; breaking that kind of confidentiality can end really badly

Microsoft [1][2] and Google [0]have been doing this for years. Google's billion word language model dataset is a notable example which was central to a lot of important research.

[0] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41880.html [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/mslr/ [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-3...

You're horribly mistaken, likely because you haven't spent time in communities that aren't hostile to women. It's really hard to know whether your community is hostile to women unless you're a woman. A lot of guys just don't understand how much harassment a typical woman experiences, and when they hear it criticized basically fall back on "well I don't see it" and conclude it must not be happening rather than trying to collect more information.
Re:Reaching new records in speech recognition on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:04PM (#13846941)
Kaldi is state of the art. A bit harder to use admittedly.
Re:Reaching new records in speech recognition on Saturday March 11, 2017 @02:37PM (#13846793)
Watson is a made up marketing concept for IBM's collection of fragmentary services, almost all of which run on deep learning of some sort.
Re:Google featured snippets are worse than fake news on Monday March 06, 2017 @09:05AM (#13802652)
The attribution comes at the end
Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:59PM (#13789158)
When on Earth did anti science trolls take such a prominent role in HN? It's not hard for me to imagine a misinformation campaign run against HN, because I can't really understand how someone technical could countenance anti climate change ideas.
Re:White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:56PM (#13789143)
Those are non discretionary and funded by totally separate channels.
Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:16AM (#13652109)
I've worked on a storage system that used 9. 15 doesn't seem impossible to me.
Re:Software Engineering at Google on Saturday February 11, 2017 @12:26PM (#13623569)
I didn't even apply until finding a team I was really excited about. I had coffee with a couple TPMs and managers, found the right group, applied, and have been really happy. The median tenure of the folks I work with is 5 years, and so far it's been great.