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>Microsoft should then have a policy of not disclosing information to law enforcement unless provided with a court order.

According to the statement, that was their policy.

>The fact that microsoft ended up stating that they would do exactly this in the future should indicate that this is not the problem you are making it out to be.

The steps they said they were adding in the statement don't include going to the police. I'm not sure what you mean by this statement that could be correct.

I went over your comments again, and they contradict each other, let alone the facts.

as I said in the original comment they eventually backtracked on this and said they'd report such future crimes to the police.

Whereas your original comment doesn't mention the police at all.

I get that you feel you've been consistent, but you haven't communicated your actual thoughts very well. The other possibility here is that you don't have a firm grasp on what exactly you think Microsoft did wrong and should be doing instead. It certainly doesn't come across in your writing.
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this is Berlin only...
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this project was put together by a very dedicated friend of mine - i've seen some of the prototypes, and was pretty amazed at what he's put together.

don't plan on having kids myself, but i know a few adults that might be amused :)
I agree. These kind of posts make me a little nauseated to be honest. The only reason this person is bragging about being tracked and monitored online is because it resulted in a job at a prestigious marketing company. The vast majority are just being tracked and monitored, no job offered.
We're working on exactly that and you can play with it here: http://clarify.io/try-it-now/

While the words themselves are important, it's the context that is even more so. The difference between "that's a great idea" and "that's a great idea" is huge.

We're already working on tone, volume, rate of speaking, and similar but there's plenty of work to do. If you're interested in working in this space in Austin, TX, drop me a note. :)
Speak for yourself. I am currently putting 110% into asteroid mining
Civil war would be somewhat out of the scope of what the article is talking about, namely discrete, punctuated events like nuclear blasts and earthquakes. Even hurricanes last only a few days in one area. War could drag on for years.
>> "Are there any examples of new, dense construction in North America that aren't ugly or dispiriting to live in?"

There are a couple of new tall buildings in lower Manhattan that aren't totally hideous, e.g. 8 Spruce (Gehry usually makes me feel ill, but in this one case it sort of works). And it's not particularly dispiriting inside.

And a tiny fraction of the new stuff going up in Williamsburg and parts of Queens is not entirely awful.
Never put your personal livelihood on the line to make the world a better place?

That's terrible, cowardly advice.
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I have a couple of questions:

1) I downloaded the stand-alone version and tried "Your first date with JetBrains MPS" but for some reason I can't get the extract method/surround with to work. Is that a bug or is there some special condition for refactoring to work? (I try to extract the drop and turn right into it's own "routine")

2) How do you debug generated code? Is there a way for MPS to map generated Java or C back to the original DSL?
> A lot of people are pissed because they didn't get in and feel it's google's fault for having a 'broken interview process'. But reality is that google is one of the most profitable/successful companies in the world and gets voted "top employer" year after year. A lot of people want to work for them, so they can afford to be picky in the interview process; but that doesn't mean anything is broken. Quite the opposite actually.

I'm not convinced of this argument at all. Many of the people I know who either work there or have work there complained about the process as well. I didn't get in which was fine (I certainly wasn't pissed) but I was very frustrated with the interviewer being 15 minutes late and when he asked me to implement an object he cut me off when I was almost finished to optimize a method (I protested; premature optimization and all). Then, since we had a truncated time table, I just finished optimizing and he ended the interview. I explained to him what code was left in my object implementation and it didn't seem to be a big deal. Then when I didn't progress a few friends I have at Google looked into it and found out I didn't get to progress because I didn't get to finish my implementation.

I've been in a variety of different types of interviewing. The more academic, white boarding of issues that you never even see on the job just suck in my opinion. I like it a hell of a lot more when I get to work with whoever I'm interviewing with and we're working on a real problem. Or hell even homework. Anything to show how I solve problems and code versus simply remembering different algorithms or data structures from college.
(Sorry Long Story)

The witness was 15 years old with a history of making false accusations against both her brothers and two boys at her High School. She was found to have had mutual sex with both boys on the high school campus and those accusations were deemed false. Her brothers were never found to have done anything wrong also false accusations. She than made an accusation against my friend. All this past history that happened in the past year was deemed not applicable to her current accusations. Also what the accusations were changed every time for 6 months with different dates, times and locations and him being re-arrested multiple of times. That didn't matter because my friend couldn't verify where he was at all times the previous 5 months. BTW the accusations were made the Monday before my friends marriage.

The state's expert witnesses for IT were the worst pieces of garbage spewing false statements. There was one conversation on Facebook that was of concern which my friend denied having. It wasn't an illegal conversation (This happened at 2 AM after he announced that he was driving two states away to propose to his present day wife) The IP address was not the same IP as my friends DESKTOP computer. My friends IP was the same the day before and the day after the conversation and for a month prior to that ocnversation. Experts stated that IP addresses are dynamic and change all the time so it is no surprise that the IP address was the same the day before and the day after but different for that one conversation on his desktop computer which was the states story, my friend has proven he was at his apartment at that time. Jury just has to believe whoever they are going to believe. Guilty and in the state a 2nd grade teacher forcibly raped two boys got 5 years. This judge gave him 12 years.
The screenshot in the article is one I posted 9 months ago, and is being used without attribution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8593050
Often, work pays off. The Lakers used to try and lock Kobe out of the gym to stop him getting shots up at all hours before dawn. But he persisted and found other ways in.
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sounds like a modern version of the floating = witch test
It exists in other languages, too, like PHP.
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I suffer from procrastination. This article hit a lot of notes for me. The "moral compensation" of doing other things -- watering plants, cleaning the house, doing chores when deadlines loom -- hits close to home.

Sometimes those things actually help to calm my brain and I can formulate a work plan without being faced with a keyboard.

Another thing that works for me (and I'm saying this for me only; know thyself and all that) is smoking a little bit of weed. Not to get hammered, but just enough that it calms my brain a bit. It seems to help me relax, sit down and get into (and stay on) a task like nothing else.
If wormholes are theoretically possible and allow for some sort of FTL communication by joining two points in space, then I thought perhaps the same goes for magnetic wormholes.
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I've googled all of those things numerous times and never seen a prompt for a challenge.
The only way to reliably do that is get a smaller office or fire people.
As i said it's currently limited to Berlin and only a prototype, i'm looking for general feedback on this approach and based on that i would extend it to other locations of course :-)
Me too. Father of two young ones.
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>But how could this have been a more stellar experience for you? Should they have given you a consolidation price?

If we ignore that they asked him programming questions not relevant to his position, there's the whole "they didn't even know they interviewed me, so they called me again to ask me the same exact things" FAIL, plus the lie about "we'll call you in 6 months".
C++ doesn't really make a difference between builtin and user-defined data types. They all have value semantics, and a lot of effort has been spent to make user-defined types able to mimic builtin types as closely as possible. Classes and structs have no semantic differences besides default visibility of member names. For reference semantics, you use explicit references.

Java wanted to enforce reference semantics (and heap storage) for classes, but still wanted to retain value semantics (and stack storage) with fundamental types for performance reasons. The result is the mess we have now.
I'm Canadian and I'd say about 95% of America is almost as safe as Canada. Or at least as safe as Brampton, Ontario (a poorish city, but not crazy).

That last 5% is fucked up though. Detroit itself is beyond fucked up. I used to run a construction site at Jane and Finch (Canada's worst intersection at the time) in 2004-2006 and a couple years later I went through Detroit while picking up my friend's car. No contest between the two. The bad part of Detroit (70% of it) was like a failed 3rd world country. I was literally told to leave the area of town I was in when I got to the closed (at least for people importing a car) boarder.

I got pulled over by cops kinda near that area and you could tell they had an obvious power trip "respect my authority" vibe to them.

But then there is Salt Lake City, or Kansas City, or even poor, but hospitable places like Cleveland. They feel just as nice as Canada. Nice cops. Nice people. No sense of foreboding. America has a huge range of situations.
I wonder if they would have similar clicks for calling it a 'magnetic flux conduit' or 'magnetic field hose'. I expect using meta-materials for magnetic shielding will be a bigger deal as really strong magnetic fields are needed for things like fusion reactors, but for now its just an interesting validation that you can cloak a magnetic field using meta materials.
Does ARM have a good device configuration story yet? Last time I worked in ARM/Linux everything was done through the "board" model where you basically just hard-coded devices you expected to exist.

I thought that Microsoft was bringing UEFI/ACPI to ARM but TBH I haven't kept up.
Related MSR blog post reporting on this paper: http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive...
What leads you to believe OP doesn't use FreeBSD or any other Unixalike? :)
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Not all dreaming happens during REM sleep, so it's possible that you're not changing your cycle that much but still dreaming more.
Good point, the author never discusses what percentage of a tax increase would simply be passed on to the renters of the property. Since demand for these units is so inelastic, it would probably be near 100%.

What to do then? Subsidize construction? Force higher densities?
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Great work, I love this. Here is a quick playing card example with pseudo elemenets view-source:http://www.clarkeology.com/card.html
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GoogleFight would overwhelmingly tend to agree with you: http://www.googlefight.com/%22king+of+edge+hill%22-vs-%22mol...

:)
Thanks. The aim is an entire series, starting early. Computer Science is a way of thinking, not just electronics.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

(disclaimer: this is a joke)

You get original Ship of Theseus.

If you start taking out parts of the original is considered gone and you end up with a copy as soon as the first part is replaced.

If you subsequently replace all parts of the original and from the original parts assemble the ship again - this is considered to be a second copy of the original, but not the original itself.

You can then subsequently repeat the process of replacing parts on any copy you created - this will merely produce another copy and not the original.

You need to remember two things:

1) The original is gone as the first part is replaced

2) You need to obtain additional licenses to any copy you create
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I admit it's rare, but sometimes, with a fresh perspective, and not falling into believing something is best just because it's the way it's always done, what programmers do actually is needlessly complicated and difficult. Examples are the entire J2EE ecosystem from 10 years ago, forcing concepts into baroque relational DB models that don't fit, or XML.
It's not just the history feature that's archaic. Bash itself is quite the abomination, also operating on bytestreams is really error-prone, and then there is the whole tty system..

As much as I like my command line, I think it would be very worthwile to rethink this whole system from scratch.
One kicker that no one seems to address: 401(k) disbursements are treated as ordinary income for taxes. Up to 86% of Social Security is taxable depending on income. Therefore, you get a double whammy tax-wise from taking out money from your 401(k)... you pay tax on it and it triggers tax on your Social Security income. It quickly puts you up into the higher tax brackets too.
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I see that the original comment must have been edited to remove something about racism, but I have to add this elaboration because it so often gets missed:

Of course anyone can be racist, but when the white people have nearly all of the economic and political power, and the black people have nearly none, it doesn't matter if black people are racist, because there are no structures to support that.

Or, put another way, black people might call me "cracker" or "white boy" or whatever, and hate me because I'm white, but I can still walk into a bank and get a home loan. I was never red-lined out of living in a neighborhood at first sight.
The basic idea is to have your components take optional params that are themselves components. ESPseudoish code:

// In your components...
let DefaultListItem = (content) => <li className="foo">{content}</li>

let DefaultList = (items, Li=DefaultListItem) => <ul>{items.map(Li)}</ul>

let SortableItem = (content) => <li className="handle" on-drag={(e) => dispatch('dragStart', hash(content))>{content}</li>

let SortableList = (items, Li=SortableItem) => <DefaultList {...this.props} />

let EditableList = (items, List=DefaultList, Li=SortableItem) => {
<div><List {...this.props} /><button>Edit</button></div>
}

let SearchResultHighlighter = (text) => <span className="imagine-this-highlighted">{text}</span>

// -- In use...
let source = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
render(<SortableList items={ source.map(SearchResultHighlighter) } />)

let ImageItem = (url) => <li><img src={url} /></li>
render(<EditableList items={ source.map(x => x + '.jpg') } Li={ImageItem} />)

There's a lot of design space to play around with. For a widely reusable library, I want something like Clojure's protocols or Rust's traits so I can indicate to people what the component needs/provides without them looking at the source.
The website has a bit more info and some benchmarks for those that are interested: http://pyparallel.org.
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Fertile soil was always a limited resource. I assume this is one of the reasons of the current civil war in Ukraine. Someone wants that soil.
It's old age and guile (or treachery!) that trump youth and enthusiasm :)
They are guessing much less than those who simply extrapolate exponential growth.

The population plateau is based on the development trends observed in developed and developing countries. As standard of living increases, with improved life expectancy and education, population growth slows.

Many developed countries are below the replacement rate, and any population growth is as a result of immigration from less-developed countries.
You know that our security services and, more disturbingly, our prosecutors' offices still use the polygraph, right?
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Well let me be the first to say, this sucks. As a user (and lover) of Jetbrains products (pycharm, IDEA, phpstorm) over the years, I never though they would ever go down this path.
Look, Numair, you're right.

"Basically, global capitalism is broken, dude." He won the indie video game lottery, which is as pretentious as it sounds. I do not think he's able to see the ideological problems manifesting around him. If he could, he wouldn't be melting down constantly. I applaud your efforts because you "get it." He doesn't "get it" yet, and I don't think he'll "get it" after reading your great letter.
Well, climate always changes. And so does the soil.
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Salt Lake City has some experiments built around outdoor shopping malls, but it seems the good apartments are never available and the condominiums are priced for wealthy investors, not residents.

The city has very wide streets around these developments and multi-level underground parking to accommodate cars.
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I'd hardly call it proper. You're asked to code some stupid problems in a Google Doc (which is extremely bad at handling code), while the other person's waiting around on the other line impatiently, asking stupid questions like 'how can you make this faster?' If that's a proper interview, I'd hate to see what's improper. At the very least, they should give you quiet time to work alone. I don't expect to be working while someone else is talking to me, asking me questions, or breathing down my neck, but apparently this is a required skill at Google and most other places that use such idiotic "interviewing" techniques. I'm certain they are losing out on a lot of great talent simply because of this.
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Bribe? Give me a break.
> I have no idea what makes a diesel die.

Mechanical wear, the rings don't seal as well against the cylinder walls as they used to. Valves don't sit in their seats as tightly as when new. And so on. As for other problems, I already listed a few. Think of the niggly things your last old car had. A Tesla, diesel, or any other car is not immune to those problems.
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You've actually posted "sources" that disagree with your original claim. In case you've forgotten:

"More than 50% of these refugees believe that whoever leaves the faith of Islam should suffer the death penalty and that adultery should be dealt with stoning to death."

1. You've posted nothing about refugees. The German article talks about Turkish immigrants in general. The Pew poll talks about Muslims in their native lands. Since when are these terms equivalent terms?

2. Even if we take if((Muslims in the UK == refugees) == TRUE), your Wikipedia source explicitly contradicts your original statement. Only 36% of a small age cohort believes that people that leave the faith of Islam should suffer a horrible fate. That number is even less for Muslims outside of that age bracket. Regardless, the group "Muslims in the UK" is not strictly equivalent to "refugees" no matter how much you wish it to be true.

3. Lastly, you disregard all of the information that suggests immigrants actually feel like they belong to their new homelands. Yes, as you've shown, some Muslims have beliefs that Westerners might consider vile (e.g., death penalty for conversion), but the fact of the matter is that in both the UK and Germany the majority of the Muslims polled actually feel like they are part of the country.

I am not trying to make anything disappear: I've acknowledged and addressed every source you have posted, yet you cannot come up with anything more than "Muslims are scary" and "They don't assimilate" despite what actual research shows. Furthermore, you hypocritically suggest that we should single out Muslims for their religious beliefs, in the name of "protect[ing] the social freedom values we hold dear in the West." How can you support "freedom of religion," one of the foremost in the pantheon of social freedoms, while saying that you want to filter immigrants/refugees based on their religion?

In case you missed it here [1]:

"We conclude that Muslim migrants do not move to Western countries with rigidly fixed attitudes; instead, they gradually absorb much of the host culture, as assimilation theories suggest."

I get the impression that you don't step outside your comfort zone very often, much less interact with people of different faiths or races in your daily life. Before you put words in my mouth, I never once suggest we tolerate murder or stoning. People who take action on beliefs like that should be vigorously persecuted. Until then, I don't think it's much different than asking a Christian, "Would a non-believer go to Hell when they die?" That is to say, it's a hypothetical question of faith, not one of action. Feel free to disagree with that opinion, but at least acknowledge that in doing so you're running afoul of the "social freedom values" that you so dearly want to protect.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012....
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read part 1? ;)
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problem is it's not really a wormhole, so no FTL yet
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Well let me be the first to say, this sucks. As a user (and lover) of Jetbrains products (pycharm, IDEA, phpstorm) over the years, I never though they would ever go down this path.
Have you made any attempt to estimate the probability of that happening and then compare it to other risks you are able to take without paranoia?
Or it would actually rehabilitate. The current prison climate arguably does the opposite of rehabilitation.