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But how could this have been a more stellar experience for you? Should they have given you a consolidation price?

Job interviews are a business transaction (after all you are there because you want their money). Not hiring you is fair game and once they have decided/committed to pass on the opportunity it wouldn't be rational to waste money by continuing a pointless discussion.
Is Office 365 really cheaper than going open source?
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> But there are use cases wherein you would want to transition to-fro controllers (eg. multi page form).

This is interesting. Could you post a GitHub issue describing your use case and an pseudocode example of how you'd see it working?
They're not bad.

I was responding to the parent post absurdly contending a useful automotive charge could be achieved in 15 minutes from a standard wall outlet.
A lot of people are posting some variant on this, but, go back and read the post. The only things in the post are 1. this path exists 2. it uses Java and Python 3. it works in a fake shell. But that's it; no problems, no solutions, not even hints. Google probably rotates the problems anyhow.

Overall, Google can hardly expect this sort of thing to not get out over time, and... honestly... do you think Google recruiting is upset that this got posted to HN?
Do you remember the news about ukrainian authorities raiding the office of STALKER devs and demanding to be paid? If shit like this happened in Ukraine (which was a pretty stable country back then), then just imagine what scale of corruption is going on in countries like Belize.
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You need to pay attention to Switzerland as a startup nation
Because you're in an open office where you are in earshot of 20 or so people.
Great work. There's a couple of small issues. First, regardless of where you click on a card, when you start dragging the card will jump so that its centre is at the cursor position. Second, there is a mismatch on the Z-index used for dragging and that used when a card is dropped into place.
Being at the right place at the right time is also important, if not more important. There are lots of people thinking out of the box everywhere in the world but financial success in software is extremely concentrated at certain geographical locations and time ranges. (Maybe living in a small Eastern European country I feel this more than people living in let's say the Valley.)

TL/DR: out of the box, but in the appropriate (time,location) range
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You just made my brain explode. Thank you for enlightening me.
This is actually awesome!
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I think the reason for this is to prevent cross browser bug you seemed to be experiencing in the parent comment.
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https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcpc150renceApr83_2...

Starts on page 337.

They did it for the AT too (page 161):

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcat150ferenceMar84...
Good question actually... It was a few years ago; I know I was eyeing through my code using Instruments but I'm not sure if I profiled with optimizations on. I'll have to look back at my code to see if it'd make an impact with them on. Although having your debug build suffer significantly could be a valid concern.
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Sadly, this is becoming less and less of a viable option, if you wish to participate in the workforce. Open offices where your visibility is valued more than your performance, the expectation to respond immediately to chat and email, and the rise of the phone call all create the potential for interruptions.
> faster then light signal

afaik, causality is still a strong axiom, so no.
Disclaimer: I am not a physicist.

I really doubt it. People are fairly convinced that faster-than-light communication can't happen -- and if it can, it's going to take a bigger change than this.
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A DraftKings commercial airs every 1.5 minutes
Although this may not be a secret anymore and it is a recruiting funnel - this gives many lacking a STEM or mid/top/elite CS background an opportunity to prove themselves. This seems like a great way to get noticed and bypass many of the unconscious biases instilled into engineering recruitment through training and experience.
It would be awesome to have it combined with something that gave you the name of the color, like Sip does, so that you can tell right away that it is "Hunter Green" or "Downriver" o'clock.
Direct detection would be a lot more informative. It's also hard.

There are a lot of systematic effects (foregrounds, etc.) that can matter to CMB measurements.

Any indirect glimpse is still quite valuable, as deviations from the standard plan might be apparent. Any measurement of the neutrino temperature at decoupling is interesting.

(Edit: I'd also note that the last great prediction of the Big Bang is 'inflation', something about which we know next to nothing.)
I mean, not parent commenter, but I'd expect, y'know, the recruiter to actually remember giving the exact same preliminary interview to the same candidate a week earlier.
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Radar and satellite systems still use traveling-wave tubes in the RF signal chain. The reference to tubes could also be the radar displays, which were traditionally vector CRTs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling-wave_tube
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This is what probably will happen in the southern states if capital punishment is found to be unconstitutional again.

The people in power in the south believe that prison time never rehabilitates, and prison's sole purpose is to punish.
If the death penalty option is taken away, they'll try to make prison life as difficult as possible for people convicted of capital murder.
Was it patronising? And was it an ad hominem? I didn't really read that into it at all. Just another opinion on one man's opinion.
Maybe you're hearing different stories because you're listening to more than one person.
Vector tube displays, most likely.
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I don't think it's that paranoid. Our criminal justice system is far from perfect. I've heard estimates that up to 10% of people imprisoned are innocent of that particular crime. And just look at the number of people on death row who have been exonerated. Cases that get that much scrutiny should have a zero percent change of being incorrect but that's so far from the truth it's shocking.
Former cognitive neuroscientist here. In all seriousness, if this technology were dropped in today, it would be hard to use surreptitiously; you still need to immobilize the head to get a good fMRI signal at current speeds.

Also, interpreting a brain scan to determine lying is way beyond our actual abilities (though sadly, there are Indian courts and companies doing just that, despite the warnings of the neuroscience community).
Part of being outside the box is determining what it is the right time for. So for example, 2015 is obviously not the right time to make it big on asteroid mining, but understanding the value, logistics etc... for it could lead you to determine what kind of events would make it the right time. Certainly not a science to this though.
You might find this interesting, it was posted here a while back: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php#.VehYvr...

He had an article on Tokyo, but I can't find it. Apparently Tokyo meets many of these criteria and is pleasant to be in, despite being new construction.

Which is why I'm wondering if we have any North American examples.
I've found this tool to be super-helpful: https://github.com/dvorka/hstr

It's like ctrl-r, but it shows you many candidates at once.
Wouldn't Google still filter people based on their education and experience? This programming test could get someone a call but doesn't Google still only hire college graduates with a STEM or CS background (for technical roles)?
And yet the press cannot stop talking about him. If he did not get the ridiculous amount of coverage I bet he would fade quickly.
How long till someone builds a bot to try to game this?
>Dissolve land-use regulation, pay residents to allow developers to build new structures, and distort the market in favor of the renters by levying a land-value tax.

Is The Economist starting to support Georgism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Mass extinctions have occurred with much greater regularity than every 250 million years. The ice ages come in pulses, to use the geological term, and both the warming and cooling trends have inflicted vast changes in the species inhabiting the planet.

As far as CO2 emissions, the EPA's own statistics suggest a static-to-downward trend since the early 2000s in the U.S. (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html). We're barely above where we were in 1990, despite an increase in population from 250 million in 1990 to 319 million today. 3rd World economies will eventually follow suit, as they adopt the cheap new green tech that we're getting.

The trend today is toward more efficient vehicles, cheaper and more available solar for houses, a massive switch in electric power plants from coal and oil to inexpensive natural gas which emits less carbon.

Technology, Chinese mass production of green energy products like solar panels, American fracking of natural gas, all will conspire to reduce the carbon emissions. The trends are heartening.
If you have trouble understanding what "magnetic wormhole" means / what researchers actually did, this figure from the original paper explains it pretty well:

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12488/figures/1

Note red lines showing magnetic field, how they get cloaked by spherical device, starting on right side, then they re-appear on the left side.

This is the figure they use to show "wormhole", but it's just the figure above with erased spherical cloaking device (which must be physically present, field is still there, just the device hides it):

https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...

And this is how it looks in real life:

http://www.uab.cat/Imatge/758/790/cucweb.jpg

Still very cool, but now you can see it's basically just some sort of shielding of magnetic field that creates distortion of the field on the other end, nothing is getting teleported.
This is not meant as an offense, but just a little joke: Ending statements with question marks makes people read your posts in the voice of a 15yr old girl, so that's age for you on the internet ;)
There are people who are trying hard to find ways to see the CNB. The primary approach is to try to do something called 'coherent neutrino scattering'. If you can find the right material/metamaterial, you're off to the races.

The number of CNB neutrinos passing through your body right now is considerable.
I am 58 and can relate to pretty much everything the author wrote, but especially this:

computer programs are now monstrosities of large numbers
of layers of libraries cobbled together to create ever
more slickly polished user interfaces showing ever more
inane content and advertising.

I find it difficult to stay motivated to write software these days, for a few reasons. First, there are specialties. Years ago, you could be a generalist, and be useful writing software pretty much anywhere. And I'm not talking about just learning the latest fad language or framework. If you don't have a long background in neural nets, or transaction processing, or compilers, or you name it, you aren't going to be doing work that is both useful and interesting.

Second, as the author says, programming these days is often just taking libraries, writing adapters, all to serve slightly more relevant ads slightly faster. What a huge fucking waste of time. After the 2008 financial meltdown, it was noted that the "best and brightest" young people were wasting their talents on the "financialization" of the economy, which did nothing good for nearly everyone. I see the same thing happening now, in software.

Third, like the author, I got tired of working for idiots and wasting my time on corporate voodoo, so I left for consulting. While that has much to recommend it, working pretty much by yourself definitely limits what you can accomplish. On the other hand, I have a lot more time to myself, and I'm enjoying traveling, visiting family and friends, sleeping late, and generally just doing whatever I want.
So laws which create artificial scarcity lead to an increase in prices.

Wow, color me surprised.
On one hand this really seems like overkill. On the other hand, this is incredibly awesome. Thanks for sharing :)
One Japanese company makes half the world's zippers
As someone whose spent way too long and way too much time in over my head with non linear systems ( this area has been trendy and fruitful in the quantitative finance community since hte late 90's) I can second the post's book recommendation....

http://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Dynamics-And-Chaos-Applicati...

In fact everything by that author is great, buy and read it all:)

http://www.amazon.com/Steven-H.-Strogatz/e/B001KHB290/ref=dp...

Just make sure you've read up on your differential equations before you start:) This isn't a topic for someone without a strong background in the mathematics!

Unfortunately I have yet to find a good introductory course, video, book, pdf....anything for this topic. I had to jump in with a specific model in mind and keep banging away until I iterated my way towards the solution.

Suggestions for introductory material are welcome!!!
You could really do some interesting stuff with this. Automatically recommend aliases and show how many keystrokes you would have saved for example.
Yeah, his emotions were so intense for him that it was hard to watch. I definitely get it; if you're going to spend 80-hour weeks for 5 years on something mainly because you like it, you have to be pretty intense. But it's a double-edged sword; now his grief and loss and sense of betrayal are very intense too. It was very raw.

In case others are curious as to content: For me the major takeaway was that the person who has written more core Scala code than anybody thinks that the collections and probably the whole language is irredeemably fucked. He had example after example where if you do a reasonable action in 2 different ways, you get 2 different results, and that it was impossible to know why without an incredibly deep understanding of the implementation details.

This makes me sad, as I really like a fair bit of what Scala does. But the video makes a persuasive case that Odersky, et al, bit off more than could be chewed, throwing in too many interesting ideas without really thinking through what happens when those ideas intersect and combine.
Congratulations on creating & shipping your 1st product!

My first reactions, in order of appearance - hope they will be helpful in crafting the UX:

1. After reading HN title: Why would anyone need a special site for Trial Period?

2. After first glance at the site: Aaah, it's only for 3 days. Why so short? Does the site help the companies make a good decision after these 3 days or is just a sourcing channel?

3. After noticing that the jobs aren't dev only: Great! So many job sites are focused on devs exclusively :)

4. After clicking "Start trial" link: Why do you want me to sign-in? I didn't notice this requirement earlier. Why Twitter? Why don't you provide some form instead?

5. After attempting to sign in with Twitter: Why do you need so many permissions? Update my profile? Post Tweets for me? Can I trust you?

6. After abandoning the sign-in and going back to home page: Aaaah there's "Pleas sign-in message at the top". It seems I was banner blind 2 minutes ago. So where is the FAQ, contact info, TOS and other stuff required to form at least basic level of trust?

So, as in case of many services it was a little emotional roller-coaster between hope, disillusionment and doubt coming form insufficient information. Fortunately all of these seem to be quite easy to fix :)

EDIT: A couple more of questions running through my head during the 1st experience with your site:

1. How will the trial look like? How much time should I reserve? (it would be great if such info would be part of Job Posting)

2. Does "Start trial" mean that I'll be instantly connected to someone? Should I expect an interview? Are the positins remote or on-site? etc.

3. Am I right to expect that the trial will be unpaid one?
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I wrote a simpler version of very nearly the same thing not long ago. But this one is much nicer. The animations, in particular, add a lot of flash.
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If you need a pragmatic, complete and battle-tested gui kit for a business app, look at http://sap.github.io/openui5/
The arts keeping old tech alive?
As someone who did a lot of interviewing at Google I can say your interviewer didn't do his job and that definitely should not be the usual experience.

That said how are questions about "netstat" and the "expected output of dig" programming questions?

Also for anyone planning to join Google as a sysadmin you should note that even Google's sysadmins do a fair amount of code since Google loves automation. Python will probably figure fairly prominently in your job.
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i/13|undefined works too
More than 1M Apple Watches in use in China
Like in 'Demolition man', only that there it also have its drawbacks.
"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'. "

I think that's a mischaracterization of what people dislike about Google's interview process. People dislike that it takes a very long time for Google to follow up and that the process wastes a lot of their time.

Yes Google is profitable and a lot of people want to work there but that doesn't mean their interview process is great too.
From the conclusion:

>Nietzsche is a complex and provocative thinker, but he is a clear advocate of the role of solitude in every level of human activity, from philosophical and psychological to creative and societal.

Can't do any of those in solitary confinement. Solitude you choose is quite different than being locked in a small room indefinitely.
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That was one of my starting points and I am one of the guys asking lots of questions on Disqus haha

that's the repo I've made out of it -> https://github.com/andrecp/django-tutorial-docker-nginx-post... and I am using a setup close to this in my side project, only changed the nginx conf which was my first one and was terrible
> This comes out of the guy who is supposed to be in charge of coordinating our disaster relief.

When I read this, I remembered that the FEMA administrator at the time of Hurricane Katrina was a political appointee with zero relevant experience, so I went looking to see if Fugate is any different. Boy, is he!

Fugate has spent his entire career in this space, starting as a volunteer firefighter in high school, then working as a paramedic before spending ten years as emergency manager at the county level, then deputy director and director at the state level (in Florida). He turned down the FEMA administrator job in 2005 (when the aforementioned political appointee resigned in the aftermath of Katrina).

His reaction to being nominated by Obama for the role was to tweet "Pigs do fly" - https://twitter.com/disastersrus/status/1279506490

He supports the use of technology, including social media as a communications tool in the aftermath of disasters - http://www.dhs.gov/news/2011/05/04/written-statement-craig-f... - and crowdsourcing of disaster reporting via smartphone apps - http://www.fema.gov/disaster-reporter

He is a licensed ham radio operator and he used to run a website (domain registered in 2000; now inactive) with links, information and advice on how to prepare for disasters - http://www.disastersrus.org/bio.htm

This guy is awesome. If he says it's about numbers, I believe him.
OK, so indirect gets us neutrino temperature at decoupling, and direct gets us current neutrino temperature and (I guess) feeds into neutrino mass measurements and the PMNS matrix. Anything else?
I would agree that it comes down to opinion, but I disagree that it is extreme. If the very first post you make exhibits a disregard for community norms, then chances are you're not interested in building harmony. More to the point, it is indicative of someone who has made a new account specifically to be insulting, perhaps trying to evade a hellban on a different account.
I don't often make these comments and trust the filtering to work but I really fail to understand why this is on HN front page.

It has no technology or startup confluences or flavor. It is not even a factual story but an "editorial" opinion piece with zero information content.
...then you end up in one of Peter Norvig's Google search history haikus: http://www.codersatwork.com/peter-norvig.html
Last I saw it was about an even when expressed as a percentage of GDP (around 44%).

I don't think the that really invalidates my main point. The Chinese have a massive industrial over-capacity that will have to be either liquidated or supported via the PBoC.
There's one card face missing. That's the back! A nice card back might be a more difficult challenge to do in HTML5.
In my case, my job isn't a drain -- it's useful, good work, not evil, good coworkers, fat paycheck, good hours, lots of flexibility. From a practical standpoint, I'm willing to wager that most people don't find fulfillment in their day job, and my job puts me in a pretty good place to find fulfillment outside of work.

On the other hand, at the moment I'm still young enough to start a second career -- it wouldn't be completely crazy for me to go back to school, learn a completely new skill set, grind up through the ranks, and try to have an impact in some other field.

On the gripping hand, I'm not so young as to be in an impatient rush about everything. I don't need to completely upset my entire life just yet. So I'm carefully researching alternate careers to decide if I'd actually find them fulfilling and have an aptitude for them (it'd be a shame to spend ten years and realize I'm not fulfilled by my second career either). And I'm trying to expand myself a little bit more outside my day job, so that my happiness doesn't rest on a one-legged stool.
> With care put in to how larger components are designed, it's possible (I've done it) to swap out sub components to customize behavior on a per-instance basis.

Thank you for posting this. I've been wondering if this was possible. Can you share any insights that might help someone that wants to do this?
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