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I think the purpose of this kind of exercise is not to have the developer implement the whole class, but rather see how far he can go, how he can prioritize the subtasks and how he deals with pressure.
Of course the result also gives an idea of its programming skills.
Not that I agree with the method though.
We need to find someway that Disney get's their copyright for everything and the rest of the world can have Public Domain.

Also the Autobiography of Malcolm X is one of the best non-fiction books I ever read and should be read by everyone in America. Though I don't think that book would be public domain now due to Alex Haley being a co-writter and died in 1992.
My wife has a 2002 Mercedes vehicle. It has 82000 miles on it now but fewer than 65000 miles when it needed $5,000 worth of work to replace a stretched timing belt. Something that should never be a problem but especially on a low mileage vehicle that was driven gently. Her driver side seat heater also started to short, a known issue, never recalled. I consider Mercedes to be overpriced garbage.
so I guess pumping water up to a reservoir and a turbine downhill is cheaper than capacitors/batteries to store solar power?
"What is the future of Amiga" asks the cover for issue #1.

There hasn't been a future for Amiga for a couple of decades. Amiga was dead in 1995 already, not to mention 2015.

Don't get me wrong. I think I used mine till early 00's (for serious stuff, such as email and work). I loved Amiga and I think no other platform except BeOS has ever captured the same feeling that you get from having hugely advanced technology in your hands. If I could jump back to the 80's/90's which is the time I got my serious with my Amiga, I would. No doubt about it.

But Amiga as we know it is dead and has been dead for so long I barely remember. I would welcome another Amiga that would again be such a state of the art platform that it would compare to nothing else――although I wouldn't know what that could it be. Maybe you could say iOS is the new Amiga, but it doesn't convey the same feeling.

What I do remember from Amiga was how snappy it was.

AmigaOS had a modern design with no bloat. My i486 running my first Linux installation in the mid-90's beat it hands down, technically, but it never felt the same. Things were crazy fast (in comparison to MC68030) but they never felt fast. And feeling counts for 99% for a human being, even if my mind is telling me my phone is 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than my Amiga.

In contrast to how my Linux@i486 behaved my Amiga did just what it had to do. Linux (and Windows and Mac) always seemed to do a lot of things until they bothered to do what I asked. I've only experienced something similar in BeOS. It's weird that there are no other mainstream operating systems where user interface would be prioritized over anything else. I still experience lag in my 10's machines when running Ubuntu whereas I'm longing for the experience where no button or window ever hesitated to behave when I asked it to. It would be very much possible to implement (run UI in a single process that is never paged to disk and runs on SCHED_RT priority and never depends on the application itself to ultimately react to user interface events) but nobody has done it. Yet that's what I still do miss from Amiga. The feeling is almost tactile, and it needs to feel it comes from 20 years in the future.

I don't know how I feel about any Amiga magazine or any of the Amiga rebirth projects there are. AROS is nice but none of them is the same. Even if we did 00's things in 80's architecture running on 10's hardware, it's not the same. I don't give a dime about keeping the old Amiga on life support. Every few years I fire up UAE and conclude that, all right, it still has that X but is lacking A-W and Y-Z. I understand that I'm a human being and my emotions attach to points in time, and that's how it's going to be. It's worth remembering but not holding on to. At best, we can take what was extraordinary back then and if it's still extraordinary, reimplement it on a modern platform.
You don't have kids. Mickey Mouse Club House is HUGE with kids.
No one (serious) thinks that Mozilla cannot deliver impressing feats of engineering, at the very least because they've got quite a bit of tail left on their goodwill for breaking the IE monopoly.

What people are implicating is their strategy. As others have mentioned, they don't seem to lead entry into any space, and therefore their presence in the space is constantly in the vein of catching up. Thus far, the only clear reason I've ever heard them mention is the same "open web standards" argument. Obviously this approach is valid, but with their browser success they should know better than anyone that you cannot overtake Goliath with open standards if no one is using your product.

Lo and behold, they've apparently shown a product at MozCon that Google and Apple have already bet a ton on and released compelling consumer offerings for. Regardless of how impressive the APIs and UI may be, history repeating itself here.
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How is this different from opening these emails and clicking unsubscribe ? Or, in case such option is not available or keep sending, marking it as spam ?
France won’t block public Wi-Fi or ban Tor after all
Those machines send out information from millions of km away, yet sometimes I can't get a decent mobile connection. o_o
In a modern context, it makes me think of climate change denialism.
Additionally, apart from Pimsleur, language courses are structured very differently from how one first learns to speak.
Media in the US is independent and not controlled by the government.

The amount of media VW gets over this issue is irrelevant to any damages you may try to conjure up.

People may say whatever they like.
(before killing ourselves we should at least try to change ourselves no?)

I dislike your "irony" or lack of seriousness, but at some point, when the resources will be over, we'd have to fight with each other. It's already happening for petrol, it will probably happen for water and air looking at the last news from Asia at the moment.
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"the only bailout beneficiaries are big banks" is patently false.

if the banks were the only parties to benefit, there'd be zero political will to aid. banks hold the nation's savings, and allowing them to fail meant multiples of pain for average people.

if this crisis proved anything, it's that friedman was right (printing can stall a deflationary spiral). what remains to be seen is how the next act plays.
Large Wall Street firms view these guys the way a rhinoceros views the birds snatching bugs off its back. It's not a competitive relationship, they coexist.

To push the analogy, sometimes the rhino gets annoyed and pecked too hard, but overall it's happy to live without as many bugs everywhere.
“The guy who’s making the $100,000 car is not changing the world,” one of Xindayang's financiers boasted to Forbes, referring to Tesla's flamboyant founder Elon Musk. “The guy who is making the $10,000 electric vehicle is changing the world.”

That's great for China, but I wonder if a Xindayang car would meet US or EU safety standards.

Also, wasn't the plan for Tesla to "bootstrap" the electric car market with higher-end (and higher-margin) luxury cars? After a few years the technology would be scaled-up enough to make low-cost electric cars feasible.
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There's a geo-political angle to this targeting. You'd find that the VW emition scandle and fine announcement came just during the time when Germany leaders were starting to get a bit cozy with Russia over sanctions ETC (I remember it was latter half of September, you can check these facts by searching Google.)
What was disturbing to me, was that all of the scenarios dealt with the police having to defend themselves using lethal force.
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Most Cerner employees give up the right to sue--to stay eligible for merit raise
All that does is turn cancer research into a bad government investment rather than a bad private investment.
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Thanks for your explanation. But i think the problem here is not the strategy. We are talking about individual car performance. This is not about the NOx produced by the whole VW cars. Every other single manufacturer car is at least 4000% better ? Incredible. This is the question.
is this just on carpet? doesn't stand for a long period of time without shoes hurt your heels?
"far" anything politically usually means totalitarian.
There's no Amiga of our era. When I got my Amiga 500 in 1988, I was blown away: My jaw literally dropped. This was the future, years ahead of schedule.

Apple has had some awesome, amazing products, yeah. But it's all incremental.
For feminist philosophers of science like Donna Haraway and Sandra Harding, it's not about rejecting objectivity, but rather about looking at how different perspectives influence what we mean by "objectivity".

Ssndra Harding discusses this in various places, such as her essay "What is Strong Objectivity".

For example, think about a medical study where subjects are primarily male. Do the results in fact represent "objective reality" for the general population?

Or, using your Bayesian example, consider fields that are disproportionately male, and there are gender differences in the observations o(X) that people make. Do the "facts" that are inferred represent "objective reality"?
My recollection of my time in Korea was that people often lived nearer extended family. This contrasts with my experiences as an American in the US, where many of us do not live near relatives, and a lot of (younger?) folks don't have a significant number (say, more than 3 or 4 locally) of close friends. I'll call this the "intimacy gap". I'm not close enough to anyone that I see on a regular basis that they'd feel comfortable commenting about my weight like that (ok, less true these days with a ton of close friends, but more true a few years back).
Adam McClean's site provides many historical alchemical texts, some digitised no-where else.
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/texts.html
Over the course of my career 3 times someone wanted me to do something illegal. All of those times I handed in my walking papers. In one case I was asked to directly do something that would cause me to be acting in an illegal way, in two of the cases it would result in a company doing something that was illegal.

Yes, CTO's can run a 'special project' but the engineers are quite aware of the situation with respect to emission targets in this specific case and must have been very much aware that they were doing something that was fraudulent. The people mentioned there certainly had incentives but did not have VW in their pocket to such an extent that they could interpret their mandate as carte-blanche to commit fraud. These are not stupid people, on the contrary. My interpretation is that they were told to do this 'in whatever way possible' and that they interpreted this possibly as 'and that includes illegal but don't tell me about it'. Plausible deniability are the key words.

Whether that's the case or not will come out in due time, it always does. See Oliver North, Watergate and countless other scandals where you can only throw so many people under the bus until someone does a tell-all.

I note that the prosecutor hedges his words carefully ('likely' and 'orchestrated') and I also note that on the VW org chart it would not take more than 10 people to go from the CEO level all the way to a single programmer to insert this code.

That would also still require someone to either cooperate with this scheme at the auditors side, especially given the nature of the Bosch memo and the document linked by user PeterStuer which you may take as common knowledge within the automotive industry. In such circumstances a source code level audit of the software that ends up in the shipping devices to make sure everything is above board would seem to be indicated at a minimum.
The problem is that there aren't good adblockers for mobile, in my experience.

On Android, Chrome doesn't support extensions so standard extensions are out. However, you can get Firefox Mobile for it, which is actually my favourite browser on Android, and it supports standard extensions so you can load ublock Origin for it. App-type adblockers seem to require rooting.

On iOS, I have yet to see a trustworthy/good blocker. I know of Purify, but the author is Chris Aljoudi and after the ublock thing, I'm never touching any of his code. Then there's the Adblock Plus browser thing, but I don't want to use a separate browser - plus, they soured me with the "acceptable ads" stuff. So basically what I want is ublock for iOS.
Magellan was the last Venus orbiter from NASA, yes. The latest we have is from Venus Express, Venus orbiter from ESA.
I did an experiment[1] last year that demonstrated JSON parsing only requires 1 bit on the stack per array or associative array encountered (as they are the two non-terminals that lead to different rules).

In my implementation, I let a 64-bit integer represent the non-terminal stack (then used recursion if it went over that). So you'd need a JSON structure that has "a hash of a hash of a hash ... pointing to an array" with a depth in the 60s before you'd get a recursion call. And the real program stack shouldn't take that much per call (I didn't optimize this part, so I'm not sure what the minimum is).

I only wrote a JSON validator, but my method should apply to cases where JSON elements are being placed into a data structure.

I'm pretty sure that a JSON parser could be written in C/C++ that requires less than 1kb overhead, where most of that is the string buffer.

I make no claims about speed though, as my concern was proving the bit part (I suspect speed using my method would be worse than the naive per character jump table).

[1] http://web.cs.dal.ca/~sjackson/bitJson/JSON.html
Git Fusion is worth a checkout for those programmers who want Git with a mixed repo. Only discovered it this week, but it allows me to pull from a Perforce repo as a git origin :)
All the computers in the world are not going to solve human nature - unfortunately.

And transparency can be abused by selective quoting by those with agenda see the UK's MP expenses scandal and who owned the news paper that broke it.
Here a link to the sketch if anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg
True, but I think that the fact that they're using these anti-competitive practices indicates they don't have that firm hold. Predatory pricing will only work as long as they keep doing it. Although I've heard stories of the opposite, where people really get gouged during surge pricing.
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It's not "don't blame the engineers", it's "don't shift all of the blame to the engineers". That doesn't mean some engineers weren't responsible, just that they don't deserve all the blame.
I can see how the fact that its an interview will make it significantly more stressful to fit in the required time. Rating your reaction was probably another part of the interview altogether. The only real recommendation I can give is - have lots of coding practice before you go. Hackerrank, codewars sites are pretty good for that.
We need to create a sort of hybrid copyright and trademark that will solve the mickey mouse problem. So that a company can keep their actually used characters, but that unused stuff goes into the public domain after 25 years plus not being used in the past 5 years.

That way Disney can keep their mickey mouse, but someone can find a book written 40 years ago that isn't in circulation anymore and reprint it. Or create unauthorized sequels, riffs, whatever.
When the cops can't just plain talk to a law abiding human being who is on their side -- a father with his kids, no less -- then there is something very wrong. Do you think that cop would demonstrate a finer granularity of classification and a different sort of interaction when meeting a white father with his two football playing high school aged kids?

Police who are a part of the community and who know their fellow citizens are going to be able to do a much better job.
That's interesting. But from what I understand, the problem isn't getting many GPUs to train a single network -- the problem is to get them to scale linearly; i.e. to get each additional GPU to accelerate the process as much as the last. Throwing boxes at neural net training is easy, but people run into serious plateaus scaling GPUs.
In this case, I think the engineering effort required to proxy a real one to make it look like a poorly-configured honeypot would be greater than actually implementing some proper security measures, like a firewall plus a VPN for any needed external access.
Much of the attraction of the Amiga (and the Atari ST) from that time, as far as I remember, was the 'step-up' in terms of the quality of the graphics and the games, when most people were rocking 8bit micros like the C64 or Amstrad.

In terms of what you could do software-wise, I think we can forget about the mainstream games industry. Same with the mainstream graphics industry (for the reason we have no Adobe Creative Studio for Linux).

What would interest me would be a killer OS with an active ecosystem supporting more indie-style products like Firefox, Sketch (https://designcode.io/sketch), Sublime Text, Atom etc, as well as indie games like Hotline Miami.

Start 'small' and see where it goes kind of thing.

I, for one, would be very interested in something like this.
The thing is, they can keep him as a trademark even if he is public domain. This is how the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate keeps Tarzan and John Carter, for example.

Maybe it should just be increasingly costly to maintain an old copyright, so a few high-value copyrights like Mickey Mouse could be maintained while much more literature simply passes into the public domain. Or perhaps film copyrights could be separated from print copyrights.

Or maybe we could just not have de facto perpetual copyright.
Who specifically do you imagine they could sue?
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> South Park was pretty regularly referred to as a moral and ethical guide by most of the friends I made in college.

These people were accepted to a college?
no sense of humor.
I've been using Focus by Firefox on iOS for a couple of days, seems to be working fine.

HN discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10696378
I am not dismissing his writings based on his personality, but based on its lack of rigor. In fact, I am not dismissing them at all as examples of their genre. But they are not philosophy. Philosophy requires a certain form of questioning and doubt which those writings lack. Regardless of what genre they belong to, they also lack originality, which is something Tesla and Faraday had in abundance. If they uncover anything, it is the very interesting political foundations of a group of people, some of whom possess a lot of power in today's society.

Also, I do not doubt for one second their ability to improve some people's lives. If they didn't, he wouldn't have had a following.
I agree that "naming all the things" is a bit silly. But I think GNU/Linux indicates Linux kernel, GNU libc, compiled with gcc -- which is actually kind of useful information. It doesn't say anything about the Graphical UI (if any). Similarly I think Android/Linux is useful, because it indicates something about what kind of (binary) software you can expect will work - and what will not.

I also happen to think distinctions such as Debian/kFreeBSD (a Debian distribution based around the FreeBSD kernel, as opposed to (just) the regular FreeBSD user-land) are informative.

I'm not sure what one should/would call a Linux distribution with an alternative (non-GNU) libc that relied on a non-GNU compiler chain... Probably "brandname"/Linux or "function"/Linux (eg: Linux Router Project or something)...
No. If we need to specifically update MySQL, that's going to cause MySQL to bounce. We don't do that often (you can count on your hands the last year the number of times we actually updated MySQL), and with Second Generation you get to choose a maintenance window which we didn't have for First Gen.

What's different is that if we needed to make a change that required only querying MySQL, such as listing your databases in the UI, we would still need to bounce your instance for that functionality to come up with First Gen. With Second Gen we don't need to, so we can add many new features without restarting MySQL. I don't want to speak out of turn lest the lawyercats that come up with SLA numbers and such find me, but I am personally confident that once we exit beta, most customers should generally experience better than the 99.95% uptime we have SLA for First Gen.
That site does not exactly instill confidence (and I don't mean in Mercedes). Now, 'don't shoot the messenger' is good practice and it is easy to slide into an ad-hominem attack on that website when not intending to but the language ('the shocking truth about 'x''), claims that the evil media are ingoring them and such make me feel that there is a bit of an agenda at work here.

I also wonder why you post this anonymously, it's just another link.
I am talking about research, I almost worked on a project about 5 years ago using >10T MRI datasets from South Korea. The resolution was not on the same playing field as the US datasets available.
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The only biological effect that I know of that uses spin is the detection of the vertical component of Earth's magnetic field in bird eyes. [1]

I don't think the effect has been reseached further (such as exposing birds to a very strong magnetic field and see if their perception is altered afterwards, not sure whether that would pass an ethics commitee..)

The floating frogs were supposedly fine afterwards. [2]

Supposedly, if any long term effects occur, they are subtle. There is a lot we do not know yet - for example, cells seem to be able to communicate through glass. (How? no clue. Photons have been proposed.)

[1] eg http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/pia-entanglemen...

[2] http://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic/#Whyfr...

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Anyone interested in performance needs to get this pounded into their head.

Even in languages like Java where you don't get explicit control over memory using things like explicit ByteBuffer and libraries like FlatBuffers can get you a 10-50x improvement depending on your dataset.
It's mostly a combination of low hanging fruit all being plucked, and also the fact that it's harder to measure smaller deltas in efficacy.

I.e., if there is already a drug that cures 75% of cancers and a new drug cures 85%, a clinical trial to detect that 10% difference will require a lot more people (and cost a lot more money). Additionally cost-efficiency is not a valid reason to allow a new drug (according to the FDA), you've got to be better than the last one.
I know adiddition multiplication division in basic not with higher numbers like 899×99 or 88/177.
Well, it is called feminist philosophy of science :) But while it comes from a gender perspective, feminist standpoint theory and situated knowledges are more general, really looking at the interaction between dominant and marginalized groups. "Starting from Marginalized Lives", an interview with Sandra Harding, has some good perspectives on this. http://jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol15.2/hirsch-starting...
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Pretty much the same situation for us, too.
> even if that means limiting it to one set of hardware

Or starting off optimized for one set of hardware as a baseline and go from there.
i have a thin squishy mat but in the long run it is better for your feet in my opinion. Shoes often offer too much cushion and thus weaken our feet.
You're probably right.