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You can be a fan of any candidate you choose, but please don't be disingenuous.

Sanders leads Clinton in pledged delegates (36 v 32). Superdelegates are meaningless at this point; they will shift to whomever is winning by the time the convention comes around. For example, Bill Clinton changed his superdelegate vote from his own wife to Obama in 2008.

As for your percentages, currently 538 puts Sanders only 20% (not 30%) behind in SC, 24% (not 40%) behind in Florida, and tied (with a slight advantage) in Nevada. Additionally, the 538 polls have consistently underestimated Sanders for the two primaries we've seen so far due to the large turnout from younger voters. [1]

Hillary is the heir apparent, while Bernie is a relative unknown. Both are great positions to be in. She has nowhere to go but down, and he has nowhere to go but up. Polling is in Hillary's favor, but momentum is in Bernie's. There's no way of knowing who will win at this point.

You may support whomever you choose, but please try to remain truthful.

[1] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/primary-fo...
> And if you think Clinton is going to win SC and Florida by +30% you must be in some echo chamber you're not aware of.

I follow the actual polls, not the most optimistic imaginings of where a candidate might be.

Why don't you link to a poll that has Sanders ahead in SC or Florida? Seriously, you're implying I am mistaken, so present your facts.

> They are in no way locked to Clinton, just stating that they would prefer if Clinton won the nomination.

Currently those are the delegate counts. And furthermore it is a clear endorsement by the democratic establishment.
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>"Wait to long and all the good ones might be gone".

This assumes there are not new good ones entering the dating pool, either by aging in or by maturing/developing enough to cross the line from not good one to good one.
Social Security in the US is very similar, for many years before I was born politicians elected by my parents and grandparents generation voted to take money from the federal retirement program and pass them ahead as lower taxes for my parents and grandparents. Now they are all standing around with their hands out asking "Where is my retirement? Lets raise taxes to fund it!".
He might not have had much or anything in the way of tax returns. For example if he was working under the table a lot, in construction or dozens of other trades.
R is, I think, an interesting language because it's heavily used by people who would not otherwise learn a programming language. If you compare R not with other programming languages, but with other ways of working with statistical data, this makes far more sense. I don't actually "know" SAS in the way I know a programming language - I know the commands I invoke to do what I want it to do.

Similarly, I encounter lots of people using R who don't actually know what a function is, just that lm(x~y) gets them what they want.
I actually use factors a fair amount, and having factor-like data shoved into numeric values gets you to some bad places statistically.
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That's more the type of question I'd hang out as a programming puzzle on the web and then encourage people who solve it (guide them to a solved screen) to apply with a link to a gist or similar. I've applied to companies before just because I like solving programming puzzles, and once you're at that point, why not?

FWIW, speaking as an SDET lead, I'll do something like that voluntarily, time allowing.

But I A) don't submit applications, I send resumes, so let's start there; and B) wouldn't do something like you describe as a formal prescreen. Before I've talked to you, you have maybe half an hour of my time if I've heard of you, maybe five minutes of my time if I haven't.

After you've convinced me I'd like to work for you, then I'd give you an hour or two on a project, interest depending. Any more than that, and you need to pay me. You'd also probably have to be on my short list of final employer candidates. I'm interviewing y'all too, you know. I'm more inclined to do homework after a successful round of interviews than beforehand, mostly because there'll probably be a job out there I'm equally interested in that doesn't require this. I do pay attention to how much of a pain in the ass a company is to apply to, and it does weigh into my decisions to accept (or even continue).

I realize this comes across maybe a touch arrogant, but it's honestly accurate. Ask yourself this: Do you want the type of developer desperate enough for a job to jump through hoops?

SDET is an extremely competitive niche for good developers, since the QA path tends to filter people out into other disciplines before they hit a good amount of SDET skill. A good SDET can afford to be choosy. This is more friction than I'd put on a process to hire for my team.
Sanders had been leading almost continuously in NH since late August: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/ne...
Why can't a JIT solve this? It shouldn't need to do the bookkeeping for every iteration if it has JIT compiled it. A JIT should be able to take advantage of processor vector instructions etc.
When I hear the words "company" and "nuclear meltdown", my first thought is something catastrophic and immediately bad happening. Founders dying, sudden regulatory changes, stuff like that. And I'm going to guess that most people thought the same. "Oh crap, what happened to Uber?"

A freaking logo redesign does not qualify. Less so when it's brand new and nobody even has the logical basis to make an educated guess as to what its impacts might be.

So yes, clickbait. The headline wrote a check the article couldn't cash.
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The above comment is very cavalier with the facts on pricing and availability of airplane upgrades.
Pricey as in we've a free plan? :-)

More seriously though, it's basically a bargain. You get:

- Access to the largest team of Scrapy, Portia, and Frontera experts around at your fingertip.

- AWS functionality for actually less than what it would cost you to set things up yourself (think VBR IP over ATM).

- Smart proxy rotating tech at your fingertip with tens of thousands of IP addresses spread across a slew of different IP networks.

- Built-in integrations with a growing list of third parties.

The list could go on and on... It's definitely not pricey. :-)
Why not replicate something they do successful? Like their books business.
I firmly believe that the only way the-general-we will get to the point that we are having better relationships is when we stop worrying about being in a relationship so much. People have a lot of anxiety over the idea of being single, and I think this makes people stay in bad relationships longer than they should. If you don't fear being single, it's easier to wait for The Right One.
I basically started dating at 26. Download some dating apps. Tinder, Coffee Meets Bagel, Bumble, ... Use them, meet some people. Ask lots of questions. See what happens. It's easier than you think!
Agreed. The price is high but the quality is unparalleled in terms of taste, texture and appearance.

Humans can be excellent quality assurance machines, they're just very high maintenance.
> You forgot to say that Clinton has 394 delegates and he has 44. He has 11% of her delegates even after he "won" NH by 22%.

If the superdegates (who are free to change their minds at any point) end up overriding the popular vote by any significant margin, I would fully expect the USA to have a republican president.
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They aren't trying to convince people to vote for them, they are trying to convince people to give them money and actually go to the polls. Bernie is winning at the moment, and Hillary has lost a lot of ground. They will be playing up this situation to their respective supporters.
I think rewrites would have fewer bugs, yes. Maybe we know the defect rate more precisely for C than for other languages - but when it's this high, I'd sooner go with the unknown.
Unfortunately I don't have numbers, but "a few thousand" strikes me as low.
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> My question is; is this too much to expect people to do before I even look at their application?

I can understand your desire to pre-filter somehow. But: I would skip this job ad as it is.

You need to have a real good selling point for your company/product/project that makes the applicant really crave the job. (You left that one out to anonymize your post, right?)

You might deny yourself a pool of smart people who either dislike jumping through hoops or have easier access to jobs they deem equally (or more) attractive.

You might attract folks who are more desperate than skilled but nonetheless able to solve your task.

On the other hand: I am not a lawyer and i don't know under which jurisdiction you are operating. Some countries have laws requiring you to consider all incoming applications. So please consult a lawyer, too.
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Surprisingly, this is true for many programmers of general-purpose languages.
Yep - one of the reasons I could never get along with the Chromecast. Roku is far better as it has an actual tactile remote.
Matt here, Sendwithus founder -- Live Chat is great, but it's really important to consider that most of the "big hacks" in the news are the result of social engineering.
Quit and let someone else have your job.
Solar power is a fully-developed technology. PV panels are a commodity that are manufactured mainly overseas. Most of the cost of a new solar plant is in the planning & labor. And it does indeed cost a lot of money to build a solar plant (relative to the amount of money you can sell its power for).

That said, solar and wind power are a great way to get consistent (but low) returns on your investment. Look into "solar bonds".
I guess that phrase "adapt or die" is apt here. Thanks for the answers.
Similarly, some children with stunted growth seem to benefit from using insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1)...with FDA approval ...
For the layman, that's a supplement extracted from deer antler velvet...
> It was literally weeks after Heartbleed. The screams for modern languages with managed runtimes had barely subsided. Then Tomcat, in common use world wide in the poster boy managed language, had a bug with exactly the same impact.

You're talking about POODLE? Not remotely the same impact. It was a severe vulnerability, but it only leaked plaintext, not key material.

> I like modern languages as much as the next guy, but I'm very tired of "the language is the problem". Shoving more layers of abstraction in there is not a silver bullet for security. We need to look more at system programming languages.

It's not about adding abstraction. There are plenty of safe systems programming languages. The problem is specifically C.
> As for your percentages, currently 538 puts Sanders only 20% behind in SC, tied in Nevada and 24% behind in Florida (note that I have no confidence in these polls, but they're all we have).

Speaking of disingenuous, the very same site lists her as having a ">99% chance" of winning SC. I said "up to 40%" because that is exactly what the polls have said, they've changed from the 20-40%+ over the last month. See:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/sc/so...

> And the 538 polls have consistently underestimated Sanders for the two primaries we've seen so far.

Indeed, but not by enough for him to win SC or Florida.

> You may support whomever you choose, but please try to remain truthful.

You've presented zero corrections to anything I've said. I stand behind "up to 40%" because I can link you to a poll which shows 40%+ right now.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/sc/so...

Don't accuse me of being untruthful because you disagree on interpretation, which you clearly do.
But you didn't say that AIPAC is powerful (it is) or people like Sheldon Adelson are influential (they are.) You said:

"But Israelis have bought our corruptible political system to the point where all our politicians fight each other to prove who is more of a "friend" to Israel. If the US where acting in its real best interest it would keep Israel at much more of an arm's length. In a way Israel is much more of a dangerous enemy to American democracy than Iran, Russia, China or any other country."

That's a lot more serious than dispassionately noting how one nation among many that has an influential lobby in the United States.

But one other point that is worth considering: American public opinion of Israel is generally around 60% positive, 30% neutral, and 10% negative (source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/poally...). Is it particularly shocking that politicians go where the votes are? No conspiracy theory required.
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How much is it? One hard drive, max. Write it on a few hard drives and move it to something else in 10 or 20 years before the standard is outdated. I doubt we won't be able to read text data any time soon. It's not handling itself but the risk of data loss feels at least as low as someone stealing or sabotaging a single physical document.
Also assuming you don't want to count things like "You can call R from Python, and Python from R", here's my take on it, as someone who uses both languages:

- Pandas has helped Python tremendously, but I don't think it's quite to where the R data frame is.

- For 90% of what someone who wants to do statistics wants to do, it honestly doesn't matter at all. You can do nice data visualization in both. You can fit most generalized linear models in both.

- At the cutting edge, R still takes the cake. Odds are if someone has developed a new method (especially outside machine learning), it's in R before it's in Python. Your local university's statistics department is likely running R (or SAS), not Python.
Most journalists and editors are now trained to end the title of an article with a question mark when results are inconclusive...

A good way to filter what you read...
Oh. I must commend the media for publicising that amendment to last week's big story so widely.
No the alternative was to have properly capped student loans to restrain the cost growth, instead of feeding an extreme inflation cycle by enabling an out-of-proportion growth of those loans.

The solution was trivially easy: lock student loan growth to the CPI. Instead the US Government drastically inflated the cost of college by funding student loans far beyond the rate of inflation and with zero concern for the potential to be paid back (perfect setup for a bubble and crash). Universities proceeded to go on an epic and unnecessary building and administration expansion spree, vaporizing hundreds of billions of dollars. All courtesy of the US Government's access to practically unlimited free money (the loaned out sum of which it's now yielding a higher profit on than the combined profit of JP Morgan and Wells Fargo; one of the greatest slush funds in world history).
I don't know, I've just heard it before Reddit existed.
There is a rule for calling yourself the "tallest building" that is relevant here. You aren't the tallest building until you have topped out. Before that, you are just a construction site. This is important because it means you cannot be "tallest" while still under construction. The title belongs to the tallest current building until such time as you stop building.

This "worlds biggest" solar plant therefore isn't. It isn't yet biggest. It may never be biggest. It may be passed over by some other plant started tomorrow. Or it could stop expanding before ever reaching its designed size.
> Hillary and Bernie’s campaigns seem to disagree on what motivates Americans.

That statement seems a bit misguided to me. It's not that they "don't agree on what motivates Americans", it's that they recognize the differences (political and otherwise) between their candidates and play to those strengths. The author then goes on to sort of imply that the Clinton campaign is either weak or deceptive in playing some sort of defeatist card, but you could just as easily say that the campaign is about "pluckiness" because Hilary assumes she will be the nominee and is in it for the long haul.
I think councils can increase the council tax for second homes.
The point of using computer models to 'find' terrorists isn't necessarily to find terrorists, it's to abdicate moral responsibility. Everyone can just say they were 'following the model' when it turns out they were wrong. You can't execute a computer for war crimes.
538 presents two separate metics: forecast and polling averages. Your initial post used (outdated) polling averages, so I went with that rather than the forecasts. Yes, Hillary is forecasted with 99% likelihood to get more votes/delegates in SC (just like Sanders was 99% likely to win New Hampshire), however it's not winner-takes-all. Delegates are split roughly by percentage.

I didn't say you were lying, I said you were being disingenuous.
Man. I guess they really want to get the point across that they're a business using computers to do things. They feel it's that unique.
To be fair, jumping the shark is vastly preferable to not quite jumping the shark.
If memory serves: Heidi Roizen had one of the best ROI track records during the Dot Bomb era, having exited most of her portfolio just before. Meanwhile, a friend mentioned that Benchmark had lost a whole fund. I don't have numbers in front of me and the Benchmark comment was hearsay -- so, please correct if I'm wrong. Point is: that some VCs were better at timing than others during a down cycle; I would pay very close attention to what Roizen has to say.
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The amount of hubris this article describes is staggering.

And I say this as a long-time Uber fan.
I wonder, though. Your two examples are both open standards. How many companies go under (or get acquired) and take their technology with them?

We're not working together, we're letting investors decide what we make, and in the end what we produce is ephemeral.

Is our greed hijacking progress?
I am not scared about Apple getting a monopoly. They are not going to sell as much as Android because they only care about the high margin stuff.

I am more worried about Microsoft though, with Windows and Xbox they force millions of people to use DirectX.

Yeah, we agreed on that . It took millions for our company to support OpenGL/CL only because we did not want to make our code dependent on just one provider. It was tough to justify that decision (financially). Decision that only started to pay back with Android popularity.
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What Apple are doing with Metal feels eerily similar to what Microsoft did when they launched DirectX back in the day.

If we're lucky, it won't be as successful; decades of graphic stack fragmentation hasn't been pleasant to live through, both as a developer and a gamer.
Thanks for the reference!

So a few comments to make to explain some of the difference.

1) Damns aren't generally comparable to other renewable projects in cost, because they're dependent on a natural resource that doesn't scale. i.e. a sizeable river and geography that can act as a natural reservoir for water. Hydro can't really scale, even in Canada, a gigantic country with a relatively tiny population and a relatively huge hydro industry, can't really find new hydro projects that make economic sense because they've exhausted the opportunities already.

Imagine instead of energy, you'd be looking for a source of drinkable water for your goats. You can either build a pipeline to a nearby source of fresh water, or you can build a desalination factory. Of course the former is cheaper. But you can hardly compare its cost to another region that has no fresh water, and needs to build a desalination factory, and then say 'the price difference is huge!'. It's expected to be, particularly for very old hydro projects, which are usually the hydro projects that were the lowest hanging fruit and the easiest to exploit (unlike e.g. today's potential hydro projects in Canada, which are 10x more expensive than some of the old ones from decades ago. That cost differential is not really a function of technology)

2) Even disregarding the above, $10 in 1959 is not $10 today. In fact, it's ±$80 today. In fact, the project cost roughly $765m in today's dollars. I mean hell, in 2014 there was a crack that cost $69m to repair alone, almost as much as building it you'd almost think :p Citing a $93m cost is unintentionally misleading.

3) So about 11 more expensive, not 900x.

4) You're now referencing the 370 Gwh per annum figure, but that's for only the first part of the project that has 160 MW of capacity (which has a significantly lower cost than the $9b figure you're using). The $9b project has a capacity of 580 MW, so roughly 1350 Gwh per annum, so about 2/3rds less, not 10x less.

So you're off by a LOT with some of the numbers. Regardless, the point still stands that this is an expensive project, but then I refer to point 1) which is that you can't compare them. A better comparison would be to look at what it'd cost to build a new dam in Morocco, and there's not really much potential there that hasn't already been exhausted by the existing hydro stations in Morocco. Hydro would definitely be a more expensive venture, for sure, as would wind and fossil. As expensive as this may be, it beats what they currently have, which is importing 95% of their fossil fuels, which is a financial huge burden on a country that doesn't have a hard currency.
It probably depends on your starting age and how long before you really want to get married (women have biological restraints and unless you want a large age difference men do too), and how long you'd date before accurately rating.

12 is probably too high. That would mean you'd date over 30 people. People who are single their whole life don't seriously date that many people.

The article suggests 11 as the number of suitors (as an assumption, not conclusion). That's probably fair, maybe even too high.

So you should settle for the best partner (of any previous) after number 4. That could be 5 but it could also be 6 or 10.
This is why I come to the comments first. Thanks for saving me some time.
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Brian from Backblaze here. If Backblaze would become an Amazon affiliate, IF you clicked our link and then purchased a hard drive, Backblaze would get about 3% "kickback" from Amazon! (That's the way the Amazon Affiliate program works, you provide a link and you get 3% kickbacks.) The problem is we would look like we are "pushing" drives to get the 3% kickback and it damages our credibility and reputation.

As a backup company, we hold ALL our customers data, so our reputation is incredibly important to us. People MUST trust us as impartial and trustworthy and not sleazy or we would go out of business quickly.
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Could you not levy a tax, and if after x number of years of no tax income, have the state repossess? You could have the tax information as a required document for purchasing land.