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If robots are programmed to create other robots and are programmed to avoid harm and attune to find resources - they are conscious and have free will. Define consciousness and free will.
The SMS and the e-mail about the password change is already a big alert for the user.
Why not just join Scientology? Seems like it scratches may of the same itches.
I think you meant $600 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
Tech companies continue to lead the charge toward flooding the US with immigrants.

Why don't they move to India since that is where all the best and brightest engineers come from?
Punishing past behavior by a long chain like that seems extremely inefficient. Sure, if society could coordinate well enough to not fund bad behavior, that could be a large enough effect to matter. But the optimal level on which to act seems to me to be the government level. If society doesn't want such companies, society should elect politicians etc that lead to them being banned.

Note that boycotts are different. A boycott directly takes money away from the target that would have been spent otherwise. This takes money away from someone who didn't take money away from someone etc. So you can endorse private boycotts of products but not private boycotts of stock.
> That said, with so many viable missile platforms, why would Blue Origin be used for that?

I know very little about the vertical. As a matter of principle, I typically avoid gigs that involve government funding. However, this one is more interesting than most.
Yeah but... to a degree, right? Many amazing things have been accomplished by people not working themselves to death. If the workforce convinces itself that people are expendable then I suppose people are expendable! I however choose to fight this attitude. Frightened, stressed people work hastefully and make mistakes... somehow the worst thing imaginable for a space exploration company, right?
Even as a non-manager I was employed in a position to make hiring decisions. Do you ever get brought into interview loops? You're part of hiring decisions. You may not have final say, but you are hopefully very much listened to.
The poor buy toilet paper? When I was a dirt poor student, it was assumed that one would simply take two or three or etc doses extra, whenever one was in a public bathroom.
Palo Alto
It will almost certainly be used to kill people... eventually.
Very interesting. Im only halfway through so this is a pre-comment:

Anyone interested in this sort of immersive experience needs to watch The Game with Michael Douglass. Skip the trailer and its spoilers. Just watch it. It's like this but better. Preempted the appearance of such things you might say.
Well, something like a, "look at the ethical guidelines in our bylaws" might be helpful, even amidst inability to predict the future.
Take-home projects can be a double edged sword... for a given project that is estimated to take 4 hrs, i will typically spend about 16 hours on it. working straight through the night, chugging coffee and/or beer. I work by banging out an ugly PoC, and then I refine it drastically over several iterations. My final versions are award-worthy, but the early ones are really bad and sloppy. I am the type that is great at simplifying, but bad at coming up with the initial statement.
The author probably does not know that 97% of rare metals necessary to produce phones is controlled by China, and China export quotas. And Chinese workers are by no means slaves. They are proud members of their society and enjoy benefits of it.
> Do you really think that when people say "I would never hire that person" that there is an implication of "everyone wants to be hired by me (and by extension my company)?"

Nailed it. Just because someone, a team, or a company has hiring criteria doesn't mean they assume everyone wants to work at their company. It means they have an idea of who they are looking for.
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Weather, directions, sports scores and betting lines. I use it multiple times a day.
The battery pack on an electric car is a completely different league from the electrical system in a gasoline car. You cannot compare the risks.
China is building a big data plaform for “precrime”
There is some confusion there. Apple actually aren't in the Vulkan group if I understand correctly.

> When are you going to properly start bashing Sony, Nintendo, Apple alongside MS?

When their influence will be comparable in damage. Apple is probably closest, but not in graphics APIs. Metal is non existent. Apple causes more damage in browsers these days. Remember all the recent articles about Safary is the new IE?
I didn't think that was all that pedantic, I was even agreeing with you that 4-digit codes are not alphanumeric, so if anything, I was as pedantic as you.

But where I was disagreeing was that it was ever revealed that the phone in question really does have a 4 digit numeric code, because as far as I know, the size and complexity of the pass code has never been revealed by the FBI.
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It's much easier to intuit the risks from a mechanical danger than an electrical one. It's the difference between breaking a mechanical linkage and accidentally brushing up against a live terminal.
constraint satisfaction came up during our discussion.. wonder if that would provide an appropriate solution at scale
If you're given a take home project and you take a lot of time on it, it's usually a signal that we shouldn't hire you. We're not using you for free work, and if you think your take home project is assigned in that vain, then you're probably not qualified for the job. It's great personal work ethic when you tell us you worked super hard and spent a week on it, but we give you the expected time so you can filter yourself out. Also, shame on you because it makes us feel shitty to have to reject you after that.
About feeling nauseous in the morning: I struggled with this through high school and college, also not eating because of how I felt in the morning. It wouldn't really feel better until lunch.

Took way too long to find out I wasn't pooping nearly as often as I should have been. I'd usually go about every 3 or 4 days. If you're not pooping at least once a day, I'd very much consider researching things to eat to help you out and even asking your doc about it. I'm still sleepy and grouchy in the morning, but I haven't felt the nausea in a very long time.
I didn't say I disagree with his statement. I'm saying, maybe more implied, that I'm not going to hire someone who displays a lack of interest in finding a real solution to a real problem that has to do very much with what they're trying to build. And on top of that shows a serious streak of entitlement and a lack empathy towards the very service they're essentially abusing and not even paying for.

I wonder how many times CocoaPods has ruined someone's day/night on some GH team. I wonder how many dinners some mom or dad has missed with their kids because their service alarms are going apeshit. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that if you are a top 10 repo at Github, you are responsible for ruining individuals days and taking time away from their families if you are hammering the system.

Now, these are entirely my opinion and I'm not saying alloy is bad at what they do. I'm saying that is a collection of attitudes that I'm not going to put on my team.
They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I wasn't a Jew....
Several made this point, that Backbone is stable, not abandoned. I agree! I said so in the post. My concern is with the libraries around it. I've elaborated in this followup post: http://benmccormick.org/2016/03/09/stability-vs-decline/
Wait, what happened to the Laser Cutter that was there, that Carlos was training people on?
and that couldn't be added to python 2?
Journal writing. Spend ten (or 30) minutes each evening writing about what you learned that day. This will (a) get you in the habit of noticing things that you want to remember ("huh, must note that in my journal"), (b) have you spend time reviewing each day, helping to embed it in your memory and (c) practice the art of recall. Bonus points if you then do a weekly summary journal entry.
Hacker News filled with people who don't know what they're talking about but talking like they are infallibly right? Say it isn't so!

Your real issue was going up against the cult of Apple fanboys that hang out here. You will find this response with anything that remotely suggests that Apple isn't perfection.

You can see them still getting huffy in the responses to this comment.
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Why do I have the distinct feeling you haven't had kids yet and treat them as aliens (or new players to an MMO)? Yes a certain level of self awareness is most important (you'd be surprised how many uneducated kids don't even know what country they live in) but the whole thing is a VERY gradual process.
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I've used the -e option in GNU's echo many times. The various other versions are strictly less useful to me.

Does the option really belong in echo? Who knows, but it's certainly been useful to me.

UNIX fifth edition goes for absolute minimalism. Echo in Plan 9 is apparently used enough that it's worthwhile to optimize the number of times write is called. FreeBSD echo looks like someone just learned about writev. OpenBSD's seem like the sanest of the minimalists.

What's the takeaway for you?
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Sorry, but your figure is wrong. The annual US Military budget is about $600 Billion, not $600 million. That's 3.5% of US GDP and a non-trivial amount; it's more than the entirety of US trade with China (imports in 2015 were $481 billion). It's half of US Government discretionary spending.

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spendi...

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
But I wasn't even being critical of Apple, I was being critical of the FBI! I thought that would go over well here.
He probably meant that most companies looking to hire python devs have a python2 code base.
Even if they were a paying customer- what would you do if GH could support that volume? Obviously there are SLAs in place if you're big enough, but at the end of the day, if they simply just can't handle the volume what are going to do? 'Nothing' isn't the answer if you want to maintain users. You'll have to solve the problem no matter what, it just seems really egregious to me to have that response when you're not giving anything back (money or time) to the team that is essential allowing your service to exist.
Disrupting mobile
Article is from 2013. Issue doesn't affect Macs made after 2008.
Many of the reports in the press were saying it was a 4-digit pin. But it's feasible even to brute force a six-digit PIN in the way I described, it would just take several weeks.
We are relaying the match with discussion and analysis on OGS! The most recent move will be highlighted on the board.

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Take-home projects are just a more complete and accurate representation of the development experience someone would have on the job. You have much more data about them than a 30-60 minute live coding session.

Though my current company doesn't do them, I was hired for a previous position from a take-home project and generally support them. As an engineer, I'd rather put more effort into a smaller number of take-home projects than a larger number of live coding sessions...
True, the restriction is that you only get a guarantee of getting in one time. I meant that there are no restrictions on what you can do once you're in. (E.g. a XSS chat hack or something like that would be restricted in that sense)
I agree with everything except your example of playing instruments. How is that a waste of time? It takes years to master an instrument, so if you ever want to be good at it, it's a very good use of time.

Secondly, it's not easy. So sticking though with it teaches you self discipline.

I know a lot of adults and kids who do it willingly. Myself included. The reason we do it willingly is because at some point we were forced to learn how to play music and we stuck with it for a few years; after all that time we got good at playing instruments, and started enjoying it. It also became much easier to learn new instruments and songs, boosting the enjoyment.

But we would never have reached this point if we weren't forced to drudge through the years of hard work.
I know. But you illustrated flaws in the Apple iPhone security that in their minds they see as perfect.
for passcode, iPhone supports 4-Digit numeric code (10k combinations), 6-Digit numeric code (1 million combinations), "custom numeric code" (arbitrary length, millions of combinations), or "custom alphanumeric code" (arbitrary length, millions of combinations)
Strauss & Howe generational theory talks about this.

Basically, it's a vicious cycle. Generation X is of the "Nomad" archetype, and the current generation of kids, along with the Silent Generation, are of the "Artist" archetype. "Nomad" parents have "Artist" kids who grow up to become parents of "Nomad" kids, and so on...

(a break here: Silents are born 1925-1942, Xers are born 1961-1981, and the current generation of kids -- which I don't think has a well-accepted name yet -- are born 2005 to present)

"Artist" kids are raised by strict parents who expect the world of them -- punished for even the most minor transgressions but never praised for doing the right thing, they grow up repressed, and eventually hit a mid-life crisis where they finally snap and seek self-fulfillment late in life... typically after they've had kids. The kids, who are of "Nomad" generations, grow up being forced to take care of themselves because their parents are either a) off finding themselves and neglecting the kids and/or b) determined not to repeat their parents' mistakes and give the kids a little too much free rein. As such, "Nomad" kids become hard-edged, self-reliant cynics. When they grow up, however, they decide that unlike their parents, they're going to properly settle down and give their kids the structure they never had, and so they set high expectations and micromanage their kids' lives. These kids, of an "Artist" generation grow up horribly repressed, and in adulthood snap and finally seek the self-fulfillment they were denied in youth...

The short version: "Artists" grow up with too much structure, try to make up for it later in life and end up raising "Nomad" kids with too little structure, who then try to make up for it later in life and end up raising "Artist" kids with too much structure, and so on...

It's a really interesting theory, and the cycles of how different generations raise their kids is pretty core to the generational archetypes that drive the theory.

(and if you're interested, there are two other archetypes: the "Prophet" archetype exemplified by the Baby Boomers, and the "Hero" archetype exemplified by the GI Generation and the Millennials)

(and little personal anecdote here: I'm a Millennial child of a Silent father and a Boomer mother. This describes my dad's life to a T. He had a pretty repressed youth, he's acted like an immature troll for my entire life and he's only gotten more immature in his old age, he ended up leaving my mom when I was 6, my mom frequently describes him as "selfish" and "unthinking" -- and I'll add "scatterbrained" to the list -- and he spent the last 25 years flitting around from lifestyle to lifestyle, ending up spending several years as a cab driver in Vegas)
Summary: it's a $400 solder reflow oven for food. Eg it's a computer controlled toaster oven with a heat profile that comes from a bar code on top of the food you buy from the service.

Stouffers aluminum tray meals + computer control.

Wondering how they're going to solve the food quality / price / stability issue.
Niiiice. Very well done !! :)
Wasn't a typo, I did mean "millions", see my comment above.
What a weird sentence

> Currently, most rocket companies launch, at most, about a dozen times a year. “You never get really great at something you do 10, 12 times a year,” Mr. Bezos said. With a small fleet of reusable New Shepard rockets, Blue Origin could be launching dozens of times a year.

So they'd be doing the same as everyone else?
I think the interview questions and process they choose has more to do with the founders' backgrounds than anything about YC itself.
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I have never actually made quince jelly - to me quince is a stew fruit cooked in chunks the same way baked stone fruit are eaten. A big sharp knife and some strength will get you there :)
Because it sounds cooler because it's hard to understand.
I would prefer that we pay people to do this, but unfortunately that's not my call. That said, no one seems to complain so bitterly about the all day interviews that places like Google do (and insist you fly out for in person).

Isn't asking people to fly out for 6-8 hours of interviews (which effectively takes 3 days minimum out of your life) a much greater burden than spending 2-3 hours on some coding which you can do at a time of your choosing? (Followed by 2-3 hours of video chat interviews spread across multiple days, no flying required).

Also, just to clarify, the homework problem is _not_ something related to our business. The solutions are of no business value to the company.
Now I have to switch to SSH just for this!
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That's not why this article is interesting. Rather, it highlights how profoundly not UTF-8 ready the (terminal) world is.

(It does work in practice, but in-band signaling over a channel carrying complex data that receiver and sender interpret according to settings that do not appear in the protocol at all is, predictably, terrible.)
And No love for Ruby. Sigh

/Rant
This is interesting because without knowing how their system is architected or designed, it allows you to state assumptions and you can use that time to assert knowledge of best practices of a given framework. Sort of an implicit test for depth though.

Edit: I missed where you said open source company. Though I still think this thought for a closed source company that uses open source pieces (like a web framework) could be useful.
Doesn’t building a front end with a kit as heavy and unwieldy as Electron kind of defeat the purpose of a small, light console editor like vim/neovim? Don’t get me wrong, this looks nice, but if I were a (neo)vim user I think I’d be far more attracted to a front end as light as (neo)vim itself.
The reason for their delay in moving to it was this. So that when eventually someone found a way to exploit a system using utf-8 rendering, they could show how much more secure they were by proclaiming "We are so secure this bug does not affect us!".
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As the interviewer, I'm not going to show up unprepared either. Typically, having an interview means learning about the candidate and what would be interesting to talk to them about, learning what team they might be a good fit for and what they need, and syncing with the other interviewers to make sure we're on the same page. And then afterwards, we'll meet up to discuss how the interviewee did and whether or not we should hire them.

All in all, it's at least an hour of prep time needed, and that's only counting my time, not the time of the other interviewers, managers and recruiters.
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The deeper issue here are bent social values and 'norms'. The argument for homework must be to get better grades, which theoretically leads to a better paying career. That way you can afford all the crap, vacations, overpriced real estate. You know, be successful and happy.

But what about the gaping hole in the middle of your soul that keeps telling you this is not working. The 'is this all there is/was' question you try to suppress with narcotics or some other escape and pain relief.

21 Pilots sums it up well

https://youtu.be/pXRviuL6vMY

Just to add My daughter was home-schooled, and earns $90/hr building e-commerce and WP sites. She's 22.
You know what is a good homework assignment at the elementary school level? Telling kids to do homework on whatever they want. Read a book (as mentioned in the article), draw a picture, go to the library to look something up, drills if they actually want to do that, write a journal entry, etc. This is what the elementary school does as part of the homework where I live (Japan, not US) and it works quite well. The elementary school ends up ranking quite high in academic scores too. So it isn't hurting the development of the children. I do wish they'd reduce the overall amount of homework, but I guess you can't argue with results. It's still far better than what I see happening back home in the States.
I believe the op is referring to the debate about wealth creation and distribution, where one could have a view that people in IT-startups like Zuckerberg are not creating wealth, just distributing it. And to distribute, you need to have someone to distribute FROM and someone to distribute TO. Now the comment should be more legible, I believe.
OTOH the best way to make anyone, and I mean anyone, in LA happy is to ask them how their screenplay is going.
Rest assured - any form of technological progress will be used to kill people eventually. "Now we are all sons of a bitches."

It is the world's nature.
This is in no way related to dubizzle. Just a personal free time experimentation. The first url that came to my mind was dubizzle so I put it there.
That's valid, everyone has the attitudes and traits they're looking for on both sides. I should have better clarified in my first statement that I in fact would give them the opportunity to walk that statement back to show their interest in fixing it, and more importantly show some empathy to the GH team.

My biggest problem is that I can't imagine a time, even if I don't understand the problem, where I would say that I'm not interested in essentially not abusing a free system that can't handle my load. He basically said he had better things to spend his time or money on. That shows a motivation/attitude that would likely be there regardless of the issue or if they understood it. That's his knee jerk reaction, which I would say is probably his most honest, and it seems very selfish and not empathitic to the GH team at all.
Even though I am not a fan of `electron.js`, but this looks promising GUI for `neovim`, though some editor properties are not taken from original `.nvimrc`, e.g. theme is different. Which is slight bummer, but hopefully easily configurable.

+1
Apple or Google could buy IBM with cash on hand

Times change.

There was a time in the 1980's that IBM could have bought Intel with petty cash they had on hand. In fact they did buy 20% of Intel to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.[1]

In about 30 years we'll be reading how someone else could buy Apple or Google by using cash on hand.

C'est la vie.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/29/business/ibm-ends-intel-fi...