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Perfect, I've done +-4 onsite interviews and only got accepted in one of them. I get really nervous in on site interviews being judged by usually two people at the same time while I try to solve something.

One company in Amsterdam, just last week, I went through a four step process, the last one being the onsite interview. I did really well in the first two, but then in third I went with a wrong approach to the problem and couldn't get my mind in the right position again. The person judging me just kept putting pressure. I got really nervous and couldn't do any more interviews that day... my mind really got completely blocked for the rest of the day.

That happens and, really, the company spent so much time of me (and me on them) for everything to be decided on that? feels wrong..
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That's so clear and so mathematically obvious, +100 karma point for you !

That's basic risk analysis
Come and try the US for a bit. People have guns, most likely you won't have troubles with anything at all, and you'll have a great time.
You can actually own a bazooka if you fill out the correct paperwork. It is a NFA item as regulated by the ATF and each round (aside from rounds containing no explosives) are their own NFA regulated item. Each bazooka and explosive round requires a long approval process, $200 fee, fingerprinting and passport photos. Each explosive round must be stored in a ammunition bunker built to strict ATF regulations and you must inform the ATF of each round fired.

Rifles and handguns sure are doing quite a number in the middle east and they worked in vietnam.
> what I mind is uploading its contents.

You're correct that uploading its contents is what it is all about for me. And why doesn't Signal use the new CNContactPickerViewController on iOS? But if I'm not able to verify the code, why does Signal require access? If that is their business model, that is fine for Moxie etal but not for me.

@wtbob thanks for the clarification. I wonder what you think of Wire.com?
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> I always thought terrorism was feared because it signalled that a group of people would prefer to dominate their host with violence than to assimilate into the predominant culture.

people fear terrorism because it's virtually nonexistent. we fear the thing we have no experience with more than those we do, because the lack of experience lets our lizard brain have a parade. the movie Alien works with this very well.

also... terrorism, aka politically-motivated violence is nothing new. it's just the framing by the mass media that seems to have changed a lot.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_No...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing :

In 2000, Magee spoke about the bombing in an interview with The Sunday Business Post. He told interviewer Tom McGurk that the British government's strategy at the time was to depict the IRA as mere criminals while containing The Troubles within Northern Ireland

(edited in a failed attempt to fix the list formatting)
To play devil's advocate, which gun law would have prevented this person from getting shot by her toddler?

As a gun rights advocate, she presumably has been around guns for a long time and should have been well versed in how to handle them safely. I doubt there's any training that could be mandated that would exceed the experience she already had. Short of banning guns entirely, which would require a constitutional amendment, I don't see what the proposed solution is.

She should definitely be facing some harsh penalties for negligence and endangering a minor if she isn't already. In general, I think it makes more sense to have laws that punish people for bad things that actually happen, not for things that might, conceivably, possibly lead to something bad happening.

No amount of legislation is going to prevent idiots from being idiots.
I fell asleep with ICQ running and my speakers turned way up once. 3 AM and someone decided to send me a message. That was like 15 years ago, I still freeze up a little when I hear it.
Wait, the San Bernandino shooting is constantly referred to as terrorism by the media and by politicians... When the perpetrator isn't Muslim though, the situation is different (e.g. Dylan Roof, Anders Brevik, James Holmes) and the same people instead are much more likely to frame the violence as a mental health issue.
"Language standard library" seems like a very arbitrary standard to impose. Some languages have a very large one, others a small one. Wouldn't it be better to specify what "primitives" you wanted the code to use? (e.g. must use raw sockets vs. may use a http library vs. may use a basic json-parsing library vs. may use a full json object mapper)
This may be of interest to you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)
Do you require them to do it in a specific language or let them choose which one they are most comfortable with? How do you decide which programmers to bring onsite? Have you considered giving them different options in the from of doing a take home test or coming in and coding inperson instead?
Can you use that on your mobile device?

I assume Git is on your private server?
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Ahh, the fallacy of not learning from history - as soon as a populace is disarmed they are helpless before their lord and master... I mean government.

The battle for freedom began in Lexington and Concord when a group of British soldiers attempted to disarm a group of Colonists.

You (and many people) are under the bad assumption that as we learn more our basic human nature changes, but it does not.
Great discussion, but one issue I've run into journald, compared to a traditional logging mechanism, is the size of the journal itself.

journald's archives are generally a factor of at least 200x of syslog for the same amount of information stored.

That is, on two identical servers, I've run rsyslog with the traditional logrotate mechanism and journald side-by-side to see how they compared.

I'm pleased with the extra querying mechanism provided by journald, which is absolutely great for debugging, however while I can store the logs one server virtually forever with just bz2 compression, I've unexpectedly run out of space in my var partition with journald after just a couple of months. The extra bandwidth is also a factor in the performance of journald, which is equally ignored.

In fact, this has forced me to reconsider the storage logging policy. It's much more effective to use rsyslog to send encrypted logs through the network (faster, less latency and less bandwidth) compared to what it would be with journald. I still keep the journal on individual machines for easier querying, but with a very limited retention.

If I have to chose between a log I can query easily, and a log file that can have 200x the density, I'll easily pick the second.

I've also found that the resilience of the journald archives are much lower. A corrupted text log file (due to a crash) has nothing to recover and can be easily read to inspect issues in any worst-case scenario. journald archives however are often corrupted in crashes and moved away after the reboot. For remote logging it might not be an issue, but for embedded systems and/or desktop machines it is an issue. Ensuring logs can be read even when corrupted is easily much more important than introducing the signing mechanism in the archives (which, on the other hand, is totally a non-issue as sensitive hosts should do remote logging).
In my experience, all such research concerning guns, whether they be for or against, are full of shaky and questionable interpretations of data.
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Couldn't that code editor be fetched asynchronously as to not block the viewing of the informational aspects of the site?
The monetizable world is old and boring. We already know how it works. The web was interesting because it offered something new: an opportunity to develop patterns of communication and information exchange that simply would not be possible with the friction of payment or the need to generate a profit.
I'm pretty sure this is in reference to the his project that he was wrapping up at his old job.

He is saying that even though he was working long hours at his current job, he was so enticed by this interview challenge that, even after a long and difficult day thinking about a (programming) problem, he couldn't keep it off of his mind on his train ride home.
With regards to mobile app pricing, the elephant in the room is that mobile devices are for people who don't have a need for a general purpose computer, and hence, nobody expects to be able to do real work with it. The mobile app market is built to serve the need for distraction.

Or even more cheekily: if your job is one that can be done entirely on a tablet (rather than using a tablet as a supporting tool/appliance), it's probably not real work.
Do you think that we are familiar with cars and driving, and so find the risks acceptable? Or is it that because most people want to drive, they rationalize the risk?

PS. I live in the country and have most of my life. A gun is a very useful tool if you live in an area with wild animals.
I seem to recall ICQ's popularity already being in free-fall by 2000. My guess would be that as former AOL users switched to local ISPs, they would download the familiar AIM instead of ICQ. Most of my ICQ friends were internet friends; everyone at school used AIM.

EDIT: according to Wikipedia, ICQ peaked in 2001.
It's undefined. But the same thing would be undefined in C++, a language that has inheritance built-in: https://goo.gl/shOJi1

You can't downcast to a derived type if the object isn't actually an instance of the derived type. That seems straightforward, no?
Is it me or did it whiten your teeth. I noticed a big difference in upper plaque between the before and after picture.
and some people are spending hundreds of dollars on in game purchases.

Which has lead to the perverse situation we're in now where all the free games are engineered to be near unplayable without in app purchases. See Dungeon Keeper or Clash of Clans or a million clones.
I find it strange he didn't mention selling something as a possible way to make money.

Free web content that you can buy in other forms (ebook, paper book) or buy extras for (videos, email support, courses) seems like a pretty common model these days.

In the board and card game world, you've got games where you can download a PDF board or PDF cards but if you want a professionally produced version, you can buy it.

In software, you've got the paid support model.

There's plenty of actually valuable things you can sell for minimal additional effort on top of producing the content in the first place. And remember the bar for "actually valuable" is pretty low: SQLite sells licenses for public domain software after all.
Free is all fun and jokes until someone loses an eye. PaaS companies had a rough year in 2015, with many companies closing down and Heroku changing their pricing. (A great article is here: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited)

This consolidation will happen to all industries where companies keep underselling their products. The weak ones will go down and eventually everyone else will raise the prices. Maybe it's not even a bad thing, just the way evolution works.
"If you just don't step on the mines, you can walk through a minefield and live".
I'm not convinced Zynq is much better. They just move the MElike functions on-die and call it TrustZone.
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Ubuntu is already available for that board. It's a perfectly valid counterpoint.
If you're going to use meaningless version numbers, then it would be better if you used something that didn't imply otherwise. Chrome 50 carries exactly the right connotation, IMO.
What is interesting is that, given its massive scale, Google is not performing decimal arithmetic for users. It's not that I don't understand why it isn't, but I think it highlights Google's values in regard to meeting the needs of ordinary people: e.g. how is a school teacher supposed to explain this to third graders?
I think it's a little bit the momentum of the industry, but mostly it's straight up economics. If exploiting game theory allows you to in-app purchase your way to AAA-game revenue without putting in AAA-game resources, why wouldn't you?
I should add that no company has taken me up on my offer. I'm too busy with work to care anyway.
Already is according to the site for the board, it has ubuntu and android booting.
> In more extreme scenarios, if journald is blocked long enough for its watchdog timer to expire, it will be killed with SIGABRT, dump core, and abruptly close all connected sockets losing whatever log data was in-flight. In some cases this can even cause services to crash due to the unexpected hangup of their stdout and/or stderr.

Ouch.

> we were seeing a delay between .1-.5 seconds twice every 5 seconds

Double ouch. Half a second can be an eternity when wringing all the performance you can out of a system, and with so many cloud providers using network attached storage, that half second could balloon so quickly.

200kb is not an unusual size for unix socket buffers, and it wouldn't be too hard to bypass 200k in log writes in half a second on a busy system.

As an org who will be moving onto systemd with the release of the next Ubuntu LTS version, I appreciate what CoreOS is doing here. Great article, great finds.

As a side note, this is something to look out for on AWS instances where the default for /var/log is on an EBS mount (which can see delays due to network latency). It would make sense to mount /var/log to the ephemeral drive to avoid or minimize such unpleasantness. Of course, that limits the ability to use /var/log to troubleshoot kernel panics.
Then the politicians who wish to ban guns should do it through the front door and propose a constitutional amendment. They won't do that, because it won't pass because there is nowhere near the level of consensus in the country to get such a massive change to the American law done.
For me the full fledged A/B testing as well as personalization engine https://www.google.co.in/analytics/360-suite/optimize/ is the highlight of this launch. Seems like they are now coming with full fledged A/B test UI editor here instead of just distributing traffic to different url's.

Google is stepping on Optimizely's, Test & Target and other's here
> but last time I tried it it wasn't working that great due to meta etc. not being passed successfully to the terminal

That was fixed in January. Works perfectly now (and is covered by regression tests).
Ha! No, I don't.
I don't think I've ever seen that assimilation thing. The kind of terrorists that people are afraid of in the US tend to be visitors who come to this country with the purpose of doing violence, not anyone who would be assimilating, even if they were perfectly nice people.

It sounds like it's different in Europe, and maybe that's the perspective you're coming from. In the US, it's not generally about the difficulty of assimilation. The 9/11 attackers, for example, lived outside the US and only came here to carry out their attack. For mass shootings, the perpetrators are usually considered to be outright insane, but perfectly well assimilated. This isn't universal; San Bernardino and Fort Hood are two examples of mass shootings by Americans who you could say didn't assimilate well. But for the most part, it's either crazy people in our midst or invading visitors.

Look at the ongoing controversy over Syrian refugees for an example. I haven't heard people say that we shouldn't admit Syrian refugees because they'll fail to assimilate and turn into an outsider minority prone to violence. I have heard lots of people say that we shouldn't admit Syrian refugees because terrorists will hide among them and gain access to our country.

Anyone I've talked to who is afraid of terrorism is afraid because they don't want to get killed in an attack. It's not really more complicated than that.

Some people fear terrorism because they believe that the potential future risks are much higher than past rates. But a whole lot of people fear terrorism simply because they have no understanding of the risks. That's who articles like these are aimed at.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11205594
Why can't it be both?

Right now, we're communicating, sure. But a book like Eloquent Javascript (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) isn't content?

The postal system is a communication medium, but you can still buy mail (magazines, for example). I don't see why this is a problem.
Why not date-based version numbers, then, or as bryanlarsen stated, something obviously meaningless, like the Chrome/FF numbers?

Edit: By the way, sorry to derail the conversation. You guys are doing great work! I'm always excited about V8 updates because they generally mean great perf/feature improvements to both the most popular browsers and my runtime of choice, NodeJS.
Was popular with my circle of friends in Canada as well back in the day. Still remember my number! They also had a cool feature where you could create a "group", and you could broadcast messages to that group, etc.
Knives are expressly designed to cut. They serve no Purpose (ignoring cooking, as those are basically a proxy for proving how well one can cut with a knife). There is no reason anybody outside of the kitchen needs a knife to carry out their day to day jobs.

Encryption is expressly designed to hide terrorists. It serves no purpose (ignoring privacy, as that is basically a proxy for proving how well one can hide from the government). There is no reason anybody outside of the military needs encryption to carry out their day to day jobs.
Inefficient according to whom? Money or CPU cycles or being able to get someone to enhance it later on?
> There are limits to free speech, for example (defamation, libel, fire!)

Those are limitations on the improper use of speech, not on merely possessing the means to communicate.

> Are you sure that stricter background checks would be found unconstitutional?

Found unconstitutional? I'm not at all sure of that, as the judicial system doesn't lend itself well to prediction.

Would they be unconstitutional? Yes, without a doubt.
MacBook Pro. The battery life and power management are solid. I use iTerm2 and homebrew. I can run almost everything I run on my linux vps.

Plus there is support for Adobe software and MS Products if you need to run those.
Well considering how effective the War on Drugs has been, I'm honestly fine with you buying cocaine. You can't possibly do as much damage as the various District Attorney's do.
What do you think of Wire.com? Doesn't need access to address book (like WhatsApp didn't until a few years ago). See discussion elsewhere on this page for a few links.
Took me a while, but I managed to remember it. Along with the (unique) password. It shows 143 contacts, of which 1 is actually online. From skimming through the names I have no idea who more than half of those people are, the rest are family and local friends who I still have contact with.

Contact spreadsheets for teens in Germany back then contained name, address, phone number, email address and ICQ number. We didn't even have a MySpace back then ;)
I would argue that if Trump gets voted in, it is the people who are crazy. I do see your point though - I guess everything feels very nice and pedestrian here... nothing owning guns would solve anyway.

I would also argue that all those xenophobic trump fans can legally own guns...

After the last elections in the UK, I don't really trust the "general public" =D
Unlike USA police, for a typical European police officer shooting at someone is a career-limiting move. Even self-defense guarantees an unpleasant trial.
Agreed :) We (and SipHash developers) do care about short strings, though. Scripting language hash table inputs are typically around 10 bytes, so we can't ignore finalization overhead.
At least for me, there's people selling 250gb hard drives for $15 on Craigslist if you're willing to go used.
The only purpose of a code challenge or whiteboard session is to get the candidate and the interviewer talking about code. This is the only signal that you really want out of these exercises.

To do both is wasteful, but if I did either and that _didn't result in a conversation about code_, I wouldn't continue with the interview process. Their processes are broken.
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As far as my experiences go, US companies (at least at the enterprise level) generally seem to have ~4 month probationary periods for new hires.
>And part of the reason why cops are armed to the teeth is because the citizens are.

The vast majority of deaths from firearms result from handguns not AR15s. You dont have criminals in Level 4 hard plates roaming around down town LA with shoulder fired rockets.
Are there any plans to run WebAssembly outside of a browser? Would it be difficult (once the binary format is nailed down) to distribute a standalone program?
You can do this now by running dosbox on your phone. A cursory search shows that somebody's selling "dosbox turbo" on google play for $2.50.

I tend to think the impoverished nature of phone games is related to the available controls. You see a lot of phone/tablet games that amount to "wait for something to become clickable, and then click on it". Maybe we need to provide an input method beyond "fat-finger your screen".

If that happens, though, the phone basically loses the portability that is its only advantage.
This is not a repackaging as far as I can tell. There are 3 new products here: Audience Center, Data Studio, and Optimize[0].

[0] http://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-360-suite-launc...

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/15/google-announces-analytics-...
This is a interesting proposition for Honda, but really not that new. Even the price is not /that/ new.

In fact, this is technology that has been sold at around the same price point in the industrial transportation sector -- think of logistics and lorries -- for quite a while. This is where the majority of the innovation is taking place.

For example, just this week it has been revealed that the UK Govt will likely to announcing tomorrow funding for driverless truck convoys in the North of England. What's the price differential between these intelligent trucks and regular trucks? $0.

In fact, so much innovation is taking place in the industrial sector that just last week Toyota announced that it has hired the FULL workforce of Jaybridge Robotics, a firm that specializes in autonomous industrial vehicles, mainly in the agricultural sector.

If you want to understand the tailwinds in the sector, follow the b2b and industrial segment of the market. Technologies and trends are already starting to filter down.

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I also want to plug my email newsletter Driverless Weekly (http://driverlessweekly.com) while I'm at it. It's a once-weekly summary of the top news stories in the autonomous vehicles sector.
It doesn't seem straightforward to me: you're using words like base and derived that aren't in the C standard.
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