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The good thing is that you can find more easily good people at low work cost. However, it might be hard to evaluate the value of the contribution of each "employee". What if some people throw unreasonable estimates?

One idea to overcome this is: you work by small increments of features. You put each feature on the table and people bid the time to complete it. You assign the task to the one with the best reasonable estimate and with good track on the delivery - depending on the risk of failure. People that don't offer reasonable estimates can be replaced. The thing is that you know that without understanding the code, because someone else will bid less time and do it.

A variant is per-project, "last feature is free". After each feature, you pay the previous delivered feature, based on hourly time counted by the programmer. When you find the bill to be overcharged, you just pay the previous feature and close the collaboration. You might guaranty to pay a reasonable but fixed sum, in advance or at the end, to reduce the risk of the programmer to not be paid after too few tasks.

People should also have some stock or bonuses by global performance, otherwise they would not be also team players. And more than this, they should share a minimum motivation to be proud of the global outcome, for example because of how their work is making the world a bit better. Money if not always enough for people to really want to make it work.
>> I really wonder how they dropped the ball...

>Failing to give people usernames.

If this is really the case then we can expect skype to die soon. I remember some time ago you were able to add contacts using skype logins, recently I was trying to do that on my friends Windows machine and failed. I simply wasn't able to add myself to his friendlist.
I found somewhere on MS forum information that if you need that kind of functionality you should instead provide more information about you so you'd be easier to find...
Similarly some punctuation is moved on a Spanish keyboard, but often in Venezuela and Chile I ended up using an American keyboard with Spanish layout so I had to just know which keys were which because the letters printed on them were wrong. Fortunately at that time I was not doing a lot of programming because it was annoying.
Because not every candidate has the time to do additional work outside of work.
I don't follow—what does it tell? That it does in fact have weird things in it? Or that some of the weird things aren't accidental?
It is my understanding that the central issue is not the judges authority to compel evidence be turned over to the state. The State is already in possession of the evidence, it is simply in a format that is unintelligible. Apple is not in possession of any evidence.

The issue is whether a third party can be compelled to provide access to that evidence in order to make it intelligible and therefore meaningful. The combination to the lock (which apple claims they would be forced to construct, as it does not yet exist. The government seems to have accepted the veracity of this claim when they agreed to perform the labor if handed the tooling).

What is the purpose of explicitly stating 4A if we can simply trust the government to be a good actor?

It is inherent in the statement of explicit restraint that there is not trust.

Preamble to the Bill of Rights -

"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution."

I like that they use confidence.. it implies a matter of shades or degrees. Trust seems to imply something much more B&W.

(http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_tra...)
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The problem with github is that every time something about them comes up, everybody has their own ideas about what the "most critical" thing that Github "needs" to do is. Tracking and collecting those, doing their own user studies to find pain points, making sure you're not hurting existing behavior, all of this stuff takes a lot of time to get right. I'm not surprised that they have long fallow periods followed by quick bursts of updates.
It's kinda like adjusting the seat position in a car. If you could have each individual user's preferences saved somewhere and applied to every car/computer when you sit down to use it, then personalization wins.
something I never saw here in the U.S. even after 11 September.

They were there, mainly at the airport. Not in recent years, and probably not very long after 2001, but I certainly saw armed military at the U. S. airports for six months or more after 09/11/01.
This is exactly how voting, and reviewers concept works in RhodeCode. You have accept/reject/under review states for each reviewer, and you have to make full voting in order to merge a PR.
Question: why do you use checklists to assign reviewers, when github has that functionality built in?
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Nice additions. Can't help but feel at some point you'll be able to edit and compile code directly on Github (with some sort of compiler/CL backend). Has Github ever discussed integrating Atom directly into the site?
I work on OS level stuff myself, but I find this comment insulting. What are you even working on?
Well, when you dismiss something as "just [oversimplification intended to demean an accomplishment]" it does not sound very impressive, no. But rest assured it is.

I mean, Philae was just a small probe that barely sent back some signals and grainy photos from a comet. I don't see what's so impressive about that.
That makes more sense. He does look like a teenager. According to Crunchbase he's actually 32!
I have a userscript that does just that, however it needs to be updated to account for these new review tools.

https://gist.github.com/xPaw/de6ee132a2e267ef6960
My strategy is that I gaze longingly at the new model laptops I'd like to upgrade to, if I had a good excuse to treat myself. Then I don't fret too much about the possibility of the old one being lost or stolen.
Its all too common. Probably for the usual reason - it works so well. Many candidates from a 'good school' have been filtered for ability, so essentially come with an endorsement. Those from other schools don't have that endorsement. They may be equally capable, but then again they may not. In fact, often not.

So, discrimination is rampant because it works so well. Its not fair, possibly not legal, but hard to stamp out.
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Static for BLE as we do a battery pack kind of a thing and don't want to do something very power intensive.
The WiFi one's are 2 types, RGB panels, as well as static posters with capacitive touch in certain regions (apart from the voice).
I think the DeepMind team might not even have thought deeply about time control. If we were to express this with the known systems in AlphaGo, how do we express the idea that a surprising move should be given more thought? For example, match 4, move 78 was calculated by AlphaGo as having a probability of being played at 1 in 10,000. Is that something that could trigger a deeper read and use of more time?

Another thing that the commentator was talking about during the the overtime: there would be obvious moves in which Lee Sedol seem to spend a lot of time on. But he was spending most of it thinking of other moves having already decided on what he was going to do. Is that something that could be built into AlphaGo?

Or can we look at how to train a net for time control? Is time control something that has to be wired in?
Soon as I got to "rightwing scapegoat" I stopped reading. Sorry, but if it included "leftwing wacko" it would be the same with me. If you can't get your point across without trying to be witty and calling Florida, USA's penis, you don't deserve my attention.
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I wrote this high-level overview of how my team does code review, with an emphasis on knowledge transfer: http://engineering.zesty.com/code_review/. Hope you enjoy.
> 8+ hour programming project

It's better than a 5 minute brain teaser question. Any job worth having is worth spending 8 hours applying for. Anyone who views this as "free work" probably won't be a good hire for other reasons.
I'm sorry, but this still isn't a coherent argument. The Fourth Amendment delegates to the court the decision over whether a search is or isn't reasonable. It is a court that has ordered this particular search. The court is part of the government.

If you can't trust any part of the government, the Fourth Amendment is immaterial: you can't trust the entity to whom is entrusted the power to adjudicate reasonableness.
I have the same issue. It costs me hundreds of dollars to even agree to an interview, at my hourly rate. To further ask me to do homework is to bilk me for thousands. I cannot afford to apply for most jobs, as long as I have a consulting backlog. Which I almost always do.
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How much do you think about a post crowdfunding customer acquisition strategy before launching a crowd funding campaign? It seems like crowd funding can get initial attention but doesn't necessarily make a sustained business.
> I don't really understand this ideal.

It seems pretty simple to me, if you consider the entire protocol as what it is: a negotiation, with one side asserting their dominant position.

Please excuse me hn for beating this horse to death, but for God's sake, Programmers of the World, Organize.
... so, like regular GlassDoor.com. Not sure if you were joking:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Airbnb-Interview-Questio...
The diameter of our galaxy is about 100,000 light years. Unless you've got some way to go faster than light then you're 2 orders of magnitude out on your estimate.
I can see why a young person might want to gamble with health insurance. It's harder to understand how car insurance could be characterized a tax on the young and healthy.
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The Final Fantasy Tactics port to iOS is actually quite good. I played it on my iPad, and it seemed almost perfectly suited to a touch interface. The only issue was a slight interaction delay/misfire for when I would press on-screen buttons, but since it's not a twitch game, it's a minor thing.

There's an Android port as well, for $13. That's a great price to play a great game - although I'm not sure how well it plays on a phone.

For the most part, I do agree with your sentiment: the gaming experiences I have read about, seen and experienced on smartphones and tablets tend to not be what I'm looking for. For example, I started playing Bastion on my iPad, but eventually stopped because I really want a gamepad for that kind of game. Same with a lot of the other Square ports.
Is the ISPC language what they used to help Edge via the Chakra engine per this [1], and the other browser engines would have to do the same, or am I misunderstanding your reference?
[1] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/21/intel-and-mic...
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Awesome to see GitHub stepping to the plate with these updates. IMO the biggest thing missing in the PR's diff view is a git blame column beside the changes, so if someone is writing good commits I can glance through the entire diff and see which changes were introduced together and why.

Just a feature request, and I know how annoying those can be on the receiving end. Great updates either way.
That's ignoring relativity! For the astronaut, travelling at near C, dilation will occur and it will seem to be less time.
Because usually you're not applying to just one company, but several. And as you get older, you'll have other things to do outside of work, like family, which makes finding that 8 hours extremely challenging.
I wish it were possible to put comments directly on a line of code in any commit / repo outside of a PR. Sometimes someone wants me to review their code that they aren't submitting anywhere.
Last summer when I was in Switzerland I got on train with at least 50 conscripts, all casually on their way home with a beer in one hand and an assalt rifle in the the other. Kind of a weird sight.
Can't you just enter your comment into the text box but not hit the "Comment" button until you've gotten through the whole PR? I just gave it a shot, and it looks like you can have multiple comment text boxes open simultaneously.
Maybe the most widely-agreed-upon definition of "content" is "others' writing and things they publish".

Consider NSBlog, a fantastic blog full of interesting and useful information for programming for OS X and iOS. I don't think of my blog as a content source, but I do think of NSBlog as one.

I wonder under what conditions mikeash thinks of his blog as "content" — as far as I remember, the only time I think of my blog/website as content is when I'm looking at the whole thing and thinking "Man, there's not much here. I should write more often." However, when I'm writing something that goes on it, I don't think of myself as "producing content", I think of what I'm doing as _writing_.

Maybe people call things "content" only when they're sufficiently removed from the specifics of what is being written/filmed/drawn?
In the late nineties I had the rare opportunity to work with a very exotic “FPGA hypercomputer” (yes, the marketing makes me cringe) that basically consisted of an array of FPGAs that instantiated logic at the hardware level and dynamically readjusted if required. It was a prototype built by now-defunct Starbridge Systems and designed, amongst others, by Fagin of Intel microprocessor fame.
Oh, cool!
It's tough to weed out the bad resources on the internet, but you've come to a good place to find the good resources that are available (free or paid).

You'll get out of it how much you put into it. If you spend countless hours learning and then building projects you will learn new things very quickly. Don't get caught watching tons of videos & screencasts while not building anything.

You can read 1,000 books about surfing but when you go to surf you'll fail repeatedly. The same goes with building software. Read code and then write code 5x as much.

The courses are good for beginners, but to take it to the next level you need to build a sizable app and get it to production. There are things you'll learn from putting a project to production that you wouldn't learn otherwise. Remember: software is built for users & actual people, not just machines.
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If they weren't battling with a bunch of pussies who wear scarves to hide their identities, that also use innocent civilians as shields, then they would be vastly superior. Unfortunately, these so-called "insurgents" wear scarves to mask their identities and use innocents as shields. That is how they give the military a run for its money. If the US didn't care, like these pussies don't, about the civilian population it would be a different story. But, because they can't just shoot into a crowd, willy-nilly, the insurgents have an upper hand. Don't confuse tactics with cowardly action.
RDMA/kernel bypass NICs work by mapping chunks of RAM and then automatically DMA'ing packets into those chunks. Again, it would be a pretty round about way to give the FPGA access to packets to copy data to RAM, then copy down to the FPGA, then copy back up to RAM. Much simpler/better to let the data stream through the FPGA from/to the wire. In addition, the PHY/MAC layers these days are pretty thin for Ethernet style devices and modern FPGA's are by comparison huge. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying it seems sub-optimal when FPGA's already have a ton of I/O resources and are already used as NICs. The question as to wether these resources are exposed to the outside world is the salient one.
I need 3000+ daily, so it's good for me... busy, yet riding 100+ miles a week

obviously, not for everyone, yah, 700 calories can add up
Its an electronic search of a device in the FBI's possession. Clearly this is a modern issue that exceeds the language of the Constitution etc. Its a fair question - how much extra work can a manufacturer be compelled to do for the FBI, to enable them to understand the device/information they have already seized? The word 'search' is being stretched to the breaking point here.
I can't wait until systems like FIN can be self hosted and don't need to call back to a master server.
let me guess eugenics is good too
Everyone seems to be forgetting Bridge. Computer Bridge is still floundering, and as yet can only barely manage club level play.
FizzBuzz isn't a test of whether a candidate will succeed, but of whether they will definitely fail. Someone who passes may be good or bad, but someone who can't do it is definitely not qualified.
>ad-financed free content is, as the article indicates, a mere .275% of the online economy?

That's the percentage of advertising income as a fraction of something like "Internet GDP" which is misleading. For them to be comparable, you would have to pad the advertising figure to account for job creation, etc.

It's probably more interesting to compare total internet advertising revenue to total internet ecommerce revenue. For 2014, global internet advertising revenue was around $140 billion USD, where global B2C ecom was around $1400 billion USD. About a 1:10 ratio.
Option 0: Don't lay off the people that create critical business infrastructure?
Please report it :)

If it's a known bug we'll just close it. If you want, see if you can find dupes on the issue tracker before filing, but don't spend too much time doing that.
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Know several teams using it personally, and am "internetically" aware of thousands upon thousands of programmers than use it. Maybe do a GitHub search?

It's nothing more than a DSL for a templating language that finally puts the template for a component where it belongs -- along with the presentation logic.
Yeah, the VM is the same but allows low-level JS instructions to run. So next step, is to build a <your favorite language> to webasm transpiler and not have to use JS again ... :) I believe emscriptem is already doing this for C/C++
It seems to me that you are simply reiterating the original argument.
Here is the screenshot I took at the time: http://i.imgur.com/FXEHuhc.png
If you are thinking about it don't do it. These software wreak havoc on people's computer.
> it was "obvious" that the role of the web was to expand scientific publishing

Yeah especially considering the roles CERN and NCSA played. Things might be different if they had published there immediately instead of staying on their journals.
Doesn't 1 apply to just about everything everywhere? Every business has an incentive to charge more, and every referral business has an incentive to refer higher-priced services. This is balanced by the desire to be competitive in order to win business, and the desire to win repeat business and referrals from your customers by pleasing them.
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>Yes - but this is not a good thing! It's a bug not a feature!

From the point of view of many Americans, not only is it a feature, but the defining feature of a free state.

Then again, many Americans take to heart Jefferson's line about the 'Tree of Liberty needing to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants' without realizing what he actually meant by referring to both patriots and tyrants as 'its natural manure.'
> The web wasn't built as a real-time one-to-one communications medium

Is that a reqirement for "communication"? Email is often non-realtime, many-to-many. No one would claim that disqualifies it from being "communication".
And I've never understood this argument. Yes, JS allows people to ship obfuscated code. Doesnt mean we should give up and stop expecting readable code.
If next to every file, Github also listed its filesize, I would know exactly what file to begin looking at when I encountered a new repo (to a good approximation -- in any case, I would be able to intuit better decisions with a combination of filenames, the information in hypothetical README.md's, and filesizes than just READMEs and filenames alone..)

Maybe this doesn't scale or something? It's something I've felt necessary for a while though. Maybe their user testing has concluded otherwise?
It is such a terrible comparison, I'm surprised he used it. People who buy €25 PC games have very little in common with people who buy mobile games for $2 or buy gems or whatever for pennies.
my exact thoughts...the whole point of using Lambda is that it is hosted by Amazon. Maybe if this had some way of deploying on any cloud vendor, it could be a pretty good alternative.

However, my only use case for this would be if Amazon shut down Lambda.
I think you've summarized [one of] Ben Goertzel's beliefs regarding unfriendly AI.
I've seen some people here insist that they want their work station and/or laptop ready to go. If I were in the position of hiring an engineer, and made a hire, I would ask said engineer what they would prefer. Having everything setup or letting them unbox and setup, or maybe a combination of both.

Other things not specific to work environment should be ready to go. Their e-mail account, phone (if applicable), or any other virtual or physical materials used on a frequent basis.

As others have suggested, prefer something like a 75/25 social/engineering split for the first day. Introduction to team members and others, company processes, goals, HR stuff, go to lunch, etc.
Get a mentor. Seriously. I taught myself some programming for about two years, but this last year, I connected with a good mentor and really grew with his help.

I now work for him. I guess it's networking in action.
If future AIs in warefare are designed for efficient win probability and not win margin (like AlphaGo), I think it won't be what people will expect. That alone speaks of the bias people tend to have with wanting to gain a greater advantages when they think they are behind. I havn't looked thoroughly, but I would not be surprised if that is a major factor in escalation of violence and perpetuation of war. An AI, on the other hand, that is going for the most efficient win condition might not do that.

For students on the art of war, war rests upon a framework of asymmetry and unfair advantages. Even if the nations agree to some sort of rules of war or rules of engagement, there is always a seeking of unfair advantages -- cheats, if you will. This most often involves deception and information asymmetry. Or to put it in another way, allowing the other side to see what they want to see, in order to create unfair advantages.

So I think, what would be scary isn't the AI as implemented along the lines of AlphaGo, but an AI that is trained to deceive and cheat in order to win. And the funny thing is that, such an AI would be created from our own darkest shadows and creative ability to wreak havoc -- and instead of examining our own human nature, we'll blame the AIs.
Is BIOS support required for hibernation? I don't see why it's necessary; or rather I don't see why the firmware cares whether or not the operating system saved its state to swap before it powered the system off.
> Here's a top tier artificial intelligence problem: given a plain English description of a computer program, implement it in source code.

I would consider it a breakthrough if we could get human beings to do this at a decent rate :)
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Where is the Top 250? I've never listened to a podcast and want to listen to the best one there is.
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