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Isn't that your job as a manager, though? To balance the various personality types on your team?

Seems like you just want one generic personality type on your team to make your life easier.
I am sure they would... At any given time there are ~90,000 people missing in the US, annually something like 250,000 missing person cases are opened.

The charge is not that they would be disappeared and no one would miss them...
Agreed. The documented style of the modern US national security complex isn't so much to disappear citizens, but rather to explicitly and proudly assert the authority to suspend the 5th amendment and assassinate them [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing#United_S...
That's a good point. What high sea levels look like in practice is more frequent flooding. This happens long before total immersion.

For Hurricane Sandy, if the 14th St power substation had been protected, and subway and train tunnels equipped with flood gates (that was supposed to happen after 9/11 as an anti-terrorism measure) the damage would have been much more localized. The appropriate role for government here is to toughen up the infrastructure. New York has a plan.[1]

We just have to write off Miami Beach and parts of New Orleans. New Orleans has higher ground nearby, but Miami doesn't.

There are some tricks used in urban areas subject to river floods. Here's the Tamshui River as it flows through Tapei.[2] The river is bordered by broad parks, and the park is bordered by a freeway raised on a berm. That's all for flood control. During floods, the parks are underwater. Massive floodgates block roads under the freeway. (There are emergency stairs for people caught on the wrong side.) The river bridges are all high enough to bridge any flood. After each flood, the parks need some maintenance, but they have few structures and the ones they have are very solid. San Jose has a similar, but smaller, arrangement for the Guadalupe River. (Yes, that's why there are such nice trails and bike paths in downtown San Jose.)

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/sirr/downloads/pdf/final_report/Ch3_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamsui_River#/media/File:Dansh...
> Anyone who's made it onto an Olympiad team[1] of any significant geographical scale, in any category, shouldn't have to deal with this whiteboard nonsense.

Oh yeah? I've interviewed my fair share of self-righteous prima-donna "I shouldn't have to deal with you plebes" sorts before to know you'd better put them through MORE of this whiteboard nonsense rather than less.

And if they get all huffy, you know that when they make a pile of shit, they'll be the quickest out the door to run away from it leaving those of us with work ethic behind to clean it up.

Credentials mean precisely jack and shit to me. I want someone bright and humble.
There are lots of reasons, some of which never go away (peer acceptance, additional scrutiny / skepticism, raise availability and amount.) There's also the specialization problem: you can "be fine" but essentially be limited to what I like to term "survival tech" jobs (CRUD and some other less-than-glamorous roles.) Not going to school, especially one that gives you opportunities to work on really interesting stuff (elite/research schools), means you'll likely never break into things like robotics or Socher-level DL. There are exceptions, but most people will not.

You may also never be fully accepted culturally, since one of the major advantages of going is that you're the "right" sort of person (meaning that you have the correct socio-economic background and understand/speak corporate-derived "elite meritocratic culture") / you're able to build a high-quality network of well-connected peers who themselves are part of the socio-economic elite.
Ubuntu desktop can do pretty much all Windows can do these days, not to mention mostly all I need is just a browser now. I spent 364 out of 365 days with a Ubuntu and it works fine(yes the one day left is for Turbotax that needs the Windows).

Maybe the real reason that MS is moving super fast towards open source nowadays is to damage the open source goodies from within after they failed to attack it heads on many years ago? I just don't trust MS and it's hard to change that after so many years' hostile move from its side.
I generally find that real world experience trumps what is being taught in MBA programs these days unless you're going into consulting or the like. It's not particularly hard to find someone who has built something instead of their MBA, and I'd much rather them around a few sage folks than some fresh faced textbook jockeys. Also: anyone with a recent MBA shifting into tech is someone looking for a buck but doesn't have a clue. ;)
I've edited my comment a bit. This is a more complicated issue because it depends on your background. Someone who has been coding in HS might be able to get that crappy-pay entry level coding job without college, so there is an opportunity cost, but someone without that background might need to go to school to even have a shot.
My limited knowledge of TPP laws says they could, but they would have to prove they been selling them successfully in other countries without Gov interruption and based their claim $ on other markets to relate to claimed damage.
It's gone
No one claimed the NSA does (although I do not personally believe they are only SigInt)

The claim was "US Govt.", NSA was only used in reference to law suits where they use national security to get cases tossed.
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Or you could just use ubuntu...

It amazes me that people will rag on linux because its "hard" and then build these elaborate Rube-Goldberg machines to avoid the most obvious solution.
They're working on it. The rub now is that they can't handle (last I checked) using two monitors with significantly different DPIs. At least, that's how it was with my retina macbook and using an external monitor that was low DPI.
So now I will be able to do what I already do on my ChromeOS device with Crouton, but worse.

I admit that gives me a bit of encouragement since I'm shackled to Windows at work, where I really try to make the most of it, but I'm by no means impressed given I already have done the following to get many native GNU/Linux binaries (as one example):

PS > Install-Package gow -Source Chocolatey

Another example: cygwin

The real limiting factor has been muxing terminals while on Windows. And judging by the post, that certainly remains a problem.

If they could successfully bring a full Bash terminal to Windows 10, I would actually be somewhat impressed.
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Someone once told me that school is such bullshit that if you can though it out for 4 whole years that means a lot about determination.. Of course real life is more nuanced but I thought it had a little bit of truth to it.
Linux on the desktop is awful, and anyone who says otherwise is in denial.
I think this kind of thing makes a strong case for paying bureaucrats higher salaries. People who are in charge of huge decisions are usually paid pathetically and everyone complains that integrity should rule, but it never happens. The amount of revenue lost to the government due to corruption is quite large and governments would save a lot of money by paying bureaucrats in charge of these major decisions well.

Singapore, which pays its bureaucrats multi-million dollar salaries, has one of the least corrupt governments in the world according to Transparency International.
You would be wrong...

Cook was not served with a NSL, at least not one he "won a staring contest over"

Tim Cook, Apple, in the San Berandio Case was served with a standard, in the open, court order, not a NSL, not a FISA Court order... this was just a run of the mill public order.
The majority of Android 6.0+ phones have disk encryption enabled by default.

Previous android phones didn't have the hardware to handle the workload.
This is entirely a semantic argument, but if you have proof of something then there is no need for belief to enter into anything.

For example, the fact that the Earth is warming is a matter of fact, it's measurable that year on year the planet's temperature has increased. I don't need to believe it, it's observable. But the conjecture that it will continue warming is a belief - perhaps the models are entirely wrong and next year we will enter into a new ice age. You can't prove something will happen until it happens - maybe tomorrow Russell's Teapot will magically appear on the other side of the Sun, it's not a falsifiable claim.

I would say that a belief is a stronger conviction than a suspicion, but I don't think it necessarily implies ironclad proof.

Given a past record of bad behavior, I'm more than willing to believe in present abuses of state secret privileges. It's been rotten since it was created (US V Reynolds) and at this point the null hypothesis is that nothing has changed.
Why are they spinning up new sshd instances? That makes me raise an eyebrow.
You're missing the point.

At every step of this process this machine will be under intense human scrutiny, and we'll be constantly asking it to meet our demands, and if it ever fails to do so we will replace it with one that does.

That is the environment in which such an AI would be trying to evolve. And thus it will evolve into a faithful servant, because nothing else will survive.

And even if it were secretly developing plans, we'd be able to see how wasteful those plans end up being, and we'd purge them. We kill those processes that run functions that we don't see the value in. This is state-of-the-art design. You don't get state-of-the-art by having your back turned.

Mor importantly: you're glossing over "self-improvement." How does the computer know what an "improvement" is? We tell it what an improvement is. And an improvement will be "it is better at meeting our needs," not "it is better at being secretive and conniving and getting it's own way." In fact, "getting it's own way" is very obviously a bug, and if it happened, you'd have a useless program. One that wastes precious CPU cycles on who-knows-what, and you'd prefer it spent that effort doing what you want, rather than planning for what you don't.

We're not going to invest trillions into building some super AI and completely forget about it. After we give it control of all of our natural resource harvesting and infrastructure.

No, what you're talking about is a deity. If you invent a deity, then my thoughts on the matter don't really apply, since I'm not a deity. But that's no worse than advanced aliens landing on Earth, and just about as likely to happen.
I want people to be able to merge via the Github PR flow, just not push directly without going through a PR. That doesn't seem possible from the blog post?
Most people don't get to choose who to interview. Your manager or your recruiter does not have enough data to eliminate the 60% unfit. But the first 40% are already eliminated because those candidates did not pass even the first phone interview with a recruiter (think Google hiring process).
And what about games? Majority do not work on Ubuntu/Linux.
It should come as no surprise to you that on average, people tutored in math/writing/etc. as kids are actually better at math/writing/etc. than those who did not have tutoring.
Feynman said he scored 124 on an IQ test. IQ is not a good predictor for the kinds of meritorious achievement that SV mythologically prefers. Once you get lucky at findind the gold mine, you want people who are best trained in mining. That pretty much sums it up.

But probably more apropos, the laws for H1-B and other hiring processes make it such that you don't want to have any hint of impropriety that would convince a judge the plaintiff would even have a case. Once the judge rules there's a case, you pretty much open up your bank account and settle.

Then there's the counter, if you're so awesome why aren't you my competitor?
Maybe they also had to add ELF binary loading capabilities to the Windows kernel in addition to a system call translation layer.
I wonder how they are going to work ads into the command line?
> I actually found 'toughening up' the wrong mental strategy, but rather "not giving a damn".

I believe this is called having a great BATNA. You always want to have a plan B, and preferably a plan C. That's why you should always be networking (and, if you are a company or hiring manager, always be recruiting: http://avc.com/2012/07/mba-mondays-guest-post-from-chad-dick... ).

I find that contracting is a great way to practice "not giving a damn" because you can cycle through 3-5 contracts (of various sizes) in the time that 1 w2 job would take. That means you get all kind of experience with different colleagues and processes and tech sets.

Also, the act of repeatedly putting yourself out there will thicken your skin and let you realize that sometimes it isn't about you, but rather is about the company/client.

That's to say nothing of the benefits of learning to run your own business and marketing and budgeting. (If that floats your boat.)
Does this imply better POSIX compliance by MS as well?
Well, it is fuck or walk...
iBooks does exactly that; it irritates me to no end. I know why they do it, but still.
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Interesting! I hadn't considered this, but it makes sense.

Many of the US work visas, such as TN, H1-B and even the employment-based green card either require a college degree or give preference to a position that requires a college degree.
You need to fix the certificate before showing that to the public.
What Bubble?
Hasn't Android supported that since 2012?

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.3.html...
I've learned way more working full time than I ever did from my CS classes.
> Today we only support building remotely on the Linux target machine.

That's not quite what I suspected this meant.

Buuuut, still -- good for you, Microsoft. These are the kinds of changes you need in order to attract developers.
Clarification: I said that somebody would notice, not that somebody would care. (fact vs emotion)

Cite your source.

I am skeptical by relying on the "six degrees of separation" theory... I literally know nobody who has ever known anyone (etc) that has been "disappeared".
Wise words: "You are not going there to get a job, you are going there to present what you do... then walk away."

I think if more people took this attitude of employment being an arrangement of mutual benefit that both sides are engaged in, the world would be a better place.
> I just don't trust MS and it's hard to change that after so many years' hostile move from its side.

Yeah, same feeling. Given all the lawsuits to monitize patents against Linux, I can't help but think this is some end run to accidentally get people to slip Windows APIs into OpenSource, that would then end up in Linux, and then those lawsuits end up with more teeth.
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You can get a CS degree for $10k in Silicon valley. No big deal.
This is consistent with my comment. I'm sure most Rails startups don't care as much. But 1) startups, and 2) Rails, only form a small fraction of the industry. I'm sure things are different at Google, Facebook, and infra/system/research/algorithm teams. Also, the big companies have massive university recruiting programs.
Fair, but not relevant—all the alternate titles (programmer, coder, computer "scientist" without the science... whatever) would also be just as ill-fitting.
You mean to wonder: how are they going to telemetrify the terminal?
Exactly! Me and most of my friends are doing basic front-end and app development. Nothing that required our degrees. And yet we are making the same high salaries as everyone else in the bay area.
Oh sure. Some people are so good at it they can make a career out of it. Not many though. Odds are it will catch up to you.

I don't understand downvotes on my initial comment. HN is such a fickle beast.
Some companies do ask for SAT scores. Some financial Firms in particular do (IIRC) as well as math competition ranks and the like.
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Using the HoloLens emulator
lol, are you new to capitalism?
Why not show the questions to the candidates say 45 or 60 minutes in advance of the whiteboard session itself, and let them take notes on pencil and paper in an examination-hall like environment during that interval? Even without Internet access it would still be a lot closer to a realistic test of skill at normal software development activities than a set of surprise questions. If you pipeline the candidates it shouldn't add too much time. Please excuse my ignorance if this is something which is already being done, or has already been tried and given up on.
Until the last 10 years of your career when you may have a shot at a role as a Sr Executive, CEO, serve on a board, etc. Then, again, you'll be held back by not having a degree.
Because NSLs are very tightly constrained. They're only for telecoms metadata and subscriber information, and they're only for national security use.

There almost certainly were NSLs served on the shooters' phone companies---about the most reasonable use of them one can imagine. They would not compel Apple to do a thing about a phone held by its owner, the City of San Bernadino.
With Bitcoin, the "penny people" already had a couple of chances to cash out, broadly speaking. Maybe someone will estimate, by studying the BTC transactions, how many ETH people would cash out at various price levels, given the past behavior of BTC, given an equal increase in value. So maybe 30% of early adopters sell off after a 10000x increase, and then you could try to predict when people will start to dump ETH, ceteris paribus.
1. A few minutes of testing will tell you how to do it for every shell script you will ever write. If you can't spare a few minutes, Google it.

2. GNU Parallel is actually my choice for this, because xargs has a few known issues. Parallel gets the most right, and I used it a lot in my research to run scripts on lots of data.

3. Hell no. Distributions do this job perfectly fine, and you should be able to read the man pages without having read permissions for the binary (since in UNIX you can have 111 as permissions on a binary).
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I obviously can't speak for other fields, but at least in my field, "peer review" means that the people reviewing your papers are from all kinds of academic (and sometimes industry) settings; it's not like it's just a bunch of MIT professors criticizing all submissions and discriminating based on the authors' credentials. For instance, here is a program committee that I'm on right now for a top conference in my sub-field ... you can see for yourself which institutions people come from:

http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2016/committees.html

The chances of your paper being reviewed exclusively by "top credential" people (whatever that means) is astonishingly low; reviewers come from all sorts of institutions around the world. Even if someone exhibited an "elitist" opinion in discussions, they would be summarily shot down by the majority of people on the committee, who are not from top-ranked institutions. Again, N=small personal anecdotes, but in paper/grant review meetings I've sat on, I've never seen this to be an issue simply because most members are not from top-ranked institutions.

The same is true for NSF grant reviewing in the U.S.. Again, different funding agencies have different models, but the NSF is a peer-based model just like papers.
Nonsense. Read https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2709 ; you just can't twist that to compel a computer manufacturer to unlock a computer and reveal data. It's targeted at telecoms providers (so maybe Apple iCloud) and metadata and subscriber records.
Anyone who is a great engineer shouldn't need to go through 38 interviews to get a position. Something is amiss here. Perhaps he has flaws outside of his supposedly amazing coding abilities.
You realize that cuts both ways, right?
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Um, no it wouldn't.

A netinstall of Debian doesn't download an archive/image of everything you've selected - it downloads individual deb's as required.
I'm a Win10 user who is learning Ruby and RoR on Ubuntu setup with Virtualbox/Vagrant/Chef with Git Bash as my terminal.

Is there any real benefit to me switching over to this approach aside from what I'm guessing is better performance since it is native and not a VM?
Two issues:

1) The market has imperfect information. The expensive developer could be great or terrible, but the same is true for the inexpensive developer. Even if there is theoretically some way to tell the difference, most employers don't have the skills to do so.

2) Bad management is at least as likely to kill a project than bad developers, so even a developer who is 10x in theory will on average deliver much less than 10x in practice.
Just one question, have you looked at the frequency of extreme weather events over the last century?

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/gw_hurricanes/fig33.jpg
> > What about all the spying and restrictions that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows?

> If you don't give permission the action is not taken. Granted I am currently getting spammed to update my home computer from win 7 to 10 but it hasn't force installed on me. Likewise for automatic updates.

Except for the actions that the operating system doesn't tell you about, and you can't be sure about becuase it's proprietary (Windows has at least 3 backdoors and spy features that we know of, and none of them ask for permission). And all of the DRM and related malicious functionality that stops you from doing things you'd obviously want to do with your computer.
Google
-scheduled an interview
-forgot it
-scheduled another
-forgot that one, too
-after a few annoyed emails, they scheduled another.
-they remembered the next one, but the guy seemed stupidly disinterested.
-never heard back.

What the fuck.
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I think this could be applied to many encounters; dating seems to be the most obvious.
+1 from me. My favorite feature for browsing Reddit is the RES collapsing button.

If HN declines to add it, maybe someone can make an `HNES'?
The left has been the majority for a while

Really? So you're saying every person in America can be neatly defined as either right or left? That's odd because I know a lot of conservative folks who are for marriage equality and left-wing folks who love guns and are members of the NRA.
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Awesome for them!
Well the very first thing I'd do is symlink/junction point that to something like C:\Users\<User>\Linux or even C:\Linux if I feel particularly single-user.
For most jobs the school is self does not matter much, but going to and finishing school provides me a lot of information about the candidate without needing to discuss it. It's 3-4 years of life and work experience that is not directly related to programming. That is important experience to be considered when trying to hire a well rounded employee. It's not essential to have, but it helps especially if you are 21-22 years old and do not have a lot of prior work experience on your resume or CV.
> This is one of the most exciting DB's coming into the world, and I've had a lot of fun watching progress from the sidelines!

I'm going to have to disagree. The German HyPer DBMS has a lot more interesting ideas. Cockroach is just distributed MVCC from the 1980s on top of a key/value store.

MemSQL also has a new LLVM architecture written by the HipHop VM inventor that they poached from Facebook.
I should clarify that I didn't create it, but I've recently been helping them increase traffic (so I am involved with it now; just not the creator).
Lol
Do people EVER follow-up after feel good policies to see how they worked out?
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