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Yeah biology is sophisticomplexicated. But I believe mostly because of wrong approach and tools. Maybe this era will provide finer views and better abstractions to think about cells, organs, etc.
EU is a clear example. And then you have China and India, that have a smaller percentage of educated people, but have such a big populations that their elites can be excellent.

The issue with Canada is that it's pretty small, population wise. I guess that for those big American companies is simpler to bring the -relatively- small number of Canadians to the US.
That's neat! Thanks for pointing it out.
Comedy is one of the great things in life that just wasn't meant to scale.
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Aren't outlets of the free press primarily corporations?
There's no secrecy. One could say "Fancy a jawn, bro?" and the other would know that "jawn" meant "corn dog."
I think either Django or Ruby on Rails would do. You can roll out these basic functionalities in less than 2 hours if you are reasonably familiar with these frameworks.
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Thanks for feedback fiatjaf. Yes, after user finished signing up. we ask them to send us an email about project they want to create on the platform. It's a way to verify the account.
After account gets verified. User can freely create project on the platform.

I will update said page to use a contact form instead of a mailto link. :)
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For someone who have been trying to immigrate to Canada for the last six years (from a South American country), that have invested hundreds of dollars investigating how Canadian immigration laws work, that have worked for three years for an US company in the security field, I find inconsistent all the news saying that the country needs professionals to keep the internal work force but then you find out that the government puts so many barriers in the immigration process that at the end you have to give up. I hope the government (including the Quebecoise) becomes flexible in the future so people can find better opportunities to immigrate there.
Taking back your Mandrill click-tracking links
Well one reason [1] Google made go was because of how many junior engineers they had who couldn't be trusted with java/python/etc. Instead of letting them struggle, they created go as a more simple and easy to use language.

[1]http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...
I think one thing often missed in these discussions is that the interviews that work best for AmaGooBookSoft are not necessarily the same as the interviews that work best for smaller companies.

I've interviewed at startups that have some of the best work-sample testing that I've ever seen - but I could immediately tell these systems wouldn't work well at larger companies.

There are entire companies devoted to helping people prepare for GooAmaBookSoft interviews. If any one of these companies standardized on a single interview for all candidates it would immediately turn into a situation like standardized testing in high school where students study to the test instead of learning the core material.

I guess my advice is that if you're a startup, take advantage of this! You can do things that don't scale. Interview in ways larger companies can't. Don't assume that the way these companies interview is the best for you.
I remember seeing this (or something like it) around the time I embarked on my project. Unfortunately, I needed a JS solution.

Another that has be pointed out to me since talking more about my project is http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~tanahashi/storylines/

It's written in Python and looks like it produces really nice output, but I haven't had time to look at it in detail yet.
That is a indeed a plus. Indeed in the gparent comment I only wished to point out 1 way in which the organization could improve should they wish. Getting open source design part-sourced, assembled and then shipped in volume levels is still a business process in nascency. I'm sure they face abundant challenges on the supplier-side. Regardless, I do hope that against all odds, volume manufactured open source hardware becomes a force to be reckoned with in the decades to come - perhaps analogously to how FOSS Linux dominated in its own and ever-expanding arena.
> in this context is EXACTLY like feeling pain from a broken arm, feeling cold being outside in the cold, and feeling hungry after going 24 hours without food.

If not the same. With this problems, you immediately want to find the means to ease them on 100% of the cases. On the other side, depression does exactly the opposite most of the cases.
Came here to say the same thing, it's such a joke. We lose huge amounts of talent to the US because of the joke that is Canadian tech salaries.
> I don't think there's a better source of information about whether the government of the united States of America is a democracy than the position papers written to advance the four corners of its founding instruments, and they deliver an unambiguous "no."

I'm not a constitutional scholar, so forgive me. What exactly do you think unambiguously demonstrates that the United States is not a democracy?

> ...and even by your definition, while an individual state might quality, the government of the USA does not: "supreme power" is wholly unavailable through the US government, at least in its legitimate purview (of course it exceeds this boundary frequently and flagrantly)

I feel like the definition addressed this. (In fact, given that this is Webster's, I'd expect that the definition was written to specifically include the United States government.) The definition says "the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly". The fact that the Constitution reserves nonenumerated powers for "the states or the people" indicates a recognition that the power is vested in the people. The "legitimate purview", as you put it, consists of powers granted by the people who hold "supreme power".
Probably an O(n^2) style algorithm as they never expected files with insane sizes like that
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What does this have to do with software or tech? are developers all depressed or something? Is this site just turning into another reddit? Someone please help me to understand why hacker news should be a safe place for depressed people to talk about their feelings, there has to be a better venue for that.
While stumbling upon different articles, I came across this video on YouTube of a guy in Shenzhen, China, that can replace the internal 16GB storage with a 128GB capacity NAND, so it's highly possible that a modified version of this is what's been done to the iPhone..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=198&v=2bGb5AOwp4...
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Linux works fine.
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> These are the results of a corrupt system, not because of the existence of fiat currency or central banks.

Without the ability to print money we wouldn't have to wish for a unicorn - a non-corrupt system.

The banking/mortgage problem in 2008 only happened because everyone involved knew we'd bail them out, because we could. Whereas if we couldn't we'd have recovered the lost funds from the guilty parties.

The existence of an easy out practically guarantees that the government will take it.

> And you make 20 times more of it.

And what you had from before is nearly worthless. Yes, inflation keeps people on their toes because they need to work today to eat today, but I'd keep you on your toes if I stole your car too, you'd have to really be productive to break even!

That's a broken window fallacy with the twist of slightly breaking everyone's window.

As a currency, fiat is an absolutely stupid idea. So stupid that they had to make specie ownership illegal to force people to play along. Yes, I understand it gives the country great options. But so does conscription...

> Please, there was theft and fraud when we were trading piles of grain and goats.

Only fiat inflation lets a thief steal from everyone simultaneously. And thanks, but that's not really an answer anyways. I don't care that someone is always willing to steal from me, I care when the law says I can't attempt to avoid it.
You don't need to worry about losing customers if you have none. At the stage I'm talking about, you'll know something is broken when you go to demo it and it doesn't work, and presumably you'll be walking through your demo manually before putting it in front of customers.
Plus one for flask. You can have a web app up and running locally in about 15 minutes, then deploy to Elastic Beanstalk in another 10.
> Except that the WSJ forgot to mention that the research determined the incumbent results were just as irregular.

That's too reductive.

The WSJ cannot "forget to mention" a manuscript that wasn't published when their original articles came out.

The manuscript in question, an observational study, shows that Theranos has higher variation than standard labs for some tests, and that those tests are those that someone familiar with the field might suspect that a finger prick might have higher variation (e.g., lymphocytes).

The power of this manuscript is limited (in part because of Theranos not actively participating in peer-reviewed science like it's peers), but at a high level, it would hint that a physician sending a patient out for some particular labs would be wise to apply extra scrutiny to those lab values if the testing was by Theranos.
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Part of the point is that IFTTT has a fully working connector today, and is just going to turn it off in a few days' time if Maciej doesn't sign this new agreement. And Is then sending emails to his customers laying the blame at his feet.
Is the discussion in English?

But on a serious note, that my comments make it onto what I assume would be an anti-US (anti-"American") subreddit is ... meh. This is the Internet. It is to be expected.
Yes, but even if Canada has a really big pool of talented developers for its size, the base problem is Canada's population size. According this ranking (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/universit...) Canada has 4 universities ranking in the TOP 100 for CS. The EU has 30. China has 5, and it's much cheaper.
JFYI, that's not accurate. We've been sending this to candidates for months; the genuine impetus was to try to put all candidates on a more level and accurate playing field so that we can make better hires.

That's not to say it's not self-serving; of course we benefit from making more/better hires. But it's not just marketing.
Have you never heard of the crusader states?
>This is one of the biggest reasons I dislike the lottery, from a societal perspective: it satisfies people who would otherwise have an incentive to go out and create their own success.

They could do that, but would they? They might just spend the money on beer or drugs.
Groups of people only become mindlessly profit driven when that's the last common goal they have left. In a large enough group that seems to always happen because people's goals are so diverse, but I suspect that HN team is still small enough to have some common goals outside of just collecting a paycheck.
Very interesting, specially the obsession with staying employed. How you deal with that?
Clinical depression is frequently caused by extreme emotional long-term fatigue which is self-sustained because of not identified and fixed issues that cause the depression. So it's not a pathology, it's just very extreme fatigue. To make an analogy -- loosing weight because of not eating is not a pathology. Fix nutrition and you will stop losing weight. But if you don't fix it -- you can get into a very severe condition. Again, not because of some pathology, but because of malnutrition.
I'm fairly confident that the VR headsets of today are equivalent to the bulky brick-size cellphones of yesteryear – the utility they provide to the early adopters is more than enough to offset their cumbersome nature right now, but in 10 years' time everyone will want one, and they'll be priced much more competitively.
Wow, I guess electric power really is cheaper in Norway than in Australia. I just did the math, and I paid around 11 Austrialian cents/KWh last two months. And that's including a pretty substantial (for me, on a 2577 kwh bill) fixed price. It's a shame bandwidth is so expensive here, or there would probably have been more big server hosters in Norway.

Of course with electrical heating most of the year, running power hungry hardware 24/7 is arguably more efficient than just straight burning the electricity for heat...
Yes! It's so annoying to be downvoted without knowing why, and without being able to respond to that argument. It just kills the discussion.
> perfecting bipedal motion is a worthwhile endeavor.

Especially since it is extremely efficient. The human legs act like pendulums and need only a small push every step to continue.
> We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again

No. You can't roll back a human right. If you did it wouldn't be a valid law and people would be justified in armed resistance to it.

> We could abolish the EPA, or the IRS, or the NSA. We don't because these have enough supporters who value what they do, today.

Well, in the case of the NSA it's more because we suspect they'd commit treason and bring down the country if we tried.

(ie, pull out an old tape of Obama and frame him with something, etc.)

> Well, welcome to life in a democracy. Nothing is ever settled with finality because there are plenty of ways for future generations to change the laws we cherish today--for good or ill.

Yes, things can always be screwed up. But it should be illegal for a government worker (ie FBI) to specifically try to undermine existing decisions by, for instance, lying in court, or paying for propaganda they know to be untrue. Both things we know they do.
Nor can I very well. After some googling, I see that apparently this would be called "auditory affective agnosia" (if it were at the level of neuropsychological pathology). I wonder if this software could be used diagnostically in disorders that are associated with deficits in empathy or emotional identification -- autism, Antisocial or Narcissistic Personality Disorders, etc.

Perhaps it could also be used as a therapeutic tool. One could train with it in order to reduce the affective threshold at which one detects emotion.
I've spent a lot of time around casinos, and I've never seen any legitimate reason to restrict gambling. The government certainly has a role in making sure the games are as advertised, but you can't have liberty without allowing people to screw up.
If your interested in making a RESTful back end I would suggest the Falcon microframework for Python.

http://falconframework.org/

Or just using Go out of the box. It has a lot of what you'll need built in and is pretty fun language. I'm learning it right now myself and it has a lot of interesting features.
I couldn't have said it better myself. You really summed up how the job interview got so fucked up in our field.
I am the CEO over at IFTTT. I apologize for any misunderstanding our communications today have caused. I built the Pinboard Channel on IFTTT and have maintained it for years. I am also a paying customer of Pinboard! I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count. I want to make sure we do it better. Pinboard is a beloved service. Every service is, on IFTTT or not. We care about the people who use them and build them. The changes we are asking for are indeed more work, but we know they will lead to a better Pinboard Channel on IFTTT in the long term. I'd love to see Pinboard stay on IFTTT and am willing to give them the time they need and even come over to help myself!
The framers of the constitution never meant for government to have so much power that lobbying it would be able to buy much influence. Beyond that, considering that the vote was restricted to landed elites and mercantile class, there's more credence to the idea that the framers never meant for the government to stifle the speech of anyone (whether corporations or not) than there is to suggest they had any idea on corporate personhood.

Regardless, corporate personhood has existed since colonial times, and the framers didn't do anything to stop it. Meanwhile, the McCain-Feingold act that Citizens United overturned had only been on the books for 8 years before much of it was overturned.
The other interesting thing about them is single-level store. With a 64 (65-ish) bit address space, all your RAM and DASD gets mapped into it. So the objects in your program just have memory offsets, and the OS handles the underlying storage.

Their reputation for reliability is well deserved. The only time ours went down was for upgrades, and the few times we ran out of UPS power during storms.
Just to add further rationale behind these "rules" - In any form of climbing - the proposition is very straight forward - could you get yourself from point A, to some higher point B, using only your physical strength and prowess?

If you get 20 miles in to a marathon and run out of gas - you just stop running and call it quits. In climbing, however, if you fail - you would likely be killed, or at least seriously injured. Because of this inescapable fact, safety systems get used. In general, the goal is for them only to act as a backup. If you get to the top without putting your weight on the backups, then you've answered the fundamental question of whether or not you could climb the objective in question.

Said "rules" may change a bit, depending on venue. Some people climb very difficult walls, that may be anywhere from 50-200 feet tall, and a 5 minute walk away from the car. In this case, any incidence of "cheating" by using the equipment to take your weight means, "you failed this time, try again later."

However, when people are climbing peaks or mountains, many miles from any kind of help or rescue, the rules may get bent a bit in the interest of beating out a storm, or just plain getting through a tough spot without risking injury. When this happens, the saying goes, "there is no cheating, only lying." You basically own up to any aid you may have used along the way, and no one will judge. Nothing's stopping you, or someone else, from going back another day and trying again for the more coveted "clean" ascent.
Yup. How did that happen? I'll have to be more careful. Oh well, a bunch of downvotes won't kill me.
The guide is pretty good and definitely helped me get up to speed with HIPAA. The product, not so much. They had 10 days of downtime around Thanksgiving. Not a happy holiday for my team.
Another thing I wonder about, is how hard it would be to crack these things in order to run at full speed/cores. Assuming you're not a business dodging IBM licensing fees, I can't imagine the chances of getting caught are very big -- and in either case it's an interesting intellectual problem (ignoring for a moment the legality of breaking licence agreements).
In oil country the wages are really good and there isn't much to do.
Catholics had written detailed arguments against Muslims for hundreds of years prior to Elizabeth. Here's Thomas Aquinas making some arguments against Muslim criticisms of Christianity in the 13th century: http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/islam/ration...
That's what I did anyway...
> the rates are higher

could you explain this? I've never heard about it.
Sounds like neck pain.
This is a shit article, impossible to read as anything other than propaganda ("look guys, they've always been here! It definitely wasn't deliberate policy of a contemporary government" ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456... )).

Christian-Muslim contact was widespread, starting with the jihad that established Islam to begin with (the Byzantine Empire, large swathes of the Mideast, and most of North Africa was Christian), and continuing up to the Franco-Ottoman alliance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Ottoman_alliance ) which the English were definitely familiar with (see the Ottoman rug in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_%28Holbein%29 ).

Mariners would have been by necessity extremely familiar with the Muslim piracy and slave trades (see eg John Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_%28explorer%29 ).
Laughed out loud when he introduced the power roadblock, and the pic of that connector.
Canada's tech sector can shut up about wanting foreign talent until they pay enough to retain canadian talent.
The problem is that "governance by ordinary people" is not really on the table as an option. Governance by popular vote might be, but given how short-sighted and easily swayed the average loosely aware citizen is, the result is more likely to be "governance by demagogues and whoever has the most advertising dollars".
If you were using a DK1 or a DK2 that's not really comparable to the consumer Rift. One of the downsides of Oculus mass producing dev kits is many people assume the dev kits were "the Oculus Rift", but the Oculus Rift actually just came out today and is a totally different beast.
No, they shouldn't be as hard as the hardest you'll do on the job, because what is hard on the job has nothing to do with the real issue with an interview: a 30-60 minute window between solution and problem statement.

I have been programming professionally for about two decades. Algorithms? Easy, there are a lot of papers, and The Art of Programming for that. Designing something completely novel? I'll be looking at it for a long time before I can trust it. Performance optimizations? I'll count cycles if I have to. A little bit of time fixes all of it.

So what is actually hard about programming? Making sure my system is observable, so that when there is a problem, I know what is going on within seconds, if not minutes. Building a system that self heals. Making API decisions that I will not rue in 6 months to a year. Helping a coworker figure out a more sensible architecture without turning it into a pissing contest, or having to pull rank.

How can I actually show ANY of the hardest things I'll do on the job in that short amount of time? I can't. In practice, I get my best salaries, where I am the most valued, either the second time around in a place, or when, either through someone on the inside or well know third party references tell the prospective employer what I can actually do.

I have worked with amazing people that I'd never refer to a company that is trying to do this google-derived interview style, because what really matters in that interview is first, the 10 second likeability, second, to read the cues on what the interviewer is thinking of what you are saying, so you can change course if he is not liking you, and third, the ability to think on your feet fast enough while you are getting the other two things done. Someone that takes 6 hours looking at a problem but comes back with an amazing, production-grade solution every time is not welcome there, because they will always get culled.

So the problem of the interviews Asana is describing is that they can cull some people, but there is no proof whatsoever that anything they are doing correlates at all with the things that really make a good developer. This is great through, as anyone using a better interviewing system will be able to get far better developers on the cheap, as all this SV companies that copy each other just chase the same style of candidate.
If salaries were actually competitive the job would probably have gone to a Canadian.
When did we bomb Venezuela? When did we bomb Russia, or Nigeria? When did we bomb Mexico?
The things you are saying here sound like your attitude is in the right place, but did you actually read the TOS your legal team sent out?
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