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Something that's been frustrating for me is the bureaucracy around getting hired to government positions or school districts. I have a California State ID, which should serve well as identification - but I've been turned away by HR saying they require a drivers license several times. I'm pretty certain this is always incorrect when I apply for jobs that require no travel, but there's just so much policy you can't argue with. It's ridiculous. I also try to avoid telling employers I don't have a car, because I've been screened out of jobs by people assuming public transit is not reliable. Kinda frustrating.

Btw, the US is huge. People here don't use enough caution when driving, but it would be impossible for most everyone to hold down a job without a car. Driving is a needed right when it shouldn't be.
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That's one of the things about guns - they're a durable good, and they don't exactly have planned obsolescence or deterioration like most consumer goods. Provided you take even the slightest bit of care of them, they last almost forever.

A good hunting rifle, shotgun, or pistol costs less than an iPhone...
Probably anywhere if you bought the house 15+ years ago.
When we looked at the competitive landscape to this project we did review Comcast Energy Rewards and what they have done is partnered with an energy provider for their customers in deregulated states to create custom deals. We don't consider this competition as to us they are 'just another plan option' however it does add complexity to how people select their plan and that's only good for us!

At this time their offering is a one time switch onto their partners energy plan and they are masking the rate with gift card type incentives. This is the same if you get a telemarketing call from A N Other energy and decide to sign up.

In our design we have already considered where we intersect with Comcast Energy Rewards and will allow a customer in their coverage area to give us their Comcast account number so we can evaluate that plan along with their other options, similarly we ask them if they are a veteran or want a certain % of renewable energy etc.
Car culture, as another poster said, is a rite-of-passage in the US.

When you turn 8 years old or so, you typically get your first bicycle. And this lets you exert some independence from your parents - you're able to ride faster than they can run and catch you for the first time. Later, you might get a better bike and be able to ride even faster and further. You can spend an entire day away from home on the weekends, visiting friends that you'd otherwise have to ask mom for a ride to go see.

But the downside to a bicycle is that when it rains, you're probably going to be stuck wherever you are. And then you turn 16 and get your learner's permit. Now you're able to go faster and farther, and travel when it's raining.

So it's part of the process of the little bird leaving the nest and becoming an independent person.
Racism is a product of its environment and culture. In a dangerous Black environment where crime rate are very high, and in a Black culture that embrace gangs and thugs and violence, cops have to be cautous against Blacks. And this bias leads to racism.

To solve this problem requires a culture and value change from the Black community.
Usually modulo is not a problem, if stuck I suggest candidates assume there is a function divisible that returns true or false.
Like this?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-i...
One requires targeting a specific individual, but you have a specific goal in mind for those prints. The other involves obtaining several people's fingerprint data. From there, you can figure out what you can actually do with said data
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Well, it is a cure. A cure is something which removes a condition, be that an ear infection or autism.
"Even in these circumstances I've had a decent proportion of candidates never able to even begin to outline some code"

Same here.
"Ultimately the British courts should have final ruling in Britain not the ECHR."

I disagree. ECHR should have the authority to rule against human rights violations in member countries, this extra level of protection is absolutely necessary.
Reminds me of Six Degrees of Harry Lewis[0], where Mark Zuckerberg set up a graph to find out the most popular person in Harvard, via cross-referencing articles in the crimson. That project may or may not have been the origin of Facebook.

0 - http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/the-harvard-profess...
This retraction shows we have to be extra critical of things that reinforce our beliefs. Working as a programmer, it can be easy to believe that some people just aren't cut out for it. That doesn't mean a publication written using official-sounding words and methods that happens to match this belief is true at all.
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Rather than hide, I'd have them "sink to the bottom" or add a "hidden page" with the opposite semantics (unhide on long press). This prevents mistakes and allows people to create a workflow where they only whitelist (or filter to top) certain emojis, while still having access to ones they didn't think they needed.
The public release was 1.0, quickly followed by 1.0.1.

I also shared the same feeling, given the chaos of writing portable C++ code back then.
I am sure it a combination of factors. Some will say immigration is the cause. Its not the only cause, but it will affect the market.

I have to agree that 'emergency' low interest rates are propping the market up since it was ready to crash in 2007. BTL landlords benefit from low interest rates, so again that is a factor.
This is the best map we have showing our market opportunity. http://www.eia.gov/electricity/policies/restructuring/restru... - Notice how skewed to the north east it is? While we believe there will be a trend towards more deregulation the opportunity in the current market is huge.
Quick spoiler: it's about basketball, not photography.
Eye opening. Did not think it would be this bad even knowing the real estate and internet situation there.
I have a really good way of separating candidates into those who will be successful and those who won't - During the interview I ask how they became interested in computer science, programming, etc as well as asking them to provide information on "pet projects" or other significant work they've accomplished.

If someone describes staying up all night as a 13 year-old because they had to finish the code they were working on, that's someone who was passionate about programming before they found out it's one of the better paying professions.

If someone points to finished projects (especially side projects or OSS), then they also have the ability to focus. If someone points to a bunch of barely started projects, they might have great ideas but in a business you also need to execute.

So ... passion and focus, plus a reasonable amount of domain knowledge will make a great employee.
An attacker would still be able to brute-force the password in a split-second.

Besides, if you're using the same one-character password for multiple systems, the password can easily be deduced on a system that only uses hashing (or a weak form of salting), and an attacker can use that password to access accounts on stronger systems.
That's going to be a very small set of frequent-travelling professionals.

No it's not. It's a huge swath of technology workers (and other professionals) that live in cities with expensive housing. Many of the commenters on HN fall into this exact category!

You're right about savings & investment income, but that won't have anything to do with your deduction status for most people.
The 1 T+ field your thinking of is a static magnetic field. Static magnetic fields don't induce currents (except in rapidly moving objects) and have no known effects on the brain or biology (at least for the field strengths available for MRI, really extreme magnetic fields might cause such effects).

MRI machines also use much smaller modulated magnetic fields during a scan. It's conceivable these could have TMS like effects but as far as I know they don't in practice. I imagine TMS uses fields which are stronger than these since I believe the excitation coils are placed in very close proximity to the head.
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> I do not see how.

Yes, your tunnel vision had been previously established...

Have no fear, special snowflakes like yourself will be much welcomed in a software developer professional organization.
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Actually the law is often on their side, so it was likely not hard. Around here this happens all the time and so people are aware that gates need to be locked, signs posted etc, otherwise a Prescriptive Easement may be created :
http://www.dirtlawyer.com/pe-summary.html
IANAL but I have paid one in the past to get advice on this subject. ymmv, laws vary by jurisdiction, etc.
> without a car you can't get to 99% places outside the city

People in big cities should realise that owning a car doesn't mean you have to use it daily. I have a very well-maintained mid 90's Japanese car that sits in a garage and is only taken out for trips during the weekends. Being able to afford a new car, I have saved an enormous amount of money compared to my peers.
I don't think we will.

The Go community doesn't hate protocolbuffers, but it does tend to think that generics are evil and shouldn't exist.

I'm certain that generic generators will be shunned by the community at large, due to solving a problem they don't believe needs solving. Without the network effect to build up a user and developer-based, they'll languish in obscurity.

I sure would like to be wrong, though!
Great nostalgia! Sort of reminds me of the incessant photo flashes during the fight with Mike Tyson when he is about to punch you (speaking of which I never got to fight white Mike, I only beat the original).

If I recall correctly there are a ton of visual cues in punch-out.

I found Punch-Out and Contra to both be eventually easy games. There is very little randomness and luckily the controls are very good. I remember taking a bet in college of beating contra (w/o thirty lives) after not playing. Replaying was like riding a bike.

Compare this to the ridiculous difficulty of broken games like Top Gun or the worse game every made AD&D for NES (seriously check out how f@#$ awful that game is).
I'm going to come out and say that this is no different than a person born without arms claiming that they're not disabled, that they're not damaged.

To claim we shouldn't cure autism because doing so would "reject neuro-atypicality as a valid state of being" (a typical non-statement) is as absurd as saying we shouldn't grow people new limbs (assuming we had the capability) because it's a rejection of amputeeism as a valid state of being.

In a perfect world, autistic children would be found extremely young and cured before they suffered any real harm from their condition.
I would like to learn and understand how you think you would fail on FizzBuzz if you get these instructions [1]:

'Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.'

[1] if stuck on modulo I usually suggest to assume there is a function divisible
OK, thanks for the elucidation.
The comments, here, are almost as fascinating as the article.

The data cited are irrefutable. The points made are perfectly logical.

And yet many of the comments make it seem like the author insulted their mother.

It's that car culture, the almost religious emotional attachment to the automobile, that makes the US so unique. I don't believe there's an equivalent anywhere else. It's really quite fascinating.
A "better C" with garbage collection by default? C and Go are in different categories. They fill different niches.
> The camel has gone back to having an unknown number of humps

Camel has gone back to be assumed to be typical gaussian camel as for many camels we don't know much about.
Creating an all powerful AI to control speech...
There is something very simple that the government could do, that would instantly transform the housing market (and it will never happen). The government should stop securing >10 year mortgages. Banks wouldn't make these loans if they weren't backed by the feds. And they inflate property prices. The government has been slowly increasing the term length of mortgages that they will securitize, pumping value in to homes, enabling people to lend against that increased "equity". If the government stopped securing these loans, residential land would get a lot cheaper.
Jump shots are taken at peak height. He probably jumped in the out-of-bounds direction for those and released the ball past the boundary line.
There are very few investments that have outperformed the average UK property over the last few decades.

Let alone investments that you can live in.
Not least because landlords incur overheads over and above those an owner-occupier does.

But isn't there also an economy of scales argument to be made. If you own dozens of buildings and hundreds of flats, you should be able to keep your pr. flat cost lower than someone who just bought one flat.
You can also maintain a line of credit through the equity in your house, allowing you to borrow money at lower interest rates than most other types of credit.
How do you know your method works? Have you compared it side-by-side with other methods, including a control where you decide to hire or not completely at random?
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I agree with the author, and am cognizant of the problem and outraged for the same inefficiencies, deleterious health effects, and fatalities he outlines. But I wish he could have spent an equal amount of time exploring how we solve this problem rather than just inciting futile anger over it.

One solution is telecommuting; get people of the road by having them work from home. Another is mandating fuel efficiency and reducing the pollution cars produce. It's outrageous that children getting leukemia and respiratory illnesses are considered acceptable loses so that people can drive enormous SUVs purely as status symbols instead of for their utility. You want to drive a vehicle that gets less than 20 MPG? Fine, you're also going to pay a gasoline consumption tax to support the social programs that take care of the families your pollution is giving cancer.

Most importantly to me, and the point the author leaves out, is that cars are highly subsidized. The irony of American car ownership is that we consider public transportation socialist, while spending trillions of tax dollars on public roads. I would love to take the train to work, where I can read a book, write, or program instead of sitting in traffic for an hour... but for some reason we consider sitting in traffic for an hour on a publicly-funded road "freedom."
check out

http://toddwschneider.com/posts/ballr-interactive-nba-shot-c...
Your post is pretty inaccurate.

> actually the inefficiencies are spent on taxes rather than the engine itself.

Incorrect - the efficiencies are to do with basic physics, and the laws of thermodynamics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency

"Modern gasoline engines have a maximum thermal efficiency of about 25% to 30% when used to power a car. In other words, even when the engine is operating at its point of maximum thermal efficiency, of the total heat energy released by the gasoline consumed, about 70-75% is rejected as heat without being turned into useful work, i.e. turning the crankshaft."

> its really hard to read through the extremely biased article. it literally admits airplanes are more inefficient but cars are worse because they are used more. That's a special kind of logic there.

Incorrect - what the article actually says is:

"Transportation is a principal cause of the global climate crisis, exacerbated by a stubborn attachment to archaic, wasteful, and inefficient transportation modes and machines. But are cars the true culprit? "

So we are talking about who contributes the most to global warming - and the answer, no matter how you look at it, is cars. Airplanes contribute around 8 percent - cars contribute some 83 percent.

> cars in many situations also save copius amounts of time. A trip to north east philly is about an hour and a half by mass transit, 25 minutes by car. time savings that would eclipse any theoretical 10 years of life expectancy loss from cars.

Incorrect - firstly, what exactly is the price of a life? I can tell you that to most people, if you told them, can I take 10 years off your life, you would hardly be met with joy. Secondly - this disparity you refer to isn't due to any inherent strength of cars - more, it's just to do with very poor investment in public transport in the US. If you journey outside the United States, to other lands, you will see what some good planning and smart investment in pubic transport can bring.

It's like saying, here are my two children - Alice and Bob. Alice is well fed and does sports every day after school. Bob is beaten and malnourished, and we keep him chained in the basement. Here, I'm going to race Alice and Bob - gosh, Alice can run fast!
I agree, but wouldn't call string reverse a logic puzzle, only if all programming is logic puzzles.
The redesign is generally good. But "nab" is a less common word than "get".
Anyone know how the data is collected? Is it computer generated by some software watching the game or is there someone faithfully capturing this into some database? Does the data exist for other players.

I'm a bit amazed that this kind of data is captured and wonder how accurate it is.
> "Today, terrorists and criminals are increasingly using encryption to foil law enforcement efforts, even in the face of a court order."

How can you utter that sentence and simultaneously not understand why your bill is effectively worthless for its stated purpose?
Crazy indeed! Why would anyone want to go to a restaurant if not to drink alcohol?
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So that is evidence that the light is motivating the octopus is it?
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The question tho is simply: Are they happier?

If you spend 2 hours in transit... or 20 minutes. If you "invest" or "spend on frivolities"... If you use your time more productively instead of sitting on a bus/in a car...

While the trade off might not make sense to you, it obviously does make sense to the GP.

I live on family property... and it would actually cost more (no rent/mortgage... vs something new) to live close to work, but I would get ~2 hours of driving (~1 each way) if I moved closer. Due to a variety of reasons, I stay where I'm at.

Due to a variety of reasons, other people choose to move closer.

Just because they aren't super efficient (wasting money/time, as you seem to suggest), doesn't mean they aren't better off with that decision.
>we want to create spaces on the Guardian for particular conversations and particular groups to speak - with each other and with us.

Sounds like they just want an echo chamber.
You just try every character. A computer can do that in < 1 second.
Does that affect the Surface Book too? I just got an i7 Surface Book.
You are right, thanks for the answer!
who would you trust to write you a spiffy new tax app, CGI Federal or Facebook/Google? Has CGI every written anything remotely functional. They exist to be good at government paperwork and compliance, and then contract out the work. The process doesnt scream good software.

Given how damn good turbotax is, do you really trust the government to write something better?

Now if the government pledged to standardize API access between state and federal, and made it easy for startup companies to light a fire under incumbents, you get competition and government action/improvement.
Thanks, I saw that, but I don't think that's the most important takeaway from their review.

They said if they had to choose one device to use for the next 12 months it would be the Vive [1]. FYI there's a lot of discussion on r/vive about it [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/EBieKwa2ID0?t=1865

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4eat6m/tested_indepth...
People are only going to have trouble selling when the bubble bursts.

Until then, there is always a greater fool.
Solarflare (good guys) suing Exablaze (bad guys): a biased perspective
Yes this happens, some developers overthink things and think meta then meta then meta. This makes it especially tricky to do surveys ("what does the question really mean?") with developers from my experience.

When this happens to me, people in the interview tell me something like "This is easy, are there strings attached I can't see?"
Blaming reelection of corrupt officials on conspiracies and voting fraud before doing any introspection on why they actually won is the best way to perpetrate those reelections.
If someone describes staying up all night as a 13 year-old

So, you're explicitly selecting by class background and upbringing? This particular metric also tends to select against women, if you have any applying.
ha! I guess I asked too soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_tracking_(National_Bask...

I wonder what the proprietary software is. Anyone know? Based on opencv perhaps? Amazing!
Individually though we have little choice, fact of the matter is I live 30 miles from where I work. I can't afford to live close enough to walk, they demand I be in the office almost every day. I would love to reduce my dependence on a vehicle, if nothing else to get rid of the risk to my own life I take every morning getting behind the wheel while half awake.

The article fails to point out the US is spread out, people live far apart, and there are few if any viable alternatives for transportation, even in areas with high population density.
More US cities should try at least creating some car-free zones.

It's crazy how in a city of New York's caliber, with great public transport, so much space is taken up by cars for so little gain. The total lack of "walking streets" (streets entirely for pedestrian use for Americans unfamiliar with the concept!) is baffling to me. I think it would be perfectly fine to for example close something like Broadway or even 5th Avenue to cars, the businesses on these streets derive almost no traffic since it's all pass-through. Can you imagine how much better that would be for almost everyone, businesses included, what a destination that would create with a whole avenue packed with people? Close of the streets around squares, instead of creating islands in the middle of traffic you'd get street cafes. Just one, pretty please?
Yes, emotional awareness is a useful tool that an autistic person lacks. Without it the entire social game gets very confusing - you have less direction, you don't really sense when to stop and when to go on, when to switch behavior to a more productive one and in general it is like an impairment you notice you have especially next to "normal" others. That however, becomes a non-problem when the social interaction happens takes place between autistic people.
Where I live public transport extends well into the countryside.
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>maybe two if traveling from dispersed locations.

Remember this is America we're talking about. Locations are really, really dispersed. Carpooling 5 people could mean the driver is dropping people off for an hour and a half.