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How?

For the simple case, on web: Click the time I want to put in an event for, type in a name, click "Create Event". Even if somehow you managed to simplify further "I want to do something at this time - I want it to be named this - I am done" I'm not sure the world benefits from that being easier.

For the more complicated case... Really? I admit I haven't played with it on Android in some time, but is it really easier to, say, create a new event, invite 4 people, add a conference room, select a time that works for everyone, make it repeat Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with a reminder 10m before and 20m before? Because if so I'm honestly surprised - that they even offer all that functionality at all, let alone that it's easier on mobile.
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"Rust" :)
PSA time: The new way to get around the WSJ paywall is to add /amp before /article... which will show you the complete Accelerated Mobile Page (which, frankly, looks way better anyway)
At the moment, a 4 year old with a stick in his hand would be the largest military force on Mars...
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Cool! Has SpaceX published any plans for how to return from Mars? I am not trying to be critical, it would just be interesting to see their ideas.
what is the right amount of people for a company with a market share as large as them?
I think a sunset on all laws would be helpful. It would probably require a change to other parliamentary procedures or the representatives wouldn't have enough time to vote on everything. I expect the US would struggle with this more than most countries. The alternative is less government due to political gridlock. Perhaps that would result in more of these programs being managed at the state or local level.

Initially, every time a soy farmer support bill died due to a sunset time it could be a media issue. Some big bills will continue to die or be renewed amid a media frenzy; however, our capacity for sensation is limited. Many bills would die quietly. A delightful side effect could be the generation of enough actual news to keep the media busy reporting on useful topics.

A maximum word length or similar requirement sounds good; however, it might not be practical. If you prevented disparate pieces of legislation from being voted on as a single law, a limit on length might work and promote transparency.
That isn't too much to spend on a bike. My bike is more than that and isn't special in any way, just a good regular bike. And I just use it to ride to work, this isn't anything I'm enthusiastic about.

Add the bags/panniers, lights, pump, clothing and other accessories on top.

I get about 100 miles a week, 8-9 months a year so it justifies the investment.
Do things that don't scale.

Thats what working capital is for.
And what is that impression based on?
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People like building new things. Maybe not all people, but there's a type.

Besides, Musk can offer free trips back trivially. [see WaitButWhy's extraordinarily long post about SpaceX]
Just seems petty of the FBI to actually make an official announcement like this. I get if it's understood that they're not releasing it, but why make a formal press release about it?
Which would mean that it wouldn't solve poverty, as the author suggested it would.
I trust Anker's chargers more than anyone elses. (No association with them, just a happy customer.)

In general, chargers from big brands (Apple, Amazon, Samsung, even Ikea) are fine because they don't want to risk damage to their brand if one were to burn down a house or something.

If your charger has a brand you've never heard of, beware!
I've heard a number of arguments in favor of farm subsidies, but never one based on "unfair" competition. I'm curious about what you mean. American farmers are incredibly competitive and efficient, so I'm not sure who they could be threatened by.

And I'm not sure how you are relating that point to "clean energy". You say solar should be subsidized because it is a superior product. Are American farm products somehow superior as well? Is grain from the mid-west some how better than grain from Europe? Or is corn syrup cleaner than sugar cane from Cuba?
OK, so SpaceX want to get NASA to pay for this. Is that in NASA's budget?

2018 with a Falcon Heavy is optimistic. The first flight of the Falcon Heavy isn't expected until 2017. Last year, the first flight was scheduled for spring 2016, but it's slipped to the "end of 2016", which means 2017 in SpaceX time.

Space-X needs to get those paid Falcon 9 launches going faster. That's the revenue generator. They're a year behind on launches, and they've been losing unhappy customers to Arianespace. The Brownsville launch site project is way behind schedule; they're building on sandy soil (what did they expect on the east coast of Texas?) and have delayed a year or two for soil compaction.

It's great to have an ambitious program, but the profitable products have to ship.
> rights that accrue to citizens that don't accrue to government

Apple should not be compelled to help the government break into one of its devices. But they can "choose" to help the government break in. Likewise, government should not be compelled to help secure its companies by buying zero-days off the black market for public security. But again they can "choose" to.

The cooperation of corporations and goverments is a symbol of trade and teamwork. The lack of cooperation is a symbol of distrust and hostility.
Perhaps you can solve this as follows. The client is going to go through a series of states, guided by some inputs. You can compute a hash from these states. Now you let the server go through the same states (using the same inputs), and compute the hash, and compare the hash codes from server and client.

This sounds prohibitively complicated (and requires work from the server). But note that the state can be a partial state (with obviously weaker protection against hacking), but perhaps still good enough.
It is truly depressing how the idea of a SIM card holding storage as well (your contacts!) didn't get bigger.

It'd be awesome if my sim card ( or something the size of the old simcards ) had as much storage as it could manage. With today's microSD densities, you can realistically hold everything and more than what's on your phone (though the storage medium itself is less resilient..).

Then you go to work, pop it in your hardcore resilient phone. Go home, pop it in your tablet. This however empowers users almost exclusively, there isn't much advantage to a consortium of companies implementing this.
It must've taken a big marketing team to invent calling sugar "evaporated cane juice" in the list of ingredients.
> Liberal doves also want anything to attack new weapon systems spending

I generally agree with your points, but not this one. I've seen no partisan bias in the criticism, and John McCain is the biggest critic of this program, which is being pushed by the Obama administration. In fact, IME most of the criticism comes from the temper-tantrum-of-the-week branch of the GOP.

Also, Democrats have become hawkish; almost everyone says they are for a strong military including Clinton and Obama. There aren't many of those knee-jerk doves left - can you name a prominent one?
Realistically any 1 or 2 of those members could unilaterally 'cancel' the treaty. Treaties are only useful until someone violates them, then you have to figure out what comes next...
Yes, there are a handful of federal systems like this, but I think they end up increasing costs pretty significantly for people who want to operate nationally.
A quick note, I think dead reckoning is not about correcting for latency. It is a conscious decision on the server to send less precise (cheaper), incremental data to the client most of the time. The client extrapolates from this imprecise data to still provide a fluid and continuous motion. The server performs the same extrapolation, and precisely tracks the error accumulated by the client to decide when to send a more expensive and precise packet that corrects the divergence.
Facebook handles malicious queries by setting a list of permitted queries. I want to get this implemented soon at the server layer, check out my PR here: https://github.com/graphql/express-graphql/pull/77
Because most people who already have a job aren't willing to quit to take up a temporary position somewhere else?
I agree with the argument: developers like reading web pages that describe how to use API, covering rationale of API design, gotchas, code samples.

However, what if the specs were able to capture what is in such human-readable pages (for example https://docs.cloudant.com/)? What if API spec could be automatically derived out of HTML pages? Embed some metadata in HTML page and then we have both cake (human-readable) and eat it (machine-readable)?
Suddenly headphones become an attack vector.

That's my main concern with using USB for everything. Imagine a headphone virus that attacks your iPhone when it's plugged in via USB. Imagine a charging station that slurps all your data. (Hence the USB "condom", I guess.) We've discussed this all before.
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> You could use this model of recording inputs and playing them back on the server

Before King was known for its mobile games they were a cash tournaments website (now royalgames.com). This is what they did as well as recording a user's mouse movements.
Southern California passed this point long ago and nope. LA traffic is torture but look into all the anti-Metro sentiment and NIMBYism. They're building it anyway because LA literally can't grow anymore but the opposition is strong.
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>>My point here is that I have always found it so completely unfathomable that someone would spend so much time on an activity -- any activity -- and then cheat. Cheating is about looking better, not being better. At the same time, it robs others, equally devoted, of a fair basis of comparison.

I remember as a 17 year old guy in my pre university college examination in India. There was this guy sitting behind me in the exam- he was a classmate, though he routinely bunked lectures and rarely showed up for lectures. Right before the exam he came to me with his dad and the requested if I could only help him pass the exams by letting him read from my answer sheets, I would do them a big favor. Of course I refused.

But they had bribed the supervisor in the exam hall and I had enough of the guys frequent disturbance asking me to allow him read.

Finally I had to give in, he copied enough to pass. Most of us boys who worked hard made it to engineering. We are now in jobs. From another friend who was close to him, I later learned he joined a science course, BSc(Physics, Math, Chemistry) which I learned he dropped out in the very first year and did exactly get into a regular job. You don't get too far doing this cheating stuff.

The worst part of cheating, is we cheat ourselves. I have a rule, it's to never lie. We lie to the world, lie to ourselves about our work, about ourselves. It makes us feel comfortable for a while but it destroys us on the longer run.
What do you think about automatic generation of client-code in various languages?

With regards to the bugs, were they a result of the implementation and the specification getting out of sync? Would automatic means for creating / maintaining specs be able to help here?
I've conducted hundreds of programming interviews for Google, and I'd expect any good candidate to need way less than 45 minutes to code up a graph traversal in arbitrary order, even if I believed that they didn't already know an algorithm for doing so.
Farm subsidies are why farmers are poor, often working at a loss. That's because farm subsidies means you need to plant either corn or soy, just like everyone else, dropping the price of corn or soy, making farmers rely even more on subsidies and planting even more corn or soy. And people are right, you'll be working at a loss, if you plant corn or soy. Of course the solution would be to break the cycle, but then CAFOs would be in trouble without so much cheap corn to feed their cattle, they'll wonder how to achieve those liver abscesses, which in turn will strike a blow to big pharma.
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> Apple should have no problem with this since they have control over their hardware, but they don't do anything to prevent fake scores from showing up in their leaderboards.

Apple has leaderboards? For what?
Holy crap, that's an astronomer's wet dream--not the missiles, but the suspicious early trajectory detector!

Automatically track every object in the solar system large enough to make a boom-boom on Earth? Yes, please! I'll take 3.
This is exciting for the `Windows Server Nano` piece that is coming with it.

Basically a docker-container-image for windows servers.

There was a great talk I saw just yesterday https://youtu.be/XVtsw-uzovA?t=466 where Jeffrey Snover goes into detail about the huge advantage of NANO over a full-server

* 2 vs 23 critical patches
* 3 vs 11 reboots
* 11 vs 34 ports open
* 40 vs 1140 second setup time
* 0.4 vs 10.4 GB in VHD size

honestly - containerized deployments are going to be a revolution, and being able to run my legacy projects in a container is going to be phenomenal

I've got a shared hosting environment with 100's of servers on it, we needed to install a missing package on the server and it had to be scheduled out of hours because of the SLA / impact to other clients.

With containers we'd be able to reboot this ONE instance with ~5 seconds without affecting anything else.
Taxes could be automatically calculated. The reason they aren't is because of lobbying by tax preparation companies, not the complexity of the tax code.
and where exactly is your boss during this time?
Is the change in this posts name due to it being treated as a duplicate? My analytics have gone waaay down since that:(
They can do it all they want on their own hardware, it's called 'pen testing' (short for 'penetration').
I've interviewed at Google, and their phone screening questions are exactly that, some basic coding exercise. E.g. how would you serialize a binary tree, or find the largest substring in lexicographical order.
Forgiving federal student loans for every person in America .. and you'd still have $0.3 trillion left over.
dupe with already 400+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757
The theory is actually quite intuitive, and you can apply it, for example, to flowers. The chances of finding two flowers that look the same are much higher if the flowers are beautiful than if they are not.
Perhaps something involving potatoes.
I could to relate to you doing all of what you mentioned (torrents, "cold" wallets", hacked email) up until you mentioned Windows.
A concrete solution which would have avoided "Dieselgate" is if the EPA had made urea NOx removal tech mandatory on all diesel vehicles. Saying "cars in the future must be X% cleaner" is needed, but it's not a complete solution.

Plus, more often than not, the technology to make cars cleaner is available, but expensive and so manufacturers don't use it.

Water-methanol injection, for instance, is well proven tech (since WW2), but not adopted at large scale because it requires changes to gas pump infrastructure etc. The only way to overcome a chicken-and-egg problem like that is governments making it mandatory.
There are basically two low cost solutions that work well. A rolling window so your score is in the top X% out of the last 1,000 scores. People may still cheat, but doing so get's boring in the long term so most scores are real. Second validating some chunk of the game. So, for example with chess if you validate every move was valid, and then pick a few random moves and validate that's what your engine would pick.

Note, both of these fail if the high score has any real value.

PS: Another option is to more heavily validate higher scores, keep the top 0.5% honest and cheating to get a lower high score has less value.
If interviews require this much effort people should get paid for their effort.
Granted, but if there are sufficiently capable entities up there, I'm pretty sure we should expect to pay for them.
The uncomfortable truth we need to be talking about is that POC commit a disproportionate amount of the crime in the US, and so nothing you said should come as a surprise.

Notice I said "for similar, non-violent crimes" and "disproportionate" [1]. It's true, poverty and crime are heavily correlated [2], and I live in a community where such crime exists at high rates (Downtown Oakland).

In fact thinking that these other cultures need our help because they are incapable of lifting themselves up without us is actually pretty condescending. It sounds a bit bigoted if you ask me.

The War on Drugs was created to incarcerate black people and hippies [3]. For crimes that more than 50% of my classmates and myself, have committed (possession of marijuana, dealing marijuana, various other drugs), extreme disproportionate incarceration has occurred in the US to POC at disproportionate rates[1]. Once incarcerated, getting back into society is an extremely difficult process, with voting rights being stripped away, with job opportunities scarce, with the mark of a felony on their criminal record. This contributes to a vicious cycle where these realities feed off of each other. It's no wonder then, that all these facts contribute to a never-ending snowball effect on these communities.

I really highly recommend the book The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander [4]. It does an amazing job describing this cycle. It's not that "other cultures need our help to stop committing crimes", it's that we all need to be aware of the effects our criminal justice system has on everyone.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white...

[2] http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137

[3] http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindn...
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What would stop one or couple of apple engineers from creating a backdoor and then selling a "unlock service" trough some foreign intermediary making $1 mil each time?
I thought it was a common sense to treat the client as merely the data representation and nothing else, sad to see that multi million dollar companies make rookie mistakes.
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I mean "academic" in the sense of "basic". SPF is one of the most fundamental problems in applied graph theory.
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What happened to the other one, Benny?
I've seen numbers floating at 70 billion/year for that. So that would be 18.5 years.

I've seen estimations of about 1.7 trillion for the wars since 9/11. That'd be another 24 years.

Peter Dale Scott wrote a book about something he calls "The Deep State" which at least, to me helps explain how seemingly regardless of who gets elected, such unpopular expensive programs continue without elected officials people having any discussion of legislation to stop it.
If my wife doesn't show up to any court date set by a judge, we're on the hook for $100,000 and she goes back to prison until trial.

If you're privy to some magic whereby a paralegal can appear in her place, then by all means, enlighten me. And send me your PayPal address, because that information is worth actual money.
> Man to remain locked up "until such time that he fully complies" with court order.

Oh, okay. Can we do that with FBI agents, too?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160425/18101534272/fbi-s...
Nope, and reinstalling it wont help it..
The metric for success on any commercial software is long-term ROI, not "fun" or "functionality". This applies to both games and business software. Fun and functionality can't really be quantified in a way that's consistent or comparable across products.

Some of the most successful games aren't really much fun for the most active players, such as MMORGs and free-to-play mobile games. They seem to succeed more through triggering addiction and a sense of competition amongst players rather than providing an enjoyable experience.
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The last 3-4 years have been at larger corporations. Major retailer and a division of SAP. Haven't always been at larger corps, but after doing the startup thing for a couple of years, the stability is relaxing.

I also had job offers from some companies that would be maybe "mature startups"? Not sure of a good term, but around 5-7 years old, profitable, ~50 employees, etc. One of them had zero programming exercises of any type. Just tech discussions. None had the questions discussed in this article.
I don't think Apple would pay. It is a previous gen phone, and Apple isn't going to work very hard to try to secure it.

The big question that looms in everyone's mind is if the hack can be used against next gen phones.
I'm not suggesting flipping a house.

Nearly everyone can scrape, clean and paint. Most can install something like laminate flooring, engineered wood, and even tile. Honestly it's more about effort than know-how. When it comes to electrical and plumbing, unless you have the skills and tools, hire someone.

Plus it feels good to do stuff with your hands now and again.

Obviously if your time is worth more money than what you'd pay a contractor, then get a contractor.

This whole thing works because of building equity. Simple example is if you buy a 400k place and in 3-7 years have 150k equity through appreciation and mortgage payments, you can upgrade and with 20% down buy a 750K place.

From my experience there's only been a few downturns in my lifetime that more time did not wash away. And it's not so much taxes as it is other fees with housing.

I always wished I'd bought sooner or upgraded sooner than I have. But I get comfortable.
Complaining that breadth-first-search is irrelevant to frontend dev seems concerning to me. The DOM is a tree; so are JSON structures; so are website directory structures; so are half the data structures you will encounter in most businesses (departments, categories, etc.). You WILL need to traverse a tree in a frontend position at some point. I absolutely want to know whether a frontend developer has a variety of tools in their toolbox for handling tree structured data - and ideally the ability to refactor between recursion (using the call stack), explicit stack descent (which will be depth first), and queue based descent (which will be breadth first).
I think it was clear to most people that this was my opinion.
As I said in another comment, these remarks apply to the aircraft only, and not to ALIS. To be honest I have no idea what ALIS is written in.
OK, so SpaceX want to get NASA to pay for this. Is that in NASA's budget?

as was noted in another comment[0]:

“We’re particularly excited about an upcoming SpaceX project that would build upon a current ‘no-exchange-of-funds’ agreement we have with the company,” noted NASA deputy Administrator Dava Newman. “In exchange for Martian entry, descent, and landing data from SpaceX, NASA will offer technical support for the firm’s plan to attempt to land an uncrewed Dragon 2 spacecraft on Mars.”

SpaceX gets expertise and technical support, and NASA gets data. This isn't a normal contract where NASA is paying with cash.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583770
Very true.. And they do build, but they cost more.. LOTS more.. you can build a neighborhood of 500 homes with 5 plans, and a few tweaks here and there (maybe put the garage on the other side on some houses based on plan A). For a developer, you can now order 100 of each type of front door, X number of truckloads of timber, roofing shingles, can lights, etc. that is known and planned ahead of time. Each bit of customization adds time to plan and build, and special orders that cost more.
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Could you train a neural network to do that?
Or should i try classic text parsing, looking for question answer queues?
I'm quite willing to put in some work, if its a one time effort.