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I have two Dyson vacuums, the small space heater Air Multiplier (i.e. fan), and the tall tower Air Multiplier.

I have the vacuums because they're the single most effective things against cat hair I've ever used--and I tried the competitor's versions because I also thought Dyson was overpriced. After spending $200ish a couple times in a row on crappy vacuums that got clogged I realized that I actually saved time and money with the Dyson I'd had before that, and bought another. Its air path was much less prone to clogging, though I've run into other problems like the brush bar jumping its gearing. Took about ten years for that though.

The space heater and tower fan are hugely overpriced, I won't argue this, in the sense that holy crap, I paid that for a heater and a fan? However, there just weren't competitors I could find that handled 24/7 operation on the oscillator as smoothly and quietly as the Dyson models have. Everything else developed whining noises, stutters, or the air noise itself was too high for usage in my living room by the home theater.

It's true that the Dysons get loud too if you crank them up super-high, and also true that the noise volume tracks airflow, period, and therefore being quieter means they push less than the competition (at least where the competition also buries the turbine motor in a sound-insulated base). The difference is that there is a configuration that pushes enough, quietly enough, which is what I couldn't find elsewhere.

So my bedrooms, where I don't care about that stuff, those get relatively cheap Bionaire or Vornado fans. But for the main room, Dyson actually ends up being worth the money.

Anyway, there's my anecdotal stories as to why in the world I'd spend $400 a pop for stuff that's normally $100-200.

That said, I'm not buying a $400 hair dryer. Jeez.
That's awesome work, thank you!

I'm wondering if MIR will make it possible to replace the backend IR. For instance, to use WebAssembly instead of LLVM IR.

Or is it still a better idea to base it off of LLVM?
Does this sort of testing affect the egg? If the egg is releasing its zinc or reacting in some way, couldn't that negatively affect the egg?
so, i saw the article talking about the airblade spreading germs before, but upon re-examination it seems a bit weird. They dipped their hand into water with a harmless virus (as a stand in for a dangerous virus), but isn't the whole point of washing your hands is to wash them with _clean_ water. Water coming out of a faucet is likely chlorinated and free from contamination. Right?

Just seems odd.

FTR, as cool as the airblades are, I have meat hooks for hands and have about .5 cm of clearance on either side when I use one, so I almost always bump into it. I'll use paper towels if I can.

Either way, the Hygiene Hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis) seems very reasonable to me, and while I haven't studied it in depth, ancedotally it seems to ring true.
Does territorial sovereignty mean anything to an international corporation that just wants resources and can hire private security?
How does this reconcile with this article?
https://www.f35.com/news/detail/f-35-chief-software-bugs-no-...
A downside is everyone on your team has to learn how to use it.
As Broadband Usage Caps Expand, Complaints to the FCC Skyrocket
Small note to dang about the title: here and in the original title is wrong. The name is 'Van den Driessche' so with the i and e switched.
"This is a case where the "app" is a blood test critical to people's lives, determining drug dosages, treatment courses and outcomes, etc. A failure here can really f*$k up someone's life or kill them, not just inconvenience them because the app failed to load and order their dinner."

There is a whole government agency dedicated to making sure this doesn't happen. The 'app' analogy doesn't work. They have the power to shut all of a companies services. My only point was, let the FDA do its thing. I don't want a company to die just because there is an article written about it multiple times a day (seriously, monitor the frontpage of HN for this). There is no way to tell between actual journalism and clickbait.

I'm sure you would agree, at this point these articles are doing nothing but fulfilling a sense of schadenfreude in us. The government and the FDA are on it.

I HOPE at this point that we are all right and the government takes the company down and shuts it down. If it turns out they didn't do anything illegal and just runs out of money in a couple of years, would that be fair?
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At the moment, this is mostly the service we offer, although we have done some extra work for our early users (resume reviews, interview prep). But the listings are hand-picked by a competent human, we do it for free, and we aren't trying to push you into companies that we are hired by. Going forward, we're hoping to expand the pool of job-seekers and companies we work with so that we can offer job opportunities that aren't publicly available.
Britain and Ireland use the "American" way (presumably, it's actually the British way).

Displaying English-formatted numbers is incorrect in the rest of Europe, and will confuse users. Programming languages handle this, but you still write pi = 3.14 in the code.

Note 123.456,78 is German, but Swiss is 123'456,78. I think.

(Displaying miles and yards, inches and 'letter' sized paper is also incorrect, but it's unfortunately not uncommon.)
Your experience will count, it's just you've narrowed the pool of opportunity. Web Dev is just a bigger target with more hiring going on.

If you apply to a Web company without much web dev experience (or knowledge) then yes, it'll count for less.

But that's true of anything. The bay area is probably the easiest place to get hired in tech right now as an engineer.
This sounds about right. Antoine Joux's astonishing progress on solving the DLP in small/medium characteristic fields along with a slew of Fault, Side-channel, Acoustic attacks have rendered anyone using RSA very vulnerable. Elliptic Curves have such a high cognitive overhead such that there are probably less than 50 people in the world capable of discovering a novel ECDLP attack but now that attention is being drawn towards ECC there could be a new attack found any day. I suspect this whole Post-Quantum crypto focus is an attempt to keep eyes off of the the ECDLP
I interviewed for a different position at a company 2 months ago in Seattle. Had 3 phone interviews, then got called in for an on-site interview which I had to fly to requiring me to take 1.5 days off of work. I get there ask them if this goes well what are the next steps, they proceeded to tell me that I would need to do a take home assignment that would take a week to complete and if that went well another on-site interview.

Is that really necessary?

I was going to turn down the position in the end due to cultural differences. In the end I didn't get the position due to lack of technical proficiency though I was only asked behavioral questions.

Waste of time.
This is about a hair dryer, not their hand dryers.
Yep, I've thoroughly studied RemObjects Elements and seriously considered using it. But it doesn't have nearly as big a standard library or surrounding ecosystem as .NET and Xamarin.
Yes, I was focussing more on the defensive aspect. In offense the situation may be different, but in that case, if your enemy is in large-scale possession of technology that would make it susceptible to this in the first place, bad things have happened...
The data lines are used for signalling which charging speed the device supports. You can cut them, but then you get the lowest denominator charging specs, which is quite slow.
Oh, thanks, you really don't have to though. I suppose in retrospect, posting the link seems self-serving, but that's the only place the story lives.
We should just sell them to Saudi Arabia
From what I've experienced, most power supplies are just awful and don't hold up at all to their specs, especially current in excess of 500mA.

I've been working with LEDs recently (APA102s), and I attempted just doing some testing with 4 meters (60 LEDs/m) and a cheap old 5VDC laptop power supply that in theory was rated for 5A+. Didn't work so well. Overheating, not providing enough current to keep the LEDs acting stable, power on spike, etc...

To solve my problem, I've purchased two 5V 90A Meanwell power supplies, and those seem to work pretty well. But needless to say, I cannot imagine cheap/small power adapters working well at all.

At my day job, we have some hardware that requires 800mA at peak to run. Even many 1A USB supplies we've found to offer nowhere near that current capacity. And if they do, they frequently fail after a while.
Then you're not a professional cyclist ;) The lengths they will go to for a small advantage...
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You are right, but the consequences of hiring bad developers are rising every year. I think licensing is coming whether the industry wants it or not.
I did, thanks I fixed it. (If you delete your post, I'll delete mine and we won't clutter the thread.)
That's early testing, specifically "average-risk men aged 55 to 69 years".

E.g. my 82 year old father would be dead or severely suffering today if his routine, over 69 years of age PSA tests hadn't prompted his doctor to order a biopsy 5 years ago.
There's some quibble about that here: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/26/11461304/hand-dryers-spread-ger...
I haven't found it in the code yet, but the landing page's protocol diagram with optional "/auth/verify" might have potential to be abused as a decryption oracle. It depends how they check the nonce.
If I took an interview with a random developer at your firm, drawn at random, not including you, and I spontaneously asked them to implement Djikstra's shortest path algorithm from memory, what percentage of them would be able to do that? Djikstra is not only basic and extremely simple, but it's also an algorithm that everyone who takes graph theory --- or really, computer science at all --- learns.

I'm guessing 10%.
I'm not sure why you say the safety/correctness benefits are not real. In a large code base, with multiple developers, it is easy to get someone misusing a function, passing one type when a different one is expected. I know that some people in the python world recommend unit testing to guard against this sort of thing, but to me, that is a poor substitute for static type checking.
In American, how do you know it's not 123 thousand etc?
That's reasonable, but I'd like to share an experience I had interviewing a long time back.

I'd been writing lots of mathematically intensive code for building and solving large scale linear programs for about a year, and I interviewed at a job that was doing lots of math-ish business analysis. Code would certainly be written.

I was incredibly busy, and mainly spent my interview prep on math I thought would be relevant, though I really didn't adequately prep for the interview.

One of my interview questions involved some simple (really, I must be honest there, it was simple) recursive tree traversal. I blew it, and I'm pretty sure this is why they didn't hire me.

Six months later, I had to use quite a bit of tree traversal to model a series of conditions that had to occur in several possible patterns for a manufacturing system. Because there were various combinations of events that would "pass", I used trees to model the system, and I needed to recursively determine, in the event that the system didn't pass, what possible paths (including the least cost path) existed to bring the system into compliance.

I picked up my old reference books, reviewed for a couple days, and started writing code. As I did this, I started to feeling kind of embarrassed about the questions I had failed, since I was now reminded of how basic they actually were. I was chatting with a coworker about it and mentioned the interview, and told him that I could see why they didn't want to hire me.

He's my buddy, so he tends to say nice things, but he said (paraphrasing from memory): "but wait, doesn't that prove the opposite? The moment you needed to do tree traversal, you knew exactly where to go look. You know about these algorithms, you've done them and taken exams on them in the past, you just don't walk around ready to implement these algorithms on the spot."

So ok, BFS is so basic that I'll probably never forget how to to it again. But right now, this moment? I'd have to reason back through it. To get really sharp (especially since I won't know the questions in advance), yeah, I'd have to hit the books for a while.

Just how many times do I need to re-take my Data Structures and Algorithms midterm?
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The robots are extremely expensive to build, scale and adopt just for the sake of training. With VR it will be much more plausible.

Plus not only me would get to develop the "core". I want to provide the ground for this direction.

And yeap, the actual "mission" behind this idea is actually closer to "a real robot intelligence which can feel" and reason.
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I really really want to see us go to Mars. I want to see humanity become a multi-planet species and eventually have a colony on Mars.

Still, I have to point out and ask, what the hell is the financial incentive for SpaceX to go to Mars? This is still a private business, with investors! What money will be made from this?
True, but I'd say that the unreliability of blood testing as a diagnostic technique is extremely pertinent information for investors to have when investing in a company that is built on blood testing as a diagnostic technique. My point is just that it's surprising that the journalist for this story appears to have spent more time researching the subject for this article than the investors putting in ~$700M.
This is a common approach in compilers. It makes things more manageable. Each of the languages is simpler but has more constraints until you reach to the constraints that machine provides.

Here is example of compiler construction class: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/course/cs132/project.html

The mid languages were named after character in Winnie the Pooh, you can also see how factorial example looked in each stage.
The most details of these products out there is at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/workingcapital/tour under the Pricing tab. As a merchant, you agree ahead of time to a loan amount and a withholding rate, and depending on those parameters and your sales volume, you're given a fixed fee that is tacked onto the loan principal. Repayment then occurs by the lender withholding some amount of the payments that you receive until the principal + fixed fee gets paid back.

As a one-time/infrequent shot, it's actually a really nice lending product in that it's not going to cause undue strain on your business if your sales start to flag since the payments go down along with it (and because the total interest you pay is fixed, the implied APR is actually better that way). Where they can become problematic is when a merchant keeps rolling one after another of these since then you're paying a high price for credit and would be better off with a small business credit card or line of credit.

Definitely would like to see more transparency with these either way though. When used properly, both the lender and the borrower win, and so I find it odd that lenders try to obscure the details.
Well put. I agree.
Hope to see follow up to find if there are any leads / discoveries regarding the attackers. Curious if it's a nation-state or independent sector thing. Might never know, but I can certainly buy into the thought that this type of exposure is a weapon of sorts. Exposing monetary transactions isn't a new tactic but this is a modern arena for sure.
It depends more than a little bit on how independent from Earth you are. If you are dependent on Earth, you are pretty meaningfully subject to the governments where you are operating.
> Actually we have no idea what the constituent parts of AGI are.

Yup. We don't even have a good test for knowing AGI.

Frankly, we don't even know if we are AI or if everything is predestined.

We don't know if true randomness exists.

Currently no AI system can define its own goals. I'd like to know how Open AI would solve that. To me, Open AI seems like it will just end up as a giant open sourced machine learning toolset. That's great but not the initially stated goal, and they risk souring investors on future AI tech that actually has merit when they fail to achieve AGI.
You must be young. There was a time when Closure was the most used library for minification. Before that it was the YUI Compressor. Anyways, Node came out and Uglify worked with Node and Closure didn't and even though Closure had some benefits like dead code elimination (which was eventually added to Uglify but not sure if as good or not - regardless it wasn't there at first) Uglify still won out.
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I used to work for a cashflow factor in the late 90s. It's a legit business need, but with few legit players. Almost like payday loans for business. It's due for a brand uplift and some visibility.
Try gardening/farming. Starting with eggs. Snakes, weasels, raccoons, even the hens want them. Hawks want my chicks, as do snakes, raccoons, weasels, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes. Weasels, coyotes, foxes want the pullets and adult hens. Its like anything I want to raise is a buffet for nature. On the other hand, I have an electric fence.
If you want frequent testing, and this is not my idea, but that of someone who's been doing serious biology for decades, the most obvious was is to see what we excrete, something that's part of a toilet.

Needless to say, this won't make for a glamorous startup....
I'm ready to take all the downvotes.

You have lived a very privileged life in Japan, my friend.

I have travelled to Japan and have a fiancee who is Zainichi North Korean.

I urge you to stop interpreting Japanese culture with such extreme rose-coloured glasses and tone down your extreme positivity because it is blinding you from having the "balanced view" you say you have of Japan. Furthermore, it is insulting to minorities in Japan, which has a racist, insular, homogenous culture that so rigidly controls what is "true" and what is "false". The difference is that racism in Japan manifests itself in less violent and direct ways, as the culture of honne and tatemae is so prevalent. So it's difficult for foreigners to distinguish these things at face value.

If you compare types of crimes and the types of "bad things" in the US to Japan, you will see Japan has very little of the "bad" things the US has. That is not the point, however.

For example, I read an article that car accidents are up there as the leading causes of most deaths in the US. The Japanophile will remark how great Japan is because cars are not the leading deaths in Japan. But what the Japanophile will not tell you is that Japan has a high suicide rate, Hokkaido residents have the highest rate of heart disease in the world due to their consumption of sodium, and other issues that are probably specific to Japan.

There are very few robberies in Japan, but sexual harassment and sexual assaults are so common that there are specially designated areas and classes for women only. The sexual predators known as "chikan" have targeted foreigners, as well. It is so widespread that there are public service announcements advising women to be cautious. Does this happen in the US? Yes, but not to the degree that it happens in Japan.

I'm sure you don't know what it feels like to be eating at a sushi restaurant with your family and an old Japanese "steward" interrogating you about why you don't pay taxes and still leach off the government like Zainichi North Koreans have felt. These stewards' reasons are unfounded, of course, and an explanation of this would be too lengthy to write in this box.

Homelessness? Please tell me what your thoughts are on Kamagasaki: http://viewfind.com/story/fruits-of-his-labor-or-lack-thereo...

For reference:

https://www.tofugu.com/japan/nishinari/

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/24/national/nations...

Japan has many wonderful things, but what I have learnt is that Japan has specific problems related closely to their unique culture. It's tempting to consider Japan as the better country simply because it lacks the bad that the US has. But I believe the wise thing to do is consider the opinions of those Japanese that want to leave their own country and their reasons for doing so. This way, you get a more balanced view. It is definitely a trade-off, and it is about your priorities.
The problem is when the interview has absolutely nothing to do with the day to day work the hired employee is expected to do.

So someone who wants to be hired has to spend a lot of time and effort learning stuff that are only marginally useful - knowledge isn't bad per se, but it might be a bad allocation of resources.

I'm not saying that it is so in Google's case, only that I've seen and participated in interviews where questions had no relevance to the job description.
> As a customer, I’m annoyed by having an un-removable Google bar in the recents menu on my Nexus device. No way to remove without modifying the OS itself (unlocking bootloader, compiling AOSP myself, flashing myself).

The search bar is part of the launcher and can be replaced trivially by any launcher you download from the app store. No unlocking, rooting or flashing required.

Maybe try the Nova launcher first. it's fairly popular and quite configurable.
No, that was the sales pitch.

US solar companies contribute very little to political campaigns. Their lobbying power is very limited.

Their influence is comparable (or less, even) to the US steel industry which has faced dumping and basically been told to go fuck themselves.

The utilities industry, on the other hand, contributes a lot of cash to political campaigns, and has already been caught trying to influence legislators in an attempt to kill domestic solar demand (lobbying vociferously through back channels to eliminate the FIT). This is exactly what they want.

That was enough to make me suspicious enough to read a large chunk of the very dull document by the US dept of state that tried to justify characterizing China's solar exports as dumping. Many of the things in the document were clutching at straws (e.g. complaining about 'free publicity' given by the local government by listing the solar companies on their website).
This is sad. I hope everyone's okay.
Right, they're probably a bit more organized given their scale.

Smaller companies could just email applicants their hiring process detailing what they expect at each stage. Tiny amount of work that will save a ton of lost time & hurt feelings.
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That indeed sounds like a more efficient drying strategy. Although there are some hidden backend costs (laundry).

But don't some people who use hairdryers need their hair to be somewhat wet though, so they can style it?
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Cash flow sweeps are pretty common in commercial banking, even in much larger, market rate, respectable loans. That said, the opaqueness of this product is disconcerting. It seems designed to confuse desperate people.
I wonder what happens if a company goes bankrupt. Does the merchant cash advance contract give shopify some claim to the company's assets?
I'm not sure I can say for sure when they'll be ready, as MIR isn't 100% done, and they're built on top, so it's tough. There's also the difference between "lands in nightly" and "lands in stable", which could be some time for a feature so large.
Nice article! Registered just to comment. Always struggle with getting the right look, this should help a lot.