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> That is a useless statement unless they followed the rejected candidates for a few more years at least. Otherwise it's just a tautology: They suck because my favorite test says so (i.e. because I say so).

The same comment could apply to any rejection criteria. At my employer, we do have some data, since we do reinterview candidates after years in-between, especially if they are fresh from college. I can't speak for our organization but yes, basic programming hurdles do reliably weed out bad candidates. This is based on my experience of having done more than 150 technical interviews, all of which were balanced against the feedback of the other interviewers. Failing basic programming problems is a good predictor.

> But how many people who are good programmers and just suck a) under pressure, b) especially when surprised are falsely out-selected?

Any kind of test that is given to candidates has the same risk.

But, let's break it down. Do you want to interview candidates for programming positions and _not_ have them program in some form or fashion during an interview? IMO that's nuts.
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I used to play around with just such a tool back in the 80s and 90s called Fantavision

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantavision
He's a smart creative guy and fantastic networker.
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You are making it sound like that's just fine.

Most people would sign something like that over spending thousands of dollars for a repair. Just imagine it is the battery and they choice is like "well, you can pay $20000 yourself or sing this paper and we take care of it".
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You just pointed out the biggest limitation with this. Even if it can apply the style, that's all it is doing. It doesn't understand the context or content of the film. Everyone knows in the first fifteen minutes of the film of the importance of the monolith and how imposing it is, but the algorithm doesn't. Even image recognition couldn't help you there. In visual art where filters and different media are used, it is rare to non-selectively apply them. Computers with cognition and creativity are a long, long time away. That is why I can't stand people who are scared of some skynet scenario; even if AlphaGo mastered Go or Deep Blue mastered Chess, real-life problems are not so strictly defined and require much more intelligence and insight.
Dude, you're fast :)

Our method is a little bit more involved than that, though. We're preparing a short writeup.
I plan to build - at least once in my lifetime - Android from scratch. I think this article[1] could help a lot.

[1] http://xda-university.com/as-a-developer/getting-started-bui...
I started with Hubbard & Hubbard. It is truly wonderful (and based on Spivak's other calculus book), but I couldn't imagine learning it without either significant background or a formal class. Even with a 2 semester class devoted to it in college, I ended up not understanding the most advanced concepts (eg. differential forms) until years later when it finally came up again in graduate-level courses. Of course, it was really an excuse to learn to think mathematically, not to learn calculus on manifolds.
The authors of that page seem to be making their suggestions principally for library authors, to avoid an otherwise unnecessary dependency on jquery.
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I recently read my first Greg Egan and enjoyed it (Quarantine). Got any recommendations for specifically the ones he put good math into?
No. That site is giving helpful alternatives so that library authors can avoid having jquery as a dependency.
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Well the engine doesn't compress smoothly, it mostly translates into the cabin with high probability of partially crushing the people on the front seat. I believe Tesla layout just makes it 'easy' to let the frame dissipate energy internally by bending much more than any other ICE based cars.
Team fit is actually pretty important as far as how long the Dev will stick around.
No, it's universally derided as a bogus metric which doesn't even make logical sense.
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"Poetry is what gets lost in translation",
"Art is what gets lost in machine learning".

I think it's interesting that it's possible to create basically filters from existing images, but then applying those filters to large amounts of images (like in this movie) quickly loses the novelty effect and is just as boring as any photoshop or gimp filter became in the 90s after seeing it 3 times.

When I look at Picassos actual pictures, I am astonished and amazed with every new one I get to see. With these pictures, I get more and more bored with every additional image.
im sorry to break this to you but electric motors are more reliable than combustion engines. they require less maintenance and last longer because of their inherent advantages. and the number of moving parts and lack of explosions/chemical reactions is basically why. you call my argument stupid but you fail to raise a single valid argument against it. all you can say is that modern engines do pretty well, which has nothing to do with how they do compared to electric motors. in fact im pretty sure the reason you resort to name calling is because you know youre wrong...

and brake lines still require less maintenance for the same reason that pads and disks do. balls in your court.
The government should try to prevent the abuse of poor people.

If there is demand for payday loans limiting supply of credit will only push people into the hands of loan sharks, crime, prostitution or nastier stuff.

What the government could do is increase the supply of credit - the US borrows at sub zero levels right now - so they could just funnel some of those money into the poorer communities.

Poverty is like cancer. It kills the social body and must be stopped.
You must have read a different article than I.

1. Every manufacturer will point out that extreme conditions affect the performance and life of a car. I don't remember Tesla marketing the Model S as an off-road vehicle. I think it is fair for then to point out how different the driving conditions where in this case.

2. Cooperating with federal regulators is what we want, right? NHTSA hasn't opened even a preliminary investigation. Surely the agency talks with car manufacturers on a regular basis.

3. "When [we discount or conduct the repair for free] we sometimes ask our customers to sign a “Goodwill Agreement.” The basic point is to ensure that Tesla doesn’t do a good deed, only to have that used against us in court for further gain. [...] this agreement never even comes close to mentioning NHTSA or the government and it has nothing to do with trying to stop someone from communicating with NHTSA or the government about our cars. We have absolutely no desire to do something like that."

4. What? How are you even pulling that from the article. The fourth point was about Tesla's record of addressing safety concerns before customers experience problems.

5. First, they never said he was the owner of the car, but maybe that's obvious of you read his blog. But if that is true, then Tesla didn't expose him, he already exposed himself. Second, I didn't see any addresses or SSNs in the article, so you are exaggerating to the point of lying at this point.
>> "Both my parents will tell you that you only get to live once, so you might as well be the very, very best that you can be at whatever you choose."

You only live once means you only live once, nothing more, nothing less.
Unix interfaces have indeed stood the test of time, but how many applications nowadays are using them directly, without layers upon layers of abstractions? Most of the programmers I meet develop software that ends up running on some kind of Unix, yet are clueless about the system calls and OS-level abstractions. If Unix interfaces were truly successful, we would be writing most of our applications with nothing but the C standard library and the few hundred syscalls.
That sounds pretty cool. I hope at the end they wont try to feed me with raw fish.

And there is the part 'may be a cool job'. Sometimes that part is a lie.

Yes come to us and you will be working with the newest tech and learn new things...

Oh did we forgot to mention we use CVS, Java 1.6 and Expoler 8? You want to use something else? No can't do sweety.
Let me add to the anecdata: my family has a Corolla that's still working after 14 years with well over 250K+ km city driving on it. Yeah, the AC's a little janky, and some of the plastic bits are brittle, but...still going strong. Modern engines are pretty superb; I'd be surprised if any of them tank before 100K. It's more likely all the other stuff in the car that falls apart (I'm looking at you - fuel pump on a Dodge Caravan).
What is this "components"? I can't find anywhere that explains what it is. Is it just a random collection of javascript utilities?
I've complained a few times about what seems to me, to be a less-friendly way of handling Promise rejections in es6.

Consider the relatively common use-case - there is a service object which proxies requests, format's the call to the backend (or fetches from cache) and format's the returned response for the caller of the object. So the pattern looks something like: ServiceObject.fetchData(query).then((data) => { / * display data * / },
(err)=> { / * catch error - display no results * /})

At some-point you want to chain the promise to update another part of the ui: promise.then((data) => {
/* display something else / }, (err) => { / catch error - display failed to load */ }).

The problem is you can't squash the error in the 'reject' of the previous promise now, because otherwise the error isn't propagated to the last promise in the link and instead you will hit the 'success' function. This 'reject' behavior is alright if there is something your 'success' function can do when the original request failed, but in a great majority of cases if the request failed there is nothing you can do - you put a 'reject' in the first chain of the promise resolution (potentially in the serviceObject itself) with some generic flash-message like 'request failed please try again' and call it good. As it stands you end up with a call chain where what a function higher up in the chain should return should be based on what a resolving function further down the chain is doing -- not having to do this was for me was almost entirely the plus-side of the promise-style over callbacks-style concurrency model.

I bring this up now because curiously the jQuery model of Deferred() precisely did not do this before -(see section#2 of Major Changes):

> Example: returns from rejection callbacks

if an error wasn't re-thrown in a catch, the promise-handling would stay in the 'reject' chain as long as an error had been thrown. I am quite curious as to why the current-model won, I understand some of the potential benefits but in practice I find that this behavior is worse in 90% of use-cases that I have encountered. If someone has a link to a mailing-thread / issue where this was discussed I would be quite interested.
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Thx boss, do you manage different teams through Trello? we initially built Hillo for our own internal use. We have many teams working on different projects, so staying in sync was a bit of an issue for us. We wanted a way to prioritize our interventions. Activity seemed like the first and legit indicator to track.
Off topic, but I'm always surprised by this kind of considerations. Over here, cars have annual inspection similar to the British MOT test (except new cars only on 3rd and 5th years) and there the engineer checks anything that has to do with traffic safety. Americans drive newer cars (average 11.5 years compared to our 13.5 years), but apparently maintain them less as there are no mandatory inspections in most states, beyond some smog tests.

Over here, people change tyres twice per year (winter/summer wheels) so there's an opportunity to look at brakes and suspension.
Sometimes for browser compatibility (so an old version of jQuery...)
because its often less verbose than plain js, and its event-handling is great.

something like $("#wrapperel").on("click",".painbutton",cbfunction),is way more code in plain js.
Whenever a new version of jQuery (or Zepto) comes along, I wonder what would have happened if web development borrowed a page from other ecosystems and browser runtimes had subsumed the jQuery API, shipping it natively.

It's a controversial notion, I'll grant, but what if the DOM APIs had been replaced by "native" jQuery support? Would we have been better off? Worse?

Considering the intricacies of standards bodies and industry lobbies, pondering the pros and cons makes for a fascinating exercise.
Twenty years ago is just... the mid nineties. You'd expect any Japanese economy car of the era to last some decent multiple of that as well, with the expectation that you would eventually see some body rust in a northern climate.
I was hoping for some examples that reduce costs incurred by failing branch-prediction in the CPU.
What exactly is the difference between 'speeding' and 'very high speed'?
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If I were you, I'd start here (free book on the basics of math without which it's very easy to drown in the so called proof-based math):

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/
Related - Veep is based on The Thick of It (Armando Iannucci writing and producing both)
I'm not a parent, but for me the scary thing is not how important is it to be your very best. Rather, it is the question - can any (otherwise healthy) child really become an olympian, nobel prize winning scientist, grammy winning musician, or great political leader, if only his or her parents raised them right?

Depending on how you answer, if you don't push your child, you could be ruining his or her chances. That is something I would struggle with as a parent.
The dropdown and tooltips look useful, but FYI it's really simple to make a file picker. Just put a hidden input type="file" on the page, then:

document.getElementById("that-element").addEventListener("change", function(e) {
// e.target.files
});
document.getElementById("that-element").click();
I guess you don't remember the times when your grandparents used to buy the daily paper. The quality of the news wasn't any better than it is today.

Paying does not help fix the news because, 1. the market actually forces the news publishers to become biased, 2. a sponsor can easily match any income from paying customers and provide stability of income on top.

I think the public broadcasting model is the best one can do as far as an unbiased news source, because at the very least, the bias will not be permanently leaning towards one direction. It tends to change with administration.

But really, how much is "general news", news worth to an individual? I would say very, very little. I don't remember of any particular instance where I read something that actually prompted me to take any kind of action.
> the majority of the rest are trying to provide useful services to improve their users lives

And if the ads or results on subjects you're interested in just happen to take a line against what you personally believe on the subject, and instead happen to tout an agenda that benefits the (right-wing/capitalist/US-centric) corporate or political interests of Google and FB and the like, is it still just about improving your life?
Though all other points in your comment are quite juvenile, I think the first one is valid.

>the suspension ball joint experienced very abnormal rust. We haven’t seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car. (One to get the car to the highway and one to get it from the highway to the service center.) When we got the car, it was caked in dirt.

So what, Tesla? Cars are meant to be caked in dirt, sand, water, whatever elements they may encounter in the course of use by people who buy them. Most people drive on roads but some do go off-road and the cars should be able to handle it. Just the information provided here does not indicate misuse. It may still turn out that way, but not right now. It is more likely, IMO, that your engineers failed to consider some particular scenarios and the suspensions in your cars are a bit less rust-resistant than they should be.
OK, not as tech as many on here, but I've spent the last 25 years as an amateur mechanic, and spent 10 preparing and driving my own rally car, right up to World Rally Championship level, as well as having owned more cars than most people have had hot dinners, and fixed even more than that (sadly!)

The balljoint in question has failed because the rubber boot on it has failed, allowing water/dirt in, and it's rusted out from there. This is nothing specific to Tesla, it can happen on any car - I've seen it on quite a few FWD cars, but never to this degree (total failure) - they will go on for a LONG time with play in them, and take a LOT of abuse before failing.

To have failed in this manner, it would have needed to go un-noticed for some considerable time - I've had ones which have had a year of abuse in extreme circumstances and still been nowhere near as bad as this, so I think you have to ask about the servicing that had been done on this car - whether or not it had been inspected. In addition, this would have had significant play in it for some time, leading to noise which would be noticeable to most drivers when on the road, and easily noticed during any kind of worthwhile inspection (such as the MOT in the UK) - not sure if the state in question has a mandatory inspection?

Yes, being on a dirt road could have exacerbated the problem, but it's not something that a "normal" car can't take - you'd be amazed the amount of physical abuse a mechanically-standard car can take on rough gravel roads at speed.

Components such as this are usually sourced from sub-contractors, who produce them by the thousands/millions without issue, does anyone know if Tesla makes these themselves? Seems unlikely to me.

As has been said elsewhere here, if this had happened on a Ford Focus, no-one would give a monkey's, it's only because it's a Tesla and this guy has an axe to grind.
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I think the point is that this is a step towards consumers purchasing headphones with a digital usb/lightning/whatever connector, not to carry around an adaptor.

I guess we'll see in time whether the idea takes off.
A dog can be fairly well secured on the backseat. A proper harness and a short leash that clips gets attached to the seat belt works perfectly fine.
I'd actually suspect it's a content team that ghostwrites for Elon. So they're probably intending to use his tone while also keeping relatively minor things like drafting PR off his plate.
Well it's 2016 and we still don't have nodeList.forEach() so it can't be much worse.
"fueras/fueses" would be the right verb form, but that would be equivalent to "How to vote for Trump if you WERE Mexican" as opposed to "How to vote for Trump if you ARE Mexican".
What could be the root cause of this change ? An oversupply of good candidates?
This analogy makes no sense.

I often encountered situations where clients wanted to keep photos 'private'. I couldn't use them in my portfolio. To deal with that I took my camera and lenses (analogous to a computer) and made some equivalents that allowed me to demonstrate my skill in a similar way (analogous to writing some code in a personal project).

Suggesting you should sketch something to show your photo making ability is like writing pseudo code to say you can write python - it's an unrealistic analogy that doesn't happen and has no need to happen.

You can very easily use a camera or a computer for a personal project and make very real photographs or write very real code to demonstrate your ability.
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The same logic could be applied to their built-in anti-malware software (Windows Defender), so I don't think that's what's stopping them.
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It's an isolated collection of HTML, js, and scss to achieve a thing. Like a credit card payment form.

They're mainly for react, though other platforms have them (eg, I use 'ractive', from the guardian, which has its own component model).

Go check out npm, there are a while bunch of react components you can just pick up and use.
Connectors are the #1 failure point in any electronics design. Substituting one connector for another isn't going to be an improvement in this respect but I can see why getting rid of a connector by itself could be a good thing (and then they'd need a wireless replacement, none of the bluetooth headsets I've used were good enough for day-to-day or prolonged use).
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If "Land Rover said the repair was acceptable", I'm inclined to agree. In fact, digging a little deeper into that story...

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/05/cracked-welded-land...

...reveals that it wasn't a problem after all. Search on the Internet and you'll find plenty of others welding various automotive parts, including transmission cases, with no problems. It's a common practice in the industry. A proper weld is as strong as the base metal.
One downside to the 3.5mm jack is that you hear a glitch whenever you plug-in or unplug a device. It would be nice if they could fix that.
Nobody ever says they want fewer options, but that's because it's never such a pressing issue as not having the one you want.

In a program I develop, I sometimes remove an option and people complain, then it turns out they were randomly tweaking that option to try to solve some problems that it was never going to solve in the first place. They just liked the feeling of being able to control _something_. So those are cases of bad options that should have been removed because they made it harder for people. People just can't help but try changing settings when something doesn't work, and hiding them in an "advanced" menu doesn't deter them. That's where all the most powerful settings are afertall! It encourages frustrating time wasting.
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Well, pal, H2S and noxious gases were irrelevant to my original point. As applied to innocuous CO2, it may be interesting and new, but is most likely useless. It will likely continue to be touted by rent-seekers (assuming the original developers are not such) who want to make money by pretending that removing a vital trace gas (not the leading greenhouse gas, BTW) from the atmosphere is necessary. I'm the one talking about science; you're the one assuming the point is political. Only tangentially: diverting resources to accomplish an unnecessary and likely harmful aim is not just bad politics, it's deeply unscientific.
This works for images because images can be decomposed into different scales: in classical image processing into image pyramids, and in this case using deep convolutional neural networks which capture progressively more complex features and larger scales. So you decompose an image, keeping the high level features fixed, and modify the image (using gradient ascent) to make the low level features match those from a sample of the artistic style.

So to use the same algorithm for music you would have to decompose audio in a similar meaningful way. There has also been a lot of success in speech recognition with CNNs lately, but I don't know what the situation is with modelling music.
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