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> I believed people valued coming up with the solution on the spot.

So I 100% agree with this. Being intuitively clever and being able to apply what you know is intrinsically valuable:

Think of the extreme, imagine someone who is unable to apply something they've learnt unless it's exactly in the context they learnt it.

That said, I think it's often underestimated how valuable prep is. Some people even get a bit salty over it, people who are unwilling to "jump through the hoops".

As a teacher, I've seen all kinds of people, people who need absolutely nothing to figure out things on their own, whose limit is only their imagination. On the other hand, there are bright people who need a bit of guidance but are nonetheless otherwise very brilliant.

We are the sum of our experiences. How we've arrived at our present is completely unrelated to other people's. Some people have had parents who are scientific, other people were hacking consoles/linux/coding since they were 10. Other people got bored with their careers and decided to try something new in their late 20s.

Who's to say a month of prep is too much or too little to get ready for an interview.

Though, to the people who want to derive everything on the spot, I'd ask:

"how did you figure out how to start a fire?"

"when did you derive differential calculus?"

"how old were you when you solved the schrodinger equation?"

My point is, "solving something on the fly" is a misnomer. Without a doubt, it takes intelligence to apply a combination of tricks to a new problem in an unfamiliar context. But trying to come up with a solution when you've never seen the trick is a completely different ballgame, and its worth trying to see the picture from a different perspective.

Is the interview process flawed? Well that's an entirely different question
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Except for private repos it's the most expensive choice.
I've heard rumors it's possible to use ssh without being roasted alive.
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Author, if you are reading this be aware that when viewed in a narrow browser window the sharing icons overlap the text, even though 40% of the screen is taken up by the right hand sidebar/empty space.
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This is great. There's a project that's the inverse as well: http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm

A door that only lets cats in, based on image recognition.

As an aside, I've really enjoyed the particle photon so far. It was a little wonky at first when they didn't have persistent storage of state changes, but now that's up and running, it's flawless. It runs the lights in my house (via a relay just like OP) and has recovered from a few power outages with no attention necessary from me.
Mexico City is 7200 feet above sea level. Keeps it quite nice.
Ah I meant less that the title itself would get upvotes, and more that the title reflects the kind of content popular on HN. Deep learning, of course. And cats, though a quick search on Algolia reveals fewer 100+ upvoted cat stories than I would anecdatally assume. Would love someday to see a survey of cat vs. dog owners among HN users (though it'd be heavily biased towards urban dwellers, e.g. SF and NY, in which cats might be the more practical choice)
Ok so you retreat and clear the area... and now the shooter leaves the area, armed with a gun, and is walking towards a new place with people.
He doesn't hate cats, he just hates them dry.
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Yeah, once you've got equivalent Rust, the rest is just optimization that should probably be implemented in the Rust compiler. No reason to put that stuff in the niche transpiler.
I think we could answer that question with the data they have:

> County-level race-specific crime rates (1. aggravated assault, and 2. weapons possession)?

So they are categorizing weapons possession into race-specific crime rates.

> There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates)

Which is to say crimes related to weapons possession does not correlate with racial bias.
I'm aware of the guidelines. You can't flag for content being spammy or off-topic if you don't actually check the content, right? Hence, flagging based on titles, linkbaity or not, still seems an abuse and a failure to judiciously apply the flag-hammer privilege.
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> The clinical lab is just one of Theranos’ many opportunities to provide access to high-integrity, affordable and actionable health care information, and the company will continue to carry out its mission under the leadership of its founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes.

It looks like they are still firmly in denial. Fairly incredible at this stage, it makes you wonder what it would take to get them to wake up.
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average high is 27 centigrade. average temp is about 22.
This could certainly be done well sans deep model, but a motion detector alone would probably end up soaking the occasional delivery guy / neighborhood kid.
Agreed. The brains of keto-adapted individuals can use ketones as a source of energy which are much more stable, although for a long time it was believed that brain relied on glucose.
Does he hate cats? He's simply making his yard less attractive to cats in a way that does not harm his usage of his lawn. The cats don't get harmed other than getting wet, which they don't like.. but is pretty harmless.

I actually am a little tempted to blow some time implementing something similar this weekend, because an unknown animal keeps leaving droppings in my backyard at random times. I'm less annoyed with that specifically, and more just curious about the phantom pooper in general. And, well, by the time I have the pictures figured out.. I have a Rachio, which means I can turn the sprinklers on through an API call anyway.
I had expected information on how to tell cats apart from other moving things. Looks like this can be easily achieved with a raspberry pi, the PiCam and the motion software.
I've only ever come out of an interview one time thinking that the guy I was talking to was a real jerk and I'd never work with him. I've come out of most pretty meh, just as you said.

For a stretch we probably did 70 interviews a year for 3-4 years spread across 9-15 participants. It seems like every year there was at least one HELL NO candidate on personality by someone.
It is however a strawman since no one is claiming that the money in themselves are the issue.

It's not the actual wealth that matters but how long the family have had it. When you raise children you build their character and their ability to deal with a bunch of different complex choices in life.

You can't really be using lottery winners to say anything that what happens to lottery winners.
>They were classified as limos. I said I disagree with that. It's not some great conspiracy to target Uber, it's an application of the law. Would you rather they get lumped in with Taxi's and forced to follow all those regs?

No, I'd rather the local governments get their heads out of their asses and enact some sensible regulation instead of trying to kill the golden goose that's finally giving people a service that actually works well and that they like to use, unlike the taxis, and at a price that's affordable, unlike limos. Uber is a great thing, but it's in uncharted territory regulation-wise and does need some regulation to make sure that employees (yes, that's what they are when they work for you) are treated fairly, that issues about insurance are known and consistent, etc. I don't see anyone attempting to do this at all.

>I don't support letting them just jump into the market and do what they want.

What's your alternative? The problem is that governments actively refuse to govern properly, and instead work to protect incumbents. If Uber waited around for good regulations to be enacted, they'd be waiting decades, if it got done at all (in reality, it wouldn't). The only way to force governments to act is to do what they've done. As the old saying goes, "it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission". There's a reason this saying came about: if you ask permission, most likely you'll be told "no", because people (especially organizations, and most especially governments) hate change. If you go and do it anyway, then the other parties just have to deal with it and are forced to work with you.
My distrust of the plea bargain system was cemented by the case of Aaron Swartz. The insane difficulty of fighting a legal case, combined with the very large difference in penalties between plea bargaining and fighting create an extreme incentive for people to plea bargain. Whether or not they are guilty.

When we provide that strong of an incentive against trying for justice, we have to expect unjust results. They won't look unjust from what the judge sees in the court room. They will be unjust because the person plea bargaining has been bullied into admitting to a lie.

This is a fundamental problem that happens before you walk into the court room. Nothing you see in court will indicate how big the problem is. To get a handle on it you need to do an independent review of a randomly chosen fraction of plea bargains to see how different the results are from what a just result would be.

I would be willing to bet a large sum that in a significant percentage of cases (ie over 10%), the result is unjust.
> shoot-first-cleanup-the-mess-later tactics that many of our newly minted veterans turned police seem to cling to.

Yesterday, regarding the Falcon Heights MN shooting, there were commenters in Reddit who said that that they were Iraq veterans and that they had tighter rules and discipline about shooting people who are not shooting at them, than the US police has. And that these careless shootings are done by inexperienced policemen who are too scared of the situation to be able to think clearly.
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Try fitting more than that into an average Japanese apartment, and you'll find out why.
This exists. Its a program called Maple and really sophisticated. Industry standard. Every physicist/mathematician has a license. It can perform all the standard operations on a lot of math objects that you have probably never even heard about. No offense here. Math gets a lot stranger once you leave calculus behind.

There is wolframalpha, the computational knowledge engine. Provides maple core functionality and behaves more like a search engine.

If you do this for your own learning experience, that's awesome. As a business, you would have to be really good at a lot of very deep math to compete on that level.
You might want to also see Martin Thompson's old blog called Mechanical Sympathy, and in particular his post on 'false sharing'

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/false-shar...
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Well, that's kind and encouraging.
> It is however a strawman since no one is claiming that the money in themselves are the issue.

I am, uh, pretty sure that people do claim all the time that money is a pretty big issue and this is why we need more income equality and welfare and jobs.
The possibilities look like this:

• Attacker doesn't have bombs, police blow him up: Dead attacker, everyone else OK.

• Attacker has bombs, police blow him up: Dead attacker, everyone else most likely OK. (Only not OK if attacker has a certain kind of dead man's switch.)

• Attacker doesn't have bombs, police try to take him alive: Maybe dead attacker, maybe cops hurt/killed.

• Attacker has bombs, police try to take him alive: Maybe dead attacker, probably cops hurt/killed, probably civilians hurt/killed.

A dead man's switch is very unlikely, because it's hard to make reliable. If not set up to allow for intermittent interruptions, it's guaranteed detonate explosives early. If it's only set up to transmit "detonate" when let go of, its destruction can prevent detonation. Also, the shooter would have mentioned if he actually had a dead man's switch. I'm betting he didn't think of that.

It wasn't likely that the shooter had explosives, but considering the possible outcomes, incapacitating him as quickly as possible was the best of the crappy choices available. I think the cops made the right decision in this case.
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> The real value in Haskell, to me, seems to be for learning functional programming, since it forces you to use that paradigm. Beyond that, it's just a hobby language. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not worthy of this East Coast/West Coast hip hop-esque schism.

I categorically disagree. Your comment states that Haskell is both good for learning functional programming and bad because Haskell forces you to use the functional programming paradigm (aside: it doesn't).

There is also a distinct lack of compassion for those that use Haskell in their jobs or have in the past.

> so maybe I'm not qualified to speak on this.

Then how do you so quickly move to "Haskell is just a hobby language"?
Unnecessary but fun. This maximises travel and experiences while keeping the temp the same. Someone needs to do this for their gap year
Do we know if nose-prints are particularly unique? Or even unique in the context of how fingerprints are typically analysed?
It's not that they didn't care. but for that role, you're probably ahead of 75% of other applicants by responding with something useful.
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A similar DIY approach to dealing with cats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZ2DqMnaGc
>The theory that upper bounds should be eliminated - which was, I think, no good - is demonstrably independent of the FPComplete people.

No, it is not. Every FP complete employee does this. All of their packages are missing upper bounds. They actively promote not using upper bounds, writing blog posts and reddit comments telling people to violate the PVP. Just because they are not the only ones who do it, does not mean it is "independent" of them. They do it without fail, and they promote doing it to others.

>It just is a fact that `cabal-install` was not ready for the existence of the phenomenon of the immense industrial Haskell build.

That is not a fact, it is a fiction. Cabal-install did and still does work fantastically for our immense industrial haskell builds. Just broken packages like yesod were problems. And they were not problems with cabal-install, they were problems with people not understanding the consequences of no upper bounds, and expecting things that can not be possible to "just work". Stack did not solve this problem in any way, it simply bypassed it by restricting the set of packages to one curated set of versions.
I've used Photons for a bunch of projects, and they're great. They do sometimes get into weird states that require a reboot. And I'm not a huge fan of the web IDE, but there are workarounds (and sometimes I just bite the bullet and deal with it). However, regardless of those complaints, it's a fun platform for projects, and it has almost completely replaced my use of Arduinos at this point.
And if you don't have time to switch from Python 2 to 3, you definitely don't have time to switch to Go.
Words and concepts exist for a reason. The author of the post could have turned up the (well researched and imho fascinating) antecedent work very quickly simply by googling his piece's title. That he did not makes me sad. Very smart people have previously studied most interesting problems. Ignoring their work is both arrogant and foolish.

Put differently, you don't learn much by talking, but you learn a lot by listening. You learn a little by writing, but you and your readers learn much more if you read up first. (I am not assuming you wrote this. The themes are general.)

If I wrote a piece that ignored a decades-old, well-known, fundamental result, not only would editors and colleagues slam me for it, I'd be ashamed of it myself. I went back and skimmed a few more of this author's posts and I have to say, they're not of a quality I would suggest to students. If they happen to read this, I hope they'll talk with someone who has a little formal training and revise their work.
Or a cat!
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What I don't understand is why AWS squandered this opportunity. Given the popularity of Lambda, they clearly saw the market for completely managed services. They could have designed a platform where users upload containers and AWS runs them. No servers, no crazy settings, etc. Instead, they created this entire platform where you still have to run the entire EC2 infrastructure, there is no service discovery, etc. They essentially created a half baked Mesos or Kubernetes clone. I'm still shocked when I hear companies going "all in" on ECS.
You've read it wrong. The local key is encrypted with the remote key. It means if someone steals your phone, they still have to pass facebook's authentication (e.g. 2fa) before being able to read your messages.
I think you subtly missed a point, it's not so much about visual programming, it's about interactive programming on a 2d display. I remember there used to be a bunch of programming languages where code went into an environment / repository and could be interacted with (like smalltalk).

Visual programming was just one attempt at creating interactive programming on a 2d display...

Today in the web world, everyone is kind of chuffed we have this thing called "hot code reloading" which is slowly getting back to that idea of coding in one space on your screen and instantly seeing the result in another space on your screen
Different parts of the brain run on ketones and glucose. It varies. I wish I had a source, remember it from neuro long ago.
> Pragmatically, criminal convictions of all individuals, race notwithstanding, requires a unanimous jury verdict.

No, pragmatically the vast majority of criminal convictions are the result of plea bargains, with no jury involved; the calculus that goes into agreeing to a plea bargain certainly includes the expectations regarding a jury verdict, but it also includes the cost of pre-trial confinement and other factors.

> In those jurisdictions with high concentration of blacks, which is where the preponderance of black crime takes place, juries would be highly likely to include black members whose assent is required for conviction of a black defendant.

It may be more likely that this is the case, but its not guaranteed. Particularly given that jury pools are not guaranteed to be representative (typically, they are determined by means like voter registration and drivers licenses, which may not be consistent in participation across races.)

> On that basis, bias against blacks would not account for population rates of convictions in those localities, at least insofar as post-arrest procedures are concerned.

You seem to be saying that jury pool considerations would prevent racial bias in post-arrest conviction rates; while that's wrong for post-charge rates for the reasons stated earlier in this comment, its even more wrong for post-arrest rates because it ignores prosecutorial bias, which introduces potential post-arrest bias in the rates of criminal charges being pursued for like conduct.

> Still, if the difference in crime rates (based on convictions) is great enough, non-jury convictions wouldn't explain it.

Upwards of 90% of US criminal cases (not just convictions, but all cases; the share of convictions -- since all plea bargains are convictions -- is even higher than the share of cases) are resolved by plea bargains [0]. There's virtually no level of disparity in total convictions that could be explained by disparity in the plea bargaining process, which is overwhelmingly how criminal convictions are arrived at.

[0] https://www.bja.gov/Publications/PleaBargainingResearchSumma...
Google Container Engine (GKE) is certainly the easiest way to setup a Kubernetes cluster. We have been running it for a couple of months now and couldn't be happier. If you're wanting to stick with AWS I have always heard great things about the work CoreOS has been doing in this space: https://github.com/coreos/coreos-kubernetes.
A good backend is just has important. Drupal is also going heavy javascript, you just won't hear about it because it is really no big thing.
Can't really pick a favorite, the entire Hot Rats album is a guitar masterwork. Apostrophe is also a standout track (and album! and double album!) in my mind:

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I'm not even convinced they don't like water. My cats sure jump down from the table in a hurry if I spray them with a spray bottle, but then they jump right back up a minute later. I think they like the game more than they dislike being sprayed, sadly.
I'm probably one of the biggest cat lovers you'll ever meet, but I don't see a problem with this. It's his yard, so he has the right to decide who hangs out there, and a lawn sprinker is a relatively humane (yet effective) deterrent.
Unfortunately there are literally websites that will sign any file you upload using certificates they stole. It's not a great approach.