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I possibly agree more with a number of you than with a number of churchgoers yes, even if I am very much something like that myself (meaning I am a whole lot less tied to specific buildings and more to those I know that do practice it the way I do).

That Jesus was quite radical in a number of ways though, all the way from being way stricter than the religious elite at the time ("It has been said... But I say to you...", going above and beyond what was commonly thought to be good behavior and into what people even today think is close to impossible), to pointing out how their hypocrisy was wrong - to then go ahead and die for them(!), so almost by definition the life of anyone who honestly tries to follow his teachings are still today quite unlike anything that passes for normal.

That said I mostly don't bother anyone else with it, hoping instead that if my life stands out in a good way, those who are interested might ask.

I do however defend my faith, I won't let people thrash the thing that has turned my and so many others life around for the better. That is the least I can do.
What I meant is, until Mars is self-sustaining and eventually capable of recolonizing Earth. Colonists rocketing back to a nuclear wasteland or planet infected with super-viruses won't protect us from extinction.

And it's much easier and cheaper just to have underground bunkers than to bring a few people back from Mars on a rocket right after some disaster.
The second reason is the correct one.

Downvoters, tell me why I'm wrong?
I've been giving a lot of interviews lately. It has been really difficult to come up with questions that don't end up turning into "guess my magic answer". As a result, I spend the majority of the time talking through work they did in the past with the primary goal being to determine "what did the applicant actually do on this project?" As opposed to simply hanging around the team or flipping switches to enable pre-packaged features.
Would love to read these studies, do you have some references?
I agree, but my anecdata: I'm _often_ IO bound (storage and network) and the ODROID-C2's eMCC & GbE blows the RPi 3 out of the water.
> Instead of burning fuel, you can use electricity (something like an arc welder) to generate heat.

Egads, no. Please get out of the business of being limited by thermodynamics in your engines. The Carnot cycle is a hard stop whenever heat is being coaxed into doing mechanical work. You don't want that.

Just convert electricity into mechanical work directly.
Hope! To be honest I don't think it matters if mars will be any better but at least it's progress.

and in a totalitarian sort of way, which would be better for the human race, getting off this rock or having the world upgrade from an iphone 11 to an iphone 12?
IIUC you're saying someone would have a better chance escaping to Mars to enjoy their political freedom rather than, say, a mountain community in the U.S.

I don't think that follows. The forces that exert a stranglehold on terrestrial freedom-seekers will exert 10x the grip on territories where the resources required to contain dissidence are greater than terrestrially. If they won't let people run around in the Ozarks with machine guns, they sure won't let them on spacecraft in a fragile space colony.

The simple fact that an extraterrestrial colony requires more resources than a terrestrial one implies there will be limited freedom there. At least until the planet is somehow liberated from excessive control. But I don't see how that will happen until thousands of planets are available to the point that Authority can abandon a planet...

...or until a "Space-Columbus" is able to colonize another planet without the control of a terrestrial force or until another planet is able to liberate itself from Earthlings. That will take a while, but I guess you have to start somewhere and maybe SpaceX is it. :)
I couldn't find any english version until now.
This news will be making waves the next few days in Europe.

A short summary: NetBotz cameras have an integrated backdoor for US intelligence services. NetBotz are used quite often in serverrooms. The are also sold by APC. NetBotz did an agressive marketing by German institutions a few years ago, they sold their stuff below cost of manufacture to get those mandates. At the same time they rejected requests from public companies. They also tried to get bought by a German company. When this didn't worked the sold themselves to French Company (www.schneider-electric.com). The German intelligence service BND was aware of this since 2005 but didn't gave this information to any other institution.
This is such an awesome way to deal with data and I can see this making R more prevalent in working with Spark.
Required reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/...
Part of it is that there's not a good middle area for them to work. F9 has to use rockets at the beginning for the boost back burn in space and would need to use it again around landing because parachutes aren't gentle or controlled/precise enough for a landing on land or a barge.
It is one of the rare case where I would try to use the Boehm GC.
>But even as they discover the joys of YouTube, their experience is not great on slower connections and less powerful mobile phone ..

Or on fast connections but with data caps. So outside of wifi, Youtube is unusable. I'll watch two-three videos and I'll hit my monthly cap.

Almost every single issue India users experience is a problem everywhere else. Every solution they came up with would be useful for users everywhere else. It feels like Google engineers live in the SV bubble where unlimited always-on connectivity is a fact of life. So thanks Google.
Thanks for the link... I was just right on time when Elon came in :)
forgot to add - startup, 16 years of experience. lead role
Yeah, I don't argue it can't be done in thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of years.

I'm just saying it's probably unwise to focus and spend time and money on this right now. We probably won't even make it to that day. It's better to learn to live on Earth responsibly and then maybe, once we've learned our lessons, start looking further.
Fuel. We have two options to to get back from Mars. Bring the fuel with us or harvest the fuel there. Bringing the fuel is unrealistic, "The bottom line of all these calculations is that you can get about eight times as much stuff to Mars for the same amount of fuel if you send it one-way instead of trying to bring it back!"[1] So let's mine the fuel there. We've never done that. We don't know how long it takes. We have to bring all the equipment in one go, it might even increase the weight of the mission by 8x!

The whole one-way thing is just the easiest. It's no guarantee you're stuck on Mars forever(future flights might be better equipped for return), and it's far simpler than making a guarantee that you won't get stuck on Mars forever.

[1] http://www.polaris.iastate.edu/EveningStar/Unit7/unit7_sub2....
This brings up a good point. Why mars first? Why not a moon colony first?
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It depends on where you put the bar and how challenging your questions are on each side.

Yes, the fact that in-person interviews involve some back-and-forth conversation makes the HackerRank ones slightly less predictive. But slightly less predictive doesn't mean "awful."

It's worth noting that on HackerRank, candidates can see how they're performing against the test cases. So when people don't perform well, it's not that they made some silly mistake or misinterpreted the problem. It's because they truly weren't able to get something more optimal or more correct.

Companies can set the bar wherever they want. There are times when a company sets a bar too high. You certainly can implement HackerRank in a good way. You can also implement it in a bad way.
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Yet if we'd just use GMT+/-x nobody would have to look up anything.
It's not a matter of age. It's a matter of experience.

I'm 37 now, and a year ago I was working with a 20-something project lead with a lot less experience than me who insisted we create a robust system for reporting errors in a SaaS product we were launching.

He wanted to associate codes with our error messages, create a searchable index where people could type in the error code to get the message, and do sophisticated instrumentation and metrics in the code, so we knew how many errors we were getting, etc.

The effort would've taken a while, so I told him we shouldn't worry about any of that and just focus on launching the project to generate the customers who would generate the errors--then we'd know how to prioritize their importance. I explained his robust error system might evolve naturally from that.

Turned out, we butted heads on so many on things, and I decided to leave. More time went on, and they never ended up launching anything--I suspect because they didn't focus on what mattered, and I attribute that to a lack of experience.

FYI - I'm the creator of https://OldGeekJobs.com, which I've been iterating on for about two weeks.

It's a real problem--the idea that older, experienced programmers are inflexible. I've only grown more flexible with age. When you're wrong so many times, you can't help but be. I'm also better at weeding out the good ideas from the bad. I don't think I'm perfect at it by any means.
Better (probably easier too) to start transitioning humans to a different being. Make the merge with AGI and move out of traditional biology.
I haven't read any of them, so my questions come from a place of ignorance, but isn't the Dresden Files series considered good, at least by the standards of pop sci-fi / fantasy? It's at least popular enough to have generated 15 books. So I guess my questions are: is it actually considered good? If so, is the first book bad? How did it become popular if the first book is bad?
And if you're not in US?
Hi, I am one of the founders of Color and have a Ph.D. from MIT working on cancer genetics before later working at Google and other places. Another founder is an MD and clinical pathologist from UCSF, and then two others have backgrounds in software.

Color is focused on testing for characterized genes (e.g. BRCA1, BRCA2, PTEN, etc.) which have an impact to an individuals risk of developing cancer. Environmental and other factors of course play a role, and most cancers are not caused by these genes. However, knowing that you are at high risk of developing cancer is something a patient can work on with their physician to develop a personalized screening and prevention plan. For example, national guidelines from NCCN suggest that women with a BRCA1 mutation get more frequent mammograms. See also cancer.gov risks for having a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/geneti...

Color was developed working closely with some of the leading cancer researchers including Dr. Mary-Claire King, who is credited with discovering BCRA1, and Dr. Laura Esserman and Dr. Laura v'ant Veer at UCSF. Our team includes people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, and clinical pathology as well as machine learning, big data, and systems engineering.

This unique combination of skills is really crucial to pushing this area forward. For example, the Komen Foundation (one of the world's biggest breast cancer foundation) held a conference I was part of the planning committee for at Rockefeller University last year on big data for breast cancer. http://ww5.komen.org/BD4BC.html

Marrying data science to medicine is a way to drive cancer research forward.

As an aside, one of Color's founders is a BRCA carriers whose mother had breast cancer twice, and whose grandmother died of the disease. So, it is a bit sad to me that the default assumption is we are "academic imperialists" versus people trying to do something good for the world.

Thanks for reading :)
I have a better idea:

Let's focus all the money and effort we would spend on getting to Mars and living on its wasteland, and use it to understand the human mind and digitize it into a realm not individually constrained by physics? I actually think that may be a more realistic and practical goal, and our quality of lives could be much better. I mean, what do we really get from living somewhere like Mars? A storage compartment for excess humans? To what end? What will happen to it when we cure aging?

The idea of terraforming Mars cracks me up. Maybe when Musk completes his hyperloop will also be when I start taking him more seriously.
Well, I like duckduckgo for one and was showing them some love. Especially appropriate in this thread.
Yeah, transit time & payload mass seem to be the major missing numbers in a video that wasn't shy about including them.
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Although their docs are great some examples on the documented stuff would really be nice. I struggled a bit on some but other than that the simplicity of it is really great. Would definitely recommend for someone who's starting out on maps.
Why can't we be money based and have relatively high redistribution and taxes?
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Musk just addressed this. Mars has an atmosphere of CO2 and Nitrogen, so we can grow plants, a day length similar to Earth's (24.5 hours), and is larger.
This looks pretty sexy. Are there atomicity guarantees?
Does that protect people from the event of a major nuclear war?

Would it be immune to accelerated climate change on Earth?

availability of land isnt the only factor here.

(i dont actually know the answer to these questions, and obviously it would likely depend on the details of this water habitat)
Some possible reasons; Mars has a c02 atmosphere, water ice, it has a ~24 hour day as opposed to the moons 28 day-day, Earth and Mars have similar sizes.
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If you're careful, you can get a good number of videos on a data plan, depending on what your cap is. At least, I can, but my cap is pretty big.
I think that is taking an overly optimistic view of the past. No other time in history has it been easier or cheaper to pick up your life and move and the truth is that almost anywhere in the "west" provides better living conditions and less persecution than anyone from even a few generations back could hope to receive.
Humanity can work on more than one project. We're 7 billion people.
If its performance is dependent on proximity of words in the sentences of the two languages, its output for Chinese would be better than you'd otherwise expect. Chinese and English have similar word orders (though the underlying grammar's different).
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OK--so how are you, as you define it, an "activist"? Activism, to my mind, requires social interaction and engagement. I'm curious as to what I'm missing.
> The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and outrage, who were pristine in form and character.

This is an excellent strategy, a unifying strategy, and one that seems lacking in today's social media driven activism.
I'm in nottingham. Would be interested in any opportunities or some ideas. Boots, capital1, reuters seem to be the major ones. I'm currently contracting in smart metering.
Has anyone written a Chrome plugin that does this yet?
Don't get those in this model/country...
oh ok, i'm 30 mins behind live.
> Why do you need 5 coding rounds? does one programming problem not clarify if this person can code or not?

The coding questions are not literally "Can they physically write code or not?" They're evaluating your problem solving skills and coding skills.

There is some inconsistency though with someone's performance in coding questions. Someone usually won't bomb one and then do great in another (although they might feel as though they did). But someone might do mediocre and then do pretty well on the others. Asking multiple questions is just getting multiple data points.
No #$%#. It's just that's all of these claims are just not happening fast enough
Congrats to the team on launching this!

I just made my way through the first few sections. This is really great content, and I think you've done a nice job of making it accessible to beginners.

I'll be pointing many of my bootcamp prep learners to it for practice.
BEGIN/COMMIT is not yet supported. But that's on my TODO list.
I think anytime someone plays to the deeply held hopes and dreams of a given community, especially ones that are related to long-term survival, "destiny" and the like... be very very careful and very very skeptical. That's not to say you should be depressive and cynical, but you should ask questions and seek motives.

We're really not close to being a "multiplanetary species", and the major bottlenecks have nothing to do with the rockets to get us out there. A lot of smart people are aware of just how much trouble our species is in over the next century or so, and there's an element of understandable misery and panic. That really is no excuse however for cheering and weeping with joy when the guy selling the rockets points to the stars and says, "Humanity's future!"
I know plenty about Mars. The atmospheric pressure at the surface is 600 pascals; the water is almost entirely polar. This is not a habitable planet, as evidenced by the fact that it is totally devoid of life.

Venus is even worse; it has a day longer than its orbital period.

If your idea of a good life is floating above a pool of noxious gases, there are plenty of places on Earth you could accomplish the same for much less money and effort.
That does not make the term apply to this situation. Orwellian is strictly about the relationship between the people and the government. It's a good term, great to use, but not applicable in this case.

Here, HP is allowed to exploit the rules of the free market in a way that is both wasteful and unethical, but legal. Not because of Orwellian practices (we are not told by the government to use HP unquestionably) but rather quite the opposite: the government is in fact explicitly NOT allowed to formalise the ethics here through law. Any kind of governmental regulation here is seen as "the government interfering with the free market", and as idiotic as that claim is, it seems deeply entrenched in the thought patterns of those who can influence the legal landsdcape.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of this, but it seems obvious in retrospect. Thanks for the info!
Sadly, they're both paywalled.
If everyone in the world could afford an iPhone 12, that would be a net gain dwarfing anything we'd get from a Martian colony.

It would also imply a world economy that could easily support the development of such a colony. It's not an either/or.
Give them a computer and some resources. Let them work on a problem for a few hours. Then have a discussion with them about how they approached the problem, any limitations of their implementation, and what they would do if they had more time.

I don't see how whiteboard-style coding interviews can scale any better than that approach.
I don't think the question is whether a human can learn pointers or not but rather how much effort one has to put to get to the mastery level. From various physical tasks such as swimming, running, bicycling or mountaineering it is well known that few are born with inherent advantages such as metabolism, large lungs, muscle type, carb absorbtion, heart strength and so on. These people typically put in lot less effort and advance lot more faster than others who didn't had those advantages. For running marathons, you can find lots of examples where one has to put enormous effort over extended period of time just to barely succeed while others are competitive with little effort while starting with same initial abilities. It is however contentious if these analogies with developing physical abilities is applicable to mental abilities, primarily because brain is understood be far more complex, malleable and elastic. Even if person doesn't understand one set of abstractions such as pointers, it is likely that they excel at others such as recognizing perfect shade of color, musical composition or designing game levels. Instead of everyone trying to understand pointers, I think people should find their sweet spots, especially the one that they enjoy.
Is your financial portfolio diversified?

Owning one stock that has previously grown at 10% yoy is the same as owning ten stocks which have previously grown at 10% yoy right?
Bump for Yap. I've successfully shipped an app that used this with the CloudKit sync extension.

Have to say the mappings / view paradigm was not very intuitive starting out, but once that clicked things worked very well.

Glad to hear Realm is providing an alternative for syncing and will have to try it out.
We get to experience the Brand New again. We get to learn things that are unlearnable right now. We get to leave behind a planet whose ecosystem has been screwed by its current population and try to make the right choices on a new one.

But mostly?

Because it's hard, and rising to the challenge can supersede politics and superstition and, we can only hope, recapture the sense of, "holy shit, we did it!" not experienced by a large percentage of our population since 1969.
> There are a ton of new college grads who are better software engineers (or would be, with 6 months) than people with 20 years of experience.

Citation? How does having fresh recollection of algorithms that you will rarely if ever use outside of interviews make someone a better software engineer?
> ... the browser doesn't have any "master password" ...

Firefox does. Chrome doesn't. I can't speak to Safari or Internet Explorer.
I agree in principal - I was being slightly facetious (as I hope you were with the 6 month figure).

But that said, you always need to gear your interview to the hiring goals. Hiring someone with no experience is a completely different effort than hiring an experienced dev or lead.

It also certainly depends on the environment and task.
Inspiration is a tautological goal. "Why do we do X? Because it is inspiring!" only works if we find X worthy for some reason. How about: real goals that substantively improve life on Earth?
I don't think they would stick to pure ION drive or pure chemical rocks. Mixing them seems like a great option depending on how cheap they can get fuel to orbit. The could also refuel in mars orbit.

A pure ion drive for all the equipment even if this means it takes 4x as long to get there, then a 'small' capsule back and forth for people.
Take a look at Vamp (vamp.io) which also integrates with Kubernetes and is a programmable router based on HAproxy. It does loadbalancing, but also percentage and condition-based canary-releasing: http://vamp.io/documentation/installation/kubernetes/

(disclaimer: I'm the co-founder, looking forward to hear your thoughts and feedback!)
I don't understand why that's set, but thanks.
That's fine. The goal isn't to escape our problems, it's to explore new places, live there, and set up humanity so one big asteroid won't kill it.
Here's the problem I have -- how do you avoid hiring professional bullshitters? Wouldn't the guy who put together the PowerPoint for upper management sell himself better than the guy that actually wrote the machine learning system? I've just known too many people who are better talkers than coders. at least with CtCI-type questions you can't really lie or stumble your way through it. I'd rather take a few bad rejects than a few bad hires.
Lets survive the next few hundred years a species first, eh? We have a long way to go to make that happen, and a big part of it definitely involves mastering travel around and mining of our solar system. It probably doesn't involve the expense and resources of major colonization efforts though, barring truly enormous breakthroughs in materials science, energy production and storage.

Lets focus on that, since without those factors a billion years will just find the raccoons or squid that replaced us facing the same problem.