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Sort of. But to my mind, anything that takes an axe to credentialism deserves some cheers.

My own preferred approaches are internships for junior developers, code review for intermediates, and evaluation of the strength of record for truly senior hires.

http://short-sharp.blogspot.ca/2013/04/stop-white-board-codi...
Why thank you for mentioning this, it's a nice thing to see on a Friday! This is a neat community in a lot of respects and I appreciate the challenges and questions and whatnots that I come across here. Cheers!
Did someone make a rule that everything needs to be a revolution?
This is why lawyers exist, and the job they are trained to do. A competent one would have told Hotz on Day 1 that this letter was coming, and would already have the documents ready in a folder with a little pink ribbon bow.
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The "Super Tablet" is a very good idea it just is stuck in a weird place.

Part of what is cool about a low-cost tablet (say $150) is that you don't feel that bad about losing it or wrecking it so you can beat on it hard and do things that I would not with a PC.

Something like a Surface costs a lot more and changes the psychology, a lot for me.

Microsoft has that new dial that you can use with the Surface AIO and also HP and Intel are doing interesting stuff with 3D Cameras which again could be game changing for creative work. Microsoft also has Hololens and the entertainment franchise around XBox which goes up against Apple TV, iTunes and all that.

Not everything Microsoft sticks but they are throwing many things at the wall. If anything they got in trouble with Windows 8 by being ahead of their customers and anticipating that "Super Tablet" would catch on faster than they did. They will be back however, at the very least because if you follow the thinness assumption that Apple is based, they will beat laptops.
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Hoping for your vision of the future, though hopefully through less SV-tinted glasses
>I think that Soylent will go down as a cautionary tale for anyone who looks at a field they know very little about and thinks "how hard could it be?". Along with Theranos.

Terrible analogy. Unlike Theranos, Soylent has been shipping their core product to many satisfied customers for over two years. The recent quality control issues are real, and they are troubling, but they don't invalidate Soylent's thesis that an engineered staple food could save people time and money. By contrast, the kind of small-sample blood analysis Theranos aimed to do may never have been possible in the first place, which is why informed investors never touched their product.

>We know that different people have different dietary needs.

Better pull Ensure from all the hospitals then, just to be safe.
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Apple didn't need to remove the Fn row to have their touch bar.
Heroku ($), Docker, reddit, used Stripe ($) in the past, mixpanel ($), dropbox, segment ($), NewsBlur, MessageBird ($), Mailgun ($), CoreOS

($) := I pay for the service
I only see Windows and Mac versions on their website. Am I missing something?
It's an aside, but all the Apple pictures I've seen have had 'esc' or 'cancel' or something in exactly the same place in the top left anyway.

Have I missed a detail, and there's genuine times where an escape key or equivalent is not available in that same space when you might want it, or are people just concerned about the lack of tactile feedback?
It's a good concern to have, but I also worry about waiting too long here. At the end of the day, there's going to be problems that the testing would have never found regardless of how much testing there is, and we need to be psychologically prepared for that.

It took airplanes a long time to become safe (through a long and scary process), and now they're safer than my front porch. Whatever the outcome, self driving cars will very likely be safer than human drivers, and that means more lives are saved than lost, even with the occasional horrific problem. It is entirely plausible that self driving cars are already safer than human ones.
"Kissing the ring"? They want his test documents, not his fealty.
I read a bit of that, and it looks like the document you linked does not support the threat to fine $21k/day for not responding to the Special Order.

There is quite a lot of "voluntary" in there, along with "future regulation". I would guess that a lot of the voluntary safety assessment letters they get essentially say, "this is not entirely safe in absolute terms, but is definitely safer than an inattentive human driver."
Far better than a macbook I meant.
Personally I find literate programming helpful not for simple programming tasks, but for really hard ones; if you can quickly scan a few lines of code and figure out what's going on, then you probably don't need it. But if it's the kind of code where I know even future-me is going to have a hard time understanding what I've implemented without copious comments, then I really like literate programming.

And it's more than just a different notation for comments. I find it psychologically elevates the narrative in a way that makes it feel like at least equal to the code in importance, therefore I end up being a lot more thoughtful and deliberate in writing the narrative.
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Considering the gravity of what they're building, they should already have detailed answers to all these questions. They shouldn't have launched a startup without spending massive time and effort ironing out these details. Two weeks is plenty of time to organize your thoughts.
the fully drawable keyboard is already here. expect apple to perfect it in three years one the other OEMs rush it to market and fail.

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/2/12769094/len...
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Does anyone have any advice on how to start doing VR/AR development? What tools are used and knowledge is required?
Stockholm syndrome. That's what it is. If you have memorized that F5 is step (over, into, who knows?) then congratulations, you have passed a test that no one should have to take. Do you know about the slide rule or log tables? The function keys are not a good interface to anything. Good riddance.

Now, what are the escape sequences to access the Touch Bar from the Terminal so I can add some much needed usability to emacs/vi?
Well, if any Dev Leads or HR Managers are reading these comments, you could start by getting rid of the Taleo (or even worse iCIMS) Career search engines from your career microsite. [1][2]

These are awful to use and often require a new profile per company to apply, so applying to a few companies could take hours depending on the work experience required to fill out.

For godsake, enable the quick-apply feature of LinkedIn so your applicants don't have to spend hours labouring over your custom application. [3]

Make recruiting easier for prospective applicants and HR with something like Greenhouse. [4]

[1] https://jpmchase.taleo.net/careersection/2/moresearch.ftl

[2] https://careers-fidelitylife.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-4...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search?keywords=Bank+of+Americ...

[4] https://www.greenhouse.io
> What happens if they find her guilty after she is elected?

If it's before she takes office, Obama could pardon her. Would be a smear on the end of his legacy but might a Nixon/Ford style situation to take the personal hit and move the country forward.

If it's after she takes office, most likely impeachment or resignation. It'd be very difficult govern as the chief executive if the country and world sees you as a convicted criminal. Depending on how that plays out, Kaine would most likely take over.
Outputting floats instead of discrete values actually sounds like a very exploitable hole to me.

It reminds me of the classic "check if your model corresponds to reality" example where a one-time pad is broken: the standard said "<0.5V volts is OFF" but your machine was outputting 0.1V for OFFs that came from computing 0 xor 0 and 0.2V for OFFs that came from computing 1 xor 1.
The timeline is not unreasonable at all.

They were planning to ship by the end of the year -- obviously the regulator should get involved before it's in the hands of users.

I've seen requests from regulators before. If you don't have or can't produce exactly what they asked, you call them up and tell them some parts will take longer. The point is to have a dialogue; the threat of sanctions is just to make sure you work with them.
We'll never know, because he's not even trying.

Here's a nicely readable transcript of what they wanted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817061

None of them sound particularly difficult to answer. Maybe they are difficult to answer in sufficient detail to satisfy the NHTSA, but you can always start out by answering them as best you can, and then seeing if they want more. There are people on the other end of this letter, not some unthinking machine. Toss off a quick response and say, "If you have any other questions or need further detail on the answers given here, please feel free to contact me at any time."
For casual users, maybe. I deal with documents from legal and accounting departments, and it just doesn't cut it. I have to use MS Office.
Seeing Eve's development out in the open is inspiring. Many of the commenters are coming from positions of extreme skepticism towards new approaches to programming, probably justified by the history of the field, but I'd recommend to spend some more time looking into the research idbknox and his team have been conducting (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8, for instance) and how much they have iterated based on user experimentation.

A few questions come to mind now:
1 - This new demo, with the messaging app sample, and references to "my pm wants this or that" seems to point a change in positioning, from targeting non-programmers to professional programmers. Is this accurate?

2 - Is there a plan to integrate the grid-style or the adlibs style UI into this new iteration?

3 - If non-programmers are still a target, it seems to me that the ease of importing data from external sources would important to reach broad usage. Any research here?

4 - Html and css might be a hurdles for new users, any way Eve will help on this front?

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The CEO of my company recently bought everyone a copy of "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" by Jessica Livingston.

It has some great interviews/stories of founders of companies such as Apple, Paypal, Hotmail, etc. Enjoy :)
Having mentioned this elsewhere, I have first-hand experience going between SMEs and X/Y/Z bureaucratic entities for half a decade and there's a big difference between "having the answers you think are satisfactory" and "providing answers that they think are satisfactory." GI Joe pointed this out long ago in that "Knowing is half the battle" and putting it into a work product that accomplishes its task is the other half of the battle in this case (with no guarantees the responses provided will end the inquiry / threat of fines).
Well this is going to be explosive...
They want his compliance, or his $21k/day. The document is all stick and no carrot. And it is a big, federal regulatory agency stick. I think "kissing the ring" applies.
I agree, if I'm writing a paragraph of english followed by a paragraph of code... what's the point? Comments at the moment are generally one liners and can quickly get outdated if not maintained.
all premiNed coins are a scam..
10% premine and run by a private company? No thank you! I don't care what cool ZKP crypto they use; one of the critical aspects of Bitcoin's success is that there was no premine (no unfair advantage for the creator) and no company to go after if someone starts feeling litigious. Bitcoin is a protocol, this is a product.
So you'd need to upgrade ISP routers, edge (incl. home) routers, PCs, phones and all IoT devices, along with all their software, but not backbone routers. Would that really have a significant impact? Seems doubtful.
What's wilfully deceptive is pointing to one city and claiming it is relevant to national statistics. The WP Article assets a majority of public school students IN THE US are in poverty, that is objectively false. So the reading comprehension problem isn't with the article I cited.
He never said the design was an accident. He said that the fact that they were able "to dominate the market amongst developers for the next ten years." was an accident
Bizarrely, I'd rate the one I worked at as best in class as far as tech management goes.

To back this up, I can draw on the experiences of my friends and former colleagues across the Street, and a large number of hair-raising interviews at other banks that made me repeatedly wonder why I would trade in the devil I know for a dumpster fire.

At the end of the day though, "the best in class" is still not "good".
Update: LinkedIn just deleted all of my newslines. Over 20,000 followers, six months work, and hundreds of hours spent trying to build an audience. All gone. And likely prompted by their censorship of Donald Trump.

I urge anyone thinking of making content on LinkedIn not to even consider it. Utter bastards.
Not to mention, deleting oil as an energy source is a far greater benefit to mankind than any possible innovation in computing.
By dual stack you mean something beyond nat64?
Given all the Apple bashing, I can not see a decent alternative being mentioned? Everybody is furious about the new Mac, where does this expectation come from?

I need a new laptop, my older MBP had some unfortunate accidents. I tried to find a better one than the new MBP. I honestly could not. This new MBP seems to be the best ever laptop I can buy at this moment. I guess it would be better if it had 32gb ram option or a newer gen CPU. Still, nothing else seems to come close.

If you don't agree, please help me with my decision:

- Unix. Linux is fine though but I prefer macOS.
- A high resolution display.
- A good, large trackpad and good software support for that.
- I can work with ~4-5 hours of battery life.
- Something portable. Been carrying this thing all day every day.
- Don't really care about graphics performance.

Any suggestions?
You must have some of those magical Bluetooth devices that actually work.

I've never found Bluetooth to work without having to fiddle for ten or fifteen minutes to get the cussed things to pair up.
I believe you are correct, the base model with touchbar has a i5-6267U.
A physical ESC isn't that important because multiple presses are idempotent usually; there's only one dialog in the foreground of the active application (at least there should be) or you're only in one insert mode. I also don't see this being a big deal for key-combos. As long as it's available in apps that make use of it or Apple let's you enable it, and there's a way for you to learn where it is by touch, this shouldn't be that big of a deal.
And then for quite a while after that, you had to "unlock" the capability by uploading a few videos.
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Having said that Andrew Ng's class on Coursera is gold.
But that goes with the territory. Just like you're not going to 'disrupt' the aviation industry or the medical world on a shoestring budget (see also: Theranos, you still need a working product even if you do all the paperwork).

And I personally feel that's a good thing. Even if Hotz' software is a-ok I'd still expect him to have it properly documented and vetted before one of his customers hits my vehicle.

The roads are not a playground.

I've done a fair bit of work on vehicles and I'm happy to say that my work passed inspection, and that I would consider it to be irresponsible to see such control over the workmanship and quality as un-necessary interference by busybodies, the primary objective of product development does not obviate the need for a reasonable overhead to prove that you did your homework.

Also, I never meant to say or imply that his product is shit or dangerous, merely that it is not up to snuff for deployment let alone sales at the present stage and that the gap between that and where it should be is too large to overcome for Hotz. In other words: it is not a product - yet.
BTW, went through your post history and it seems you just comment telling people how to behave and telling everyone how sensitive you are while contributing nothing of value whatsoever. What a clown.
It sounds like it also may cause damage to other electronic components.
They essentially switch the alternator into different mode that doesn't limit the output voltage in order to generate as much energy as possible.

I can't imagine them running a separate wire in the harness only for this one feature. It makes more sense to simply increase the voltage of the 'mains' 12V power inside the car, dump as much energy into it as possible, and design all critical components to handle the event gracefully.
Sacrificing the less important electronics sounds like a viable option during a rollover event.
That was a very strange article with all the near-wishful "igniting speculation about a Clinton defeat" stuff. The whole emails issue has been inside baseball, politics-wise. Insiders and pundits love yelling about it but average voters either don't care (the vast majority) or have already assumed she's guilty/not guilty and priced that into their vote. Reopening the investigation is not going to change the election outcome.
Right, this is exactly the argument we are making. Given just the block of code above, we don't know enough to make the determination. Who is right? We can't possibly no without more. That's why commenting code is not enough, and that's why literate program is important.

Imagine if you came across this in actual code. You might first check if the code was changed recently and by whom, and whether the comment or the code came first. But that still wouldn't tell the whole story. To get it all, you would find out who checked in the code, and what their original intent was.

What we're advocating is to treat source code more like a design document. It's a collection of thousands of design decisions all informing the specification of the final product, the program.

> If the idea is simply that this is extra work for the programmer to do -- that they need to describe every implementation twice, once in code and once in English

Right, so the point is that prose is not redundant. As Knuth put it literate programming is "a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other." When we communicate to one another face-to-face, we use gestures, expressions, intonation, etc. to articulate an idea. On the internet, when we communicate with just text, much of my meaning is lost forever and never apparent to anyone who reads this.

Programming is much the same way. The code only tells you so much about the program. Without any context, readers are often disoriented and confused by new codebases. If no one is willing to read your code, no one will ever contribute to it. GitHub and SourceForge are veritable graveyards of amazing yet abandoned projects that will never see another contribution, because their codebases are so inscrutable. I know I'm guilty of this as well; when I revisit old codebases, I hardly know even what I was thinking.

Anyway, I think there's a lot to explore here. I think what you raise is an issue, and it will always be important to address, but I really believe that literate programming is important and can lead to better code. So we're going to see where we can take it with Eve, and I hope you'll give it a shot!
Proof that so-called autopilot systems are a danger to the public would be evidence that they perform worse than the average driver. I haven't seen such evidence, what are you referencing?
It's probably a mixture of no physical esc key or the fear of it possibly disappearing when required.
If he doesn't already know the answers to these questions, he's got no business selling this product. Everything that they're asking for—essentially the owner's manual, product requirements, and test methodology—would be readily at hand for any serious operation.

You can't just wire up an Arduino to the CAN bus of a 4,000-pound missile and sell it on the open market willy-nilly.
"An IDE like Medium, not Vim"

What's wrong with Vim? I think they're trying to cater to "the non-programmer crowd" with this, but by trying so hard it's alienating real programmers. I love vim, and I hate Medium with passion. I'm sure there are a lot of other HN people who are not so much a fan of the types of people who just write meta posts, rant posts, listicle posts, self help posts, growth hacking posts on Medium and call themselves a "maker" without actually building anything meaningful. So, you've lost me there Eve. Anyway, that aside, looking more into how this tool really works, this is NOT something an everyday Joe will use like they speak English. This is an actual programming language. The language itself is no easier than python or ruby (actually subjectively speaking the syntax is less intuitive than python for example).

Also I think they're imagining that Excel users will just eat this up, since it's kind of like how people run pseudo-programs on excel documents. But people used those because Excel was the most popular app that lets them work with numbers back then. Now there are many ways to achieve what Eve is trying to do, plus Excel. Why would any lay person jump on an obscure technology doesn't do anything significantly new?

Overall I think there's a problem with assuming that this is for "humans" just because it's "literate programming". "Humans" don't want all this literate programming stuff exposed. They just want to push a button and take care of things. On the other hand, programmers (I guess we should call them "non-humans") don't need all this literate programming stuff. They are trained to understand how programming languages work. They may think this is neat at first, but very soon will start to think all these comments are getting in the way.

I have personally never seen any programming related technology titled "... for humans" actually work for "humans". Perhaps because these tend to be built by extremely talented programmers who are too talented that they are out of touch with how their grandma uses computers, they probably think their creations are easy enough for "humans".

Sorry if this sounded too negative. I am willing to discuss and correct my comments if I am wrong about anything.
It would be so much easier to respond if you could just do exactly the same thing that the larger players did.

The FOIA route is appealing because it feeds into a sense of perceived indignation.

But the most important thing to copy from the large players is never going to be spelled out in their submissions.

I'll let everyone in this thread in on the secret: hire someone that specializes in quality management systems.
Multi choice online testing is not extreme research. A phd is research, a masters is research.

She may well be taking some courses but let's not devalue these words.

A dietitian is at least masters qualified that is what people were pointing out.
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Fulfilling regulatory obligations is a known up front critical-path task. It's not like he tried, was met with resistance, and then bowed out. He overpromised and then failed to deliver due to a completely predictable hurdle.
mrb made a comment about the differences already, a short summary of which might be "transactions can be private".

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The touch bar was prototyped 8 years ago: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/791767756928462848