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> actually-there-is-a-correct-answer situationals

Ugh. The worst step of interview process. Remember that guy who wrote a post about Google's hiring process, where they outsourced the asking of technical questions to untrained call-centre staff.

"Standard way to allocate memory in C?"

"malloc"

"Incorrect. Actually there's this cool library that does it for you with additional checks. Sorry, you have failed the interview"

"Wut?"

I've always found that those kind of interview processes put far too much stress on being correct to their "ideals" rather than be consistent with your own and your team's. I.e. I don't care if you name your column "domain_id", but for christ's sake name the other column "account_id".
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The counter argument as to why there seem to be a lack of prisoners is under-resourcing the police. However the whole judicial system within the Netherlands appears to take a holistic approach to people, trying to help people get their lives back on track.

Yes some people do need locking up, but there seems to be a recognition that locking up an addict for theft doesn't solve the long-term issue. Teaching them to manage and overcome their addiction brings significantly better long-term results to society.

More interestingly the article mentions that dangerous criminals are locked up, but also vulnerable individuals that have broken the law and because the best help to get them back on track is within the prison system.

Dutch prisons are not just there to incarcerate, but to help people back to being fully functioning members of society.

To get "revolving door" prisoners down to 10% vs 56% in the UK is a huge achievement.
Yep. That is the "funny" part about it.

I don't like him but unless certain folks I respect that Americans disliked him less than the alternative.

This is known as "respect for the Democracy".

That said it seems he is less likely to start a war than the other candidate.
Subsidize tourism and encourage people from rural populations to be in contact with people from metropolitan areas.
> I live in Japan now and go to SE Asia often. I wouldn't not recommend it, but it would be really intense for first time alone travel.

On the contrary, there's something to be said for indulging in something that's vastly different.

For what it's worth, the first time I travelled alone overseas was to SEA. I booked a flight to Kuala Lumpur for $100 leaving the next day without having any plans, or even any accommodation booked for when I arrived. I would recommend people to at least have their first night booked for their arrival, but with the internet these days, travelling overseas with a different culture/language really isn't that difficult.
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Perhaps, regardless of the convenience factor, we shouldn't hook critical infrastructure to the internet.
Not sure what it's like in other cities, but Amsterdam is pretty safe in my experience. Some parts of Amsterdam had a pretty bad reputation 15 years ago, but that too seems to be a lot less these days.
I'm curious, what are the practical differences? I know what the theoretical differences are, but do you have any experience with how lisp1 and lisp2 are different in daily use?
This should be the best recruiting process adopted worldwide. Unfortunately, at least in Berlin, companies go for stupid quiz and questions they even don't know by themselves but that they've read from books.
I don't understand the desire to make it seem like you know everything.

If you learn something from someone, is it that much trouble to give them credit for expanding your horizon?

If this mindset is recursive down your organization's hierarchy, doesn't it create a scenario where a legitimate critique never gets heard because people don't question the decision of a higher ranked employee because there is the impression that they know more than you?

Seems like you and your employer are worse off, but your ego remains intact.
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Suggestion: Have a look at Lisp Flavoured Erlang [1], a Lisp-2 on top of Erlang/OTP that might be 90% of what you want to achieve. :^) I am sure they are happy for new members of the community!

[1] http://lfe.io/
Please change the title to ClojureScript, not Clojure.
>(I can't/won't watch videos, so will have missed anything that was only in videos)

There's something like 15 hours worth of talks on the Mill. If you don't want to watch any of them then you're missing out on most of the design of the Mill.

Even if the Mill never gets to see the light of day, the talks were quite interesting IMHO.
I notice that most of the people who disagree live in Amsterdam. Maybe it's different in other cities. Or in more rural areas.
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You can see he has never held elected office

Its going to require an amendment to the constitution (which takes decades) and from experience a newbie MP Congress man etc will need one entire cycle to get to grips with the system and become effective.

Having inexperienced elected representatives just gives more power to the executive - which is not what I think Trump wanted.
Suppose you're right, however the U.S. is in a much different situation than Cuba resource wise - education, networks, investment capital, etc.
> is a response to what the company believes will be a continued shift from cars to crossovers and trucks.

What's a 'crossover'?
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This assumes that shipping the game is the primary objective. While that will be true for professional projects, when working on an amateur project my goals are:

1. Have fun coding

2. Learn new technologies

Actually shipping is way down the list, almost a side effect. If I wanted pressure and deadlines I would just get a job at a game dev studio.
One of the more important things that you learn in a laboratory is that experimental science is hard. There are many source of experimental errors.

So it's not enough to have an experimental result, it's necessary to check very carefully the details to be convinced that it breaks the theory.

In this case, the problem is that they are measuring a very small force, and many things can cause small forces. So you must be sure that all the other possible small forces sources are under check and that the force you are measuring is created by the method you are trying to measure.

In this case, the most obvious candidates for errors are:

* Thermal: The device gets very hot, so there may be some thermal expansions and some thermal air currents.

* Electromagnetic: They use a lot of current, so the wires that connect the device may be acting as an electromagnet or something.

They try to bound this error, but it's very hard to estimated correctly how big each one of them are, and prove that they are smaller than the force they see in the experiment.
Heh. I'd have thought the armchair law professors are the ones claiming that large portions of US law are mistakes, not the ones saying that things are the way they are for good reason.

Also, I don't think anyone is saying that they're critical to the functioning of civilized society, just that they're not ridiculous and outdated, and that being truthful about the topic of discussion is important in a discussion. We can, and should, debate whether they're needed! But we first need to understand what arguments there are in favor of keeping them.
Or a Russian living in Latvia and uneasy about all the flames "Ruskies" are getting in their former empire. Probably little point in arguing and even less in accusations of shilling for Putin.
I am more split on the issue. geographical votes result that problems and needs in one area don't get overlook because of population statistics. In the worst case this could lead to countries splitting up into smaller parts, just so that each area which its own special problems and needs can govern themselves.

To take a practical example, the European parliament. Seats are allocated to each state according to population using degressive proportionality, which mean that Luxembourgish voters have roughly 10x more influence per voter than citizens of the six large countries. The alternative would be that Luxembourgish have practically no vote, since their population would be too small to even get a single seat, meaning their vote would have 0 influence. Which one is more fair?
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This article is much more clear on what the image actually represents:
http://www.livescience.com/50019-image-light-wave-particle.h...

"A clever technique and an ultrafast electron microscope have caught an image of light behaving as both particle and wave at the same time. Here, the wave nature is demonstrated in the wavy upper portion, while the particle behavior is revealed below, in the outlines showing energy quantization."

Credit: Fabrizio Carbone/EPFL

Also, this was all published on March 2, 2015.
Note that a decrease in LOC does not imply a corresponding increase in productivity. Our Scala code is easily smaller than its equivalent Java representation, but:

1. Thinking about the problem and modeling it properly is still hard, and language independent

2. The language still has its own quirks/failings that you have to work around

PS. My comment has nothing to do with Scala per se - I'm using it as an example.
Damn, this is why BGP needs to go.
In Finland, "for life" means 12 years.
I'm working on a system which some decently advanced functionality booting a linux 3.14 kernel on an ARM. Currently I'm getting around ~5 seconds, from turning the power on to having the system fully loaded and ready.

I could possibly get it lower but it meets spec and any additional shaving off would probably require plenty of work while sacrificing debug-ability etc. so for now I'm fine where it is :)
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I have this version: so far looks better around 200MB written while listening for cca 30 minutes.

I really hope they've fixed this.
That's old news, the civic proposal to harden the laws on abrotion was later overthrown in the parliament by the "extreme rightwing" ruling party. I wonder if BBC reported on that.
Humans definitely care about a few seconds, interesting strategy though.
An electron? I don't know what you're getting at here. An electrostatic field is produced with strength in proportion to the charge. However, that is not the only way an electric field can exist. For instance, they can be produced by changing magnetic fields, and when these two fields interact in a way that they mutually generate one another, that's what we call an electromagnetic wave, or "photon." Photons don't mediate charge, they simply are the carrier for the information of a changing electric or magnetic field.

It seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how photons are produced, or what they do. At least in DC conditions, no photons are produced at all (since there is no changing magnetic or electric field), yet there is still current.

Current is the movement of charge. Photons are irrelevant, besides being the messengers for the electric and magnetic fields, which still only applies if those fields are changing, as no information is changed otherwise, so no bozon is necessary.

What you may be thinking of is in an AC case, where current is constantly changing as the electric field wave propagates down the transmission line. This does necessitate photons. But even then, the current is still the flow of charge, and oscillates between negative and positive.
I recognize your sarcasm. Upvoted.
Ask HN: Why does everyone bash Trump? Seriously
I really don't understand what's wrong with people. It's crazy to see sites like this one popup https://escapethedonald.com/ . America voted, the majority want Trump as their leader, can't you all move on ?

What's the worst that it will happen to you? Probably pay less in taxes, other than that life will continue as normal.

I really doubt he can be worse than Bush or Obama.
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Republican != favorable to Trump.

That said, repealing ObamaCare is one of the things upon which Trump and most Republicans agree.
This doesn't sound unthinkable in other countries. I'm from Norway, where the maximum prison sentence is 21 years, with a third of that often being deducted for good behavior, leaving 14 years.
Interesting thought. Legitimate posters could hopefully could out price spammers.
The crapware can not pay more than the Windows cost, simply because it does not have enough revenue.

Unless, of course MS is paying the OEM to install Windows, or billing for Linux computers. Or crapware has some business model that I'm not aware of.
You might want to go to ludum dare's website and see what it's about, it has nothing to do with twitch...

If your goal is to release your first game, I fail to see how Ludum Dare doesn't help: it's goal is effectively to release a game.
Why ? It's impossible to create a super secure device. In that case we could punish entire nations for screwing up the securities of airports, nuclear plants or whatever. Cuz you know it's relatively simple to trigger havoc. Fortunately the world is not full of lunatics.
In my mind, refactoring public policy is going to be like refactoring business processes in enterprise code.

The perception is that all these "horrible" duplications and inefficiencies exist.

The reality is that the duplications are actually slightly different business cases that are are difficult or impossible to generalize (it was easier to copy/mutate) and that seemingly irrelevant code has potentially far reaching and damaging consequences (oh, that was important?)

The essential problem is that we look at these individual lines of code instead of realizing that they grew as part of a dynamic system.

Refactoring code isn't a good analogy.

Try refactoring DNA.

It becomes quite tragic (or hilarious) when teams try to simplify such systems and instead end up breaking lots of business process that was ugly, but worked.

DNA/evolution is orders of magnitude more messy than that, but it gets things done more safely and efficiently than some refactoring efforts I've seen.
I would down vote you if I could, because you are being very disingenuous. I have never lived anywhere as safe as Holland, backed up both by statistics and the general atmosphere.

Just to be clear, what percentage of neighbourhood's have WhatApp patrols? I bet it's under 0.1%.

If you feel unsafe in Holland you should be terrified to live in the US:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Netherlands...
FYI there was a bad (7 dead) tram accident the other day London
> Legalize Guns so people can shoot each other over anything

The pinnacle of honest characterizations /s
This might give some insight as to where the 40% comes from (the image shows numbers up to 40%, interestingly) but it's an aggregate number, not violent crimes per se (it's in Dutch but the infographic is about the numbers anyway):

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/03/24/een-kaart-om-misdaad-te...

(I'm assuming that you were referring to the percentage given when you asked for data to back "that" up :)
Those groups are a big trend in places with more tight-knit communities. Amsterdam is quite individualistic and in some ways the city got cleaned up quite a bit compared to the 80s when it was full of heroin junkies. I think the free heroin plan is one of the best things ever.

In rural areas people experience more crime than before and the police is not that willing to solve cases.
Actually there's quite a body of evidence to suggest that when GDP is growing and income disparity is not significant, culture/sovereignty/immigration are not used as political footballs. When income disparity grows and GDP growth slows (or there's a recession), extremist politics -- usually centred around some sort of binary opposition -- rise. I.e. economics is everything, and people only kick up a fuss about other things when times are bad.

> Sovereignty

In purely semantic terms we are a sovereign nation irrespective of our EU membership. So it would be useful for you to unpack exactly what you mean by sovereignty. (IIRC the only way to violate one's sovereignty are: harbouring terrorists, invading a neighbouring country, violating the genocide convention, breaking nuclear non-proliferation.)

> Population density

Population density is fascinating to me because when you look at the 6m or so foreign-born workers in the UK, only 1.9m of them come from the EU. Bans on India, China, and Pakistan would be better ways to reduce population density. And, of course, if you removed all of the foreign born workers in the UK, you would see a massive reduction of… 24 people per km2.

I always thought people really cared about immigration's perceived drain on welfare. Which is why it's so funny that EEA migrants either a) overwhelmingly pay for themselves (pro-Remain numbers) or b) almost pay for themselves and certainly do a better job of it than the average UK national (pro-Leave numbers). Of the 7% of non-UK nationals who take up the welfare budget, Pakistanis are more likely to receive benefits than any other nation, and in the top 10 there's only three or four EEA nations.

> Culture

Left this one until last. The culture of Britain hasn't changed for the worse since Enoch Powell in the 1960s, Paki bashing in the 1970s, monkey chants from the football terraces in the 1980s, has it?
It's not that your sources are nonsense, you're just drawing an unfounded conclusion from them.

The Whatsapp patrol described in the article is completely different from the goon squad you're implying it is. It's mainly an early detection system, people would call the police as soon as they see something happening.
I was surprised that I got one that get really far and then in the next generation they failed right at the start
Gen 37 on Chromium

Not worked on FF, maybe it has to do with my plugins/privacy settings.
This doesn't square with my experience as someone who lives in Japan. I know quite a few young, single mothers who are unbelievably self-sufficient. I also know a lot of people who are the breadwinners and caretakers of their aging parents. This whole notion of hikikomori is novel and feeds into the image of Japan as dystopia, but it's not a good basis for any sweeping statements about independence in Japan.

A much more interesting point is the dynamic between the primacy of personal liberty and the group's long-term well being. The West can learn a lot about how to keep their society viable over millennia if they'd stop drawing half-baked conclusions like yours and experience the confounding and delicate balance of paradoxes that has developed over a long time here.
What it shows is that signifiers of status can and do change with culture. In some places, the only status that matter for women is children. Most people do not view women like that any more, and culturally we have moved on while remaining part of the human race.

If culture can change so female status is not solely based on their ability to raise chilren, culture can change so male status is not solely based on their ability to support children.
American law applies to Americans. I'll operate my Bitcoin website from Mexico, who would have every reason to protect me.
Yes.

The price of gasoline at the pumps has gone down due to the dip in Oil Markets.

So people were drawn back to SUVs and Trucks. I don't many give much thought to Climate Change. Lots of people drive Trucks with Crewcabs as a social symbol rather than a work vehicle. And could easily get by with a Car. There's a certain masculinity tied to it.

People are able to easily get more money loaned to afford these more expensive vehicles as well.
If they did a big bang rewrite in a hurry they likely just swapped one kind of technical debt for another.
It's more likely that they tried Elm first and liked it so they thought they might be able to use Haskell as well.

I actually find PureScript quite practical by design and goals (for example the ffi and readable generated code).
if you're trying to do it for fun, it seems more like a to-do list
Most Dutch people I've met consider Amsterdam to be one of the most dangerous places in the country and prefer to raise kids in more suburban setting. The statistics do say a few other cities are more dangerous, but overall Amsterdam is representative.
The agency I ran would charge at least £200k a year (full service) - and we were mid range - and when retailers choose to do things in-house or with a big provider, things go into the millions rapidly.
Yes. Cheaper to buy, but harder to sell. Experienced fashion retailers (and wholesalers/"manufacturers") have crazy detailed models to buy exactly what they should sell and very little more. Demand velocity based mostly, and when done well, sliced by category/range.

Unsold stuff usually goes through a bulk shredder - some of the more ethical ones send it to charity. What you see in outlets and seconds stores is usually made specifically for those outlets.

I got very jaded after a decade of watching the madness, left a few months back.
> Go became the de facto winner in the ops space

Can you explain what you mean by this and possibly provide a source? I'd like to know how the different languages / platforms compare.
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That's pretty decent graphical design, given the little amount of time you spent on it.
> it's clear their software development process is garbage, and that their developers are either unwilling, or unable to prioritise basic bug fixes.

In my experience, when things are this bad, the prioritisation is being made outside of the development team. Working with a super buggy codebase is unpleasant, demoralising work. Developers don't do it by choice.
It's a mix of having a lot of prisons, short sentences and low crime rates.

A lot of people are advocating for more police and longer sentences, but I don't see why. If you look at the numbers, the system is working.

The Police manpower is on par with the UK:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

The amount of prisoners / 100.000 inhabitants is on par with Germany:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
If you are a healthy and/or young person, your rate will always go up in any social system. There no way around this.

Germany has universal healthcare, but high income citizens can (could?) opt out to private insurance. It's good when you're young and single as it's way cheaper. But for most people it becomes more expensive than the goverment system by the time they're married and get kids.
It seems this is not fixed in 1.0.42, released today.

I'm running 1.0.42.151.g19de0aa6 on Ubuntu and I'm seeing 351 MB written to disk in under 15 minutes without listening to any music at all.
Not at all. ObamaCare requires every citizen to enroll in an insurance plan. If your employer doesn't offer one, then you're stuck with going through your state's exchange. Here in California, the available plans either have outrageous monthly costs or outrageous deductibles.

There's an income tax penalty for each month you're uninsured, which eats into your tax returns. Last I checked, this penalty is still cheaper than actually paying for insurance.

Congress basically looked at the healthcare systems in Canada and Europe, looked at the existing healthcare system, took all the worst parts of both, and squished them together to make ObamaCare. Conservatives hate it because it's big government in action. Liberals hate it because it does absolutely nothing to fix the undue burden on individuals to pay for their own healthcare. It's a lose-lose proposition.
If we had large amount of devices like heaters and boilers attached to remote control system it would be probably possible to cause major problems to the electrical network by just turning the devices on and off in synchronised fashion.

And actually this is not so far fetched, since there are already discussions about making these devices smart and remotely controllable so that the utility company could balance the electricity need.