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> “Prove that hoop stress is twice the longitudinal stress in a cylindrical pressure vessel.”—Test Operations Engineer, SpaceX

Well, I have no idea whatsoever how to approach that...but I would not be applying to be a test engineer at a rocket company. This sounds like something that an actual rocket engineer should know, and I would guess that it is even something that would be easy for such an engineer.

> “What is the first thing you’d print with a 3D printer if you had one?”—Linux Systems Administrator I, Rackspace

I'd print whatever test object the printer's instructions say to print to verify that I have set the printer up correctly and that it is working.

> “Please describe an instance where you had to make a decision without all of the necessary information.”—Analytics, athenahealth

The obvious answer is "this interview".

> 27. “How would you find the square root of 1.2?” —Hardware Engineer, Jump Trading

I would guess that some context is missing here. I don't think it means that if you needed the square root of 1.2 for something you were doing, how would you obtain it. I expect it is asking how you would do it in hardware, or in firmware. It's then time to talk about what computational ability the hardware has. For example, if it is going to be firmware, is there a divide instruction on the processor? Do we have floating point or are we using fixed point? How accurate does it need to be? Yadda yadda.

If it is asking how you would obtain it for yourself, then the correct answer is use a calculator, unless you just need a quick approximation, in which case it is to note that 11^2 = 121, so 1.1^2 = 1.21, and so 1.1 is a pretty good approximation to sqrt(1.2). If you need slightly better, but still cannot use a calculator, note that 1.1 is slightly high, and assume the right answer is 1.1-x. That gives (1.1-x)^2 = 1.2, which can be rewritten as x = 0.01/(2.2-x). If x is small, we can neglect it in 2.2-x, suggesting we look at x = 0.01/2.2. Let's approximate 2.2 with 2 to make the mental math easier, giving us x = 0.005. That gives us a new approximation for sqrt(1.2) of 1.1 - 0.005 = 1.095. That is quite close. It's square is 1.199025.

If you want an answer that works well under both the "it's for firmware" interpretation and the "it's for me and I don't have a calculator" interpretation is to use the binomial theorem. For square roots, that says sqrt(1+x) = 1 + x/2 - x^2/8 + x^3/16 - 5x^4/128 + ...

With x = 0.2, that's 1 + 0.1 - 0.005 + 0.0005 - ... Note that if you stop at 3 terms you get the same approximation I got earlier, 1.095. Four terms gives 1.0955. That's a good place to stop because 5 terms gets harder to do mentally because of that stupid 5/128.
Exactly. I heard it well put the other day: "Trump didn't cause the current political divisiveness. The current political devisions caused Trump."
if we're going to be honest, most are upset because they have an issue with trump to start with. after he was elected Trump did hour-long interviews with 60-minutes, ABC, O-Reily, and Hannity. Where's the outrage over that? Shouldn't equal time have been given to Dateline, CBS, Anderson Cooper, and Van Jones?

Sooner or later there will be a real issue and most of us are going to tune it out because CNN/NYT/Others have treated every day since he took office as the 2nd coming of Hitler and beginning of WW3.
> Have you ever needed to flatten a list in your career outside exams and interviews?

Yes, multiple times in multiple languages. C, C++, Javascript... sometimes "npm install" is not the answer.
Ranty comments do your passion no service regardless of the strength of your conviction.
That history was supposed to cover lightweight markup languages like MD. Otherwise of course the history goes way back :)
What matters more is what was not said on account of questions not asked. Even an evasion or an alternative fact carries information in its being offered in response.
Does anyone know which percentage of all electronics sales go to Amazon?

Affiliate programs are a good way to get market quotas. If they're #1 in sales, then there's no need to spend marketing bucks on it.
Where Oscar Best Picture Nominees Are Liked Most
A sane manager will pick a restaurant with entrees of a reasonable price, or let the team know beforehand what items might be off limits.
Let me add a bit more irony here: github is blocked from my work(USAF) so I can't get to code.mil. All I want to do is be the workaholic that I am and DoD makes it literally impossible for me to do that. You have no idea how much bureaucracy can defeat the spirit of an employee. Most of my friends are leaving the AF for reasons like this. I'll do my best during my time here, but needless to say, I'm out.
The Republicans are not interested in compromise. They've pulled the Dems so far right, they're practically center now.
It's still unprecedented. This has never happened before in America.
Please name a news organization that was allowed to attend press conferences by Obama, then later banned because he didn't like what they had to say.

edit: Since you won't be able to find one by Obama, how about any president in the last 50 years?
Okay, so does that mean the resonance has damped over the years or built? Even if I'm off by 3 oom, it's still less force than 1kN between planets, hardly enough to influence our geology.
I try to consistently say "vCPUs", but yeah...
Relying on return shipping a monitor to China does not seem more convenient to me than reading reviews.
The bar is pretty high for anybody who wants to make a product based on in-human CRISPR: https://www.broadinstitute.org/partnerships/office-strategic...

In short, if you want to sell a product, Editas gets right of first refusal to license from Broad, and only if they refuse would the startup be able to proceed to license. If you just want to use CRISPR for in house research, you have to license it; no idea if the fees are prohibitive.
Yes, and I think this illustrates why the political ban on HN should be re-instituted. Downvotes without explanation are emotional, and do nothing to improve quality of conversation.

God forbid one doesn't immediately leap up and denounce $POLITICIAN in the impromptu Two Minutes' Hate.
FTA:

"White House press secretary Robert Gibbs still calls on Fox News reporter Major Garrett at press briefings"

...because the reporter was in the press briefing.

The journalists we're discussing now could not have been called on, as they were denied access.
UV-Illuminated Rhodium: Breakthrough Yields Methane from Carbon Dioxide
Researchers in the Chemistry and Physics Departments at Duke University have found that CH4 (Methane) is almost exclusively produced when rhodium nanoparticles are mildly illuminated in ultraviolet LED light, yielding a seven-fold increase in the CH4 production rate over dark conditions, while only a slight increase in simultaneous CO production was detected. No other carbon-containing product was observed, making this photocatalytic process an enticing possible solution for the reduction of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere while simultaneously producing methane for fuel and industrial use. Rhodium is commonly used in automobile catalytic converters. http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14542
AWS launched Postgres RDS in November 2013. They covered MySQL and Oracle RDS under BAA in August 2015. But AWS didn't add Postgres RDS to the BAA until November 2016. We're hoping GCP doesn't delay covering Postgres Cloud SQL under BAA like AWS did with their managed Postgres.
> While I agree that the OS package should be used first and foremost, it just often doesn't have the required software. (Even after adding extra repos that it might support)

OS-supplied packages don't grow on magical trees. If you don't have the
necessary software in official repositories (or if it's your software), you
can package it yourself. Deployment then becomes a breeze, and you save
yourself otherwise completely useless process of recompiling things over and
over again.

> You are picking on the useless details.

Quite the contrary. Those details make important difference.

> Those are all commonly used package managers in production environments. They often provide software that simply never gets packaged with the OS.

Apart from Homebrew, which is for workstations (hardly anybody runs macOS
servers), none of these "package managers used in production environments"
provide you a complete way to rebuild your software. You can be fine for
a while if you stay away from modules that are interfaces to C or C++
libraries and from tools from other languages (e.g. I have used Python's
Sphinx to document Erlang daemons quite successfully), but once you hit that,
deployment starts to be PITA, because you'll need to remember to install all
the required libraries, -dev packages, compilers, and what not.

On the other hand, DEB or RPM with artifacts will just automatically pull the
required libraries, and its build dependencies give a dedicated and standard
place for the necessary build tools.

Your comment supports my opinion that today's programmers usually don't want
to be bothered with learning things that have been working for sysadmins for
twenty years already.
I hear there are two new administration approved newspapers: The Truth and The News.
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> How does this even help at all?

It's basically (when run the traditional way) a means for the press corps to apply pressure, if an issue is either emergent or common, a substantive question is likely to be asked and answered on it, and followup can occur on other forums, which are less public and provide less pressure on their own, but far more fertile when the issued been raised based on the public questions and responses (or lack of response) and stories based on that are out or imminent.

OTOH, if you bar outlets that tend to ask bothersome questions from the briefing in favor of friendly outlets, that breaks down.
The UK has something like that as well, Which (which.co.uk). Costs about £10/mo and is entirely subscriber-funded.
> FCC is in the middle of legalizing regional monopolies, DEA is busy banning Kratom in the middle of the worst opiate crisis in decades, and the White House is barring media outlets from press briefings.

Actually everything except the press ban sounds pretty much like the American I can remember since my teenage years. What do you think happened during the crack epidemic? The rules to prevent these large media monopolies have been eroding since the 90s.
It is absolutely not the place of the president to "send a message" to the press.
White House Bars Times, CNN and BBC from Briefing
Not even close to the same thing. Not even in the same ball park.
There is a difference between shaping traffic to better fit the capacity available, and constricting traffic since you're incentivized to push alternate traffic from a business partner. The latter is what NN advocates are trying to discourage, and it does arguably mess with the 'level playing field' notion.
There was a time not so long ago when part of the argument for why we were better than the Russians was that we had a free press and they didn't.

You might still be able to see Russia from parts of the U.S., but it's getting harder and harder to see the moral high ground from here.
Your link doesn't match your title, so what's up with that? But in any case, wasn't that wrong too—the thing you linked to about leakers and whistleblowers? I don't think I understand what you mean with how about these then. (Unless you genuinely do mean it as whataboutism, in which case it doesn't seem to me like a valid point.)
Chaotic movement towards the end of simulation looks suspiciously like aggregation of computational errors and loss of modeling accuracy.
http://www.consumerreports.org
Apple documents from 1979 found at Goodwill
Yep, I don't see any recent news about it either, so I'm assuming this is new. I don't think I have received an email about this update either...

https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+affiliates&oq=amazon+...
That's not entirely true. Coca Cola continues to spend a fortune on marketing.
Whose place is it?
I am aware of the definition and I don't dispute it. But consider for a moment why socialism wants the state to own all means of production.

The point is to directly control the effects of economically relevant actions and not leave it to an emergent dynamic that results from direct actions and agreements between individuals (i.e. the invisible hand).

Socialists think that it is in everyone's best interest if the government plans what work needs to be done, what resources to allocate and under what conditions the product should be made available to users, which directly contradicts the way in which open source software is produced.

In my view, the similarities between the DoD and socialism are lot greater than the similarities between open source and socialism. Any particular open source project can of course adopt a military style command and control structure, but not the open source model as a whole.
Keep in mind that the 24-hour news cycle is a relatively new 21st century thing, so comparisons about information control to earlier times isn't straightforward. Monitoring every action of a politician is much more intense than previously.

It doesn't make the actions in the link right, but it's important to keep that context in mind.
pyenv is great for running whatever Python version you like: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv

I'm a strong believer in de-coupling base system and application deployment.

And if you're a CentOS user, you can get newer Python releases from https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=python (an official Red Hat project)
if by "ranked as #1" you mean on amazon's pages, then that is unrelated to this change. this change is for amazon affiliates (or using amazon's terminology, 'associates') who promote or review products on third-party websites.
I went and looked at the affiliates forums and there was apparently a little rumbling a few (2-3) days earlier that this might be coming.
I think at this point the White House Correspondents Association should disband, and all reputable outlets should pull their reporters, similar to how a government official might resign in protest of something.

What would we miss? Another story about spin?
Alex Jones loves Donald Trump. He's unlikely to hold him to account for anything, except maybe not being paranoid enough, until his audience drops and new ideas come crawling out of whatever hole Alex keeps them in.

I would say he's a joke, but it's way creepier than that.
FWIW, I don't see what particularly differentiates setup.exe from apt-get, other than that the former is a GUI; people generally consider Synaptic to be a package management tool, even though it is a GUI, and it is very similar to Cygwin's setup.exe (which isn't like, overwriting everything with a new install: it manages the existing packages).
> Do you want swing states to no longer have votes that matter

I don't want them to be the only ones that end up mattering.
It's -possible- this is an intentional strategy: people who want to believe the administration are peeled away from news media that aren't 100% in line with the administration's agenda. If you like Trump and want to believe what he says, reading the NYT has got to be an exercise in frustration.

Once all remaining supporters don't watch any media that isn't Trump Approved(TM), they're locked in permanently.
You are making a false equivalency [1]. Every president has to manage relations with the press but Trump's press relations are not normal.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-battles-pres...
I doubt the issue was "can't" so much as "won't".
Seems to me that, when dating the clay, you're dating the formation the clay eroded from (unless whatever radioactive isotope you're using escapes out of small rock particles). Calcium carbonate, on the other hand, as the article said, is produced by life forms - but from what material? Well, the "carbonate" could be atmospheric, but the calcium isn't. It also could be dating its origin, not its deposition.
I agree that ReST is needlessly complicated. But Markdown isn't really that much better. Maybe it's because I'm more used to Wikipedia-style link syntax. As for bullets: Since some Markdown implementations annoyingly insist on four spaces, while others work fine without that, I'd say it's about even.

But these are all minor annoying details of either. The win of ReST is standardized extensions for anything. The win of Markdown is there's half an implementation running anywhere.
> The general consensus on how to handle this correctly is to make everything a bytestring and assume the encoding as being UTF8 by default.

Whose "general consensus"? It's certainly not the approach adopted by the vast majority of mainstream general-purpose programming languages out there.
What's bringing powerlevel9k that's not in oh my zsh?

By quickly glancing at it, it just seems to be a bloated theme with no extra features.
I understand where you are coming from.

Even though it sucks to get rejected, try to see these experiences in a positive light: at least you got some practice interviewing, got some more insight regarding what companies are looking for, etc.

I'm _relatively_ newly grad too (graduated on Jan/2016) and I obviously don't have all that experience we see in job postings. So I try to learn some stuff on the side.

The NodeJS hype train is pretty big right now, so this is an example of a technology you could learn on the side.

> sometimes companies don't even pay for airplane + hotel

Yeah, this sucks. Been there. I'd say borrow some money from people close to you if you have a good feeling about the interview.

Also, have you considered applying for one of the big 4? If you know somebody who works there, ask them to give you a recommendation. This is a good way to increase your chances of getting an interview. These companies generally pay for your trip. And since you are fresh out of college your algorithms + data structures knowledge should be pretty fresh, this might give you a hand.
Wish it gave me some sense of how my score stacked up to others.
"So let's sue them, but.... it wouldn't be all that terrible if we lost."
Google Renames Messenger to Android Messages as the Company Pushes RCS
Is this a rhetorical question?
Damn skippy. That's what I do. I need to play games so I can playtest my creations (and research and get inspired!)
Reason enough for me to buy a subscription to the NY Times.
There is a good write up on how Putin manages his media relations and uses it as a "powerful weapon" [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/ho...
Compromise works when there is a good faith effort towards it. That's not what happened during the Obama years.
and not only that, amazon pays affiliates a commission on everything that a user buys within 24 hours. so if a user clicks on an affiliate's link and purchases a recommended sound card, then the affiliate gets a commission. if the user also buys some diapers within 24 hours, the affiliate gets a commission on that as well. amazon likely drives more of these these "secondary' purchases than any other store due to the breadth of products they offer.
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Apple SSAFE Project.pdf (1979)
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What even are the rules for how you talk about affiliate links? They seem to be pretty obtuse. Is saying to bookmark a problem? I know using the word 'supports' is a problem, as is mentioning where the money goes.
The money raised from those taxes needs to come from somewhere else though. Possibilities include taxes on consumption (sales tax or VAT), capital gain, corporate profits, property, etc. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages.
Yeah, but anti-neutrality people tend to try to create the other narrative. Popular metaphor I've seen is "net neutrality is like telling the post office they have to charge the same for a large heavy package and an envelope". Which is not true, you have to charge the same for each heavy package regardless of what is in it, but you can still charge more than an envelope.
I agree that fasting seems natural and as a doctor (though not an endocrinologist) I can tell you that it is generally safe for most people with what I would call "normal" physiology.

However, the discussion here is not about people with "normal" human physiology.

Remember what diabetes is: simplistically, it's the inability to properly regulate the glucose in the blood vs in the cells. Type I diabetes is an autoimmune condition that results in the destruction of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Without insulin, blood glucose levels elevate but the cells of the body continue to starve.

Type I diabetics are basically trying to synthetically replace the activity that their pancreas would be performing through a combination of carefully regimented eating (including very close attention paid to carbohydrate) and blood glucose checks / insulin injections. Suddenly changing over to a fasting diet without careful supervision from a physician could be lethal for a type I diabetic.

I hope that helps clarify.
I was going to do a Ask HN, but will jump on this thread. What's the better subscription to get, NYTimes or WSJ?
they chose a side during the election. I have no pity on them but I am not happy with the current Administrations solution to that issue. They should have let them attend and just ignore them. Fortunately there were more than enough agencies left to be representative

These news organizations vacated all responsible journalism for eight years, ignoring for the most part two of their own being chased down by an Administration for asking the wrong questions and setting the IRS after another who dared ask on TV the wrong question. Yet all they did was side with that Administration and for the most part they still do.

Trump for all his wrongs is using the bully pulpit to call them out. That is not standard Washington and this is why the elites and their paid for press are scared. Both parties are afraid that they have someone who won't bend to their will.

Now if he would just get some sense in his head. Damn it is state rights when it comes to bathrooms but not pot? Really?
When I was diagnosed with Type II, I bought the Bayer Contour Meter, which I have been very happy with.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D0JTASA
That's a reasonable question, but also a distraction from the topic of equal access.
Makes the MLM guys sound like amateurs.
I think the answer is "Just be an adult and move on. It's only one comment".
How pivoting a startup led to users data leak vulnerability
I love the example they present in the article. This is indeed textbook discrimination.

I'm just appalled by Uber's decision to use Eric Holder's handling of the investigation for them as a positive. Holder though is said to be separate from Uber had been doing work for them prior to this investigation.

"He also worked on Uber’s behalf last year in an effort to defeat fingerprint background check legislation."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24/uber-inve...

So a lobbyist for Uber is being paid by Uber to investigate wrongdoings by Uber.
The journals' audience and, more generally, the citizens of the country.

A huge pillar of the press in the US is that it keeps the president in check. You can't be the one regulating what keeps you in check. Have you ever heard the phrase "judge, jury and executioner"?
It gives some background to jacket thing. From all the complaints in the original article, I found this one puzzling. I understood that it was annoying, I did not understood why would someone pick that one as an example for article.