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NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration[1] provides scientific support for oil spills, chemical accidents, and other emergencies in coastal areas.

Though if we want to talk numbers, here's one: $18.7 billion. NOAA legal assisted DoJ (and others) with BP's Deepwater Horizon civil settlement.[2]

[1] http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about
[2] http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/agreement-p...
Oh come on, sure it makes sense.

It means that you failed to communicate effectively. Or that communicating to them was not an effective strategy.
The systems that steer the car should be evaluated independently of the emergency braking features, or else the benefits of the latter could mask deficiencies of the former.
The cuts are gonna kill a ton of jobs. Blue collar ones too. And some of the US competitive advantage.

Science has been driving our economy for years.

They are also proposing cutting funding for clean water in the Great Lakes region 97%. Largest source of fresh water in the world and we are gonna cut almost all of the funding?
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What is the alternate position you get offered? Product management, but at a lower level?
In america it is super hard to give feedback to applicants, most mature workplaces ban it, and instruct you to route any such requests through the recruitment/HR team.

I think it sucks, but this is way to litigious a society for it to work any other way.

It makes me wonder if there is some opportunity for a middle man service that anonymizes the source of the feedback.
> Many of the cases where I care about perf are cases in which the app is multithread savvy

Yeah, as would be expected from most people on this site. Sad thing is, there's a bunch of pissed-off gamers right now who were on the hype train expecting Ryzen to be the next big thing in gaming, but it's far from it. Ryzen is great, just not amazing for gaming.
"If the companies are worth their salt, they should be giving (or willing to give) you detailed feedback. _Especially_ if you got to a face-to-face interview. If they don't, then I'd consider that a lucky miss."

Really? It's been my experience that companies will not give feedback, at least anything that could be considered detailed feedback, as a blanket policy. The perception at least is that giving feedback opens up the company to potential litigation and provides the company no benefit.
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Totally fair. And I love road trips. If I could do more, I would. However:

1. I don't own a car.

2. When I've rented cars, it's cost me ~$100 USD a day. I normally travel for anywhere from two days to a month at a time. On average, probably a week to a week and a half. So then this quickly becomes a very, very expensive trip - ~$700 to $1000 USD compared to $300 to $500 USD for a flight. On top of that, I travel an average of once or twice a month. So car rentals are simply out of the question for me for most trips.

3. I live in Boston, but places I've visited in the last year include New York, Rochester, Vancouver, Lincoln (Nebraska), Montreal, Las Vegas, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Doha, and Reykjavik. It's simply impractical (if not impossible) to drive to most of those places from Boston. The three that are manageable are New York, Rochester, and Montreal (and I did do the Boston to Rochester and back drive in a rental instead of flying twice).

I've considered purchasing a car explicitly so that I'd be able to travel without flying a little more, but leasing is impractical due to limits on miles per year and I'm not ready to outright purchase a car. Either way, a car would come with additional costs (the cost of the car, maintenance, parking, etc.) and wouldn't be able to replace even ~15% of my flights, so I think it's just impractical for me at this point of time.
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also amplituhedra for computing particle interactions
same here. the macs are under powered and overpriced but razer's quality is not high enough imo. I had to return my razer blade because of the constant fan noise even on idle. I just can't even take it to meetings or work in quiet rooms
Keep positive man - as you know so much of product development is about feedback and iteration. I would really push your ex-interviewers or even the recruiting folks to share their exact thoughts on what didn't go well - even if you have to go through a few people to get the truth.
Certainly they believe that weather exists? Cuts to NOAA won't just affect climate change research but will affect weather forecasts, hurricane forecasts, severe weather forecasts, etc.

Mr. Trump is a pathetic excuse for a president.
> according to a four-page budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.

So somebody in the NOAA is leaking internal memos to the press. Is it so bad to cut funding to rebellious agencies?

It could be a good way to catch leakers: Distribute to every agency head a memo mentioning upcoming budget cuts, and see which self-righteous agencies try to stir up trouble. Instruct the agency heads to make minor changes to the details, to see if they surface.

I don't have an opinion on the NOAA itself, although it doesn't look like they're being targeted:

> NOAA is part of the Commerce Department, which would be hit by an overall 18 percent budget reduction from its current funding level.
You can learn most of it nowadays online from sites like Coursera, edx, Udacity, and Stanford's Lagunita.

The only exception might be discrete math, but pick up a copy of Rosen or Epps and some Schaum's Problem books and you can pick that up as well.
The Uber lesson: behave like an asshole and people never forget
Many thousands of those (so I have heard) can be found on Tumblr. I think it means "people really want to take secure nude selfies".
Is there any evidence at all that this happens with NOAA? If not, why suggest it?
My personal experience with Harvard is they are the best at over-exaggeration. Also very good at branding "been done before, but not at Harvard" research as brand new and revolutionary. Others do it too, but HU masters this.
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The link I pavanky's post spells it out in plain English:

> Starting May 26, 2015, USCIS will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B extension of stay petitions until July 27, 2015. During this time frame, petitioners will not be able to file Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service, for a Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, requesting an extension of the stay for an H-1B nonimmigrant.

In summary, yes the 2015 stay was just for extensions. No it wasn't for all applications.
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Do you live in a cashless society?
> Corporate citizens have an obligation to obey the laws of the jurisdictions in which they operate.

To some extent. If the fine is $50 for each infraction, and you have $10bn in the bank, you really don't have to obey the law.

You can lobby to have the law changed and not obey the law (if you are willing to pay any and all fines, while you are lobbying). Uber's use case didn't exist 10+ years ago, and as such, most laws weren't made for that not set up to account for that.

I personally find that to be a valid example of where it's acceptable not to follow the law.
That is confirmed here: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/07/what-programming-langu...
Look man, getting hired as a Product Manager has a lot to do with personality. It's a role where you are perpetually having to explain, advocate, and negotiate on behalf of various interests. If you don't find a way to make everyone feel like you are on their side during the interviews... if you talk over the head of a VP, if you don't know about the tech, if you don't manage to sound confident in all your dealings... they may just say, "Gosh, we got this guy with 3 years experience... let's give him a go... he's a lot cheaper."

There's certainly a funk that PMs go through... mid-30s sounds about right. If you aren't getting jobs through connections by your mid 30s... it's going to be REALLY hard to land jobs. Don't forget you're competing against people here... 5, 10, 25... who knows. So you may not be doing anything wrong, you may just not be that top 4% for that one role. That one role isn't all roles... each company is going to need something a little different. So just keep trying.

If you can, find a PM who is a little more senior than you -- someone you trust -- and do a mock interview with them so they can give you their feedback. Ideally this would be someone you meet through a friend of a friend so they can be objective as possible.

Have faith in yourself and others will too. Finding the right job take time.
Yes - it does a lot. It seems like the switch would be good for you. I agree that junior associate and mid-associate work is being iterated away. Don't discount the intersection of the two interests in law practices of cybersecurity, robotics, and machine learning law among burgeoning areas. Those are locations one could make a mark "on the intersection". I was trying to determine how extroverted your personality is; I have a CompSci but I'm fairly extroverted - and it has become a "secret power" of mine. As an aside, you don't need CompSci or Law to become an entrepreneur. If you want to be a non-web oriented engineer - a CompSci program would be heavily useful. A web engineer can get entry with a head full of knowledge, projects, and a good "code school". Edit I realized how disjoint each sentence is, but hopefully it helps.
> If the companies are worth their salt, they should be giving (or willing to give) you detailed feedback. _Especially_ if you got to a face-to-face interview. If they don't, then I'd consider that a lucky miss.

Very few companies will provide specific, direct feedback even after a face-to-face interview. In fact, their HR has likely coached them not to.

I try to provide both positive and one factor that influenced it not being a match. This sometimes ends up causing problems for my employer, likely mostly because I don't do it well, but it helps me grow in having difficult conversations and I feel some feedback is the least I can do after the candidate spending so much time and energy. I've learned to ask people first, "is it ok if I share some frank feedback?"
Why do this rather then define an abstract, human-evaluatable, programming language? Give it some S-expr syntax and make more things implicit and you're golden.

Making strange squigles on a page doesn't help. Making strange greek symbols on the page doesn't help. Writing functions, "unit tests", building on abstractions, and creating "libraries" do help. We all know this because it works well in CS. Why would this not work well in physics?

Ditch the alphabet soup (and yes, even the 5th centry Greek alphabet soupe). Abstract common ideas into "functions". Write human-provable "test-cases". Add documentation. Use logically derived variable names (even if they're 5-10 characters). Formalize the definitions and syntax of this language and it's abilities. You'd be golden.

Phi shouldn't mean 30 things depending on the field you're in.

Am I wrong? Is this not possible? Is there a reason as to why math and logic can't be expressed as an abstract programing language? Is there a reason why it wouldn't be better to have a completely standard way as to how to define all of your algorithms and logical assertions?

I could be wrong but no one has provided information as to why what we do is better. Nor does this look much better (what kmill has linked).
Heh, I believe we may share some common interests.

Thanks for reminding me of windytv. A friend showed it to me, but I was put off by the garish animated UI, then forgot the URL. The UI still sucks, but I appreciate the ECMWF data, so maybe I'll give it another go.
Just to add one more perspective, and not making any assumptions, what have you done to assess your accent? It's a really tough thing to self-assess.

Is it possible that it's heavier than you think? Depending on the role, if your accent is heavy enough to add cognitive burden for listeners, it could be part of what's holding you back. Fortunately, it's something that can be addressed - it takes work, but it can be done!
A while ago I wanted a better JS for a project, so I tried PureScript and liked it, I have a little experience with Haskell and it was easy to understand and more consistent, however when I tried to do UI components I chose halogen and damn it was too complicated, ended going back to ES6 and React.
That kind of automatic sum-typing seems like an interesting idea. You might consider bringing it to the Rust internals forum, posting it as a pre-RFC, and discussing it as compared to some of the alternatives. That might lead to either a change in the direction you hope for, or the unearthing of other ergonomic approaches.
Civil disobedience implies actions in the open and being willing to suffer the consequences of your actions. If Uber had made a public statement that they were instituting a policy to refuse service to city and law enforcement officials and were willing to take their lumps, you might have a point.
Worse forecasts -> more dangerous shipping -> more ships lost at sea -> more business for shipyards.
> > Major distributions have worked around this issue by purchasing a signing key from Microsoft for their binary packages, but the end user is unable to modify the signed software without a license from Microsoft, even though they have the source code available to them under the GPL.

> Is this an accurate description of what is happening? (I don't pay much attention to desktop systems: I spend most of my time concentrating on the ever-worsening mobile arena.) Do these "major distributions" come with a recent version of bash? As someone who develops software under the GPLv3 license, I would not want my software being distributed to these machines via this hack :/.

It's not entirely accurate. Effectively what most modern distributions do is that they have a "shim" which is signed by Microsoft. That shim then enrols the distribution's own UEFI keys on the laptop. So their kernel is signed with both their own key and Microsoft's key. This means that you can modify your code without "permission" from Microsoft. openSUSE, Fedora and Debian all employ this tactic so that our distributions can boot on newer laptops.

Do I wish this wasn't necessary and that everything ran core boot? Yes. Is there a better way of handling this problem? Not as far as I know.
Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind:

- Gradient / Color full screen mode
- Keep remote screen awake
- Screenshot preview of remote screens (html5 canvas)

+ Visualizations

It is nice to have a TV/monitor on to use as a light, clock... without having to deal with Chromecast
No, mostly Uber has fallen victim to a smear campaign.
On the "hating your job" thing, you really need to internalize better reasons for wanting to change jobs. Desperation is as unattractive in a job interview as it is in other areas of life.

Maybe focus on what attracts you to the company at which you're interviewing
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I had heard that Trump/Republican the plan to kill NASA's climate research, was actually going to be to shunt it over to NOAA. This might be the other shoe dropping - defund NOAA (especially the satellite division) so that they can't keep the climate research going.
I'm not sure how common 10-year-old cars really are. I feel like I don't see that much, at least amongst the middle class. For the house, what you're describing could be $75k or >$1MM depending on location, square footage, and finishes. I know a lot of people are "house poor", though.

> So it's not that I'm disagreeing, people can dig themselves in a hole by overspending. I just don't think this is particularly common, or some sort of national sickness.

Based on the published debt and savings stats, it seems like it is pretty common. I know a lot of people with almost no savings, and not always because their income is too low to save.
"Is it so bad to cut funding to rebellious agencies?"

If the agency provides a vital service to the country, I'd say it is bad to punish the country by cutting their funding just because an employee in that agency leaked a document.
32 GB storage on a 1000+$ device is mind boggling. The cloud storage situation is even worse.

Every Pro device (MBP or iPadP) should come with atleast 100GB cloud storage IMO.
Or the person you are communicating to has a conflict of interest and has a strong incentive to feign ignorance. Usually referred to as being "corrupt" for short.
The satellite data division would lose almost a quarter of its funding. Satellite data is highly important in creating accurate forecasts. I imagine the target is climate change data, but climate change and weather forecasting start with the same sorts of raw data, so I don't think you can hit one without the other in this case.
Use a password manager. "I have no idea, sir."
Okay, I'm a guy, I'll show up for work on Monday completely naked. If any of my coworkers so much as glances downward I'll let that sexist swine hear about it. Should be cool, right? It's THEIR problem, after all.

It's a workplace. You don't just do whatever you feel like doing. You closely manage your appearance, demeanor, and conversation to be as helpful and productive as possible. You don't tell rude jokes because they might not be in others' taste. You don't leave trash lying around because some of your coworkers might be bigger neat-freaks than you. You don't sing to yourself loudly at your desk, blast music from your workstation without headphones, or wear a shirt that says "Go Fuck Yourself" on it. These aren't rules that are being enforced on the general population. They're a code of conduct for a cohort of like-minded people who are voluntarily working under that contract of behavior to accomplish something. We're trying to get work done here. It's not about restricting you, it's about enhancing the productivity of the whole. A manager should try their best not to make somebody feel self-conscious about what they're wearing - it's distracting and unpleasant. But that employee shouldn't put their manager in a situation where they feel like they have to mention it. Any given person, garment and culture might be on one side of that line or the other. It's a two-way street. You sacrifice hundreds of freedoms every day you go to work. Dress code isn't magically excluded just because men are more prone to visual distraction than women.
If I'm not mistaken than the vast majority globally is convinced of man made climate change being an issue. The holdouts primarily seem to be a subset of US Americans. There is disagreement on what a fair solution would look like but the vast majority agrees on the problem.
I take your point, but I've seen this from a few sides of the fence and I really believe it to be true. i.e. If they're not willing to give feedback, then they're not worth their salt.

An interview process is a huge investment for a person, especially if it's face to face. We're talking hours, maybe days. Not giving feedback is really an insult.

A poor interview experience is a massive miss for a company. If they don't see that, then I'd take that as a bad sign. Equally, a good interview experience can be a huge positive.

Word will get around, and on Glassdoor. That's a very real risk, significantly more than the threat of litigation. This is expecially true in creative, engineering, etc roles.

The solution is good interview process and training, not a blanket no-feedback rule. That's a race to the bottom.
My reply to aianus applies equally to this.

Consider further; how did the narrative of Uber needing to break the law to disrupt (read: try to overthrow) the existing taxi industry morph into excusing their practices as affecting positive social change? Remember, the context of the boycotts during the American civil rights movement was never to "disrupt" southern businesses.
> > These technologies, in turn, are used to implement various forms of remote control and Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies, including Secure Boot, which even now requires FOSS users to purchase a license from Microsoft to boot FOSS on affected machines that lack an appropriate Secure Boot override.

> I dislike the mandatory use of these features as much as the next nerd, but this is inaccurate FUD. Secure Boot is a code in flash that checks the signature of whatever you try to boot against some rather complicated policy. It's regular code and would work more or less the same on any platform that runs machine code off of ROM or flash.

"Regular code" doesn't mean it's not proprietary, and doesn't mean that it's not concerning for free software users.

> And FOSS users don't need to purchase any license from anyone. They can use a tool like Linux Foundation's PreLoader or Red Hat's shim (open source but awkward to modify because you need the signed binary to boot on a stock system) to boot anything they like. No negotiations, no license, no communication with MS at all.

Those preloaders are signed by Microsoft. While it is a good hack for distributions at the moment, it doesn't mean that Microsoft is no longer in the loop. They still have an incredibly worrying amount of control over what can run on modern hardware.
> every literary work is its own separate world with references to other similarly separate worlds from the past.

This sounds like the basis of hypertext fiction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_fiction) which has of course existed for much longer than big-data as a concept.

As for what characterizes literature, I'm inclined to agree with you. However, is there not inherent value in another (albeit computational in nature) reading, so to speak? If we take Barthes to be correct, what does it say when a well-trained NLP model draws similar conclusions to humans with regard to imagery, analogy, irony, metaphor, etc. when reading major literary works? Different conclusions? Or no conclusions? What if some works "compute" and some don't? What if some works's features are culture-independent, i.e., a model trained on an Eastern literary corpus computes similar features as a model trained on a Western literary corpus, while some features aren't?

Perhaps these questions are more superficial than I'm making them out to be, but it seems presumptuous to assume that methods that look at this problem from this angle won't get at _any_ literary features.
They don't think that climate change is made up. They're just trying to stuff their piggy banks before the bill is presented.
17 trillion in debt, time to cut back
> I opt to drive.

Google Maps jokes aside ("swim across the Atlantic Ocean"), that doesn't help at all for international travel.