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What happens when you're asked to solve a problem that hasn't been solved before? By definition something you CANNOT google for

That's what I was looking for as a hiring manager.
And the story literally says she was first stopped in December.

US border guards have always been assholes, I got detained recently because the border guards are, to put it mildly, idiots (they thought visiting family in the US for the weekend was strange). Remember at one point Canadians used to be able to visit without a passport; that ended long ago.

I mean, my solution is to avoid the US whenever possible (never take layovers there, avoid travelling there unless someone really, really wants me to visit), but it is rather annoying to be treated like shit by a country where we're supposed to be able to enter without problems. I've never experienced the same issues travelling to the EU.
Django because I'm already good / fast at it. If you're already at that level with Rails, use Rails.

One challenge of the Django approach today is deciding between a modern or "classic" front end. I think the answer is not black and white and really depends on the amount of interactivity in the app.

I would not use Google Sheets as the backend for anything more than a side project based on performance issues mentioned by others who have done so. Still, I think it's a really cool idea. I've considered trying to write a (partial) Google Sheets backend for the Django ORM.
In other ways, it's a great time for useless knowledge. One, barriers of entry are lower in a lot of cases (the internet, computers). Two (partly as a corollary of #1), there are more people empowered to seek useless knowledge (greater education, better communications technology).

This affects some fields more than others: computer science research is cheap, but molecular biology research is still dependent on expensive equipment.
Go nowadays supports dynamic linking, just plugins aren't 100% supported across all targets.
My stock response to libertarians: "I'm glad that things have worked out great for you". Before you propose dismantling an existing arrangement that seems to be working just fine, you first have to tell us why the existing arrangement is faulty in a real practical sense. If you can not do that, then leave it the hell alone. We have enough ideologues fucking with things already.
Ask HN: Best book to learn webapp in go
i want to learn about the best practices to create webapps in golang. I am experienced embedded engineer with experience in c but no prior knowledge of webapps. I have few ideas in mind which i plan to implement and hopefully launch but i want to avoid rookie mistakes that come from not having experience in domain like storing passwords in plain text or something else like that.Please recommend some good books and also the reason for recommending them.
Do you mean putting the square rooms in the interior, and creating closets/stairs etc along the awkwardly shaped perimeter? The problem with that is that the space by the perimeter is the most valuable (access to fresh air, light, views) so you actually want to do the opposite.
You're unlikely to be worth $9 billion through charity and benevolence.
It looks like most of the improvements are in string formatting problems. I'm curious if better heuristics will help other areas as well.
My co-founder, @navied and I were in the first batch with our startup, Dovetale. In a nutshell I'd say it's less "accelerator" and "incubator" and more studio with partners as part time employees helping you build. It's a very unique experience. I wrote a piece here that might be helpful.

https://medium.com/@mikeschmidt/my-expa-labs-experience-447f...

We spent time with Garret + the other partners very often. Each partner has different interests and is valuable in different ways. Since you work out of the same space you see them all the time. Working at Expa HQ definitely has other advantages but this is high on my list :)
AI’s inflation paradox
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I can give you one very specific answer in that my late father decades ago worked in IT for a collections agency and one way that biz works is they pay a fixed amount to buy some companies 120+ day accounts receivable file (the feds and every state highly regulates this and its highly variable and complicated, but this is the simplified version...) and this gave them a vast pile of records and legal ability to collect the debt. Now obviously they got most of their revenue by annoying the heck out of debtors right up to the legal limit. But they're leaving money on the table if they don't resell all the data they can legally sell. So sure, even 20+ years ago collections agencies were uploading records to various data aggregators in exchange for a check. Not just the original debt but followup activity and intel WRT the collections process. I would imagine that's only increased over the last couple decades. Most of these data transfers were two way streets, not simple data for money trade, and obviously they maximized profits by leaning the hardest on the people most likely to actually pay up, they did not waste time on debtors known to other collections agencies as hopeless deadbeats.
They do some, but I find it more of a formality once you build a track record. The risk is lower than a full-time employee.
Cryovolcanism on Dwarf Planet Ceres
NPR: Embryo Experiments on Human Development Raise Ethical Concerns
Try Figure (originally by Propellerhead). It's not strictly a drum machine but it's fun to explore both from a musical and an user-interface aspect. Available for iOS and Windows.
"In France, people with French last names on their CVs are more likely to get called in for job interviews. "

It's the same in the U.S. if you have a "Black" sounding name, you are less likely to be called in for an interview. I never understood why Black parents would give their children "ethnic" names knowing that it makes it harder in society. Even if their were only a 10% difference, why handicap your children?

And yes I'm Black.
This is a good pattern to use. The more pre-feedback I get, the less likely I am to make a horrible mistake.
However one problem I often see with this pattern is the numbers are not formatted for humans to read. Suppose it prompts:

"1382345166 agents will be affected. Proceed? (y/n)"

Was that ~100k or ~1M agents? I can't tell unless I count the number of digits, which itself is slow and error-prone. It's worse if I'm in the middle of some high-pressure operation, because this verification detour will break my concentration and maybe I'll forget some important detail.

Now if the number is formatted for a human to consume, I don't have to break flow and am much less likely to make an "order-of-magnitude error":

"1,382,345,166 (1.4M) agents will be affected. Proceed? (y/n)"

I always attempt to build tooling & automation and use it during a project, rather than running lots of one-off commands. I find this usually saves me & my team a lot of time over the course of a project, and helps reduce the number of magical incantations I need to keep stored in my limited mental rolodex. I seem to have better outcomes than when I build automation as an afterthought.
GPS Cancer has to be one of the most frustrating combining of two words I've heard trotted out in a while.
Morality doesn't matter when the whims of the populace ultimately get to drive policy.

The fact is, integrating immigrants IS an economic issue, there IS a limit, and if we fail, there WILL be backlash.
You can see what one custom arcade builder does with their LCDs here, correcting aspect ratio and adding shaders: http://www.paradoxarcades.com/monitor/

They have light guns too (it uses a Wii-like infrared tracker): http://www.paradoxarcades.com/lightguns/

Nice emulations, but nothing is going to match the latency of a board hooked up directly to electron guns.
Rust's version of Ragel actually generates 100% safe Rust code, AFAICT without any additional cost.

http://github.com/erickt/stateful
You'd be surprised how many people stop looking at the perf numbers once all the tall tent poles are gone. They have no idea or tools for digging beyond that. I've worked on several projects where the customer still wanted the app to be 2-10 times faster (or worse, a competitor was 2-3 times faster) and people look at the charts and announce that they've done everything that can be done. Some hide in plain sight but others are just putting in work. For instance code duplication can hide a tall tent pole because it's chopped into five pieces.

I had a shared library running on a bunch of systems. One was VxWorks. Cross compiled. I knew nothing about VxWorks except that the code needed to run about 8x faster. I got about 2.5x out of my code by improving locality of reference problems that appeared to be intrinsic but just required experience to see. For the rest I filed a bug report to WindRiver and five to the cross compiler writer. At the end of this process I knew more about the VxWorks administration than anybody else in the group.

People give up, even when there's a clear business case for continuing.
> but I want to point out that the question under discussion would be similar to asking if civil engineers should prepare as if they are sitting for their PE exam every single time they start the interviewing process?

I suspect the typical PE exam is quite a bit more rigorous than the typical technical interview. Technical software engineer interviewees are asked to do thinks like reverse linked lists and provide the most basic runtime and space complexity analysis. The structural engineering PE covers everything from load analysis and building codes to runoff analysis an slope stability[1]. There are 9 different "breadth" exam areas and 3 different "depth" areas, and they're all covered.

I think it's slightly ridiculous to compare understanding basic datastructures and algorithms to sitting for a PE.

[1] http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/Civ-Str-April-2015_with-...
The plan is to add inlining information to the DWARF tables so that debuggers and other tools can take advantage of it.
I have never in my life seen a Mac out perform a Window machine when it comes to latency and professional audio recording. When it comes to $100-$200 parts it comes to drivers and sometimes Mac wins and sometimes Windows wins. I have a bias that goes beyond Pro-Tools but Pro-Tools was a thing because Apple hardware was not capable of producing Professional level recording without spending thousands of dollars in their proprietary hardware.

Since Windows XP Windows and Audio Latency has not been an issue and both platforms require a lot of end user work to get lower and lower latency. The issue is really only significant for recording audio and not as much when doing live audio. Any modern platforms latency light years ahead of 2000 audio production.

The idea that Mac is better for audio or video because of the OS is marketing and not based on real life professional use of the platforms.
Thanks for letting us know - we're working on it.
I guess many people don't have problem with the 'errors are values' concept, just would like to handle them with much less boilerplate: like in Rust or Haskell...
From what I hear (from discussion between Googlers here even), is that 20% is alive and well, but is somewhat manager specific in how it's carried out and what is exected.

On the other hand, some descriptions of people using 20% time sounds like it just opens the door to them feeling okay about using company time to persue open source side projects with or without approval, as long as they are getting their work done. That's probably a good middle-road, because as long as the company is happy with your performance, and you are happy with the possibility that not spending that extra time to wow your managers might delay your advancement somewhat, it's probably as open as you could want. This of course assumes a salaried position.
And if they want good candidates then they better not treat me like my time is unimportant. I don't owe them my time.

It goes both ways.
Binutils 2.28 Released
How is that a Trump style argument? Poorer people commit more crime on average than richer people? Isn't that true across the spectrum?
Isn't this language a bit higher level? That is, more expressive in the same amount of text?
I think the main value of this project is hidden under the "internals" link of the site. It discusses the construction of the language. Although it is incomplete as of now - hopefully the pages get filled up.

https://marcobambini.github.io/gravity/internals/
As beart says, it helps with arithmetic by lining up the 1s, 10s, 100s. Also, it makes it easier to compare which number is larger/smaller--very useful when dealing with currencies.
One wonders whether it's particularly clever - it's the same model that is used by the US when aid programs force the aid recipients to hire US contracting/construction companies.

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/usaid-helping-haiti-recove...
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Feynman was talking about IAS in his days. I've been a PhD student in Princeton for 5 years, and there's plenty of interaction between students and IAS faculty. The difference is IAS people aren't responsible for their students. You could make the argument that IAS people aren't FORCED to interact with students, but the opportunities are there I think.
Is this still useful without a solution that works on mobile?
Last year I was getting constant calls and snail mail about buying an extended car warranty on a car that I no longer own. I asked the place where I bought my car if they sell that information and they claimed not to.

So where do these sleazy companies get that data? The DMV?

This year, I'm getting two or three calls every week about a buying a home security system and monitoring.

I don't understand why these calls aren't easier to block. Somebody knows here they are originating from. Why can't I get that information too?
> Edit: I also am concerned if this new language makes the same mistakes as previous languages. For example, I consider allowing null as a mistake. Null is familiar, it's easy to implement, and it causes untold grief.

The language is dynamically typed. null is only questionable in statically typed languages. There's no benefit to a Maybe type in a dynamically typed language.
So I've always wondered about this. How many of those companies are making a return on their advertising? Everybody knows that there are bots that click on ads, so for clicks I'd imagine the metrics are useless. So then the obvious follow-up is conversion - how many people click through and then buy something? I imagine for some companies this is a positive return and then obviously the money was well spent, but what about the many companies where that just doesn't directly translate? Advertising for cars is very different than advertising for toys. I imagine a lot of companies trying to generate brand awareness through advertising are wasting money. And it's obvious many sites are gaming the system with autoplay videos and a bunch of other obnoxious shit.

Obviously this works well for Facebook as they continue to generate revenue. I've just never understood the advertising world. Then again, I use adblock and when I used to watch broadcast TV I muted commercials, so I'm not the target demographic. I know in addition to ads they make money selling your information, such as Facebook's patent to determine your credit score based on your friends (doesn't that sound fun).

I realize this is a mature industry and I do not pretend that I have some brilliant insight nobody has thought of before. But I do question the assumptions on which modern advertising is based.
How Many Dimensions Is High Dimensions?
I think he meant that it was created by a company for commercial reasons. Not that it contains a commercial or non-commercial license.
>All in all I did lost some money, but that is part of rental properties, that is not CD (Certificate of Deposit) with fixed interest. Like most investments, it incurs some risks too.

But are they worth it? Unless you're making a really large profit, it seems like you're far better off just putting your money into an S&P500 index fund or other stock funds. With a stock fund, all you have to do is put your money in there, and wait. With a rental house, you have to deal with repairs, collecting rent, using the legal system when tenants don't pay, etc. Unless you're making a 100% profit, I fail to see how rental property makes any sense as an investment at all in that environment.
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Thanks for the comment- I was hoping to hear about why you prefer using a 3rd party drum machine in a DAW. For the time being, I record or find all of my samples so I'm not particularly attracted to the kits. The interface looks great however. I probably won't use it anytime soon, but it does appear to be quite powerful.
It sounds like you were more of a inquisitive individual with misguided boundaries that hasn't been instilled in you by adult figures in your early childhood, in which low attachment is a tall tale sign.

I think everyone thinks about taking somebody out. For instance, a large pick up truck cutting in front of you, people honking behind you at a red light etc.

It's not the hassle that stops you but you know at the end of the day, it's ephemeral. Going postal on highway 99 to work while satiate your blood lust, the overwhelming punishment and destruction should offer enough of a foresight for higher IQ individuals to short circuit their violent desires.
I would add: American Wood Type, 1828-1900 - you will only find it used and it is pricey but totally worth it. It recently got a mention in Netflix's Abstract show.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Wood-Type-1828-1900-Evolutio...
You can put bricks on the outside. The interior, well, I don't know. I guess you could put a frame in there (though when you get there what's the point).
Political Party? Views & Opinions? Relatives? Education history even if it's outside the country? Check out all the categories, here's [1] a random example. And yes, I know all of this information exists out there somewhere (resumes, mailing lists, social sites, whatever); my question is who is the first layer aggregating them from these sources.

[1] https://www.mylife.com/john-smith
My family used to have a house in Mexico with exterior walls that were circular to greater or lesser degrees. You can make it work. You mostly wanted to be looking out the windows so those walls mostly didn't have furniture against them anyway. And, where you did need seating areas against a curved wall, those were built in.

But, as you say, it's hard to just stick in regular rectangular shapes.
It is written mostly by a single programmer, while building a cross-platform development platform for iOS and Android, while building a company around the vision.
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Are you sure? CloudFlare's problem seems to have been running off the end of a logical buffer embedded in a linked list of "physical" buffers.

(Sorry, have to run - will try to take a better look later tonight.)
> How do you know this? It might.

And based on an "it might" it's fine to just assign blame and pass judgement?

> I'd bet being Muslim inclines somebody to not be a criminal for some types of crimes, in fact, so I wouldn't categorically dismiss the idea that religion affects criminality.

In fact? By what facts?
True, I guess I was hung up on the "plants as pixels" idea!
References from co-workers aren't really that valuable. Many people have no qualms about giving glowing reviews for friends, even if those friends don't really deserve glowing reviews.
What going to Mars will do to our minds
You're right, very clever, but morally dubious, especially around something as important as cancer screening. Soon-Shiong would probably argue that he was able to get valuable results for the university while also supporting a cancer detection technology that would be a net-win for the future.

Definitely shady, but did the donation still make the world a better place?
What if you start out at say 50B and donate a 41B away to charity to help address huge challenges facing humanity - call it something hokey like "the giving pledge" - and end up at 9B?
People who see something wrong with your question/project/link tend to be more motivated to comment, which I think explains some of what you're talking about.

The other way may be the way you use HN. There's a connection between distraction and anxiety/depression; many of us, of course, use HN as a distraction from something else we ought to be doing.
You mean data brokers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_broker)

Top US brokers:

- Acxiom

- Experian

- Epsilon

- CoreLogic

- Datalogix

- eBureau

- ID Analytics

- inome

- PeekYou

- Rapleaf

- Recorded Future

Protip: loyalty/reward cards are a gold mine, especially drug store purchase receipt data
Have you ever gone to the doctor...

At least in the US, "going to the doctor" is encumbered by several laws oriented toward the protection of a person's information conveyed in the course of a visit.

What is the mechanism by which these laws are sidestepped in providing patient information to third-parties?

signed up for your local grocery store's membership rewards program?

Does e.g. Catalina give their information to Red Plum directly? Is it sold? How much?