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Geostationary orbits have no physical debris problems. There is far more real estate up there and relative speeds far less. Only a few low orbit groups share an exact orbit. Even sats launched on the same rocket drift into different planes over years unless they actively work to stay together.
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Maybe, but that doesn't sound like my interview at Google, which was interesting but really rather random. Perhaps most notably, one interviewer became irate that I didn't know the "ps -o" flags off of the top of my head. :-/
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"...fundamentally irrational character-judging process" is really the wrong impression to go into interview with as a candidate. Seriously, you will handicap yourself if you see it this way.

Competency is only one component of a hiring decision. After some base threshold of competency, the question then becomes whether or not you, the candidate, is going to be someone that the team WANTS to work with.

Bolstering your OSS projects is fine but you'll get a better return on investment for your time to practice "behavioral interview" questions. This is absolutely the hardest type of interview but in the hands of experienced hiring managers it works better than any other technique, IMHO.

If you can find an experienced mentor who will do mock behavioral interviews with you and give you honest constructive feedback, that will boost your interview skills more than anything else.
Agree that the Dow 30 correlate reasonably well to the larger market, but it's the price-weighting piece I have a major problem with. You have to admit that the index would be better off weighing its components based on actual market value rather than share price. Fortunately, as the scatter plot shows, the under/over representation isn't that bad, but still ridiculous for the most widely cited market index nonetheless.
The trouble with this advice is that, while it's accurate if your one and only goal is to predict the likelihood of someone divorcing or cheating on you, it seems profoundly unfair.

To examine this "unfairness", let's imagine it at its most extreme: a society in which divorcees are so stigmatized that it's practically impossible to ever re-marry; in which children of divorcees are likewise stigmatized; in which victims of child-abuse are further victimized by a society that considers them potential "snakes-in-the-grass". Do we really want to live in such a society?

Obviously I don't think you were advocating this. But it's a thought experiment which demonstrates a classic class of problem: what's good for the individual isn't always good for society, especially taken to extremes.
Seems like point 1 is possibly just confounding age. They've not divorced yet partly because they've not been married long enough yet.
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I think we've long reached the point where there's more very talented people in tech than interesting jobs for them - hence the downward pressure in wages for those interesting jobs.
It is interesting that the BBC reporter took the time to extended the life of Henry Summer.

As I recently heard before, we all have two deaths in our life. The first death is when we physically die, the second death is when our name is no longer spoken.
> I actually don't think that's the most common thing we give a "no hire" for.

Can you cite any of the more common things you give no hires for?
The poster is referring to control theory (often seen in ML as reinforcement learning), while also touching on the explore-exploit tradeoff in optimization more generally.
There is a documentary about JMJ's trip and his series of concerts in China in 1981, which for some stupid rights ownership reason is no longer available (afaict). One curious fact I learned from this film was that the concert in Shanghai required so much electric power that they had to actually switch off the power in the entire city during the concert. At least that's what JMJ tells his then wife Charlotte Rampling in a taxi before the concert.

Other than that, the sound of this album, Concerts in China, was absolutely mind blowing then and still remains a landmark in electronic music. Big fan of JMJ and especially his concerts in China series.
Spring and EJB 3 are like Django, Rails, and their ilk: big bloated frameworks that include everything you need to build multi tier apps, plus or minus a few features here and there. Convergent evolution is a wondrous thing.
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Well, if a server could take more than one request and also scale horizontally, that would be so much more efficient.

I am sure it has been done before. /s
But then the attackers wouldn't know what icon to show each customer (if the bank were using the system described above by emondi).
Attendance: 3.5 million!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_concerts
It's a pain point with the entire design of federated services. On the other hand, the pain point with the monolithic services design of Facebook is I can't even talk to people on other services so...

I'd rather be able to email everybody and have it be annoying to switch than be able to only email people on my chosen provider (and then have to make an account on every service anyway).
Shearing layers: about change, persistence and making decisions
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I think you've misunderstood the author's position. I don't think he's arguing for C at all. Reading between the lines the author is arguing language agnostic APIs, which would allow modern languages to be used to write GPU code.
How does the US make other countries compete with China? That is, how do we end up with several source countries split roughly equally, rather than the situation we have now?

To consider the opposite, how have ended up so reliant on China, given that there are many other countries that would love to split the business?
> 3 people getting bumped from 2 flights each

Right, but not 3 independent people; the 11k goes to one entity -- a family. The family got bumped twice. The way you phrase it, it sounds like the author of the article actually only received 11/3 = $3.6k which is slightly misleading.
> It felt weird because the chances are so slim that one would assume that not winning should not come as a surprise or a shocker. Still they cry.

I've read an interview with ex-assistant on one of those shows and it was part of her job to routinely rile up contestants just before they were put in front of the camera. In this specific case, it was a "Top Chef" kind of show, and she was telling everyone that the celebrity chef running the show has just tried the contestant's dish and said that it's utter garbage etc (while in fact the dish was fine and they were not close to elimination) - everything to get them shaken and close to tears for the show. Very nasty business.
Ive heard similar complaints for years and it makes sense to me - what doesn't is why alternatives arent used or created? I don't understand everything about stock markets or certainly their politics but it seems on the surface that if you had a better indicator of the economy itd be pretty easy to show its usefulness. And with historical data you should be able to replicate a new index and measure its effectiveness.
Armodafinil have me a huge headache, whereas normal modafinil does not. I've heard it's different for everybody.
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Self-congratulatory drivel. I read with interest until he name-dropped his company. (Hint: they have since shut down).
This has been fixed with Xcode 8.3.1.
Not plainly, no, but easily inferred.
Ask HN: Error codes vs. error messages
I'm developing a package in Go and I've attempted to put a custom error message for each and every error condition. However I am now starting to have a problem where a lot of error conditions have the same or similar error message. This is making it very difficult to trace down the code responsible for the error. My question is, what does HN think about using numeric error codes to help identify the source of the error or should I just work really hard on making error messages different each and every time? Any better solution?
Live version of Oxygene.

https://youtu.be/H9UzNh_2TXk

Not a digital interface in sight. I don't know much about synthesizers, but the kit used definitely looks vintage.
In the EBM embedded survey 2013, regarding microcontorllers[1], they asked the question "why did you use the same processor", pg 56:

https://www.slideshare.net/MTKDMI/2013-embedded-market-study...

Many of the reasons we're regarding software, indicating that software lock-in is a significant factor.

[1]they called it microprocessors , but pages 54, 60 hint we're talking about mcu's.
Italian, and fellow european here.
When I started university (1999, I think) there were still plenty of Big Expensive Books (I recall my Chemistry one was like that).

The "student pressure" materialized in the form of doing illegal copies of the books.
This used to be totally illegal, but incredibly easy.

At some point the legislative environment changed so that photocopying up to a decent percentage of the books was considered legit.
Suddenly, low price books started to bubble up everywhere.

So, if you don't have this yet, start lobbying your parliament for a "fair use" textbook copying policy, publishers will follow.
I generally agree with your points about thresholds, and the fact that some synthetics don't degrade very quickly.

But this is funny:

> And things like heavy metals and radioactive substances. Which our ancestors weren't really exposed to.

Please excuse the Wikipedia quote. The numbers are right, and it's written well enough:

> 40K occurs in natural potassium (and thus in some commercial salt substitutes) in sufficient quantity that large bags of those substitutes can be used as a radioactive source for classroom demonstrations. In healthy animals and people, 40K represents the largest source of radioactivity, greater even than 14C. In a human body of 70 kg mass, about 4,400 nuclei of 40K decay per second.[2]

K-40 is primarily a beta (electron) emitter.
In terms of the popularity of the two frameworks, all I can say is that I have been interviewing 2-3 Java engineers per week for the past few months, and almost all of them put Spring on their resume and not Java EE.
> Yet why do some marriages last forever (till death do us apart) while others fail miserably or crumble even after 20 years?

Well, you don't exactly "date" for years before getting a job. You're acting like people get married on a hunch, or that people don't work hard to present themselves as "marriageable." (Incidentally, it's also not clear to me that a 20-year marriage is a failure, and certainly not in this analogy)

In most of the places I've worked where there are short-term contracts before full-time hiring, the employer has a far better idea of the skills and quality of the candidate.
It would actually be very straightforward to do so if the costs of testing solutions weren't so high. CPU architecture and JIT code can both be represented as unstructured (non-tabular) data. I even recall a circuit having been optimized by a genetic algorithm a while ago in an experiment. I also recall using LSTM to generate valid code from IIRC examples in Linux. Superiptimizatiom is also a relevant topic.

We just need better simulation tools or more resources.
That's because InnoDB IS a key-value store, the physical on disk structure is such that rows are stored on disk by their primary key, and that's how MySQL is designed. Postresql's heap files are organized much differently, as such it performs worse in some cases like Uber's.
this just gives them resource liquidity for operations - the people that take things forward are mostly acquired

if you have to start using structured interview questions to expand a team - you've already lost
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This. I wonder how many people "think" they flubbed an interview strictly because they got some detail wrong on the whiteboard when it was really far more related to a negative impression of grit, communication, motivation, personality, or work-history.
Is it flat like wikipedia or flat like S3?
If LA could have a better bus lane situation, the buses would be more than adequate. That there aren't, and won't be, dedicated bus lanes put in the situation of not only waiting in the same traffic as you would in a car but also waiting for a bus (typically late, because of said traffic) and even switching and waiting. I'm 4 miles from work and the bus would include one switch and about 45-50 minutes. It's a 10-15 min car ride.
As a counter example, students in Finland do even better than their Chinese counterparts, with a more flexible instructional curriculum than most western nations, and less homework (in many cases, none). They're also happier, both while in school and as a culture, which is what really matters.

To heap some anecdotes on the pile, every really sharp autodidact I've ever met or read about takes a functional, project-first approach to learning. I've never met anyone exceptional that focused on rote memorization. I did meet one good mathematician who would go cover to cover solving problems out of advanced textbooks, but he viewed them as fun puzzles like you might view sudoku.
One thing interviews can't select for: creativity and motivation. And in tech those two criteria are the most vital, especially motivation. I can easily fill in the skills gap in someone who's motivated. I can't do anything with someone who doesn't give a shit, even if they're the second coming of Albert Einstein. So folks, please, don't apply for jobs you don't really care about. Save yourself and your prospective employer time, aggravation, and the opportunity cost.
This is a word with no meaning in English, and which not only has an Italian meaning but also clearly looks like an Italian word. So why do you have a problem in understanding that Italian is the original language from where this word was taken from? What do you think if somebody in Italy named an international piece of software as "MotherFk" and said: who cares what this means in English... I guess you would be appalled by the lack of cultural concern.
For me it comes down to my house - I can't sell it as it is worth less than when I purchased it. This is the case for a lot of people since the housing crash.

Also, jobs come and go. Sometimes I'm working close to home, sometimes 40 miles East, sometimes 50 miles north. I guess this is the same for most people. Why move when you're just going to get laid off in a years time?
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I would think that is less misleading.

It doesn't really matter if it was a family of 3 or a group of 3 friends.
AWS Lambda is basically CGI, but on a huge scale.

It's an amazing tool for some tasks, but there's a lot of hype around it too.
> Is there any standard in the serverless world

Numerous companies depend on s3. Along the way open-source solutions have been built, as well as competitive solution that are API-compatible.

We're seeing the same in serverless. Frameworks that are moving toward multi-cloud, competitive solutions, etc. While not totally portable, you can take much of your code with you. You'd do the same if you had a standard Rails app running on an easy-deploy solution like Heroku and had to move to Digital Ocean. In other words, the potential for vendor lock-in is a problem that we've been created patterns to solve for many years.

>> That'll be <way too many $$> and you got nowhere to run

That makes for a great conspiracy theory but AWS has never done anything remotely like that. Through the history of the service they continue to bring down the price on their various offerings. Not sure what makes Lambda the piece they'd abandon all that for (insert evil laugh) world domination.
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I recently saw a documentary on the early years of Kraftwerk; it was one of those when you start watching it without expectations just to get your mind blown and busy for weeks after watching it.

I'd love to see a collection of these; the visionaries of the 70s and 80s, and I might include Jodorowsky's Dune at the end.
It's useful for comparing full stacks, but the queries used are very basic, and most of the update benchmarks don't use transactions or locking.
Here's a day time shot, which exhibits a bit of this "HDR"-effect: https://youtu.be/Y2zfG6kY7Ns
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> My biggest question, when everyone points out how many features PosgreSQL offers, is "why are you doing that in the database?" Your database is your biggest chokepoint.

You shouldn't be doing any CPU intensive calculations in the database if you can avoid it, definitely. But these postgresql features are often about improved efficiency. Take a look at new things coming in postgresql 10[1]. All the new features in there are either performance neutral or big performance wins.

FWIW, I've spent the last few years fixing performance problems in PostgreSQL databases. The solution is most often to de-normalize/pre-compute something, which means using stored procedures and triggers, which are most definitely doing more than "transactionally store and retrieve data".

[1] https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/04/new-features-coming-in-po...
I've often argued that the root cause for loss of empire, was the best and brightest of a generation was left on Flanders fields. The best and brightest of the ruling class at the time was simple used up as cannon fodder, its also the cause for the decline of the aristocracy too.
It's not ideal but to call it useless is arrogant and immature. It's a decent indicator of how the blue caps are doing in the markets. SP500 is arguable better but the DJI isn't useless.
"... so usually these giant balls of mud are the result of project management and design mistakes, not the failure of the tool."

It is the failure of concepts so if the tool brings the right concepts, it helps avoid such design mistakes in the first place.
Few know that Karpathy was using a previous meme.
I hated that kind of global menu bar when switching from windows to mac.

when you have multiple windows open, only the window in focus will take the global menu.

I had the situation that I had chrome open on a web page that I want to print. and I had another chrome window open too and in focus. So the menu bar is actually that wrong window. when I print, I will print from the wrong window.
The S&P500 is a fine index. People just use that instead.
I'm surprised this is still a thing.
What's amazing to me is that the process sounds like there's a lot of rushed deadlines, sprints, etc. Yet the simpsons has had decades to hire and smooth the entire process out. You'd figure it'd be more rinse and repeat.
That's right. Ah, the dangers of replying to new comments without re-reading their parent. :-)
Don't take his word as a word of god from heaven. Google's interview process is just as shitty as anyone else's, and shittier than some I've been through. It selects for people who do well on the whiteboard under pressure, which are very often not the best workers overall. It also wastes a ton of time both on the employer and on the candidate side. Source: interviewed ~100 people in my 6+ years at Google.
Assuming there was a bit of standardisation around the basic API. There is still significant lock-in by other factors.

It could be that the software is the thing they think first, if you ask the people writing it.
it's not full of ads, it's actually not that bad: http://imgur.com/a/JQp7r

but when i turn off my adblocker, it's just constantly making network requests for seemingly no reason: http://imgur.com/a/QCQSU

if it isn't something you've set up, it must be wordpress.com's ad network.
Be merciless about it. I have an app called selfcontrol (mac). It lets you blacklist websites on your computer for a given period of time. I would recommend doing 6 hour blocks at a min. I actually have mine set to blacklist fb/reddit for two weeks.

Also, next time you begin a project just sit for a minute or two. Try to clear your mind of outside worries or expectations for the work. It generally helps with focusing on the task at hand.
Couldn't see any authentication system in Readme, Is there any auth mechanism that can be used for API usage?
One of the lessons of these first steps toward autonomous driving is: if you have a big array of sensors, and plenty of on board computing, then many driving problems, especially in semi controlled circumstances, like open highways, are within our grasp now.

The sensors and computing are expensive now - especially lidar. But that's an engineering problem, as you suggest.
I'm curious in your structured interview process what parts of the interview are setup for the person interviewing with your company to interview your company? Interviews go both ways. I've turned down more jobs than I've accepted due to the company doing poor on the interview.
> The process doesn't so much start again, as it continues. As the production ramps, multiple episodes are in development at once, with every step of the process constantly overlapping. You understand why the writers — and everyone else involved — would need a retreat.

The Japanese animated series Shirobako is an excellent depiction of this phenomenon, and it details almost every aspect of the OP's article - an anime about making anime, it follows a project manager at a small studio needing to make tradeoffs between allocating resources to the current deadline vs. falling behind on the next one. (Which should be familiar to all of us!)

The tightness of this pipeline is much more aggressive than many might realize: this diagram https://i.imgur.com/xRVd3xW.jpg (translated supplementary material for the show) depicts an ideal situation.

For any fans of animation with sufficient time, I highly recommend watching the show itself; it's highly illuminating and entertaining: http://www.crunchyroll.com/shirobako

As a side note, the supply and demand for labor in the anime industry is at a very interesting point. There's a significant bubble keeping animator salaries essentially at the poverty line in Japan: animators do the work for such low prices out of passion for the art, but in turn fewer individuals are training for the positions while demand for production is at record levels, so there may be a crisis that changes this pattern. As in software, offshoring can only go so far when end users demand a certain level of quality and consistency with prior work. See: http://goboiano.com/anime-industry-faces-animator-shortage-c... and another salary comparison chart from Shirobako that demonstrates how deep the problem goes: https://i.redd.it/uwirci3iubvx.jpg
>ASICBOOST is both patented

China be like, lol "patented"
Same progression for me with a smattering of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, then branching to Jean Luc Ponty - I heard Pulstar on Albedo 0.39 and was hooked.