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While I agree that a focus on "work samples" is inappropriate, I must emphatically agree with the parent's broader point.

The way companies in this industry conduct interviews and measure performance is like an aerospace engineering company testing candidates for satellite engineering on their understanding of the Standard Model (physics) or group theory or some such. There's too narrow a focus on what is required of an engineer in the software industry.
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What are examples of such laws? There are laws allowing prosecution if you break agreements, sure, but the agreements themselves are what can be fixed by encouraging the market that they're incorrect.
I expect this to be the true root cause of the negative correlation as well. Technical questions are good at rooting out those not good at data structures and algorithms, and good at promoting those that do. However, you can be excellent at solving ICPC questions and not know anything about documentation, object oriented design, OS, databases, anything web related, etc. It's a very specific skill and practicing programming contests optimizes for it.
Both legal teams have done it. It's what lawyers do, especially in a case playing out so publicly.
I might have agreed that this type of rhetoric does a poor job at influencing about a year ago. Unfortunately, as this past US presidential election has show, it seems to be pretty effective.
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Rules written in blood. If you aren't prepared for a bit of bureaucracy then you have no place being anywhere near this industry.
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> It is hard to determine which is needed more, as a home has costs, loosing a job leads usually loosing a home.

It sucks to lose a job. These folks lost their jobs suddenly, and without having done anything wrong.

Simultaneously, the industry struggles to find qualified talent. Somebody put two and two together, and realized there's a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to slightly help reduce the pain of a layoff.

I'm sure these folks would've found jobs anyway, but this might help a few find it faster.

Frankly, I find it very disturbing that you understand the pain of job loss, but mock people who are reducing the pain. It says a lot about you; but those people are good people. Better than you'll ever be.
And how many of the "domestic" buyers are fueled by capital originating in China?
NASA photographed huge avalanche from space in what it calls 'a stroke of luck'
Can someone explain the analog to digital thing he's talking about? Can digital software not reproduce any sounds his boards can make? If not doesn't he just lose all those sounds when he converts the sounds to a digital format, making it a mostly pointless exercise?
that's still presenting the pages in portrait orientation. I want the pages to be landscape and for the text to flow in at least 2 columns.
Indeed, for Taxi drivers its better if they go slower and entertain the guests along the way.

I have had top algorithm people work for me and they can do make magic happen. But they tend to have the quirky personalities of Wizards. I once had a amazing code ask me if he could so some side work so that he could pay off his credit cards, sure no problem. Next week he came back and told me how he had bought a new 10k telescope....
> Are you trying to make some kind of analogy to humans being limited to a certain skill set because of genetics?

Of course I am. Do you think anyone can be a great basketball player?

Trying to pretend that all races are "the same" is blindness.
This devices supports OpenVPN and Tor, does it update it's software easily?

What is the difference between the one you mention and this: https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT300A-Pre-installed-Perfo...

Can I upgrade the antennas, do you know?

Edit: it looks like it can take PR-SMA female as a connector.
Thanks!

I'm basically interested in the equivalent of the "guessing game" for regular expressions. (See eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5440688/the-guess-the-nu... for a rational number solution.)

With a fixed guesser, that would encode all regular expressions / finite automata as sequences of binary digits. (But in a interestingly different way from just serializing the table for a DFA, or writing down the regular expression in ASCII characters.)
> But an official aerial photo of the prison shows rings of tall fences and an expanse of more than 50 yards between the prison perimeter and the cellblocks, making it unlikely someone could have thrown or catapulted tools to him.

Have they never heard of a potato cannon?

>“They have to land for you to get the contraband off of them,” he said. “They can’t drop it like a bomb.”

I see no reason why this is entirely impossible in all circumstances.
“the majority of developers are emotionally attached to their code”
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It is reflective of skills at internalizing and applying undergrad (and sometimes graduate) level academic trivia in a familiar context. The interview process you and other "silent majority" members think is effective at measuring engineering skill is not, actually.

I really wish you and so many of your colleagues would spend a few weeks with engineers in the physical science engineering disciplines. What we do in this industry is a farce, with respect to engineering.
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Maybe this doesn't count because I wasn't really serious about making money with it. Long time ago, I wrote an unofficial iPhone app that you could use to log into your Vonage account and listen to your voicemails, rather than using their (then) not-mobile-friendly web site. Vonage did not publish an API, so I scraped their online portal's HTML and figured out what GET calls were needed, and just mimicked them from the app.

Of course it was totally vulnerable to 1. Vonage deciding to change their backend or internal API and 2. Vonage deciding to legally destroy it, neither of which happened. At the end of the day I didn't put any marketing into it and decided it was too niche to continue supporting so dropped it from the app store. Took a few months of weekend work to do the first release and then a couple of days a month to maintain it.
Because you are there to do business. A romantic approach that is not reciprocated ruins the environment and should not be something that women founders have to deal with.
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> Only reason executives are not charged with treason is because they are white Christians not brown Muslims

Well, rich white politically-connected Christians. And the charge wouldn't be treason, because the charge is never treason, because of the Constitutional limits on attached to treason and the fact that any punishment can be attached to some other offense without those limits.
I can see how the issue of importance would be relevant. Is there some feature you can add, and then advertise, that would solve a burning pain for your target audience?
""“They have to land for you to get the contraband off of them,” he said. “They can’t drop it like a bomb.”

This doesn't seem logical. I mean, (if) I were to attempt this, I'd fly a drone very high out of site of the guards, with a downward facing camera. Wait until I was over the correct area, and release the (heavy) tool that would fall mostly straight down. Seems pretty hard to spot / track / fail at. As far as dropping it, thats just a servo, hardly difficult.
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>"Tamez said there is no easy way for prisons to protect against the use of small, unmanned aircraft, other than hiring more guards to watch the fences."

Can the drone and controller radio signals be detected, recognized and triangulated? seems cheaper than staffing up..
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And yet he walked away from potentially billions in profits when he got asked some basic questions by the NHTSA.
They're already pushing that to a degree, DJI is actually a proponent of a digital tracking ID and registration.
It's a problem of scale. Spend half an afternoon skimming through CtCI (shouldn't need much more as a seasoned developer) and you're good for N number of job interviews. I'll take that rather than spend 4*N hours on take-home problems in addition to time spent on-site.
I've never understood how escapees are smart enough to put together an elaborate escape plan, but then don't have the sense to lay low.

Sometimes I think there are plenty of people who escape but it's not publicized so as to not encourage it and that the ones who do escape and are caught are made examples of.
I recently bought from someone selling through Homie. https://www.homie.com

About $1000. Initial couple hundred to take pictures, put up a nice sign, and list your house. The balance is paid when you close. Scheduling viewings and offer submission is done through their site. They also offer legal advice.

The only really nice feature they lack is HelloSign/similar integration for the paperwork.
How is your extremely biased, partisan attack relevant to the point that Hobby Lobby illegally bought these relics, which quite likely helped fund ISIS?
Depending on the size of the wire cutters (which are definitely tiny vs bolt cutters) the servo drop method is extremely plausible, it's the same delivery system ISIS has been using for consumer drones in Syria and Iraq.
Even as a preteen in the mid 90s, I was intrigued by the obvious criminal possibilities presented by remote-controlled helicopters. Only a matter of time until someone is murdered with a consumer drone.
When more income comes from RE appreciation (tax free, on top of it) than earned income, wages also have very little to do with standard of living.
Totally agree, and if someone does not have code they can share, they have no passion for programming. Therefore no job with me.
> The economy is less fragile with companies having these cash reserves.

Actually, no. Because the stability of the economy depends not on companies but on the cycle of consumption and production. If you have no consumers, there is no reason to produce. If you have no reason to produce, you need no employees. Less people with jobs mean less consumers. And so on.

You see, these humongous cash reserves are actually harmful to the economy. Because they are tied up and not circulating, these cash reserves slow down the flow of money. They impede the cycle of consumption and production.

> There are always grave negative unintended consequences from forcibly redistributing other people's income/wealth, [...]

And there have been incredible good consequences from forcibly redistributing money from the wealthy. Just look at the Central European States, or the Scandinavian countries. They have very high taxes, highest standards of living for everybody, socialized health care. And very vibrant economies.
I printed the article to (hopefully) build in the future.
Have you tried killing mosquitos on the back of a deer[1] standing behind a tree at 400yd. Even the AK with it's heavy cartridge isn't enough. You want a full power rifle, especially if the tree is a hardwood. /s
Right but the matter stands as this, if you weren't expecting it and it's not relevant to you, it's likely spam, so get rid of it.
Makes sense. It's the pressure from society to conform to it's standards, no matter how bad they are.

Pisses me off when I go to a place that requires you to "check-in on facebook" to get wifi... Not much I can do about it except not use their wifi
Regarding the first sentence your wrote. That's how you solve the problem. Graph the difference quotient for x=2 and h in [-0.1, 0.1] or some such suitably small region. It's quite easy to do in the computer. One just needs to know that this is what you need to do. I did not encrypt the problem. It's quite straightforward provided one knows the concepts.

If students are allowed to use Mathematica during a test then asking them to find f' using the definition of f is not helpful in determining if they understand the concepts. They, for all reasonable problems, just need to execute a single command:

Limit[ (f[x+h]-f[x])/h, h->0]

This doesn't really test their understanding. If one is going to allow students to use Mathematica on a test then the problems need to be adjusted.
Definitely a shame - we're big fans of SoundCloud at Iris.

Please add IrisVR to the list. We're building AR / VR collaboration tools for 3D design pros, so lots of interesting challenges here for the right designers and engineers.

We're hiring a DevOps engineer (kubernetes, google, terraform, golang) and a Software Engineer for our desktop app (web/cloud technologies, electron, javascript, node) and would love to talk with anyone in NYC or Boston.
Spark has both an iOS and a Mac app, though if you're using other platforms that doesn't really help.
I wrote, edited, and published-as-EPUB an entire fiction novel. It made about $22, before taxes. I then decided not to bother publishing it in print, due to obvious lack of demand.

It didn't really cost me anything but my leisure time, though. I'm still working on a second one (but I don't feel quite so motivated to finish it in a timely fashion).

If I cared at all about making money off of it, I'd have to hire someone to market it, and then maybe also hire a second person, so that I never have to interact with a marketing/advertising person directly. Making things is fun. Selling things is horrible torture. I pity those startup founders that have to do both, even if only for a short time.
He got the girl, and without scandal. In comparison, Dave McClure didn't get the hookup he was looking for with Cheryl Yeoh and also has seriously damaged his own career.

This is in no way saying you have to give up your humanity. Not hitting on people you shouldn't be hitting on is not like some kind of vow of celibacy. There is a time and place for trying to pursue romance. On the job with another professional whom you have power over is not it.
By the way, some of the trackers may still be able to track you:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

(which does not even include all of the potential methods of browser fingerprinting)

Hopefully over time Disconnect, Privacy Badger, and other tools will be able to recognize and interfere with or block a lot of these methods. I'm not sure what I think the long-term prognosis is.
The headline is unsubstantiated speculation by the prison. There's no evidence cited that the wire cutters were delivered by drone.
At the moment, I don't actively promote videos except by notifying subscribers on YT, twitter, and occasionally facebook.

Others in this comment thread have convinced me to start actively promoting via e.g. Adwords, though. I'll start looking at that over the next few weeks.
I think people should generally have professional help in buying or selling a house. But the rates that brokers charge is out-of-step with the help they provide.

For example, in a $600,000 house in an urban area, the two brokers earn $36,000. But I just bought a house without a broker, and hired a real estate lawyer. Not only was the lawyer much more versed in legal details of the transaction, but he wound up charging me $500. Yes, he didn't drive out and hold my hand, but he was extremely knowledgeable and knew exactly what to look out for in all steps of the transaction.

In my experience, whenever the question of broker commissions comes up, people come out to defend the expert advice of the real estate agent and argue that people shouldn't "go it alone" because the transaction is complex. And, generally, it's true that people probably should not go it alone on an expensive transaction such as buying or selling a home. But the agent's advice is often mediocre, and they still lack the detailed understanding of real estate transaction rules and law that a real estate lawyer provides. So why pay the agent thirty times as much as someone with more experience and formalized, specialized education in the area? The only remaining reason is "marketing", which is the service that is greatly devalued in the age of online brokers.
> “A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 20s when we were creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have kids,” he says. “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait a second.’ And they start to rethink their design decisions.”

Consumer tech today is very individual-centric. Game consoles require individual accounts to log in and track game progress/ownership. If your family shares a PS4 connected to the internet, you can't just turn it on and enjoy your game, you have to remember to log out of whichever family member is currently logged in and then log your own profile in and then get to your game. Similar idea applies with Steam on PC since each game is DRM'd to individuals and you have to buy multiple copies of the same game if you want different people to be able to track their own progress.

I also feel like music services also aren't really meant to be shared in a family. There could be an opportunity to make these services more group-centric. Maybe as developers (as according to one of the article's main points) get older these patterns will change.
Ticket reopened.
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Related, is anyone aware of an affordable OBD hardware simulator?

The ones I found are either pretty expensive (e.g. https://freematics.com/pages/products/freematics-obd-emulato...) or seem sketchy (e.g. https://de.aliexpress.com/item/OBD-simulator-OBD-development...).

I am also aware of https://github.com/carloop/simulator. However I would prefer a one piece solution. Any tips?
I agree it would be a bit risky to buy/sell real estate without any outside help. My point was just that if you are already using a realtor, it shouldn't generally be necessary to also hire a lawyer.
I replied to you in an edit to my post... I don't really know what was going on but when I first saw your comment there was no reply button.

Is that something that's normal on this site?
It doesn’t look like that to me. It looks like normal Qt/QML (which does use JavaScript, sure) but with a browser-based front end. Possibly streamed over a network. Kinda like X forwarding.
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Not to distract from the main story here, but I found it interesting that Techcrunch decided to editorialize the pull quotes from the source blog. Anyone know why they'd decide to do that in their coverage?

I've included highlighted screenshots of the source blog and the Techcrunch coverage, one in iOS Safari and one in Chrome for iOS.

http://imgur.com/a/VpVm2
I guess my question is why is it so complex? What complexities arise that realtor's can help with.
I don't recommend using certbot directly; I use and recommend acme-tiny (https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny), which is quite simple, and doesn't require as many permissions. I keep it isolated under its own user, run it to renew a certificate, and don't give it access to my TLS private key (just my LE account key and a directory mapped to .well-known/acme-challenge in my web server).

If you have a host that doesn't have shell access, it wouldn't be that hard to modify a script like that to copy files up to .well-known/acme-challenge, and copy the TLS key in place when done.
There were, and to some extent still are, operating systems without the notion of privileged ports (because they lacked the notion of privileged users) that had BSD-style sockets, clients, and servers. It's worth looking at how things worked and evolved on such operating systems, to see whether it really was easier in practice.
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Chrome has been using EME with Netflix since early 2013. This fight was lost years ago.
What Arendt claims is not that revolutionaries are not organized, it's that only with popular discontent they were able to succeed. This discontent is caused by structural weakness and degeneration of ancient regime, and to a large extent cannot be engineered. Which is shown by cases when either revolutionary parties or foreign governments really wanted to make a popular revolution artificially, put many resources and failed.

But truth be told, there were cases when power lied on the streets and was left untaken by (often even organized) revolutionaries. The examples would be Italy and Germany after WW1, when technically socialdemocrats could assume power violently, but they chose not to for various ideological reasons.

Of course, it is in interest of ancien regimes, however we define them, to make people believe that it's all secret societies. It starts at least with the royalist "theory" of French revolution caused entirely by Freemasons and such.

As to your link, demonizing a queen by itself is very far from delegitimizing monarchy and autocratic government in general. It was even possible in such prototypical monarchies as Byzantine Empire. But even you seem to concede that there is no evidence for an "Antoinette porn conspiracy" and its existence is something we need to guess. I'd say "sex sells" is an easier explanation here.
They're only even close to each other because of the initial hit the solar panel produces while its being created. If we were to continue forward with solar power, would the energy needed to melt silicon not eventually come from a wholly renewable source?
I have a DJI quad. You can't hear it (and you can hardly see it) when it's hundreds of meters up, but there's no way the guards could miss the whine if it came into the yard to land.
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> Why does anyone need to pay a whopper commission to some middle-man?

Not just a whopper commission, but a commission that causes the buyer's broker to be absolutely incentivized against your interest as a buyer.

What a throwback to earlier economic times.
There seems to be some inconsistencies in this article- wire cutters, or bolt cutters? Big difference.
Don't be so sure that it's sad. I'm pretty sure there are lots of doctors with negative $2000 net worth or less.
How about a net?
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All of them :)
I will do that, and you should too.

Nothing in the RCFs says emails are supposed to be instant. Reliable, yes. Instant, no.

First, greylisting is HIGHLY effective. Something like 95% of email connections are spam. Almost all of them fail without ever hitting disk, via greylisting. If they actually retry, then the chance that the sender IP or email content is in an RBL is MUCH higher, so spam that actually retries will be more likely to be rejected at HELO by an RBL or filtered after it is accepted. The incidence of false positives with grey listing is VERY VERY low. Using greylisting means that very few emails need to be accepted and then filtered. Those are the false positives that really hurt. The sender receives no bounce, and the recipient probably doesn't look at his spam folder every day, especially when it is full of hundreds of junk emails. Greylisting makes email more reliable.

In addition, better greylisting systems note senders that reliably retry and automatically whitelist them. My mail server actually delays less than 2% of legitimate emails due to greylisting.
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I should also mention https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/863456558172168192
His arrogance is orthogonal to the issue.

The issue is that he was obviously lying. He claimed he was weeks away from autonomous cars. If this was true, he would've sold the tech for a staggering pile of cash.

Instead, all the evidence looks like he thought he could solve the problem on his own, in record time. Then he made a pretty basic POC (able to handle a small number of very simple conditions). Then he realized he couldn't do it. And so he pretended that he'd solved a problem nobody else had, but wasn't going to share or sell the answer with anybody else because the government is bad.

Unfortunately, some people hate the government enough that they want to believe this. But it's a dumb story and an obvious lie. George Hotz does not have autonomous driving technology. He never did, and he never fucking will. He's a snake oil salesman.