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> I'm very glad that Young Americans (at the time) protested the Vietnam War making it clear to the US Military that they couldn't willy-nilly start wars whenever they want to.

As am I. I'm not criticizing war protest. I'm criticizing not contributing to military technology.

> You cannot, and should not, be forcing people to do what they do not want.

No one is forcing anyone to do anything. I'm criticizing them for making their choice. They remain free to make it.
Deutsche Bank Inadvertently Made a $35B Payment in a Single Transaction
I've always found being in a car in Korea terrifying, so I'm glad to have statistics to back up my impressions.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. I refuse to sign up for websites that can't provide me with one screenshot of their product. There's so little information and so much abstraction and fluff on the home page that I ended up just closing the window.
It's a common real-world issue that someone buys the "faster" CPU option in a laptop and finds it runs slower than their coworker's because the thermal design and/or quality of assembly causes it to overheat and throttle.

With many systems, turbo is only a temporary burst benefit for a lightly loaded system. Many server or HPC systems would intentionally disable turbo to have consistent sustained throughput.
Power-to-weight ratio. It's a major weakness of electric power with current technology, and a single engine with a big prop is more efficient than any other configuration.

Sometimes you see electric aircraft have multiple smaller engines and props, but that is mostly driven by structural or design concerns of their esoteric missions like needing to distribute the weight along a huge wing (Sunseeker) or needing to land in tight spots (various VTOL designs). Conventional planform electric aircraft don't have such extreme limitations so there is no point in sacrificing performance.
In 2008, the AK PFD hit its all time high of $2069, and we got an "Alaska Resource Rebate" of $1200. Every family in the state who qualified got $3269 per person. In large families, that was a windfall.

That said, I think that was the winter that was extra cold and windy. We were living in a house with a boiler, and it wasn't adjusted right one month. That month's heating bill was over $500.

Heating costs are serious business. We got a deal on the house we bought because renters couldn't afford to heat the whole house one winter, and the cold and damp in the rest of the house caused enough damage to bring down the value of the house.

I didn't know there were other states that offered blanket assistance like you described, that's pretty interesting to know.
Then point to this copious literature of which you speak, and describe how you would employ it impartially in a forum setting to diagnose antisocial behaviour. Frankly, I think I've been more than charitable to your claims so far, and you're just avoiding answering the question.
That is an excellent point. Its much more sensational when you have a few bad apples but exposing a rot within an organization isn't as "newsworthy". Besides, if the corruption spreads far enough, it might be able to actively silence its critics (e.g. Nixon's shenanigans).

Perhaps a systemic fear of Government overreach is embedded in the DNA of the American people. I would argue that a healthy criticism is very important; but paranoia can be dangerous and unproductive.
It takes a long time to run a comprehensive test suite against a single processor. Reviewers often have to ship the hardware back to the company afterward. The result is that they very frequently re-use the old benchmarks in newer tests.

New software doesn't affect existing benchmarks.
WHAT?!?

Getting the right team is one of, if not THE key to startup success.

Yet you consider it not worth a senior engineer's time to evaluate the candidates for the next hire, and the presumably with whom they will need to work - productively?

Check your org's runway and be sure to have your resume ready when it gets close to the end. I wouldn't expect take-off.
Starting to see complaints, questions, etc. on twitter about it too.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=jquery
There's no reason to make that calculation. The military does it for us, and then they offer to pay people to do the work they deem important. My point is that refusing to do that work out of some sense of principle is misguided, naive, and wrong.
I’am positive someone expressed that exact sentiment about the ocean at some point. I had a Botany professor who always used to say “there is no such place as away”.
That was just an example for how your data could be transferable for fully offline/airgap type uses. Its not the ordinary use case. The ordinary case is simply that your data resides on your device's storage.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html has links to more information on how it all works.

So far, I like the implementation (I've checked out the patchwork client). The issue for me is the ease of getting started, and the social graph issue. Social networks are only useful to me if my friends are on it. I'm not a twitter kind of guy, I'm a facebook kind of guy and I'm not sure what the solution is when everyone else is on facebook.
or flat fee - which will crush every realtor going fwd.
This isn't America regulating space and ignoring other countries. This is America complying with existing international treaties regarding space.
Billboards in Denver warn pregnant women of ‘fake health centers’
> Our industry's hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious. In an ideal world, you could trust someone's resume.

Working for nothing __is__ obnoxious.

Not to belittle anyone but...a plumber is licensed. An electrician is licensed. Even a hair stylist is licensed. Perhaps licensing a programmer / developer / engineer would be over doing it. (Read: Yes, it would be. But the examples do help.) That said, can't there be a formal certification(s)?

If the time from these "take home test" was invested in a more universal certification process, wouldn't that be to everyone's benefit? A recruiter with value add, if you will

The employee gets a clear picture (read: context) of where his/her skill set stands, or doesn't.

The employers get to mitigate risk and fear.

All parties gets to reduce friction and time.

Clearly, no one is happy with the status quo. That's a problem. It's also an opportunity. Hint. Hint. ;)
Yes. Inappropriate technology decisions.
I get your point I truly do. But a nefarious state (fascist, communist, dictatorial) will always use ‘safety’, ‘security’ as a concern and an argument to block and jail.
Sure. But everything in the real world is about tradeoffs. It's not "is everything perfect" its "what are our alternatives?" and our alternatives are Russia and China. Which represent a substantial decline in enlightenment values.
Maybe I'm confused, but how this announcement from Facebook contain personal data?
> Take-home tests.

But people are already crying over take-home tests being like working for free for the company, and then there's no way to prove they aren't cheating, which is a showstopper. That by itself is definitely not a "better suggestion for filtering out people who can't code".

> all of these options will make the interview process more appealing for everyone.

No for people who can competently handle an onsite interview and don't want hours of extra work at home.

> And if the justification for angry/combative/aggressive interviewing is "well, that's how our culture is", I would say the company has a bigger problem to fix.

Maybe you being so disingenuous makes you feel better, but interviews aren't "angry/combative/aggressive" just because someone asks to see some code on a whiteboard.
To be brutally honest, adonisjs.com looks a lot more like Laravel-for-Node.
Pretty sure it's just that they now need a European's consent to sell their data. But FB will never offer the option to use their platform without having your data collected and sold. So if you refuse consent, they refuse you access.
Wow, thanks for that link. I was having the same problem as the parent comment, I definitely don't want their app but I also don't want a giant pop-up in my face every time I load the mobile site.
Services like Buffer.io or custom mobile/desktop clients that post on your behalf.

Basically only automation & power users.
The majority is always N/2 + 1, where N is the number of members. A 6 member is less fault-tolerant than a 5 member cluster (quorum is 4 nodes instead of 3, and it still only allows for 2 nodes to fail).
FDA committee recommends first CBD product
Externalities happened.
The net neutrality rules expire on Monday. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. ISPs already putting the squeeze on the large streaming video providers?
i agree with you. it's a two way street. pay people if you want them to produce some product that takes more time than the interview.
Serious question: If a plane runs on electricity, would it ever make sense to put solar panels on top of it to try and get extra range?

Or is the scale so off that solar panels can't meaningfully contribute?
> To the extent that Silicon Valley works with the military it is because SV effectively is a branch of the military

This is glossing over an incredible amount of history. Is the entire physics field a branch of the military as well?
Yep, this just broke my project :/
How Google (or other big companies) didn't think of this before? They are a much older org and a good one at that (they have google calendar etc.) , how can they not build such a nice tool till now?
Actually with a few tweaks, this technology would be much simpler to use than Facebook, for a person like your grandma, simply because it removes that annoying registration process. You just open the installed app, and that's it.

It's odd that we got used to the idea that "(1) registration, (2) strong password creation, (3) username selection (in case of conflicts), (4) email verification link, (5) login" is somehow a good user experience.
A few days ago, I read an article speculating on the cause of the CFM engine failures - I can't remember the source but it was by a former pilot and I found it cogent.

These engines are old, and very widely used. The author suggested it was metal fatigue in the turbofan which wasn't caught - microcracks are hard to find, but can cause structural failures at operational velocity. Southwest's engine overhaul regime for this engine is every 10 000 miles, but that will probably need to be reduced pending the results of the investigations.
I thought that sort of thing was rare on Twitter now. Twitter seems to usually be about topical things, news, and that ilk, no? It’s a social network.
yes, that's me. more like an mvp. if there are any features you would like to have on recruitt just let me know at cosmin@dutylabs.ro
I read about one strategy on my favorite subreddit. A user admitted to posting memes and cheap content there, then going into /new and downvoting every other post and upvoting his own with a couple alternate accounts.
The expenses that truly impact economic mobility: education, healthcare, childcare are in fact getting more expensive, everywhere.[1]

And if you want good versions of these things, you're more likely to find them in coastal urban cities, where basic cost of living (food and housing) is extremely high.

Remarking that "oh they'll be fine over there" when people are fleeing there for better resources is consigning a segment of our population to a permanent underclass status.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/17/the-s...
You could dodge the whole thing by using a single real number. 16:10 is 1.6, 16:9 is 1.77, 3:2 is 1.5, and 4:3 is 1.33.
I used to be a mod of r/science. There is an incredible amount of garbage in the comment section. This makes precise moderation very very hard. In general, I think the sub is far too lenient about leaving up comments. Far too often the top comments are pointing out some "flaw" in the study that is either irrelevant to the paper or addressed in the paper body.
That's total comp. Salaries top out at what you'd expect. It's bonuses, stock grants and discounted stock purchase programs that can push you up there.
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New Online Learning Platform for African-Americans to Teach Courses
So should we be subsidizing everyone so they "live like kings"?

My son is making about $30K a year ($2000 a month) and I helped him do his budget so I know what his expenses are:

Rent - $600

Car note - $300

Car Insurance - $250

Utilities - $350

That leaves him about $500 a month for "everything else".

Yes that puts him on the edge and thanks to the ACA he's still covered under our insurance until he turns 26 and if he needs a car repair we help him.

Two conclusions:

I think we should have universal health care as a nation.

If we had better mass transit, people wouldn't need cars and it would make finding a job easier.

According to the gross up calculator at psycheckcity.com he would need to make around $16.50/hour or $34000 a year to have enough cushion for things that happen. Strangely enough, that was also the salary I needed 20 years ago before I could make it on my own without asking my parents for help. I made that my first year out of college as a computer operator.

This is in metro Atlanta not podunk nowhere USA.
Here’s my take on a minimalist RSS reader:
https://teamdashboards.com

This is a work in progress. Customization doesn’t work yet. I’d like to get feedback. If many people like this interface I’ll continue developing it.
I think this is an excellent idea. Most of your job will be working on already existing code (even if it's written by your former self).
It can just be a general aptitude test done in several popular languages of your choice with some level of customization based on what sort of programmer you want to be.
If you think there aren’t already hardware backdoors inverted by China in most of the chips you use you are naive
We basically replaced mySQL, Zookeeper and HBase with a single KV store that supports transactions, watches, and scales. It's not a trivial point that you can just develop code against a single API (finally Java 8 CompletableFutures) and not have to set up a ton of dependencies when you are building on top of FDB. We are (obviously) experts at monitoring FoundationDB with Wavefront and we hope to release the metric harvesting libraries and template dashboards that we use to do so.

Almost 5 years in and we have not lost any data (but we have lost machines, connectivity, seen kernel panics, EBS failures, SSD failures, etc., your usual day in AWS =p).
What do you consider to be the minimum for advanced type trickery? I ask to see if Ada might fit that criteria and and what features it might be lacking that would make it competitive with Rust in the type-trickery domain.
Same! Would love to start using this at my company as we've outgrown Slack.
Driving student programs
AAA game engines could greatly benefit from the type systems. The problem is most (if not all to my knowledge) functional languages with advanced type systems require a garbage collector which is not ideal at all in that type of environment. They prefer the more deterministic latency provided by manual memory management.
On the other hand, so does not wanting to deal with security routines.

But realistically, most trips in cars are commutes and trips to the grocery store, not cross-country drives.
In answer to "where do you see yourself in 5 years" question, I once told a potential employer that I would be CEO of his company.

I didn't get an offer :-)
Funny you should say 14:10, that's almost the aspect ratio used in Europe for paper sizes. It's based on the square root of 2 so that cutting a sheet in half results in two new sheets with the same aspect ratio.
There's a very strong correlation "you have to dress like an adult", and "you will be treated like an adult".

Yes, a lot of adults wear sweatshirts and hoodies now. However, if you wore a shirt and tie to a high school, they would make fun of you for dressing up like your dad. We have collectively agreed on a "grown-up" attire.
Why should “a service” silence anyone?

How about letting people make their own decision who they want to talk to, without a third party saying “I forbid it”.
A Pair of Giants
> What are you even trying to say here? If I don't live in the EU, have no legal presence in the EU I have no means through which I must comply with the GDPR.

I was responding to your point that there were zero channels to help non-EU companies to comply.

I’m really not sure on what resources you think are available to EU companies that are not available to non-EU companies? You would definitely not get GDPR advice at the Citizens Advice as they have more important matters to deal with. To the extent a local regulator would provide guidance to an EU company, I am certain they would also provide to a non-EU company looking to comply. You present it as a clear distinction between EU vs non-EU companies but that simply is not the case!

We can agree to disagree on the pros and cons of an extra-territorial law but don’t misrepresent the position in terms of help available to EU vs non-EU companies.

Also your point about hairdressers is nonsense. A non-EU based hairdresser is very muh out of scope of GDPR!
Relevant: http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
I agree, I think opening the platform up to app developers added value faster than Facebook could have added it themselves and increased their user base. With the network advantage Facebook now has it's likely that if they cull all of those apps they won't shed too much of their user base.

I think that early on that API was definitely making them more money, but the balance has shifted. I suspect they kept the API around as long as they did to avoid a sudden PR disaster when they removed it (like twitter). The congressional hearing and all the recent news has served to lessen that cost and may actually end up being a boon for them.
They would not meaningfully contribute.
You've asked me to define what is anti-social behavior. That is an existing term on which lots of study have been performed. Because people don't owe you answers to a question you could research yourself.

People also do not owe you solutions to hypotheticals they never suggested in the first place.

> I've been more than charitable to your claims so far, and you're just avoiding answering the question.

http://wondermark.com/1k62/
While that’s perfect to shield from orbital laser cannons, is active/active geo-independent replication possibile?
Potentially related to the Chrome 66 update and Symantec stuff?
Not all airliners can dump fuel. Some have to burn it off to get under maximum landing weight, or just risk land over the prescribed MLW.
This article seems to have an assumption that companies have this huge pool of qualified candidates applying for jobs and you, as an applicant, just need to show that little extra initiative to beat out the other applicants. As someone who has reviewed mountains of resumes for a large company, this assumption doesn't match my experience.

In my experience there is this huge pool of unqualified applicants applying for every job no matter what the actual job requirements are. The applicants that got a call for an interview 1) looked at the technologies listed in the job requirements and 2) put their experience with these technologies on their resume.

Also important, once you get called in for an interview make sure you can answer the most basic questions about what is on your resume. If you put Linux experience on your resume make sure you can explain how to list the contents of a directory from the command line. If you put MySQL experience on your resume make sure you can explain how to get a count of the total number of rows in a table.

Are there really companies out there where the difference between getting an offer and not getting an offer is spending a few hours making a bespoke "please hire me" website?
Well that depends. If what I care about is not dying then going twice as far but still dying isn't an improvement.

Measure the thing you actually care about. After issuing metal helmets to infantry in WW1 the number of men hospitalised with head injuries climbed enormously. Were helmets a bad idea? Nope. To get hospitalised first you need to survive your injuries.
They're on a road to disappointment.
Agree, they are throwing piles and piles of money into their cloud costs, and now they have implemented screen sharing too... a much requested feature to put them in a Skype-kill positon. The free money is going to dry up eventually, and how they lock it down and pivot to start making money is still unknown.
Standing out from the applicant pool is best done by knowing someone within the organization. You can create targeted websites or individualized plans for improvement of the business, but in my experience, many companies simply give preference to recommendations from current employees. Does HR really have the expertise to go through all these personalized, technical solutions? Probably not, but if they are told by a current engineer that you have the skills and personality, they will fast track you into an interview. No wonder companies give referral bonuses - they'd much rather do that than wade through a sea of resumes, with hard to replicate and verify information.
If words do not lead to actions or changes in behavior then why are people bothering to post here?

And if words never contribute to actions then there are allot of correlations to explain from the American revolutionary pamphleteers to the Zimmerman telegram to Jihadist Imams to Coca Cola commercials.

Now maybe this is a price we're wiling to pay for unlimited free speech, I dunno. But we mustn't convince ourselves there is absolutely zero causation between words and deeds.
Emissions too low to register? Not in America! We pollute for our Freedom!

That's so bullshit that it invalidates the entire post. Anybody who believes that can't be trusted with objective truth.
I've hired and it is astounding the number of people with CS degrees and years of experience that can barely program. Until there is some sort of professional IT association like the BAR for lawyers this type of treatment will continue.

Unfortunately there are about 1000 competing bodies trying to be this association. It seems that the tech crowd would rather in-fight than work together to be treated seriously.
"So, my friend Thomas Clarke (he's now at Imperial College) and I spent a lot of time hacking on this"

Interesting, never released Tom Clarke was childhood friends with Simon Peyton-Jones. He mentioned on a few occasions that we should all go learn Haskell.
I agree. This is a concept I've been considering for a new venture and after navigating the site I'm still not entirely sure what Tettra is or how it can help my team.
> The ISS's changes like that though because it's constantly doing burns to keep it "afloat" an abandoned satellite in LEO is going to eventually just burn up in the atmosphere and have a much more consistent orbit.

This is not accurate. Even if you ignore the big vertical jumps at each burn, the downward trend is very obviously irregular. Satellites in LEO experience a slight drag force from the Earth's outer atmosphere, and the magnitude of this force can vary unpredictably by orders of magnitude depending on space weather conditions.

Satellites in orbit are moving very quickly, so a slight change in altitude (i.e. orbital period) results in a very large change in position at any given future time. More importantly, the inaccuracies are compounded with each subsequent orbit. As a rough estimate, an uncertainty of 1m in the height of a satellite in LEO translates to a positional error of more than 100m/day. It is not possible to accurately predict the position of a satellite without ongoing observations.
If you belive Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius then the atomic radius of Helium has never been measured, but it is predicted to be smaller than Hydrogen.