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> If you’re getting a feeding tube and a trache, you’re likely sick as shit.

Or maybe you are being strongly sedated for some reason and are unable to breath and feed correctly by yourself.

Sedation is a famous infamous way to restrain and dominate a conflictive patient. Can be used for good reasons but opens a door to some abuses also. Being sedated when is not really necessary increases the probability of death by accidental suffocation.
Truthfully, you don't have enough time. There are so many candidates who basically eat and breathe Data Structure and Algorithm for at least few months so that they can get into big five that your last one week preparation might not match up to them, especially without any prior experience like a course.
I don't want to demoralize you, but how about you tell them that you aren't prepared right now, and would like to interview after 4-5 months. I think these companies are always looking for good talent, and don't mind interviewing someone later if they find the profile interesting.
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Who mentioned failure?

I'm merely explaining why and how Nvidia can show 5 rays/pixel @ 25pfs while we're at the same time budgeting several hours per frame for state of the art production rendering. Sure, more and better hardware will help film rendering. It always has.
Discussed extensively yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
No, it's not circular logic. Lying to the public, to the government, false reporting is illegal, and against a lot of other controls and regulations that are in place to support a healthy free market.

There is a lot of information that does not have to be made public and people can do as they please with it - but this was not the cause of 2008, for the most part.
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> War is war. The military needs to be distinct from other fields as it is not an experimental playground for egalitarianism, it is the profession of targeted death and destruction. Changes to the military have to be evaluated in the context of "what makes the most efficient military unit", not "what military unit represent everyone back home best". It's not a representational game, it's a crudely real necessity for the security of a country.

NASA used to have a requirement that astronauts had to have experience as military test pilots. The military said that test pilots could only be men. This meant that women could never become test pilots nor astronauts.

Then someone put a few women through the NASA tests and found they performed at the same level as men, and sometimes better than men.

Too often "let's be careful, we need to test this" is used as an excuse to continue discrimination even though that's objectively worse.

https://history.nasa.gov/printFriendly/flats.html
Very cool stuff. I can totally see universities get into using this to give another venue for their researchers to publish.

Link to demo site running OJS component (journals):
https://demo.publicknowledgeproject.org/ojs3/testdrive/index... {user: admin, pass: testdrive }

Demo site for the OMP component (book publishers): https://demo.publicknowledgeproject.org/omp3/testdrive/index... , same creds
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Yes, small inconvenience. Just slightly less safe, right?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-12/new-york-truck-driver-...
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I've been up to 130mph as a passenger in mid-2000s Kia Magentis saloon ( Camry-sized sedan ) on a track and it was rock-solid.

Car chassis are very performant nowadays.
It is not free.

Advertising is a $600+ billion industry worldwide market, about $200 billion online. Largely borne by the ~1 billion population of the G-20.

This is costing your household $125/yr per person.

http://www.bandt.com.au/advertising/global-online-ad-spend-s...
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It seems that Windows doesn't like NUMA architectures all that much... Unlike Linux where the new Threadripper rocks.
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> xcept Alfie was terminal and had a minimal chance of survival and the U.K. government still refused to allow him to leave the U.K.

Permission to take him abroad was denied by the UK courts, not the UK government.
The collapse of Soviet Union is believed to be accelerated by drop in oil prices, which in turn some beleive to be artificial. Which is not exactly sanctions, but not that sanctions couldn't have the same effect.

The main problem with sanctions is that they affect economies of both confilicting parties, and democracies are generally more sensible to economic problems than authoritarian regimes.
Thanks! I really like it and I have been using it now for two days. I wanted to give you a star on GitHub/GitLab but I can't find your code. Is it open-source?
Too bad you can't do the inverse: graphically lay out a syntax-diagram and get a macro_rules!() block back...
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Of course you can easily define an inertial frame of reference that is not moving in relation to the CMB, a binary stare, or whatever else. You can easily define whether the journey in relation to those. The issue is you can change what most people would consider to be fundamental things about the journey by choosing a different inertial reference frame.
> Too often "let's be careful, we need to test this" is used as an excuse to continue discrimination even though that's objectively worse

You just said they tested it and they did fine. That's all I am asking for. I don't think your quoted statement logically follows from that at all.

I think it's pretty fair to say that the battlefield is a different situation even than being an astronaut and what works in one place may not work in all places.
The economist had e.g. a leader like this: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2005/06/16/after-the-fall

It is possible to call bubbles, especially if they are as large and data is transparently available. It is really hard to tell the moment when it will pop, especially if it is connected with the government like in the soviet union or in China.
Depending on when you start to count as "lived in", it could be between 3 years and 3 months to 4 years.
I'm of similar ilk (MOAI) to you, but at far lesser magnitude of relevance .. I wanna just say that I'll probably spend a few days next week putting Ultralig.ht into the MOAI engine where I can, and take it for a drive .. To me this represents the best of both worlds, Lua finally driving the HTML ship.

Gonna be an interesting year for us Lua frameworks with this thing around. One of the principle 'reasons' for not using Lua for everything, is poor HTML support - welp, "lua_remove(that) -- and all the things..."
It is time for Dropbox to die.

Seriously.

Dropbox is but a new Linux kernel module away from being completely and utterly irrelevant.

$ insmod ifps
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Unfortunately I don't have a reference or link, but I'm under the impression that it's generally agreed that for a new president to start affecting the economy takes 1-2 years.
They made a documentary about it as well: http://www.thebusinessofrecovery.com/phone/index.html

Hardly surprising. Every other medical specialty does the same and addiction treatment is essentially unregulated. Lots of suffering and misery to exploit here to make a ton of money for people with no morals (of which there are many).
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I second that. I had no problem rescheduling interviews by several months with Big Five-style companies (including Big Five) in the past.
Would be an interesting study to conduct, most families I know vote similar but is that actually the case and does family influence how you vote or does who you vote for influence who you live with as family?
Something to keep in mind, and applies to every job.
When you book it down to the core there are two jobs, making something or selling something.
So regardless if you are an engineer, a designer, an architect, sandwich making etc your work is involved in making something.
If you work in advertising, telemarketing, client management, sales etc, you work on selling something.

The retirees, million and billionaires etc are the ones who don't have to do either, but some do to keep busy.
Nothing worse than an idle mind.

So as a maker you can do hard physical work, or do hard mental work.
Never heard of it but it seems interesting. Exceptional crazy perhaps but I will definitely take a deeper look.
Atlassian may have been founded by Australians but its headquartered in the UK (for tax reasons I assume) and listed in the US, it's as exposed as any multinational to this sort of thing
https://www.ustream.tv/NVIDIA

Real-time demo at 19m30s.
Exactly! It's nothing fancy but this small sugar makes Ruby more handy in those situations
Quite so, they could just as well ban sales of mobile phones and computers since they also enable copyright infringement.
Note that due to medical privacy law we can't hear the hospital's side of this. There may be something there and it's not unheard of for the parents to also be weird and controlling.

> financially benefits from that control

Yeah, this is a more fundamental problem with for-profit hospitals - money gets involved in treatment decisions.
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It's actually pretty low on the list. Ruby already has a production-ready implementation without a GIL: JRuby.

Normal workloads like serving web requests or processing background jobs aren't impacted by the GIL. You simply run one process per core just like with NodeJS. Huge, huge sites successfully run on Ruby/Python. YouTube, GitHub, AirBnB, ZenDesk, Zapier etc.

Larry Hasting's has some talks online on the Python GILectomy. The major issues are around how to keep the VM simple and fast. IUUC the C extension issues are fairly minor in comparison because the GIL never guaranteed much anyway.
Watching the short "The Third & The Seventh"[0] was the last time I believed any photo or video of architecture to be real, and that was already 8 years ago!

[0]: https://vimeo.com/7809605
While there might be a handful of people who switch keyboard layouts, I imagine that different keyboard layouts causes far more problems, lost time, and engineering effort. Overall it would still be better if keyboards sent Unicode characters.
Well yes, but it's missing the giant cloud backend that will record every interaction and the tangle of Big Data, adtech and other analytics companies on the other side.
> First, Python is now listed as an embedded language. Previously, writing for embedded applications tilted heavily toward compiled languages, to avoid the overhead of evaluating code on the fly on machines with limited processing power and memory. But while Moore’s Law may be fading, it’s not dead yet. Many modern microcontrollers now have more than enough power to host a Python interpreter.

And more importantly, you can use Python and template frameworks to generate C code for your embedded targets. We don't write C manually these days.
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You could try reading/skimming over the book "Cracking the code interview" to get some insight in how the company handles interviews. The big five are in there so you'd get more information that way. Besides that, a week should be okay if you study hard and got good resources.
G-cloud is a pretty broad scheme that covers all sorts of computing services and consulting at all levels of secrecy. It's a marketplace with many different uses.

If you do a search with, for example, a minimum provider staff security clearance of DV (which is pretty high, would apply to many matters of national security), all the major cloud providers disappear from the results, and you get smaller companies based in the UK, who use UK datacenters, and who are seemingly adding their own layers of encryption on top.
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Um, yeah, not everything is completely rational.

But look at it this way: if you want to hire a musician to a band, and you do large scale hiring, you probably want to put some minimum requirments like being able to play, and maybe handling rudimentary musical theory and being able to read sheet music. CS 101 stuff is exactly this - you understand the fundamental concepts and are capable of conversing in them.

Musicians who have formal degrees are understood to handle the basic theory and everything that matters is how well they can play.

There is no degree in CS that would guarantee you understand the fundamentals or you know how to combine the basic concepts into practice. I presume this is one of the rationales for whiteboarding.

Of course, there are all sorts of weird and wacky bands that have other hiring policies but the big five are not weird nor wacky.

Apparently how well the hiring went does not predict anything abouy on-job performance, but probably some whiteboarding will not let those people in who would be totally incapable of operating with basic CS theory. Sure, this leaves lot of potential talent out, but often hiring a bad apple is lot more expensive than discarding an ok candidate.
The same researcher, Eyal Itkin, found a number of vulnerabilities in cryptocurrencies (I am familiar with his Monero ones). Hats off!
OP apparently wants to process an array of lines, not just each line separately.
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With that sort of budget, surely the govt. could setup it's own cloud provider?
I was left wondering “Isn’t what he calls Effect really similar a Haskell Monad?” for a large part of the article. I was really glad to see my novice FP insticts were right!
It's not always about what you know, it's if you are able to read up on something and teach yourself. There's a high chance that you'll experience a lot of things at your job that you didn't know before and you'll have to read up on the topic and figure out how it works. Not much different from studying for a code interview.
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Why? Marcus Hutchins is hardly the first person to be arrested at defcon. I've had my room searched by the FBI at defcon too.

This stuff happens every year, probably multiple times.

The people worried about the FBI already avoid the US.
From my last comment:
> USSR/satellite state relationships were nothing like a normal economic relationship.

How am I bringing up politics?

From your last reply:
>The USSR had complete freedom of action and it was pretty benign for several reasons. Maybe you have feeling that it sucked big time, but the reference point should be 1984 in real life.

I don't understand what you are saying here in any way. But, relating the USSR to "benign" is so far from the historic truth that I have no idea how to respond.

This conversation is likely no longer appropriate for HN, so have a nice day comrade?
Which is also why facebook/google/etc login for websites is attractive. Offload the worst part of the work.
I'm not a programming professional, but as I understand it: you study for interviews because the biggest tech companies used to ask difficult data structure & algorithms-based questions, plus some difficult/tricky questions which require a particular style of thinking. Now nearly everyone does it, and YouTube and textbooks offer lots of help... Which has started an 'arms race' in knowledge about DS&A and answers to tricky problems between interviewers and interviewees.

At some point I think it was intended to be like a 'coding-oriented IQ test', after you'd passed a set of HR checkboxes. Obviously an IQ test you study carefully for is not a broadly applicable measure of relative performance. As far as I understand, many of the top companies are shifting away from this interview paradigm, but it'll take the rest of the industry which adopted it a long time to catch up (I imagine).
There is a different world out there where people study months and months all kinds of academic problems to get a grunt position at the major ad companies.
Very interesting biology and physics project. I wonder how the layer of life building up on the warm surface will affect the heat flow.
It's what the culture has turned into. You are expected to do a white board test. It is more of a test to filter out those who are passionate enough to study for weeks before an interview than anything else. But it's part of the game.
> We need a serious functional language that compiles to WASM.

Aren't there already a few? OCaml?

What's "serious" in this context?
And how do they enforce it? Chain you to the train?
> what the point is of studying for an interview? I am self-taught (under guidance from a mentor) with no formal training, and don't understand why one would prepare for an interview by studying. Isn't that dishonest in a way?

You are competing against other people. If you are not particularly interested in winning then by all means don't do any training. Same deal for athletics.
Google's documentation on Location History:

>You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored. When you turn off Location History for your Google Account, it's off for all devices associated with that Google Account.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en

Google's own documentation is certainly misleading on this matter, if another setting must also be changed to "really" turn Location History off.

Furthermore, Google seems to have a recurrent issue with following it's customer's wishes in relation to location tracking.

For instance, this investigation was not quite a year ago.

>Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card?

Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected to the internet, a Quartz investigation has revealed.

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In terms of communications provision, it's not that much different to CALEA in the US or equivalents in other countries. The troubling section is in section 317C that defines what a "designated communications provider" and "eligible activities" are.

The worrying items are 3-6 that basically say anyone who provides software/hardware or develops that software/hardware is part of either used for providing communications or "an electronic service" are subject to the notices.

So, are you a software house developing an app? You're providing an electronic service by running the app and its servers? You're liable under this law to assist as is "feasible".

Same if you develop software used by another "electronic service". So, writing some open source software? The library used by another app? You have to assist under one of these notices.

The only get out clause is 317ZG which says that a provider is not required to develop anything that introduces a "systemic" vulnerability. But I'm sure lawyers will have a fun time defining "systemic".
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I hear your criticism... I personally don't have a solution as news media isn't my area of domain. However, there must be a technical solution to the problem. I've seen one or two HN threads discussing a decentralised web. Perhaps that's indeed the solution?
The profit you can generate for the company depends on your likeliness to solve problems in an efficient way, and to learn how to solve problems in new efficient ways.

Company knows how the interview prep is, and the candidate that understand more how to solve non-trivial problems can be the right service provider for that company.

I'm not talking by experience but what I was taught, I'm currently finishing my university but the Data Structure and Algorithm course is one of the most difficult to pass and that's only basic structure. A candidate able to think fastly about dynamic programming or structure a possible solution for a NP-complete problem can provide a service that others candidate can't.
I think the major concern perhaps isn't the particulars of the spec, or even that maybe only Amazon can fully meet some of them, but that they are so clearly based on Amazon's exact capabilities that it raises the question of whether another provider will even get a fair hearing.

As an analogy, imagine that there's a new senior job opening in your organisation, and both you and a colleague are considering applying. You're both pretty skilled, with resumes that are quite similar, albeit not identical. You hear through the grapevine that you co-worker plays golf with a couple of the people who'll be on the interview panel, but you trust them to be impartial.

Then the official job description gets published, and it's identical to your colleague's resume. It's as if somebody has gone through it line by line and translated that into the job's desirables. In some cases, the requirements are verbatim copies of some experience your colleague mentions.

Now, you're convinced that you could still do the job. And perhaps if you really knock it out of the park during the interview, and make a deliberately lowballed salary demand, you've got a chance. But, at this point, would you believe that the process is impartial? Or would you conclude that, at the very least, it is so stacked heavily in favour of your colleague that your chances of swaying the interviewers over to your side are slim, and perhaps nonexistent?
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> The best tool for the job sometimes is the tool you know best.

That's like hammering in screws because you know your hammer and screwdrivers seem arcane to you.

For ad-hoc stuff `ruby -e` is more than enough, and if you want to write a program once and use it a lot, it's worth investing the time in doing it the way it works best, which in this case, would be a (fast) language like awk that makes it easier to process line-by-line instead of reading until EOF and making the rest of the pipeline wait.
Pure functions have of course a lot of benefits - if the goal is computing a value. However, why would you even want to compose an interactive application (in javascript) fully out of pure functions?

E.g., suppose you have an SPA that pulls data from a number of Rest endpoints, then does some transforms on that data, produces some HTML and eventually updates the page DOM accordingly.

It makes sense model the "transform" and "produce HTML" steps as pure functions, because they are effectively side-effect free calculations. I think it might also make sense to cheat and treat the Rest calls as pure functions, because this will let you find out quickly in which order you should do them and which of them you can run in parallel.

But why would you want to model the eventual update step itself as a pure function?
Did this ever change for macOS? When they still sold dual socket Mac Pros, macOS was ~30% slower is some benchmarks compared to Windows on a similar machine due to the lack of NUMA support.

After that, the Mac Pro was `innovated` and since then Macs only had uniform memory access and I wonder if their developers ever solved this issue.

After the long neglect of their file system this might be another part of Darwin that is behind their competition for the next couple of years.
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- Reading all the lines into an array is a big error.

- It's a bit unintiuitive because you don't really know what strings to escape on the bash command line. In the example, some are escaped and others aren't.

- In the end I think this could be achieved with a simple bash function:

$ rb() { ruby -lane "print \$_.instance_eval(\"$@\")"; }
$ echo hello | rb capitalize
$ Hello