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> If you complain about having to spend a couple hours outside the interview on work, maybe you don't really want the job that bad enough

Maybe I'm talking to more than one company and don't feel like subjecting myself to this absolute nonsense over & over. Maybe I'm just feeling out the opportunity without having to worry about solving a made up issue and hope it conforms to what the employee reviewing it considers good.

What other in-demand professions(based on demand vs. qualified candidates) make potential employees sing & dance, and then go through a full interview process on top of that?

Do accountants have to balance a fictional company's books or find the most efficient structuring of a fictional company's taxes across multiple jurisdictions before being allowed to have an actual conversation with a peer about the role?
The farm subsidies could be spent to buy them out permanently, which would probably be better for everyone. Right now the government treats this as an expense, instead of an investment. Low farm prices mean supply outruns demand, so something needs to be done to lower that supply. Instead of annual subsidies, the government could instead have a fund that buys farms and converts it to a park. That would be a win-win strategy: more parkland would be good for the environment (imagine I write all necessary qualifiers here) and the total supply of farm land would be reduced, permanently, thus bringing supply and demand closer to an equilibrium point.
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Even sand from the moon would sell for a lot of buck, no need to transport that little water from the moon to Earth where it's abundant, but im sure people would buy end drink that for ridiculous amounts of money.
> The vast majority of women working in prostitution only do so to feed a drug addiction,or because they're in debt, or because they're being coercively controlled.

This is flat-out wrong.
It's impossible to know without eg signing the record with the person's key, but you can at least see the history of modifications so information can't be hidden by overwriting or deleting it.
the spring 2013 edition of cis194[0] seems to be the most commonly recommended from previous threads here. due to its popularity a quick web search leads to a lot of secondary learning resources if you get stuck.
i'm currently most of the way through it and it's been well presented and nicely challenging.

[0]http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html
Only political discourse is free speech?
> Why was this flagged?

It seems some people flag anything Tesla / Elon Musk related
It's not fraud. It's honest mistakes that seemingly every company like this seems to make and also fix as soon as you call.

Totally not fraud.
>I seriously think the jail just wants to push people to misbehave so they stay there longer and the jail can reap more profits.

Bingo. Private prisons have no incentive to reduce recidivism.
Right, that only concerns sending data at startup, which both Python (and zproc) already do.

I thought you were talking about sending data to child processes in constant* time, while it was running.
I have to echo this sentiment because LYAH came across as foreign and generally unhelpful. It seems that in educators' pursuits to make CS more accessible to a wider audience, this becomes one example of how not to do it.
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I really think that all technical interview questions should be "open-book". Whether that's doing a homework assignment or simply telling the candidate what technical issues to study up on for the whiteboard.

For the brief stint that I did interviewing, I had candidates whiteboard after doing a homework assignment, but all I had them do was step through the very algorithm they had implemented in the homework using a very simple input dataset. None of them had any issues with the whiteboard, even those who were clearly very nervous/anxious.

Building software is hard enough as it is. I doubt making the coding tasks open book is probably not going to allow in many (if any) unqualified candidates.
> But all evidence shows that Lacey and Larkin did everything they could to stop or limit child sex trafficking on BackPage.com.

No, it really doesn't. They were going out of their way to reduce reports to law enforcement:

> The record also contains substantial evidence that, as a matter of policy, Backpage often chose to err against reporting potential child exploitation. As the Subcommittee reported in connection with its November 2015 hearing, in June 2012 Backpage instructed its outsourced third-party moderators only to delete suspected child-sex advertisements “IF YOU REALLY VERY SURE THE PERSON IS UNDERAGE.” In a similar email, a Backpage supervisor instructed internal moderation staff: “Young ads do not get deleted unless they are clearly a child.”

> In a similar exchange dated July 11, 2013, Vaught took issue with a moderator’s decision to report an ad to NCMEC due to “inappropriate content” and the moderator’s belief that the person in the ad “look[ed] young.” Vaught explained that she “probably wouldn’t have reported this one.” 268 The moderator responded that the girl or woman in the ad “looked drugged and has bruises”— obvious indications of trafficking—which led her to send the report. Vaught replied that the person in the ad did not look under 18 years old, adding that “[t]hese are the kind of reports the cops question us about. I find them all the time, it’s just usually you who sends them [(to NCMEC)].” Basing reporting on the appearance of the individual advertised, alone, may result in underreporting, however; as NCMEC has noted, “it is virtually impossible to determine how old the young women in these ads are without an in-depth criminal investigation. The pimps try to make the 15 year olds look 23. And the distinction of whether the person in the ad is 17 or 18 is pretty arbitrary.”

And they were ignoring requests from trafficked children to take down ads featuring photographs of those children:

> And in February 2010, a detective emailed Backpage to alert the company that a 17-year-old girl who tried to get Backpage to take down an advertisement of herself had been rebuffed: According to the detective, the girl “tried asking for [the ads] to be removed but was told they couldnt [sic] be until enough people reported her as potentially underage.”

And then there's the word stripping. People are clearly misunderstanding what happened there. An advertiser would try to palce an ad. Backpage's algorithm would respond "Whoops, you can't use that word", and ask the submitter to drop it. The submitter would change the word and resubmit the ad. Backpage would then delete any reference to the orginal ad. This means when law enforcement comes with a warrant Backpage can say "we don't have any ads for lolita, and we have no information about advertisers using the word lolita" -- because backpage had destroyed that evidence.
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I’m not sure prisons should offer gainful employment to prisoners.

Teaching, training, therapy, yes, please, absolutely. Humane conditions and treatment from the guards most definitely.

But minimum wage? I’m not sure. I like the idea of inmates being able to complete their sentence with some funds they’ve saved up to help get back on their feet. But that’s what halfway houses are supposed to support I guess?
Historically, "chores" included carrying a share of one's upkeep by doing work on a farm, cooking, etc. In many places, it still does.
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>>> The re-invention of this one is one of my pet peeves, especially since the vast majority of the (legitimate) complaints about early implementations have been addressed in modern (last.. 10ish years?) implementations.

It's ironic considering that syslog is not standardized. Plug any two syslog implementations and they won't work together.

The two main competing protocols are defined in RFC 3164 and 5424, both named syslog, they are incompatible with each other and have their own peculiarities.

Logstash, the L in ELK, only parses a subset of RFC3164 messages with very specific formatting.
What's the difference between a teenager mowing the lawn for their parents and someone paid to mow a lawn?

Furthermore, when a farmer's child does chores alongside a paid laborer, what's going on?
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> In mathematical prose (proofs in particular) every word down to the articles (a/the) matters.

You might like Flaubert, who was a perfectionist when it came to the words he had to put down on paper. From the wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert#Perfectionist...):

> Flaubert famously avoided the inexact, the abstract, the vaguely inapt expression, and scrupulously eschewed the cliché. (...) Flaubert believed in, and pursued, the principle of finding "le mot juste" ("the right word"), which he considered as the key means to achieve quality in literary art.
The insight regarding supply and demand in the job market did occur to me, but I still think companies have an ethical responsibility to respect applicants' time and effort. In particular, time should be taken for a thorough and objective review of every single "homework assignment" that is given out, and the company should attach an appropriate weight to it as a hiring signal.

e.g. If my thousand lines of code are being weighed objectively and fairly against a thousand other applicants' code, so be it. If they get bored of reading and pick one near the top that isn't terrible, that's bullshit. And if mine is the top entry, I'd better not get passed over because someone didn't like the color of my tie.
The science of the effect of nutrition on human health seems to be a very difficult problem. Society appears to be continuously spammed with contradictions resulting in confusion and distrust. Although I know it is an impossibility, I often wonder, in an idealistic society with all other things being equal, but with the removal of greed and corruption, if scientists simply researched for the sake of finding the truth, would we understand by now the effects of nutrition on human health?

I know that can't be answered, but I wonder just what 8 billion human minds are actually capable of.
out of curiosity, do you think an amendment to that could reach consensus with more awareness? federal prison could be fixed easily with congress and the executive branch, but fixing the patch work of state level would require a constitutional amendment.

also, there are a lot of constitutional things - like eugenics programs - that simply aren't practiced anymore anywhere. so awareness and public disfavor can alter the reality without a legal change being necessary.
I'm with you on Functional Languages being solid and useful, I've done quite a lot of work in Standard ML, but the parent's point wasn't only do it for the education, it was at least do it for the education.
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May end up happening with persistent memory--which may or may not replace current DRAM depending upon who you ask.
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The right /to/ life is different from the right /of/ life.

The right to life means that no one can deprive you of your life, but neither is society obligated to ensure you have a life.

The right of life means that you are owed a life and it must be given to you by the relevant authorities.

The reason this is important because the former gives you control over your life, and the latter operates at the whim of the governing authority. To make that a little clearer, the right to life requires passive governmental involvement, the right of life requires active governmental involvement. Guess which one goes out the window as soon as its inconvenient.

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Wasn't this confirmed several years ago?
The issue I've found is that my primary reading device is my Kindle Paperwhite, however for many technical books, that screen size is just not big enough. The net result is that code examples are often too tiny to easily read. Particularly when reading at night with dimmer brightness settings.
That's one difference, sure, but the two situations are similar as well. In both cases, a person's basic life needs (food, housing, etc.) are met by someone else. When it comes to children, we generally accept that forcing people to contribute to their own upkeep is not wrong, whether it's working on the farm or cooking, etc. Why is it different for prisoners?
> I’m not sure prisons should offer gainful employment to prisoners.

Why?
Seconded. I really like the idea of a small homework assignment. Here is the last one I did for an interview: https://github.com/mohaine/expense-allocation

It was a great screen for them and something to talk about durning the interview.

That said you still do need to do some coding during the interview though. We've had enough candidates bring in professional interviewers to solve the coding portion of our remote interviews that there is no way we would trust that the candidate actually solved the homework themselves. We no longer allow any remote interviews due this alone.
And outside those limited contexts, it runs into child labor laws.

You can't premise an argument regarding the current general case for prisoners on what's now either a historical, or an edge case for children.
Not necessarily. While there is a positive correlation to hashrate and price, the market sets the value of the coin.

Just because miners are making more or less coins does not make them worth less or more. Miners choose when and if they release the coins to the market.
Your comment reminds me of the paradoxical fact that countries with high "life satisfaction" scores have higher rates of suicide: http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/25/why-the-happiest-state...

This trend is also seen throughout the socio-economic strata: http://business.time.com/2012/11/08/why-suicides-are-more-co... . To wit: Poor people kill each other, rich people kill themselves.

It's a very curious dynamic.
Well, the argument is that if you don't like eBay it's easy to just go make your own. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just assuming that part of "making your own" is getting the other users to sign up, since an auction site with no one to bid isn't very useful. So it's the same with ISPs: if you don't like it just make your own.
Don't you measure electrical resistance between two points? How is the guy measuring resistance on the line at a particular point?
Why should prisoners not get minimum wage when everyone else does? How is forcing people to work for less than is levally allowed, in dangerous conditions as well, any different from slavery?
The healthiest thing people could do is realize that the five year success rate for weight loss is about 1%, and those people in the 1% that maintain their weight loss invariably manage it by becoming obsessive with their calorie counting. Ergo, chasing a number is bad for your physical and mental health.

Also, unless you're class 2 obese or above, you are probably healthier not losing any weight. Being thin is more about looks than actual health.

Want to be healthy? Exercise. Toss the scale.
All of what though? It's not like backpage could possibly know who's underage and who isn't.

Should every ad containing the word "tight" go to the NCMEC?
Please see my reply to the sibling comment. I think with the data we have so far, we have reason to be very concerned that this freedom from failure will be the defining characteristic of UBI.

People need to find meaning, and with the very badly designed communities we have now (atomized, far apart, unable to bump into even your friends walking around, if you can walk anywhere at all), trying to substitute "cash" for the one meaningful thing left (work) may make things worse. The optimistic take in that scenario is that it really brings to surface what society's real problems are (they are not 'not enough money', they are 'not enough community', etc)
Prisons should absolutely offer gainful employment because that's one of the best ways they can be reintegrated into society which I would hope is the goal of prison!

If prisoners could be given a living wage then I would bet you would have less of them returning to selling drugs etc in order to survive because they leave prison with literally nothing to their name.
Very good book! Definitely the best one out there
It seems that it's development is stagnating, no visible updates for a long time, though I'm eagerly waiting for the release of it's final printed edition.
"Should" is inheriently a subjective comment. We all have our morals but lets ask a question of the companies. Why? The answer is a need they have to fill.

Guve them another way to fill it. Otherwise you judgements will only be burdens to avoid not arguments to consider.
Makes sense thanks
Don't try to rationalize prisons don't really work for anything other than physical separation.

So why try to restrict it beyond physical separation?
Additionally, does the work experience card even work if many of these prisoners are legally barred from working the same jobs?
I wouldn't be surprised if that's already considered a red flag. "No facebook? Sounds anti-social.."
Not to mention, who can compete with a jail offering labor for 1$ an hour? It's unfair to both the prisoners and anyone else in the manual labor business
Can any lawyer comment? A reading of the 13th amendment seems to justify involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime, does this mean prison labor that isn't included in a sentence a violation of the 13th amendment? Just reading of this seems to allow one to make an legal argument along those lines, so I imagine there must have been some case that lead to a clarification of the 13th in the intervening century or so.
> I’m not sure prisons should offer gainful employment to prisoners.

> Teaching, training, therapy, yes, please, absolutely. Humane conditions and treatment from the guards most definitely.

> But minimum wage? I’m not sure. I like the idea of innates being able to complete their sentence with some funds they’ve saved up to help get back on their feet. But that’s what halfway houses are supposed to support I guess?

So, don't let people save on their own and instead force them into a new aspect of the justice system upon "release"? Didn't they serve their time in prison? Why prolong the sentence and force them to remain in the system?
Some of the comments I routinely read online now are quite shocking. If only people could put aside their partisan differences for a short time to enact electoral reform. I did a quick Google and found this site: http://www.fairvote.org/about

It explains the electoral system problems: http://www.fairvote.org/problems and a couple of possible solutions: http://www.fairvote.org/solutions

It sounds like a low-tech solution but maybe "ranked choice voting" (a.k.a. proportional representation?) could shift the needle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electoral_systems_by_c...
Random question, is it possible to have a python2 default service and a python3 service in the same app engine project?
If this is not the point of the constant stream of outrageous tweets, it's at least a side effect that's quite beneficial to Trump.
One is familial, the other is a business relationship.
On the one hand, you don't really want there to be much of an economy in prison. The more money inmates make the more they have to bribe corrections workers and create an unsafe environment.

On the other hand, we can't keep wages so low in these institutions that basic hygiene items require a hours on hours of work. How do you expect someone to go from incarcerated to living in the world with no money? I swear we just love to create problems in this country and then wonder out loud how those problems came to be.
Voltage drop?
Done correctly it's not an issue.

However, whenever you have a million people try something some of them are are going to get it wrong. Someone who thinks they just 'need to avoid net carbs' can easily eat over 50% protean.

So, I will bring it up whenever people talk about Keto as it's a real issue that can and should be avoided.
If you look closely at the rod there's a separate wire sticking out the side about 10 cms. It probably measures impedance over that 10 cm space. You can definitely see him use it to measure impedance between the line and the clamp, but the first one is hard to see because it's behind the clamp. The second is far easier.
IMO cron is one of the parts that a good process management system should solve. With systemd timers I can do stuff like require other processes to run for a timer to run, activate a process either on a timer or on a socket, specify that it runs in a private chroot/netns/cgroup. These are all common things that I might usually want a process or service to do, and putting timed, manual, socket and path invocation of a service in the process management system makes sense to me.

I understand some of the systemd criticism, but I don't at all understand why you want something else to manage your processes than the process management system (which is basically always the init system)?
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I’m sure there’s plenty of pictures online. But no, I didn’t bother to take picture of me putting my hand through strangers’ cars. Why would I think to do this?
Backpage allowed users to delete ads they posted.

Should Backpage have allowed anyone to take down their competitors ads by sending an email claiming that the competitor is underage?
Good grief, I hope that does not happen. I think any professional financial services people who blatantly speculate with clients' funds should be on the hook for criminal penalties. It's one thing for Joe Blow to play the speculation game with his own money, it's entirely different for a professional to do it with everyone else's.
The kid getting paid to mow neighborhood lawns has:

1. The right to say "no" without repercussions beyond "not getting paid".

2. Significant statutory protections regarding exploitative treatment.

EDIT: There's also a large body of statute defining what is and isn't okay in the family farm situation.
As unfortunate as that may be, I'm glad to hear that maybe it's not that I can't learn Haskell, maybe it's just that I chose the wrong book. So here's to trying again with Hutton's book!
If a child didn't perform their chores, they didn't get years added onto their childhood sentence.

Any argument about upkeep doesn't hold water as well, because these prisons aren't using the money for upkeep, they are making a profit
They keep the bright lights on until midnight, and turn them back on at 4am (and require the inmates to get up).

It's one of several measures to keep the inmates docile. See also: feeding them low-quality food, and only enough for survival.

A hungry, sleep-deprived prisoner isn't going to revolt, and after release may think twice about going back.
parents typically don't sell the products of their children's labor, and even if they do, there aren't systemic incentives to exploit their children, and if there are, maybe we should stop that from being a thing.

and parents usually give a shit about their own kids
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Thank you for all your hard work! I'm so excited about thew new app engine. Pleaaase bring Ruby next :).