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Like simple algorithm and data structures problems and problems related to my domain expertise.

Simple algorithm problems are things that have some connection with my work like vector clocks, detecting duplicates, traversing trees, graph search algorithms. Another type of simple algorithm problems are things that use CS fundamentals only and no ingenious tricks like manipulating trees, matrices and likewise. I can manage these problems in an interview room.

But if it is more complex than this like banker's algorithm, manipulating segment trees, finding convex hull, printing numbers on screen in some weird fashion or like that I will get stressed in the interview room. I suck at these.

The best interviews for me are those that are related to domain expertise. Like problems involving maintaining integrity of data in a distributed database, implementing partial ordering of events, designing data consistency policies.
The original Smalltalk was pretty close. By Smalltalk-76, they'd switched to calling methods synchronously (although still naming the calls "messages", I believe).
pretty much the same in Croatia and I dare to guess, Serbia and Bosnia (maybe even Slovenia).
Twilight of the Racist Uncles
I give 100% that after you did your re-write and then left for another company next set of developers will think exactly the same thing about your codebase. 100%.
Are you joking?

This is a completely different thing than the UI widget that tells you the time and may freeze for any reason UI can freeze.
I think that's addressed in the article, optional is used to avoid a visual "pop-in" effect.
Capitalism.

There, saved you the read.

EDIT: And before anyone calls modern China "communist": even if that were true, their economic strength buys them influence because the global economy is capitalist.
I can understand the public interest.

I wouldn't mind a vetting process that works; google's just doesn't at least for us. The time not up with ads === censoring political speech IMHO and to me political speech is sacrosanct. The tradeoff isn't worth it.

But also I have probably an extreme view out of the norm for most here. I view politics as almost capitalistic (not just in that I make money doing it) but that it's a competition of ideas, attention, advertising etc. So despite being pretty strong D I value an 'open arena' even if open to abuse. I feel the same for non-paid content. Attempts to 'vet' or label content as factual or biased seem to all have problems or are game-able and for me personally I don't think it's worth the trade off. Though in my 'theory' of political competition I acknowledge it's very hard to fight back against 'fake' and nation-state opponents. Again, I'm probably extreme here but I do understand the public interest argument.
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I haven't used the web gmail in ages, however I have to agree that Facebook is slow and terrible to use.

I have not yet found a computer and browser combination that's capable of handling their site for an extended period. Simply put, if you use it for a long enough time, visit groups you're a member of, scroll through the messages there and talk in group chats the Facebook tab will eventually slow down so much that after a while even your keyboard input will become laggy. Whether that's on a year old 15" MacBook Pro with an i7 and 16 gigs of ram in Safari or a full Windowe 10 desktop with 32 gigs of ram, you'll eventually run into having to close and reopen the tab again.

They just seem to be generating incredibly complex dom trees for the simplest of components for no discernible reason whatsoever. A friend in a similar situation permanently shifted his Facebook usage to exclusively using Messenger.com partly because of this.
Youtube, Twitter and FB stoke extremism.

I'm concerned friction between the left and right escalates into another civil war. I'm concerned that the rise of nationalists leads to another world war.

If we continue to move in the coming decade the same direction we have the past decade, both outcomes are likely.
At least in Indonesia (where I've lived for about 3 years), there has been an anti-Chinese sentiment in the population for a long time (with covert and overert support from the US) it seems[0], and are much more militant about it at all levels (not afraid to routinely blow up Chinese fishing boats who feel enabled by Chinese claims from the islands it has created).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment_in_Indo...
I think I see what you are trying to do here, but I don't find it particularly effective. When people say stuff like "guns don't kill people, people kill people," in my experience they usually mean something like "what is happening to our society that (apparently) many more people are deciding to go shoot a lot of people? Isn't that a better thing to investigate than guns, given that gun control laws haven't (typically) been loosened over the years?"

In this framing, the article is analyzing exactly the same question, so it doesn't make sense to try to deflect it - it's already seeking the explanation as the deflection you are mocking.

And for what it's worth, it seems valuable to try to understand what is going on - why are there so many people that become mass shooters? Has this rate increased?
Well, 4chan served you the original file, so you didn't need to evade image processing at all
You'll never get there by wishing. It's not a difficult skillset to learn.
Bitrise.io – Apple Credentials Portal Bug
Anybody received an email from Bitrise regarding their bug? It is frustrating that this was not publicly posted by them on any of their blog and social media channels.
Or intestines of cattle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin

Early Zeppelins used rubberised cotton for the gasbags, but most later craft used goldbeater's skin, made from the intestines of cattle
Your comment is simply saying: contrast people who participated in the real estate bubble with responsible people who did not. I agree that the second group suffered because of the first and that this is unjust. Whether we can expect people generally to not participate in market manias to avoid such a predicament, is another question.
No, this is purely anecdotal. I found that it helped when sat up straight and adjusted my hips. But, pushing out too far does put a different pressure on your lower back, and I agree, is just as bad. I think it's about getting the right alignment for the best support for your whole back.
>Seatbelts on modern cars, of course, have warning lights and beepers. I never put my belt on before turning the car on, but I never take a trip without it

A popular accessory in some countries is a seat-belt "buckle" without the belt. You use it to silence the "seat belt unfastened" beepers.

https://www.ebay.com/bhp/seat-belt-alarm-stopper
My one complaint, and the thing which forces me to use a competitor instead, is that there's no pin protection on entering the app, which I find quite unbelievable.
This is true for most genetic engineering applications but not all. Somatic gene therapy has been successfully performed in a few cases. There will almost certainly be more applications in the future, and it’s reasonable to expect that they will be able to handle some prevalent diseases (such as all types of diabetes).
Shakespeare: "Alas! Mine own quill is too bawbling f'r mine own parchment"
Are these figures after taxes/INPS/health insurance etc.?
No country is worse than Germany for software developers. Even the guy from India in this thread earns 2-3x more than usual senior salary in Germany, but expenses are 10x higher here. I really hate this country.
I believe this is essentially what is going on right now, and I do believe that these effects are currently the biggest threat to democracy. Fringe opinions and downright stupidity are entering the "mainstream", they are being "discussed" right now on forums like reddit's /r/unpopularopinion.

But I don't believe that censorship are good solutions. Strong moderation is needed to keep a forum interesting and worthwhile reading, but that's a practical issue. Government censorship goes way too far.

There should rather be laws that prohibit the use of certain online marketing tools in political campaigns. For example, it should be a punishable felony to use viral marketing in political campaigns that involves any kind of fake comments, replication bots, deliberately falsified news, or fake accounts not tied to real persons. Maybe these tools should also be prohibited for ordinary marketing - IANAL but I think in many countries they already are -, but they should definitely be strictly prohibited in political campaigns.

Right now, it seems that e.g. in the US almost anything goes in political campaigns as long as no foreigners are involved, and we know from the Cambridge Analytica case that some companies act like mercenaries for hire without any conscience or care for democracy. That's what needs to be addressed, not the lunatics and crackpots on forums who will always exist.
Funnily enough, my 12 year old daughter recently did a surgery taster day at Imperial College. By the end of the day she was suturing sponges and putting canulas in a fake arm. Highly recommended if you you're UK based and have a child interested in medicine:

http://www.tastemedicine.com
How does Hedera Hashgraph work and why is it different to blockchain
The downside of giving developers top of the line hardware to work with is that they’re liable to produce work that’s performant only on top of the line hardware.
I f*ing love technology...
Think tanks... third graders... particularly well trained border collies. Doesn’t take a lot to get out in front.
It is a strategic failure that western democracies turned a blind eye to the infrastructure development and poverty reduction in developing nations and enjoyed their special interests inherited from the colonial era.
That's why China is welcome when it comes with a cleaner history and less hypocrisy.
Had we been more genuinely helping, Chinese influence would not be an issue.
Are you sure Apple didn't invent USB-C? There are sources suggesting they did, like https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/14/apple-invent-usb-type-c/
Your language was perfect the day it was created was it? R and it’s ecosystem stand head and shoulders above the rest.
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Really interesting, I did not know about this website but I just added it to my list. Thanks!
Not every curve is a straight line.

This is always the response to any hint that technology isn't the greatest thing ever. But it's like a no-op. The questions that it leaves open:
1. Were the people saying it earlier wrong?
3. Assuming they were wrong, is there any reason to suspect that their wrongness has any relationship with the wrongness of people questioning the effects of a different technology hundreds of years later?
There already are many better things as many commenters have pointed out
Why your SaaS software needs a cockpit?
Obviously it does. Sharing some common syntax means zero if a developer versed in C++ can't do anything in a C project.
#OpenErlang Party: London 08/Nov/18. Celebrating 20 Years of Open Source Erlang
Sentiments against neighbors are the most important part of the strategy. Nearly every country have negative sentiments towards their neighbors. The "gold mines" for strategic policies are religious and ethnic minorities within China. Yet the two main candidates have vast land yet small populations. So Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and any neighboring countries are better allies not to forget India.
Why don't you leave then?
Thanks! I didn't know about that. Now it is listed.
I like Monzo, and indeed I'm a customer, but I do wonder how they're going to generate sufficient returns to justify all the money raised.

Retail banking is fundamentally a pretty boring and low margin business, it usually doesn't make the kind of money that VCs expect as returns, without something like a sale to another company (something Monzo have said they don't want)
Press release seems to be available in German only [1], link the Google translation [2].

> Simply put, we ring the bell with the Bluetooth LE storm

Slight mistranslation of the colloquial "Sturm klingeln", which means mashing the button of the doorbell repeatedly / spamming the doorbell.

[1]: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/vorbeischauen/aktuell/einzelansi...

[2]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev...
After they announced they were removing the ability to top up via debit card I was concerned as much of their utility at the time came from being able to share costs with friends from an isolated account with a lower balance. The app has lower friction for most actions however, so I now use Monzo as a distribution account to send funds to my other bank accounts.

I still don’t use the card itself at all however as they have no cash back, and fwiw the app has started slowing down in recent months. The frame rate consistently drops noticeably below 60fps when scrolling through my transactions, for example.
Here in Italy we discuss #2 - For example for an annual income of 30.000€ before taxes, it will be around 1.400 - 1.500€ month after taxes.

And I had the same experience: it's almost impossible to have salaries jump without changing jobs (and from a business perspective the reasons for that are quite obvious)
I will leave in 6 months.
The ads that aren’t “annoying” still violate your privacy. I don’t want to load any of them.
Ironically, author who talks about prejudices and biases uses "Russian" as synonym to false.
I should not be one who says that, but such usage simply perpetuates undeserved negative attitude to everything Russian. Which is sad, there is a lot of genuine, true and sincere in Russian culture.
2018 - Salary for me an expat in Germany at a fintech startup: 53k Euros a year. No signing bonus. No options. Experience: 5 years as a DBA the rest a sad self taught programmer with 6 months of prior startup experience shipping microservices in C# and Python.

Startup in logistics 2018 6 months: 48k euros.

Previous: DBA in Portland Oregon in 2013 to 2017 - 60k to 70k then as an EDW dev 78k USD.
Yep people often blame wages as the reason company off shore manufacturing and other jobs. Wage however are only a small factor

Government Bureaucracy and red tape is more often the cause than anything else.
The difference between CRISPR and many other overhyped technologies is that CRISPR has already proven its mettle. It’s being used productively daily in labs across the world and has lowered the cost of performing many experiments, or even made new experiments possible in the first place.

You’re right that there’s a certain amount of hype surrounding CRISPR, especially when it comes to potential medical application (whether this works remains to be seen, although I and most people in the field remain optimistic). But until something even better comes along I don’t think interest in CRISPR will die down soon.
"Which means that promoting a slave to master will by definition lose some committed writes."

Sure. But that is where the application code comes in. You usually have at least two db connections one to the slave connection and one to master. If you are checking if an account exists [important] you can ask the master since it will be in an up to date state. If you want to build someone's feed on github, then doing all your sql though the slave is fine. They also probably have layers of atomic cache on top which handles 99% of the requests [memcache,redis,whatever]. EG. Does the account exist? Check the cache, check master.
Eye doctors find that WebMD symptom checker was wrong more than half the time
The mess we're in (2014)
One of the best talks on software engineering I've seen so far.
Tangentially related, I heard on a Tim Kennedy (MMA champion/Army Special forces) podcast that they have people enlist in the army or police force that have never even been in a fight in real life.
Sugar in coke doesn't sink to the bottom, indeed, but if you put a sugar cube in water, it first sinks to the bottom, and then (slowly) dissolves.

Likewise, if you release helium in air, it goes up first, and then (quickly) dissolves in the air.
Social media isn't a cause because there is nothing you can do with it that couldn't be done before it existed. However it doesn't mean that it makes some things more or less likely.

There are numerous studies at the individual level attributing the rise of various mental health problems to social media. That's not really debatable at this point; what is more interesting are the social repercussions, looking at the effects on whole populations. This is one of the topics of the books I mention.
They can be taught to be competent enough to get down your average black slope without hurting themselves, but they almost never develop the fluidity and effortlessness across all kinds of conditions that comes with having done something since they where kids.
I'm kind of conflicted about this. On the one hand I would've thought it were obvious to anyone that a private corporation shouldn't be compelled to conduct business with any other business. But on the other hand domain name registration is exclusively done by private businesses, so effectively this group of private businesses can prevent someone from getting a website even if they chose to run their own servers.

In the same way that I think that ISPs shouldn't be in the business of policing the content that individual users consume or produce on the internet, I don't believe registrars should be allowed to discriminate who gets to register a domain based on the political content that's likely to be on that domain.

If the domain/connection/server is used for illegal activity then it's the role of police to order companies to take down the servers/connections, but anything less than that should be protected.
That’s in fact what is being done.
I think this no-fault mode of incident recovery is a bit overdone. In every HN thread, I find people advocating it as some sort of major revelation.

The mindset that problems are caused by failures in process, and not people is probably right. Even if not, I think it has become popular because it describes a world we would like to live in. It reduces anxiety, and might not negatively effect people's diligence because there tends to be diminishing returns with such negative feelings (c.f.: why the fear of starvation does not promote entrepreneurship).

It might, however, be misapplied when used for companies. Gitlab is the best example here: It seems like they actually came out ahead in the famous incident you're referring to, even though that incident was the most breathtaking series of organisational incompetence imaginable.

So it's completely ok to spare the one guy's head who happened to issue the final 'drop db;'. But let's not congratulate them too often for at least telling us that of their three redundant backup mechanisms, one had never worked, one silently stopped working months earlier, and last was just erased by 20-something who mixed up his terminal windows (paraphrasing from memory).
How to Manage Multiple Wordpress Sites Under One Roof?
>if there weren't an anti-science political barrier to nuclear.

Plus the totally scientific, but not so glamorous and cavalier, concern for storage safety and other externalities.

With several tons of barrels of waste just dumped in the sea (and even the best guarded ones just an accident away, e.g. during transport), one would have thought we'd have rethought this "let's use the most dangerous materials and waste possible to create energy, what could possibly go wrong".
Most editors I use (e.g. Visual Studio Code) provide validation and completion of JSON using JSON Schema - which works pretty well.

I much prefer JSON to XML for most scenarios.
Anyone can hold any status in Ubuntu regardless of who they work for. This is explicitly stated in Ubuntu's code of conduct which doubles as a sort of constitution. They could be Ubuntu developers themselves; then they wouldn't have to "wait on a third party" to resolve anything.
>> the ports to power two monitors

That is great but the problem is having to connect Monitor cables, keyboard cables, Power Cables, etc each time you want to travel

a Dock / Port replicator provide all of those things in a Single Cable or bottom mount connection

This it what separates Business Laptops from Consumer Laptops, until System 76 has that they will for ever be a Consumer device not a Business Device.
Google and the Rest of Tech Industry Are Grappling with These 3 Data Problems
Uh, the topic is sexual harassment. How is that a "pretty squabble"?!
Move to India?
It boggles my mind that salaries can be so much lower in parts of Europe, while expenses are about the same as the US. Of course if you are living in New York City or San Francisco area expenses are higher, but most places they are not.
Pakistan court overturns blasphemy death sentence
Please bear in mind, the spectra of Oumuamua is very similar to that of a D-type asteroid (organics and carbon), which isn't consistent with it being highly reflective.
This is a problem common to ANY "personal interested data", it's the very same for videos, mails, messages, discussions, ...

The trend is lock even better people pushing them to offload their personal stuff and this trend unfortunately keep evolving really fast.

One of the last alarming thing I discover is from my bank (Europian, big well-known, not involved in any recent big scandal etc): they offer a digital sign service so I can do more operation via internet banking... Only the bank hold the key. They simply say you go to your personal page, type your OTP and a key pin we give to you in print and that's signed. WTF?! Unfortunately I think many IT-ignorant people will find this service nice...
I think it's likely R was inspired more by Mathematica's venerable notebook interface.
There are more details in the original thread https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl... on reddit:

I discovered that the helium leakage occurred while the new magnet was being ramped. Approximately 120 liters of liquid He were vented over the course of 5 hours. There was a vent in place that was functioning, but there must have been a leak. The MRI room is not on an isolated HVAC loop, so it shares air with most or all of the facility. We do not know how much of the 120 liters ended up going outdoors and how much ended up inside.
Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking
I hear that MongoDB is just deleting complete databases automatically, so you don’t even have to press a button!
Yes, but bankers rounding should be the last step in calculation, not an intermediate.
How do you validate comment locations?
Handling timeouts in child processes
Don't know about elsewhere but that's a huuuuge no-no in Australia.
The Milky Way's Monster, Unveiled
I propose a simple law - there is no software fix that will not harm human beings, if said fix aims to target a human neural failing.

Any such fix will only open the way for additional vectors of attack. Eventually the myriad vectors of attack for which we must defend, will result in being overwhelmed.

> Sane, mentally healthy people don't read incel forums and become murderers

True - on average. Its worth remembering that we figured out how to convert engineers and educated people into suicide bombers.

The internet and our platforms though excel at efficiently polarizing people.

While the great many of us may not feel the tug, it is just a matter of probability that decides who gets pulled by these algorithms into the dark reaches of the propaganda world.

I've effectively lost good friends to the world of 4chan and the invasive viruses that have taken over the discourse there.
Darn it. I tried to buy in in their 2017 crowdfund at a £30m valuation but it was oversubscribed. Still good luck to them.