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> all the things one can learn about their everyday life

I'm curious what topics you have in mind? My everyday life is like 90% Newtonian mechanics, 9% thermodynamics, and 1% fluid mechanics (percentages completely made up). Or are you thinking like E&M for phones and stuff?
>Is it normal for the interviewing process to take up all the candidates day? Is it always expected to spend 3 weeks brushing up on algorithms for an interview?

Yes and yes. If you want to work at the best companies with the best engineers and the best workplace culture with the best compensation yes. I even think it’s worth it. Unfortunately having this strict interview style doesn’t guarantee any of the above it is just a prerequisite.

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How important are the coding interviews in the decision process? I consider myself a decent programmer, and I have passed and even enjoyed all the algorithmics courses at my university. However, asking me to implement, lets say, the Minimum Cut algorithm on a whiteboard in front of multiple interviewers, would totally break me down.

It’s important. 90% of the problems are search problems ie bfs and dfs. Sometimes they are a little more difficult.

If you are interested in preparing and studying like crazy I suggest you go to hacker rank, solve the problems in order in python. Look at the solutions when you finish and study the user submitted solutions. They typically take advantage of built in data structures that can make life interviewing very easy
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See chapter 4 of this PDF for an idea of the amount of settings you need to change to make it work: https://www.kepware.com/getattachment/04042e47-c690-467c-a93...
I received an old washing machine when i got married and a new dryer. That washing machine is super heavy, but still working. The dryer is a POS and the plastic knobs have all started failing, so I have to use pliers to turn the knob.

I'd pay 2x the price of a standard appliance to get a quality one without question.
Study of American politics generally disproves the idea that money buys elections. There's a certain table stakes you need to reach to get your message in front of voters, but diminishing returns set in quite quickly.

(Which means money makes the most difference in small elections - i.e. the better-funded candidate has a very large advantage in things like ballot measure races and local government races where an opponent may not have the money to buy a basic level of advertising.)
That's the entire point. My suggestion is move on.
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Consider Clementine as a replacement for Amarok 1.4, it's a fork that's been doing standard porting work without the controversial UX redesign.
I investigated case with planning in USSR and found that all planing was done by single woman. She got position by "blat" (bribe + protection from someone in power). All planning process was down to increasing of previous numbers by 5-10% once in 5 years. No known computer in the world can fix that.
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This might get a little longwinded. Sorry.

The following is from http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_amaz... and describes the way the Russians implemented SELECT * WHERE CIA FROM EMBASSY_EMPLOYEES: "differences in the way agency officers undercover as diplomats were treated from genuine foreign service officers (FSOs). The pay scale at entry was much higher for a CIA officer; after three to four years abroad a genuine FSO could return home, whereas an agency employee could not; real FSOs had to be recruited between the ages of 21 and 31, whereas this did not apply to an agency officer; only real FSOs had to attend the Institute of Foreign Service for three months before entering the service; naturalized Americans could not become FSOs for at least nine years but they could become agency employees; when agency officers returned home, they did not normally appear in State Department listings; should they appear they were classified as research and planning, research and intelligence, consular or chancery for security affairs; unlike FSOs, agency officers could change their place of work for no apparent reason; their published biographies contained obvious gaps; agency officers could be relocated within the country to which they were posted, FSOs were not; agency officers usually had more than one working foreign language; their cover was usually as a “political” or “consular” official (often vice-consul); internal embassy reorganizations usually left agency personnel untouched, whether their rank, their office space or their telephones; their offices were located in restricted zones within the embassy; they would appear on the streets during the working day using public telephone boxes; they would arrange meetings for the evening, out of town, usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8.00 p.m.; and whereas FSOs had to observe strict rules about attending dinner, agency officers could come and go as they pleased." I read the book. When a CIA agent's cover was blown, the CIA had a spare care and apartment and the agent's replacement needed just that, so they tended to reuse the car and apartment. And wondered why the replacement was then identified so quickly.

So. After that long digression, here comes a hypothesis: Organisations that can keep their mistakes secret, can make themselves seem much more capable than other, similarly large organisations.
Well it's not the means to modern slavery, that's for sure.

Slaves actually have to do work.
> And Google’s search functions allow users to employ advanced operators — like 'AND', 'OR'

ELI5 not needed...
> above(X,Y) :- above(X,Z), on(Z,Y).

This line alone tells me I'm going to have infinite recursion. That would be a problem in any language, of course, and isn't particularly hard to spot here.
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Interesting to hear you say this.

Power energy markets are run using LP & MILP algorithms and a huge topic right now is accounting for non-convexivities.
Why would one expect ball lightning to look the same each time?

I shouldn't be asking these questions, you should be. But you'd rather say "oh, we all know these things about fundamental physics because they are necessary to power the alien spaceships I imagine must exist."

That's not a healthy or useful attitude. If it were, you'd have something to show for it.
The ability of a group of people to indulge into abusive ideas with the power of the state seems quite appalling to me.
> all this crazy complicated and far-fetched ideas, rather than simple and beautiful principles to understand reality

Would you mind giving some examples of what kind of "simple and beautiful principles" you have in mind?
I agree with your general idea that PoW is still superior to, or at least more necessary than, PoS, but voting in a PoS system is not sybil vulnerable because you have to lock a resource. If you assume an attacker has enough resource to lock through a sybil attack then they would have the resource available to control a PoW system anyway.

The point is the resource has to be external (i.e. outside of the consensus system) in order to be invulnerable to sybil attacks. In PoW this external resource is computing power, while in PoS it is the resource of the system itself (which might be internal to the consensus system, but has to necessarily be gained externally).
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Doesn't have to "presume". Historically and globally that has overwhelmingly been the case.
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With stories like this it really makes you wonder how we as a nation have survived this long.
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I came across stderred a few months ago while looking to do the same thing on my terminals. I ultimately didn't go with it because people have reported destroying their systems while using it[1]. Wrapping libc (which is itself wrapping the actual syscall) is a tricky thing to do safely.

I looked into accomplishing the same thing with URxvt's pre- and post-text rendering hooks, but couldn't get it to work.

[1]: https://github.com/sickill/stderred/issues/63
It's as much about funding as it is about attention, printing, teaching, status, and trust. It turns out that the world is a complicated place.
No, it's literal allocation of scarce resources.

Their homes would do quite nicely as office-parks or some other commercial property, but those people both are rich enough and value their places irrationally enough, to [pay out their butts, and/or lose out on a big payout, to] stay there instead of taking their share of what developers think they can earn from that land.
This is just a rehash of Yahoo's article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-cata...
If you can deliver responses 10x faster than required, you can scale with 10x fewer resources (or at least presumably some factor of fewer resources) and still stay within the user requirements.

I'd say that's a nice advantage.
In Mexico City I always see them use Waze.
Come on, that’s too harsh. An Executive MBA from a good but not great school is worth it if your employer is paying but most people who go to top tier residential programmes aren’t going to regret it either. Attending anything lower is a fool’s errand but if you can get into Wharton, Harvard &c. and you want to be an executive it’s great if you want to move into a different industry than the one you currently work in.
It is ACID if you add all the query flags to say you want that. The majority of users don't, because it costs performance, which is in many / most? applications more important than correctness.
> Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder?

No, it's just a currently-useful advertising channel.

Advertising has been critical to US election campaigns for some time; to the extent that is a mechanism of slavery (or, perhaps more precisely, plutocracy), it's not something dependent on Facebook.
If a platform is promoted by physician groups or by insurers, it may take off. That would be far better than some of the utter crap on Reddit. A lot is happening in the medical space, with companies like Oscar and appointment scheduling apps. This is just waiting to spring open.
That's two reports of weird scrolling. I'm sorry, guys. I wasn't trying to change scrolling. It's an off the shelf Wordpress template. I'll look into what's causing it and see if I can fix it. Thanks for the heads up...

Now, what do you think of the post content? :-)
All that tells us is that it wasn’t observed by chance.
Calculus, too. I wonder about the author’s implication that she actually worked every problem in all of those textbooks. I suppose it’s possible, but it would take a decade, at least, if you were working full time (and forget having any kind of a social life or, god forbid, a couple of kids).
Supply & demand. Not a mystery.

Drives me nuts that my left-wing brethren often oppose upzoning, development, increasing density.

Rent control is not a long term fix and ultimately makes the problem worse.

Our democracy is possible BECAUSE of capitalism AND socialism, not despite one or the other.

There's more housing than people in the USA. At this point, the most likely durable remedy is UBI, thereby enabling people to repopulate (or stay in) the interior, mitigating the urbanization trend.
Having a REPL doesn't mean the implementation is using an interpreter.

Many languages do have REPLs which JIT before execution.
Pretty much all developer jobs are salaried in the UK aka no fixed hours so presenting as some one who only wants to work 9-5 rigidly is going to not go down well.
AFAIK, Linux accepts any byte sequence. I never found one that couldn't be used.
Full-time C++ game dev of ~5 years here. I absolutely run into UB issues at least once a month, sometimes as often as a couple times in a week. I doubt our codebase is of below average quality either. UBsan is a godsend here... without it, this stuff was truly hell to debug.
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The impact from greenhouse gases is already either a factor in some power markets (which heavily use state of the art optimization and are among the hardest problems to solve when you look at the size versus the time it has to solve in) or planned to be included. It is indirectly there in all power markets as coal is currently becoming less and less economic.
This is when it's done by local workers and the wages rise.

FYI, the majority of work is not done by local workers.
I just always thought, "ehhh we've been burying our dead since the dawn of human existence. I'm sure they've figured out the groundwater situation by now."

Now I'm spooked.
>Mr. Ritholtz did three things. He found the most extreme over-reactions to the law, he criticized those over-reactions for being too extreme, and he provided one graph of one statistic that charts restaurant employment from 1990 to 2018.

You missed the fourth thing that prompted this story, he discussed two studies done about the new data. The first made several mistakes that they addressed in the second, and the conclusion showed that pay was rising.

>Why a chart from 1990 for a law passed in 2018?

>The $15/hr minimum wage does not go into effect until January 1st 2019!

The law was passed in 2015, and it mandated a gradual increase of the minimum wage over the next four years. In 2018, the minimum wage is $15 for businesses with over 500 employees, $14 for other businesses.
I'm tinkering with paid acquisition right now and it's not very valuable. There are a lot of impressions but very few clicks. I think that is like a lot of Facebook though, people read the article headline but don't open it. The same goes for ads, people see the message but do not really care about the content. It is perfect for political messaging, get your snippet out there, make your impression, get in their head for election day.
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It reads to me like the prison time in this bill is reserved for the crime of knowingly mis-certifying annual reports to the FTC on data protection (ie, for defrauding the government) --- those reports are also only required from businesses with $1B+ of revenue. The rest of the penalties in the bill seem to take the form of liability under FTC's "Unfair Trade Practices" authority.
Yeah, I don't buy this. The problem is more about the cyclical nature of the construction industry and the trend to push people to get a college degree and away from the trades which pay pretty well it's not as back breaking as you are making it out to be.
The US ranks in the top 10 to 15 globally on average consumer Internet speed.

Costa Rica is below #100. About 1/5 to 1/6 the average speeds in the US, with US speeds increasing faster year-over-year despite the difference. Costa Rica is comparable to what you see in Iran or Nigeria, around four to five mbps.

Your premise comes across as dramatically overstated (even if you did encounter a coffee shop in LA with poor Internet).
Maybe (much) spy work isn't quite the serious business the national security apparatus would have us believe?

I mean, it's obviously serious business to the people taking risks and doing the work on the ground, I'm talking about it actually being useful to the nation.
Quoting Linus:

> If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel.
It's a smart move to keep their artificial 6% growth, funded by foreign debts.
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File sharing defaults into disabled nowadays, and it will only accept users authenticated on the same domain as the computer. It used to default into enabled, and grant read access to anonymous users.
It's not necessarily rich people. Imagine spending waaay too much of your income on your house, not a huge house by any stretch of the imagination, something seen as average to small in the rest of the country. You bought the house because it was where family/you job/your life is. So a large part of your net worth is tied up in this house, for better or worse. You sure as hell don't want housing prices to go down, you'd loose your shirt, wouldn't be able to retire, etc etc. It's not all rich people with big houses wanting to keep the status quo, it's all the middle class that already bought in that would be financially devastated if housing dropped, good luck trying to get them to change the nimby mindset, they've been paying for (or you can see it as investing in) their desired lifestyle, and they are not about to give it up.
Yeah - I dug out my old caculus textbook a while ago and started trying to work all of the problems in it. But there are a handful I just can’t get, no matter how long I work on them. It would be nice to give in and ask somebody who knows the material better than I do where I’m going wrong (although I’m sure it will probably be something stupid...)
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I disagree. The current standard is that privacy and security are only so important as to prevent law suits unless there is law that says otherwise. That is a pretty low bar.

With this privacy and security must be taken seriously from the start. I am of the opinion that wanton neglect that results in massive consumer harm (think Equifax hack) should warrant prison time.
You should compare number of implemented innovations and market disruptions instead.
ODP.NET for example.

Managed ODP.NET for Core is a partial implementation of the ODP.NET for the full .NET Framework.

Libraries using EF 6, because EF Core is still playing catchup with EF 6, and even .NET Core 3.0 won't support 100% of the EF 6 tooling.

Libraries using WCF, which lack budget for anyone to rewrite them and the respective clients into other transport protocols.

Plenty of other examples.
My pet theory is this is firing a shell across the bow of BigCorp. Telling them change is coming. Maybe this won’t pass, but be prepared to be held more accountable.
> Why doesn't the government just use eminent domain to buy out some Nimby's in crucial areas and build some high rise apartments?

Because the mechanism by which NIMBYism works is democratic control of the relevant governments, not a few hold outs refusing to sell out to a government-approved development (because if there was a such a development, it would use eminent domain from the outset, so such resistance would fail.)
> Competing on a few key sectors is easy when you sacrifice the livelihood of your whole nation, spoil their property, and send millions to the Gulag to deter any political opposition.

I doubt it is actually that easy. There wasn't many economies in the world to pull that off. It is probably not a coincidence that most successful countries give its citizens high degrees of personal autonomy.
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Hm. Perhaps you're on to something: our museums tend to present things in their true scale. However, this is not always desirable. For instance, consider the use of macro photography for inspection of the brilliant detailing of small things.

Physically scaling up small things may indeed be problematic, but with the assistance of VR or AR, one might be able to digitally scale it up. [Here I'm remembering my love of The Magic Schoolbus series.]
Why does Facebook get to tell me what's false and not? I'm an adult, I can handle it and research validity myself. Why is it making decisions to what I can and can't see? It's like they're the thought police.

Why aren't they removing all pseudoscience in this case? Why not astrology, why not psychics, why not tarot card readers, why not people selling weight loss drugs, why not people showing videos of 737's recovering from a barrel roll on short final, why not homeopathy, hell why not literally all religion?
Looking at companies like Reddit and Facebook in general. Do you really want that vast amount of targeted info in their hands? They can't be trusted. I'd trust a company more adapt with HIPAA and have valid PII measures in place.
I interviewed recently with Citadel in London, they're one of them market maker financial companies with a bunch of tech and shiny offices. I was told we'd have a few interviews, and lunch in the middle (we started at 1pm). Apparently I didn't do well enough in the second interview (writing random Python algorithms on a laptop - in fairness, not a whiteboard), so after a while the guy doing the second interview walked out, left me alone for about 10 minutes (it's okay, their conference rooms have a nice view over the river!), and then my first interviewer came back and told me that unfortunately my next interviewer wasn't available. I asked what would happen next and they said they'd have to rearrange the whole thing and walked me out the building. It was obvious it didn't go well but I found it so pathetic that they didn't even tell me, lied about the next interviewer and then even pretended they were going to be back in touch to rearrange things.

I find it a useful experience though. Next time I'm talking with a recruiter and they mention Citadel I'll know they don't do their homework on checking how candidates are treated and I won't work with them.
Facebook sells votes.

But our presidential elections only count states.
The answer’s pretty simple. For the most part, no matter what their field, most people aren’t outstanding at their jobs. They do enough to get by but they’re not exceptional.

This is true throughout the world. America has average spies and Russia has average people trying to catch them.
That would be hard to measure, but I'm sure if we all started cremating our dead the environmental cost would go up significantly. I found a list [1] of cremation rate by country. For quite a few countries, the majority of people cremate their dead (religious reasons, usually), but there's still a minority elsewhere.

I think the freezing and shaking method sounds pretty good in terms of environmental cost.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cremation...
I had no idea they did that. Does Greenify work that way?
No. China should not transition to modernity quickly at the expense of our environmental future. A moral environmental version of Trump's tariffs would say that we will not trade with China, or any other country, until their enforced pollution regulations are at least as stringent as ours.
Oof. We missed this issue -- good to know. So this is running in production right now for Repl.it beta users and seems to be working fine. But we only use it on the interpreter process and not globally.
You are doing it wrong.

Digital marketing makes it very easy to waste money. Sometimes people throw money at Facebook (everyone is doing Facebook!) when it’s the wrong channel for your business. Sometime you miss a tiny checkbox that makes most of your budget get spent outside of facebook.

No matter what your goal is, there is an effective way to buy traffic (advertise). There is a reason advertising agencies exist - they are good at their jobs.