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My current job had a coding challenge and I felt they handled it pretty well.

It was done one site as part of the interview process. It was related to the work I'd be doing, however it wasn't super complicated. They expected that you'd be able to finish it in about 30 minutes, but you had as much time as you needed. I finished it in about 20 minutes. Since it was over lunch time, they bought me lunch. I figure lunch for 20 minutes of work was a fair reimbursement.
People don't assume that academics have neutral funding sources. That's why many will always look at the potential for conflict of interest, and look more carefully into the why. An academic in a university research body will get loads of funding from private foundations and industry. Even when it's not helpfully labelled as the Microsoft Campus, Oxford University. Who knows, I might be suspicious of some work coming out of there that is reporting a result that happens to be in Microsoft's interests.

Given they supposedly have to find change to keep their jobs, how is it that all the research around the world is pointing to similar changes? If they're just making shit up, I'd expect predictions all over the map.

The days of constraint free government funding for Blue Skies research are long gone. The world is far worse off as a result. That doesn't mean every single project, from every source is now corrupt. It does mean that some projects and studies do indeed have an agenda.

Offer some evidence that academia is entirely corrupt. Or worse than industry.

The CRU's current About Us includes:

"sponsored by contracts and grants from academic funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental organisations, commerce and industry"

To me that is not proof of "gets its funding from governments". It's one of multiple sources of funding. Regardless of how much you want to paint them as some government funded state puppet.

Yet even then I fail to see how that helps your cause célèbre, the British government has been decidedly anti AGW and renewables in the last decade, with policies distinctly in favour of fossil. If the CRU were as corrupt as you keep claiming, the climate unit would surely be busy proving how harmless petrol and gas are, to get more of that filthy Conservative government lucre.

We're not going to reach agreement, thanks for the conversation. :)
Okay, sure. But this doesn't solve any of those issues. If anything it compounds them.
Liabilities makes sense. I used to be at a remote sensing company that was leasing a plane and when we were close to buying instead the CFO said, we need to start a new company for the liabilities.
Wasn't 1776 to 1961 longer?
Happened for me.
I'm more shocked at comments like yours that get echoed and promoted without any context whatsoever, but then again "Anti-Turkishism" is a thing.

What I'm shocked about is how a so called ally can side and arm a vowed terrorist group for years and expect there to be no fallout, but then "Pro-Kurdishism" is a thing.

I do love however the narrative that the Kurds are this angelic force that helped us when no other would for no benefit at all. Why don't you and the west just come out and say you want Turkey broken up? It would save us a lot of time instead of being constantly gas lit.
hey I'm not disagreeing with exposure to pollution being related to aggressive behavior. What i'm saying is that there is no reason to believe that in this particular paper, that you can go from the epidemiological linkage results to a physical mechanism. Normally complex epidemiological observations are multifactorial, have multiple causes, and the associations are still only weakly correlated with those causal mechanisms.
>What did they do?

My guess would be 'very little', though I have no facts to back that up. It's just a staggering number given what the company does.

I've worked at a place like this. The job was as easy as it was cushy. Two week sprint plans could be completed in literally 3-4 days... but they just kept on hiring. I often heard the word "growth", but I have no idea as to why their interpretation of the word was desirable.

In contrast, I have also worked at two sucessful biotech companies. At the first we developed automated microscopy systems used by pathologists, as well as image viewing/analysis applications and your typical data management type interfaces. I worked on the scanner/image processing team. We were a team of six, three of which were software devs. The other software team (the data management / viewing stuff) had about eleven people. We were the most successful company in our domain, and our competition was the likes of Zeiss and Hamamatsu (one of which later purchased us.)

At my next company we successfully released a prognostic test for late stage colon cancer using CTC's found in the blood stream. In the course of doing so we had to write all sorts of integrations on top of an image viewing application, reporting systems, and the core bits (scanning + image analysis + local data management + R&D tooling.) We had a team of ~4 devs over a three year period.

When I read about stuff like this I'm just mystified.
This article appears to have some fundamental misunderstandings. Their description of the review system is not stack ranking, in which employees are ranked in a hierarchy and the lowest on the totem are fired. Instead, the "meets/exceeds" scale has been pretty standard wherever I've worked.

Further, it seems that FB HR asked the source of this article to not speak to the press about an internal event that involved a very sensitive issue. Yet, the journalist repeatedly states that Mr. Yin was asked to speak with nobody about the issue. It looks like he ignored the advice, and became a very visible interviewee, even appearing on public news. He told his manager after the interviews - what was he thinking? It's pretty obvious that FB doesn't want it's employees speaking to the press.

This article's inaccuracies in an attempt to spin a tragedy into some sort of Facebook conspiracy reinforces the correctness of the company's "do not speak to the press" attitude.
Another big gotcha that hits large public organizations is that the software must be ADA compliant. This is extremely difficult and expensive to meet. Most small vendors do not meet the minimum requirements or even consider doing so.
A lot of the time the client would be better off buying actual custom software. It's very easy to end up with a SAP (say) "configuration" so complex that you'll spend more on maintenance than you would if it were a standalone program.
> we immediately present users with a cached copy of their previous feed and stories tray, and then replace it with fresh data once it’s available

I vehemently HATE this pattern.

I'm on a slow connection, and I open the app.

Yay, I see some (cached) content. I start reading.

After a random amount of time EVERYTHING CHANGES, and I can't get back to it. It's gone, for all intents and purposes, forever.

I'd love to have a something which tells me there's fresh content to be had, and that I could - if and when I so wanted - CHOOSE to see it.
It may depend on how they define "watch".

In my case, I have the TV on for an hour and a half to two hours, but during that time it's mostly background noise for the rest of my morning routine; maybe 20-30 minutes is actually _watching_ the local news.

When I get home, it's the same: it's _on_ for 3 hours or so, but I'm only paying attention to it about half that time.

So, 5 hours a day, but under half that time is actually watching anything.
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I am looking to buy a new laptop for web dev. I will be running Debian. Which laptop would you guys recommend? My main criteria is that it should be light and work without any hiccups with Debian based OS. And my budget is not much.

What are people using?

Thanks for your suggestions!
As others have pointed out, what you're describing isn't a fundamentally new idea or even that revolutionary. You're basically describing a database filesystem. Onne Gortner attempted an implementation of this concept in 2004 as part of his/her master's thesis (see http://dbfs.sourceforge.net/). Systems like Spotlight are effectively a partial implementation of this concept- OS X essentially has a hybrid setup where there's both a database and conventional filesystem running in parallel. Going back further, locate (first implemented in 1982) could almost be viewed as a proto-Spotlight. Gmail's labels/tags are another example of a mainstream implementation of this.
It’s certainly notable how she never directs her anger at China or India, but reserves it for Western countries only. She has a very white-centric view of the world.
I think TV, YouTube, or even Podcasts can trigger a similar mechanism to socialization, but without any of the risk that comes from interacting with real people.

Speculating I'd guess that the low lift and reduced anxiety means more people get stuck in it as a local maximum even if they'd be happier otherwise.
The compelling feature of gsuite for my employer was apparently the ability to turn off IMAP etc and therefore rule out emails being kept locally/beyond the retention period for better access control/cheaper legal compliance, not anything UX related.
And with all of that, they couldn't even setup their wework networks more securely, even as little as blocking device discovery and port scanning.
Yeah, Most of the coverage of the outage has been complete garbage fueling and fueled by public resentment.

I was listening to NPR forum yesterday and people were calling in and complaining that PG&E was continuing their tree trimming activities during the outage. The expert panel empathized with caller outrage opposed to pointing out trimming is countionious activity.
Big blue made OS/2 for you.
My nether regions shuddered upon reading this. Thank you. Now bring on the flagging.
> Good pilots wouldn’t have crashed that plane.

> But those passengers would still be alive if it weren’t for bad pilots.

Are you an experienced pilot, intimately familiar with the 737 MAX, or otherwise an aviation expert qualified to be a judge of this?

I can't see how you could make such a statement with any auhtority otherwise, and your profile does not seem to indicate you are.

I am neither, but it has also come to light that Boeing hid MCAS from airlines and pilot training materials, and even hid details from the FAA.

Together with the quick worldwide action by aviation authorities, and the prolonged grounding, even in the US, is enough make this line of reasoning very doubtful.
I used to work for a startup bank. They used to always say "we're not a bank, we're a tech company with a banking license"..
Mumbai 12th richest city in the world, NYC on top with 65Baires
And then borrowed $300-some million secured against his WeWork shares
Even that doesn't fix it. Sure they got their money back. But they aren't allowed to subscribe again so all of the files are locked away in proprietary formats.
Those companies will have their employees work from home, go to a WeWork competitor, or set up a permanent office.

One of the many wonderful benefits of using WeWork is that it's very easy to stop using their service.
I feel you, it is often annoying. Not saying I really want to see an Alf movie, but every now and then the nostalgic remakes really knock one out of the park.

The recent example that makes me say this is the new 'Dark Crystal' series on Netflix (coincidentally also puppets haha). The original movie was berried so deep in my brain I had all but forgotten it. Then I saw the previews and it all came rushing back.

I think they did a wonderful job capturing the essence of the original. I found it very entertaining & we binged through all 10 episodes. I highly recommend!
I've noticed recently that the configuration for Mozilla is actually more difficult to disable all the privacy-impacting options and they are in more obscure locations, than with Chromium. The only exception being once you enable sync in Chrome-based browsers it will add additional options that then have to be disabled as well.
I understand why the admins don’t want to ban links with paywalls or ad-blocker walls, but it would better if these links at least had some indication that they are inaccessible with reasonable privacy settings enabled. I don’t want to vote for this behavior by giving them page views if I can help it, but by the time I know the site is walled off, it’s too late - I’ve already helped to pad their numbers.

This one is egregious because it pops a modal dialog with a dummy “X” button.
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I'm pretty sure if you touch the feed at all, or it detects you haven't seen the content before it'll put a button there that won't move you to the top of the feed until you tap on it for that very reason.
> The grandparent pointed out that the concept of 'being mean' can't easily be applied to animals.

The complex cognition of 'being mean' might apply to an animal, or it might not. I'm not arguing that.

What I was trying to argue, was that complex cognitions aren't required for complex looking behaviour.

In this case a maternal behaviour that already exists in the whale, to protect it's offspring, seems to have been transferred to a seal.

I see no need for complex concepts or moral calculi to explain the whale's behaviour.

You are of course correct that it fails at reducing harm down the line, but that's what makes it tragic, and interesting.
This is true. My parents didn't teach me to drive either. My girlfriend's mom felt sorry for me and spend a lot of time teaching me. Then, after driving for a year, a good buddy of mine taught me to drive stick shift.
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I'm sure you're correct that not every fault gets reported to us; even among those that do, the customer doesn't always decide to take the action and get the computer fixed, depending on the problem and the solution. That said, I'm reasonably confident that most issues with our hardware do result in some communication between the user and us.
You better hope he did that in a squeaky clean way - if there‘s just the slightest hint of embezzlement, you can be sure there‘s going to be an army of SoftBank lawyers trying to make a case.
This argument doesn't follow: if I create something of value, and give it away for free, it still creates value even if no money changes hands.

> $17k to entirely quit search engines and being ready to pay $17k a year to use them.

No, economically speaking these are equivalent constructs. Of the value of a service is X, then I would be willing to pay X for access to the service, and similarly be willing to be paid X to lose access to the service.

If people are willing to pay for a search engine, just because they aren't, doesn't mean they wouldn't be willing to. It just means that there's deadweight loss somewhere, or in this case that Google isn't operating at maximum short term profitability.
The Google Feed on Android phones does something similar but presents a "Refresh Feed" "pill" button when it detects that there's fresher content to pull. Surprised Instagram doesn't do this.
Preprint is here:

https://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/Monthly_Pollution_and_Cri...

It points out that they look at data for 99% of US counties, which rules out a simplistic attribution of crime to population density, and describes some of the data cleansing. They also claim it corroborated findings elsewhere.

Since this is a data review presumably other centres can repeat the analysis to confirm the correlation result at least, and medical researchers could conceivably find a real experiment to establish causality.
They are just too goofy, maybe putting a pair of Google Glass on each robot would make them more appealing?
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I counted 18 p values (12 + (2+2) + 2), one with * (p<0.05) and three with # (p<0.10).

In the sentence about the Bonferroni adjustment, I don't understand what "pairwise" mean. (I understand the word, I just don't understand how it is applied. They have 12 quite correlated test. In the correction, are they using m=2 or m=12? Are they correcting only the test that have two subtest?)
And they're not going to do that. They know the lessons of Vietnam and the Soviet-AFG experience: chill out, wait for them to leave, then roll in and take over.
Ironically: thank you oil reserves.
Is it all client side?

I wonder how many cookies/secret headers will be pasted by unaware and unknowing users.
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Given the state of Soviet engineering at that time along with the pressure to get a spacewalk before the Americans, I can't help but believe that the probability that Leonov would not come home must have been huge and yet, he did his job. As an American, I have tremendous respect for our astronauts in that era but that respect is certainly earned by the Soviet men and women who went into space.
The comparison with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster seems apt and sprang to my mind as well reading that FAQ.
Does 200k headcount count as enterprise?
I don’t think it was as obvious as it is now. Plus a lot of engineers work at companies which are blatant VC plays with little chance of viability, outside of acquisition. Those companies just don’t burn as hot or as fast as WeWork.
I've also written a tool that converts curl commands to Python Requests or JavaScript XMLHttpRequest code. It is tested with curl commands generated by Safari, Burp Suite, and Charles Proxy. It can also translate raw HTTP requests, so it can be used when you have a packet capture.

The design is modular and separates the frontend (curl) from the backend (Python), so more input and output formats can be added. It tries to be smart about generating "clean" code, so it will, for example, remove the Content-Length header when it can be recomputed from the request content.

https://ryan.govost.es/http-translator/

It is also open source. Feedback or pull requests are welcome. https://github.com/rgov/http-translator
> Why don't you and the west just come out and say you want Turkey broken up?

Because a measure of self determination for the Kurds is not synonymous with I want turkey broken up’?
Even when I interned it proto-dinosaur Allstate they called themselves "a tech company that happens to sell insurance".

It does sound absurd and annoying, but for businesses like that it's good reminder that they'll probably get their market share eaten away if they don't stay on top of things by someone that can move faster or cheaper with their underlying technology stack.
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Or conversely she could be rewarded for fixing the underlying problems and given a new, possibly similar task.
Thx guys and we will maintain and improve the model and algorithms.
I found this article very useful to resolve connections moving to xhr polling on our Node.js 10.16 server https://medium.com/@k1d_bl4ck/a-quick-story-about-node-js-so...
America’s Knowledge Crisis: A Survey on Civic Literacy
Okay. I get it.

I'm just trying to avoid immediately judging any group by their inside jokes. Also, my inner ethnographer is fascinated by how group culture is formed. Probably because, like Groucho Marx, I've never been part of a group.
No they're not. This is a solution looking for a problem. If you're going to control a robot in the office, you better be controlling it to do actual physical work like adding paper to the printer or something of that manner. Video conference is the future of remote work for communication, what most people haven't figured out is a good process/flow to make it effective.
> Why don't you and the west just come out and say you want Turkey broken up?

Self-determination is fundamentally supported in the west, like Canada for Quebec.
Of course "Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter"
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I think you're absolutely right. One error some organizations make is trying to buy a COTS product they assume will be simpler and more robust (and have its bugs fixed "for free" by the developer of the product) over hiring a part-time or full-time staffer to maintain and improve their existing non-COTS workflow (including owning all the bugs).

Sometimes (I have no global numbers to even guess at how often), they end up discovering that the COTS product requires expert-level configuration and administration anyway and now they're footing the bill for someone else's licensed solution and a staffer to understand it and make it work.
A regular larger enterprise probably have at least 500 individual software systems, that have evolved over 30 or more years. Around this you have several tens of thousands of employees. This landscape can be compared with an extremely complex machine, or possibly with an organism having equally many organs as there are systems. It is no surprise it sucks because this can never work without constant manual intervention to fix what breaks and does not work as expected.
Related: I have seen lot of people make mistake of hardcoding the secrets in the android app, please make sure you do not do that. I have a tool to check these embedded secrets: https://android.fallible.co/
> Turkey has been bearing the burden of accommodating the majority of Syrian refugees.

Are you aware that this is wholly down to a deal between the EU and Turkey which includes, amongst others, payments of about 6bn EUR to Turkey?
From the first tweet, I thought they were talking about the actual chalk-on Blackboard.
but the Chinese also farm fish...

I think this was on HN a few weeks ago: https://interestingengineering.com/these-massive-floating-fi...
> Rust is different, because Rust's solution is "not sharing". You can still mutate!

For the record, rust does also default to immutability, and you can share immutable references all you'd like.
First of all, Turkey is not invading any country. This is just a military offence for securing our borders. It is a basic instinct that every state has nowadays. It is like border that US is now building on Mexico. Just imagine bunch of mexican gangs trespassing your US border and make some unrest. This is almost same situation. Turkey is the country that killed most ISIS fighters.

Having strong equality between man/women shouldn't be the only parameter when you are picking up your allies. US and Turkey are member of NATO and we have operations together since then. (Including Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq). Situation for Syria is a little bit different here. Because, it is too close to Turkey. If you cut connections to Turkey, it will cost you more.
Well they can solve a large portion of the refugee crises by not allowing corrupt rulers of many of the countries that refugees come from put money in western banking accounts and properties.
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To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it
One of the labs that I visit frequently has Beams for people to use. They've been on a multi-year kick to make the lab "Beam-able." That means, no extension cords, no floor outlets, no ramps, or edges on the floor of any kind. While in theory the ability to move around should make the interaction better, it seems that the mobility is so poor, that people generally get to one location and then just stop trying because it took so much effort to get there. It's also hugely distracting if someone is in a beam trying to get a better view because the inevitably run into something, or get stuck, and then need help. Elevators also turn out to be pretty big traps.
The company believed it was ready for an IPO, but all the potential IPO investors disagreed after reading the S-1 and doing some diligence. In a sense the system worked well in that regard.

The big issue was with the private investors letting the CEO do whatever he wanted and pushing the valuation up very high.