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Funny thing is, the different facilities are probably more problematic than remote workers. It can be more prone to politics and the organisation as a whole pulling in different directions.

The exception is where the remote does have some well defined autonomous reason for existing, for example a sales office.

In comparison remote workers obviously are usually tied to a particular office.
As much as i hate to say it, probably the right thing to do to get a fresh grip on allocation & performance. I work at a place that frowns upon WFH and really wish it wasn't the case, my team would be 50% more productive if WFH few days a week. From my experience, lazy/bad managers find it much harder manage remote team, and often advocate no WFH policies.
The tricky point is the "80% energy efficiency recovery from the beam and X-ray pulse." That seems incredibly high, and it lacks any references. All I could find in my limited search was this paper http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977epfr.conf.1161Q which uses "X-rays heat a working fluid in a boiler". The Rankine cycle thermodynamics prevent this from having an 80% efficiency.

I used PV as an example because there's been a lot of work to make that efficient, and it's still only at 20% for commercially feasible cells.

Did you notice that for 5MW of electrical power production they are generating 3MW of "losses"? That's about 1,000 tons of cooling (in the wonderful units of cooling. See http://www.trane.com/COMMERCIAL/DNA/View.aspx?i=978 ).

If you air cool the system then you'll need a tower with dimensions about 14'x22'x19' ( http://www.trane.com/CPS/uploads/userfiles/chillers/coolingt... )

"One TEU represents the cargo capacity of a standard intermodal container, 20 feet (6.1 m) long and 8 feet (2.44 m) wide.[1] There is a lack of standardisation in regards to height, ranging between 4 feet 3 inches (1.30 m) and 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m), with the most common height being 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m)."

So just the cooling for this thing will be more than 1 shipping container in size. It certainly wouldn't fit in my (ex-) garage!
I would understand if the parent comment had noted everything in your second and third paragraphs about the strong partnership between product teams and Mark Zuckerberg's reference on the sign up page. That stuff seems incredibly relevant in this context.

If the intention was to paint the companies as working closely together, talk about how they actually work closely together, not about how the same VC firms at two different points in time happened to give them some money.
More accurately: missing industry wide shifts because of infighting and backstabbing amongst teams and individuals.
Google Scholar sucks for legal research too, and it's got a very thorough database of federal cases going back to 1923, and has a formidable database of state cases.

It sucks because it uses extremely primitive technology (even if it's start of the art, it's primitive in the grand scheme of things) to perform indexing. Like the web search engine, it relies heavily on things like citation counts, which makes it nearly useless for researching any complex point of law because your search results are full of highly-cited cases that might cover the relevant subject only in passing or in boilerplate. The results are shitty in precisely the way you'd expect them to be based on the kind of algorithms Google uses.

The limitations of Google's search algorithms (search algorithms generally) aren't apparent for web searches because by and large everyone is searching for the same things. Google is great at helping people converge onto popular resources like that. It falls apart in situations where you might be the only person searching for a particular issue. The basic problem with search is that computers don't understand documents. The whole idea behind Page Rank was to side-step that by incorporating human intelligence--that is the human intelligence encoded into the graph of links. Further refinements have been based on things like taking into account human behavior in response to search results, and aggregating over all the millions of people who search for the same things. Without all that human intelligence, all that context, you're left with a computer that just sees a bunch of text, instead of background, dicta, holding, etc.
Let's suppose they decide to continue working from home despite the policy change, so the company fires them. Is it for cause?
The research that I've seen supporting small in-person environments has all been carried out with low-skill workers (typically undergrad volunteers) on tasks that do not require deep critical thought or creativity. It's not at all clear that it generalizes to the sort of work that a senior technical staff member does.

I am not a researcher in the field, so its entirely possible that there is good work to support your claim, but all the research I've seen cited on HN in past discussions was crap or simply not relevant for the stated reason.
It's funny that you keep picking blatantly wrong examples.

scala> def ==(a: Any) = false
<console>:7: error: overriding method == in class Any of type (x$1: Any)Boolean;
method == cannot override final member
def ==(a: Any) = false
^

Maybe you should actually use the language for a few minutes before commenting? :-)
Single page version here:

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My point with math is that Haskell libraries and code use mathematical abstractions (like various sorts of algebraic structures) far more than lisp; I was not taking about what people do with Haskell but rather how they do it.

The type system does quite a bit more than just describe cardinality. The single most important feature is typeclasses; you simply can't replicate some of what typeclasses can easily do without a similar type system.

Apart from that, you also want the type system to let you control "effects"--not just state and IO but also things like error management and non-determinism. You also want a good way to reuse the type system to enforce your own domain-specific invariants; this is what GADTs are for.

The only serious effort I know for adding a type system to lisp is typed Racket, and I don't think it does anywhere near as much as Haskell. It certainly does not have typeclasses, and I think it ends up having union types everywhere which are more awkward and bug-prone than the usual sum types languages have. (This is a necessary compromise to integrate well worth normal Racket, but it's still a compromise.)

Beyond that, most people don't use typed Racket at all, so I suppose the main way lisp can come close to Haskell's type system is in having one at all.

As far as homo-iconic syntax goes, I sometimes miss it, but not too often. Having a flexible syntax that can look like math is far more important usually, and Haskell gets most of the way there without being too complicated. I personally think that seething like Agda's mixfix syntax is the best option overall.
As someone who has worked full-time remote since 2006, I agree completely. There are plenty of ways to be a part of the team and be remote - in fact, I doubt 30 minutes goes by in my day when I'm not either on the phone or IM'ing with someone about some issue. It's the equivalent of stopping by my desk to talk about something.
Volunteer scientists do not do the curation. They do editing and peer review, but they don't do the editorial work of deciding what articles are published, how they are presented, what's featured, etc.
Assuming (for arguments sake) out of everyone who applied you where the most ideal.

In that case since you were not hired, either you or the people responsible for hiring made one or several mistakes. Most likely it was multiple mistakes on both sides.

None of those mistakes were "ask a potential hire to do a simple demonstration of ability". Instead it was mistakes (on your part) like getting nervous and choking (something everyone does)...and mistakes on their part like not making the candidate feel relaxed, not providing enough guidance, and placing too much importance on one aspect of the interview...etc
I would love a Google-operated, tech-talk only conference, without the product announcements, give-aways, etc.
Properly dressed for it, I noticed it mostly in that I coughed instantly upon taking the first few breaths outdoors. Never had experienced that at as low as -30F or so prior.

Yes, wind... enough wind can ruin your day at any temperature.
Amazing that good products sell on their own, and don't need incessant moralizing about buying local.
Ok, I think that clarifies your intent, the question is purely hypothetical (many records, infinite resources) and designed to elicit the platonic algorithm given no constraints save time. You surely recognise though that 'improving' depends on the constraints which were not given? I find it curious that you characterise questions attempting to relate your problem to real world constraints as 'a sea of bullshit' :) Surely no one tries to avoid answering by asking for clarification of the constraints, wouldn't you normally face this problem with records in a db, not all in memory directly accessed? I'm not sure this interviewing game would suit me.

If sort first was too slow and it had to be done in memory, I would have iterated once and kept the results in an ordered list but not sorted the records during iteration as you have suggested, didn't think of that. Thanks for clarifying.
1) The social auth tool we're using only allows you to have one set of permissions, so we're using the default set for our overall application. If you see my earlier comment I did update it to be a little less ambitious on the permissions.

2) The list of likes comes directly from FB

3) There is an endpoint provided by the Facebook Open Graph to delete a like. However, you have to be whitelisted by FB in order to call that endpoint.

4) Yeah, the thought was that you'd come here to unlike pages. If you made a mistake in unliking a page that you want to continue supporting you can go back there on FB and re-like it. The reason we removed the button after the action is that it's crazy confusing to explain to someone how to unlike a page using the default FB like implementation (the only implementation) and I'm sure that's by design. If the button stuck around after the action, I'm sure that there would be a lot of unintended re-likes.

Thanks, we're trying! Our goal is to help consumers voice their complaints to large companies (that aren't always listening too well). Please give us more feedback!

Thanks!
> Especially given that recordings can be faked, there is no dividing line between these.

How many of the people you know have ever created a video that seems completely true but is actually doctored? I'm a software developer, reasonably comfortable with technology, but I wouldn't know how, and I'm not even sure if I know anyone I could ask to do it. Certainly not without a fair amount of expense. Contrast that with verbal accounts of "internal memory": even a three year old is perfectly capable of lying, about pretty much anything.

So, if you tell or show someone something privately, you at least have the fallback of denying it if they go and share it against your wishes. If they record it, then in almost all cases people will take it as fact and there's nothing you can do. Not only that, but then they can actually show other people rather than just telling them. For many things, that's a much bigger deal.
It's still sad that we lost open SMTP relays. It's sad that we're losing open DNS resolvers too. Shame to see the internet continue to get more locked down and less open.
Have you ever worked at or with MS? If so, you'd know that stack ranking is the reason MS has flopped in just about every field it's entered for the last decade.
Interesting, but I wish the author had considered attrition rates rather than just employment.

A US citizen is free to leave a graduate program without jeopardizing residency rights (and is also free to pursue career paths that are less likely to have visa sponsorship). As a result, unsuccessful American PhD students may be less likely to muddle through and complete a degree (but be difficult to place). I could see this affecting numbers where it comes to placement after the PhD is obtained.
Not to mention equating internet comments with seething hatred amongst 300 million people is a wee bit overdramatic.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Arcade_(webcomic)#John_Ga...
My public github is pretty sad, so I wired this up for GitHub Enterprise (https://github.com/burkemw3/song-of-github) and like my song much better now.
> On the topic of latency I would also love to see a TV that didn't have any of the crummy video processing chips so many have these days.

Many modern TV's have a special "game mode" setting that turns off all of this post-processing to reduce display latency. I use it with great success on my Panasonic plasma TV.
Is Yahoo Finance still pretty good?
Ha. I'm not sure I get the metaphor, unless you are talking about trying to get acquired based on your user graph, or applying "greater fool" theory.
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You are right, I meant the big media conglomerates, not necessarily old media.
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Can anyone explain why they would have to "work closely with NASA"? Is it a typo of the architect firm, NBBJ?
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Actually, I believe is to be the case. As late as the early to mid-90s, I'd say there was no place like the US of A (even though the Nordic countries were very nice also then, they were behind on certain aspects). Today US has noticeably declined (compared to some world benchmark, at least) while some countries have clearly progressed - the Nordic countries very much so. Visit the new Old World, with open and honest eyes (not every single thing is perfect, or even better than US, I'm talking broad strokes), engage the people and hear their opinions (they will have many, because the US is still dear to a lot of people from Europe who would very much like to see US step up its game as a true world leader in all areas - everyone wants a role model, and it's sad to see the hero waste his life away).
Agreed. I think consumers should be allowed to explicitly enable that for certain merchants, and perhaps set some kind of limit on how much can be debited.

So you do this for a handful of companies (the electric company, the gas company, etc), and for everything else, you use the push model.
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From the point of view of the border, the item has already been released from Canada. They almost certainly can't just dump it back on the other side (they would have to refuse it entry to the US). They also can't give it to him w/o the proper paperwork (bureaucracy aside, that paperwork insures that the proper fees and taxes are administered). If he won't sign, the only thing they can do is hold the property. Eventually, they'll bill the owner for the cost of holding it or sell it at auction.

I don't know the code at all, but logic suggests this is the most likely scenario.
Yeah I didn't see anything wrong with my services 2 days ago, which rely heavily on Sql Azure.

Right now everything is down.
"As this project progresses, we’ll continue to work closely with NASA, the community and the City of Mountain View."

I must be confused, but what does any of this have to do with NASA?
The Microsoft employee who managed to let the hotmail.co.uk domain expire is suddenly looking a little less irresponsible.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to...
Hosting your blog on blog.startup.com is also broken, because you derive no SEO benefit from it.

It's more likely that you drive traffic from SEO than from Tumblr 'reblogs'.

Hence, you shouldn't even use tumblr for your main corporate blog.
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When you say fixed fee, am I correct to assume that the number of hours is capped on that? Do your maintenance agreements cover additional features?

I will follow your lead and downgrade to 30 days. Thank you.
Eh, I tend to just go with whatever the person I reply to uses, or whatever majority usage in the audience I'm talking to is, which is why I used Fahrenheit here despite the fact that I live in Copenhagen and my own thermometers are in C. I'd use the metric system for scientific purposes, but for daily life I'm pretty comfortable with whatever mixture people want to use among such old friends as F, C, pints, oz, mL, cL, stones, kg, lbs, megabytes, mebibytes. They could hardly be weirder than the Danish numbering system!
Kirill Zubovsky - maybe more people would listen to and act on your sage UX advice if you didn't come across as such an entitled dick when you're giving it.
I'm not sure I agree with this. People expect to be returned to the index of that website/subdomain when clicking the site logo. If you want to give blog reader easy access to your main website, do that at the end of all posts or with some sort of accented nav item.
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>> Hosting your blog on blog.startup.com is also broken, because you derive no SEO benefit from it.

Any chance you could clarify this?
Not even that sage.
Look at GitLab. It's pretty much a clone of 80% of Github and it's open source.
Oh, that's good to know. I had tried to get SLIME playing well with Clojure but there was some issue where it didn't play nice with Common Lisp-configured SLIME and I bailed out.
We do have a failure plan (and ironically enough were actively working on improving storage resiliency, this just hit us before we were able to deploy it)

That being said, there unfortunately is always a level 'sitting on hands' in events like this. If you're in dev you rely on your operations people (and vicea versa). You put your best people on it and continue to go on the best you can.

All that being said, a fired rill just for the sake of doing something may cause more harm than good. If a rollover plan takes 2 hours (switch DNS, migrate data, test, stabilize, etc.) a) often times that'll take longer than the original issue requires to be resolved and b) you'll run into new issues in your new location (maybe environmental, maybe not)
What good ever came from open SMTP servers?
"The surprising question we get is: 'How many people telecommute at Google?' ” [Google's CFO] Mr Pichette said at a talk in Sydney on Monday. "And our answer is: 'As few as possible'."

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/do-as-we-say-not-as...
I think the asymmetric design is very interesting and kind of cool looking. But I agree that it also draws your attention to it. With something like an earring or patch of color on your clothing, that's normal enough not to be jarring, but with this...I think it totally emphasizes how new and strange it is.
The Swedes can say that because they don't worry about tornadoes. Is there clothing that could stand up to an F-5?
I can certainly understand why current employees hired under the assumption that they could work from home are upset. But the fact of the matter is that if working from home isn't in your employment contract, then you shouldn't really count on it being acceptable forever. A company has a right to change its mind, in the same way that an employee might.

If an employee of Company X demanded to work from home two days a week for some reason otherwise he'd quit, Company X managers would weigh the cost of losing the employee against the cost of having him absent two days a week. And then they would make a decision.

I don't see how this is any different. Yahoo! has decided that being on site is a priority. Current employees may feel differently. These employees should weigh the cost of moving or commuting against the cost of finding new employment and make a decision.
Why is it sad we lost open SMTP relays?
Moffett Airfield [1], which is operated by NASA, is right next door.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Federal_Airfield
Or they could declare another moral panic, and start kicking down doors and arresting people for the contents of their hosts file: "Bu-bu-but I didn't visit any of those sites!" - "Yeah, right - tell it to the judge, perv".
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> People expect to be returned to the index of that website/subdomain when clicking the site logo.

I'm not sure most people really understand the difference between "something.startup.com" and "startup.com", especially when the logo is the same on both.

If I click the logo of the startup, I expect to be taken to the landing page for said startup.
Thanks a lot sritch, really appreciate the feedback.

I agree that the gallery and buy now page should be combined, I'm starting to think of the site now as product focused, rather than showcase focused.

I like the idea of ditching the slider/carousel and putting up more actionable and recent products and postings.

I guess the home is now of a portal rather than telling the user anything special or showcasing why they should be here.

Great tips, thanks so much.
"Scientific research is by no means tied to Christian assumptions, I don't know where you're getting this conspiracy theory from."

Alchemy was actively frowned upon by the church, as was witchcraft of all kinds. People who worked in these traditions were burned at the stake and sentenced to death. Alchemists, like Newton, got their harder science published but not their Alchemical work. Other Alchemists/Magicians got burned to death for their work, like Bruno. There was a very strong disincentive to publish the more spiritual work, and the work that might have related to the convergence of science and the spiritual.

So people who were actively engaged in science were actively engaged in these studies and a.) were censured, b.) weren't able to get them published. c.) were burned at the stake

This was because they didn't fit into the Christian set of assumptions, which were enforced by torture, death and censure. So the texts that form the groundwork for our scientific understanding of the world leave out a whole dimension of the thinking of the people who wrote them, who were either unable to publish that part or afraid for their heads.

Asian mysticism is deeply traditional and faith based, just a different kind of faith (placebo based).

Everything is faith based unless it's actually rigorously tested. Your assertion that my experience is a placebo effect is based on your faith in Qi being unreal. Many studies have been done on acupuncture that have shown very real benefits.

If these types of communications are so subtle that we're hardly aware of them, then that means that they are in fact weaker than the placebo effect.

They're not so subtle if you train yourself to be aware of them. But to train yourself to be aware of them you can't have faith in their nonexistence.

People are convinced they spoke to God and were abducted by aliens, why should I believe that you can sense subtle magnetic fields?

Calling people who have beliefs that don't fit into your philosophical assumptions about how the world works delusional is both hubristic and counterproductive in that it turns science into something like a religion and defines the boundary conditions of what is and is not allowed to be studied, which actively inhibits our getting a clear view of the world.
And we are seeng sporadic SQL connection errors today (between Azure VMs to Azure SQL), so whatever the issue was - doesn't appear to be fully resolved.
Ouch, we saw a similar thing in the South when things went sideways late last year. We've taken a similar approach to Sql Azure, use DataSync to replicate to offsite warm instances.
NASA's Ames Research Center is just south of Google main campus, and is the owner of the wetlands this is likely to be built on. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Federal_Airfield