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In my experience, when people used formulas with no understanding of where those formulas came from, nor what assumptions underlaid them, they misapplied them. All book formulas are based on models, which have limitations.

Would you really want formula pluggers designing life critical systems? Not me.

Book values, however, provide valuable feedback on whether an answer is correct or not. While the book may not provide the right formula for the job, it often provides formulas that "bracket" the right answer, and so can be used as a reasonableness check.

A central part of engineering design are reasonableness checks.
For me, battery life is key. I don't care for all the fancy gizmos, I just want a phone which I know will have enough juice for the entire day of use.
>IMHO, the reason remote isn't done more often is it's a hassle. You need the right tools in place. You need people with the right mindset. There are tax issues around employing people in multiple states and/or countries. There are also shipping costs involved in sending equipment around the country and/or the world. The lack of control over said equipment and the data on it... the list goes on and on. Each one is surmountable on its own, but add them together and it become so much easier to insist everybody be in the same room. Especially if it's going to be a high stress environment, like a startup.

Bottom line: The founders/company owners/whatever MUST be invested in the company being a fully remote company. It doesn't work otherwise. If you're at somewhere where working remote is handled half-assed, I suggest departing for a place that takes it seriously. They are out there.

Disclaimer: I work for a 100% remote startup.
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The problem i have with their "neutral, lacking security" icon is that it does not indicate that anything is wrong when in fact there is. https:// should never have a neutral icon. it should be VALID or INVALID.
While I do not want to distract from your main point, I think it is important to discriminate knowledge from rote memorization. Memorization and understanding are _not_ mutually exclusive, in fact, if you don't memorize/know anything, you don't have anything to work your understanding on.

I am a graduate student in Physics, and admittedly not in Caltech or one of it's peers, but I find that "memorization" (or, as I would put it, familiarity) is very important for understanding. I can't spend my time looking up formulae, I have to be able to just pull it out, or visualize it, at least. As the content I work with becomes more complex, I need to have more and more of the things I'm working on as part of my knowledge, ie., I need to memorize. If it isn't in my head, how can I put it all together?
The first time I read your comment I thought you were just saying that people always expect NFC to be a big thing really soon... I forgot about the big announcement actually happening next Tuesday.
I think this must have been some one-time glitch. I find the error message strange tho because I disabled this logging setting before publishing today.
It's a cloud database. If you know a lot about front end and don't want to do any work for your back end, it's perfect.

Just enter your data types as objects in the GUI and you're good to go. There's JavaScript too if you absolutely need it.

I've used it and it definitely made my life a lot easier as a mobile developer with little back end experience.
You have to realize the mindset of the people who support and go about these sorts of things. First off, obviously, they are fine with 'cheating' in any form so long as it is for 'our team'. They don't believe in 'fair play' at all and think things like open and fair elections, economic competition, etc are all just fantasies sold to the rubes of the public to keep them complacent. They believe strongly that the only way to actually survive is for 'hard men' to be in the shadows making 'hard choices' (choices so hard that they always involve stomping an innocent to death 99% of the time).

But it's more than that. When they look at America and its position on the world stage, it sees various pillars holding up America. The major industries and areas in which America leads the world. Things like media publishing, for instance. The reason it is so easy for an MPAA/RIAA shill to get the ear of a Congressperson is because they know how Congresspeople think. While the public sees a beautiful alternative, with artists selling their work directly to the public, tens or hundreds of thousands of them all making a decent living from their work, the only thing a Congressperson sees is a swarm of rats gnawing through one of the pillars that holds the country up. Decentralization is an abject horror to them. Centralization of power and wealth is the way they are convinced that the world works. Centralization, of course, as we now know, breeds very brittle systems. They become lethargic and incapable of fending off competition from more agile players. So there is a constant battle to keep the smaller players suppressed and lots of running around putting out fires trying to prop up the bloated, inefficient centralized 'pillars'.
https://weworkremotely.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote

In my case, I answered a HackerNews job posting.
Thanks chairmankaga! We compiled it over the past week. Probably took between 10-20 hours to get all the connections, then grab images and videos for each person. More information on building with Kumu is available here: http://help.kumu.io

If you're looking for other example to help spark some creativity, check out our explore page: https://kumu.io/explore
And for all their screaming, there has been barely an acknowledgement of the change. Quick to insult, a lot slower when it comes to acknowledging compromise.
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You should be obsessed with the user experience and agree that developer tools are still too hard to use. You should be meticulous in your work and have a strong empathy for users of all skill levels. As we work to grow awareness about Flynn, you'll be communicating with more than just engineers, so you should be comfortable explaining technical details in an accessible way. We're all remote workers, so your location is never a problem, but if you can speak multiple languages we'd love to hear about it!

A great candidate can share one or more of the following with us:

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Thanks Kelly!
They use shadowbanning on newly created accounts at the very least. If you don't have an active token on gmail creation (this is referenced in the OP by the randomized javascript), your account gets tagged and wiped in banwaves.
And you still need to have memorised things like what America is or who Hitler was.

Maybe you knew those things already before you started the class, which is nice, but no doubt there's a lot of other facts out there which you could have memorised which would help you in piecing together the historical narrative.

People criticise the rote-learning approach to things, but I think it's possible to go too far in the other direction. If, for instance, you teach your eight-year-old kids to memorise the capital cities of all the countries in the world, then that's not a huge deal of information right there, but at least you can guarantee that they've heard of every country on Earth, which puts them ahead of most adults.

Furthermore, they'll have noticed a bunch of patterns, like all the places starting with "San" or all the places ending with "-town" which can help them piece together things like which countries were Spanish or British colonies, which leads to an understanding of the history and culture of these countries, and so forth.
Of course. Oddly enough, look things up enough and you wind up inadvertently memorizing it! For example, I used to know by heart all the trig identities, not because I ever attempted to memorize them, but just by using them in practically every class.
The most effective way to influence this as a consumer is
1) Don't buy these products (in any form)
2) Do buy products from people who are doing things differently (in ways you approve of) even if very expensive.

Vegetarians do #1, but not #2 - which doesn't encourage a change in practice at all, just a reduction of amounts.

It can be hard to stick to #2 when faced with a $20 roasting chicken, but that's the nature of this sort of change.

editing additions (above is unchanged) because I was obviously not clear enough.

I was responding to a post asking what can be done to change a market like that, not saying anything about the choice of being vegetarian itself.

If you decide to become vegetarian for whatever reasons, that is a market signal. However, it is not a market signal to change how meat is being processed, it is a market signal to reduce how much is being produced under any method.

DeusExMachina's point is fair, eggs are a valid (for some versions of "vegetarian" [1]. The rest of his comment is exactly the same as what I'm saying - by participating in the market but choosing to buy products that are more expensive because of the way they are raised, you are signalling a value for that practice. This is much more effective for change in how that market produces goods than simply not participating.

So to be clear - I'm not making a value judgment on choosing to be a vegetarian, I'm just pointing out something fairly obivous - that not participating in a market is not a very effective way of changing how that market produces things.

[1] in my lexicon vegetarians don't eat cheese or eggs either, which is different from vegan's who wouldn't eat honey for example - but that's not really important
The US has usury laws? I thought those were abandoned decades ago? Serious question... I thought Delaware started by getting rid of them and everyone else followed suit to attract the business of consumer lending companies? What level does interest have to be to qualify as 'usury' now?
While the Physics courses at UIUC allowed us to bring in a 'cheat-sheet', the homeworks and the exams were pretty much 'plug-and-chug' multiple-choice questions.

Back in high school (in India), Physics used to be my favorite subject. It demystified the underpinnings of natural phenomena. In fact, Electromagentism was the main reason I decided to major in Electrical Engineering. Unfortunately, the Physics courses in college left a really bad taste in my mouth.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275970 (even though it was posted first, obviously the other one should stay)
My way is far simpler: fill and refill with $50. The 5% bonus adds one $2.50 ride, for a total of 21 rides. Easy peasy, with no weird values to memorize.
Not to mention that "more work" isn't even a zero sum game. You get more experience, sense of accomplishment, etc.
Yeah, and any changes to the set of nodes (adding or removing a node from the cluster) must be agreed upon by a majority of the existing nodes.
I remember attending a talk given by the CEO a few months ago. The strong point of CoreOS is for hosting application servers because it is does auto restart / updates rather than hosting can-not-go-down systems such as Databases.

This is exciting to me from a technological standpoint.

1. One of first large public projects written in Go (after docker)
2. One of the first large public projects using Raft. (consensus algorithm aimed to replace Paxos)

I am really looking forward to seeing how this project turns out. Personally, I wouldn't move any of my projects onto CoreOs for at least a few years.

Other than that, I always question how they plan to make money. Consulting model?
That's a 'nice-to-have', but shouldn't form the basis of the course.
This has nothing to do with yield strength, which is relevant only where the materials "yields" or plastifies. This is just linear elastic beam bending theory - you have two different beam cross sections in either case with two different moments of inertia. See also my other comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8276173

You could fold a piece of fabric like you do the pizza, and it will not keep its shape.
Does geography play a large role in being able to get into such large banking organization? It sounds so easy from the comments.
"According to Gruber, Markdown is the hardest thing he's ever worked on. He didn't spend a week on it, the idea was not obvious"

It's easy to see how Gruber is affected by the Reality Distortion Field... the idea is entirely obvious, has gigabytes of prior art (albeit without, dare I say it, standardization).

Witness decades of email, Usenet, BBS postings that used _, * etc for emphasis, let alone the claim that lists in that format are non obvious... well, frankly laughable.
> Isn't the argument from the article that the pilots are just idly chatting all the way down because of excessive automation?

We can make them play computer games that test their attention.
I saw a motorola support replied to someone on Twitter to say it's "TFT LCD". I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the verge describe it as AMOLED, but I think they have it wrong.
What do you monitor with and for? What do you remove the malware with?
I notice there's no mention of what should be used instead. I'm sure that it's obvious to a lot of people, but not to me. Are we supposed to use SHA-2? SHA-3? Or something else?

Also, does Google believe that we should stop using SHA-1 for other things too, or is this only an issue with really high-profile, high-reward targets like certificates?
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Possibly. Maybe I'll fire off a friendly email and start a conversation? :]
Seems like an interesting way to cast a structural shape. Possibly, it transfers stresses efficiently because it follows the deformed configuration of the fabric.
How to see in to the future
You obviously never worked on VR. Latency is the only problem, and far more important than the UX. Why do you think we still have no consumer grade VR equipment, even if all the technical problems and fancy UX solutions have been all solved 20 years ago already? Latency.

With a bit too much latency in VR your users will not only loose immersion, they will start vomitting and suing the maker. Google glass was ready for >20 years, but nobody dared to sell it. 20 years all the VR industry only cared about were the various UX tricks (speech, motion, position, floating windows, tiles, ...) but still latency, i.e. HW brought it to a halt. Even with special GL HW.

VR window managers were amongst the biggest projects out of Xerox Parc. Everybody had tons of ideas how to design intuitive UI metaphors for VR then.
Creative people will play around nifty interfaces for sure as they did during VR times, but we still need the cheap, reactive and not overheating HW first.
Interesting in an academic sense, but it seems like a very clickbaity way to converse with someone and waste some of their time.
They don't have to use BNF - they can use any reasonable grammar notation for the spec, and let implementors work out what tech to use.
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You're right that understanding implies some level of memorization. But memorization does not imply any understanding, any more than a textbook "understands" anything.

You get from students what you test for. Testing "what is the formula relating volts vs resistance vs current" means the student can regurgitate V=IR. Understanding what that formula means is something else entirely.
> ...are there are other circumstances where you feel like you have to choose between ethics and the law of the jungle?

I can choose to conduct myself in an ethical manner. I can't assume you will do the same. Get it?

If you go through life under the mistaken assumption that nobody is willing to hit below the belt, and you never take action to prevent and defend against such blows, you will eventually be hurt. There's nothing wrong with accepting the fact that some folks will play dirty, and please don't fall into the trap of believing that taking action to protect your interests requires you to play dirty too. It doesn't.

Once again, if you acknowledge the motivations of other individuals and the pressures they might come under, you are less likely to be caught off guard by actions they might take in response to them. If you adjust your behavior accordingly, you can often incentivize them to do the right thing when they otherwise wouldn't had you acted passively and/or obliviously.
What benefits do you get with CoreOS support? I don't understand from just reading the article maybe a real world example makes more sense.
Context sensitive languages are a thing.
No Android support, no thank you!
I meant the latter. Turning on backup and having it only do a partial backup by default would be a surprising behavior for users.
For me it is easier to version-control and review changes in asciidoc than in docbook.
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This leads to me to think about the longer term viability of bitcoin. Bitcoin uses a combination of RIPEMD and SHA256. Given the sha-2 family was released in 2001, when is SHA-2 going to go into depreciation cycle and what does that mean for the bitcoin network.

Given that there are plenty of op-codes left, the network can probably easily start switching into in the next generation of hashing algorithms.

This is the beautiful thing about open networks, it evolves organically. Whereas you can't say the same about bank protocols.
SHA-2 for new certificates.

SHA-1 has been deprecated for a while but is still in (very) widespread use, see:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-131A/sp800-13...
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/02/04/nist-continues-...
I'm sorry for your bad experience with college Physics. May I recommend "Einstein" by Isaacson for some really great prose about the wonder of what Einstein did and tried to do.
Anybody know if this has a gyro sensor? The gsmarena page claims so, but I don't know how reliable that is as I don't see any mention of it elsewhere. I find it a little annoying when the manufacturer's web page has a dumbed-down version of the specs.
The phrase "exceptional price" appears five times on that page.
Also sending plain text auth tokens is not secure.
Pretty sure Kermit doing the challenge naked is my favorite: https://kumu.io/jeff/celebrity-ice-bucket-challenge#!/kermit...
.. and Red Hat.

Distributed team, with members in the US, all through Europe, China, Japan and Oz. We work entirely over email, IRC and a weekly Google Hangout.
It's not a typo in British English! :)
If you want to define the debate in that way then sure, memory plus considered analytical skills is better than memory without analytical skills, but I don't think anyone was questioning that. People are more likely to question the importance of memorising things (because it's "boring") than of considered analytical skills.

One question that pops into my mind: can considered analytical skills actually be taught? I'm not sure they really can, they might be just plain old innate, in which case perhaps classes should focus on the thing that can be taught, which is stuff.
[Off topic]

<script>
var CONTENT = '' +
"Why Common Markdown isn't the Solution\n" +
...

That's probably the most roundabout way to put an article on the web. You are inlining Markdown in an HTML document. Then the browser has to parse and execute 4.5 MB (!) of JavaScript and then it can finally turn that Markdown string into HTML.

HTML documents are a pretty good choice for, y'know, HTML.

Well, if your goal was to increase the page weight from 10kB to 2.2Mb, you surely succeeded.
How is any of that relevant? Completely off-topic.
+1. I'm very happy with TMobile's $30/mo prepaid plan. You get 5gb of data (LTE), unlimited texting, and 100 minutes of talktime. If 100 minutes is too low, you can get unlimited minutes with Skype for $9/mo ($6 for a skype number, $3 for the unlimited minutes).
By the way, this blog post does not mention that Microsoft already effectively killed SHA1 last year when it announced that it wouldn't accept SHA1 certificates after 2016: http://blogs.technet.com/b/pki/archive/2013/11/12/sha1-depre...
If, as a founder, you don't have the capital to execute your vision, it falls on you to convince people that it will be profitable for them to trade real resources for as-yet-valueless equity. Developers will take equity if they think it's worth something.

I don't understand why the natural response to "can't afford good developers" is "pay them less." Maybe the company just deserves to die.

Founders' fundraising problems are...not my problem.
I've found a good use case is feature switches. If something goes flakey in production I can quickly disable a feature without editing files, and the full process around that.
(look at English in common core where now 70% of what students are supposed to read is not classic literature, plays, poetry, contemporary fiction, but newspaper articles and speeches and the like)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you implying that this is a bad thing? Don't get me wrong; I'm a voracious reader and I love the classics, Shakespeare, poetry, and all the like. They should certainly be taught in English classes, however you seemed to imply that the other things listed don't have a place in English class.

I think that newspaper articles can give great insight into how to read and interpret news and information, how to be aware of biases in journalism, and how to write journalistically. As for speeches, I think rhetoric is also a fantastic skill to learn. People should know how to listen to a speech, understand a politician, and learn to speak publicly. Public speaking skills provide a whole slew of benefits both in the workforce and in life, with confidence being a big one.

Yes, perhaps rhetoric, public speaking, debate, argumentation, journalism, and the like shouldn't have heavy focus in a common-core, freshman English class, but I think they should certainly be touched on. There are some very important life and work skills in there, and it would be a shame not to give everyone a little taste of them.
Yeah, big mistake thinking open book means one doesn't have to study. I know only one guy (Hal Finney) who could learn the material during an exam :-) As I wrote elsewhere, Hal was one scary smart dude.