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The comments are amusing. It seems there's a popular opinion that to be an engineer requires a higher understanding of mathematics than what most mere mortals require.

My understanding was that to call yourself an engineer one must be capable of building robust and efficient things, whether that thing is a plane, or a bridge, complex software, even a website, matters not, so long as it is robust and efficient.

The degree to which you understand mathematics is useful only in how greatly it can enable you to build something robust and efficient. Thus, if you know more linear algebra than 90% of all mere mortals, but write inefficient programs, then at best you are a bad Software Engineer, at worst you're simply not a Software Engineer.

For that reason, at my current job I was asked to replace a man who earned his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech who's job was to build an maintain an API in Go, despite the fact that I'm a college dropout. Smart man, with a far better understanding of mathematics, but ultimately I could build things more robustly and efficiently. I had stronger engineering skills.

Going back to OP, right on man. I personally didn't enjoy math until I learned it using my own rules, by own rules I mean I shunned the established method of repetition until you memorized the process, instead opting to understand the underlying concept and keep my thoughts written away somewhere for future reference, knowing all too well by now that memorization is futile given how frequently I have to reference Stack Overflow.
I feel there is good and bad. I am glad he moved to a more data driven and agile culture. He is also empowering engineers in his organization. The bad is that they all suffer from the windows mindset and spend a great deal of time building for windows. With all the patents they own they literally own android and yet they are not willing to allow android apps on windows phone or surface pro 3. It feels like a slow march towards irrelevance.
Hey. I think you know more, A-LOT more than me about shells and stuff. I use a normal out-of-the-box BASH shell. I don't find any deficiency in 'cd'. None, whatsoever. "Goto" just adds a couple of more features on top of it. That's it. I wanted to replicate Sublime Texts fuzzy-finder, I added a bookmark/shortcut thingy just for the sake of it(..you know more features. ) It helps me traverse between directories and that's that, dude.. Dunno about zsh, fish etc etc. No idea about auto-completes. I made it. Found it useful, wanted people to review it. It was fun, got to learn some more stuff. That's that. Sorry, If you didn't like it.
Wow, that's great. Is it complicated tax wise? How did you decide to do this over co working or coffee shops?
Being a non-chinese company is a big hindrance.
Awesome! Any tips for getting into the program? I'm trying to get in without a CS degree but with a programming and SAAS product management background.
Can mobile banking revolutionize the lives of the poor?
Nothing at all, but their past performance of selling pens is not an indicator of how well they sell devices, or if there'll even be a market for selling other manufacturers devices in the future. Staples are very good at repeat sales of core business stationary. That market is not going to exist for that much longer.

Maybe they'll move to a different market successfully, maybe they won't. They wouldn't be the first once successful company to fail as the market changes though.
Interesting. Thanks for all that information.

It does sound like a weird case. But I can also tell you that, having been involved in a number of federal criminal trials, when the defense is exceptionally weak, the trials always get weird in precisely the way you describe. Ulbricht is hardly the first to discover that when the government has you dead to rights, often the best you can do is try to raise the jurors' skepticism about the government's evidence, and elicit testimony from people who think you're a nice guy and "would never do such a thing."

One obvious, and classic way of doing this is to suggest someone is framing you, and try to make the government prove that the mysterious third party didn't manufacture all the prosecution's evidence.
I'm sure they would, but I'm more concerned about people in my shoes. University tuition has gotten so expensive these days that I think we need solid alternatives...and that they can use some of that fancy tuition money to write their own exercises, if they don't trust students to do their own work.

Or they could just trust the students. At my university the honor code such a big deal that they let students take closed-book tests at home.
"The body doesn't care where it gets its chemicals from"

Sometimes it does, or maybe the supplements are not formulated quite right. E.g. I saw this at LessWrong: "turns out that fish oil pills suck, and you’d need to take approximately 9 times as much to have the same effect as eating fish, at which point they’d have dangerous blood thinning effects."
Link to the study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12848287
Staples sells devices - pads, scanners, printers. That's a big part of their business.
It's a tax on the stupid.

There's plenty of poor people that know there is better stuff to spend you money on.
> What's wrong with "designer babies".

It destroys our existing concept of the human experience. Is it silly to want to live among "natural" children? Then explain me why it's not silly to want to continue the species at all?
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How would revenues be transparent unless one or both parties tag the payment as "this is tax"? The payment processor needs to use a separate address for each incoming transaction, much the same as they do with their other clients now, so there's nothing there that marks a payment as being tax.
I have found real world experience and self-study vastly underused on a lot of engineering projects. I'm not taliking
about Programming, or CS. You guys can succeed without a degree. I'm talking about the mechanical, and electical engineering projects. I have tried to decipher too many blue
prints form licenced Electricial Engineers--whom I can guarantee didn't spend one day on a construction site. Getting your hand dirty counts for something. Know the theory--essential, but know how to put it together too. I have met mechanical engineers who can't work on their own automobiles--which I
found baffling, because these guys didn't have a lot of extra
money to spend--at least when I knew them. I do still kind
of cringe when people throw around the title of engineer though, if they don't have the math backround and license to
back it up.
For your analogy with Turing machines, do you have a better mathematical model of a computer? Nobody works directly with the TM model when they're doing theoretical CS anyway, they just describe the algorithm and everyone understands that if you really really wanted to you could work it down to a TM.

The same is true of mathematics. It might be hard to get everything precise, but that's not the point of mathematics. Nor is the point to be close to reality.
The Mojang acquisition was likely a very smart move. I remember the day it happened was the same day that Apple announced the Apple Watch. While I was aware of the Watch, my kids were completely unaware of it, but both they and their friends were very aware that Microsoft had purchased Mojang. They were very concerned about it and it was the topic of much conversation that night.

If MS is able to utilize the popularity of Minecraft in the <18 set to their advantage...
After using Laravel 4 for an internal company tool I have a hard time recommending it (sadly, I was hopeful). I found the docs to be uneven in quality/scope, some key features (mostly around the ORM) missing and the 'feel' to be slightly off.

It's hard to quantify, but I have used CakePHP, Yii, Rails (0.9 through 4), Django and plenty of home-grown 'frameworks'. From all those the most cohesive and understandable to me was Rails followed by Yii (surprisingly).

Maybe it's the docs or structure, but Rails and Yii have a strong opinion and it seems their developers have both CS smarts and industry experience, which shows in the structure and code.

I'm sure in time Laravel will mature and improve. Currently it just feels like there's a lot more hype than it merits.
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> "emergency survival social mode"

Man! I do this too. I like to travel alone too - not always, but maybe 30% of the time, and I find this exact thing. It's scary but exciting!
Is that disappearing truly due to demand drop off or just because everyone is cutting something off?
A Coursera course based on that textbook, taught by its author, just started a couple days ago.
Thread level reply is over so replying to here for your last comment.

I am from Small (3 Tier City) Of India (Rajkot). We do not have any co-working space here. I am planning to start a Hacker Space soon.

Coffee shops do not have reliable wifi here. Plus I am a contractor so I need proper Wifi to work over VPN,

Tax wise its not that complex in India. You can hire any CA and pay him approx 200$ a year and it can be handled easily.
The issue here is that the FBI discovered the SR server in Iceland and didn't credibly reveal how they did it, and the rest of the evidence is traceable back to the server imaging that Iceland did.

Against that is the assertion that they had Ulbricht's name prior to the server seizure, and that virtually all of the most important evidence in the case came from the laptop, which was searched with a warrant and incident to his lawful arrest. There's also the notion of inevitable discovery to contend with.
Jeffrey Way is the best. Back at Tuts+ I'd only watch his courses—no one else was as good of a teacher as him. Laracasts is even better.
It's not really a case of "allowing" Android apps. It would take a monumental engineering effort.
They are, but not as common as in the USA. They have them in France, too. I can't report on any other places!
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I can respect that.

We don't store any Stripe data other than a few non-identifying pieces, required to enhance the experience for customers.

Feel free to email me (oliver@accountdock.com) if you're curious to learn more about the security & privacy precautions we've taken.
Moonlighter is awesome. I've been betatesting this thing for a few weeks. It really is hassle free time tracking. +1 for moonlighter.
Right, this is all well understood. Instead of saying that, we're told: "And yet ask them about it and they shuffle their feet and stare at the ground. Clearly, any theorist who can solve this paradox will have a bright future in cosmology." So the author is either badly informed or willfully deceitful.
DRM and closed source software are not the same thing. Closed source software is commonly used to manipulate open data. Free software facilitates the openness of data and is absolutely essential but it does not make in any way closed source software evil.
Is the use case mostly about permissions and networking setup? I could see why a pull model wouldn't work in those cases.
Try Hired.com and careers.stackoverflow.com -- For Careers, I have not used postings, just profile access. Everyone I have talked to that tried Hired loved it (but I have not)
What's the benefit? It seems like it would just add more complexity to the tax process and therefore increase the cost of the entire process.
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What is the thing you don't like about Laravel community? (or is this what you say when other PHP devs are involved?)
Submitted an update to the Chrome Web Store. Should appear soon. Could anyone on Ubuntu let me know if it worked please?
Does that ever work?

I'm curious about why he didn't plead out. Nick Weaver accused his lawyer, Joshua Dratel, of deliberately dragging the case out to secure more fees. But that's not very plausible; Dratel has a long resume (among other things, he was the first civilian lawyer at Guantanamo) and presumably doesn't need to shake down bitcoin drug dealers for fees.

I wonder whether the prosecution was simply unwilling to offer up any meaningful concessions in response to a guilty plea.
As a studio art major in another life, I can't recommend McMaster-Carr enough! I was doing a lot of metal fabrication, lighting, and plexiglass work, I can't imagine finishing my thesis without their selection and speed. Not to mention all I learned just by reading their great descriptions and images.
>Laravel represents what modern PHP can do and be. Clean, organised, fully object-oriented.

In a JavaEE circa 2003-5 way. Not exactly what modern programming is about...
I tend to use Laravel when the client/project forces me to use PHP rather than Rails. It's not bad when coming from the Rails world.

I also have a bit of pride that it's made in Arkansas. Yes, we have computers and the internet here.
Why is it monumental? Java runs on windows already and they are third parties like Bluestacks who have demonstrated running android apps on Windows.
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> It seems there's a popular opinion that to be an engineer requires a higher understanding of mathematics than what most mere mortals require.

> build an maintain an API in Go

Unfortunately, a much larger proportion of engineering jobs require mathematics than you make it seem. Software engineers seem to forget that engineering includes designing planes, bridges, cars, lasers, electrical circuits, materials, and a million other things that require you know mechanics, statics, statistics, logic, linear algebra, differential equations, etc.
Cool! Do you use Telegram as a backend for jaconda.im as well? If so, then it's also cool to see somebody giving Slack some competition with a more open backend server.
My answer to these kinds of questions is always the same: you prosecute the crime and move on. You do not succumb to fear and loathing and pass some ill-considered bill that is acrimonious to liberty or modern social norms re: democracy or (online) security.
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That's probably correct, and it is similar to what Amazon is threatening to do because they are blocked from doing more drone delivery research outside in the US by the FAA: http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/9/7359409/amazon-slams-FAA-f...
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Thank you.

I've been working with Swift since it was launched in the Xcode 6 betas. It has been challenging. Working through all of the betas and going with Swift was probably an insane choice given that Swift was in such a state of evolution. Every beta would cause a sea of red flags. I'd dread having to level-up when a new beta was dropped, but I figured, might as well get it over with than wait until the GM hits and have things really be in a terrible state! My vote for the "best" error that I received during development was in some computational matrix code that calculates flight paths: "Expression was too complex to be solved in reasonable time." Of course, I read that as, "The math is making the room spin up in here."

However, I dig the language, and things have stabilized significantly now.
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Great! We're over in #prometheus on Freenode if there's anything we can help you with.
This does not explain the differences between man and woman.
Especially because infection chances are higher for women.
Assuming that males and females have the same number of average sexuall contacts.
Then you add an optional CLI argument that makes it skip the prompt, and use that version in scripts.
Ask HN: Is SXSW a valuable event for recruiting developers?
My company, Virtru, is actively hiring for several developer positions [1] and we recently found out that we are a finalist for the SXSW Interactive Innovation Award in the Privacy & Security category [2].

I have never attended SXSW before and I am hoping to get some input from developers who have attended in the past on whether it is a good venue for networking and meeting other talented developers who are interested in working for a new company.

I have read lots of posts/opinions over the years talking about how exciting SXSW is and all of the startup announcements, cool events, and other activities that go on there. I have no doubt that it would be incredibly fun. However, we are encountering first hand the difficulties of hiring talented developers for our open positions and I have that specific goal in mind as one main reason for attending SXSW.

Culture fit is extremely important to our team and candidates who already have strong opinions and passions about privacy tend to be more of a fit. My thought is that we might have some name recognition with developers at the event who are already interested in the Privacy & Security category and leverage that to network.

What are your thoughts on the benefits of attending SXSW to recruit? Are there any specific events or Meet Ups at SXSW which you would recommend attending? Are there any specific bars which developers tend to gather at to chat over a beer?

I appreciate any and all suggestions/insights from folks who have attended SXSW in the past.

[1] https://www.virtru.com/careers
[2] http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2015/2015-interactive-innovation-awards-finalists-unveiled
Where the fucking 'w' in hole.
Hit them up and see if you can get a support contract.
Google are trying to find a direction for web programming. The browsers have made plugins obsolete, but the plugins did bring something that the standard web technologies may have been missing.

What is hard is to change JavaScript from the outside. They may have found that impossible to do. The direction started with asm.js shows that JavaScript needs to change from the inside. JavaScript can be changed and remain largely compatible, but it will not be without the drawbacks. The path started with transpiling and polyfills may help to keep some backward compatibility, for example. :-)

Not all problems can be solved with just 1 technology. It will continue to look more like a mash-up. The challenge is to make it cross-platform. Google have to run ads on those things for it to help with the bottom line.
Agreed, his comments seem thoughtful and balanced.
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built this in ~2 days https://github.com/ooooak/music-app
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Gets the village blacksmith to quickly hack together a spear with which he takes revenge; a revenge that takes an hour and a half to finally kill the animal.
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Java runs on Windows, but not Windows Phone, which would be the main target of Android app functionality.
Highly recommend trying out any online courses (Coursera, Udacity, edX) and putting that on your application. I'm certain the Admissions committee is more concerned with whether you will be successful in the program than what your background is. So it's a matter of willingness to learn and preparation. In fact, the application asks you specifically what you are doing to prepare for the program. Try to answer that honestly before doing it.

Definitely check out the Google+ community here [1]. It's a fantasically active community. Great responses from students in the program. It is even frequented by Prof. Charles Isbell who is Associate Dean.

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/10890255460754763472...
(Disclaimer: I don't know Special relativity, so I might make mistakes that betray that fact ;)

We are certainly in agreement about the facts of the matter :)

The thing I find unsatisfying is specifically the phrasing "Newtonian mechanics breaks down". Breaks down how? Breaks down why? "There is a regime (...), which is determined by the Planck constant." to me reads like, and I am adding color here for effect, "The governor has decreed that on Mondays, Quantum Mechanics shall be in effect. All other days are to be executed with Newtonian mechanics only, except when Max Planck has a belly ache!"

You make it look like QM is a special case of NM, while in reality, QM describes all the phenomena that NM does, not the other way around; NM is a special case of QM. I'm trying to explain it that way instead:

Quantum mechanics is correct. Always, always, always[1] use Quantum mechanics!!! Newtonian mechanics is obsolete!

[1]: Well, this is where my lack of knowledge about Special relativity comes in.

PS: Did you know that in specific circumstances you can use these much simpler formulae instead: (...), and the error is within these totally acceptable bounds: ... ?

PPS: Did you know that these simplified formulae were already known under the silly name "Newtonian mechanics"? The more you know! :)

The reason that I am adding it as a comment is not to correct you -- you are already right -- but to maybe help other readers. QM vs NM did not sit right with me until I understood that NM's equations actually fall out of QM's equations in specific, nameable, circumstances :)
| the US had Afganisttan's cooperation to use force against the Taliban

What?
Did you just go full retard?
Those are good points worth reading. What you describe is very much the feared outcome of removing SDETs before SDEs are ready to deliver tested and solid products in the new model. I have personally not suffered any troubles, but your experience does not surprise me one bit.
Maybe it's a matter of taste?

I have worked with Symfony2, Zend Framework, Yii, Kohana and Laravel and find Laravel the most intuitive to work with.

I like that you can start using it for very rapid prototyping and refactor into more complicated structures as the application grows.
Oh, okay, fair enough. But doesn't she need a checking account anyway to get paid? Would it be more expensive to just keep the money there instead of withdrawing it?
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It strikes me as a project that should've been an internal framework, not a public one. Too many things break and change constantly. Rapid release cycles is a good thing for smaller libraries with specific tasks, but I expect a framework to remain largely unchanged (except bugfixes, of course) for longer periods of time.

Unless Taylor gives away control of the project, I don't see it happening. It'll keep being a popular framework, though.
We got it the first time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8997114
New Hampshire has one state representative per 3,291 citizens, which means each representative is being elected by an extremely small electorate. This is the smallest in the country. The US average is one state representative per 60,000, and the largest, California, is 465,674 people per representative.

The state is also subject to huge rapid swings in the majority. In 2008 Republicans won 43.5% of the seats, in 2010 Republicans won 72% of seats, in 2012 they won 45% of the seats, and in 2014 they won 60%.

While you could certainly argue that there are some benefits to this system, This American Life had a good episode on some of the cultural problems that this system has led to (see Act 2) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/478/r...
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Note that the article is dated 2013. The company http://litmotors.com has now pivoted (don't see that scooter anywhere on its website) to a bigger personal vehicle.
I have always wanted Amazon to have a store so I can play with their kindle products before pulling the trigger. Hopefully this deal can make that happen.
A big win for BABA.

I wonder what is the difference in efficiency between drone delivery and the old-fashioned truck logistics, taking into account speed, carbon emissions, human factor etc – I wouldn't be surprised if 5x or 10x is the factor.