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I suspect you don't, because I agree with your counter-argument.

Case in point.

Not to me. There's nothing gambling about, trying to make it so that potential capability is more accurately correlated to imminent capability. Then both strategies align.

I wasn't stating the choice is obvious, I was stating that I think what we currently do is obvious. The difference is do we hire based on potential capability, which there's no way of knowing for sure, or hire based on imminent capability, which is at least somewhat testable?

So we end up employing large numbers of sub-optimal people just because they could afford to become educated / mentored / inspired, and ignoring others with far more potential because they didn't happen to have those benefits.

Yes, and my argument is that I'm not convinced that an alternate method at the hiring stage would be beneficial in the long run. I believe we continue to hire those people that are sub-optimal in potential capability yet have higher imminent capability (through privilege, yes). To hire others would in no way guarantee a better outcome, even if you could identify the ones with untapped potential - there's no guarantee that potential could be developed well in many work environments. If done one a wide scale, there would be a necessary drop in societal imminent capability, but the real question is how fast does it recover (if it does), and does it result in a better eventual outcome than another strategy?

That other strategy I would propose is to hire as we currently do (mostly based on imminent capability), and leverage the gains we know this gives us into reducing the effects of privilege where possible. I think the United States has practiced this in greater or lesser degrees over the last century, and I think it's worked quite well. I just think changing the formula of who works based on capability is messing far too closely with one of the fundamental levers of capitalism, and there are less radical approaches that can and should be followed through on first.
You're an edge case, even in my home which has 7+ users who stream and torrent we rarely hit 1tb.

(What I'm about to say is gonna be unpopular, but:)

Most importantly, there is no reason why the rich should subsidize the poor's porn and movie addiction. If you want those types of amenities make more money and make it lucrative for a company to bring you the services that they require.
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I meant "language standard library" (I updated the text).

C/C++/Object-C/PHP have short functions with names like strlen, strstr, etc. Java/C#/JavaScript have .length() and things like System.out.println()/Console.Write(). Ideally, I would like a middle ground. The Java/C# standard library is too verbose and the C standard functions are a bit cryptic.

It's great one can use different programming styles in JavaScript/PHP/C++. In PHP many functions are available in procedural and object oriented style, e.g. http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.query.php
To what extent does the industry use Bayesian methods? It seems to me that, for a given trading strategy, trading companies are really interested in the mean profit impact of the strategy and its distribution (e.g. "there is a 10% change we will lose more than $20M"). Bayesian methods will naturally produce such an answer.

Bayesian methods won't magically solve all problems (e.g. fitting to historical data) but could make the assumptions more clear.
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So, I love Postgres to death, but I'm a bit let-down by the json and jsonb stuff.

It's really great for document storage and retrieval, but the fact that there doesn't seem to be any story for partial updates kind of kills it for me. If it just had that, it'd cover every use case I could possibly want (except for maybe some of the Cassandra stuff).

It's annoying, though, because clearly that's what people often may want--just look at Mongo.
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Could you expand on this? As someone with no kids yet, your parent's comment resonated with me as I often feel that kids are being shielded far more than I recall from my childhood, to their detriment, but I'd love to see it from the other side.
This was a great short read for a Sunday morning, thanks for posting this.

Just yesterday, I read Sputnik Sweetheart, and convinced myself to read more Murakami. In the process, I've noticed his works tend to be subtle, and yet are very good at making me feel all sorts of emotions in the process.
It seems to work better in firefox than chrome for me.
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Woud you show them Drive then?
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In my parental opinion, there's more meaningful adversity for parents to give their children than terrifying movies. For my own childhood, a diet of passive and disjointed media led to learned helplessness.

My own children are forced to hike adult distances and work hard on tasks they find unpleasant. Hopefully this will lead to strength in the face of adversity.
Exactly. I use food to self medicate. That's why I was over 300lbs in 2009.

Only when I decided I was finally sick and tired of how I looked and how I felt all the time did I finally find the motivation to change my diet and lose the weight.

I have a friend that gastric bypass worked for, but there's lots of people where it only temporarily works. This will be similar to gastric bypass. Where if people don't follow up the procedure with a change to their underlying behavior, they will end up overweight again.
I'm sure Harvard has more than one goal to balance in their admissions process.
$9,999.95, apparently..

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Microsof...
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When it comes to file systems, I like boring. What I don't like is systems that have catastrophic unrecoverable wrecks because hypothetically a bit might get flipped at the hardware level. Or that just stop moving entirely when you run out of disk space, or whatever.

High-end storage systems support multiple hard drive controllers because expensive hard drive controllers burn up like matches. Funny, I've never had a cheap hard drive controller fails, but never throw out the box an expensive hard drive controller came in because the R.M.A. is just a matter of time.
I'm unreasonably excited about Firefox OS. Android really isn't open enough for my taste, and my trust of Google has diminished over the years, as they've encroached on more and more of the web and my data on that web. Apple has always been awful for the open web. And I'd rather write JavaScript and HTML than Java.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing this as having an XSS vulnerability in and of itself. If you're not escaping user input onto the page, it doesn't matter if some library is taking that data and wrapping it in a span. You're done far before you add a third-party javascript library.
OK, thanks for answering. Quite big I'd say, but still very impressive!
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don't wear short sleeved buttoned shirts, that's a bigger nono than wearing a tie without jacket.
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On Firefox and WebKit (but not Chrome) you can already do that, by disabling the JIT and thereby only running in the interpreter.

You do lose a large amount of speed on sites that have JS doing heavy things. However, on a lot of the web, you don't need heavy JS, so you might not notice it on a news site or your email site. Try to play a game, though, and it'll be obvious.
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I watched Aliens with my 10-year-old daughter a few weeks ago. We had watched Alien a few weeks before. She had wanted to watch a real horror, but couldn't make it through the first few minutes of Scream, so we settled on Alien. She thought the alien bursting out of John Hurt's character was really funny. And it is. She thought the beginning of Aliens was too slow and it wasn't all that scary for her, but she enjoyed the film overall. I don't know if I would watch Prometheus with her - I'm sure she'd agree that film was terrible.
I'll grant you Event Horizon (I haven't seen the other too). I was scared shitless for a long time after this movie.
My kids love the really 'German' tales - but I won't let them watch Aliens (just yet). The difference is that the reading gives us the opportunity to discuss the tale, allay fears, and try to find a moral message within the tale.

A movie tends to be presented without an ongoing parental filter as the images go directly to the psyche without pause.
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I'm not interested in the position, but I went over to mixmax.com and checked to see if you were using Meteor. It doesn't appear that you are. So, how/where are you using Meteor?

I'm glad to see that Meteor is appearing in these listings however!
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Thank you, I appreciate the info. The model that they use feels like exactly the sort of thing I'm after - and the fact that there are layers to go on top (like this common web thing) is testament to the general flexibility. Will definitely be giving it a try.
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I do like their second edit though...I enjoy having users extend my scripts. 8)
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Thanks for the reply. I put cubism in the bucket of time series data, where the x-axis is time and the y-axis a single continuous scalar with definable magnitude. What makes these timeline views unique is multiple y-axis values, each with no magnitude, just metadata. (Or perhaps the metadata is more important than the magnitude)

Cubism is hawt for time series data, but there are lots of good options. It's a popular ask.
One thing to note here, is that BTRFS use (Lack of use), is heavily based on the way RAID1 is implemented. A BTRFS RAID1 doeesn't do dual disk striping, it writes the file twice on different drives. You can do a RAID1 with 3 drives or 4 or 5. giving the same redundancy of RAID5 with a different name. If you want to double the parity, I believe you would put dual RAID1s into another RAID1.

I think the functionality of BTRFS is there, though the ideas about how we build redundant data sets will need to shift a bit.
TDCS is still highly experimental,there isn't much data on it.
Please don't read this article, and go try it.
The human brain is incredibly complex, the subtle effects or the long term effects of TDCS are still not known.
If you have people who depend on you like children, please do some extensive research on the brain before you do it(if you are so inclined).
In the wild I think you'd be more likely to use something like PyMC or Stan, which work like Prolly but support arbitrarily complex models.

Still, love the idea.

To learn more about probability theory and Bayes, "Probability Demystified" is pretty good. (The Demystified series is McGraw-Hill's take on For Dummies.) To learn more about probabilistic programming, try http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-.... Or Google for MCMC.

I dunno how you'd use it in everyday programming, but it works really well for any sort of predictions. One of the examples in the "Probabilstic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers" book is ranking a bunch of Reddit posts based on ups/downs but taking into account that fewer total votes equals more uncertainty.
Postgres could already index JSON fields since it can index arbitrary functions!

create index on invoice_docs((body->> 'created_at')::timestamptz)

Love hearing new Postgres features though :) -- jsonb for less space, new jsonb operators [1], & jsonb_path_ops for fast arbitrary querying [2].

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-json.htm...
[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-json.html...
Just about anything blows away mongodb.
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Hmmm. Let's say people in your state love bananas and the average price of a banana is $1 with a profit of 20 cents. And your friend who is married to the daughter of the governor suddenly has an exclusive license to sell bananas in your state. What do you think will happen to the price of bananas and subsequently what do you think happens to profits your friend starts accruing? Ok, so far so good you don't really care because you don't like bananas. You are your 10 friends sell apples and you all compete hard against each other and sell an Apple for between 95 cents and $1.05 cents. One day your friend thinks the Apple business looks interesting. He's raised the price of bananas to $1.20 and is now making 40 cents a banana. Now he starts selling Apples. At 70 cents each. 10 cents below cost. He's losing 10 cents on every apple but he doesn't care because he makes 40 cents on every banana he's selling. Naturally in 9 months you and your 10 friends are out of business. You can't sell Apples at a loss. Once you leave he raises the price of Apples to $1.10. Feel tempted to jump back in? No way, he'll just drop them to 70 cents each for a while and crush you a second time.

All of this happens because your friend has an unfair advantage in terms of his access to capital. Power utilities (and cable and internet too) are great examples of law mandated monopolies who generate protected profits. Taking that protected revenue stream to subsidize your entrance into a competitive marketplace isn't fair.
I like that they are targeting the low end, both in developing countries and now in the US. I need a phone for email/sms/phone, and I use the browser, calendar, calculator, and authenticator, but really that's about it. I don't want a 5-inch device in my pocket for this use case!
Don't know why this is being downvoted. It may not matter much in engineering circles, but anyone who is knows how to dress knows that a tie without a jacket looks silly (or like you just came from a high school homecoming dance.)

Let the downvotes rain you jacket-less tie wearers.

On topic: OP, you're never going to be dinged for wearing a suit to an interview. You may be taking a chance by dressing down. How people perceive you at first glance does matter, whether we like it or not.

Personally, I would wear the suit. That said, I have been involved in more than a few interviews/hiring decisions, and I've never rested my decision on dress (if you showed up in shorts and a T-shirt there may be an issue as it says something about your attitude.) I wouldn't give a leg up to the candidate who wore a suit over the candidate who wore a button up and chinos, but that's me, and we all know that dress isn't exactly something which is on the mind of many engineers.
With Firefox OS you could also write C or C++ (possibly Rust eventually) thanks to emscripten and asm.js. But, crucially, asm.js makes them portable. No compiling for different architectures.
> you will always, always see at least one mobile-phone in use

In any given theater, how many people were dragged there against their will to watch a movie they don't care about? Probably more than one.

This is unsurprising.
Is it possible to write good mobile apps in JS and HTML, compared to Android or iOS? I don't know much about mobile programming, but it seems much harder for JS to compete with native apps, no?
Please use standard date formats. This is needlessly confusing: 2002-09/2002
Check out Assembly.com as a potential option :)

(this involves releasing under GPL)
Pain-axis is enormously difficult/distressing to codify.

Stopping still has barely survived as logic and fact worth recording — as actionable emotional-intelligence.
The language closest to what you have described I believe is Dart, but it does have a VM.
I'm sorry but I don't think I follow you. Mirroring can never achieve the space / redundancy efficiency of parity raid, I don't see how the above works.
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I highly recommend Better History. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-history/obc...

It has quite a few features, and it groups visits by site untill you expand it. I easily deleted it all in one button click.
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enforcing mandatory W^X would mean such programs no longer run on OpenBSD

It really annoys me to see something like this. "Oh, well we didn't upgrade our OS to that much more secure feature because it would've meant breaking compatibility with a few popular apps...2 decades ago".

My point is whether it breaks compatibility or not is irrelevant. The solution is simple: set a reasonable but very clear deadline for when you'll adopt that feature and those apps will stop working unless they adapt. You could make it 1 year, 2 years or even 5 years, depending on how big of a change you're requiring of those developers.

But not doing it at all because it would break compatibility with some apps is just inexcusable to me. I'm also quite disappointed Microsoft hasn't implemented all the EMET features into Windows 10 and may not even consider doing it until Windows 12.
Or ToroDB ;) https://github.com/torodb/torodb
I made a start on it http://sediment.io

There's a pretty exhausting amount of work to get to the same toolset we have for text-based languages though.
Dont get it, why make both? Why make the customer decide on such mundane criteria. Ridiculous.
@jf22, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm telling you what worked for me.
It has definitely been an up-hill battle for Firefox OS trying to gain market share, but I think everyone (including Mozilla) expected that. Having played with one of their earlier test units and the newer Firefox Flame with FFOS 2.0, it has come a long way. Even our Android-obsessed designer loves the Flame.

It's a tough situation to be in where they need to improve the quality of the ecosystem, but need users to convince the big-wig devs to developer for the OS. The total user numbers we've seen from them is certainly better than we expected, but still too small to convince a major developer to build for Firefox OS on numbers alone.

If their platform wasn't the web, I'm not sure they'd have much of a chance at success, but being able to convince a developer the values of building for the web is much easier than building for a fairly new mobile OS.
Lifehack: Cleaning the house more efficient
Get a huge bag. Go one room at a time.

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