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> That's exactly the kind of thinking that leads to global nuclear annihilation ...

That is the kind of thinking that ends wars. Compare the results of this method in WWII to the results of modern warfare, where force is much more restrained.

> Either you're trying to end the war, or you're not.

It isn't as simple as that, you aren't just trying to end the war - you are trying to end the war while maximizing your return on blood and treasure. If your goal is to completely dismantle the enemy's war machine, and head off another war with them in a few years, then you are most likely going to want an unconditional surrender. So if your enemy announces that isn't in the cards, then why bother with negotiation?

> Earlier you said that it was "risky" to do so. How?

Because irrational actors can't be understood, you can't negotiate without understanding.

> It only matters that they never did.

I don't try to negotiate with salesmen when they announce a hard price, the resulting lack of negotiation is on them - not me.
You're right, the search need more work. This is def something I will work on.
If they are installing, you are using the wrong installer. The one from the developers section on oracle's website does not include these toolbar's. Yes, msi's are easier to work with and many companies do not provide them, not just Oracle, but when you are given lemon's you make lemonade. Especially since complaining to oracle will get you no where.
I wonder if this was inspired in part by the recent Alan Turing movie :)
Obviously it's subjective, but I'd prefer a machine with a 4:3 display, because when I'm coding or reading I need vertical real estate much more than horizontal.

I always assumed that the move to 16:9 for computers was driven mostly by either manufacturing economies of scale or the coolness factor of HDTV's.
Would like to try this as an employer, particularly targeted towards developers here in South Africa.
I loved the Stripe CTF. We're not going to adopt the time-boxed model from them. Starfighter : our CTFs :: Blizzard :: Blizzard games. There's no reason for us to ever turn them off. We'll likely have a particular flagship property but we have the option of dropping a new game on the market any time we want.

You don't have to rush through Starfighter games. Some people will, of course, just like there is a metagame to be the first guild on the server to complete a new raid. Players are gonna play. But if you want to pick up our CTF a year after release and just casually spend a few hours learning a new skill, you'll be able to do that, and we'll fully support you in it.

How do you make it so that the solutions aren't given away?

The same way you do it with math problems. Mastery of the subject material is the easiest cheat code.
This looks fantastic. One possible wrinkle: I predict that, although top-performing Starfighters will be a diverse lot, they will lack "diversity". I hope the Starfighter founders have a plan to push back against the carping complainers a venture such as this is likely to attract. (My suggestion is to point out that CTFs are the ultimate expression of "Shut up and show us the code." [1])

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6642
Congrats on this new venture, looks fun.

What do you expect will be the effect of this on hiring women? Do you have any relevant data from microcorruption (what % players were women)? It'd be great if Erin could also chime in.
Very original! Congrats! It's better looking than the old Möbius strip, and the maths are not that bad :)
I don't think that is the case at all... I think it depends on how high level you get... when you are building simple libraries in JS, that are abstractions on top of abstractions, MIT makes more sense because you can use it much more broadly.

When you develop an operating system or driver, GPL makes far more sense because it won't lock things away... the closer you are to the hardware, the more GPL makes sense.

The Apache-style licenses make a bit of sense for the stuff in between.
Nothing you mentioned here is a flaw .
Yeah, the other 8 hours are when you're sleeping and the battery usage is relatively minuscule, given that it supposedly can last 72 hours in power reserve mode. Eight hours of not checking time or anything probably doesn't have a more than a percent or two difference.

It's safer to say 18 hours as all day rather than claim 24 hours and have people claim false advertisement when they try to push its for an extra 8 hours. I use my G watch R pretty frequently throughout the day (still at 84% after about 10 hours) and on days where I forget to plug the charging dock in at night, my battery isn't much lower once I wake up. I don't imagine it's much different with the Apple watch.
Intel cripples their "consumer grade" processors by locking out the ECC DRAM interface. This forces server vendors to buy "server grade" processors. There, you get all the good error-correction stuff.[1] The fraction of die space devoted to these features is small; there's no reason they couldn't be provided on all x86 family CPUs. It's purely a market positioning thing.

AMD leaves the ECC hardware enabled on most of their parts.

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
If this works the way they're hoping it will, I have to think it will be a huge time saver over:

-Updating a resume

-Contacting a recruiter

-Replying to recruiters

-Searching job descriptions

-Writing cover letters

-Tweaking previously updated resume

-Sending applications

-Maintaining a GitHub profile

-Working on open source projects that may or may not fit a future job description

-Spending 1-5 days interviewing

And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure we could come up with a few dozen more.
A high-end mechanical watch also functions as a store of value - most "blue chip" brand watches can be resold and a decent part of the cost recouped (or, in rare cases, a profit made).

Consumer tech is generally the opposite, where the resale value rapidly declines to zero as technology rapidly improves.

A $17k Apple Watch is far, far more expensive than a $17k Breitling or Rolex when considering total cost of ownership and how much it'll be worth in 5 years.
Parent's point is that companies implicitly filter for this by asking candidates to participate in time-consuming multi-phase interview processes. It's already difficult to work contract-for-hire or take time off for several days of on-site interviews, and it gets much more complicated when you're not well-off or you also have to take care of your kids.
I agree. The Mail client is constantly beach ballin and freezes at times. The issue is resolved by deleting the account and recreating it again. Surely not as intended. Especially for an app that virtually everyone on a Mac uses on a daily basis. I keep sending my crash reports but Mail client software updates seems to never come...

Also, another really annoying bug is when screensaver goes on and locks the screen. Sometimes, if I try and wake it up to fast it will freeze with a black screen for 60-120 seconds before I can unlock it again.
Still fun to read. Could anyone shed some light on author's background that led to this piece?
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Reminds me a little of ADUni:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University
I actually began working on the exact same thing within the last month or so in my spare time.

Having competed in the CCDC for 6 years in college, I found it pretty insane when I saw that employers don't use real hardware during interviews.

Looks like I picked the wrong side project now this team is working on it. However, interviews are broken enough that there is plenty of room in the space =]. Can't wait to see what you launch.
Congratulations patio11, you sound excited.

I am curious to see how this will work for those like yourself that make CRUD apps. I didn't go to school for programming, but self-taught. I'm afraid it'd be over my head?

The best line: We haven’t done any consulting in a while. We will continue doing no consulting, to the best of our inability.
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Keynes might not see Newton under this light, but there is a reason others do:

“Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations […] may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.”—Roger Cotes, preface to Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, second edition, 1713
So, for those of us who fit your archetype, that mostly build web apps in high-level languages like Python, haven't touched Assembly in a decade, but do not have a team of seasoned hackers hanging out with us in our living rooms, what are the odds that we're going to be able to use it to refine our skills in isolation?

I fully understand that if your company is looking for pen testers, I'm not the guy you'd hire. That's cool, but since one of the aims is developing and refining skill, how approachable is it intended to be?
This actually looks to me like a huge win for Intel. A full fast Intel CPU, with no fan! The ability to be passively cooled was previously one of ARMs serious advantages.
Yes. I don't know how to describe how until you've actually played it. You know how World of Warcraft and Tetris are both games? Starfighter is a game, too. We're very much not Tetris. Or Topcoder.
>I grew up in a household where money, even if it wasn't abundant, wasn't a huge concern, so I could spend my time outside of school learning math/computers.

This accumulated advantage you describe is present either way. The length of the interview or CTF process is not going to change this.
Some advice from when I studied for these no more than two months ago:
1. Cracking the Code - get ahold of it and read through it. It 'll give you all the topics that you should study through and some tricks that are helpful in implementations. You'll still need to use other resources in order to know the topics in depth, like I don't think it goes too in depth into dynamic programming, but the book does have a large amount of questions and solutions.
2. oj.leetcode.com - This is just a website kind of like how interviewstreet was, and something around 180 problems that are interview style problems. You should be fine if you can do the almost all of the medium or easy level problems and maybe some of the hard ones. For these, I'd definitely get out a notebook and write out solutions and then throw type them up, to get a feel for how whiteboarding is going to be.
3. If you've got friends who are in the same position, actual mock interviews in person are an enormous help. I had a couple friends get together, and one of us would do one problem at a time while the rest evaluated them - basically acted like the interviewer.

With regards to timeline, I think I started preparing for my first phone interview a week early. The first couple of days were definitely slow, but with 3 days left, I studied for a couple hours each day before. For my first onsite, I found out about oj.leetcode.com about two weeks before and just did those problems almost non-stop for the two weeks leading up. Five days before the onsite, I rounded up some friends and we started doing whiteboard problems for a couple hours each day.

I guess preparation time varies by person. I did a little bit of competitive programming before this, so I would say I had a little bit of a head start. However, before this, I probably couldn't program a binary search off the top of my head, or approach dynamic programming problems, but now, I can probably handle a decent amount of algorithmimc interview problems. I can't say I'm pro, but I'm apparently good enough.
"You will use real technology. You will build real systems. You will face the real problems faced by the world’s best programmers building the world’s most important pieces of software."

I'm wondering, what is your business model? Are the users doing free bug fixes and work for the employers while they are proving their skills?
You don't need to wipe it...just set up a dual boot: http://www.howtogeek.com/187410/how-to-install-and-dual-boot...
Thanks for the great feedback! You make really good points, and I will surely take additional passes to optimize. It's just the beginning, looking forward to further tuning it :)
I think patio11 and tptacek hope this can replace those things, so that you can work towards a new gig on your own terms (instead of going through the usual song-and-dance).
Done. Now where's the dangerous trend?
> due to differences in basal metabolic rate

Not relevant to calorie intake (relevant to calorie expenditure, which is a different issue.)

> efficiency of absorption of calories

differences here are the aggregate of differences in the efficiency of absorption of particular nutrients, so while this is a real source of challenges in measuring total calorie intake, its also a challenge in measuring carb/fat ratio of intake.

> determining calorie counts in general (particularly for restaurant food)

Again, the same problem with calorie counts here applies to carb/fat ratios.
I believe this has been posted a number of times, but is certainly worth another upvote. Also, the poster is quite nice.
Ask HN: Will the $17,000 Apple iWatch have “Made in China” stamped on the back?
Are jewellery items exempt from disclosing the source of manufacture? If the final strap is attached in the USA, could Apple label the watch as being "Assembled in USA"?
I find it odd that anyone respects Quora when they do the horrifically annoying bullshit of hiding answers to questions you Google until you log in. They also require you to log in to view their front page (coming from Google) which is another extremely annoying trend. They are a step below Yahoo Answers in my opinion.
That's no small part of why I'm pro-nuclear. Burning coal dumps more radioactive crud into the atmosphere every year than all the nuclear accidents that have ever happened, combined.
iTunes links to the first five Apple ResearchKit apps:

Asthma Health by Mount Sinai

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asthma-health-by-mount-sinai...

Share the Journey by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Penn Medicine, UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Sage Bionetworks

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/share-the-journey/id97218060...

Parkinson mPower study app by Sage Bionetworks, University of Rochester, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftw...

GlucoSuccess by Mass General

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glucosuccess/id972143976?mt=...

My Heart Counts by Stanford Medicine

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myheart-counts/id972189947?m...
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The authors have previously made some bold claims! http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Content/a...
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What are some things you'd worry about a company like this doing that would increase dance-monkey-dance factor?

What are some things a company like this could do to decrease dance-monkey-dance factor?

We're not interested in making monkeys dance, unless they want to, and enjoy it.
Part of the current interviewing process is Github and side-projects. I truly understand the reasons for Starfighter, but are you putting any real value behind it? I like CTF, but it's not quite the same as contributing to open source projects.
I think I just premium vomited in my mouth a little. :(
It does! https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/lib/licens...
My first thought when reading the blurb on your site was 'oh great... they're going to make a CTF where you have to participate in a team, and all other members of your 'team' are actually AI programmed to be as distracting and abrasive as possible and you will have to work on a 25 year old PL/SQL system designed by a prima donna so you can show your ability to work in hostile environments.' I am sure that's not what you're doing, but that's what comes to mind when I hear 'real systems' and 'real challenges'...
I admit it's a different song-and-dance but it's still a song-and-dance.
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No we don't really keep a fund as we are technically not a business. Some of us have our own consultancy but the rate we negotiate per head goes directly to each contributing member of the team.
I switched to skimming the article at:

[If] you just want to set up your single project with a task workflow,
then go ahead and use Grunt (or gulp). They will serve you just fine.
You will not have to participate in a team or work on my 25 year old PL/SQL system; I made the PL/SQL optional.
> These kinds of discussions tend to devolve into platform bickering rather than substantive commentary.

True. However, occasionally (I at least) learn something new from these conversations.
My view is slightly different. I see the rise of DevOps as coming from realizations about how modern applications are structured and how that's incompatible with the way operations used to be done. Think standard n-tier architecture vs a micro-services architecture that auto-scales depending on load.

Applications used to run on a fairly static number of instances that were maintained by an operations team. When more capacity was needed, operations would provision new machines. But now, especially with the increasing shift toward the cloud, infrastructure is seen more as something that's created programmatically, or even in response to events (load or otherwise) in the network. It's a powerful conceptual shift to think of infrastructure as something that isn't physical, but is more ephemeral. Just like a process on a server may die, a server on a cloud hosting platform may die. But you can engineer for failure at the infrastructure level the same way that you'd engineer for failure at the system level.

With this change, you can no longer rely on a fleet of sysadmins to manage everything for you. Instead, you rely on scripting everything..."Infrastructure as Code." You create recipes to create each and every part of your infrastructure and tools to orchestrate everything. Gone are the days where you actually ssh to boxes in a terminal...there are far too many boxes to make this practical. Instead, ssh becomes the protocol that your orchestration uses to communicate with its fleet of machines. Things are much more dynamic and you start to view your infrastructure more holistically rather than as a collection of individual machines.

Once you've started to think this way, you realize that neither the traditional development mindset or the traditional operations mindset work in isolation. You need to meld the two together so that operations understands better how to automate everything and development understands more about the environment in which their code will run.
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At the end of the presentation, I was half expecting Tim Cook to pop the screen off the MacBook and say, "And by the way, we united iOS and OSX, so the MacBook can aslo be a fully-functional iPad."
I'm seeing reports of Apple laptop batteries barely lasting an hour after 400 cycles, having 75% of their rated capacity after 900, and having 50% after 1100.

I think usage pattern probably matters far more than the strict cycle count. Specifically, "all-day" usage appears to correlate strongly with battery capacity falling off more sharply as cycle count increases — admittedly, based on user-reported behavior that I could find on the web with as much time as I can spare this afternoon to faff about on the matter.
No sane employer would want free bug fixes. Think of what that would do to their IP assignment issues alone.

Our business model is explained in the post, under the heading How Will Starfighter Make Money. Briefly: we'll find the best engineers in the world, then broker their introduction to companies who want to hire them. Companies will pay us a substantial amount of money for this service.
Ask HN: Which site do you use to listen to audiobooks?
Wondering if there are any sites which allow you to have offline access.
People looking for an overriding simple comprehensive rule (or small set of rules) are destined to be confused and disappointed, because we simply don't have one with any degree of confidence. That being said, there are a fair few rules that are common to many of these conflicting diet plans that don't add up to a comprehensive diet plan but can still be applied to your existing diet. See the rest of this thread for examples, but it's _mostly_ common-sense stuff (that is still widely not-followed) like "limit quickly-absorbed sugar/simple-carb intake", "eat lots of vegetables", "eat a hefty amount of good fats (like in fish)", "eat a fixed amount of protein relative to bodyweight". Note that I'm using vague terms here, but a lot of the quantity terms that I'm using are actually directly quantified with not too much variation.

You basically can't go wrong sticking to the simpler rules that are more well-supported, and don't stress too much about the under-determined parts of your diet. For my part (and someone else could follow the same rules and end up with a fairly different diet), I basically eat a certain amount of lean meat or fish, occasional fruits, a middling amount of nuts, a medium amount of carbs with fiber (mostly beans and pulses), and backfill an assload of vegetables. I don't eat simple carbs and do eat the occasional dessert but treat like a special occasion that I know is terrible for me (e.g. like drinking 5+ drinks in a night: I'd be fine not doing at all, I'm aware that it's bad for me, but I don't limit myself to NEVER doing it ever).
Very nice work, and the diagram wrt the PS was very instructive & helped very much with visualising the bending of light. Thanks!
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I think it probably speaks to how 'mobile' you are with your laptop, either walking around in an office or even just actual traveling etc. I liked that it was easily detachable without any thought. Now I'll have to worry about whether or not the port will get loose over time if I aggressively pull it out at angle, etc.
Is it clear which design these smaller generators are using? I am a pro-nuclear power guy, but I'd be slightly concerned with the idea of having more of the conventional ones being used as if they're no big deal, even if they're smaller.
As someone who WAS falsely accused of rape (in my early 20's), I'm pretty sensitive to the issue... and yes, it does happen often enough.