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I think you misread the article: it sounds like he was traveling with his family, and merely exercising alone.

> Mr. Goldberg had gone to exercise alone
> Mr. Goldberg was staying at the hotel on vacation with family and friends

And even if he had been traveling alone, would it really be that unusual for someone whose wife is also a high-flying exec to have a vacation by himself every once in a while? Let's not turn this into gossip.
My impression for law interviews is that they're not super technical. They're all "Tell me about yourself," "What's your interest in the organization," "What did you think of the way your law school taught" — the kind of questions that only have wrong answers, which is its own special hell, but a different hell. No one's asking for precedents or deep incisive analysis, really, but I guess they can count on the bar exam to ensure a minimum level of competence. Is my understanding of this wrong?

For doctors I have no idea.
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On Windows the app generated is not using a WebView. Windows supports JavaScript as a native language, so there is no need for a WebView.
Yeah...I like to say that I want to die by getting hit by a bus from behind. Thinking about it now I would amend the scenario to include me listening to music on headphones, so I don't hear it coming.

It's good to be alive.
I spent a day interviewing last week one of those companies. 3 whiteboard interviews during the process. I'd say it's far from dead.

I was asked to write syntactically correct code in a specific language on a whiteboard with a time limit. That's very far from how I work on a daily basis. I could understand writing pseudo-code or explaining architecture but what possible data can you gather from how well I draw curly braces on a dry erase board?
This is very interesting. Maybe this is connected, but Singapore seems to be doing a lot of good things to try and inculcate a culture of tech innovation. E.g. National University of Singapore runs an amazing internship program that places undergraduate students to spend an entire year in US tech startups. I've never seen anything like this from any other university anywhere in the world.
I wanted a Lisp, not just a functional language.

I also wanted to push things forward in some aspects, like having the module system, first-class types & having higher interaction with the compiler.

Also, Haskell & macros don't seem to mix so well, and meta-programming is a big deal for me.
I don't know if you've dealt with any relatives getting dementia, but I don't believe anything could be worse than your brain and personality dying and leaving your relatives with a failing living body.

One of the things dementia destroys is your ability to swallow. Most demented people end up dying of pneumonia after getting some food in their lungs. That means one of most time consuming and simple parts of your body's day needs to be constantly supervised and aided, which means either your family giving up a huge part of their life to babysitting a horrible flesh golem, or paying an enormous amount of money for some sort of care worker.

Yes, I would MUCH rather leave my family after falling off a treadmill than dementia. I'd rather have a heart attack or brain aneurism or get sucked into a wood chipper in front of my whole family than mentally die of dementia and leave behind my body— burden almost beyond imagination— while destroying their memory of who I was.
There are all kinds of extreme and extremely implausible situations which could be used to justify extreme firepower, but it is not a good idea to use a military force as a police service. Ergo, we must accept that the right call will sometimes be "back away and negotiate".
See, that's an example of something that I do not think should be settable via radio. Maybe inductive or sonic communication.

Alternatively, you have the software check the set range, but the hardware (or a second non-connected processor) also checks it separately to make sure it's sane anyways.
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This article seems irrelevant in the context of Hacker News. His death was tragic, and the details of his death are morbid and off topic.
It wasn't necessarily the quickest way to go from the sounds of things. When they found him he was still alive.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/obituaries/20150504/reports...
Despite what I have said, I have actually been acquiring some "old" books (pre-Internet era, i.e., 1990 or older), even paying more on delivery fee than the book itself. lest to avoid history being rewritten, as someone, scarily, but truly, mentioned in one of the comments.
This is why I'm excited about the development of the Apple watch and similar ubiquitous metrics. From the heart rate alone you could determine many significant cardiac events, e.g. A-fib, PSVT, heart blocks...
Does Google really expect people to write syntactically correct Java? I've assumed Google is fairly similar to other tech companies I've interviewed at, where the primary thing is describing a correct algorithm and language is secondary.
It boggles my mind to think that this guy knows more about fractals than I could ever know there is to know about fractals. It's really interesting to me how people gain such deep knowledge of fields that I'll never scratch the surface of. Makes me wish I had more time.
Treadmills are dangerous. Mike Tyson's daughter was strangled to death by a cord attached to one, and now this. This is one reason I prefer an elliptical (it also drastically reduces wear and tear on your body vs. a treadmill and gives you a better workout).

This is very sad regardless of how he died. It just goes to show that you always need to have your affairs in order. They were an extraordinarily wealthy family and will be just fine financially, but most people aren't and need to be prepared at all times. You just never know what will happen.
Diagnostics are a good example of something that can be separated from the actual safety-critical stuff. Have a dumb output from the safety-critical processor that the radio interface can read.

If you're changing batteries or medicine, you're going to be accessing the device physically anyways, and so can change settings / dosages then.

Et cetera.
Unintentional, that's what happens when you write a toy not intending to publish it. Article has been updated with credit.
Lawyers and doctors have board certifications and licenses that make their interview experiences fundamentally incomparable to programming interviews.
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And yet it made it to the front page. Hacker News wants what Hacker News wants.
No. A good portion of the population never has to see this problem ever and gets uncomfortable by the implications of why that is.

Another possibly overlapping portion believes the executive and judicial branches need more power to do their jobs correctly. That usually means legislating away rights and reducing accountability for those involved.

And yet another portion is being too systemically harassed and locked up on a massive scale to have a real front for public discourse.

The rest/majority don't give a shit unless it becomes their problem and it rarely does.
You can move to Alabama if you think that's such a good idea. But I'm guessing its easier to just ask those folks to stay.

If you're young and ambitious, you can go anywhere, try anything. Tent in the state park while you interview. Visit the food bank. A poor job in a wealthy area is yards better than a poor job in a poor area. The services are better to start with.
People seem to think that by bragging that they don't vote, they're somehow showing the system who's the boss.
The downside of Simplex noise is that anything greater than 2D is patented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise There is another project called OpenSimplex that has similar results.
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This is also a Cordova plugin: https://github.com/manifoldjs/ManifoldCordova
Is <br /> really prone to that? I've only seen that in people actually trying to do XHTML.
To me, the main problem with papers in their current shape is that they are required to be more or less self-contained. When one wants to state a result that improves a little bit the knowledge in a well established field, he has to waste time and space stating the definitions and preliminary results necessary to understand his result. This is counterproductive both for the author and the reader interested only in the small new bit of information.

If papers were collaborative, one could simply propose his improvements directly where they fit in the reference paper, without having to write one from scratch, and readers would be immediately aware of these follow-up results, without having to search in dozens of papers.
Maybe?

It would be interesting to see what a Postgres - Elasticsearch foreign data wrapper would look like...
No USB-C port. Why can't they have at least one? Let's make a quick transition to the new smaller, reversible standard.
The only thing that fsync() does is take data which is already in the operating system buffers associated with a file descriptor, and write it physically to the disk. If the thread that runs every 5 seconds is really just fsync'ing, then when the process gets killed, any un-synced data is still in those buffers and will be available to read when it restarts, exactly the same as if fsync() had been called. The OS is responsible for maintaining a consistent view of the filesystem such that, unless the machine totally fails (or you circumvent the FS and actually inspect the live block device), fsync() appears to be a no-op.

It sounds like what you're saying is that the documentation is wrong, and that the translog thread is actually pulling data from Elasticsearch's internal buffers and writing it to files. In that case, the documentation which refers to that operation as "fsync" is very badly misleading because it disguises what failure modes it's actually protecting against.
Unfortunately the FDA is very reluctant to allow use of features like that. E.g. the watch already has the hardware to be a pulse oximeter, but that's not one of the advertised features.
Yeah once time at the beginning of their career. A programmer can have 10 years of experience and a huge body of prior work up on Github for everyone to see, and yet he still has to get up in front of a whiteboard and answer questions about dropping eggs from a building, or reversing strings.
It seems to me that the difference between a Cordova app & a "hosted app" would be that the Cordova app has the overhead of the "container" & ability to package some of the HTML, JS, & CSS in addition to using web views. The "hosted app" has no ability to package it's assets, but also has no overhead of the "container". The hosted app also has limited access to the device's API. I may be wrong but when they say "native" I believe this means it creates hosted apps for devices like the Firefox phone, while falling back to a hybrid app with a webview for devices that do not support "hosted apps". Can anyone confirm?
Yeah -- pervasive monitoring gives you three awesome things:

1) Per-user baselines (e.g. my natural temperature is 36C) in a non-clinical environment (to avoid "white coat" syndrome; from working in a hospital, my BP spikes to 140/90 when I'm around incompetent providers, and is 120/80 normally)

2) Great longitudinal measurements to see changes over time

3) Detecting emergencies instantly
The company puts a lot of energy into making Gunnar's work accessible - maybe too much. Dig into his papers sometime.
We do understand a lot of the base modifications pretty well, but that's all they are - modifications. I agree that it could be useful to introduce students to the concept of epigenetics, of which base pair modifications such as methyl-cytosine are just one aspect. But it is an aspect that is no more important than all of the other epigenetic mechanisms - so it should be taught in that context.

If you're interested in an overview of epigenetics, this is a great textbook chapter from Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory http://www.cshlpress.com/pdf/sample/epigen.pdf incidentally, James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, still works at CSHL.
Yep. NFC is wonderful for that sort of thing. And better than radio since it's inherently shorter range (O(r^-4) versus O(r^-2), for the same reasons as active radar). But still not perfect.
According to the description, it's more of an art project or educational tool than a practical music player. However, it still raises the question of why this isn't just being slapped onto Instructables or somesuch. I guess to raise money for the designer, but still.
Sure; but there's talent and there's complete lack of talent. Start with something you have a particle of skill at, is yards more satisfying. At some point, its beating a dead horse, to torture yourself with practice at what you stink at.

Talent scouts do a good job finding young people. They pick ball players, runners, divers, gymnasts early. Its not magic - they show early promise. And so many times they pan out. That probably means that talent is real and actionable.
Doctors and lawyers do have to go through a long and expensive process to become doctors and lawyers, but once they pass the bar/finish their residency their hiring process is much the same as anyone else. They are certainly not made to do some weird Kabuki theater demonstration where they are forced to quickly solve some difficult problem that has little or nothing to do with their work.

Peoples' assessments of the difficulty of work depends on how much they enjoy it. Most lawyers would probably consider passing the bar exam, while difficult, to be easier than learning a programming language. If they were told that our normal hiring process consists of being made to hand-write on a whiteboard, in Java or C++, the most optimal algorithm for a randomly-chosen complex mathematical problem, in 30 minutes or less, with someone watching and critiquing you the entire time, and if your answer is in any way suboptimal you aren't hired, no matter how impressive your previous body of work - then they (the doctor or lawyer) would undoubtedly wonder why we would ever put up with such a thing.
You're right. Those presidential pardons are reserved for important people.
Alive but undoubtedly unconscious and unaware (if he were conscious he would have reached for his phone).
The first table seems off given other data, e.g. http://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offens..., which seems to represent drug related crime at a much higher rate.
Obviously xeroxing a Hello Kitty coloring book is not better if you want a painting that's worth something and in fact the process a xerox machine goes through is inherently more complex than placing pain on a canvas by means of brushes. I also don't see what perfectionism has to do with the parent or the TFA - perfectionism vs pragmatism is not the issue being discussed.

Statements like "only bad engineers ..." needs proof or if kept as an anecdote I surely hope the sample size is bigger than a couple, plus I need some criteria by which those people were classified as bad engineers.

In my experience in our industry we tend to make outrageous claims without anything to back it up, which is preposterous given how much of our jobs relies on gathering and interpreting numbers. The TFA along with the myth being discussed are no exceptions.
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I'm not sure I'd want my battery to be "that" smart, safety measures coded into the power/battery drivers (which would be present on the battery itself, not main OS drivers) sounds about right. Optimizing and things like that I rather leave up to the OS, or even an APP (as long as it cannot do anything dangerous).

I mean it's one thing if my OS can control the charging cycle to some extend, whether Apple can install drivers (and bad guys bad stuff) on my Battery "smart" board.

It may seem like a big leap now, but I bet someday (or perhaps even now, why do people place tape on their webcams otherwise) it could become a problem.

But of course, to my knowledge so far Apple is doing a pretty good job in keeping Macs and OSX kind off secure (don't quote me on that), however than again I don't want OSX to become as restrictive as iOS or I'll have to switch to Linux t get my dev-tools working. (not a fan of that personally)
Doesn't dementia come on a bit slowly? At first sign of irreversible damage, setup a good bye party and take some opiate+benzo injection
I wonder too. I'm no help; it never occurred to me that programming was functional. I took to 'imperative programming' like a fish to water, at a very young age (elementary school).
Whilst I agree that hiring someone based entirely on age is not the best way to get a great team, and that not all older people are worse than all young people when dealing with technology, your generalisation that 'Kids these days understand the Facebook and the Twitter, but they're deeply insulated from how computers actually work.' is flawed and almost entirely incorrect. Kids these days (in general) are no less informed about technology than the kids of 30 years ago. In general I'd say kids these days know many times more than kids of that period simply because they've been exposed to it for longer, and then the young people who are actually interested in computers know many times more than that.
Is an active shooter a "back away and negotiate" situation? What about when rioters are throwing 5lb chunks of concrete at firefighters/police like they did in baltimore this past week?

I can't be in the minority here thinking that armored vehicles have a use case and that we should dictate those use cases by policy. Removing them all removes the ability to stop those shit hits the fan scenarios in a timely manner.
MBP 2009 here... works as good as new. Only upgrade was a SSD for the hdd. Still only 4GB RAM. Wouldn't want to do much video/graphics processing but everything else is fine.
I think it's the impact of outliers. For a county with a small population, only a few people need to do really well to significantly raise the average. There are hardly any downside outliers, only upside outliers when the average is around $40k.
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That is a far superior method for conducting an interview. Even though I'm not terrible at whiteboard interviews, I absolutely hate working while someone who already knows the answers watches over me waiting for a mistake.
I don't miss typewriters, never having used them regularly, but they certainly have their advantages as well. If I were to take up something involving more writing I'd probably get one. I spend a lot of my writing time with paper and pen these days.
You do realize that your summary is equally wrong, yes?

There are indeed 118 recognized elements, but there are many more "types of atoms", only some of which are due to differences in proton count. There are also isotopes; tritium is a form type of hydrogen that is radioactive, and several times heavier than normal (1H) hydrogen.

Then there are charged atoms, including more esoteric forms where an inner shell electrons are removed instead of an outer.

And there are excited nuclei, like the metastable isotope technetium-99m. While chemically very similar to 99Tc, it emits gamma rays that make it a useful medical radiotracer.

That is, atoms differ not only because of the 'different combinations of subatomic particles', but also because of the specific energy states involved.

FWIW, there are the exotic atoms, like positronium (an electron-positron atom) and muonic atoms (where one of the electrons is replaced by a muon). These are still different combinations of subatomic particles.

Also, "smallest things we have managed to measure" becomes a meaningless phrase. Under current physics, an electron has no radius. It's a point particle, and no one is talking about strings which are smaller than a point. Instead, string theory proposes that the zero-dimensional point should be replaced by a one-dimensional string, or higher-dimensional branes. These should count as being larger objects than the current model for how electrons work.

We have oodles and boodles of frontiers to our scientific knowledge. No class can touch on every case. We have to give approximations and limited cases, as otherwise the result will be overwhelming.

For example, in geography class we ask students to identify the US on a map. We usually mean the 48 continental states plus Hawaii and Alaska. But the US also includes Puerto Rico, Guam, and other territories, including Kingman Reef and Bajo Nuevo Bank. Teachers have to figure out if it's more important for students to know that only the US considers Bajo Nuevo Bank to be part of the US[1], or if the students should instead learn more details about DNA, or string theory.

([1] While it could be an interesting segue into the International Court of Justice, Guano Act, the War of the Pacific, phosphate strip mining of Nauru, the Haber-Bosch process, and gas warfare in WWI, these are students who can't yet identify the lower 48 on the world map!)
Laissez-faire approach to management. Being micromanaged causes too many distractions which leads to decreased productivity.
And for years NoScript has provided a surrogate script that makes those sites think GA isn't being blocked.
Reminds me of the theory for why some words in English have such odd spellings, that at times, scribes would make errors in their copying and since many scribes were illiterate, those errors would propagate and become part of English.
"However this method of parsing is CPU bound because
* it doesn't take advantage of multiple cores of modern CPUs.
* memory bandwidth limitations"

So not CPU bound at all then.
I don't believe thats within the capability of "hosted apps". This would be true of only hybrid (Cordova) & native apps.
Airgapped. Not just sandboxed. As in two separate processors, with no overlapping RAM / etc.

You can't do your example, because there's no way to get at the internal clock from the radio.
I've got a full advisory written up. It is unclear if the vendor will patching the device. When I get that cleared up I'll have a full advisory for everyone. In the meantime if you need something answered urgently you can contact me directly.
> I would argue that Groovy is Scala done right

The creator of Groovy, James Strachan, said 6 yrs afterwards that if he'd known about Scala at the time, he'd never have created Groovy, so he's arguing the exact opposite viewpoint.

> Popularity != quality

The recent blog by Jochen Theodorou, the tech talent that practically built and maintained Groovy for 10 yrs, at http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/2015/04/about-being-paid-... says about Groovy's quality...

> G2One management adding feature after feature without testing or documentation

...and identifies that G2One (SpringSource, Pivotal) management as...

> all of the paid Groovy guys... Cedric (developer), Guillaume (manager and evangelist) and me (developer) had to leave Pivotal

Groovy has two use cases:

* scripting Java (tests, Gradle scripts)

* providing a M.O.P. for Grails

If you want to actually build a system on the JVM or Android, use Java or Scala or some language created specifically for that purpose. Groovy was built as a dynamically typed language, with static typing features shunted on much later, and hardly anyone uses them. Groovy's for quick and dirty scripts, like those 30-line Gradle build scripts (unless you need readable stack traces then you're out of luck).
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