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Can Someone Please Give Insight into Uber Eu Hiring
Applied for Uber-Europe, was denied, then took another shot at the refreshed position, with a different "cover letter" (see link)

file:///Users/Gabrielle/Documents/CVs/uber_cover.pdf

I was simply curious if anyone had any insight into their recruiting process, and the motivation why a candidate like this would not even be given the chance for at least the next step of hiring??

Thanks all.
A graphic in that story indicates that Nintendo are moving towards a device-agnostic, subscription-based approach to game releases. Sort of Netflix, but for games. Challenges would certainly exist from a controller point of view, but if they can provide a controller standard to work across multiple devices it could work.

Of course, this is mostly rumour at this point. Interested in seeing what the Nintendo NX turns out to be.
I'm really surprised you'd think it's standard for YCers to only use one operating system.
Actually, if you slow it down, the left/right legs are stil not quite perfectly in sync (at least not in this case):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuyeVN7PuTM
A boon for people who aspire for top companies. Must try :)
I remember the first time I played Super Mario Bros on an NES. It was like the first time I used an iPhone. It was immediately obvious that everyone else had been doing it wrong all along.
> It does not allow commercial use

It does, but I agree that the author should choose an established license instead of trying to make one up by putting 3 lines in the README: https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony
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If you'd like to have these problems solved for you, give Meteor.js a try. Almost everything's reactive out of the box. It could be perfect for a small, realtime app like this.
So far most mentioned profitable extensions are for Gmail?!
Creationism is a huge thing in the USA. At the state and local levels, where elementary and high school curriculum is mostly decided, there are fights over it all the time. Evolution is enough of a hot-button-issue that it's mostly glossed over in public schools, to the detriment of biology classes. People set up charter schools all the time in order to teach creationism outright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency#Heat_pumps_a...

The expression "coefficient of performance" is used instead of efficiency for heat pump.
Could be. I haven't done it in a while. Diapers are weird though, some kinds only go up to size 2, then you have to switch to a different kind and its not really just changing sizes.
(U)EFI has a very open architecture. MS could well write an NTFS driver and register it with the firmware to be loaded prior to handing off to the NT boot manager.

These sort of things tend to go against the grain of platform portability, though, even though pretty much the only platforms Windows appears to support these days are (or have been) consolidating around UEFI and ACPI.
My bootloader uses a fixed LBA block address. When I install Kernel.BIN onto the disk, I patch the bootloader with the LBA of Kernel.BIN. It is stored contiguously. My bootloader knows nothing about filesystems.
What else could they mean by "mobile"?
Well, those shapes are hard to accomplish with a CSG of primitive shapes at least.
This isn't really "plain CSG" though. I think it uses distance fields (a tree of distance functions), which can be of any kind. The simples ones are just primitives, but anything that has a defined distance could be used, including parametric surfaces, fractals... (If you are using it for actual CAD and not just visualization, you probably want to be able to triangulate though). These distance fields have some neat features when rendering, such as blending, which is hard to do with classical CSG:
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/gfx18.png
(from http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctio...).
You could just write:

let [tenth_item] = somearray.slice(9)
> "code-based" solid modelling systems

See the presentation video where it's driven from a GUI.
Search for shojin ryori, it's the food made at Buddhist temples (or temples of related religions), and probably it isn't the cheapest food. There are some well evaluated shojin ryori books on Amazon. Some temples will do vegan food, others will have eggs and milk, but I think you'll rarely find any kind of meat in it.

On the other hand, I'd love if they didn't put fish stock in everything, including ramen, I really like ramen. I found a ramen house where I live (Sao Paulo, there's a huge Japanese/Asian neighbourhood in here, and it's a great place to find vegetarian ingredients such as mushrooms) which offers one dish without fish stock, but they closed and reopened, and now I'm not sure they still have it on the menu.

And what has been said about vegetarianism in Japanese culture is true. They probably think fishes come from trees. I actually had an uncle (I'm from a Japanese family) who said he was vegetarian but ate fish.
Aren't you just describing Angels?
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And I upvoted yours for the same reasons :)
I would believe there to be a significant, non-zero risk that in the R&D process of developing a 1st law neural net, a malicious neural net is created first.
I'm not really sure Nintendo needs anyone's help in how to make good controllers. They're pretty much the best of the best at it already.
I am, yes. And while anyone can always write a similar library, it increases the cost of switching out of the Google ecosystem.
We use speech recognition to extract the words and keep track of their individual timestamps. Here's a high level explanation:

http://clarify.io/how-clarify-works
Because that's exploitation and unfair competition.

Imagine company A uses this program for a significant fraction of its workers. The government is paying the wages for its workers so it can afford to lower it's prices. This puts company B out of business because it can't. Now we have twice as many workers on unemployment...
Not saying that is the case here, but Zope used to use @@ in the URLs for view lookup. Like in /folder/item/@@editWithFancyForms.
That and ...

In all languages, regular verb conjugations are taught with some example, typically the simplest regular verb you can think of. It's "cantar" in Spanish, "to sing", it's often "parler" in French, "to talk", "amare" and "vocare" (to love, to call) are common in Latin.

In Greek, it's "λύω" (I untie), because yes, that's how common regular verbs are.
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There might be laws preventing working for free for a real company. Or maybe unions are opposed because it may depress their wages?
Mobile as in "portable". Which could include any array of portable (and non-phone) devices.
Eh, there are well-known situations where bare capitalism leads to under-utilization of available resources. See, the Parable of the Babysitting Co-op.

One of the sane uses of government (as opposed to, oppressing people we don't like to make us feel better about ourselves) is back-filling demand that the private sector isn't supplying.
I suppose that's how you keep the chain of economic coercion through threat of starvation going.

"We are giving you this free lunch, because we're uncomfortable with people starving to death in a first world country, but in order to maintain the strict ranking that citizens are only allowed happiness in proportion to their income, we're going to inflict useless activity on you. Don't have a nice day or it'll come out of your benefits."

(Current debt is being issued at 0.5% interest rates, a historic low)
It was not banned. It was never permitted in the first place, or more accurately, the issue was never even raised before this. A special interest group asked the government to ban it, the government answered that of course it's not allowed in science class as it's not science, there's nothong that has to be done, the group decided to interpret the matter-of-factly reply as "banning". There was no administrative action involved.
The frightening part really is that no actual profitable business wants their labor for free. So they must provide their labor for free to a fake business.

That's insane. That means in all probability, their labor is a negative for any employer even if it comes at no cost.

My guess is that this is a result of idiotic labor laws and tax practices.
For runtime features like String.prototype.contains you can use a polyfill library like es6-shim[1]. For new syntax, you can use a compiler like Babel[2].

[1] https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim/
[2] https://babeljs.io/
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That's actual work though, and that would also tie them directly with any of their failures. Can't have that.
Because there is no real work?

If that's the case, then I guess there is no need to expand the government or provide any new services?

And yes, I'm suggesting that instead of being paid to do nothing, they could be paid the exact same money to do something useful. If the law forbids this, fix the law.
People have already been known to pay for internships.
Tell me about it! It's great being able to ask what they've been up to, and actually mean it!
Thanks for reawakening my nightmares of getting absolutely clobbered by Super Mario Land on that brick of a GameBoy.
gitalternatives.com is still available. By the way, thanks for including GitLab so prominently on your site. Any chance of including a column for free private repo's with unlimited collaborators? :)
First, what "constant stream of new features"? Over the past 20 years it's been a fairly stagnant language.

Second, stagnation is not a good thing. I make my living writing Javascript, and being able to write ES6 instead of ES5 makes me happier and more productive. That's not a minor benefit; that's literally the most important thing you can say about a language update. And thanks to babel, it doesn't even break backwards compatability. What possible drawback is there?

Yes, this is ruining the "funny little language" you liked, but if you want a funny toy language, go use Elm or Elixir or something. Javascript is too important to be a hipster playground.
... unless you can't afford an agency.
Keep in mind this article was written in 2007 about the majority of NT installations at that time. Vista introduced a new unified boot architecture that replaced NTLDR with something that could work on BIOS and UEFI as well (and removed the monolithic EFI loader).
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Most of the UK and Ireland are arguably secular (but not technically) with most people holding reasonable scientifically literate beliefs.

Northern Ireland however is the last bastion of open religious bigotry and nonsense in the UK. Classic example. Republic of Ireland passed a Gay Marriage referendum last week while at the same time in NI a confectionary baker "Ashers" in Northern Ireland refused to serve a gay man who requested a cake that had support for gay marriage iced on the cake. The controversy showed that many in NI are at worst openly hostile or at best completely indifferent to gay people. This kind of attitude is carried in to classrooms in NI as well.

I support this move by Scotland but Northern Ireland has some crazy creationists nonsense still happening and these kind of measures are need much more in NI than the rest of the UK.
For posting a job, you might want to consider having the languages as tags (select many) rather than a category (select only one).

Edit: also, it's not clear if clicking Save will post the job immediately or not. After clicking around, I see that there are published and inactive sections.
Kids do get taught about religion in Scottish schools in Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies - where they can learn about lots of different religions and their different beliefs. My son has just done this course at National 5 and found it very interesting and he's not in the slightest bit religious:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/47421.html

[Edit: I got Standard Grades and National 5s mixed up!]
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Why not just run an emulator then? I don't think nintendo is eager to capitalize on that market and I don't really understand why there is any hype surrounding it.
relative to inflation, hasn't increased much.
also, fine if you are single but once you have a family with kids, you feel the pinch even if you are with one of the big ones.
The biggest issue for me is the time. Do politics, become PM and then chill all you want. As a techie, you will not have much time for family.
Also, as a techie you still hit the ceiling very soon.
If you are happy with the job abroad, stay there. Its not as rosy in India as the media somehow shows you.
Google Earth is on Linux
Picasa was on Linux

A lot of the decisions are based on returns on investment. Even though internally they may use a lot of Linux, I guess they don't see as much as a return on outside use of Linux. There has been a lot of success of running Windows based google apps with WINE.
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Add Groovy and Grails filter too. They don't fit in Java. Similar is the case for Scala.
Suppose the government is currently paying them $10 for a fake job. That's a loss of $10. Now suppose the municipal garden is worth only $5/hour. If we instead shut down the fake job and paid them $10/hour to create $5/hour of value, society would only lose $5 rather than $10.

All I'm proposing is France should get something instead of nothing.
This move, more likely, is aimed to protect children against idiot parents. Much like vaccination is being enforced. People do have right to be ignorant and believe whatever bullshit they want, but forcing stupid/harmful believes on children should not be allowed as it may damage them for the rest of their lives. If I were in charge, I would ban all religion related matters on children under 18.
In a peaceful world, advanced military tech would be solely used as a metric of a country's progress and a deterrent in the worst case. That's my opinion at least.
>having governments decide what's an approved view for its population

I don't think it's about governments deciding on an approved view, so much as government removing the teaching of obvious nonsense from schools.

Religious schools - which still exist, unfortunately - have no problem with forcing their approved views on kids, even after those views have proven to be harmful: as in - say - abstinence education instead of useful sex ed.
Exactly, the more you see the common traits of human communications beneath local syntax and grammar rules. Also the phonetic drifts (rhotacism) that push languages away from each other, when revealed, help to recognize patterns that were once obscure.
Worse than that, they eventually go on strike, causing the scheme to collapse.
Sansa Fuze

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3D...

The top 3 results, in order,

- 4 GB sansa Fuze player

- sansa Fuze player clip

- 8 GB sansa Fuze player

Here's a search that finds the portable radio using the search terms "pure one mini portable radio"

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

and a search for "microwave"
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

All 3 searches have the relevant items at the top.

I'm not saying Amazon search is perfect, but you know, sometimes I have to modify my search in order to find what I want on google too.
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I know a hyper-polyglot and he says it's not possible to be fluent in all of them. But it ought to be quite easy to reactivate one you studied well enough.
> Mail services are usually made far more complicated than they should be, and I understand there are a lot of desired features...

That was my impression of the whole thing, too. I've long had an exim configuration I could decorate my walls with, without understanding what most of it did or if it was secure.

Recently, I got so fed up I began writing my own mail server suite. It's still pretty basic and in development, but it does have some of the features you mention, namely

> SMTP

> POP3

> WebMail (though rudimentary)

> WebAdmin

> Multi-Domain support

In the pipeline, but not yet ready

> IMAP

> Plugins

Some of the goals of the project are to have a mail processing suite with a clear interface between the modules, as well as easy extensibility and configuration.

Me and some people I've talked into testing it already run some instances, and so far it has proved pretty stable.

Caveat: The backend is an SQLite database, so if your use-case is serving a lot of clients, there might be some lock contention.

If you're interested, check out https://github.com/cmail-mta / http://cmail.rocks/
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I guess at this moment, the conclusion is: not really, but there are a few exceptions.
Can you actually answer why his observations are wrong instead of saying the problem exists in other fields?
As a followup, I'm a heavy proponent of military research. I'm planning to somehow start a research lab or something (think MIT's Lincoln Lab) in my home country Tunisia. Now that we have democracy, it's time to build our own infrastructure and industries, and I think military should be at the forefront of such a movement.

There's still ways to go.. I still need to finish up my BSc, get a PhD in EE, and finally gain solid experience abroad :)
establish such a business without telling the people that it's fake

How do you tell the difference between this and a VC-funded startup which never acquires any paying customers, without resorting to speculation about what its value might have been were it to acquire customers?
I'm also still pissed that I can't have "tracker1" for my Google+ profile URL.. my old google profile was "tracker1" and half the first two pages of results on google search for "tracker1" are references to me.
Hey, Anshuman here. Just came across this.
Can't agree with you more. I'd change the process if it was up to me. However, building a new process, I guess, will take a lot of time with the same set of experiments happening again.
Its highly unlikely that it will be adopted immediately everywhere else. This is more of a quick fix to the process till something better comes along.

There are a lot of things that are broken here. The huge gap between the university curriculum and the real world industry needs shouldn't exist in the first place. Which is what our longer term vision is. Watch out for more :)
> The people you're quoting clearly read at least part of the article (they quoted or paraphrased it). I think it's fair to assume they thought anyone reading their comments would read them in the context of the article.

That's true, but it doesn't respond to either of my concerns:

1. Did the commenters gloss over the criticism? Do they understand that the criticism of bicameralism is more scientifically valid than the idea itself?

2. Could an HN reader who didn't read the article gather from the comments that bicameralism is not established scientific fact?
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I thought that might be what you meant, I just always associate the word mobile with phones and thought I might have been missing something. The 3DS eShop already has a lot of popular NES games, though and keeps expanding fairly consistently.
Why is it bothersome that the goverment decides that it is illegal for schools to teach a lie?

Schools are a social(ist) institution put in place by the goverment to ensure people have an equal access to knowledge - a foundation.
Schools also have to follow a certain curriculum which would give this foundation. A school cannot simply choose to not teach reading or writing, or teach that the earth is flat because they beleive this is the right thing to do.

This has come up previously with different topics over the years. In many countries it is explicitly illegal for schools to teach that the Holocaust ever happened, or use text books that alledge this.

And, this is probably a good thing.
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http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs gives a 404
Your argument is not really an argument, but merely the statement of the assumption that value (in general) and monetary value are the same thing.

It is hard to define value in general (and I cannot do it) simply because unlike money, there is no clear way of numerical measurement. It may be tempting for technical folks to believe otherwise, but things can matter very much even when they are not easily measured numerically.

So why is your assumption incorrect? The fact that different market institutions lead to different outcomes given the same underlying preferences of individuals is really enough to show this. If you can keep the same set of people with the same set of beliefs and preferences, but obtain different prices merely by changing the market institutions, then this means that the prices do not accurately reflect the underlying value (in the general sense).

Yes, money is an extremely useful proxy for "value to society", but it is only a proxy.

Consider this thought experiment. Suppose that tomorrow, your city council decides to put more money into work making the city more beautiful. More people will be paid to tend to municipal gardens, among other things.

Does this mean that suddenly, society values a beautiful city more? Did preferences change over night? I would argue that it is the other way around: Society has always valued a beautiful city more, but the existing market institutions did not translate this valuation into monetary terms. People noticed the discrepancy and effected political change to bring the money in line with underlying valuations.

The belief that "the market" is this objective institution is very widely spread today. This is unfortunate, because "the market" is not a fixed thing. Market institutions can be changed via politics, and those in power use that fact for their own benefit. I would be so happy if more people recognized that the assumption you stated is really part of an ideology and should be treated as such: potentially useful at times, but not a universal truth.
I don't know why this got a downvote as it's an accurate summary of the article.
It's not important to speak all of them at the same time or is it? If you need 2-4 weeks to get back to fluency in one you haven't used for a while should be quite okay.

And that softer requirement is also not cheating. If you speak many other languages you even need to reactivate your native language.

It's reasonable to ask what a person means when they "speak X languages", though. It's in itself more vague than one might think. If you ask a monolingual person he might consider a C2 (European Framework) level to not be "speak my language", while a language learner might consider a barely passed B2 and then never used again as "speaking that language".
90% of the time Vinod Khosla pulls numbers out of his ass.

It's amazing really how much this guy subs the press. He acts as the entrepreneur's friend when the truth in the Valley is the exact opposite.

Beware.
hi there,
theres already a sql like query language out there called AQL. Heres the link:
https://docs.arangodb.com/Aql/index.html
I rly like your approach to finding things in repositories though
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The best investors actively do this all day long.

I know one who hosts his/her own 'career sessions' for selected Stanford students -- mostly to identify and build new teams after seeing interactions.
> It is inherently non-scientific and so cannot inform any rational decision we make, and it is important to make sure that people understand that...

Yes, but I'm saying people don't understand that.
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