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study what you like, not what anonymous recruiters and employers will have presumably wanted you to study. i have a degree in CS (which is what i wanted to study) but do wish i had a music minor or at least had some time to take some real music courses in college.

when looking at hundreds of resumes for prospective hires, i don't think i once looked at the school or degree somebody had. i barely looked at the resume at all; past experience is nice to thumb through but conversation with the candidate was the only real way to tell if they know what they're doing.

as for getting past anonymous HR resume scans, don't worry about it. nobody can really get past those anyway. your best bet is and always will be inside referrals.
1. Don't jump to the conclusion that the output of a spinning algorithm doesn't infringe the copyright in the original input. I haven't done any research on the question, but I'd be willing to bet a six-pack of Lone Star (beer) that a decent copyright lawyer could make the case that it is indeed an infringement. (I don't do litigation anymore, so I'm not that lawyer.)

2. You should immediately look into registering the copyright for your work -- if you're a U.S. author, you can't file suit for infringement without first registering the copyright.

3. GENERAL NOTE: Anyone concerned about having their copyrighted work ripped off should register the copyright NO LATER THAN three months after first "publication." Otherwise, you may well forfeit your right to have the judge order an infringer to pay your attorneys' fees (which can be no small matter). The U.S. Copyright Office has on-line registration capability at http://www.copyright.gov/eco/.
Thanks for the advice. I like my job that I have now. I think I will call off my meeting with company X due to conflict of interest.
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Very good idea! I liked very much what I saw in the video. I agree with koevet this would be awesome for educational purposes.

Keep up the good work!
Sounds similar to what Samsung did at colleges and airports:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmV...
Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources?
I'm interested in finding a good set of resources for creating a comprehensive, personal fitness plan. I ask here because I saw an interesting article posted here on interval training which got me thinking about this. Essentially, I have a pretty good idea about what I need in terms of strength and endurance _exercises_, but one key point of this (and every other) article on the subject seems to be that diet is the other key component; however, every time I search, I just end up wading through a sea of fad diets and bizarre voodoo solutions. I just want some places to look for well-founded and human principle for a diet, ideally with some clear explanation of how exercise fits in with it.
There is a huge difference between being monitored whilst performing your duty that you're being paid for by taxpayers and being spied upon in your own private life.
Thanks for the suggestion. Well, can't change this video anymore but I'll note that for future videos we'll be making!
I would not classify mathematics as irrelevant. Math serves as the foundation for all of science and engineering. I would bet that most CS and Engineering grad students (and industry professionals) wish they had a stronger mathematics background ... even those with strong mathematics backgrounds ;-)
Yeah, it is one of the big unknowns we are testing with this startup, but for us it makes a lot of sense. By being open about our technology, we hope to gain eyeballs, traction, and goodwill from fellow hackers who might be our future customers. By being open about our ideas, we expose them to criticism so that we can reform them to be more realistic and to exploit new opportunities that we hadn't considered.
"a lot has been sold to the investors and he could should have shown up years ago."

How about 50% of just Zuckerberg's share? Surely that would be fair.
Wishing you much luck. It's great to see you launching.
Games have music so if you write a good song for your game you have written a "good song" + some other stuff.
I wish I could edit the title. Sorry about that.
It's awesome to see a startup developing some genuinely new interesting tech rather than yet another project management or GTD app on $framework. Really neat stuff!
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A PSA for those who explain monads:

I've read several monad tutorials and read countless comments describing their uses, and I have not understood their advantages until reading this article. I'll fess up to my part of the problem: I never wrote any after reading these tutorials, but I wouldn't have known what to try. I knew they are an abstraction for computation (what isn't?), and they let you do things like safe division and LINQ, and they're like a burrito (what isn't?), but I could never look at code and say, "Obviously this needs a monad!" Demonstrating how monads introduce context, after showing what you mean by context and why it's useful, is a very helpful approach. Pronouns were a nice analogy. I don't fully grok monads yet, but now I'll look at code and decide that it might be nicer if I introduce a context
This is very cool. I could certainly see myself using this.

The very best of luck with your YC application.

A similar project you may get inspiration from:

http://lifehacker.com/5590935/phpvirtualbox-manages-your-vir...
All there is to do in heaven is write hymns.

I'm a drummer and God's not very fond and it sucks competing with angels. God liked Abel's offering more than Cain and Cain killed him. Think about that.

Here's some songs by show-off angels, bootlegs from Heaven.

http://www.losethos.com/hymns.html

I have a computer systems engineering degree (embedded systems) and a electrical engineering masters (control systems) from ASU. Not very useful in eternity. Yeah, God's got awesome computers which have no problem predicting all the timings of my machine so a mouse click can land on an exact nanosecond.
It will only teach you a small bit of math (i.e. Trigonometry) but try programming a little 2D rocket ship game with some physics and movement etc. It can be fun and you will get a better feel for the maths involved. don't use libraries. Use javascript with canvas - easy as pie.
Same problem here: the one feature that all these editors lack is the ability to restrict what kind of formatting that the users can create.

In a system I've created for a client, some users are allowed to use e.g. bold and italic, but most users aren't (because they would go overboard and make every other word bold). Post-scrubbing the edited html often breaks the editing experience, and browsers have lot's of bugs in contenteditable.
I doubt a single email would work. The content farm would actaully hold on the said article, hoping that the issue escalates to a public flame war and they get links from the blogosphere. Bad publicity is still publicity for those operations.
If you love music and like the degree structure go for it. You'll be able to do plenty of things with your time and talents that will look good if applying to marketing or business jobs. Have you ever tried to organise rehearsals or land gigs? It takes a lot of work.

And if someone won't employ you because you didn't do management courses or some other silly criteria, trust me you don't want to work there.

The other way round is fine too. I know plenty of seriously accomplished musicians (at an Other university) who were chemists, mathematicians, historians, you name it. The orchestras and ensembles are of an extremely high standard - you won't be short of opportunities.
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The result of this insightful study is about as surprising as "Women may have two breasts, vagina".

Also, what they don't tell you is that a prestigious accent can and will improve speaker's credibility.
"... At the moment StackVM is in its 3rd major iteration already and is almost entirely built on node.js. Since we're doing everything open-source, we've written a bunch of reusable node.js modules: ..."

Most significant bit, many thx.
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There's good potential for these kinds of app, especially now in the age of cloud computing.
Yea, you pretty much have to replace every component it comes with. The stock "Alert Manager" just sometimes doesn't send alerts, etc.
"Discovering math", depending on what you mean, could be setting the bar pretty high. Memorizing formula is not what mathematics is about, but you're unlikely to get very far if you just "play with numbers". To learn mathematics and to think mathematically, you still need a structured environment: Lockhart's complaint is that modern (K-12) math teachers neither have that knowledge nor the ability to provide that structure.

If I were you, I'd go to where that knowledge does get taught: in undergraduate mathematics classes. That usually starts with some rigorous calculus (I second the recommendation for Spivak), real analysis (which might seem hopelessly unmotivated if you don't know/remember much calculus), linear algebra or abstract algebra, or discrete math. Depends on what you're interested.

Reading mathematics is hard. Google around for advice. Do lots of problems, which generally means finding proofs. This would very well fit the definition of "discovering mathematics".
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Real answer: Follow your passion. If music moves you, go for it.

Discussion: About whether or not it "helps your career", I think the counter-argument would be not so much that it doesn't help, but the opportunity cost of your time/money. What else could you be doing over that time.

In other words, compare "Music vs What Else I Could Do", and not Music vs Nothing
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Right, but people aren't switching to Greyhound or going back to broadcast only.
Diet seems to be one of those places where there is a lot of variation between people. I believe it is because there is a large physiological component to food and eating. Having said that:

Good Calories,Bad Calories is a book that gets recommended around here quite a bit. I haven't read it myself. Sugar Busters is an interesting read, as it actually covers a bit of the science used in coming up with their program. Flaws in their method have been discussed ad nauseum, but the biology behind it seems sound.
A lot of spinning going on here. Your competitor is spinning your content for his gains (not cool), and you are spinning your wheels wondering what you should do.

There is no better way to put a competitor on the defensive than by innovating. So innovate. Stop wasting your energy on this guy and do something awesome that will clearly differentiate your business from his.

This competitor isn't worth worrying about if he's doing weaksauce tactics like stealing your content.
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Pet peeve: We do lists with ordinal numbers [1], not natural ones. When you go to see what is the greatest movie of all time do you look to see which one is first or which one is "zeroth"? Anyone who picked the latter may have brain damage.

[1] http://spanish.about.com/od/spanishvocabulary/a/ordinal.htm
First, you need to stop thinking in terms of 'algorithms' and 'spinning'. It's irrelevant and confuses the discussion. I understand how tempting it is to frame new concepts (law) in terms of things you understand (computers) but it's very dangerous territory. It's also (this is not to bash you personally, just a general remark) why 95% of legal chatter amongst technical people on the internet is meaningless to lawyers ('meaningless' as in 'jibberish', 'flux capacitor'-style nonsense) - because the fundamental assumptions and reasoning methods are so vastly different that it's almost impossible to reconcile the two in the limited (in terms of expressiveness) environment of forum posts. FWIW I've been a programmer for over 10 years and hope to finish my law degree in a few months, so I have some inside experience on the two worlds, and in how the two interact (or rather, seem not to be able to interact).

Furthermore the question whether something is derivative does not depend on the form of representation, or the amount of similarity (on the textual level) between two works. If I write a theater play based on a book, I may not use a single sentence from the book; it's still a derivative work.

'Derivative' is casuistic. It's meaningless to argue about 'levels of similarity', in a legal context. The question is whether the second author based himself on the artistic values that the original author put in the work. The originality of a work is not necessarily in the wording, it's in the creative effort that went into the work. So if someone blends two works into one (without permission), he's violating 2 author's copyrights.
I suppose you mean as a freelancer/consulting etc and working remotely? How much is your hourly rate? I'm not in the US, but ping me and we can figure out if there's a synergy there.
Same for Nvidia and Physx. Duh, AMD/ATI isn't really liked nowadays, is it?
> eTrade destroyed the old school retail stock broker

Don't look now, but these guys are still very much alive[1].You may not use them, but plenty of people are still charging $150 for a stock trade under a theory their advice is of value.

[1] Assuming you're referring to the mid-80s school of brokers, not the standardized commissions school.
They poorly handle the OS requirements (both in terms of implementation and notification). I had to go into the FAQ to find this:

> Spoon currently supports Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8, Firefox 3 and 3.5,
and Safari 2, 3, and 4, on the Windows platform. Support for the Chrome and Opera browsers is coming soon!

Which isn't even mentioned where you might expect - where they discuss the plug-in. If you go to any individual app in Linux (Chrome, FF3.5) you just get "this browser isn't supported".
it's called "file sharing", minus the DRM and accounting.
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That's one way to look at it. Having a job will get him $15,000 every year, after two more years he would have $60,000.
It would be interesting to see if can trade up to, for example $100,000 in next two years using that $15,000 as starting point.
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FTA: "a system that will let you watch the movies you buy wherever you are, regardless of formats and other technical hurdles"

The track record for things like this isn't encouraging. Case in point: Microsoft didn't even bother to make their own Zune media player compatible with "plays4sure" certified content. Plays for sure, indeed.

I predict a massive fail.
Can't talk about Engineers, but as a professional programmer of 9 years with many years of undergraduate and graduate (M.Sc) Mathematics education, I must say I rarely/never use any of the math I've learned (at least not something I wouldn't have learned as an undergrad CS major) at work.

I have heard your argument very often though, it seems about as popular as the one that states painters benefit from knowledge of Chemistry[1] ;)

[1] http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm#...
...in competitive markets, high profit margins don't persist

A couple of the markets Dixon identified are not competitive, namely credit cards and mutual fund management [1].

But quite a few are highly competitive and don't have high profit margins: retail banks, market making (HFT) and research, for example.

Prop trading is also highly competitive, but profits are high because the risk is high as well. Dixon explicitly advises individuals not to compete with the big players because they will probably lose. It's hard even for big players - remember AIG, Lehman and Bear? Thousands of hedge funds went under, so many that the big banks had to lay off most of their prime brokerage divisions.

[1] Mutual funds benefit from an agency problem - your employer selects which funds you can put your retirement into. I'd love to buy low cost ETF's, but then I wouldn't get the tax advantage.
This is one of those things that you would never think of, but once you see it you're blown away. Very cool and promising. Great job Peter.
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I got a lot of useful information, tips and techniques from the Hacker's Diet: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

It's been discussed many times here on HN:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/hacker%2527s+diet?sort=by_da...

Personally I used it to lose about 30 pounds over the course of about 6 months, and I've mostly kept it off. I'm going back onto it to lose about 10 pounds that have crept back on.
Wow I had no idea! StackVM is all html and javascript and we've taken great care to make sure it works on all browsers without any silly plugins.
Yes, but as they said in the article, anybody can set up a virtual operator on the network, be that Nokia or anybody else. My point is that this would make it easy for Nokia to deploy on the US markets which has traditionally been the playground of the operators; i.e. them deciding which devices to support. (They want to be on top of the value chain)

Anyway, LTE provides ground for any VoIP solution which means that traditional carriers might have hard time providing added value with their voice and SMS services compared to just providing data.
If it later turns out you just let a child pornographer go free you will be
proverbially screwed; both by the LE services and the media.

Not to mention your conscience.
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Does anyone have an idea about how sales of tablet devices compares?
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The key facts are:

1.- Eat 5-6 times a day in reduced quantity

2.- Drink plenty of water

3.- Anaerobic training is important (i.e. strenght training) because it helps to build muscle tissue, and the more muscle you have, the higher your basal metabolism will be, and the more calories you will burn, even while sitting in front of the computer.

4.- Aerobic training (i.e. running, cycling, swimming) is important too, it helps burning fat faster, but don't do only aerobic training because you will burn both fat and muscle, and then, with less muscle you will burn calories slower. At leats 30 minuts of aerobic training per session.

5.- Protein is important to fuel the muscles (meat, egg whites, tuna...)

6.- Avoid fat, specially animal fat

7.- Avoid processed hydrocarbs (pastries, cakes), candies, chocolates

8.- Eat lots of fruits and vegetables.
This looks great! Any comments on how feasible Windows VMs will be to offer from a licensing perspective?

Best of luck with this.
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Lots of good points, but surprisingly little about the elephant in the room: your best people leave because you're not paying them enough.

And you're not paying them enough because you've chosen to adopt a pay structure that, by definition, cannot handle outliers (which are exactly what your best people are).

An excellent programmer can routinely do the work of ten mediocre programmers. Have you ever heard of a pay scale that pays Programmer III ten times as much as Programmer I?

An excellent programmer can save you millions of dollars by increasing revenues, reducing costs, changing the way you do business, or any combination of these. How much of those millions does the programmer get?

An excellent programmer can provide a company significantly more value than his boss and his boss's boss. How much more does he get paid?

An excellent programmer can earn real equity and merit bonuses in enlightened firms. How many companies don't even have this on their HR radar?

An excellent programmer can go out and pound the pavement or join a start-up and earn what he/she is really worth. And until most companies provide that same opportunities, they probably will.
Guess you have to decide if you think 3G is the end all of cell technology and we won't ever need anything faster/more robust.
Giving parsers and lexers to the average man, or removing the need for them altogether, will be the thing that pushes the bar forward next. I don't know if Perl 6 is going to be the medium for this change, but it might be.

Arguably, lisp should have given us a world filled with little languages, but it hasn't taken hold. People like syntax, and people like compile time checks.

I have yet to dig into the Perl 6 features that make this possible, but having a low-barrier-to-entry way to create DSLs that are compile-time checked and usable opens the door to something big. Domain experts who are not programmers may finally have a lever in the process stronger than the "spec" and weaker than the code. Give them a DSL, with a good compiler, and let them wreak havoc.

The big question here I still have is: text? Perl 6 gives us little languages, but they are still shackled by ASCII-based notation. Solve that problem, and you've got something big.
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This just came out on Steam. Its a free mod for the source engine, released with dev tools and source code. I figured I'd give 15-30 minutes to it last night with some friends that were raving about it and ended up giving in 3 hours. Its very fun coop play, and I'm looking forward to looking at the dev kit that came with it after I beat the final level.
I'm posting this because I believe we all need to relax now and then and play a game, but for those of us that love programming, its great when you can modify the games which we play. I think thats what keeps the PC gaming community strong is the need to modify our games in ways that consoles lack.
Good Luck!
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Um, if a person claims that the market itself is behaving irrationally then how why would you expect that they could prove it by making money on said market?

You know what's interesting about the stock market? If everyone else is wrong and you're right: you lose.
I like this idea a lot because it'll show them the value of thinking about the design and coming up with something that can be adapted and modified as new requirements come in. If you just do a series of unrelated challenges, then there won't be an incentive to come up with a good design that can last.
We haven't really looked yet into licensing stuff. We'll do that quite later when we get ready to start offering the service. For now we're just building the stuff up and not thinking too much about anything else.
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