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I enjoyed The Woman in the Dunes as well. Very well written, though it left me feeling a bit disturbed.

Another great novel (also Japanese) is Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. It's not sci-fi and the plot isn't especially thick, however just like a lot of Japanese novels, the focus is on the character development, and it is done very very well.
How long would it take, exactly, to increment a uint128 until it overflows?
Meta: I say something else. You retort something unrelated to your absurd initial declaration about the soon to disappear money order (I assume that wire transfers will have to go to).

This level: I'm done.
I think you'll find that is true for any company of sufficient size.
8% ROI is unrealistic, but a 2-4% is certainly possible especially with municipal bonds and insurance annuities. The former are also exempt from federal taxes, state taxes (if you live in the same state) and even local taxes (if you live in the same city). Both have guarantees against inflation (at the cost of lower yield) .

Nonetheless, I do think the is somewhat overrated. If I had fuck you money, I'd... write code, read books and papers. I'd have more freedom on how I write my code during working hours (and it's important not to understate importance of that, but the more senior you get, the more choice you have in what you work on what tools you use), but I'd also not have the focus that comes from working on systems that solve actual problems that individuals and organizations have; nor would I be solving these problems at scale that makes them much more interesting.

On the other hand, I'm pretty confident that if I were to spend my time chasing a big payoff I'd be working on problems that are far less interesting and more frustrating (which is almost axiomatically why these problems have the payoff). There's very few early-stage startups doing systems programming (and I'm speaking loosely here i.e., beyond just operating system kernels and file systems). For web companies systems programming only becomes needed as a scalability becomes a problem (in most cases it never does). The idea that may be I'll be able to go back to doing what I enjoy most of the time if the business succeeds won't be enough to drive me: I already do that (perhaps that's why so few "home run" startups have come out of Google?)

Keep in mind that while stock options after product/market fit (pre-IPO startups, public companies) account for only a tiny percentage, the chance of a payoff is much higher (which, again, is why it's a tiny percentage: you're no longer taking a risk). That payoff is certainly no fuck you money (except in rare cases e.g., Google in early 2000s), but it's often sufficient in terms of giving you more freedom e.g., to go back to school for a Ph.D.

Were I to have a vision for a business (rather than a science project, which most of my ideas have been) based upon interesting technology (i.e., not a website) I'd certainly consider pursuing it, but even then I'd have no illusions: I suspect, I'd spend more of my time doing what I don't like (general business operations) than what I do (coding); it would be the vision of bringing forth new technologies that solves real problems that would let me pull through that (as opposed to pure research or solving business problems with well known existing technologies) .
Thanks for the suggestions, shelly! I think the both an intro video from the company and example videos with some advice for recording would be great additions.
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I disagree that this will become standard on applications. The problem the majority of companies have with recruiting is sifting through large numbers of unqualified resumes that are total junk and a waste of time. Once past this phase video can add value, but just ask any recruiter if they would ever want to use this for screening. The answer will be 100% no. Many of these people have developed the ability to skim resumes in seconds, if you ask them to watch a 5 minute video instead they just won't.
Does the rule that you should get out of the stock market when random people tell you stocks are sure to go up apply
in reverse?

If so, this is a pretty encouraging sign.
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Well given that there are several pieces of Apple software that run on Windows (Safari, iTunes, QuickTime, etc) it would be strange if at least some developers didn't have access to Windows boxes. Although it's entirely possible that these run mostly on Apple hardware, surely they need "generic" PCs as well for testing.
sweet christ. that reads like fucking trendy hadoop word soup spat out to get suckers to hire this firm for $500 an hour.

Also, how does he think that installing this crap is ever going to be like installing excel, until you're installing and configuring excel into your custom datacenter topography
The story itself is moving, as heroism in a good cause will be. But making art requires more than such a story as its point of departure.

The movie has what I regard as Spielberg's usual flaws: a taste for cheap trick, the quick laugh, the tremendous visual sense without much behind it. I'm sure that anyone in occupied Poland who could afford to look like that, did. I gain no particular insights into what anyone in particular might have felt or thought. Watch Europa, Europa or The Pianist, and I think you will see much superior movies--though these are even more on the periphery of the true horrors than Schindler's List.
Charlie Stross's Laundry novels are a lot of fun. Sort of Lovecraft meets James Bond meets Dilbert...
Guess George Foreman is going to give you the thumbs down once he looks you over. [see longshoreman comment above ]
Ask HN: WTF? Is using the word "Fuck" in HN items a trend
I just noticed that 2 or 6 items had the magic word in them. How do you feel about that?
Developer notes on building Halo for Atari 2600
And a link to the flashed version of the game http://members.shaw.ca/jeffv/halo2600.html
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Don't you mean the trend is sil.ly?
The end of Wintel
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A couple of folks are tossing in that you can get 2-4% returns nowadays. Here's the historical rate of inflation (scroll down for the recent years):

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...

Looks like about 2-4%. :-(
I have wondered the same thing, can't wait to hear what others will say
Fiction:

- Someone already mentioned Neil Gaiman's "American Gods", but it's so good, I'll mention it again :) Very well constructed and has its specific atmosphere...

- Anything by Iain Banks - "Walking on glass", "Wasp factory", "A song of stone" are definitely not light reading, but worth spending some time on them. His science-fiction is much simpler, but... didn't get me as excited as "Walking on glass".

Non-fiction:

- "Leading Lean Software Development - Results are not the point" (http://www.amazon.com/Leading-Lean-Software-Development-Resu...) is the best team / organisation / project leading book I've seen. I hate most of books like that with passion, but this one is different. I can't wait for the next story they introduce in every chapter. It touches many topics useful for anyone working with even one other person and you can read it like a good adventure book - it's got clear examples, interesting quotes and in-depth but not boring analysis.
Why would you turn away someone good because they'd applied to other companies?
Except the UC schools don't support the Common App.
I've used FreeBSD continuously (as a server, no GUI) since 1995, with some Linux use here and there, and I find myself leaning toward Linux lately, mainly because Ubuntu has done a lot of great work recently to support Amazon EC2. FreeBSD has fallen behind on Amazon EC2 support for some reason.

I was initially attracted to FreeBSD because I had first learned Unix on a BSD system in the late 80s, and the more restrictive licensing terms of Linux made it difficult for my company to use it.

So unless you have a specific need like ZFS or liberal licensing terms, I can't think of a reason for a long-time user of Linux to switch to FreeBSD. Similarly, unless you have a specific need like Amazon EC2, I can't think of a compelling reason for a long-time FreeBSD user to switch to Linux. Both are good, solid systems with some minor individual strengths and weaknesses.
Actually it is. During the cold war it was split between East and West, and when it got reunited there was a lot of cheap condos, stores, etc. in the East, and lots of entrepreneurial Germans in the West.

The combination is a cheap city full of life. If you have the chance you should definitely go check it out.
The FreeBSD Portage System kept me there, until ubuntu did something similar, then the community got bigger and faster, then the portage feature + the community was better... so I stayed with ubuntu. Plus, FreeBSD is an ex-girlfriend type operating system now. Sure, you could go back and teach it... but... (I too used FreeBSD since the '90s, for whatever it's worth. Still love it, but cannot justify keeping it foremost. Besides, I use Mac OS X also, so yes, I still use FreeBSD)
Here's to hoping cperciva comments.
Choice blindness: You don't know what you want
So it's not enough that I spend hours working and tailoring my CV and cover letter for every job application and hours more writing answers to selection critera.

Now you want me to record and produce a video selling myself?
Hah! Good luck with that.
Light liberal? Zinn is hard left, and writes history accordingly.
Why don't you just put your money in a global index fund instead? No one forces you Americans to invest your savings in your own country..in fact, that seems like a pretty bad idea in the first place, since this means that when the economy is bad and it is hard to find jobs is the same time it is a very bad idea to take money out of your investments.

Seems pretty obvious to me that the American economy as a whole has so much shenanigans going on that investing broadly in it is a bad idea. Is it really that hard to move your money to a foreign currency`
Beautiful. Very inspiring. Best Twitter visualization I've seen since TwitterVision and Twistori. I love that the data is beautifully visualized.
Cool, thanks for the tip. I definitely want to do a German beer tour at some point.

Just out of curiosity, how cheap would you say it is? Any crime issues?
reading this [http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4lin...] might give you a good understanding of *BSDs -- written specifically for linux users ;)
Seems like kind of a strange filter to me. What is the connection between how well someone comes across on camera and how good they are at coding and developing a product? You say it's high bandwidth, but is the data useful? 50 terabytes per second of noise is still noise.

Also, I don't think this test fares very well in retrospect. Steve Jobs probably would've given a good video resume, but what about Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Williams, and the like? These guys usually come across as duds on video.
Could you please s/max/min/ in your first post?
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Interesting. The website says chapters on monads, monad transformers, and zippers are "coming soon." I wonder if they'll only be in the printed version.
Thought exactly the same thing when I read the title of the link.

Also thought "Bet that MG Siegler guy wrote that, don't think I'll bother reading it."
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8% ROI is unrealistic, but a 2-4% is certainly possible especially with municipal bonds and insurance annuities.

Amusingly, municipal bonds are in the top 4 likely candidates for our next set of major financial problems. The others are default on consumer ARM mortgages, debt on commercial real estate, and repayment on private equity. Interestingly, the largest class of investors in private equity funds this time around are government pension funds, which will just compound the risks for the munis. (The last time there was a bubble the investors were Savings and Loans institutions, the result was the S&L crisis of the late 80s/early 90s.)
While you have been around HN longer than I have, I believe the general feeling of HN is that the burden of proof is on the claimant, which would be you. So yes, please do include a list of references next time.
They have a different development model which is not as Linus-centric.

The user-land and kernel ship together as a more tightly integrated package.

In terms of performance, I found that the linux kernel is often optimised for bandwidth at the expense of latency.

eg#1, When the system is under heavy memory pressure, Linux tends to grind to a halt and start killing processes randomly, where FreeBSD responds more gracefully.

eg #2, In highly-threaded environments (eg, 32 or more cores), Linux doesn't really work very well unless you pin processes to specific CPU cores. In fairness, BSD doesn't perform much better, but at least avoids pathological cases.
I'm really not sure how this is relevant to a company that has over 15,000 employees (non retail). If you've done any work for apple or their HR department you would most certainly know it's not run like a startup.
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I would be more open to Tel Aviv if Israel was more open to us.

One of the operating hypothesis in this search is that the place that would welcome us with open arms will also welcome bright people from around the world, and will tend to thus accrue the bright people who seek a better environment.

Immigration is what built the US, for instance. Part of the decline of the US is going to be due to its immigration policies.
Wasn't BSD originally just another Linux fork?

I'm kidding.

The cathedral nature of BSD likely gives it a security edge.
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um, the idea is to bribe everyone to join something rather than only having the people who are especially motivated by a special interest. Its like giving everyone $100 just for voting regardless of who or what they vote for.

I can replace "Republican" with "Baby-eater" in a description of the GOP platform and it reads just fine too, that doesn't make it any more true.
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As an employer, wouldn't you demand someone be interested in the specific problems you're trying to solve though? Do kids who want to be part of $generic_sexy_yc_startup last long?

(that's a sincere, non-rhetorical question)
You wrote a compiler in Common Lisp that auto-generates COBOL and your co-workers haven't noticed this?
Isn't that what managers who buy undervalued stock do? Finding a stock everyone thinks is not going to do well (or much better), and buy a controlling stack of it.
As I remember correctly, Office saves everything else at MS right now (by a large margin, followed by OSes). The gaming has recently been making more money than they are loosing (and will probably become their next important money maker). But the rest of the revenue makers are so low compared to those three that it's not even funny.

I suspect that they will probably announce service based offering (consulting) type in the long run (5-10 years maybe?) because they might not be able to sustain high margins of profit on Office and Windows sales due to competition and alternatives.

Right now they don't seem to have a great vision either, so we'll see were they are heading...
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn--a novel about the most basic of assumptions civilization makes about humanity's manifest destiny. Eye-opening.
Probably better to wait until people consider you weird for your investment thesis.
The BSDs always feel beautiful to me. (I'm a mixed GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX user. ) The kernel configuration feels more simple and the official documentation feels uniform, informative, and almost always sufficient.

If more virtualized hosting providers offered BSDs (FreeBSD in particular) I would choose them over Ubuntu for servers.
This is the kind of thing I had to deal with at Stanford. Same "rainbows and unicorns" outward appearance, but...
To be fair though, this exposes a design flaw in Android. Technologies like protected memory and pre-emptive multi-tasking are supposed to prevent applications from gumming up the works. Along the same vein, we need some way to identify and limit the resource usage of apps on Android. So now I can go do binary search on my applications to see which one the bad one is, but am I supposed to tell my girlfriend to do that on my old g1? It's a BAD (broken as designed) issue with Android.
Fork is still expensive. It is not sane to fork per request.
Only 22 states have more than 5 million people. They have even fewer households. The whole idea of economies of scale is that they work better the bigger they are. Depending on the application there will usually be an equilibrium point, but your definition seems to be inverted. (And what serious politician was arguing for an immediate single payer system? Public option is just a government competitor to private companies)
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I used to play the "what distro are we running this week" game. Most were too big, others too small. Some had great communities, but lacked a killer feature. Etc. etc.

Then I found FreeBSD. The learning curve was steeper, you had to know more about how things actually worked under the hood (a plus, in my book) and the system was elegantly clunky.

A cohesive whole -- more or less -- instead of endless re-packaging of the same things.

I do a minimum install, then build my system up from the ports system. (Ports is like apt-get, pacman, other package management systems. Compiling from source can be a bitch, but only for big things -- Emacs, X11, Firefox etc. but it allows unparalleled customization, or at least the option for it.) Installing binaries is also an option if you don't want to compile.

It has had every piece of software I've ever needed (minus http://joey.kitenet.net/code/mr/) already in ports.

I even recompiled my first kernel within three days of starting out (thanks to Absolute FreeBSD, by Michael W. Lucas), something that seemed a dark art on GNU/Linux.

I've had no stability problems in the last year or so, and I just upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1 smoothly. Everything important on my laptop is supported.

If I want shiny stuff like webcam, usb auto-mounting, all that, I reboot into Ubuntu. Not because FreeBSD can't (I'm mostly assuming), but because this is my dev box and I'm not supposed to be doing anything shiny or distracting on here, hehe.

In short, think of an older truck with a manual transmission -- it's dependable, gets you there and back with minimum of frills and you can tinker rather than a new SUV with bells and whistles. While FreeBSD is more angled towards servers, I love it as a desktop OS -- at least for coding and light web browsing.

And it's a single community, without the balkanization of GNU/Linux.
I have a wonder soup which I make every week. I try to have a cup everyday. It is designed for general health, but particularly it is infused with cancer fighting foods. It's quite easy to make, just put the following ingredients in a blender:

Half Head Cabbage
! Carrot
3 Onions
2 cans diced tomatoes (any tomatoes will do)
1 red chilli
1 green chilli
3 cloves of garlic
4cm slice of ginger
Some Jalapenos
Cloves
Rosemary
Parsley
Salt
Peppercorns
Tumeric

Blend this heavily, for best results use a cheese grater for the carrot and chilli beforehand.

Pop into a saucepan, add two (unchopped) sticks of celery (remove celery before serving) to leech while boiling.

You will need to boil until the spices and chilli overwhelm the cabbage taste. Play with spices as necessary.

Put in fridge and microwave a cup in the mornings or afternoons. The soup will be quite hot, thanks to the chillis, but the whole mix is very good for you.
Not when we're in a great worldwide depression. When the US baby boomers, the world's biggest/baddest consumers, are retiring or being too expensive to be hired. When automation/free software have permanently reduced human worker needs. When the developed countries - the ones with trillions of debt and aging population - have willingly given up their factories to the emerging countries, and are desperately searching for other ways to pay back their debt besides financial engineering.
I'm pretty sure the promised savings were over private health care options. And the reasoning was that despite their incredible expense, the existing government systems for limited classes are more efficient than the private companies are. So give him a limited trial adding people to a government health care option for a few years and see if it is also more efficient.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but do Emacs users edit all their configuration files and quick edits in it too?

When I'm setting up / configuring Linux boxes at work I always use Vim because it's always there and light weight.

I always got the impression using Emacs for this would be the equal of using Visual Studio or Eclipse.
You don't find it a little odd that you feel it necessary that I provide the links and resources to easily findable information, but the commenter who I replied to need not substantiate his claims in a similar way? Especially when the burden of proof for those statements are much higher? In any event, downvote away. Let your prejudices rein supreme.
Amazon is beyond enterprise scale, it's Web scale.

This stark distinction in order of magnitude of scale is why there may be so much incredulity here as to the technical superiority of mainframes.
> Amusingly, municipal bonds are in the top 4 likely candidates for our next set of major financial problem

There's several kind of muni bonds, however, each with their own set of trade offs. The higher yield, the higher the risk. Some are guarantees, but only offer a very low yield. If the guarantees lapse, the problems are likely to be very deep, irrespective.

For what it's worth, I'm sticking with FDIC insured bank CDs across two banks, but I my expectation is more of "retain value" rather than "investment".
IMO Fuck you money is not just when you have enough for a life of mindless consumption, but enough for when you can do the things that you really really want to do.

eg save the world from malaria, build that skyscraper with your face on it, start an iron and blood revolution (there are a few governments that I would want to overthrow).
(Speaking as a FreeBSDer here -- I'll let NetBSD and OpenBSD folks cover those, since I don't follow them closely enough to offer accurate comments.)

1. We don't let licenses get in the way of making good technical decisions. This means that, for example, we had no problem with importing DTrace and ZFS.

2. We have more of an emphasis on doing things right. This often means that it takes longer before we acquire new features; but it means that once we acquire new features, they work and aren't likely to be removed or completely rewritten any time soon.

3. We develop the kernel and userland in tandem. This allows new features in the kernel to be accessed from userland faster (usually immediately) whereas in Linux there will often be a significant lag time before your libc supports everything in your new kernel.

4. We have stable development branches, and we're serious about them. Not "stable" in the linux kernel sense of "we think this won't crash" -- stable in the sense of APIs and ABIs, so that code you compile on FreeBSD 8.0 will work without recompiling on FreeBSD 8.4 five years later.

5. Our stable branches apply to the kernel, too. You can compile a kernel module for FreeBSD 8.0 and use it on later versions of FreeBSD 8.x, too -- linux, in contrast, has on occasion broken kernel ABI compatibility in security patches. ("Gee, do I want to apply this security patch, or do I want to keep using the video card driver supplied by my vendor?")

6. Personally I greatly prefer the FreeBSD ports tree over the linux equivalents, but that's just a matter of taste and what you're used to.