skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One on one, with several different "ones" from our side, sequentially, then a small group, usually 4, including the candidate, who we don't think of as "3 on 1".
Should you scroll or flip content?
Try deadBeef.

Screenshot: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/deadbeef-ultimate-music-player-for...
You're pretty close to something I've been hankering for -- a cloud service similar to EC2, except with a different set of strengths. Amazon's strong point is being able to scale up and down easily. A lot of businesses don't need that; they just want to be able to move some or all of their operation to a cloud. And they don't necessarily want to host their own private cloud. They want to rent one, like you do with EC2, but without the "you can scale fast" premium that Amazon charges.

There are other services (Grid-something, etc.) but last I looked, they were still expensive and had other drawbacks. This needs to be simple, and simpler than most of what I've seen. You need to be able to get onto the boxes if you need, but also manage them with a webapp.

Bonus points: implement security features like virtual networks in my private cloud, so that I can keep my DB servers off of the internet (even though they're technically on the internet). I want to do this easily and without hand-configuring the boxes. Amazon has something like this, but the last time I looked, they were the only ones.
"if it had happened twice the newcomer would have been called 'food' at a stage too early to get much further up the ladder"

I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. Just being called "food" is not a sufficient reason for extinction. In fact, organisms at the bottom of the food chain constitute the majority of biomass in all known ecosystems.
There is also the protocol overhead associated with each type of communication. USB and ethernet were created with different tradeoffs in mind. On a mildly contested network I believe that ethernet is about 60% efficient due to packet overhead and packet collisions.
Which of the above services do you think wouldn't exist if Google avoided less tax?

There's an opportunity cost of private companies paying less tax too - either someone else pays more tax which marginally decreases their ability to be productive and enterprising or something purportedly socially beneficial doesn't get paid for. Even coupled with inspired management, the profit motive doesn't ensure that an acquisition of say, Dodgeball for the price of a hospital wing, is an optimal use of resources.
I've known a few broke people in my life, and most of them never let it stop them from working their way through a case of natty light each night.
you are right. i loved last.fm and was gladlly paying my month subscription. Now that they are removing useful functionality im not standing behind that company.

i guess grooveshark deserves a chance.
That's a good point, actually. The way the App Store looks and feels on the iPhone itself is a lot different than the version on the iPad or in iTunes.

You get a lot more visibility being featured on the iPhone compared to the other two.
Do you have 2 or 3 managers per employee?
I am probably nitpicking, but there is a major difference between being the best in the world at something and being better that 99.9% of HS students.

It is not easy to become the best in the world in any field you choose, and the choice of field would also be quite important from an admissions perspective.
I spent > 2 years of my life doing a face-to-face technical interview (ramping up the staff for a prior startup) literally every day. I've also been a hiring manager for a large tech company. I've given a lot of interviews.

The problem with interviewing is simple: all you can determine during an interview is whether the person is good at interviews.

That skill is not necessarily a good indication of doing well at any given job (especially with software engineering). The "constructive feedback" would be at best, superficial, but more likely, it would be based on the "blink response" of how the interviewer perceived you as you walked through the door -- so it's not only dubiously-based advice, it's advice that most people find hard to deliver.

The large tech company also explicitly told managers not give negative feedback due to legal reasons.
Improvement of Open Source Software Usability
> You've just got to look at their corporate structure, where senior developers might be reporting to a dozen different managers.

I dunno where you get your data. It is completely untrue.

The org structure is a single linear path in a tree -- not an inverted tree.

The only way to even get close to a dozen managers would be to count from the most junior entry level dev and count their manager and their manager's manager through the VPs all the way up to Steve. Even at that, the deepest org structures aren't quite a dozen people deep.

Also, How to Lie with Statistics -- The article on iPhone usage at MSFT and its source from WSJ doesn't quite hold water. This looks like a Post Hoc. 10% of employees (which I'm not sure is believable in the first place) have iPhones and some people hide them in front of their execs or Steve. Therefore, all employees are keeping iPhone usage hidden in front of executives -- the implication being that Microsoft is trampling on its employees because they love non-MSFT gadgets and that something bad will happen to an employee because they are "caught" using a competitor's product.

There are plenty of things genuinely wrong with Microsoft internally but both of these points are sensationalism.

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Why Facebook is selling you out -- and won't stop
Alternatively, if you ask you might get a comforting lie. "We were really looking for someone who had more experience with specific skillset X" rather than "We hated you, we think you suck, and we all laughed behind your back after you left".

Of course, a comforting lie might be what you actually want.
Low-riding your car also costs money, but I don't think it correlates with income. At least not in the direction you'd expect.
Actually, their move from GCC to their own internally developed clang has way more to do with this than some walled-garden fantasy:

http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20070721.195500.f37fa735...

"GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the
GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released
under GPL version 3."

http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20071009.202219.6b725019...

"The compilers in this release are covered by GNU General Public
License version 3."
Exactly - Ive was planning to resign until Jobs made him VP. Apple were literally days away from losing him. Were it not for Jobs' insight, taste and autocratic approach, we probably would never have heard of Ive. Nokia lost their top designer last month, for fairly obvious reasons[1]. Google's "20% time" led to Gmail, Google News, Adsense and Orkut - you have to wonder how many products Microsoft engineers might have developed given half the chance.

[1] http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/anssi-vanjoki-nokias-sma...
Installing Ubuntu 10.10
Last I heard, and this was around the switch to Intel (2005?), the iTunes store and online web store are run off of WebObjects. Apple probably saw that outside web developers weren't using WebObjects enough to continue supporting it externally. That doesn't mean that they aren't using it (and maybe building on it) internally.

I don't think it's that you can't use WebObjects anymore outside of Apple, it's that most people don't (not even in the Java community).
By "scammy", what exactly do you mean? I don't quite understand what, in the design or explanation of the service, comes off as "scammy".
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Where exactly would we be seeing all this stuff? I mean, how closely can we even look on planets in our galaxy? We are still discovering trillions of new galaxies here and there.

Our reach is virtually zero in the context of the universe. It seems from our vantage point, I would expect the universe to look exactly the same whether it was bustling with life or we were the only ones.

I had never thought about searching for Dyson spheres (it made me replay a part from The Big Lebowski where the dude says, "We'll that's fucking interesting man."), but they strike me as a incredibly hard thing to search for. Don't we see into the universe with the energy escaping from stars, galaxies, etc..? If some species were able to actually harvest the output of a star to anything approaching 100%, wouldn't it be exactly the type of thing we would never see?

> Arguably it's actually the best claim supported by evidence

Unless I am fundamentally wrong about the resolution of our map of the universe, I don't think there is any evidence either way unless you believe in any 'encounters'
How much money do you need to retire?
"If you are not paying for it, you are the product".
Customer Satisfaction and the Consumption Function
No.

> Kennish says he created the extension to help quell his desire to delete his Facebook account and that he’s tested it out successfully across a sizable amount of previously Facebook-Connectable sites, including our own (screen shots above) with absolutely no encouragement from Google or Facebook, despite the fact that he works for the former, “Nobody at Google asked or encouraged me to do so, or probably, even knows who I am.”

Just a Google employee doing something in his spare time. Nothing strategic or tactical going on here.
The Gentrifier's Lament
It's sad, but record companies destroy any potential for Internet based music. Music apps last only so long before they get sued or need to restrict your listening freedom in some way.

The other thing that happens to the cool little music upstarts is that they get bought by a big parent company (like CBS buying Last.fm or Apple buying LaLa), who inevitably either makes horrible changes at the expense of existing users or re-purposes the app to suggest only major label artists.
Well, if you don't have PIN to lock, you could have different gestures to unlock that would jump to an app. Like swipe up for camera, right for phone, diagonal for messaging, etc. Perhaps even show those icons so unlocking is swiping the app icon you want to use across the screen. As long as it's limited to a few apps, it might work.
Why is it evil for companies to take advantage of tax breaks, but the lawmakers who created the tax breaks get a pass. Shouldn't it be the lawmakers who are responsible?
"In most careers, a Master's degree is required". Really?
While you are pointing out something that does cost money, it is a niche product only used by a certain social group.

I'd assume within the social group (which I'm not even sure how to define), you actually would find it correlates with income.
No. Because of the huge influx of new people who are used to general purpose versions of HN.
Foobar2000 is wonderful. Making the switch from iTunes to Foobar2000 was actually an even nicer change than switching from IE6 to Firefox. It's that much better. For any poor soul still attempting to use iTunes on Windows, I beg you, try Foobar2000. It's just so much more pleasant to use.
I'm in grad school elsewhere and i'm surrounded by alcoholics.
The real answer might be because very few applicants can take it gracefully.
Benefits of Subliminal  Feedback Loops in  Human-Computer Interaction
This sort of sneaking in is pretty pointless though. The only really good reason to go to one of these schools is that everyone knows how hard is is to get in. If you go to a different part of the school that isn't as hard to get into (this is what GS is at Columbia) then you throw away that advantage and you're left paying three times what you should be for an education that, as was alluded to elsewhere in the comments, you could have gotten for 1.50 in late charges at the public library.
I've found that it's beneficial to embrace the divide between a fast boot drive and a large data drive.

I'm thinking of it myself, but I also thought it out further and concluded that it could be completely automated. In my case, if one just kept all files larger than 100MB on the HDD, that would be enough. Better still, I could specify certain directories to be kept on the HDD. I could do all of the above with symlinks, but setting that up once and getting the desired result automatically could be even better.
tl;dr Some entrepreneurs are in it for the money, some do things to fend off boredom. If your answer is 'no,' you are in the latter group.

Sorry Tim, but this is so shallow as to be trite, and actually put me off your site a bit. I actually reloaded the page twice thinking there must be more, and was annoyed when there wasn't. The idea is good, but I think fleshing it out with an example or two of some jobs which are well-paid but fundamentally equivalent to mindlessly tapping one's foot would go a lot farther, if for no other reason than that such jobs are most susceptible to being profitably automated out of existence by some novelty-seeking entrepreneur.
I was excited for a moment, but then realized it does't include the ability to stream music.

I guess I'll have to stick with di.fm's beta app http://www.di.fm/apps/android/
Groooveshark employee here, so excuse me for the shameless plug. ;) We love last.fm but I've always thought it was more for learning about artists and discovering new ones...and of course tracking everything you listen to and seeing what your friends are listening to. They aren't primarily a streaming music service and cutting those features probably makes it easier for them to cut streaming and licensing costs by being counted purely as a online radio service.

Grooveshark, on the other hand, has the primary focus of letting you search for and listen to whatever you want, but frankly our radio feature isn't as good. So if you want radio with limited control, use last.fm, if you want to listen to what you want to listen to and notghing else, use Grooveshark. :)
In my experience almost all candidates can figure out for themselves why they didn't get the job. Some of that is from giving plussed/non-plussed signals during the interview but mostly people know when they don't know the answer to something.

The few people who have ever asked me for feedback were simultaneously the least qualified and most confident candidates people I've met. No matter the answer the next step always seems to be pissed off replies, demands for a second chance or thinly veiled threats. I've stopped giving feedback because there's just no value in spending my time on it and the people who want it don't seem equip to use it.
Why would they? There is literally no benefit to interviewers to do so -- they've already rejected you, so improving your performance won't help their company, and it could help their competitor that does hire you. It could cause problems ("would you have considered my interview more impressive if I was race/gender/nationality/height X? Time to lawyer up").
The interface is horribly ugly. That's the only reason to not use OpenOffice/LibreOffice

It's also quite heavy.

In short, the user experience sucks.

And honestly, before LibreOffice, OpenOffice was more of a corporate product than a community project. It was by a company for company, and with an OpenSource model used to gain some popularity.

It pretty much suffered all the problems of products that are developed by big companies, and enjoyed almost none of the benefits of open source.

Now with LibreOffice I might be more motivated it to give it a chance or support the efforts, and I have more hope that it might turn out to be something good.
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Given that apple is in a much different place now then it was during the PowerPC days, maybe this isn't such a terrible idea. (And PPC wasn't apple so much as moto/ibm). They're proving it works right now with the A4... so maybe you're right.

That sad, I'd hate to have them go down the sun route, and just get left behind if/once intel gets off their ass.
> Apple employs the guy that builds LLVM/clang

Curious. Is the copyright Apple's?
Ta-nehisi Coates is one of the most interesting authors at the Atlantic (he's also the first african-american editor there since Booker T Washington, if memory serves). His childhood growing up with a mishmash of his half-siblings and getting into fights contrasts so much with the standard upper-class childhood that tends to get one into long-form journalism.
So what other JVMs can you run on the Mac today? Will Apple open-source their JVM as a starting point for whomever wants to pick up that ball and run with it?

How do you develop for Android on a Mac when their JVM finally disappears? I understand Android uses Dalvik, but will you be able to run Eclipse to get to that point?
Answering that question is exactly why Google is performing this experiment.
I have a friend who describes it exactly the same way.
I think it's more likely just an attempt to reduce their license fees.

The music licensing societies (at least in the UK) have different classes of license, at different price points, and licenses which allow "interactive use" are much more expensive. The distinction is (IANAL) about whether or not the user has detailed control over what tracks they listen to, and in what order.

The features they're removing sound a lot like "interactive use":

* Loved Tracks Radio: streaming your list of loved tracks

* Playlists: streaming a list of tracks you've chosen for a playlist

* Personal Tag Radio: streaming a list of artists, albums or tracks that you have tagged
I really wish we could just simplify the corporate tax code down to: x% of revenue - total salary payed to US(1) citizens. I figure the citizens are paying taxes on their salaries and it would encourage local hiring. Flat rate tax on revenue solves all this shell wackiness. Actually makes shells kinda nasty since you wouldn't be able to deduct salary.

If the government still wants to encourage / discourage behavior then do grants / fines instead. Stop using the tax system for political purposes.

1) substitute your country of taxation here
This is especially good advice in our industry, since they people you want to talk to are trivially discoverable, spend upwards of 12 hours a day connected to publicly accessible communication channels, and are often very good about writing people back. (It would never have occurred to me several years ago that I could just, you know, write the CEO an email, and he might very well write back and would almost certainly not send out a company-wide memo saying that I was an idiot who should never be spoken to again. It would also not have occurred to me that the Product Leader in charge of X will practically fall over themselves in a rush to talk to you about their baby, and they also can almost certainly figure out a way to get you hired if they want you to be hired.)
I'm not even sure what your distinction between nerds and smart non-nerds, to be honest. I've always found them essentially equivalent (modulo the topics they find interesting).
If the NFL ever did get rid of helmets, then I'm starting a new league with helmets.
CS student hides Rick-Roll in paper
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet.

A lot of hiring decisions come down to personality fit and likability, especially if you're hiring for a small team. Telling someone that you just don't like them is a pretty difficult thing to do for most people.

I know that I couldn't say it and have personally fallen back on the "we got a lot of good applicants and it was a tough decision" non-answer.
Why isn't the Mac platform important enough for Oracle to care?

Seems to me that maybe it's big enough that Mac should be supported by Oracle. That would be a bit more ideal, get updates when all the platforms get updates.
Not to sound overtly obnoxious, but I drink so that I can tolerate things other people say when I spend time in a mixed social group.

An fictitious example would be an episode of House where a genius would robotrip because it was the only way he could tolerate his wife because of an intellectual barrier.
I'm 30 and just got my first job in Software Engineering. I just recently graduated with a degree in CS and I started at the company as an intern - they hired me within a month.
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Or you could just start "dropping in" on classes.. That's the first thing that came to mind when I read the title.
Of course, Debian has done this since the early nineties, and yeah, it is nice to have guidelines (DFSG, etc.) that applications must follow to be a part of the platform. Having one entity responsible for system integration makes for a well-integrated system.

I doubt what Apple comes up with will be as good as Debian, but at least it gives "the masses" the chance to use a well-integrated platform.
I don't know footie rules well enough to explain it, but the quote I cited said collisions in the NFL are 100% more forceful. I assume that's based on how the game is structured.
I wonder if Oracle just increased the price?
I used to do image deconvolution of the original (flawed) Hubble images on a Sun Sparc5. Exactly what are you people using your Macbook Air for while sitting in starbucks ?

Is there a big underground CFD or N-Body scene among the trendy teens that I'm not aware of? Or is everybody into computational chem and protein folding to develop the next party drug?
When I'm installing even reasonably simple Mac apps, I often see the progress bar talking about sizes in the mid double digits. This sucks but is common.
Feedback Army will get you many responses without giving up anything more than a few dollars. http://www.feedbackarmy.com
This is something different:

>To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process (http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/) for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing.

The Stanford Project is a lot smaller (850 homes, compared to 50k - 500k people in Google Fiber). They say it'll help Google Fiber:

>We’ll be able to take what we learn from this small deployment to help scale our project more effectively and efficiently to much larger communities.
besides by "doing it" I say bulletproof web design is a good book to start with.
http://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Web-Design-flexibility-pro...

javascript- the good parts could also be helpful
http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...

www.jquery.com
smashingmagazine.com
ajaxian.com

all helpful
http://diveintopython.org/ is a good python intro that assumes you already know how to program in some other language.
> I don't know if many in your planned market would be okay with someone else setting up their systems.

This is what I'd be concerned about. I imagine there is a very small market in between the types of server users that have no idea what a kernel is and that it is configurable and the types of users in the 'enterprise' that either already have these automation scripts built themselves, or have strict enough security practices that prevents them from going outside their department for this.
Another reason is that you get into an arguing match.

Interviewer: "I don't think you have the skills for the job."
Interviewee: "Sure I do! Etc."
Write pseudo-AS3 code for Canvas
Turns an HTML5 canvas into a stage & display chain, w/ Sprite-scoped mouse events, parent-child transformations and fast regional redraws, controllable through a small set of AS3-like display methods in Javascript.
You know, with all the talk of portability and 'mac meets iPad,' why isn't the air available with built-in 3G and iPad-like data plans?