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Bad explanations of the prisoners dilemma are a constant fascination to me. They pop-up in so many otherwise excellent bits of writing, imho, because the standard mental image of two prisoners being interrogated is such a mismatch for the actual dilemma.

For example, in this case he's talking about "defecting by accident", yet two paragraphs before he's just outlined the fact that "the best solution individually is to defect".

So you're "accidentally" following the optimal strategy, which is the same one you'd pick if you had perfect information about the situation. I fail to see how that's a problem.

The key to the prisoner's dilemma is to avoid being in that situation. Once you're in that situation, a situation that is fascinating precisely because you are so totally screwed once in it, the "game" is over. You (and your partner) only have one rational choice and it leads to a poor outcome.

Change the game when and if you can, that's the lesson of the prisoners dilemma (also, if you can't change the game then defect because the other guy should logically defect too leaving you high and dry if you try to cooperate and if for whatever irrational reason he doesn't defect then you get the best possible outcome by defecting when he doesn't).

To be extra clear, "defecting" will always gain you something in the standard Prisoner's Dilemma. That's kind of the whole point. In an iterated prisoners dilemma, where the guy you betrayed previously gets a chance to get even it's not so simple and gets more confusing if people hold irrational grudges. Interaction with colleagues obviously fits that kind of iterated version better as does pissing off your partner in crime who'll have you shanked in the prison showers as revenge for betraying him.

For a discussion about nerds needing to communicate better, leading off with a false technical analogy seems like a perfect way to piss the techies off and make them ignore the rest of your message, which all seems reasonable enough in itself and doesn't really need the reference to the PD and talk of defecting to jazz it up.
Don't get me wrong -- I do see the importance of those things. But I also recognize they are a science in themselves. To get involved with that too much is a kind of slippery slope, which detracts from the main focus.

A lot of people make a living of being obsessed about how things look and sound, the outward appearance. I choose to not be one of those people.
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And the moral of the story is... outsource! :-)
Very valid point, but in my experience is not always the case. I participated two times in the GSoC and the last time was the most challenging positions that I have worked in till today.

Indeed Google is not an startup an GSoC is about mentorship not about profits.

Anyway the thread is about anykind of interns positions, not only about remote interns positions.

---edit

GSoC == Google Summer of Code, an mentorship program hosted by Google every summer.

I encouraged all HN students to apply to it. Is fun, and you will learn a lot.
I guess this explains why netcraft keeps showing their website as mostly down worldwide for the last day or so when it's actually performing extremely well.

Question: why does the RST packet identify non-existent nodes? Doesn't TCP sequence prevent a blind continuation of a http request? Is this just one type of syn flood protection?
Good spot - will flag it to the guys who set it up
HackFwd
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1.open new tab in google chrome

2. type demonoid hit tab, type the band name followed by discography

3. hit download button.

everything else happens automatically. torrent file gets automatically added to Transmission, and when done, the music gets moved into the "Automatically add files to iTunes Folder" and iTunes takes it from there.

But don't steal music. Its wrong.
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New York City, 1010data

http://1010data.com/company/careers/current-job-openings

We're looking to fill a couple roles: Web Application Developer, Systems Developer, Infrastructure Engineer, and Data Analyst.

We're a 'big data' company and the problems we work on are pretty interesting. Among other reasons to be curious, our programmers all learn K. Contact jobs at 1010data (and mention HN).
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but search term highlighting is much better in chrome. When Firefox has search highlighting in the scrollbar I'll switch back.
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This is cool. What else could a format like this be applied to? Shakespeare?
What types of companies are you looking for as presenters? Also, what does a typical presentation consist of - revenue forecasts, market size, product demos, management background, marketing strategy? With just 3 minutes, I'm wondering if we should just present our product and company background or if we should focus more on why you should invest in us.
Much can be gained from a very small amount of effort. Like learning to say "Hello", "Goodbye", "Please" and "Thank you" in the language of the country you visit, the returns are disproportionate to the effort. It's not about being obsessed by how things look and sound, it's about realising there's a choice, and making the choice that makes it easy for the other person to join your side.

There are a few small and simple "tricks" and techniques that can make a world of difference. "Not bothering" is also a choice. I just don't think it's a good one. Investing a small amount of time is better.

Find a good balance.
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London, UK: Smarkets Limited, a social gaming site, is looking for a front end developer (Websockets, Python, JS, CSS3 a bonus) and an Erlang developer to join our small tech team. yourlife@smarkets.com for more information.

Unfortunately remote working isn't a possibility for us, but we're located in central London!
In every argument about dynamic language performance for the last 15 years, Self has been the final word: "If Self can reach 1/4 to 1/2 the speed of native C code, why can't JavaScript? Why can't Ruby?" Well, JavaScript and Lua are slowly getting there, and Ruby might in a few more years. Even if Self could only reach that level of performance occasionally, it has been an inspiration to many others.

It's great to hear that an old and storied project has been released as open source. The best of luck to them, and I look forward to reading their compiler source code some day!
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In fact, nearly all of the energy expended by modern rockets goes into lifting the rocket fuel itself, and only a small amount into the payload.

Which would mean the fuel needed is quadratic in the GPE needed, which would put Saturn right back up there at ~100 times harder to reach than the moon (ignoring constants).
Hint: you can use search engines to find job descriptions:

"As an AdWords Associate, your main responsibility will be to manage a portfolio of advertiser accounts. You will be working directly with your advertisers to drive revenue and customer satisfaction."

And of course they have phones. If you were the kind of customer they'd be interested in talking to, you would probably have their number already...
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808979
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But how can he buy the music for his wife? iTunes music is still DRMed (owner encoded in the files).

Also 2 hours is way overblown.
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Unless you live in another country (say a backwater like Sweden).

Then you are told by iTunes: "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Swedish store"
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I'm supporting charity:water with http://www.coldwaterswimming.com ... I like that they are pretty accountable, 100% goes towards the projects and having access to clean water is a pre-requisite for a child's education & further development.
Ask HN: Who is looking for a Co-founder (December 2010)?
The December hiring threads have been started but not all of us are looking for a job. Fortunately, we can connect with many interesting people here on HN that also want to start their own business.

You might have a great idea for 2011, you might have launched solo during the November app sprint or maybe you just feel like quitting your current job and taking a chance.

Post your location, describe what qualities or skills you are looking for in a partner and pitch your idea.
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Since it's maiden voyage I would guess not much other than a prolonged check-out, maybe some surveillance and/or mapping.

As for the overall mission mandate may directly or indirectly be related to prompt global strike, a kinetic kill system (either for satellites or for ground targets), or electronic warfare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
having it here is better to read and to comment on if people have previous experience working with those guys and would like to recommend them. Besides spreadsheets don't make a good discussion (maybe can be used to list them so as to make them quickly readable)
You should try doing USACO - http://ace.delos.com/usacogate

They have guides, problems and online judging system.
I asked the EXACT same question a little over a month ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809874) and what I did was I told the guy that I wanted some equity and some cash. Long story short, I never heard back from him which is funny because it was my friend's dad. There's some really great advice on the link above though.

Make sure you get some cash - everyone has a million dollar idea
What the heck is an agile tester?
Ask HN: Opportunity cost fear is paralyzing me
Have you ever been in a situation where you have so many projects and ideas to work on but don't know which one is most likely to succeed? It seems this fear of not allocating my time optimally is paralyzing me at such a point that I end up not working on anything at all. Any tip on how to get over this problem? Lack of focus is killing me :/
While I agree that "legal" music downloads are really cheap these days, most of his criticism is just not true if you actually know what you're doing...

"scene releases" have a fixed quality scheme (encoding, ID3, ...) and the proper torrent community orftp/usenet server will max out your home connection easily.

That being said, if you actually have a regular income, music should not be that big of a problem to buy...
I get my music the old fashioned way, I record it off the radio. (via internet)
Not quite what you're looking for but London Perl Workshop is on Saturday http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2010/
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Karlsruhe, Germany: mSALES GmbH. We're looking for a Ruby Developer (on site, german speaking)

http://www.msales.com/jobs/ruby-developer (in German)

http://goo.gl/DeBp1 (the above in English)
No, none of the 2.3 apps I've run on 1.9.2 have i18n.
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sm1 who follows agile devlopement methodolgy ??
I'm actually surprised JS has made it this far. I'm not convinced it will go much further, though.

Can someone convince me, please? :)
I know most people here don't use FreeBSD, but I'm sure you all use open source software in some form. If you're making money, why not share some of that with the project(s) which made your companies possible?

Who will join me?
Pavia, Italy/Zurich, Switzerland.

Global Earthquake Model Secretariat is hiring a Senior Software Engineer who is familiar with large scale computing, has serious Python chops, and some experience in open source development. GIS, numpy/scipy experience is a plus.

http://globalquakemodel.org/node/76
MongoDB (10gen)

New York City and Redwood City, CA.

Looking for software engineers, QA, support engineers, interns, and more: http://www.10gen.com/jobs. Working remotely depends on the job.

Working on MongoDB is great: there are tons of interesting programming problems, an awesome community, my coworkers are brilliant, and you get paid to work on open source software.
Giving up 30% of your company seems like a lot to me but I'm sure there will be plenty of takers. The maximum funding you can get in return is fairly high (at least compared to YC):

91,000 euros - single founder

141,000 euros - two founders

191,000 euros - three founders
A general problem of app stores. What is needed is better discovery methods and filters.
>For what? I don't know.

Full text indexing of your history: press C-h and search.
Normally that would get down-voted to oblivion here, but since the name of the company in question is Epic Data Recovery Labs, I gave you an upvote. (It only took you back to 0 though...)
What proportion of his customers go check Yelp before using him? I'm guessing it's only a small number... I can't see this killing his business. Seems more like a minor nuisance to me...
Projects started fail frequently, projects unstarted succeed never. Pick one you can deliver in a short amount of time. Do so. There, you now have a base for expansion/learning and the habits required to successfully ship stuff.
Disclaimer: I'm a referrer for HackFwd.

I think it's pretty different.
- It doesn't have a public application process. You can only be referred by someone in the network.
- It doesn't require you to move anywhere. You can work from your home country/city.
- It doesn't have a formal 3 month program with mentorship and dinners. It's a 1+ year stunt, with a quarterly weekend retreat where you get to present your achievements and get tons of feedback and mentorship.
- It doesn't give you $15-20k for 6%, but instead matches your annual salary with caps at 90k, 140k and 190 if you are a 1, 2 or 3 person team respectively. HackFwd always gets 27% equity, and you are required to give away 3% to advisors/referrers.

It's a new approach to investing, and very very new having launched just 6 months ago.
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Yet Chrome is still far faster if you have a multi-core system and are actually running more than one tab. FF4 can be as fast as it wants in processing Javascript, but it still can't scale that performance like Chrome can.
Yes, it is good, but not good enough for many applications. You're also left with the issue that one kind of "apple" is more common than the other kind of "apple" so the baseline accuracy of something that always assumes it's one kind of apple might be surprisingly good.

That said, text-to-speech is a system where it's important to do disambiguation of a particular set of words. For instead,

"I read the news today, oh boy", "read" sounds like "red"

"I read the news every day", "read" sounds like "reed"

You need to be able to disambiguate the word sense to be able to correctly read the world "read". There are maybe 20 or so very common words that are like this, so a modest amount of work in this area would be part of a good TTS system.
London, UK

Pachube (http://www.pachube.com) is looking for an experienced javascript / front-end developer to build some awesome widgets to display live data coming in to our system form thousands of connected devices.

See http://community.pachube.com/jobs/fd1009

Great place to work - excellent team and some good meaty problems to get your teeth into!
> They get free public education for a reason.

It's obviously not working.

I never imagined I would one day say something like it, but we all need more lawyers and politicians.
> What got me hooked on chrome was the unified address bar that just worked, and tabs on top (and the close button stays in the right place when you close half a dozen tabs), basically it just took up less space, firefox feels like IE with way too much clutter and a prompt to ask you if you really meant to do whatever, yes I really want my browser to close, update etc.

Exactly the same here, but then I got sick of various changes to chrome that went against how I felt a browser should work, and google wouldn't honor a config setting for. (Oddly, removal of http:// prefix isn't one of these things, I supported that...)

So I went back to firefox, albeit FF4 as MineField, and added in Omnibar and gTranslate extensions to get the functionality of chrome that I depended on (the combined nav bar and the ability to auto-translate web pages).

Haven't regretted it since, although I do keep a chrome install around as my backup browser - every few weeks minefield will have some earth-shattering bug that causes it to be unusable for a few hours or so..
Not really, HackFwd involves a much large investment/equity stake/time period. It's closer to traditional angel than YC.

If you're looking for a European equivalent for YC checkout the following: The Difference Engine, StatupBootcamp and Springboard.
The descriptions being .pdfs is a turn-off. I see no reason for them to be PDFs at at all either - they're just a logo and some text.
I've always suspect that the almost ritualistic indulgence in self deprecating humor common in many places I've worked is pretty much the antidote to the "over direct" form of communication that technical types are so prone to.

This is probably related to the suspicion that people aren't completely comfortable working together unless you have all got very drunk at some point.... but perhaps that's because I am Scottish.

[NB I did find that British self deprecating humor does NOT work with corporate attack lawyers belonging to a certain extremely large semiconductor manufacturer]
More someone who can run testing in a way which fits well with agile development, rather than simply verifying functionality once development is largely complete.

In our case this means working closely with developers, product owners etc. early in the development cycle to ensure that acceptance criteria are fully explored and agreed on, helping the engineering team build automated acceptance tests, which we use to drive development, and exploratory testing throughout the development process.
> Firebug

I used to feel the same way, but after I made a conscious effort to learn the Webkit developer tools in Chrome, I have to say that it much easier to use than Firebug, looks nicer (even on Linux), and feels faster. You should give it a try.
The article mentions the lingering fear of Smalltalk images but virtual machine images offering hope for the future. I experienced this with Smalltalk (Gemstone) apps quite some time ago and that feeling remained with Java on the desktop. What would it take to get non-native environments to integrate better and so gain better acceptance with end-users? Is the browser a better vector since end-users are more accepting of different web site styles rather than desktop app look and feels?
New York, no remote but will relocate people.

NewsCred - a global news distribution platform. Lots of interesting technoloy, great VC backing, product in market with strong revenues.

Looking for an engineer with background in search, information retrieval, solr, lucene or a strong desire to learn.

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Great office in Union Square in NYC, unlimited vacations, and other perks. Great office atmosphere - think "Dunder Mifflin."
I think the fact that many tried and failed could be explained that these are "iceberg problems":

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/code-icebergs.ht...

It's not impossible, just much much harder than it seems.
But time IS money (i.e. valuables), especially as you get older. You won't have time for everything you'd like to do, and you won't have the energy. Young people think energy is unlimited, old people know energy and time are the precious valuables.

And even for young people: the time you spend cleaning up downloads are time you can't spend on getting better at whatever you're good at.
all he'll do is rename it and nothing will be lost.
Is anyone looking for a remote php/web developer to do some contract work or something ?

Due to some recent family development I could really use a boost to my income, even if only sporadicly, and am willing to put up some good work for that.

(just to be clear, I am not looking for a full time job, already have one)
Springboard and The Difference Engine are the same now :)

Seedcamp is another.
Perhaps, but look at the date on those reviews. So this person's post made more people aware of yelp and they used it to air their frustration, a bunch of people on reddit got mad and made up claims to make this company look like nothing more than a scam (one poster actually called for reddit to do exactly that) or some combination of those two.

I just posted this as a great example of about the worst way to deal with customers I've ever seen. If the company isn't a scam they could have asked the customer what they could do to get rid of the rating. If it is a scam he could have just shut up, maybe posted a few fake positive reviews and left it at that. Instead he wrote an amateurish fake-lawyer letter threatening the customer angering a portion of the Internet against him.
Seedcamp is probably the closed to YC in Europe.
Unless you download them from Amazon they will not sync across devices. But, I see you're point, they are already formatted.
"The company in question is Epic Data Recovery Lab"

That was sort of the point of the comment. :)

People should be less edgy...
I'd be looking for a Javascript/iOS/Android (at least one of those) ninja to help me finish a cool location + map based app. I've got a very dirty but working prototype. It's something that doesn't exist right now and that I believe people would be willing to pay for. I estimate ~150 hours left to a shippable MVC. I'm located in Montreal but I don't really mind where you're located at this point.