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The article said nothing about Google being a platform company, only that they're not looking to build a mobile platform in Android. A possibly more direct way of looking at this is that Android does not, from Google's perspective, compete with iOS. Google's intention is to make the same money whichever operating system the user is running, and Android only exists to enable new services that Apple moves to slow to allow (like Navigation.)
i got a dirty big security warning from chrome.
"You attempted to reach www.xeo-css.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as www.xeoscript.com."
DMB may not be the "most popular" but they did sell more tickets than any other act in North America over the last 10 years

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2010/01/d...
Yes I do have kids, and I wonder the same thing about people that are overly complex about a process that's quite simple. Show me a parent that sets up complicated rules for themselves and I'll show you a parent that's trying to rationalize. The parent that looks at their kids and says "I think I'll manipulate my two children to punish each other" is abdicating their role.

Many will retreat in the face of a tantrum, and advance on kids that behave. Consider the parent that pushes their straight A student for "another" extra curricular activity, or the parent that helplessly offers bribe after bribe as their child runs wild in a public setting. I've even seen the consequences entirely dependent on the mood of the adult, and the behavior of the kid is secondary.

Both your first and second point agree with the focus of my comment. (First point) Teach the rules by (Second point) having consequences. Third point is easily inferred, because I focus on the child's behavior determining consequences, not parental behavior.
Jon Harrop is well known for his spamming work in Lisp and Haskell communities.
Contracts are still valid if they have markup on them; both parties just initial the changes, or the changes are dated and initialed.
Isn't that what the domain portion of the set-cookie header is for?
haha i know what you mean! thanks for your feedback!
Using a "magic marker" like this doesn't imply looking at a raw memory dump (which, however, is still needed in several places Google is involved e.g., kernel hacking, embedded devices). For example, I used it myself when debugging an issue where our processes morphed into un-killable zombies. I was dealing with crash dumps, where I was walking through the process list in the kernel (it's a doubly linked list) in crash/gdb (looking at kernel memory dump obtained via netdump from a production server that manifest this condition) so I could find a process that has acquired a specific lock to test whether a theory that I had was true. I wasn't (and still am not) at Google and I don't even claim to have any expertise in actual kernel development: it was a bug a customer was experiencing and it needed to be fixed.

Lastly (and I am completely going on a limb here, without any concrete information), this could also be used to gauge team/culture fit Google. This is a good way to see if you'll be a fit for a team that spends a huge amount of time finding and fixing low-level bugs: it's fun to read about infrastructure that Google has built, but the actual process of building it may be very frustrating to some. Not being a fit for such a group doesn't imply rejection, it could simply mean you're brought back to a different round with another set of people.
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If you are a more interesting date and shape yourself into a better/more interesting/more exciting person because of it, where's the harm?
Illegal contracts are not contracts. For instance, contract murder is murder, but not a legally binding contract.
@andylei Yes, some do happen to be real. The point is that if several are definitely fake, why believe the rest?

For example, take this one: "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?"

Come on, no one was asked that. If even if they were, the hiring committee would take one look and that and throw out the feedback.

As for some of the other questions, like "How much would you charge to wash all the windows in the Seattle?"
(1) This question seems fishy, just because it's about Seattle. Yes, Google has a Seattle office (where I worked), but it has very few PMs. It's far more likely that this question was asked at Microsoft.
(2) This question is actually very standard for consulting question. It's really a totally fair problem solving question, as the accuracy of your final answer doesn't matter.

The Business Insider article is designed to be link bait - reprinting fake questions and building off the "OMG IT'S GOOGLE" stuff. The legitimate questions on this list are actually totally normal for tech and consulting companies.
But there is a significant difference between "my generation" and "my demographic".

I can believe DMB being the biggest musician of a demographic (US, College educated, mid twenties?) -- but probably not a "generation".
You may be thinking of Concentrate (http://getconcentrating.com)

Also worth noting, RescueTime has a "Get Focused" feature that blocks any sites that you have marked as unproductive (for a specified number of minutes).
Who made that microwave burrito you're eating..."It's all in code," says Chef Wendy. If the product has meat, poultry, or eggs in it, by law it must have an establishment number or name somewhere on the label

I wonder if there is an opportunity for a mobile app where you scan a food barcode/code and see where it was made. You could rate the food and see ratings of other foods made by that company / at that facility.

The data is here:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&_policies/Meat_Pou...
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This doesn't sound credible. It's based on the idea that a clerk at Blockbuster can accept changes to contract language. A similar story could go, "my Tort tutor added language to the rental contract that demanded Blockbuster pay me $100 every time I didn't like a movie; how he laughed, he said, when he demanded his payment after renting Marmaduke".

I'm obviously not a lawyer but this seems to have more to do with there being no valid contract to enforce than about him secretly modifying the language of the contract.
Use a lava lamp and a webcam.

EDIT: or http://www.lavarnd.org/
@strlen Again, some of the questions are absolutely 100% FAKE.

So if some questions (like the "why are manhole covers round") are definitely fake, and others seem very weird (like the dead beef one), isn't is more likely that that question is fake too?
Has a lot of great information for anyone interested in startups. I have to agree with the rest also, would be nice in a wiki format. However, it seems that it was just thrown together as a mash-up of resources - kind of a first stage document. Hopefully with some more effort it can be a wiki page.
plenty of people are simply abysmal at any form of 'cooking' more complicated than a microwave. the list of skills you could learn that would save you a couple bucks here and there is far longer than your arm. we can't expect everyone to have every money-saving skill, or the time to actually put them to use.

(yes, everyone eats food so that seems like an 'obvious' one, but everyone also uses indoor plumbing, electricity, has a roof over their head, etc, and i hear far fewer folks suggesting that we all learn roofing.)
> So if some questions (like the "why are manhole covers round") are definitely fake, and others seem very weird (like the dead beef one), isn't is more likely that that question is fake too?

It may sound fake to you, for a specific team you interviewed people for. But, it's an entirely reasonable question to ask for someone who claims low-level experience for a team that actually does low-level work. Use a product your ex-employer has built to search for '0xdeadbeef' and you'll see this technique is not just a piece of esoterica.

There are many kinds of software engineers: a low-level hacker may just be as puzzled by "support vector machines" (why do they need our support?!) as you are by 0xdeadbeef.

[Edit: last point is why lists like this are meaningless. This question likely gets asked by teams who do low-level work, other questions get asked by teams who do machine learning, etc...]
The "right way" depends on the task at hand and the tools you have at your disposal. For any type of low-level work, being able to view, understand, and observe regions of memory is pretty much essential.
Again (see below) I'd worry that you haven't so much "secured agreement" by waiting out the first paycheck so much as you have "obtained employment without actually having a valid contract at all", which might cut both ways.

At any point that the company chooses to ensure you're in compliance with its IP terms, it can just demand you sign another contract. Employment in the US is almost entirely at-will.
You seem to have the idea that using different channels is somehow the wrong way to go about courtship. Have you ever studied nature? There are tons of animals that abuse and cheat courtship rituals for their own benefit.

Really, the courtship ritual is a game. The women look for traits they desire, but these traits are expensive, so (some) men attempt to fake the traits. The women adapt, the men adapt. It's basically an evolutionary arms race, but about sex, because the reproductive & evolutionary interests of males and females when it comes to mate selection are diametrically opposed.
Amy's also charges $4 for a can of beans... they're a rip off, so not really a good example.
I do have a trial version, with limited features, and I think that trying to give them the trial version for free is a good idea. But honestly, my sales have been so ridiculous that $500 for the full version does not look that bad at this stage.

Also, they claim to have a circulation of 500,000. This seems huge to me, but they are a monthly magazine so it might be possible. I am going to ask them if this number really is the circulation of their paper version, or if it also includes the visitors on their website...

EDIT: The licensing/activation system I developed for the full version would allow me to limit the time period with which I allow free activations. This means that I could make a "special" version based on the full version, which allows users to register for free for let say, two months, and then blocks the free activation process. That way, even if the app is distributed on the internet outside of my control (and it will), the number of free licenses will be limited to a two-month period (I checked, and the license agreement that the magazine offered would allow this two-month restriction).
Well that's what I thought and this is the only one I found which just worked (sort of).
Of course the idea is to mature them, but what does maturity mean? How do you reach that point? Do you think my method won't get you there?
I'm not sure what you mean by that. What I mean is that, at least now, they could focus on improving their product for the existing userbase.
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The downside of OCW is that, as good as it is, I often find it frustrating because of what's missing from the content for a course.

For instance, I don't find ppt slides very useful by themselves, without the additional context that would be provided by the lecturer.

If you attended the lecture, the points in the slides could help you remember the details. But if you never heard the details, it's often not clear what you're supposed to make of the points in the slides.

For instance, a slide listing sort algorithms for large datasets might mention bubble sort. If you know about bubble sort already, you might assume (probably correctly) that it's there as a joke or as the "definitely wrong choice". If you don't know anything about bubble sort, you might assume it's given as a perfectly valid algorithm like the others listed.

Since it's free, my grumbling is limited. But it does frustrate me at times.
One of the downsides of going public is that the customer base shifts---no longer are your customers the ones that buy/use your product, but your customers are the ones that buy your stock. And because of the legal requirement of increasing shareholder value, the company may be forced into short term profitability (make the numbers next quarter) instead of longer term long range profitability or stability.
For me, the debate isn't so much about corporate productivity - it's more about respect for people's time and effort.

I understand what you're saying - but maybe we'll have to agree to disagree.

Competitions too often seem like an excuse for cheap labour.
Ok, quite a few people are having this problem. I'll have a fix soon hopefully!

EDIT: It's working now download the new version at: http://therealfocusapp.com/focus-alpha-0.1.app.zip — thanks to all who helped fix!
are u really trying to convince people that you're making $400 today with THIS site?? No freaking way dude. You only have 8 people that actually like your page on the facebook link, no Google PR, an Alexa over 2mil and you're breaking adsense rules all over the place (including calling gays out and mentioning the rape of the elderly).. and you're spelling sucks. You'd have to be getting millions of visits with that particular ad (lowest eCPM) and this isn't even php, as you claim. It's javascript. Anyone could copy this poorly coded source, download the referenced js and throw this site up in 5 minutes. Give us all a serious break and quit lying just to get page visits! You're pathetic. Looking forward to your adsense account being deleted.
If you don't know enough about a subject, you shouldn't write about it. Or at least do some research.

P.s. looks like you could have put your point in a tweet :)
Fascinating, first the concept of deep fried steak and then chicken steak? ... American food never ceases to surprise me (a pescetarian from New Zealand). So different :)
I don't doubt that hiring committees don't look at GPA. It's usually HR who does that sort of thing.
tokyo supports a b-tree index on the keys written to disk which would optimize blah* queries but not [wildcard]foo[wildcard], and then writes become log(N)
Ok, turn the previous command into a shortcut. Done!
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I seem to recall that being on a questionnaire they send you after you submit an application.
Sure: Here are some numbers based on affiliate network stats, from the affiliate side:

Amateur Match conversion rate is between 14-22%, paying out an average EPC between $0.70-$1.07.

If they can afford to pay more than $1 per click and still be highly profitable, I assume they're converting free users to paid/upselling quite well.

If someone remains a member an average of 3 months at $30/month, you're looking at a CLV approaching close to $100.
More on glutamates in parmesan and tomatoes (agrees with tptacek): http://blog.khymos.org/2007/07/06/glutamic-acid-in-tomatoes-...
What the website advocates, redirecting site traffic through them, is a very bad idea. If you don't know why this might be so, stop and ask yourself why you are in charge of modifying the zone records.
I was asked to write very little code for my current position. One of the questions was being presented with some code and figuring out what it did. I didn't realize how apropos that question was at the time.

I just got done doing a series of 10 1-hour interviews for contractors for an enterprise Java web application contract lasting about 6 months. Only 2-3 of them could write correct Java on a white board for simple questions. We had three who weren't even close to Java syntax. Code quality seemed to be directly relational to algorithm quality, in that those with better syntax also knew how to solve the algorithms best, and those with terrible syntax were way off on the algorithms.

Up until we asked these candidates to write code on the board, a few of them sounded like great hires. They could rattle on about design decisions and enterprise web application stacks, about configuration and organization. But when it came to the white board at least one of them just stood there and left it mostly blank.

Some of the positions here have had interviews where the candidate is expected to write code but only one, if even that, interviewer asked to see any code. And even then the managers don't seem too worried when I tell them the person can't code, because everyone else likes them so much.
Until little Johnny(kid1) figures out that being stuck in his room is more palatible to him than it is to little Susie(kid2). Then he wins every disagreement by fiat.

Gaining power over your sibling wouldn't be described as a bad consequence to most children.
>No lying at all. You're just taking a concrete rule and setting soft and hard boundaries.

Ah, when you said boundaries I thought you meant [hard] boundaries not soft limits.

>But set them so that hard boundaries aren't reached.

If they test the boundaries and can't reach the hard boundary then the hard boundary is somewhere else isn't it? I realise you said "aren't" but that appears to require more mental agility and less will than I remember of a 2-3yo.

>you can expect to see exploration of how far over the line the toe can go before being told to come back

If the toe is over the line then that's not acceptable, for me the line represents the point at which the apparent danger becomes too large. I'm not letting them over the line but they can stand and look at "danger". My 20-ish month old has just started copying an older sibling and attempting to stand on the arms of chairs, standing on the seat (at home) is fine, on the arms isn't. He puts his foot up, I say "no" and he takes it down (mostly; learned response from other situations). 3yo can manage stairs all right can't they (it's been a couple of years).

My attitude is to try and allow behaviour which isn't negative. Singing at the meal table, fine. Singing with mouth full at meal table, not fine (splattered food that needs cleaning up). FWIW I find this very hard to live to.

I think we've compressed the grey area, there must be one still but because it's small I have a hard time imagining situations that match your descriptions.

Thanks for the book recommendation, if I had money I'd buy it. Was there a specific aspect of the book you felt I should take on board?
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If you have a proven conversion funnel and high retention, you should be able to absolutely blow this thing up via Facebook Ads. AdWords is hardly the ideal channel to drive significant game traffic(unless you're awesome at Content Network).

Or set up an affiliate program paying about $1 per free signup.
That's definitely imaginative.
There are many resources available in Japanese. Search for "NPO 設立" in Google or Amazon.co.jp to find numerous websites and books.

As for English resources, this page has quite a bit of information: http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/japan-ngo.html

That page contains a list of information centers that you may have luck with. You can find an older yet more complete list of information centers (with icons to indicate which ones can speak English) here: http://www.jnpoc.ne.jp/English/library/localnpocenter/index....
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I just went through the application process (declined by committee) over the last two months and the application did have a space for GPA, but I was never asked about SAT or GRE scores as far as I can remember.
The one fatal flaw is that the author assumes disparate hoards of people can come together to create a new network to replace the existing one, which is a difficult task (dare I say extremely difficult). Just look at how an organized, business & government sponsored approach to creating a new network has already failed to take much traction (re: ipv6). Hardly disparate, yet a decade of efforts and still not truly active.
You can see it however you like, however you're completely missing the point. If you pay 100 bucks to a teacher to look the other way while you're living on ramen and have 300 bucks in your savings account, while your professor has say 20k in his checking account and property to his name, who's wealthier or upper class? The point I was making is that trading money for favors is not some exclusive power only the wealthy/upper-class does to the not-wealthy/lower-class.
only reason www is usefull is because common cms (forums, blogs, comments, ....) convert www.example.com to a clickable link, but example.com not. yeah stupidbutthats the way it is.....
this dude is completely full of shit.
With greater power consumption and a much higher cost.
Great to see some DC based companies in the mix. Technology has a huge role to play in the health and wellness space.
I wouldn't say ipv6 has failed, merely that it isn't being adopted fast enough. It'll get there. Sooner or later, reality will force ipv6 adoption.
Loving the post. Read it on my flight back to Chicago yesterday morning. The author did their research (even went as far as to grab a quote from Danny Sullivan).
It gets propagated to subdomains, it doesn't restrict it to just the domain specified.
So any successful website can be acquired by any one by TradeMark the domain name?
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It's a little on the young side yet, and I have to prove out some of the apps/demos of it at scale, but it's coming along very nicely and shows a lot of promise.

Ultimately it's a public DHT that enables apps to punch through the NATs (to go direct device-to-device) and talk JSON to each other. It doesn't solve all the problems you face being distributed, but it's a good start :)
It happens for customer-facing people; what you're really observing is that it's hard to construct an enforceable noncompete for an engineer.

More relevant to HN founders is the question of whether a noncompete would enable your company to kill any overlapping company you might find in its cradle. That's not as clear cut as employment law.
A local jam/sauce maker, Beerenberg, has a Provenance Pathway feature on their site:

http://www.beerenberg.com.au/go/our-products/provenance-path...

Enter the barcode and expiry of the product and it will show you the recipe, when/where it was made, photos of the workers involved in its production, description of the process, the source of each ingredient, packing specs, etc.
I explain the difference below: "You couldn't sneak in a clause saying 'I get a 100% pay increase annually' -- in this case, they're the party being bound so would need some indication of assent beyond just a paycheck." Similarly, the clause you identify means that Blockbuster is now the party that is bound. Renting you a movie with that clause isn't sufficient proof of acceptance, especially because there's no consideration that Blockbuster receives in return.
"I'm standing for election to the Scottish parliament later this year. If I'm elected I'll try to get something like this implemented."

I'd really like to hear how the voters are responding to such an issue. Do people understand, more or less, the technology, the ramifications, the options? Do they care? Do they care once <something> is explained? That sort of thing.

There are a number of comments posted on HN to the effect that "mere" users don't care, don't understand, can't be bothered, etc. That they only care that Stuff Works, for some limited definition of "works". I'd like to think that's not true, but my sample set of non-geeks is probably too small to make broad statements about the general population.
Combined with Hickey's post in that thread, this whole thing strikes me as rather petulant - "throwing the toys out of the pram" as the English would say.
Aren't a lot of the OCW Lectures available as well? Doesn't that resolve the issue.
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If I had 125k more visitors a day, I'd make around $272,100 a day.
Self Control does the same thing and it's been open source on Github since March 2009.

http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/