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My biggest reason for thinking this won't make inroads into HPC is that they talk about "Up to 1000x improvement over x86 calculations" well that means they need to get it to market and adopted before we have 256 or 512 x86 cores in a single socket, which isn't that far away, and would reduce their advantage to "Up to 4-8x" which is not nearly as impressive.
Building a business on top of Facebook (or Twitter or any other company) brings a lot of benefits, shortcuts to success, but it also makes you 100% dependent on them. Your business isn't totally yours anymore, they have veto on anything you do and can shut down your access for any reason. Anyone who doesn't realize that needs to wake up honestly. If you aren't ready to be Facebook's b..ch then don't build your service on their system.
Ah, you're quite right. Then maybe this will bring broader attention to their implications.
>But how did the candidates we selected measure up? The truth is, we got very mixed results. Many of them were average, very few were excellent, and some were absolutely awful fits for their positions. So at best, the interview had no actual effect on the quality of people we were selecting, and I'm afraid that at worst, we may have skewed the scale in favor of the bad ones.

This doesn't follow at all! Consider, as is surely the case, that only a small fraction of the applicants would have turned out to be average to excellent. The interview process can filter out the vast majority of the sub-average applicants and still leave you with a significant fraction of sub-average employees.
What does 'I only went "full Trump" once on an employee.' mean?
I upvoted all your comments because it caused me to learn that the .io tld indicates "British Indian Ocean Territory", apparently meaning the US military base at Diego Garcia. I found this interesting for reasons I can not disclose at this time. I also thought your original post about this was quite harmless and if anyone had an objection to it they should have ignored the post rather than call great attention to it with what appears to be a gigantic downvoting and huffy post circlejerk that serves no beneficial purpose to the world at large. It is they who are the ones making response posts which contribute little helpful or interesting to this thread, while taking up extremely valuable and irreplaceable screen photons. Don't pay them any heed.
Someone should make a better Hacker News. Even if the quality of user comments isn't declining, the site is lacking in many technical and design features (like this one).
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I was very much into freelancing until I joined my full time job since last 3 months.

I started out with $10/hour (in India) and was up to $50/hour which made me some decent money. I usually charged hourly as estimates are fragile (even after a lot of experience). It used to come to around $30000/year (considering some 600 hours of work yearly). Adjusting lifestyle, that is equivalent or more, compared to $100K in the US.

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What they failed to mention was that people in Afghanistan are starving and left to eat bread and whatever they can scrounge up.

We're fatter because we have more to eat.
You might want to look at various sites that publish salary ranges for companies. I have no idea how accurate they are, but this site (http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Google,_Inc./Sa... ) says that a sr. soft eng at google is 109-150
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Your harsh words have been bothering me so I'm writing again.

* I did re-read the speech.

* Not every text relates to the foxholes platitude.

* Even if you don't think there's a connection between what I said and what DFW said, so what? We are on a tangent off a tangent off a tangent in the middle of the internet.

* I feel like you maybe are frustrated at somebody or something else and taking it out on me via the internet. Not nice.
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I've definitely been in that awesome "hopelessly incapable of answering an 'easy' interview question" situation before. The worst time was when I was interviewing with RethinkDB, and one of their guys asked me a dynamic programming question. Did I know that dynamic programming was fair game for any technical interview? Absolutely. Did I prepare for it at all? Nope (which is not to claim that I would have aced it with some amount of preparation -- I just know I couldn't have done worse).

I remember thinking as I was leaving "Well it was cool of them to buy me lunch, and the weather's nice." Later that evening my doubts in my interviewing prowess were confirmed :)

Still, awesome guys, hard problems, I encourage you to apply :) http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/
That may be. I have no interest in what other companies do, really.

I'm happy to pay higher hourly during the contract to compensate for the lack of benefits.

I'm happy to pay a (naive) employee more than they asked for because I know what the position is worth and have no interest in tricking them.

This isn't generosity, it's just good long-term business IMHO.
side stepping the snarky comment debate sadly raging on. I too am unimpressed about sites or apps posting to my stream (thankfully this has evolved with time), yet I have a question...

what level of "detail/information/explanation" would you need to feel comfortable using a product which has functionality you can activate to use with your stream or not activate and it wouldn't hinder your personal use of the site.
Best thing about cucumber is the possibility to set up a matrix of conditions and run through the scenarios that way - can be used as a poor mans quickcheck.

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It'd be hard to have worked with Linux for over 20 years at this point since the first public Linux release happened just under 20 years ago (September 1991).

And even in the post, there are more factual errors... Ctrl+D doesn't ask a program to quit. How can you use Linux for 10+ years and not know why kill -9 is "force" and what the difference is from normal kill?
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I feel that they blow many things out of proportion on a regular basis.
Interesting project. It's good to learn something interesting from great people. In every quote you can find some wisdom. Great job!
I am really excited for an actual lawsuit but I'm afraid Amazon will just settle out of court.

Comparing it to a hard drive may actually work in court but trying to explain the server optimizing code that grabs copies of the exact same song locally on the server rather than re-upload 30 million copies of the same Ke$ha track would be tough.

Still. I'd love to see this in court. I'm going to go buy some Amazon MP3 albums now to support the service.
We don't know the full scope of the project so it's impossible to tell. Other costs may have included:

market research (predicting uptake pricing and income),
several failed experiments,
fallback plans,
advertising budget,
internal restructuring,
redundancy payouts.
This winter, all got a 150'000 USD convertible note with interest at IRS's AFR, with a 2 years maturity date.
Apple first tried to push developers to the web

That's kind of bullshit when Mobile Safari doesn't support such basic functionality as uploading photos you've made from your phone to websites.

A far more likely scenario -- Apple wasn't sure they want third-party apps (web or not) on their platform. After all, the iPod did quite well without apps, or a browser.
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This post would be so much more useful if it had a list of the questions asked, what the wrong answers given were, and an explanation of why the answers were wrong, along with links to the information needed to come up with the right answer.
Well, it sounds like you know the problem (you haven't found a community you like yet) and have ideas about how to solve it (finding a good creative writing group; I would also try science fiction conventions, hacker dojos, a Unitarian church and your local Less Wrong meetup). I can't think of much else to say - if you know where your problems are coming from, you know how to solve them better than I do.
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Well, they do data mining, it's more like the privacy removal industry.
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Simply not wanting to live in a suburb seems like kind of a short-sighted reason (unless you have house/kids or something) to turn down an otherwise good investment. Especially with no alternatives.

There's probably a very large random element involved in getting accepted into YC. If that's you're only backup plan you should make sure you won't be kicking yourself for passing up the current offer.
My bad, my math is sucking today.

My brain thought "hm, 1999, now it's 2011, so add 10 to the 1900's to get 2000's, then add 10 more to get 2010's => 20 years".

I always find it interesting to post-mortem my logical blunders.

But sadly, the point stands regardless.
I said a very amateur enthusiast since 1999, which is closer to 10 years. And the Ctrl-D is what I said in my interview I apologize if it is not factual. Looking it up it appears to be end of file, is this correct, I will change my post to reflect this if so.
> In a compiler, it might dynamically recompile a dispatch function

You're talking about JIT compilation ("dynamically recompile"). Obviously JIT compilation can be a huge win for dynamic language -- no one disputes this, especially in the face of successes like V8 and LuaJIT.

However the subject of this article is an ahead-of-time compiler for Python, and I specifically was disputing whether ahead-of-time compilation for a language like Python would buy you much.

> There is a large implementation difference between an interpreter and a compiler.

The issue is not as black and white as you make it out to be. Most dynamic language interpreters do not interpret a parse tree directly; they compile first to some kind of byte code (perhaps performing optimizations in the process, just like a compiler would). For example, here is source code from CPython that performs AST->bytecode transformations and optimizations. So is CPython a compiler or an interpreter?

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/80e71592b114/Python/compil...
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/80e71592b114/Python/peepho...

Machine code isn't that different than byte code in concept -- it just happens to be runnable by a physical machine rather than a virtual one.
This. Policies invented to cater to the random irrational fears of the public are going to do us in.
Heh. I was just flipping over to HN as I was working on a very similar idea. There's a lesson here somewhere.
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Never take into consideration your current salary when you're the first to give the number. Search the company, the job or/and the area on http://www.glassdoor.com/ and use those averages plus 10% (more/less depending on how bad you want the job, how much risk you tolerate, how well you did on the interviews and how much experience do you have in the field).
I believe Ctrl+D should send end-of-file to console applications, ending the input stream to the program from the shell, while Ctrl+C kills the application.
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I hope not. I actually buy the ad-free version in many cases because I don't want to grant the permissions that the ad-financed version requests (frequently phone state & identity, GPS location, and internet access). If there's just one version, there will be no way for me to use the app without giving the application those permissions.
IE8 is a huge upgrade over IE6. For one thing, at ship time it implemented the entirety of the then-current CSS 2.1 draft Just comparing it to IE7, it added generated content, automatic counters and quotes, tons of fixes to floats, outlines, lots of box model bugfixes. the list goes on and on. It's not a huge upgrade in terms of _Javascript_, but in terms of CSS it's light and day when you compare to IE6. Oh, and IE8 moved to a process-per-tab model.

The thing I think you're missing in the evolution of IE after the team was disbanded post-IE6 is that it takes time to build up a project team from 0 to hundreds of people, especially when the codebase is preexisting and large. IE7 was them starting to put a team together again, doing catchup on obvious UI features like tabbed browsing. IE8 was them finally having enough people to execute well on some things (CSS 2.1, process-per-tab) and try to play catchup on other things (JavaScript performance). IE9 is them having a team big enough to work on all parts of the browser at once.

You also have your history slightly wrong on the JS perf. Chrome was first announced on September 1, 2008; before that some people knew that Google was working on a browser, but the details were secret. The WebKit project initially landed the SquirrelFish Extreme jit on September 18, 2008; it's pretty clear that this was in the works before Chrome's existence was announced. Mozilla landed the initial Tracemonkey implementation in their main development tree in mid-August 2008 (weeks before Chrome was announced), and had been working on it for some time before that. So all three (Firefox, Safari, Chrome) were working on JITs in parallel before Chrome was announced; it's not like Chrome shipped a JIT and everyone else suddenly decided they had to do it as well. Had Chrome never existed, Firefox and Safari (and Opera, which joined in on the game in early 2009) would still have competed for faster javascript; IE9 would still have ended up doing a jit, or risking being left in the dust.

Oh, and the Sunspider benchmark, for example, was first released in December 2007, when both WebKit and Mozilla were actively working on their interpreters' performance and starting to work on the JITs they'd have by September 2008. Again, the competition for faster JavaScript was very much in play already.

Now Chrome has contributed to the competition, as have all the other players. But they sure didn't start it.
Does anyone remember an application that uses the information gathered by tools like this to predict where a user will be at any given time? I'm not sure I understand the difference between that concept and what this does?

If no-one has actually built it, then I'm really disappointed as it's quite simple - and I would be pretty easy to locate too. We're all creatures of habit.
If C++ can be explained adequately with simple C code, why use C++ in the first place?
Yes, but I think its a tad bit more meta. At the risk of sounding like a total idiot, I'd conjecture that the virophage injects DNA into its victim, a virus. Which in turn injects its DNA into its victim, a cell. The cell explodes with clones of the virophage instead of the target virus, which go on to infect more viruses. Thus systematically reducing the number of viruses with each iteration by cutting into their only replication mechanism.
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I said in my article someone would show me a better way and this is it - I'd never seen prepared statements before now, but you can bet I'll be using them from now on.

For anyone else who isn't sure what they are: prepared statements involves sending a template style query and parameters to the SQL api separately, eg:

query template: "select * from users where username = ?"

Parameter: "Matt"

The SQL api knows that one is a query and one is just a parameter so injection is impossible
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Agreed. Saying because you can do <insert easy/trivial task here> you are in the top X percent just means that the rest of the (100-X)% are incompetent. Being "above average" isn't really saying much when the average is dismal.
What exactly would require a Linux sysadmin to be able to articulate the differences between symmetric and asymmetric encryption? Some probably could, but I'd guess most couldn't give you more than a basic one liner.

As long as they have a basic understanding of how SSH, GnuPG, and SSL function and a thorough understanding of how to use them that's probably the extent of the cryptographic expertise required.
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Either that or a hacker so twitchy they don't have time to check for ctrl-v's before hitting update to get back to their spambot side project.
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Eastern Antarctica is everything from 0° 0′ 0" E to 180° 0′ 0" E. If you take a look at the map of Antarctica on Wikipedia[1], it will be everything to the right of the centre line. So, yes, the Australian Antarctic Territory is the major part of Eastern Antarctica, but it's not the only one.

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Yes, Ctrl + D sends an EOF to a program getting input from the console, this can be used to notify mail(1) that you are done typing your message and that it should send the message now.
AHA!....i think he was going around and looking at cars on the sheet that says NOTES, that would explain the reccurences and the circling, he was keeping the vehicles separated.....he went to go see a car and got murdered by the owner?? oh yeah i live in SOCAL, so the freeway thing was a longshot....i also believe that this man has Aspergers and Dyslexia....but they balled up his symptoms as Aspergers. One word keeps calling to me .... PSESHLE....take the first three letters PSE change them to SPE and add SHLE SPESHLE....this guy had the basics, mixed with his own different thinking style.
Or they only worry about trends that have a forerunner with deep pockets. Suing amazon is probably much more appetizing then suing pogoplug...
Here's my 2c's on this as a 12 yrs Software Eng and a startup founder:

1) Software development is a TEAM work, so asking one questions like "how did you design this or that" is just pointless. We did design that on that specific period of time...Our motivation was ...
2) Good Developers Copy, Great Developers Steal (altered from P.Picasso), so we all use Google, HN, GitHub, wikipedia and alike to innovate our solution, so if you ask me B-Tree algos, I'm sorry, but I've to look at wikipedia...
3) Hiring process is just a scumbag for both parties, you impose big, the other party imposes big. So what? You're not Google, and he's not Kevin Mitnick...
4) I think, companies should try to get the personality, not the KLOCs of applicants. If you gonna ask programming puzzles, please be authentic and ask something related to you. Not just copy a Googlr interview question because you liked it.
Start by 'man kill', dude. And let go of the damn attitude - even your 'I was crushed' post is full of it.
Just because it's not required to do the job doesn't mean a curious sysadmin shouldn't know the difference. The difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption is a pretty basic part of cryptography and if you read about cryptography at all you should know it. I think it shows a lack of interest to not know more than the minimum required to do your job.
He's just trolling, right?

I mean, this – there's absolutely no way in hell that this is something he truly entertains as possible.

I cannot fully wrap my head around the sort of mental structure that would allow someone to watch 2010 happen and then make these remarks. Of course, when you don't actually have any sort of credible plan in place to deal with a new, hot market, this sort of thing takes on the flavor of wishful thinking.

"Oh, no. The market realities haven't changed. We still get to keep making money by doing the exact same things we have always done."

Sounds like Intel.
Do you have a citation for the lossy video thing? Seems like it could be good for rendering graphics too. For a 12x power savings maybe I can live with my pixels coming out #00FE00 instead of #00FF00 (for example).
Exercise can decrease appetite, makes you feel better (which decreases binge eating), and makes unintentional exercises (like climbing stairs and moving furniture) easier.

On the other hand, it takes 15 minutes to lose 100 carbs on a treadmill, and about 3 seconds to get them back at McDonalds.
Some manual C code can adequately explain what C++ does automatically.

The difference is cost; you have to link against C code, for some platforms, what C++ provides for free on all platforms.
You're correct. Specifically, Ctrl+d sends EOF, and Ctrl+C sends a signal, SIGINT.
it's just asymmetric math :)
Yes, click the 'link' by the post, then flag it.
This is true, but the big win is being able to cull out a list of URLs that have not been updated and thus do not need recrawling.
These chips are also very energetically efficient, and I can't see why moore's law wouldn't apply to them too. You could build a 256 core probabilistic processor as well.