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I have been rejected by Cerner's software engineer post in my Junior year, because that was the first time I heard of "behavior questions". For technical, they asked me how to implement classes for a chess game, and several simple sorting algorithms. I bombed it, and now I am on their blacklist of people not to give an interview. LOL. Not like I want to work for them anymore, just it's funny to know how long that blacklist is active, so I apply their job every semester.
People no longer care that there is "Intel Inside" when it comes to cell phones and tablets, the fastest growing markets. Sure, the Intel/AMD chip will support all of the x86 baggage, but what phone or tablet has legacy code to support?
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Why is this making the front page of hacker news? This article is 2.5 years old.
SDL 1.3 is like the Duke Nukem Forever of portable game-friendly libraries, I think.

Note: I mean this in a very friendly way, I have masses of respect for Sam Lantinga and all the other people behind SDL. It just seems they've been working on 1.3 for soo long.
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I'm unclear what solutions you're proposing.

Don't build? Consider only safety, not utility, when building?

Don't use electricity? Use electricity generation methods which kill far more people on average than nuclear?
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The only right thing is to choose yourself.
Ability to backup and restore the datastore via the dashboard. This is long overdue. I know the bulkloader exists but it's hardly ideal.
I am pretty sure "famous grey shirt girl" is actually Jose Lima's wife.

http://digamma.net/btfwiki/Jose_Lima%27s_wife
you can type help to get help...or lesson(7); to skip to the next lesson.

the correct command is
db.treasures.find({location: {$near: [0, 0]}, type: "gold"}).limit(5);

you have an extra { infront of "type"...making it invalid json.
It's a false dichotomy, on a lot of hard problems progress is a step function, and you often "get much done" while sleeping. I.e. when you wake up well rested you see things from a different angle. If it's something like chopping wood, sure, the less you sleep the more wood you chop, within reasonable limits, but I don't think that is what these articles aim for. I think it's wrong to look at sleep as a waste of time the same way time spent thinking about something is not wasted either.

Here's some information I mostly agree with:
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
I used to know one of these short sleepers. He had never felt the need to sleep more than about two hours per night, and did so for his whole life (which was respectably long, no noticeable side-effects from the exceptionally short sleep). He used a lot of the extra time to run a small local business, interact with customers during the day and do the administration during the night.
I just got my Wakemate a few days ago, and it came with a standard USB cable. It's a bit annoying that it's a USB Mini instead of USB micro (which is what all the recent smartphones I know of use), but at least it's not some weird connector.
I do enjoy guessing how to do things; I find it a great way to learn. Thanks so much for creating this -- it's given me a great head start.
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I know anecdotes aren't data, but I use social networks primarily to avoid having to maintain active contact with acquaintances I'm expected to run into in the future. It lets me say "yeah, I heard about Dan's new house" when I talk to Jesse, for example, even if I don't really want to talk to Dan to find out about that. It's easier to lurk than it is to maintain active contact or actively break ties with said acquaintance (who may have done nothing worse than fail to be interesting enough for me to spend time on him).

I wouldn't say that counts as me using social networks out of loneliness. I'd probably name it social efficiency.
I think that you are missing the fact that short-sleepers wake up well-rested, even though their sleep-time is much shorter and would not suffice to give us normals enough rest.

I'm not sure if there has been any actual studies that show that longer sleep-times given ad-libitum sleeping is more effective in helping the brain process more information during the sleep phase.
Jon Gruden, former NFL coach and Monday Night Football analyst is one of these. He goes to bed late and gets up as early as 3-4 AM.
I notice this is using data readers. I'm not an expert but I believe they keep the connection (and therefore any database locks) until you've finished processing and closed the reader. Given that it's for hydrating strongly typed collections into memory you aren't going to be ignoring any records. You might get even better throughput at the database (at the expense of memory usage in the app) by using datasets which will run the query, then close the connection, then return all the results to the app.
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I won't discount the that there is a value in being taught by a professional educator. However, the primary sources are there for everyone. The excellent secondary sources are there for everyone. The amount of supplementary material available via the internet is very advantageous to the autodidact. The available interactions via the internet are such that they approach a collegiate peer group (if triaged). All of this taken together and approached in a steady, determined fashion, I believe, can near to perfectly simulate a college CS education (or education in almost anything else for that matter).

Academia and college educations are getting increasingly difficult to idealize as information becomes redistributed and consumed in unsanctioned ways. And sanctioned ways, too. See all flavors of OCW.
I've been working on my project for a few weeks. I just bought a domain for it today. I'll wait till it's finished in a few more weeks before shipping it. It's only hosted at my computer at the moment. I've finished most of the functionality but the app needs data to make sense to users and I still need to collect that. So am I telling myself a lie? I should release now?

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No customer pays me for my awesome abilities at handling e.g. edge cases in proration or remembering to include a 3 day grace period to cover expired cards which cannot be charged. Writing these things would leave me less time to write features or systems which connect AR with people willing to pay for it.
In case you're wondering what this has to do with the topic at hand: Jose Lima was a well-known baseball player who died last year. His wife became an internet meme before he died, but I'm guessing someone at facebook decided to use her image was likely a legal violation, not to mention in poor taste.
I emailed the researcher, whose address was at the end of the article with the appropriate gene data (BHLHE41 on Chromosome 12) to see if my DNA is a match. The article said its a mutation, but maybe those with the mutation exhibit a certain codon pair. Its an amazing time when you can read an article about such a thing, and then cross check your DNA in a matter of seconds. Articles will have to start posting the raw DNA for results.
Still could use a little touching up, but I love it none the less :)
It's irrelevant: National doesn't make many microcontrollers, much less CPUs. They've got a few small, overpriced 8- and 16-bitters (think garage door opener, not smartphone) running proprietary cores, but those are not very popular. (And they've reassured us that they won't discontinue this stuff anytime soon, though I think that it's high time to start looking elsewhere if you depend on National's microcontrollers...)

This does have an impact, though, on the support components which are necessary to build a motherboard - voltage regulators, sensors, diodes, transistors, glue logic, level translators, etc. National and TI used to be competitors in that arena, now they're on the same team.
I alias `cherry-pick` to `chp`.
Luckily evolution is already doing the work for us.
Linking to the simplates page and not the main page[0] is a little confusing due to the way their docs are structured. A welcome addition to bottle[1] and flask[2] though.

[0]http://aspen.io/
[1]http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
[2]http://flask.pocoo.org/
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I also agree. There is too much white color, the readability is not very good.
I was exited about it as i already mentionned here that there is room for improvment of HN.

i'll uninstall it now. looking forward to try a corrected version.
The problem with cyberpunk is that it's no longer the future, it's the present. Sometimes when I read the news I've got the idea we're kind of living in a dystopian 90's cyberpunk future...

When it's the new normal it makes sense that the word is "dead" as a denominator.
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Very nice to look at, well done.

A couple of points for me are that:

1. While it is easier to read, the combination of the larger size of the text and the vertical spacing makes it harder to scan all the topics quickly, as was possible without this style.

2. as already mentioned, the info sub-text is a bit soft in contrast and hard to read quickly, even though it looks nice. Suggestion: make the important info such as the numbers and username a bit more darker, but leave the repeated info such as 'points by' and 'comments' as they are.
Glad to hear you're on board, Dylan. We (OPAS) are excited to be working with WakeMate and are looking forward to getting this product to a wider audience.
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Winning in this context does not necessarily mean vanquishing your nemesis. OSS can win simply by becomming a viable, usable alternative in a healthy, diverse market. Not long ago, the prize of mere coexistence a fantastic notion...for any non-Microsoft alternative. Apple was hanging on by their fingernails, too.
I've been a linux user since '94. What he sees as FUD, I just see as marketing. Do we expect competitors to not say bad and questionable things about their rivals? It seems to be a pretty common tactic across many industries.

Microsoft: Linux is slow, illegal, communist, unreliable.

Linux advocates: Microsoft is slow, horribly insecure, crashes all the time.

Apple: Windows is for stupid people who aren't like you, hard to use, insecure.

Most of them have varying amounts of real truth attached to them but generally overlook the big picture or just frame it in a way that makes them look best.

In addition, most of the talking points work off of the previous age, things that were much more true some considerable time ago.
There's a new documentary coming out about the creation of the VC industry called Something Ventured

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssR0sdKqNs4&feature=playe...

Looks pretty good
Then collect the data and ship. Just don't let the few more weeks become a few more months.
After seeing the headline I immediately thinks of Stylish (+ Greasemonkey, just to note) as well.

The thing is, if it is just style changes, it is better to be done via Stylish. Extensions, for most of them in chrom(e|ium), would would absolve resources in the system via a separate process. For computers with less memory, running multiple chrome extensions would not be a good idea. Better to run extensions that benefit all sites than just one.

[edit] just went to check whether a new process would be created - in fact, no, since there is no JavaScripts loaded. Please ignore the comment on resource and memory stated above, thanks.

Also as a side note for using that in Firefox 3.6 , it seems that submit button's orange background is not applied like in chrome, so it would be harder to read the text on the button. Someone with Firefox 4 on hand may to see check on that as well.
Too many people like to endlessly weigh their options and wait for permission or someone's blessing to launch. I hear: I just need funding to launch my startup, I just need to get accepted to this startup incubator, I just need to find a co-founder, or I just need to read this book first.

Stop thrashing about and ship.
But, why? The OP would've posted a poll if he'd wanted one-word answers.
That's great to hear. I understand that you guys just launched and you're still figuring things out.

I was just trying to understand the initial value proposition for someone like me (who builds and deploys PHP sites for a living), when the initial cost is 3x what I am used to, and there are additional limitations.

I wasn't able to find it, but do you list application resources anywhere? How much memory do the various applications have access to, how much disk space do I get, etc?

At this point I would probably still roll my own cloud server for prototyping and initial deployment, and look into your scaling service if/when the need arises.
There's already touch screens out there with tactile feedback. They don't physically alter shape, but they vibrate at specific frequencies to mimic the feel of button presses. Seems like tactile feedback would be very useful for driving applications.
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Cool! We're actually doing a pilot program right now to try and better understand the needs of web developers who use PageKite, so be in touch if you'd like to be part of that.
I'm glad that I finally have something (albeit thin) to point people to when they feel the need to lecture me about my sleeping habits.

As long as I can remember I've been happy with a mix of 4 and 6 hour sleeping sessions, two or three days of 4 followed by one night of more sleep (typically 6 hours) and then back to 4 hours again.

Under the recommendation of my peers and physicians I have attempted to do 8 hour nights but the results are that I feel worse in the morning, and each night I attempt to sleep 8 hours waking up gets harder and harder.

Over the years I've developed a few theories as to why I need less sleep than is recommended and someday when I get around to finishing my EEG project I'll gather some data to back them up, but for now I'm just making the most out of the extra time I have the same way someone with a different biological advantage might.

I will also mention that (as mentioned elsewhere here) there are definitely people at the other end of this curve who's performance is shockingly better if they get more than the "required" 8 hours of sleep per night, and I believe that we could all benefit by recognizing this fact and adjusting our cultural expectations to accommodate these patterns as well. I think with a little flexibility on both ends we'd see a significant increase in overall productivity and quality of life.

In other words "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." - http://users.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/whentired.html
You're turning it into a false dichotomy (of never ship vs always ship all the time). The point is more that you should be finishing stuff (including shipping), instead of starting projects and leaving them half-done forever.
Leave it to the WSJ to exemplify the behavior of people with an erratic gene variation as something "Elite" (or L33t, lol).
You guys may want to look at this as well:
http://sae.sina.com.cn/

Sina App Engine - sort of like Google App Engine's take as a China clone, but it runs in PHP.

This platform (Orchestra) takes another approach, liking managing the ec2 instances than like the app engines that even the instance thing is transparent from the developers. Guess there can be many debates on whether which ones are better approaches.

Also thing to notices on SAE, for non-Chinese readers, SAE has built-in function constraints. That means it's more like GAE in a way that not all the core functions and libraries are available[1] which is obviously security and performance reasons.

It would be interesting to see if any core functions be limited on orchestra.io as well.

[1]http://sae.sina.com.cn/?m=devcenter&catId=39#anchor_f2de...
Hiya,
Yeah good question. Well the thing is why don't you use Sprouter? I don't think you can be a part of too many networks, the more the better. The thinking behind Fowndr is it's not so much about lots of 'sages' who know the answers helping people who don't know, rather lots of people who are all exploring the challenges as well as the fun aspects of running a startup, together. It's all about the community.
very solid, although I'd like to see some hook scripts to get some ideas of what can be done there
It doesn't make sense for these companies to run their own e-mail marketing. Sending legitimate bulk mail is massively complicated, and requires a whole department of people to maintain personal relationships with individuals at all the major ISPs and webmail services (Gmail, Hotmail, etc). That's the only way to get reasonable deliverability of the mail, as every mailing they do results in tens of thousands of false spam reports, triggers all kinds of throttles on the receiving servers, etc. On a daily basis, the mailer needs to do cleanup, getting its mail servers removed from automated blacklists and adjusting for major recipients' throttling and other rules.

The only way to handle all that affordably is to outsource it to a company whose full-time job is to manage all that complexity. Everyone bringing it in-house would not be practical, not just because it's expensive but because there would be too many people trying to interact with the ISPs/webmail/blacklist people every day.
Actually, the second category should be differentiated further:

2.1) Solving information problems. What you describe.

2.2) Solving physical/mathematical problems. Think signal processing. Think physical simulation. The bulk of the code is based on some mathematical theorem or linear algebra that is just too complex to be calculated by hand. The UI is just the surface.

The 2.2 group seems a bit more selective. Applications like audio workstations, simulation grids or wheather forecast centers need this. Universities use this for research.

While these two groups aren't completely exclusive, I'd say many CS graduates lack the engineering/mathematics/physics prowess needed for the problem spaces encountered in 2.2.
I follow the exact same protocol.

This also makes it extremely simple to successfully sort and filter my email. I maintain Inbox Zero for my personal email folder and any ImportantClient@mydomain.com folders. And then once a week I'll go through the lower priority folders and process them.
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Come on. Everybody knows that having a server and a bit of coding skill isn't enough to do anything. You have to sign a lease to an office in a trendy part of town and stock it full of free soda and Aeron chairs and hire an HR department before you can even think of getting your project going!
At the moment, there is no fixed criteria really. If you are entrepreneurial and have started a company in the past I'd say you are welcome. If you have something to share that's going to be useful to other startups, you're welcome.
You're not the target audience of the article. It's referring more to the people who spend all day hanging out at the trendy SF cafes and going to all the "networking events", waiting around to catch the eye of anyone who works near Sand Hill Road, instead of actually getting shit done.

It sounds like you're getting shit done.
A bug here: http://img852.imageshack.us/i/hngeorgify.png/# (fixed image link)

The parent post is being shown as a reply to a peer and not the post it actually replied to. Seemed like normal threading until I noticed the reply was older than the grandparent.
Awww, awesome!
Scary thing is, I'm sure I read this article nearly ten years ago. I remember creating a few of these PPP over SSH VPNs as well, though mainly for testing so I can't remember if we actually encountered this issue. Fortunately CIPE came along before I really needed a VPN.
Congratulations on the launch! I absolutely believe this will become an invaluable resource for startups. I think the nature of the network will entice people to share in ways they might not on HN, more in the natural way that is currently done in person or by email. I look forward to participating and learning from those going through the same issues.
One concern I would have, with more people using iPads instead of computers, is the middle of the night "I dropped my iPad and now it won't turn on, how do I save my data?" call. Apple really needs to get on the ball with some sort of backup that doesn't require plugging it into a PC.
Not saying that I'm one of the sleepless elite, but I seem to function best on 6 hours of sleep a day. Whenever I try to sleep more I just feel tired all day and when I sleep less ... well that depends on how much less.

For optimum energivity I find an hour of sleep is best, just enough to reset your cycle. But you can't do this more than once at a time, the next day the whole 6 hours are needed.

Don't have any idea why I'm like this, but I'm told that even as a baby I would often lie in bed for hours before finally falling asleep and as a toddler I would wake up at 5am because I was put to bed so early. Nowadays a healthy 4am to 10am schedule seems best.

Oh and anyone who doesn't want to sleep as much as they should, meditation is a great way of doing it. I managed to shave 2 hours off of my daily sleep need with 10 minutes of meditation ... so essentially I averaged 4 hours a day, for something like 5 years before I got out of the meditating habit for varying reasons.
Intel actually got out of the ARM business in 2006, pretty much exactly 1 year before release of the first iPhone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale#Sale_of_PXA_processor_li...

They apparently still hold an ARM license, but that may well just be so they can keep an eye on the competition.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and claim that Intel and AMD could probably produce an x86 chip that's comparable in efficiency to the ARM offerings by taking out some of the legacy cruft and substantially reducing clock speeds. After all, the Atom (and Llano) only consume around 10 watts and are still a few times faster than the current tablet CPUs. They may well enter the market at some point, but right now it's probably more profitable to carry on with their existing business.
Let's consider that "normal" people play games. Sure, there are gaming consoles of all sorts, but this does not change a fact there are a lot of games on PC. You can't effectively play - for example - 3DFPS on tablet. Well, you could hook up keyboard and mouse, but there any difference from desktop PC. Except for tablets have less powerful hardware than any typical "gaming" PC.

Let's consider "normal" people work. Even throwing out possibly "non-normal" jobs with high hardware resource demands (like photorealistic 3D graphic artists, or CPU-intensive engineering calculations), but even a secretary won't do any good on tablet. Touch screens are fine for tweeting, but are no good for editing a sufficiently large document.

Inverview summarized: iPad advertisement, nothing to see there.
To me, it gives the following data: that there are a significant number of people who can sleep short hours, that there's at least one identifiable genetic factor that might possibly cause it in a couple of cases, and that there are researchers working on this (and soliciting information from "short sleepers"). It fails to deliver on its subtitle: "Why".
I was just quoting the lead answer (by Chris McCoy) "Again, hackers currently rule the world. In reality, really good product and business focused people should."