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There is truly and honestly a crab mentality going on, and it's because of guys like this. Personally, I'm getting tired of all this raging against the stereotype. What if some of us actually like math? What if some of us actually like coding all day? I often get the impression that past school, it is no longer acceptable to overachieve. Corporate America will do just fine.

Is the Tiger Mom thing a problem? Yes. But this is not the answer.
"It knows how to navigate the arcane APIs and perform the right incantations."

So happy to find this! I've done some low level audio work with iOS and it is not pretty.
How does this relate to HN or tech startups, you may wonder? This past Valentines Day, you might remember a post called "Neovella: Instantly co-author stories with your friends (or strangers)!" Neovella.com enables streamlined collaboration in writing short stories, through a turn-based "exquisite cadaver" method.

The monetization scheme was to publish the best works from that mode of literary production, and take a 10% cut while redistributing the rest out to all the co-authors involved. This anthology is the result of that first experiment. Every story (17 included) was written turn-by-turn, ranging from 2 to 10 authors. Compared to a paperback novel, this would total somewhere near 120 pages.

As for the content--well, it's definitely a reflection of Internet culture. :)
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You're right that there is no net benefit. But, as there's also no net detriment, it's still far from "wouldn't work."

I propose that we just drop DST, base local time on solar noon and calculate our associates' time based on their longitude.
Don't think of it as volunteer work -- think of it as a non-financial exchange of value. You provide beta testing in exchange for significantly more affordable software and/or earlier access. If you want rock solid reliability, there are companies and operating systems that provide it, with the price tag and turnaround time to match.
It's poorly written, but it doesn't seem to be "full of misinformation"; maybe a couple of things are right only under certain circumstances (depending on what DB you use, etc) but it seems to have a reasonably clear view of what's up.

... it's just not bootlicking enough for your tastes, right? Some of us actually consider it an enormous red flag when a community flogs some technology as superior to everything in every conceivable way, and starts burning heretics who suggest that perhaps there is some use case it isn't quite so good for at the stake. Such communities often end up actually destroying their own technology, because it turns out that being able to clearly see the weaknesses of your approach is a critical engineering skill. Every approach has weaknesses.

(Especially when said tech is less blazing a new trail than cruising down the smooth, well-maintained highway filled with fast food and gas stations.)

The best thing that could happen to Node is for the cult adherents to disappear.
Holy crap! Who in their right mind wants an extra Monday?
There are actually mathematical limits to the amount of information that can be stored within a given volume, the Bekenstein bound, which is a lot like a limit to knowledge.
looks like a yahoo yql (developer.yahoo.com/yql/console)
I don't see how Flash can be the culprit or solution considering it is sandboxed. Chrome must contain a massive exploit.
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Similar for me for several years when I lived in Seattle, but had a job across Puget Sound in Kitsap County. Each way each day I had anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour on a ferry (depending on which ferry I decided to take that day). I could just sit in my car, with some music on, and either technical material I needed to read, or a pad of paper and a pen working out design ideas.

No distractions, and if I needed a break to let something turn over in my mind, I could simply step out of the car watch the ocean, or go up to the passenger decks and have a seat or get a snack from the cafeteria. If it was the morning, they had nice breakfasts available.
Since it's to honor the lives of the victims, why not just sort them by date of birth?
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As someone who fits that profile with scary accuracy, I can maybe elaborate on the phenomenon. Asian-American children grow up with much external motivation, which gives them a sense of purpose and work ethic. The problem is, external motivation alone can only help in accomplishing mechanical goals that require little creativity or thought and have clear cut evaluation systems. This is not a problem for taking tests, banging out classical piano pieces with no expression, gaming the college admission system, or editing financial models.

But of course after the shelter of academia is left behind, we find ourselves in a world that has no strict system of evaluation. This is where Asian-Americans seem to struggle. I know I do. What makes a trend take off? What does success even mean anymore? I think this is what makes Asian-Americans grasp for job options that are able to provide external motivation and reward which manifests itself in a more conservative attitude.
This is a tricky situation, TBH. Think about it from the other side: company invested HR and other resources to seek out talent, managed to arrange to hire you a few months ago, and assumed that you would work for them. From the company perspective, assuming they had to hire N people, you took a slot. Furthermore, because it is so late in the hiring cycle, it will prove to be hard to hire another qualified person.

It is not a terrible taboo. You are expected, as soon as you accept an offer, to stop pursuing other job opportunities. That being said, the company will be more understanding if you ended up taking an offer that was _SIGNIFICANTLY_ better than your current offer. If they have a shred of decency they will not share this information with anyone [and certain people such as COO and HR staff may be obliged not to discuss the situation as part of their contracts], so they won't hurt your chances at other firms. You can bet your bottom dollar that they won't reconsider you, though.

You should talk directly to the people who interviewed you [no email, letter, etc]. especially if the firm is much more reputable and the pay is significantly higher, they may be sympathetic.

But before doing it, make sure that is what you want to do. It may, in some circumstances, make sense to take on a job that pays less or is less reputable if you think you have a better opportunity to shine (I've turned down job offers from lots of much more reputable places in lieu of an offer that put me in a more senior position).
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The last 45 minutes of 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle'?
The analogy holds because governments are trying to apply notions (such as national borders) derived from a physically-constrained world of isolation to the unconstrained, connected virtual world.
I can tell you from my experience that, parents of the current 2nd gen Asian-American children were mostly very poor, parents of the current 1st gen Asian-American kids (who just immigrated in recent years) are mostly wealthier than the average family in their home country (some are equivalent to a middle class American family, some are super rich)
This is why Asians are underrepresented in tech startups --- wrong set of cultural values and inclinations. (I am Asian)
the binaries don't install as the active user for me... also it's Mac OSX, so I hope you aren't installing on OSX for a production server environment. I use mine as a development environment only so I don't really care much what user it runs under locally.

Also being in Cellar doesn't effect much for me. easy to change prefix on things if they really complain.
Children can't be compared to goods. There's biological things at worth beyond self interest. That is to say, people want children, even though its not in their self interest.

I'd posit, if you were to try to assign children a status as a good in a wealthy culture, they'd be a luxury good. They cost a great deal, are effectively useless, but still desired.
You cherry-picked one quote, but he spent the entire rest of the piece making your exact point.
>I can say with confidence that the reason behind Asian Americans not saturating the CEO population in fortune 500 companies is not related to how we were raised.

Don't take this the wrong way but why? The age argument, if true, simply says that the current numbers don't mean anything. It doesn't say anything about why the future is going to be different though.

I also think the story is one sided in terms of portraying all "Tiger children" as being socially inept but I do think it did a relatively good job of presenting the complexity. It was certainly a better article than I was expecting having read the title here on HN. No doubt it played on a stereotype but stereotypes do tend to be an exaggeration of the truth rather than complete fabrications.
SmilingDevil -> owen: :P we need a hidden irc server for the admins.

Why not run their network inside I2P or something similar?
This seems extremely unethical to me. Now that the world knows there is massive exploit in Chrome, there are bound to be more hackers attempting to abuse it - and have a few hints from the video. By blogging about this and not disclosing it to Google, they are actually increasing the risk of millions of individuals and companies being hacked.

Edit: Then again, blogging about it also makes Google aware of the exploit. I'm sure they have tons of resources working on it that wouldn't have otherwise...
I found my first substantive error in upwards of 5 minutes. On page 3, he claims that if gcd(A,B)=gcd(B,C)=gcd(C,A)=1 then gcd(C-A, C-B)=1, which is clearly false (take A,B,C = 3,7,11 for example). His "proof" shows only that gcd(A+B, C-A, C-B)=1. It sounds like this is an important lemma for his proof, but it hardly seems worth the extra minutes I'd need to spend reading to find out. There're no doubt bigger problems further in.
Yes, more money and a big name company should mean precisely zero if you are at the beginning of your career.

You should be taking the job that allows you to best practice, learn and hone your craft, whatever that is.

Big name companies are often some of the least dynamic, most boring and slow moving places to work.

Money comes later if you work hard early in your career.
No I have not yet started work at the first job (1st day is in June). And actually I wasn't expecting the second offer to come about, they just waited too long to call me and I didn't even think I was on their minds anymore.

I do genuinely feel bad as I did actually like the recruiter . But it looks like the only thing to do now is make a phone call.
I think the problem is that the user may want to seek parts of the movie.

Maybe downloading just the next minutes and lowering the quality for a few seconds after a seek could help. Not so much wasted data and still acceptable seek time.
Remarkable success tends to have some correlation with taking chances.

Doing phenomenally well in school might coincide with a risk averse approach toward life.
The tl;dr of it all is that, according to at least one Anon, this "Ryan" fellow was a former moderator of the IRC and was the legal owner of the AnonOps.ru and AnonOps.net domains. Apparently, two others, "Nerdo" and "Owen" (whom you may remember from the HBGary fiasco), revoked his IRC credentials. Ryan somewhat predictably responded by DDOS'ing (with help from 808chan) and essentially taking his domains and going home. Some Anons responded by getting "Ryan"'s docs and now it's all just a bunch of circle jerking.
We'd also have to give them problems to solve outside of 'how do I raise my children' or 'feed myself' or 'entertain myself'...or is that what you meant by productive?
I tested my Verizon HTC Thunderbolt 4G's download speeds today. I got over 7 megabits per second down. It also got 4 megabits up!
I thought the point was that they broke the sandboxing.
First off you did nothing wrong at all! Its a good thing people are after you, it happens and companies know what happens and knows the best offer wins. Nothing new here. Always pursue the best offers around, its a game these companies play, Google vs. Facebook for example.

The hiring game as nothing to do with you, its a game played between companies. Just be sure to call the person tomorrow and tell them you have a better offer. No need to feel bad, feel good people are after you. Its not the first time this happens. If they really want you they may match your other offer. Good Luck and feel good.
It's an ugly thought but I think more people than ever are trying to create a biological retirement plan - having multiple children to take care of them later on.

Trying not to make a moral judgment call on that and hoping I am just being too cynical. But think about how many people you know with children and then count the number that have conscientiously chosen to have only one.
> insidious nature of the Bamboo Ceiling [...] the discrepancy in these numbers is a matter of unconscious bias.

The author spends plenty of time trying to claim there is some sort of racial discrimination going on. Much more plausible is that less likable people aren't getting ahead, and it just so happens that Asians tend not to be likable, or have "leadership potential" if you prefer.
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Thanks for the reply veyron. The second offer is definitely much more enticing than the first in terms of benefits and projects that I would really like to work on. That isn't to say that the first was horrible, just in relative terms. I forgot to mention in the text, but the new offer came unexpectedly a few weeks after I had already accepted the first one. I guess I shouldn't have expected any chances of even doing business with the first but I'll man up and give the recruiter a call.
Once you have accepted a job, as another poster points out, you are expected to take yourself off the market. It shouldn't matter that someone calls you and that you were not actively pursuing the second offer.

Having said that, as I mentioned earlier, there is no point in taking a job that you do not want.
>It's just not that different from anyone else.

from the article:

"They earn a higher median family income than any other ethnic group in America, including whites. "

that isn't so small of a result considering that corporate environment doesn't automatically translate better educational achievements into higher salary. Or does it?
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Is it a problem (legal or credibility) if the chosen domain name for a startup looks like another domain name already chosen by an existing company (same letters different order)?
Well, there are no new ideas. Even if it was a proof, it wouldn't change mathematics. For that to happen, there has to be a genuinely new idea. Just rearranging the order of the chairs at the table isn't going to cut it.
This needs to be repeated. Asian parents in America aren't pushing their kids to be millionaires. They push them to guarantee they have a good life at a comfortable white collar job. That is the goal--not starting the next Facebook or being an all star athlete. Remember, these immigrant parents typically came to America with nothing working low-paying blue collar jobs.
Hmm, "industry standard pricing"? Seems to me that $3 - $4 is maybe a little high? You can get recent movies from Redbox for $1 and get DVD quality and watch on your TV without jumping through any hoops, or for the price of 2-3 of the YouTube movies, get a month subscription to Netflix and watch all you want in a month. I admit, though, I have no idea how much PPV movies cost, but still, anyone else think their price point seems high?
Quite recommended, been in SG for a while and it is a great community. Need some SD members to speak up so I can organize one!
"Instead of spawning a new OS thread for each connection (and allocating the accompanying memory with it), each connection creates a process, which doesn't require the memory block to go with it."

"Currently, Node doesn't provide a default way to create dynamic pages."

"Yes, Node is a server program. However, it is definitely not like Apache or Tomcat. Those servers are stand-alone server products, ready to install and deploy applications instantly. You could be up and running with a server in a minute with these products. Node is definitely not this. Apache can add a PHP module to allow developers to create dynamic web pages, and programmers using Tomcat can deploy JSPs to create dynamic web pages. Node is definitely not this."

"Image file server
A company that has a large distributed website (think Facebook or Flickr), could decide to devote entire boxes to simply serving up images. Node would be a good solution for this..."

Do I have to write up a full synopsis for you?
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I keep getting reminded of the character in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky who said something like:

"Any ubiquitous computing environment where local nodes have to run government code will inevitably become an absolute tyranny."
No one seems to be respecting/fearing the music companies any more, not even big companies.
"First off you did nothing wrong at all!" <-- That's a dangerous statement. He [guessing gender] did something wrong by agreeing to be in the employ of the first company and then agreeing to be in the employ of the second company without first notifying the first company.

There is nothing wrong with fishing for offers, but its wrong to accept two offers without rescinding one. Accepting two offers is like marrying two people in a country/state that bans polygyny or polyandry.
The fundamental fallacy of this article is that being the founder of the next Facebook or CEO of a large Fortune 100 company equals success. These Asian parents simply want their children to do better than they did when they came to the US, which pretty much means a comfortable white collar job over a back-breaking blue collar job.
Regardless when you get an offer, you go for the best one. Even if its your first day and you get a call from say Facebook and they want you, you gonna say no thank you, I rather stay here with less pay or name value. I don't think so. It would be nice in a perfect world. :)
No, he spends time discussing a variety of explanations, the least of which is any kind of conscious racism. If you expand the part that you elided, it says:

Part of the insidious nature of the Bamboo Ceiling is that it does not seem to be caused by overt racism...More likely, the discrepancy in these numbers is a matter of unconscious bias. Nobody would affirm the proposition that tall men are intrinsically better leaders, for instance. And yet while only 15 percent of the male population is at least six feet tall, 58 percent of all corporate CEOs are. Similarly, nobody would say that Asian people are unfit to be leaders. But subjects in a recently published psychological experiment consistently rated hypothetical employees with Caucasian-sounding names higher in leadership potential than identical ones with Asian names.

To become a leader requires taking personal initiative and thinking about how an organization can work differently. It also requires networking, self-promotion, and self-assertion. It’s racist to think that any given Asian individual is unlikely to be creative or risk-taking. It’s simple cultural observation to say that a group whose education has historically focused on rote memorization and “pumping the iron of math” is, on aggregate, unlikely to yield many people inclined to challenge authority or break with inherited ways of doing things.

Then the author spends the rest of his time identifying specfic kinds of social skills and leadership qualities, like confidence, risk-taking, and shamelessness, and contrasting how Asians and Westerners frequently approach the development of those skills.
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Once in high school, I asked a few Asian looking guys about where they're from, they said "We're Canadians". I went "wtf?" in my head, and instead asked them about where their parents are from.

What astonished me is how the seemed to "reject" their roots. Or at least that's how I interpreted it. I would seriously hate it if my children rejected their origins.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not white myself.
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Important question: Have you signed anything, cashed any checks, or done anything else to actually make you beholden to the first? Even if you did, it doesn't mean that you're stuck, but it will make your situation a touch stickier.

That said, this is unlikely to significantly harm you, so don't worry about it too much. It would have done you much worse to miss out on the second opportunity!
The 1790 census thing aside, I think what makes this such a nice infographic is that the creator didn't try to squeeze a bunch of numbers in there. Aside from the the pie chart (which I actually like since it is intentionally used to demonstrate misleading statistics) and a few other cases, it's primarily a written description.(I wish it would provide citations, but I'm satisfied with the accuracy of the information)

It didn't fall into the trap of trying to ornament charts by substituting icon for point on a chart or create 3D or otherwise exotic charts that are nearly impossible to interpret. Simply stuck to telling a story and that seems to work.

[edit: I should add. I definitely fall into the category of "Data Scientist". So while I have a lot of appreciation for quality visualization, I think in this case it was best to stick with a narrative and not try to incorporate anything quantitative into the visuals.]
I am familiar with the arguments suggesting that population growth is self-limiting. I am also aware that the spread of birth control is breeding people whose will fail to use it. They may be a small portion of the overall population, but any portion that is on an exponential curve when the rest are not is bound to eventually dominate the population.

Malthus has been postponed for centuries. And may well be postponed for more centuries. But unless resources grow exponentially, Malthus eventually will have the last laugh.
Like I said below only in a perfect world, it happens all the time. Its nothing new and just business. No hard feelings on any side, the employee and companies know all this and don't see it as anything bad or good, just the way the market is. When your in demand - your in demand. :)
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Once, I would have said "That is very unprofessional. Are you sure you want to do that? You'll lose karma, or something." But honestly? With darn few exceptions, employment isn't a sacred trust. It's just business. They underbid. Would they keep you on the payroll, out of a sense of fairness, if it developed that you were not the best offer? Nope. You'd be shown the door. It's just business.

I'd recommend a simple phone call. "Hiya Bob, thank you for your time in getting us to this offer of employment. Circumstances have changed and it looks like I will not be able to work for your firm. I apologize for the inconvenience. ... Yes, Bob, I appreciate that this puts you in a bit of a lurch. Please accept my apologies. Would you like me to recap this conversation in a letter? Thank you Bob. Best of luck finding a candidate."

I don't particularly suggest telling them that you're taking employment elsewhere. That's something you tell your friend. They're not your friend. If you worked there, they would still not be your friend. Bob might eventually have become your friend, but right now Bob is a corporate officer of a company which underbid for your services. You don't particularly owe them explanations or excuses.

At-will employment is a two-way street.