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This is definitely the most sensible response so far.

I was the mom who coded while breastfeeding and had her son at his first LUG meeting before he was two months old. Being a mom and being a hacker have always melded pretty well for me, despite the fact that I'm now a single mom: my now-8yo likes tech conferences and has even spoken at one, he comes home from school and does his homework in my office while I do my work, he's even made dinner on one or two evenings when I was really swamped (okay, it was chicken nuggets and macaroni or reheated leftovers -- but I didn't have to cook it!). He's my mini-hacker, and he says he wants to grow up to be an inventor.

I highly doubt I'd have pulled all that off if I were like a "normal" first-time mom. Luckily, I grew up in the sort of family where older cousins look after younger cousins -- as a teen I even moved in with relatives to be nanny to their kids for a while when their work schedules had them away from home too much.

Juggling a start-up and a young child is quite possible, but it helps to have some experience under your belt, and to include your kid in your working life a bit. Instead of having two lives competing for your energy, you get a kid who understands what you are doing and why, and feels part of it rather than left out.
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It might have been a perfect storm, but it was entirely predictable. They just decided that the costs associated with removing the risks were too high, so they built for a 2M (or whatever it was they planned for) Tsunami instead.

And it's misleading to call these reactors antiquated. They were built with projected lifespans that go well past the present day, and if you replace them or reduce the lifespans it (badly) affects the cost of Nuclear power.

BTW, if you think that was badly-sites and antiquated then I've got a few others you might want to avoid:

Diablo Canyon, California (Yes, that is the sea): http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/diablo_canyon_n...

San Onofre, Ca: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_S... (Yes, that's a beach it's build on)
I doubt they're targeting individual people watching movies. It's far more likely they're after movie streaming sites like surfthechannel / letmewatchthis / etc.
At some point you'd think these guys would just want to move on with their lives and enjoy their millions of dollars. But no, perpetual court dates are some how more appealing. I wish someone would sue them for wasting everyone's times.
The actual paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.1031
I voted for a much shorter period, but I want to include a much more rigorous definition of non-obviousness in there. Perhaps my idea can't be reasonable implemented, but the current system is obvious broken.
I still fail to see the commercial/hobbyist/* appeal of C#/.NET/mono.
Beautiful. Any guesses/insights on what software was used to create the mosaics?
Yes, and we are looking for anchor customers :)
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For real? If so, how do you access it?
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Any ideas on how to get this effect? OpenCV? Where should I start? It's called datamoshing.

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Clickable -- http://vimeo.com/3139412
I love the admonition to "stay classy" (not a quote) while you name call people as "rabid fanboys" with "knee jerk emotional reactions".

"The fact is that if you have more relative profit margins than revenues, that more of the money people are paying you are not going to the costs used to produce the product. Thus, you are paying a smaller % of your money toward the product itself, no matter what value you place in having that product."

Newsflash: none of this leads to your conclusion that people are paying for the "brand" as opposed to the product itself.

People pay more for good products and service and experiences and they also pay more for brands and some other things. Companies can also increase profits by cutting down on component costs, leveraging scale, with good recruiting, and good management in a hundred other ways. The fact that one product is more profitable then another doesn't imply any of these in particular. The fact that Apple is so much more profitable generally is taken of evidence that many of them are in play. Dismissing all of this as "paying for the brand" is just ignorant.
Then just say that, and leave the rest of the suggestions on creating a product, finding a market, etc. out of it. It's like the tired old "if you get x people for y a day" or "if you could only get [arbitrary small percentage] of a [giant market]" marketing speak that any semi-experienced dev knows is completely misleading.

There are devs struggling to make a few hundred sales in the iOS/Android app stores while producing quality products. Selling software isn't easy, and making it sound trivial well...makes it sound like a scam.
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If the planet is 20 light years away, you're saying we
could reach it in less than a year if we attain a velocity
of 0.9999c?

Yes. In the reference frame of the traveler, very little time passes. However, when he returns, people on earth will have aged more than 40 years.

This is also why particles traveling at c cannot possibly decay: no time passes for them. A photon is everywhere at once, from its own point if view.
I'm sorry. If I was currently gainfully employed and looking for a job, I don't think I'd be on board with your system. I appreciate the idea of getting to know a company, but, I'd be applying for several companies every day. Even given the current interviewing speed (several hours), it'd eat up time.

Doing part-time contracting is just not going to cut it. I've done moonlighting before: no one was very happy with my work, including me. You can't hire me this way if I have a job already.

If I was unemployed and looking, I'd be more interested, but you would not get a cut-rate from me: you'd get a full consulting rate & contract.

In my opinion, if you want the best engineers, you need to know them and offer massive bait. Because they aren't just going to jump for anybody or any old normal reason. You have to offer them what they want - and more than their current job does.
> Generally, peer pressure prevents that sort of behavior, he said. "It's like parking in a handicapped spot," Shaich said.

> "The lesson here is most people are fundamentally good," Shaich said. "People step up and they do the right thing."

Interesting contradiction here. Is it peer pressure or fundamental goodness?
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This dose sound reasonable but do we need a law for this. I get the feeling the Facebook dosen't want to publish SSN and credit card info. If a parent dosen't have the personal authority to prevent their kids from publishing the information online, then I don't think they have the right to have it removed. Now personal infomration realted to the parent they have the right to remove, just like every other individual though.
With the caveat that nobody will be traveling at 0.99999c for 40 years. You'd be really really far away by then.
People having babies is kinda important. Strange how difficult modern life is with children.
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> you'd have a hard time getting me to commit to a 3-week job

Here in Denver, there are a number of companies hiring through recruiters that try to say "this is a 3 month contract" but the job ends up lasting 2-3 weeks. So you are right, it is hard to get folks to agree to a 3 week "job" - you have to lie to them.
I ended up writing my own mini-utility for this: https://github.com/jrockway/dotfiles/tree/master/bin

But I think I am going to switch to puppet, because there are a few things I always need done on a new machine; adding myself as a sudoer, installing packages, editing the imapd config (for a local imap cache), etc.
And, it doesn't sound like much of a success. If they just donated the profits from that store to charity, the charity would presumably receive $24k per month.

That being said, it is nice to know that a little faith in humanity doesn't result in a disaster.
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I strongly agree that the try before you buy approach is incredibly important for determining difficult to predict cultural and team fit. That being said while it is essential for early-stage companies to get this right, as pointed out in the comments, it can be difficult to scale and can be inefficient to make-up projects for potential hires, give them access to code, etc.

Some companies have found ways to bake cultural fit into their standard application process to great success. Twilio for example asks all applicants, business or engineering, to build telephony apps using the Twilio API before applying. This self-selects for people who are more willing to do research, be creative, and in general improves the likelihood that they will get along well with the team.

I am a bit biased here, but another path I would definitely advocate for is using interns. This is similar to the contractor approach but with a number of benefits in terms of price, and the fact that a hiring decision is not implicit at the end of the term. We have seen many startups build a pipeline of early hires by taking on multiple interns and seeing who is the best fit over the course of a few months.
Nice photo. All the things you ask about are craters. The large one is Tycho.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_(crater)
"Such restrictions are in large part responsible for the chronically high rates of unemployment that have been prevalent in many European countries."

Bullshit. Europe has higher rates of unemployment because they aren't as good at lying about them. Labor force participation rate is a better measure. US hovers around 65% along with the Dutch and Swedes, while the entire OECD is low 60s.

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/WorldStats/WDI-labor-part...
Is this strictly a Ubuntu/Xen bug, or does this have impacts on other VM environments (Virtual Box/VMWare)?
Exactly. They have a Harvard education, more riches than they could spend in a lifetime and still all they want to do with their lives is act like money-grubbing losers.
Yes, it is a bit mind-blowing. The only DB boxes I can consistently get data out of at a high rate are those with Fusion-io cards in them. And we're not heavily normalized--just a handful of tables.
Yup. You hit the nail on the head.
Part of why it is so hard is that the hiring process involves so many people who don't know anything about programming. An older friend of mine is great at blowing smoke up your butt, and if HR or managers are doing the interviewing, he always gets the job. If technical people are doing the interviewing, he rarely gets the job. The buzzwords he uses sound all warm and fuzzy to the managers, but annoy other programmers so much they autoreject him. His biggest failure is his inability to keep up with modern technology, so he tends not to last more than 6 months. Based on a number of other interviews where I've been on the side looking for candidates, my friend is not a single sample/anecdote; I've seen a lot of other guys like him out there.
~2.2 billion is a ton of listings. What you have to realize is that the craigslist wasn't in hundreds of cities on day #1. In recent years, we've had tens of millions of "live" ads on the site, but it took a bit of time to grow to that size.
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It takes light 40 years to get there and back at 1,079,252,849 km/h, and the fastest spacecraft we have currently are the Helios Solar Probes at 252,792 km/h - it would take over 170,000 years before the probe returned.
Exactly.

The "set amount of time" typically hovers around 60 days, though our archiving process has been off for several months while the migration took place. So we have some catching up to do--somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 million postings, last I counted.
For those who didn't catch it, the "International Mono Support" aside is a reference to Miguel's earlier (first?) company, "International Gnome Support", renamed to Helix Code, then Ximian, and eventually purchased by Novell.

It's awesome to see Miguel running a scrappy startup again. I just read through an old interview with him and Nat from the old IGF days, and Miguel hasn't lost any of the hacker/entrepreneur spirit:

http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=6967
Well, here's my first criticism of the site: I could not find instructions anywhere.
Maybe they're revealing he's actually a replicant created when the real Steve died six years ago, and now you too can own your very own!
I love CoffeeScript, except that it makes me hate writing javascript code now :) Thanks @jashkenas for an amazing language.

I personally like code like this:

countNeighbors: (cell) ->
neighbors = 0
neighbors += @isAlive cell.row+x, cell.col+y for x in [-1..1] when x || y for y in [-1..1]
neighbors
isAlive: (row, col) -> if @world[row] and @world[row][col] and @world[row][col].live then 1 else 0

but you have to be careful, since putting a space before the "+x" will cause some bad stuff to happen. Maybe I shouldn't drop so many parenthesis.

@jashkenas can you fix [-10..10] (constant boundary) loops to not check for increasing/decreasing :) I can't think of an edge case that breaks it.
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we can all agree that this is an unfortunate setback in terms of public perception of nuclear energy

I - for one - disagree quite strongly with that.

I think that it's very unfortunate that somehow Nuclear power has picked up a lot of support from people who think opposition to it is unscientific.

I think that if you look even moderately closely at it you'll find that the risk modelling associated with nuclear power closely resembles the risk modelling that Feynman tore to shreds when done on the space shuttle after the Challenger disaster.

For example, people will tell you that this disaster was so bad because of the combination of earthquake and tsunami knocked out the support infrastructure. They'll even give you odds on each individual problem occurring.

But they don't look at the system as a whole: If an earthquake and tsunami did occur, it was almost certain that support infrastructure would be knocked out. In actual fact they were very, very lucky that no aftershock produced another significant tsunami in the area.

The stupidity of those assumptions is obvious in retrospect, but nuclear fans are papering over it by saying it is a one-off problem, and associating anti-nuclear people with smelly, uneducated hippies from the 1970s.

Well.. it's NOT a one off problem, and the risks aren't as low as they make out. Take seismic risks in the US. Quoting the report of Safety/Risk Assessment Panel for Generic Issue 19 (ie "IMPLICATIONS OF UPDATED PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ESTIMATES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES ON EXISTING PLANTS"):

Updates to seismic data and models indicate that estimates of the seismic hazard, at some operating nuclear power plant sites in the Central and Eastern United States, have increased

Using available seismic hazard and plant seismic fragility information, the Safety/Risk Assessment found that the increase in coredamage frequency for about one-fourth of the currently operating plants is large enough to warrant continued evaluation under the Generic Issues Program

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/NEWS/quake%20nrc%...

So.. those risk assessments done when the plants were approved? They were wrong, and in 1/4 of plants in the Central and Eastern US core damage would occur during a seismic event within their design tolerances.

Still calling this an unfortunate setback?

I hate seeing coal ads that more or less state that it's safer than nuclear energy

I hate seeing coal ads, but nuclear isn't the answer. (Oh, and don't believe the whole "no renewables can produce baseload" lie, either. Do some reading on solar-powered pump-hydro, geothermal and tidal power)
Once this is rejected by the supreme court, I hope Facebook takes every dime they have to cover it's legal fees from this nearly decade long waste of court resources. Don't get me wrong, I truly believe that Mark screwed them over while he was building Facebook but they got a decent settlement out of it(odds are much more than they would have if they'd actually ran Harvard Connection) and yet their greed won't let them enjoy the tens of millions they have. Sometimes it's better to just take the deal and move on with your life.
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John Carmack has always been my favorite software developer. I didn't know he was such a stand up guy as well. Looking forward to Rage. Quake IV was awesome. Hope ID is able to pull off a game that is going in a very different direction than its previous games.
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With all due respect, I'm sure you're great at what you do, but I'd never want you to work for me. I'm on a mission and I'm interested in hiring people who share that mission. If you are solely driven by vested financial interests you wouldn't be a good fit.
It's The Society of Drivel effect.

Really? I find more interesting and valuable content from assorted so-called amateur "user generated" sources than professional outlets that I'm routinely amazed.

Is there a lot of crap out there? Sure. But I don't think the percentage has changed, we just have more of everything and more ways to get it.

I like that. Yes it means I have do more filtering for myself but I'm OK with that. I'd rather have more sources and choices than go back to the equivalent of "you can have nay color you want so long as it's black" days.

HN lets you think you're being smart.

Or not, based on how people respond. Truth is I've come across many people on HN who seem to be in-fact smart.

There's some truth in what you wrote but it's clouded by some sort of world-weariness. The world is so much bigger.
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Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
Apple is very well positioned to take the console market by storm, but they need a year to spec up the hardware. The iPad is close to 360-level performance. Another 9x increase would put it potentially beyond.
Not sure how long ago he posted this. This guy never ceases to amaze me. He's the Grigori Perelman of Hackerdom.
I wonder if they realize how foolish they look. In my social circle, Winklevoss has become a verb. It means to take more than your fair share of something, or to try to screw somebody over.

"dude you said you'd help move on saturday; don't Winklevoss me on this"

Or

"Stop Winklevossing all of the beer."
Given that nuclear engineers don't agree what "meltdown" means [1] I don't think this is surprising.

[1] The term is not officially defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency or by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. However, it has been defined to mean the accidental melting of the core of a nuclear reactor, and is in common usage a reference to the core's either complete or partial collapse. "Core melt accident" and "partial core melt" are the analogous technical terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown
My settlement was negotiated by the same mediator, so this is of interest insofar as it might shed some light on how strong his rather informal style is. I've been told that it's pretty strong.

Now if only they could both lose...
Hmm, and one could extend this chunking approach to Maze62. Consume 12 bits (aka two base64 integers), but if the resulting number is in the range [62^2=3844 to 64^2-1=4095] or [0 to 64^2-62^2-1=251], then add that extra quotient bit to the next input (from which you'll consume only 11 bits). That would make the worst case only take 12/11ths as long, or 109%, instead of 6/5ths as long, or 120%, as the best case (which would be the same as before).

One could extend it upwards as far as desired (probably approaching log_64(62) worst-case and average-case space compared to base64[1]), though the integer arithmetic would become a pain eventually. 12/11 or maybe 18/17 (105.8%) or 24/23 (104.3%) is probably good enough for most purposes. The relatively hardcore might use 60/59 (101.7%), which x86_64 machines can still do with CPU arithmetic (an integer multiply of two 64-bit integers stores the results in two 64-bit registers, and you can then do an integer divide on that, which stores the quotient and remainder in those registers).

[1] Average case: I analyze it like this. If you encode n base64 integers at a time, then you'll encode 6n bits at a time, but 6n-1 bits if you're unlucky and get a number in the ranges [62^n, 64^n - 1] or [0, 64^n - 62^n - 1]. These two ranges, taken together, make 2 * (64^n - 62^n) numbers out of 64^n possible n-digit base64 numbers. Thus, on average, you encode

6n - 1 * [2 * (64^n - 62^n)]/64^n
= 6n - 2 * (1 - (62/64)^n)

bits for every group of n characters, or

6 - 2/n * (1 - (62/64)^n)

bits per character. (Note that this analysis only applies while 62^n < 64^n < 2 * 62^n, so taking n -> ∞ gives misleading results.) The original Maze62 proposal has n = 1, and this yields 5.9375 bits per character on average, which is pretty good. (Check this: 5 * 4/64 + 6 * 60/64 = 5.9375.) The next few values are:

1 5.9375
2 5.9384765625
3 5.939432779947917
4 5.940369129180908
...
10 5.945595231334425

Theoretical limit:
6 * log_64(62) = 5.954196310386876

So I guess there's really not much to be gained for the average case by increasing n. But someone pointed out that all-0 and all-1 sequences happen frequently in real situations, so it may be worth it anyway.
This is the best news I've heard all week. Huge congratulations to Miguel and the entire Mono team!
I know they (MS) had an engineering agreement with the MONO folks while they were at Novell re:Silverlight, but I don't know of any instances where they've donated money. If you've got any links please share them.

From the Moonlight FAQ: http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/moonlight_faq.html#j

This collaboration between Microsoft and Novell is a formal engineering development program. Novell is bringing the .NET-based Silverlight framework to Mono, an open source framework for running .NET applications on multiple platforms including Linux. Microsoft is providing a version of the necessary codecs for Linux.
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heh, reminds me of my js version http://rapidpacket.com/
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This is like trying to replicate the effect of food by looking at pictures of spinning donuts.
Um, I'm not making any excuses for this accident, and yet nuclear power is still measurably safer than coal...
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According to the traveler you're traveling as fast as you think the traveler is traveling. The only way to make that work out is that to the traveler the destination is much closer than it is for you. This is called length contraction.

And rounding it out, different observers disagree on which events are simultaneous. In particular until the traveler turns around, the traveler thinks that the Earth was left recently. After the traveler turns around, in the new reference frame the traveler left the Earth close to 40 years prior.
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