skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the management level much of the concern will be on your leadership skills and how you handle projects and the team(s) working on them. So to answer your question personal programming projects are still relevant, but interviewers will also be concerned with the business and leadership side of things.

I'm also having the same dilemma since I'll be attending an interview tomorrow for a tech lead position and the job post was specific about the functional/business responsibilities.

BTW If you're looking for a place to store your portfolio (or resume, however you want to call it) properly, here's my project just for that:
http://www.cvstash.com
It works because that's what I used that resulted in the call, which, in turn, resulted in tomorrow's interview.
Reminds me of this oldie but goodie:

A smart businessman went to a bank near the airport to borrow $10,000 for his overseas trip. The bank demanded collateral, so he left his Rolls Royce in their warehouse vault. A week later, he returned, paid back the $10,000 principal, the $19.23 interest (10% per annum for 1 week), and picked up his car.

After he did this several more times, the loan officer asked him, "It's obvious you have plenty of money. Why do you have to borrow every time you travel overseas?"

To which the smart businessman replied, "Do you realize how much it would cost to park my Rolls Royce at the airport for a week?"
Because open is such a stupid word that means different things to different people.
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I see -- so they aren't borrowing so they have more money to spend on their own projects; they're borrowing so they have more money to put in higher-yielding investments. I guess that's just a perk of being such a good credit risk.
The first 100W equivalent LED bulb.
Within 5 years blah...

Been reading this for ever - I think there must be a log-jam behind the flying cars.
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As seen in Firebug :
jQuery15106557239134263726_1305644071940({
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "usageLimits",
"reason": "dailyLimitExceeded",
"message": "Daily Limit Exceeded"
}
],
"code": 403,
"message": "Daily Limit Exceeded"
}
}
);
Why you can't really anonymize your data
Three iPhones, one video
This is the core of it: Dan Abelow's "ideation" has absolutely no influence whatsoever on the tech industry. Nobody cares about his "inventions". Nobody took any spark of inspiration from Dan Abelow.

But if I, sitting in a room with nothing but my own mind and a keyboard, actually WRITE THE F&#@ING CODE that is covered by one of these patents, then someone who never did an ounce of work actually implementing it will come along and demand a fee.

How can anybody think that's a reasonable system?
Your response is just absurd, and completely misguided. The Fed is already targeting a 2% inflation. Virtually every competent finance manager knows inflation will be around those percentage points. Inflation is not the issue. Interest rates are at historic lows, and Google is simply using arbitrage by offering investors higher interest bonds while competing against essentially free no-interest Treasuries from the Fed.
A long time ago, some friends and I rented out a wave pool at a Disney water park so we could have the waves all to ourselves. So after the tourists were kicked out, we put on our own music on the sound system and shared waves, a group of 10 friends. I think it cost $100 each. This is the same thrill, I'd imagine.
Is Apple planning a secret product launch this thursday?
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Getting data back via radio seems physically realistic using the gravitational lensing of EM by our sun. It would require us to put a receiving and relay station very var out beyond the planets, at least 550AU, I think. But by the time we are sending a probe several light years, then 550AU should practically be child's play.

A good paper about using such lensing: "Interstellar radio links enhanced by exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens" by Claudio Maccone.
A commenter on this blog, L. Zhang, made an excellent point that most of Google's cash is trapped overseas. Repatriating it to the US to buy US companies would cost them 35% in tax.

Borrowing US money at 3.75% to buy US companies is far cheaper than using their own cash reserves.
Note that I'm asking the question. I personally think it's highly unlikely, but I wondered wether anyone had any further insight...?
The other thing is that I frankly don't see many reports of people using out-of-date patents as roadmaps for anything!
For anyone in the UK, I recommend trying we7 (http://www.we7.com/) which is a similar service to Spotify and which which already has a web client.
The `once` distinction is a product of bad design and it only exists when you have a language that is both the templating (view) language and the processing language. To those of us accustomed to good languages, it's like saying "the language allows me to call render_once() so that I don't re-render a template I've already rendered."

When the problem is framed thus, most people would recognize that the solution to that problem is a better understanding on the part of the programmer of the flow of control inside his/her application.

The error handing should be done with exceptions. As it is, there are many errors in PHP which are recoverable, but they don't throw exceptions but instead emit other kinds of non-catchable failures. In Python, you would simply `try` to import a module and `catch` a failure to do so, e.g. if that module wasn't installed.
> basically everything is done in French, and much of it is required to be in French.

« La langue de la République est le français. » ("The
language of the Republic is French"), first sentence of the second article of the French Republic Constitution (see http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=LEGITE...).

Since universities are public, so republican, schools, it makes sense to make them apply and respect the constitution.

The idea is that any French citizen is able to have access, read and understand any published university thesis (PhD), since they paid for them (via taxes). In the same vein, students of the École Polytechnique are required to work 5 years for the State after their studies, since the State paid such a good formation to them.

French can always go to private school (or emigrate) if they don't agree with that.
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Need to raise money != desperate for cash
I much prefer this approach: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
Then someone must just really like him, since he's mentioned by name on most pages.
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Play by mail is just a term for multiplayer turn notification. Words with friends also uses push notifications if enabled, and if I recall from the early days, they (Words and Chess with friends) would send either a Text or Email message to inform players of their turn before iOS3.
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Short answer: maybe!

Long answer: who cares? Either they will or they won't. If they do, either you'll buy one or you won't. If they don't, then they'll come out with a new product some other time.
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Yes, it is like that. Consider when Amazon successfully sued Barnes and Noble for the One-Click patent. In what way did Barnes and Noble infringe? They do not share databases. They do not share implementations. They do not share architectures. They each independently had to implement it, and given the systems we can safely assume a minimum of hundreds of manhours of implementation each, with the bulk of those hundreds of manhours not actually being the "single click" implementation but drudgery of making it work with their unique system. In each case I guarantee the relevant code in both implementations is orders of magnitude larger than the patent itself, which by simple information theory means that the patent is only a small part of the whole.

And yet, the patent is violated, and they had to stop.

Amazon does not have a patent on the implementation they have for One-Click purchasing. They have a patent on the idea of One-Click shopping. There apparently exists no alternate implementation of One-Click shopping that will not violate the patent, because by any remotely sensible standard that would permit such an alternate implementation, Barnes and Noble must be able to meet it. (If somebody had cracked into Amazon's system and sold Barnes and Noble the one-click implementation, it would have been useless to them.) This is a fundamental perversion of the system. Patents are supposed to encourage innovation by enticing people to create their own alternate solutions, but in software, and more or less only in software, you can patent ideas.

And if you want to claim that this is not true, I would ask you to explain exactly how Barnes and Noble violated the patent in any other manner, given what I've said above.

I'd also observe that this patent probably falls under this rubric, too. There's no way to implement "buying from within an app" that will not trigger litigation. This is ridiculous. As I said yesterday, maybe programmers overreact to patents vs. most other industries because we are being abused by them, but I'm willing to try living without them and worry about any problems that result later.
Close but I think you have your orders understated. A normal programmer faces O(n^2), while a great programmer achieves O(n log n). Really bad programmers do O(k ^n) amount of work to achieve the same, with k>2.
> Second, the advocated method of stying your site with Modernizr is to first make it look good assuming no "advanced features" exist and then progressively enhance. This ensures that the failure of Modernizr to load will leave you with what you started with.

I think the big problem and why separation of concerns matters is that people don't design a site once and then let it be. Most frontend developers maintain already existing sites, across new features, new browser versions and new end user expectations. You can't apply that "advocated method" there, or at least you can't do so equally well.

I guess that simply disabling Modernizr when adding new design elements until things are good enough, and then enabling it for the "advanced features" could be a work around. I've yet to see such a disciplined workflow somewhere, however.

Nevertheless, I agree with you that it's the least ugly option available. Maybe making it easier for a developer to temporarily disable modernizr helps styling with the "prefer good styling with no advanced features" approach.
Nokia is not a "great mobile brand". It was a great mobile brand, that then couldn't realize that software was beginning to win the smartphone war, and lost. Badly. Nokia's entire survival has rested on budget phones to developing countries, and that's a market that is not going to win you margins (or loyal customers)

I pointed this out on another discussion: If we take South Africa as an example of this sort of developing market, then Nokia is in big trouble. BBM, coupled with "unlimited" BIS is wiping them out in the middle-lower end of the market. The very poor will continue buying their phones, for now.
I'd suggest a rebranding. Get a better domain name. The core product is very good though, well done and i'll be using this again!
I don't know why it's so amusing, but the network stack is fully functional for loopback.
Fire up telnetd, and telnet back to yourself.
telnetd -l /bin/sh -p 23
telnet 127.0.0.1 23
plenty of other services: httpd..
what a hoot.
considering who it is, it would be silly not to care. How many people here on HN earn money in markets that wouldn't exist if Apple didn't create them.
>I launched 3 sites recently (Instant.fm, Instant.IO, and >EmuSpin) (feross.org)
>	2 points by feross 1 hour ago | flag | discuss

we got it the first time, stop treating hn as your blog
This isn't a language: these are just randomized names. Anything can do that, it just takes the place of numbers, hashes, or whatever database you'd otherwise use.

Come back when they (re)invent nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Like "beware that pipe", only "for 'droids".
It's not really similar at all. This is just another web radio service, whereas on Spotify you can listen whatever you want. Also, the UI is horrendous.
By all means, feel free to care when there's an actual product.

But two days of speculating on whether or not there's going to be an actual product seems like a waste of time. It's just the noise the internet makes.
Except that here Google writes the terms (not just interest, all the fine print) and the investors take them or leave them, whereas in a loan the bank writes them and the borrower takes or leaves them.

Not really relevant here, but worth keeping in mind generally.
And humans, already having an innate intelligence, can easily imitate something. Without human interference a robot would rust to pieces before it ever moved a millimeter (we do have to tell it what to do).

We could invent synthetic creativity, but it in my opinion it'd never progress past its synthetic nature.
I can write fairly large correct programs but I still feel very much like a novice because I can't rapidly and correctly modify large programs that I just came across. Especially large incorrect programs.

And yet that's the reality with any large employer.
It's still interesting. More interesting: set up robots that can gradually associate particular movements with particular sounds. That could lead to a truly organic (and self-developed) robot language.
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Not mentioned: Google makes about 1/2 its revenues abroad and that cash is costly to bring back to the US (tax laws). So borrowing money in the US could bring their available US cash balance up to the "optimal" level.

See pg. 21 of their 10-Q:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125111...
HPHP is realistically only going to get you like 5% performance bump.

Performance Talk by Rasmus Lerdorf http://vimeo.com/12416792 (skip to 14:30)
A Re-Introduction to the Chrome Developer Tools
Children who do not reach their optimum height or consistently experience bouts of weight loss during childhood are affected in the long term in numerous ways.
From what I can see from the minimized JS, it:

- Loads the linux binary and the root memory disk image into 'memory' at the expected addresses (0x100000 and 0x400000, respectively)

- Sets the interpreted x86 CPU's EIP to the kernel's entry point

- Initializes additional requisite register state

- Starts execution.

Take a look at load_binary() and start() functions.

[edit] rickard already discussed this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555552
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Even in that case the error messages is still wrong. My browser is up to date, it just does not support the needed feature(s).
A bunch of people have tried this before... I can't think of the names off-hand, but names in a similar space that I've seen recently are http://www.emptylegmarket.com/ and http://www.flyruby.com/

I don't see how this will work - you need a huge marketplace, and even then it will generally be a lot more expensive than flying commercial. There are some limited uses like bowl games that I could see, but even then, why do you need socialflights? There are plenty of travel agents that charter flights for bowl games.

What I don't get is how a site like this got in Fast Company, and what's up with that "baked in" image? (it's part of this series http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/baked-in but why?)
Indeed. I'd suggest that, to paraphrase Colbert, "reality has a pro-Apple bias". The smarter Mac "fanboys" -- I would consider myself one -- are fanboys precisely because Apple has generally made good products for an awfully long time. Even its turkeys are generally made with good intentions, not as a way of screwing its customers.
I checked out their website and found a lot of deals on international flights as well. This isn't just something to consider for quick flights within the U.S.
That desperation example should’ve been downplayed. The main point is that bond rating is largely independent of a company’s reputation in handling past debts; investors are primarily concerned with the company’s future ability to honor their newly issued bonds.
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Can't... ;)
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> "If you ask an amateur whether their program is correct, they are likely to be offended."

But if you ask a computer scientist, they will know the right answer is "I have no way of knowing, but it works on some known cases".

And that's a very important part of looking for people who "Write large correct programs" - the fact that we simply can't know when a program is correct.
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Last I heard from the hard science fiction people, such ramjets have an upper speed limit imposed by some sort of drag. Can't remember for certain... maybe Atomic Rockets has something on them... yeah, http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/slowerlight.php#Bussard_Ram... . They say 0.12c is the best speed for ramjets.
I don't understand this article. What does the "social web" have anything to do with why this is now possible?

Even their example, flying three planes of sports fans out to another city, seems like something that could easily be arranged by the president of the fan club or something.

If what they mean is that the "social web" makes this easier, then firstly, I'd love to know in what way exactly (they don't really describe how this works at all), and secondly, there's a big difference between making this easier, and making once impossible things possible (which is what this article claims).

All in all, looks like I'm missing something
Touché. Did they always have "flicker.com" though?
I think this is kinda similar to Eat That Frog? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-That-Frog-Important-Things/dp/03...
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When it comes to machine translators... Did you already try: http://www.ackuna.com/
> I have no doubt Google can do the same with Amazon.

Except, not. The way they strong-armed the Skyhook issue was by saying they would restrict access to the Android App Store if they used Skyhook. Obviously that strategy won't work on Amazon.

Google only supports the "openness" of Android insomuch as it includes the use of Google services, which is where they make their money. An Amazon Android could completely eliminate all Google services, thus becoming a threat. Amazon has their own app store, their own music service, can use Bing for maps, etc.
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I am sure Amazon are pretty good at mining _their own_ data.

When it comes to mining the open, unstructured and uncontrolled mess that is the Internet, I believe they're no match to Google. Which is OK: it isn't part of their core business.
With the odd pursuits they attend to such as self driving cars, why not finance?
Well, you tell my granny to disable some service...
It's certainly the largest single source of internet traffic at our house, and within that subset, streaming Dora the Explorer Season 1 is the largest single source of internet traffic coming from Netflix.
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The economics of "luxury" travel are less than you think. Example: in my last company, we had an office in London and an office in Nottingham (northern England, the place where Robin Hood comes from), and people frequently traveled between the two. Well if 6 people needed to travel, it would have been cheaper to hire a fancy stretch limo and driver for the day and cruise around like rockstar pimps than it would be to take the train - and we'd have gotten more work done on the journey too! We never actually did of course, but only for appearances sake, financially it made perfect sense.
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It means a dozen random strangers who happen to want to do the same itinerary can now meet each other and get a Learjet. It's a matter of scale.
I'm using Chrome 12.0.742.53 and I have tried this both locally and through a webserver and all I am getting is loading.
Nobody can "rapidly and correctly modify large programs."

Yes, that's what most programmers do for a living, and it's just plain hard. Nobody can sit down with a million-line program and whip out a quick change correctly, unless they're lucky. So you learn how to retrofit the code with unit tests (a la Michael Feather's book Legacy Code), get good at using analysis tools, etc.
> except YouTube (also Google's trump card with Apple)

Is that true? I have honestly never used the YouTube app on any of my iDevices. This might be because YouTube plays natively in HTML5.
Iirc the way to reboot an x86 machine is to triple-fault, i.e. execute an interrupt in an interrupt in an interrupt. Could be done by e.g. marking the pagefault handler's stack space as "not available" in the pagetables.

Now if the virtual cpu does not implement that reboot behaviour, the likely result is just an endless recursion of fault handlers. So the script runs an endless loop, hanging Firefox until it notices this and stops it.
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I used to be that person that can't take criticism and blows up whenever he's challenged on something.

I wish I knew what happened, but I'm now the person who wants criticism so that he knows how he can improve himself. It still hurts my feelings a little, but that's totally drowned out by the new mission created for bettering myself. (Of course, that assumes the criticism is valid. It's not always. In that case I just contain my anger and file the advice away in case I keep hearing it over and over. If I do, that means it wasn't something to ignore after all.)
Seems like this post took a lot of words but did not say much of anything.
If they are sure they can make at least 3.7% with 3 billion, why not use their own money? After all, they still have to pay back the 3 billion when the bonds mature; possibly using their rainy day money if they’ve squandered the borrowed funds.

This only makes sense if all of Google’s current funds are tied up in wealth generating investments and they want even more money to play with. I highly doubt Google’s liquid assets (cash on hand) yield such returns.
I've used this recipe for a couple sites of mine, including the blog itself. The ups and downs of beta features of other node.js hosting providers was becoming a hindrance so I decided to roll my own.
Interesting what AWS can do at scale. Also important to design for the system limitations.

Edit: rewrite