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Does Khan Academy have documented instances where they've replaced a teacher in the classroom with videos? From my understanding, KA currently works well as a supplement to traditional classroom education instead of simply replacing it.
For what it's worth, my Amazon interview was probably the hardest one I ever did -- much harder than my Google interview. At Amazon, every single one of the 7 or 8 people I interviewed with asked me a coding question, including the guy that had done the phone screen, and he'd asked me a coding question in the phone screen too. I also got a coding "homework" problem in the phone screen. I don't have any problem with coding questions in interviews, but it seemed like total overkill.
Hmmm... I wonder if there's even an actual position to be filled, or if this is somebody's (pretty creative) attempt at a form of viral marketing.

In either case, it reminds me ever-so-slightly of those pr0n videos where they (purportedly) film girls doing "auditions" for non-existent jobs in the pr0n industry.

I hope the full details on this are eventually leaked... I know I'll be curious to find out if it's for real or not.
HDDs do fail, too. A lot. If drives failing for you is a catastrophe, you should consider taking backup media with you.
If we don't include all of the side projects and we don't include all of the day gigs, it is very easy for our skewed sample to have many examples where the authors appear to do most of their work on their side projects.

Absolutely -- I think that's where I was trying to go, but not as eloquently. If you look at the thread, I define "side project" in, what I consider, an odd way. Basically something that is on GitHub, because that has become what so many mean by side project.

In a roundabout way I was trying to say that people learn and grow in ways that are less visible. And while others may question your programming skills as a result -- you shouldn't.
Ask HN: High traffic sites use A/B testing. What can low traffic sites use?
Stated another way: why wait for your first few thousand visitors before making your first data-driven decision?

Is this a problem that needs solving?

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You need data to make a data-driven decision. Can you elaborate on how you propose to solve the problem of "making a data-driven decision without sufficient data"? I'm pretty skeptical, as you can see.
Having interviewed with Amazon before, they ask lots of optimization type questions and if you can make it faster. For instance, take some algorithm and can you make it linear? They do the same thing with their coding questions, they'll have you solve a problem and then ask you to make it faster. I wouldn't say it was the hardest interview I've seen, but it was definitely more challenging than most others I've done.
But does that mean he didn't really mean any of what he said?
Agreed, averages are meaningless for trying to figure out how long a startup will take. But it would be great to hear a few more case studies other than the "We hacked over the weekend, shipped on tuesday, were profitable in a month" hero-stories that seem to get bandied around.
Apple having billions in cash has led to an interesting line of questioning. http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+carrier+77+billion 'They could buy their own phone carrier', 'they could by other companies'. I don't understand the point other than trying to quantify the amount of liquid cash Apple has in the form of a metaphor.
ie: 'Warren Buffett could buy an entire amusement park, and an airline.' I will just put my forecast in writing, "Apple investing in anything to do with the dated telecom infrastructure would be stupid, and they know this".
That's why we should get rid of the cap of 435 reps in the House. It was never supposed to work that way.
The title is pretty unrevealing (I mean, hey, way back when Wall Street was filmed, this concept was featured in the film). What is interesting here is that the FAA has a privacy program that allows private aircraft owners "to keep their plane movements from public view." This program is now ending. Now people will be able to track where corporate jets are going and thereby, the article suggests, get insight into M&A discussions.
I interpreted the last sentence as yet another meme mention, meant to indicate that the author was part of the same subculture as lulzsec - the 4chan/Anonymous culture. I don't think it was intended to mean the message isn't being offered sincerely.
Possibly, but how many companies will actively target a platform that, say, roughly half of their visitors can actually use? It won't be a safe bet like Flash is with 97% of users having it available.

Installing an entirely new browser is a huge barrier to entry for the average end user.
Lol ... How much porn do u watch?
One of the problems with Reddit is that the vast majority of users are anti-ads and anti-corporation making any form of commercialism (even if it means more employees or a better site) nearly impossible.
Siegler's not mad at all. TC loves controversy, it's even easier money then churning out Apple pieces.
Neat, but seems a bit behind the times in a sense. There's nothing 'first class' about a tablet - an ipad is $500 - less than the cost of many flights. Anyone who wants one and flies can already get one, and probably have a better experience with it.

What would make far more sense is to offer wifi on the planes, and offer in-flight purchases of content (movies/magazines) for android and possibly iphone/ipad.
html5 or epub books for $1 while you're trapped in flight? I'd do it.

They could then be making marginally more money from all the passengers.
Their method of decentralization seems pretty costly though, and that cost will not abate over time, since the costliness is what makes it work. If widely adopted, I don't look forward to the day when a large percentage of all computing resources in the world is spent meaninglessly churning bits in the name of a decentralized system.
You can't make a data based decision without data.

What you can do is test on an individual basis. Companies have been doing this long before computers came along. Look up videos by Steve Krug on how to properly run user testing.

There are a lot of tools geared toward this already. Some offer testers, others just give you the capability to test with your own anonymous users. My rule of thumb is if someone else is making money off it, there is still money to be made.

This kind of testing doesn't identify things like a red button converting better than a green button, but it can tell you if some users aren't seeing the button at all.
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Why give them the choice? You could automatically download and apply the updates in the background, given a sufficiently sophisticated updater. That's basically Google's plan with ChromeOS.
Actually, it's a former AOL contractor.
One thing to keep in mind though is that while MS is one company I don't think the IE team and the Silverlight team see eye-to-eye on everything.

It could well be the case that the IE team thinks that what SL does is something they wouldn't put into Windows.
I'd rather stare at the back of my eyelids, thanks.
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Does anyone think that AOL's model here actually stands a chance of succeeding? Who wants low-quality, crap content?
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Hey Apple, hows about you come back out of your own asshole?
Using tablets means that the equipment is easier to upgrade/replace. With integrated systems like VirginAmerica's Red, the whole plane would have to be re-outfited.

Do you really want another store to buy stuff? These tablets will have a way to purchase wifi access. I think that is the easiest way to make money because downloading things opens up all types of questions like "I started the download when we were at 14K feet (wifi cuts off at 10K), can I have my money back?" or "The download failed and it wants to charge me again"

Flight attendants shouldn't be tech support nor is it their job.
Pi is the right unit because it represents the largest irreducible radian size. It is the fundamental unit of 2 dimensional angles.
Is the power of this the Gmail integration, or is the power in the list maintenance?

Thinking about the MVP, it would be trivial to write a program that would login to a user's specific POP3/IMAP account, scan for messages from specific senders, and auto-respond. But how would you maintain the list of PR flunkies?
"none cane be justified by the law, all fall short... by faith"

"A day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere"

"Judge not lest you be judged"

"If you so much look at a woman with lust in your eye... adultery, pluck-out your eye"

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"none cane be justified by the law, all fall short... by faith"

"A day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere"

"Judge not lest you be judged"

"If you so much look at a woman with lust in your eye... adultery, pluck-out your eye, cut-off your hand"

God says...

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Cops and shrinks are taught how to pigeon hole people. If you fit multiple breakfast club cliques, they label you schitophrenic. WhatEVAR!
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Since 1998, 43 percent of the 198 members of Congress who left government to join the private sector have registered to lobby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying#United_States
Since this is going to effect large brands because you need to pay to play, this is going to make phishing attempts even more effective. Not because the phisher will have the .ebay or .paypal, but it will make the URL even hard to dechiper whether it is legit or not.
It bothers me that TC writers, when called out on their bias, claim to just be mere "bloggers" who are supposed to be expose their bias so you know where they're coming from, but now they're claiming to be holy "journalists".
Intel's published reliability data shows a ~0.4% annual failure rate of the X-25M: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/320/reliab...

They claim greater reliability for the new 320 series which is based on the same controller hardware, and have upped the warranty of that from 3 to 5 years: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011...

There definitely has been a lot of noise about high failure rates in OCZ's Vertex series, but it doesn't seem to be anything inherent in SSDs or even the SandForce chipset. OCZ shipped SSDs with pre-release firmware, uses a number of different flash chip vendors, and may not test sufficiently prior to release.

I'd say buying a reliable SSD is more difficult than buying a HDD since there are quite a few variables, but there is sufficient information available these days to make an informed choice.

Performance is really worth it though! I wish there wasn't such a focus on boot times because I only have to reboot my MacBook Pro for certain OS updates or when it crashes, but high performance random IO makes a huge difference in day to day use. Applications launch almost instantly, I can do a find+grep on nested directories containing thousands of files in a fraction of a second, and compile times are pretty much only limited by CPU speed.
In site usability, ecommerce, and conversion in general speed is well established as being very important. Google and others have made speed a core goal because their data shows that speed helps conversion.

However, I would suggest that site speed is merely a proxy for usability speed. ie. it's more important for conversion to have a form that is easily comprehended and filled out than it is to have a fast loading page.

What I'm working up to is the idea that usability speed might be a useful proxy for a high-conversion design. It's also data that can be measured accurately without bias, and can be generated in lieu of real visitors by throwing a horde of disinterested people from Mechanical Turk at (eg.) your sign-up page with a well-defined goal.
I don't see why this idea is so hard to grasp. With the current state of programming languages, definitely not. But I believe much more intuitive forms of programming languages will eventually be made such that your average intelligent user can accomplish non-trivial computation.

Programming languages are the computer analog to natural languages. The real problem is that most of our brains aren't wired for programming languages. If we can bridge that gap, that will completely revolutionize the way people interact with computers.
Right. Unless I've misunderstood you, this is the angle I am investigating with www.uithing.com

Thanks for the tip re: Steve Krug's videos.
How do you distinguish the professionally licensed from the merely pompous? I'm surprised the professionally licensed would wish to run the risk.
I'd PPV a movie on almost every flight, but I have no interest in a public tablet. Yuck.
I appreciate your comment. I tend to have a lot of sympathy for the "programming as a tool" argument and forget the potential that programming languages ultimately have. Programming languages, just like any language, are a means of communicating ideas. As this becomes easier and more expressive it will revolutionize the field, many times over.

I think the real problem is that most languages that are made these days are just minuscule iterations over whats currently available. From that perspective there is little to no value in keeping up with whatever monstrosity some overeager researcher squeezes out of their head. But completely new paradigms, or new ways of doing old things, certain have much value; to the programmer learning it and to advancing the field.
>With anonymity, I can risk being who I want to be. I can say what I want to say and do what I want to do regardless of what anybody else wants.

>Without anonymity, I can't risk being who I want to be, saying what I want to say, doing what I want to do, because someone else might find out and give me trouble.

Yea, I know. Some of the problems can and should be fixed. For example, we need to move away from "legacy" PR based on controlling the message.
You might ask, what objectively changed since those days when $1B was considered a huge deal? If not a lot, then we're in a bubble.
I'd actually be curious to see if they use that in their defense. It'd be a unique argument that could have some traction.
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Just using the word hip dates you.
Much of the new billion dollar club is special in that it actually has the kind of revenue and revenue growth to at least sort of justify the valuation. It sounds like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Square have serious profits with trends suggesting that they'll be even bigger soon. These startups look more like PayPal, which was a 1.5B acquisition where Ebay totally and unsurprisingly got their money's worth, rather than a social site with no revenue. (Did YouTube have any revenue when they were bought? And I think Facebook had ads, but they were still losing money fast when they were offered 1B.)

Even though it's looking like YouTube will pan out for Google, it's a lot more obvious that Square has the potential to be worth billions than that YouTube did.
this whole branch was useful to me, I now know that F_J_H is very successful and polite. context is one of the reasons I am here.
Neat, but seems a bit behind the times in a sense. There's nothing 'first class' about a tablet - an ipad is $500 - less than the cost of many flights

Sure, it's only valuable if it's loaded with good content. Stick a decent movie/TV show collection, some good games and some e-books on it, and it's both better and probably a lot cheaper than one of the fancy seatback TV systems, even once you account for breakage.

What would make far more sense is to offer wifi on the planes, and offer in-flight purchases of content (movies/magazines) for android and possibly iphone/ipad. html5 or epub books for $1 while you're trapped in flight? I'd do it.

Eek, no thanks, customers hate being nickel-and-dimed. (Which probably means United will do it, because they love nickel-and-diming.) Still, especially if you're in First Class you definitely shouldn't have to pay for entertainment.

Budget carrier Jetstar in Australia is doing it with iPads: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/16/jetstar-ipad-rental-ser... -- oddly they were supposed to start in April this year but I can't find a review of what the service is actually like.
jedberg - Its sad to see you go, I remember when you came on at reddit. Whats next for you?
I am saying if you sign a work for hire agreement, and are later determined to be an employee, the company owns the IP because you are an employee of the company, not because you signed a 'work for hire' agreement.

Conversely, if the company assumed you didn't need to sign a 'work for hire' agreement because you were an employee, but the IRS determined you were a contractor, you would retain the rights to your works.
Someone should build: HN marketplace
I happend to need to buy a domain for a project but domain market places are too overpriced. I'd rather negotiate and help a hacker by buying straight from them.

Also could be interesting selling scripts, domains, websites, traffic, ads, etc.

If you are interested:
HNMarketplace.com is available.

I really look forward to use that.
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Yep that's how I do it. I just have /home mounted on another drive in my linux environment and under Windows I changed the location of my My Documents, My Music, Downloads, etc folders to a traditional drive. You could move your entire user profile over, but some apps do a lot of IO in your AppData folder so you may want to keep that on SSD.
As evanrmurphy says, the citation is only there to link to the relevant HN thread; it's not implying that HN is (or isn't) a credible or reliable source. There's currently 57 external links to HN from the en.wikipedia.org domain,[1] though not of all them are used as citations.

Wikipedia's Verifiability policy indirectly comments on sites like HN here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SPS#Self-published_so... (and the section directly below, "Self-published or questionable sources as sources on themselves"). So for example, a comment pg made on HN would be something that would be an acceptable citation since his work in the field has been published in numerous reliable sources in the past.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch...
What could it possibly mean for all assets to be overpriced? What could they be overpriced relative to?
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Sorry. It's definitely not my place to "enlighten" you. I don't want to be that kind of person.

I just am compelled to speak up for what I believe to be right. I didn't mean to sound like I was attacking your opinion, so in retrospect, I shouldn't be saying things like "I can say with absolute certainty..." I don't know anything for certain.

I just believe that the world is a nice place when people can simply say nice things to each other every once in awhile.
While I like many of Facebook’s PR team on an individual basis, as a whole, they are probably the worst in the industry when it comes to manipulation, double-speak, and all around slimeballishness

Their PR team are a prefect example, in Zuckerburg's words, of a "lack of integrity".
Transcendental numbers translate into the real world just as well as any other Real number.[1]

You can't fabricate a string that is exactly Pi long anymore than you can fabricate a string that is exactly One long. But you can get as close to a transcendental number as you can to an algebraic number.

[1] I'm ignoring the trivial case.
I heard from Rob that they don't have any particular plans to use the talks at the moment, but might if they decide to do the conference again next year. That means that the raw video files go out to the individual speakers. Whether they post it is up to the individual speaker -- actually doing so takes a bit of work.
"Journalist" breaks story containing confidential information about a product in development. PR team kicks into damage control, trying to dismiss and deny the leak.

What is the story here? That's the job of PR! Whether journalists buy into the mess is another matter...
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I was just taking the gambit and running with it. Certainly when you start zeroing in on the end of the string, things start to get very fuzzy indeed.
So exact match domains are certainly not limited to events on the calendar, but to the extent that mine are:

1) The way to get extra benefit out of Halloween is to, well, wait 12 months.

2) Getting people's email address is the single best way to boost other products, if there is any overlap in customer needs. (This is my single biggest d'oh should do more with that in my business, for five years running.)

3) If you have their email address and permission to contact them, the party never stops.
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So I can't help but find the salaryman thing to be creepy and strange (not that you did this but rather that anyone does).

Is this a common situation to find oneself in?

Does someone explain the rules or do you just figure it out by what every else does?

Does no one complain or quit in frustration?

Does anyone try to stop this practice?
did you tried foursquare specials, hotpot and all of the online to offline tools?
I'm not saying that didn't happen. I believe that it did too. I think it's absurd to dismiss everyone that had concerns about it.

Can anyone actually explain the downvotes? Did I not contribute to the discussion? Is it unfair to question Apple's motives when they make absolutely NO bones about the fact that they're heavily invest even possibly in the exclusive use, of their platform?

Oh well, apparently my defense of skepticism is either too radical for HN or caused me to be lumped in with Apple haters. Oh well, can't say I'm shocked.

Oh, you guys. You are so cute/silly. press the arrow, walk away, don't bother actually engaging in a discussion. Because calling people "conspiracy theorists" in regards to a company with a track record is completely fair. What a bunch of jokesters.
well back to google maps then
I would say it sovled* gobally consistent distributed naming.

Where the asterisk means that it has not yet stood the test of time. It seems like a solution, but none of us should be quite sure yet that it actually works as advertised.
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That's what I'm wondering. Not like I want to use it now.