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You make a good point.

Maybe what really needs to be done is that the politicians need to be told that we don't need any more laws (except for the law that says no more laws.)

Then they'll have nothing to do and therefore no incentive to be elected.
With regard to the Constitution, I was merely stating that the initial owner of a copyright in a work be the author.

So, without any other sort of agreement, the guy who made it is the guy who owns it.

The IRS employee vs contractor 'test' includes:

Behavioral: This includes type of instruction given, degree of instruction, evaluation systems, and training - http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=179111,00.....

Financial: This includes significant investment, reimbursed expenses, opportunity for profit or loss, services available to the market, and method of payment - http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=179113,00.....

Type of Relationship: This includes written contracts, employment benefits, permanency of the relationship, and services provided as key activities of the business - http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=179116,00.....

This issue has been around since at least 1989. Do you remember this?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/04/01/businesspropicks-u...

As for being strident, you are free to downvote. I am enjoying this discourse.
In design we call this "working on spec" and it's a thing that the pros avoid.
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I'm noticing speed/pitch differences in playback when I load a file from my disk versus playing in iTunes. Billy Joel sounds more like Janis Joplin.

Edit: Horrible bug report -- I'm in Chrome 12 with the Web Audio about:flag enabled on Mac OS X 1.6.7

Edit 2: Just tested in Chrome Dev 14 and the issue is unchanged.
"How do you become one of those time-conscious beings who visit and wind the Clock? Jeff Bezos has just launched a public web site, 10000-year-clock, where interested folks can register their desire to visit the Clock in the Mountain when it is finished many years from now. Bezos has said he will give some kind of preference to current members of the Long Now Foundation because the purpose of the Clock is to promote what the Foundation promotes: long-term thinking."

It's kind of sad that the clock is on private property and in the hands of some business man. It would be pretty pathetic if he tries making a profit from its operation, or tries to make it in to a theme park.
Wow. I never thought about anonymity as a requirement for truly free speech before but it totally is.
An interesting article. See also Robin Hanson's take on it:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/06/wolfers-gets-loopy.htm...
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By some definition of "scratch", we've also built 8-bit computers from scratch in my Electronics class. My respect for this student's accomplishment is proportional to how much of the processor he has designed and built himself; opcode design and management is a highly nontrivial task. On the other hand, if he has built the processor from pre-existing schematics, the accomplishment simply shows a steady soldering hand and good mental endurance.
What's wrong with adding finally? Sure, it's light editorialization, but it succinctly adds accurate additional context that someone unfamiliar with the situation would not otherwise have.
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In my most recent experience, I had so many different tasks to do that were more important than optimization. By the time I had the bare essential stuff done, I had enough data to start to make decisions on.
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Did you watch the video? This is inspiring to me on many levels.

This probably earned him a salaried job at essentially any place he wants to work. Or at the very least an internship.

I hope he considers skipping college. There's no reason for him to be driven into ~$50k worth of debt, and I've certainly been happy with my decision not to go.
Code as in software.

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The boot time is just a convenient "wow" factor, the real benefit comes from the thousands of little everyday tasks becoming CPU-bound instead of IO-bound.

A 7200 RPM drive is absolutely not comparable.
Honest question: how are phones for the poor such a huge win?
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Ask HN: Salary Valuation
I need the advice from those who are far more experienced than I am at salary valuations.

Background: I was hired in late February of this year as the copywriter for an Internet marketing company that has seen a lot of success since its inception last year. Since then, my responsibilities have expanded to that of what I'd consider the responsibilities of a product manager.

I'm essentially the jack of all trades for the company. I can pretty much play the role of anyone in the company in the off chance they are out of the office, although my main responsibility remains as a copywriter. However, lately I've been given the ability to hire people as I deem fit to complete projects. Next week, I sit down with my boss (the CEO) and his partner to discuss putting me on salary (I work hourly right now), and I don't know how to go about valuating my skills and the responsibilities I've been given.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the way, I'm 19.
This one is from 2007...

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/DIY-CPU-demod-runnin...
Were the coding questions themselves extraordinarily difficult? It just doesn't seem unusual to be consistently asked coding questions during interviews for a software engineering position (assuming that's what you were going for).
No, the processor appears to be constructed from 74LSxxx TTL logic chips. The memory is 2x32KB off-the-shelf SRAM units, but there comes a point where building things out of quad J-K flip-flops just becomes an exercise in patience and unnecessary spending. The registers are FFs, why make all of the memory that way? Just to say you did it? It doesn't add to the learning experience, just the drudgery.
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... you cannot find a single paper, published in even a semi-prestigious venue, in the academic literature?

You don't believe me? Go to Google Scholar and try for yourself.

Well. It's because Bitcoins are not at all a spectacular idea. The Bitcoin system is vulnerable to some of the most well known attack classes, in particular the Sybil Attack, which is most likely the reason why no professional algorithm designer/scientist has ever bothered writing a commentary, much less a paper, about them.
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Nothing new, but still pretty cool. Good for him.
Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art.

I would venture to say that music composition is also interactive. Music, to me, is art twice: first in the composition and second in the performance. Somewhat like programming, composers create something and send it out into the world so that others can use it, give it life, perform it.
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Approximately 30% of the Japanese workforce is salarymen. The rest runs the gamut in terms of working conditions -- the key difference from the Japanese perspective is that salarymen are guaranteed against virtually all risk from the time they join the company until death. I'm not married -- the company was willing to take care of that. I had problems with my landlords? The company would have taken care of that. I needed intercession on visa/tax/etc issues? The company took care of that. We had a bad year and people needed to get cut? They'd sooner dissolve the company than fire seishain -- we cut contractors/etc instead.

People get explained the rules in the same fashion that Americans learn that work starts at nine, being late is discouraged, and that accepting bribes is improper -- yeah, if you slip up, you'll be reminded of them, but they're for the most part cultural background. Do you remember the first time you found out that your dad had to go to the office every day? Imagine finding out, that day, that he was going to be there until 11 PM. And that's just how it was, for nearly everybody you knew. And if it wasn't the case for your friend's dad, you'd keep quiet about it, because you didn't want to embarrass your friend that his dad had a crap job. That's the kicker: these jobs are the brass rings that people aspire to. (And if you wonder why I go on the warpath when folks suggest the Valley-esque work/life balance is to be emulated, there is why.)

More than quitting in frustration, the bigger phenomenon is younger folks just dropping out of the traditional labor force, which is a large (though probably exaggerated because it is shocking) phenomenon in Japan today.

The government and industry have made a lot of noise about humanizing working conditions for the last generation. We get reminders to stretch now! Yay! Seriously though, the cult of salarymanhood is very gradually losing cultural hegemony, partially because some companies are abandoning the lifetime employment guarantee (without which it is a very, very raw deal), partially because the Japanese labor force is broadening away from Men Doing Men's Work Like Manly Men which was always the core of the system, and partially because all cultures change over time.
It's still pretty impressive for a high school grad. Not to mention that he was able to code an OS and a few games.
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In all fairness how much do the ipad components actually cost.
Coding questions are often not the toughest interview questions.

Tough questions could be some "soft" non-coding questions like: design questions (how to design a class hierarchy for a blog), behaviour questions (if your boss is wrong, what to do?), experience questions (why did you use tool X in your previous project Y? I think tool Z is better.)

Those questions are tough because your performance on those questions are very subjective. It depends highly on if the interviewer likes you or not.

Coding questions can be tough, but they are much more objective. Google's engineering interview mostly asks coding questions. Questions can be difficult, but at least, if you write great code, you will pass the interview.

In this sense, Google is not a very tough company for job interview.

In general, the degree of interview toughness depends on the job supply/demand ratio. When many people apply for positions at company X, the company has to apply a high-rejection rate, based on whatever (sometime very random) criteria.
things that determine your salary: 1) perceived value of your contributions 2) how much you could make if you left, weighted by the chance that you actually leave

even if boss's perceived value of you is really high, if you don't have the external credibility to actually get another job at the salary you seek, you don't have much bargaining power.
I'm quoted in the story. I checked guidelines before posting. ("If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.") Yeah, although this is a link to a TV news story, it's hacker related. I'm amazed by the scope of the outage. The "glitch" has crippled their entire system -- airport operations and website. United is effectively grounded at the moment.
Aren't most people that make computers high school graduates?
Well, if one takes finally to mean "at long last", it would be more appropriate to use it for something that took a long time to ship, like Longhorn or a new version of IE. How long did this take?
I agree with you on everything except that he should skip college. This would land him a salaried job at a lot of places, but if he's truly interested in computer design he would probably want to work at IBM/Intel/AMD research departments and they certainly require a college education to just get through the interview filters.

Not to mention there is a lot of stuff he could learn at college that would actually be tremendously useful if he wants to continue in this path. Everything from the physics of conductors to more advanced electronics design are things that can be quite hard to pick up from tutorials online.
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Yes. Large code base, large number of intemediary files and bin places. Compiling itself is an issue of course also but i'm already on a fairly high end i7 chip with tri channel ddr. More cpus or faster cpus would be nice but I'll take a faster hard drive over processor speed any day.
Raid 0, Although I've heard something or other about a larger performance gain being realized by other raid configurations.
17? Take it from us old fogies - the older you get the more responsibilities you will have. You won't have the freedom to go to school and mingle as you do now. I'm not going to say go to college (never went myself) but you have way more opportunity now in your life to explore and learn than you will in 10 or 15 years when you are definitely in the working-age category.
What does any of this have to do with AOL?
Is there actually some difference between an update and a new version other than number of changes made at once?
You don't get what your skills are worth. You don't get what your responsibilities are worth. You get what you can negotiate. This is the most important lesson about salary.

Your negotiating position is stronger because you're difficult to replace and weaker because the comparable for your salary is your hourly wage. Your bosses have had the milk for nearly free; any price for the cow is going to look expensive by comparison. (For example, if you're currently working for $10/hr and step up to $60k -- which is aggressive but, hey, key employees should be aggressive -- that would cost them on the order of five times more, when factoring in taxes and benefits.)

Oh yeah, benefits. You're 19, so you may not get the importance of this now, but professional white-collar workers either a) get them or b) have an hourly many times what you're making right now so that they can buy them for themselves. Typically this includes healthcare, some retirement option with employer match, paid vacation, and such other perks as may be standard or negotiated.
I think that there is no question that the web needs 3D capabilities. Pretty much every platform has or is building ways for developers to perform low-level 3D operations

This is assuming that the web needs to be a competitive app platform, but that is a wole other debate. Regardless, it's immaterial to the security issue. No matter how badly we need it, if WebGL really is as insecure as some have suggested then it will only sabotage the underlying goal.

Adding new capabilities can expose parts of the application stack to potentially-hostile content for the first time. Graphics drivers are an example of that, as are font engines, video codecs, OS text-display facilities (!) and image libraries

Web video (and audio) have been effectively phased in over a good 10 to 15 years. Ditto Flash and PDF. These technologies have had the luxury of evolving security gradually along with the threat and their record is still far from spotless. I don't know a lot about font engines, but I doubt they compare in complexity and diversity to 3D graphics drivers.

GL drivers will be thrown right into the deep end. I am skeptical that driver makers can really understand what they are getting into, or that they really have the incentive to care.

I also suspect that whatever hardening they applied to the low-level D3D API wrapped by Silverlight 3D can be applied to a Microsoft WebGL implementation as well

That is a huge assumption. Here, you're talking about Microsoft's own 3D API bound to their own VM, running on their own OS. Or in the case of cross-platform Silverlight, a 3D API wrapping a completely different 3D API. I would like to know the details of how that works and how it is secured. But without knowing, I wouldn't assume it was at all applicable to WebGL.

And anyway, even if Microsoft can do a secure implementation on Windows, what about every other browser on every other platform? Conspiracy theories aside, this is not about Microsoft.

our conversations with the developers of the drivers in question make us confident that they’re as committed as us and Microsoft to a robust and secure experience for our shared users

If WebGL is to be a true web standard that works everywhere, then that's a lot of different developers, present and future. The responsibility to keep browsers secure is being spread awfully thin, across some parties that aren't very accountable.

So far, I haven't seen any response to the WebGL security issues stronger than "don't worry, we'll try really hard" and that is not very reassuring.

With regards to web security in general, everything that could conceivably go wrong up until now has. We have to assume that the same principle will hold for future technologies and make sure they are air tight from the start. If we accept compromise with WebGL then we won't know for sure if there is a problem until it's too late -- that is, until it is widely deployed and difficult to change or abandon.
AFAIK, the minimum definition for an OS usually contains either a file system or processes. I see no indication of that in this case.
It says he just graduated high school. So I assume he isn't in college yet.

I suppose I should have worded my comment better.
OUCH. No mention of the contraction of the newspaper industry when discussing Gannett?

>Next, we want to ensure that Gannett's stock has the ability to rise over the next five, 10, or 20 years. A company that's growing its net income has the best possible chance to see its share price rise over time. Of course, we can't predict the future, but we can look back to get an idea of how the company has performed in the past in order to try to ensure future earnings growth. Over the past five years, Gannett has shrunk its net income at an annual rate of 13.9%. Unfortunately, Gannett has run into its own share of problems, and the financial collapse of 2008 certainly couldn't have helped either. So the company has been unable to grow earnings, which doesn't exactly mean that it won't in the future, but it's certainly not the greatest of signs.

from http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2011/04/26/should-you...

It's kind of clear that it's auto-generated after just one. The only other possibility would be that "Jordan DiPetro" had a real point to make about what stock stats can tell you without any real knowledge...
No, it's not unusual for all your interviewers to ask you coding questions. It is, however, a lot more work to have 7 or 8 people do that rather than 4 or 5, which is the point I was getting at. That was just a really long and tiring interview.
Is that all due to copyright violation prosecutions?
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I had a phone screen with Amazon where the interviewer asked me a coding problem (don't remember the problem). He had a text editor open and wanted me to tell him exactly what to type, not pseudocode, the actual characters. If the program didn't compile and run, my answer was incorrect. I actually got it right, but it (along with the rest of the interview) was such an abnormal experience that it really turned my excitement level for Amazon off.

I was called back to come in for face to face interviews, so I apparently passed the phone screen. I declined to continue pursuing Amazon after that experience and took a job with a different startup I was talking to.

I'm also OK with coding questions, including on a whiteboard, but caring about exact, compilable syntax of code entered in a way you'd never do is worthless.
Connecting this with the article about the person who smelted his own sword, I wonder if it's possible for one person to single-handedly build a computer starting from Stone Age technology and raw materials?
I know there's not some algorithm to determining my salary, but is there a rule of thumb for figuring it out.

Would an average of 1 & 2 result in a good valuation? I can figure out the value of my contribution almost to a T with some things, but there are other things that are a little harder to put a definite value to, i.e the copy I write for our websites.

I want to come into the meeting with research at the ready. And, thanks for bringing up the external credibility aspect. I didn't consider that, so I will have to factor that into everything.
Handling all payments is absolutely critical because it leads to a review/rating system that is credible (which is critical for a service like Airbnb where strangers are offering and renting space to/from each other). As soon as the payment processing is gone you end with a review/rating system like Yelp. Namely one this is easy to game (for example business owners offering free things to people who give them a good Yelp review) and therefore carries little to no weight. I've used Airbnb three times now. The credible rating system was crucial for me to feel comfortable staying with a total stranger.
You'd pay $30-$40 per month for a service that generates an extra $1,500 in revenue per month? I don't think your argument for someone to build this tool for you is very compelling ;-)

Oh how I long for the good 'ol days when people just paid for value...
There are thousands, probably tens of thousands of people out there who have built a 8-bit computer (usually Z80 based), according to schematics, from a microprocessor, memory chips, and a bunch of TTL chips. (I know there were at least twenty at my old school, and it was a small college.) It's one college class out of more than thirty, and by no means a replacement for college as a whole.
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The ending of this article pretty much sums it all up.

"as long as everybody else is playing the patent game, they have to do it as well."

This is a sad and sorry truth. Things in the patent system are not going to change until some of the big guys stop playing the game.
Agreed, and since it seems that the price of bitcoins will converge to the average cost of computing bitcoins, won't the ones with an economic advantage will either be those with efficient hardware/software or those with free computing resources (botnet operators)?