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It sounds like you didn't study CS or another technical field in school or you would have known you weren't a math/logic person already. I'm curious, what got you into programming (other than that there are a lot of job openings right now)?

Regardless, it's pretty common for your first job in any field to be less than ideal, so I wouldn't write off programming just yet. On the other hand, if your company is large enough to offer opportunities to work in other areas, you might dip your toe in and find something you like better without having to look for another job. Desire for change happens to everyone after a while, even if we enjoy what we do.
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I think these moves are S&P's aattempt to come back from the massive hit their credibility took from rating toxic MBS as AAA. They're trying to prove they still have some market utility by making some predictions.
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It all depends on the contract. Presumably, a bus ticket would say something about not endangering or disturbing the other passengers, but if you just, say, tweeted angry messages to the president of Greyhound, it would be a hell of a stretch for them to find grounds to legally void the contract (i.e., kick you off the bus).
Article says little of "what worked". Oh they have social sharing buttons. Surely there was more to it than that!
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I'm fairly sure most closed source applications also Include something of a "NO Waranty as much to the degree allowed by law".
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Can someone that understands this better than I explain why this may or may not apply?

That's a good choice of wording :) It may or may not apply, it depends on the antenna.

The physical basis for all inverse square laws - gravity, electrical charge attraction, radio signal strength, is actually geometric. They are all measurements of some kind of flux, so you have a certain quantity of signal, which then has to be divided by the surface area of the sphere surrounding the source. As the distance from the source increases, the surface area of the sphere increases as the square of the radius.

So yes, if the source is in fact a point source radiating equally in all directions, the signal drops off as per the inverse square law. But, if you have a very tight beam, then the signal strength is maintained for a lot longer. In that case, signal loss is caused by diffusion, and by attenuation due to hitting matter that is in the beam. A highly parallel laser beam of a not unreasonable power level, preferably generated from a satellite orbiting outside any atmosphere, should be capable of being received pretty much anywhere in the galaxy. Alternatively, if you have a big enough dish, you could do the same thing with radio waves. Indeed, it is estimated that Arecibo is capable of communicating with any other Arecibo-style dish in a roughly 100 hundred light year diameter around the Earth, if the two happen to be pointed at each other, and one is transmitting whilst the other is receiving... http://www.cplire.ru/html/ra&sr/irm/limitations.html

And that's with a measly 1000kW radio, weaker than most primary radars used today.
Not sure I understand the point of it, it's trivial to do that without netcat.

ssh -t server1 ssh server2

Will bounce you right to the second server. I'll generally alias this as the second servers name.
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You've got the h on the wrong side of the fraction. A Watt is a rate of energy usage: 1 J/s. It requires an amount of energy that could power 100 50-watt light bulbs for an hour to desalinate a cubic meter of water. That is, the 8765 h/year in your calculation doesn't belong.

From http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_statistics/usnu..., a 90% capacity nuclear power plant can produce 7.9 billion KWh in a year. Let's round that down to 6 billion. The math is:

5 kWh/m^3 * 3,000,000 people * 2842 m^3/(personyear) / 6,000,000,000 kWh/(power-plantyear) = 7.1 power plants for LA.

It looks like something funny happened in your math/numbers, but your final calculation and conclusion somehow ended up correct.
I can't help but doubt it; did you see the link in that very article about "Hpricot striking back"? As I recall, _why seemed pretty good-humored about it (but human memory is quite fallible).
You work at the University of Miami? Any chance you have internships available for UM students? (I sent an email through the contact us page on your website as well)
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Is that a bad thing or a good thing?
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It's absolutely a revolution in education. None of what you mention was possible ten years ago when I was in college.
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What an awesome idea and opportunity. I just set my calendar reminders to come back and bid. I need some DCurtis UI time!
So is this the eventual commoditization of a university education on the horizon or what?
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So each time one uses a Monte Carlo estimation of variation, incl. bootstrap, this patent should be acknowledged?! This surely sounds absurd… The worse because those “authors” work at IBM research labs.
Do you think they'll makes the numbers public?
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Good PR. Congrats. :)
Where do you live? I actually go out of my way to find exotic things, but I have never seen that. In fact, I'm one of this people that visit 3-4 grocery stores on the weekend. For reference, I live in New England.
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What does he charge to just shut up already?
How many founders are able to boot strap a search engine to 8M monthly unique searches?

Gabe, Jordan, and recent hires...

Respect.
Elaboration: Jules demonstrates zero willingness to understand the customer's point of view. Even if your position cannot be compromised, as a CS rep you should never leave the customer with the impression that they were ignored, or worse.

First, the tone is so unbelievably petty, it's difficult to believe this company has ever made more than $50. I would conclude from this exchange that it's run by two high school kids in their parents' basement.

Second, the post is chock full of defensive half-truths, or as I call it: bullshit. For example:

We take privacy very seriously.

So seriously that we flip off anyone who sends a tweet about you and your account. It's not about privacy -- if it were, a simple statement to the effect of "we can't comment about accounts publicly" would have sufficed.

...to which we responded “Best of luck with your new host!”. This was not intended to be a taunt, this was intended to be the closing line to our discussion with them.

Who honestly believes this? "When I told him to 'get the fuck out of here', I only wanted to let him know that he was welcome to leave."

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This guy just does not get it. He must be an incredible sys admin, or it must be really hard to find a good one in Hampshire.

The truth -- as I see it -- is simply that this guy was irked by the thought of a customer posting annoying tweets about his company's policies, and he lost his cool. (If he ever knew to keep it in the first place.)
Water rights in Colorado are...complicated. Aurora, Colorado doesn't have enough for its population.

So it pumps water out of the river, sends it to people, purifies the result, and pumps it back into the river.

Three times. At different locations. So really they're already drinking their sewage water, only slightly diluted with the water from Denver's sewage water...and heading downstream to supply water to Utah, Nevada, and Southern California.

Can't find the reference, though. Sorry.
I read it as "500 Startups at Demo Day."
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So did 49 other sites.
Sorry for the late reply, was asleep. :)

One of the carriers here just started picking them up, haven't seen them as much in Rwanda here as I have in Kenya, but they are still new.

The Ideos comes with a SIM toolkit, it's just the official 'Nexus' phones (and some others) that seem to lack it. So that part is fine, which is a good thing, because I buy electricity for my house using it weekly.
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To use your restaurant analogy, suppose I'm at a restaurant. There is some problem with my credit card. I get rude and insulting.

It is perfectly acceptable, as you note, for the restaurant to toss me out and to ban me.

What is not acceptable is that if a friend of mine later asks them why they banned me for them to state that it was due to a credit card dispute. They should just say "we do not discuss details related to past or present customers".

In the deleted blog post that's essentially what they admit doing. A friend of the customer asked about the incident, and they responded giving information that they should have not given, instead of just saying "we do not discuss account details of customers with third parties".
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Very cool. I've been working on a 1d roguelike for a while, similar approach. Although a bit easier to know what's going on there because you get symbols rather than shadows.
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I love the idea, I just wish there were more of a game there! I think this might be do-able with timing puzzles, perhaps, or having to open doors on the right, then double-back, and open a door behind you, etc.

It's a great concept for a joke, but It'd be even cooler if it were playable, more than just move-right, shoot stuff ;)
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Solar panels actually aren't a great option here believe it or not. People have been trying for a long time to get them working well and they just don't. Typical problems are theft, quick degradation from too much sun etc.. They are also pretty darn expensive.

There are other options though. One of the more interesting ones is being done by Nuru, which sets up micro-businesses of people who charge lights / phones / radios using a pedal powered generator. Those generators are really simple, last a long time and they are set up right from the start to provide an income source for the owner.

That said, smartphones aren't really viable for the 'villagers' for a while still, charging every day really isn't practical even with something like that, it is just too expensive. But there are still a ton more just above them that live in more urban environment where electricity is available, and for them cheap smartphones can really change things.
Yep, sold my TV in 2004 and don't miss it a bit. We've got free Dvd's from the library and Netflix streaming when we need a movie night.

Best part--haven't seen a commercial or heard anything about B. Spears in YEARS. The garbage and corporate agenda eventually clears from the mind.
For a start-up competing with Google in the search space - DDG has made all the right moves. Excellent PR and some well deserved respect to my favorite Search Engine. Kudos...
One of the points the article made was that women "experience backlash for violating societal expectations", which might play a big role why there aren't many female programmers. This also could explain why I often come across female programmers from India, which is possible they are encouraged more.

But regardless, I personally don't entirely agree with the article's conclusion that the difference is purely dependent external factors like culture. I think guys like to tinker with tools more often than girls, and this interest is influenced by genetics.
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It doesn't have to be either. Culture shock is one of the biggest risks in this deal, and having vastly different hiring strategies will make that risk higher.
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I self-taught myself programming for a while, discovered I liked it, and decided to go back to school in CS so that I could learn even more about it. (The first time through school, I was interested in different things and ended up with a philosophy degree.) While some of people I encountered in the CS department were there to line up a job, school can just be an efficient, focused learning method for the curious.

In general, one nice thing about hiring CS students as opposed to purely self-taught programmers is that, in my experience, they're more likely to have a good understanding algorithms and data structures. Self-taught coders often only learn as much as they think they need to know about the topic to complete the task in front of them. (Obviously, for those interested, it's as straightforward to teach yourself analysis of algorithms as any other topic.) For some types of programming positions, having a rigorous background in this area is crucial, though in others not so much.
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Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/KYdUb.png

This happens consistently for any Facebook notification email or Deal email. Also, all the links in the email are blocked.
Does anyone know who is behind this?
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When I'm coding I listen to movie soundtracks. When I'm doing emails its usually vintage punk music. When I'm in a really really bad mood its really really fast punk.

The Lost soundtracks are really good for coding actually.
I agree with your point about sense of worth evaporating.

But despite the title, the article said that while one is depressed if unemployed, one is more depressed than that with a lousy job.

The article does not paint as rosy a picture of unemployment as the headline.
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I have been reading a lot about the history of money, finance and economics. It is a topic I find interesting. All of the biographies about money mention Fibonacci.

I would recommend the following (you can get most of these books in kindle edition and most of the documentaries are online in one form or another:

Web:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci

* Liber Abaci, his most famous book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Abaci

* History of money: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money

* More on Liber Abaci: http://liberabaci.blogspot.com/

* More again on Liber Abaci: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/java/fibonacci/libe...

* This American Life episode on the invention of money: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/t...

Books:

* The Ascent of Money: http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/d...

* The Origins of Value (hard to find): http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Value-Financial-Innovations-Cr...

* History of Money (I haven't read this yet, but plan to): http://www.amazon.com/History-Money-Ancient-Times-Present/dp...

Documentaries:

* NOVA's 'The History of Money': http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/history-money.html

* BBC's 'The Ascent of Money' series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money

* The Secret History of the Credit Card: this was PBS again, can't find it online but if you Google around I am sure you could find it somewhere.

There is a lot more out there - if you follow links, wikipedia, amazon recommendations and reviews etc. you will find a lot of good sources. A fascinating topic and fascinating characters involved in the creation of money (like the Rothschilds and their involvement in toppling governments and funding conflict).

Every financial instrument we use today - from bonds, stocks, notes, interest, credit, debit, trade finance instruments etc. have an interesting story around their origin.

Fibonacci bought over the Arabic number system, base 10 notation (which makes interest easier to calculate), and set formulas for conversion, standard units of weight etc. It was a bit like an early draft standard for merchant traders.

With the history, you soon realize that money is just a promissory note or a debt, and that all money is borrowed. With a wallet full of notes what you have is a promise from the US Government that the notes can be readily exchanged.

The more recent fascination with gold-backed currency seems a bit ridiculous if you understand the history and why we went into gold and then back out of it.
A great counterpoint experiment would be to similarly expose young men to images, verbal cues and goals of physical fitness and competitiveness and then measure their interest in STEM achievement.

If there is no negative impact, you overturn the long-presumed jock-versus-nerd social paradigm. If there is a negative impact, you overturn the presumed masculinity and gender norms cited here as being associated with STEM and force a little more nuance into this argument.
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I kind of like it as commentary on the state of modern shooters ;)
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Is it possible to become involved with the Bay Area startup scene without moving to the Bay Area?

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[...] is it possible to get involved early in a place this way?

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If so, how would you go about breaking in?

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or you could just re-map cmd-Q to cmd-ctrl-Q in the Keyboard prefpane, under Keyboard Shortcuts. you don't need a credit card to do that.
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You're obviously getting downvoted, so I probably will too, but I have to somewhat agree. But more specifically, why duckduckgo? Are they better than the other 49? Why is this submission rated number 1 on hn? I really don't get it.... One of 50 on a list?

I work at one of the other 49, and didn't feel the need to submit when the list came out many many hours ago....

So, I guess I agree with the sentiment you express. Why duckduckgo in this situation? Maybe I'm honestly missing something
The article's about a study finding these changed rates of depression, not really a subjective opinion about the value of employment/unemployment to agree or disagree with (though you can disagree with the study's methodology, or how generalizable its results are, or its way of defining 'poor-quality job', 'depression', etc.).
What a superficial article. Is it only meant to attract page views? Stuff like:

"there have been links to extended Internet use and a rise in depression"

How about some references? "It is said..." "everybody knows..." "literature exists about..." Sure!
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More realistically, though, he could've found some PR person after seeing the fallout from his own attempts to calm the storm. If he sticks with it, that would actually be quite smart of him.
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