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I'm currently preparing for my first coding interviews, using a blog post about interviewing at Google as my guide. [1] In addition to studying the subjects in the post (algorithms, data structures, discrete math), I'm taking the three public Stanford classes and writing an iOS app that I will put in my github. Any advice re this approach? My career goal is to program useful stuff people use, with smart people.

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
why not? The license permits you to do what you want with it, as long as you attribute the original author.
great article - impressive what you've done there (connecting all the different pieces, including Common Lisp and AWS!!). love the charts too!
Ask HN: Best practices in integrating with external data sources
We're building a product for the education market, for which we have a few initial customers.

Our tool needs to have student, faculty, staff & course data. All this data is already built into the student records system at each school. Most schools have different systems, with different tables, sometimes customized from the same product. Most of this data changes slowly, with a little, perhaps attendance, changing daily.

What's the best method for us to suck up this info with the least amount of integration effort each time?

Alternatives we are looking at are

1. Ask them to format & put the data out in XML of our format for us to suck in. Adv. No work on our part. Disadv. How do we handle diffs? Increases barrier to use for them. We have to write XML parser.

2. Ask for RO access to their dbs and suck it in via custom plugins for each college. Adv. We get direct access, no effort for them. Disadv. They are a little worried abt giving db access. Need to understand and write plugin - very high effort given diversity

3. Ask them to put it into our db. Use triggers on our db to put into our own tables. Adv. Easy for us. Disadv. Increases barrier to use. May not be easy for them to use.

4. Give them an api to add data. Adv. Easy for us, just need to define API well. Disadv. Increases barrier to use. May not be easy for them to use.

Have any of you done this before? How have you solved this? Your inputs would be much appreciated.

[edit] I am looking for technical solutions - we understand the market challenges.
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Interesting that most people seem to work from home! and none of you shave (or do hair/makeup!) which leads me to believe you all have giant beards!
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You are missing the point.

An executed idea in the form of an MP3 may be valuable, but it is not worth an unlimited amount of money.

When IP is sold in the same way as physical goods, it can be sold forever - this is problematic because notions of theft depend on the victim being unable to use the item that has been stolen.

The way you are refering to theft is far closer to what a legal professional might refer to as potential lost revenue. Even so, this is still questionable as many of these MP3 thieves wouldn't have paid in any case.

--

"When you copy an MP3 without paying for it (where applicable), you are conceptually walking into an art gallery and walking off with a lithograph without paying for it. It doesn't matter how many lithographs are available, you still walked off without paying for it against the wishes of the creator of that lithograph (after all, there would be no lithograph to steal if someone didn't come up with the source material.)"

No. No. No.

How on earth can this be a fair comparison? A lithograth is printed on paper or vellum. Stealing the lithograph would be similar to stealing a CD.

If you want an analogy that is fair .. perhaps the visitor to the art gallery walked out with a photograph on their camera or a JPEG file. Neither of which should constitute a crime in my opinion.
These are virtual machines right? You can easily read the contents of a virtual machines RAM from the host machine whilst it's running if you want the encryption key.
Absolutely. This feature is really bad. I would even argue that, giving people who have no idea about security an additional false sense of it, actually decreases security overall. Now people will more likely give their money for this feature instead of paying a proper security analyst to implement security client side.
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Several people have said they would, or have, ploted histograms - but how?

* By hand?

* With Excel?

* With R?

* With processing?

I'm a little sad to see that this item has been flagged heavily, but I guess there are people who think this is sufficiently off-topic that it should be in the same category as spam.
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I'm sure some fashion companies do make well-designed products. But a defining aspect of fashion is that it's fleeting--certain things go in and out of fashion. When a company has been making products that all basically resemble rounded rectangles for almost a decade, with each year's release almost indistinguishable from the last, it's pretty obviously a matter of design and not fashion.
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Did he update the article or did you stop reading at some point?

Closing words from the link:

"I should apologize to Google here. They got mentioned as an example, but I don't think they're particularly bad. I did interview with them at one point, and made the decision not to continue that process after deciding a different, more certain, path was better for me. So I've displayed interest. And in response to my reply today of "I know where to find you, so please assume I'll do so if I change my mind." they've said they'll make a note on their records."
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They did officially apologise recently. Some more grants would not go amiss though.
Chrome and firefox blacklist webgl on certain setups, but you can force-enable it. On chrome, put about:flags in your urlbar. As well as being able to enable webgl, there are many other goodies there. On firefox, put about:config in your urlbar, search for webgl, and enable the force-enabled option. Your system will either crash, freeze or display an endless webgl forest...
In the same way google has their own internal version of gmail with features that aren't publicly they will have in internal version of G+. I expect they all use that internal G+ even if they don't use the public one.
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Normal people in good mental and physical health don't generally "disappear from the Internet" in that way. Such a drastic measure warrants some concern. If he didn't want people to be concerned, he could have done it in a less drastic way.
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> we would be so much better off without dialysis
> even existing

I never said that. I was referring to this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/12/-8220-god-...

Just saying that it's not all peaches and cream.
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Lots of people liked tablets, and portable music players, and small and light laptops, and smartphones before Apple. Mostly geeks and not "lots" in the same sense as "lots of people bought iPods/iPads" but there was still a kernel of utility that people could clearly see the value in. IVR is a big step beyond any of those.
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is false as others have pointed out here.

Adding another data point: The close button on the elevator in this building here works as expected. Press it, door closes _right away_. Don't press it, wait for the doors to close in a couple of seconds.
You should find a better career goal for yourself; program useful stuff people use, with smart people is about as generic as you can get.
It's an option. The local library will order books for a charge. The charge is about what we spend on entertainment for a week. Probably ebay would be as cost effective once you factor in travel cost. I can walk the couple of miles but not really with the kid(s).
I think that this is a good form to protest because most italian users use Wikipedia so they can understand the impact of the law. I write on my blog: http://dariosalvelli.com/2011/10/wikipedia-italia-chiude
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Yes, this behavior is a typical pattern of people suffering from long-term depression who are entering a final stage before suicide.

Of the typical signs: a sudden change in behavior, loss of interest in favored activities, setting affairs in order, withdrawing from others, self destructive behavior.

You wouldn't believe the number of suicides who, as their last and final act, cleaned up (shaved, got a hair cut, put on a suit or nice dress, put on makeup, etc.) and prior to that suddenly gave away all of their stuff particularly prized possessions (and for creative types, their lifetime collection of work).
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If they did, Google should be banned from AdSense according to its own policy.
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I think this is great, but I ain't paying for anything I can't see. The flow should be Enter Location -> Image Preview -> Share-on-FB or Pay-to-Print. That's your MVP. Hard-Code it for a few locations or show some random image previews.
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Not sure if this is the right place to tell you this, but no one wants to buy a pdf of a star chart. If I want a computer star chart I'll use a program to generate one live. It might not be as pretty as yours, but it's interactive.

Now if you actually printed large (huge?) format posters of the star chart you would have a market.

People would love to print a start chart as visible in a specific special place and time. It would be a great gift for weddings, birthdays, graduation, etc.
Two suggestions:

1. After filling in the info I started looking where to click next and was a bit surprised that it is above to the left of the map, I think you have to make the interface flow a bit more intuitive.
2. It would be great to see the image in small format before I pay.
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Hmm - maybe I'm pessimistic, but why are they going to give you access to their data? Do they have some incentive (and if so, why will it work)?

Also, my understanding is that a lot of schools use district-wide IT admins and may not have staff available who would even know how to format data or use your API. I think this is less a question of the best way to handle it on your end, and more of how can/will they get you the data at all.
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This is seriously pissing me off now. People downvote and never explain why. Did any of my statements ring as aggressive? Am I wrong in my assumptions? Or is it that people cannot stand someone who uses numbers as an account name.
well but since yesterday all you knew was 1 -> 3G -> 3GS -> (first real redesign) Iphone 4

Easy to say in hindsight and based on the rumors, but still they didnt really have a tick-tock release cycle before.
That's more than likely what they're intending. They're coders too. They know what sort of code can he pushed out in 5 minutes.
> What MSFT absolutely nails in this arena is the experience in the XBL marketplace. If you buy something, it's yours forever (well, longer than in the app store, anyway)

Heh, I still remember my jaw dropping open when I found out that Microsoft deprecated their own music DRM format called ... wait for it ... "Plays for sure", causing users who had already purchased music to never be able to play it again. [ yes, they did a back flip, after much outcry and there was a workaround - burning to CD - but still I don't think their record in general is particularly rosy ]
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My bad. Your product does everything, but in a totally non-obvious way. Please do yourself a favour and read the book "Don't make me think"
Awesome job man!

Ease of use requests for the star chart page:

1. GeoIP db to get current location
2. Autofill location
3. autofill date
4. autofill local time

GEO IP: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/03/31/3-free-ways-to-ge...

Viral ideas:

1. Allow creation of star charts from FB data (eg. City / DOB)
2. Add FB share link.
3. People buy star charts for friends

It pains me that people believe in this psuedo-science, but will make you money ideas:

1. Allow some kind of astrological star chart that is
tangentially related to their astrological sign.
2. Pair with FB (eg. Fred's Libra Starchart)

Btw, yesterday was my birthday and if I could have posted this on my wall it would have been awesome. (Not the astrology part)
I agree. Maybe you should highlight the "special place and time" aspect, and also you could see if it's possibile to get a deal with some online printing service (i hope some have API) so people can directly order the printed chart.

A preview, as said by other user, would be good (and also the free share-on-FB feature could be useful to spread the word of your site)
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Thank you very much for the feedback. Maybe I should put the next click to the right? I'll certainly try it out. As for your second point, you should be able to see the image in large format before paying: a link appears after you have input the map data where you can ask for a preview, and a full-sized one will be created for you.
Ah yes, the misaimed fandom phenomenon :)

"The writer has a vision. They've created a character who represents everything they loathe, and have placed him in a setting that satirizes everything they hate about modern society. Bring on the Moral Guardians and Media Watchdogs; he's prepared for controversy!

Only... it doesn't quite work like that."

From http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisaimedFandom
Yep, I kind of know I am obvious-challenged. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah, and if anyone is going to buy it and not ruin the open-source product, it's redhat. I mean, I'm not happy with their recent decision to release the kernel as one giant blob of code rather than the upstream plus patches, but RedHat is still worlds better (as a steward of an open-source product) than any other corporation with the resources to drop that kind of scratch.
Hmm.. gamify it by adding some badges and you might be on to something there!
I was expecting that, but wasn't completely sure about it. Thanks.
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If you are living exclusively together long term you are effectively married even if you don't have a paper saying so.

Some states call it common law marriage, but even if they don't you are still effectively married.

Marriage is not a piece of paper, marriage is a family structure.
Thank you for the suggestion. I've thought about setting up an agreement with a print shop, where I can send the PDF or PS to them and they do the printing and sending. But before going that route I wanted to figure out if anybody would want a personalized star chart to start with. Looks like I need to look seriously into it.
Thanks for this article!

I had a comparable experience last week launching an online Markdown editor:

http://akaya.me

and nobody noticed, as I blogged about it here:

http://blog.medusis.com/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-silen...

But I don't think you're right when you say "it's possible that nobody wants what greaterskies offers today. And most of the features that I've been adding for the last week are probably irrelevant." Well, it's possible, yes, but you don't know that one way or the other.

Nothing happened because nobody saw your announcement (or mine); nobody saw it because HN gets hit by a deluge of posts at any time of the day, and luck has a big part in deciding which ones don't sink immediately. (Time of day matters, but time of week matters also; I since noticed that slow days (Sundays esp.) are better for the "Show HN" type of message.)

I think what we need are two things:

- on the functional side, beta-testers that are dependable (as opposed to casual); maybe that means they're paid, but maybe we can do with "honest friends"

- on the marketing side, a story, of which your post is a start (I'm still looking for mine).

Don't give up! and please keep us posted.
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Thanks, I'll certainly check into the hardcopy options. The preview is there, although from what I gather in a totally non-obvious way :-)
The very first thing you see in the Apple video is someone hitting the button on his headset to activate Siri. I guess that means you need to hit a screen/hardware button when not using the headset.

In the Android video, most of the screens that echo back the text time out and activate without interaction.

Many of the interactions result in information on the screen (e.g. the detailed weather forecast, or navigating to a webpage) so there's no need to build an interface that works without a screen.

The difference (if there even is one, it's hard to tell from these videos alone) is less drastic than you seem to be claiming.

Apple's approach could well go the way of Applescript where they dress something that is fundamentally not natural language up as if it was, and while it initially seems neat in carefully controlled situations it only leads to problems in reality. Time will tell.

edit: just rewatched the ad, the non-screen responses are often useless e.g. Q: "Is it going to be chilly in Napa Valley this weekend" A: "doesn't seem like it", Q: "How many cups are in 12 ounces" A: "Let me think. Here you go" (displays answer as text on screen).

It's hidden by the editing but the woman who dictates her text clearly hits the "I'm going to talk my phone now" button, then says "send" instead of just hitting the send button that sits an inch higher (obviously this would actually make sense if you were using a headset to hit that button). Because of the editing I thought that the Apple way was smoother than the Android one which requires you to hit a button, then speak, but after a careful review it's clear the differences between the two systems regarding the need to consult/interact with the screen of the phone are mostly in the editing and/or the viewer's imagination.
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I should hope the service does not use the browser to configure itself. It should directly contact mozilla servers including verifying some kind of encryption signature.

So if anything it could mitigate a compromised browser by overwriting it with a good one.
I am not sure it's a hoax:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/5601333/Food-safety-backlash...

there is a petition with >6000 signed:

http://www.petitiononline.co.nz/petition/oppose-the-new-zeal...

the FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oppose-the-NZ-Food-Bill-Legisl...

(just quick google)
I remember what some italian? guy wrote in the prologue of the Spanish edition of Lem's Star Diaries: that some kind of science fiction, like what Swift or Lem wrote, is about the present, not the future, a critic of our current society, disguised as a futuristic tale.
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I wish you posted this 3 hours ago, I just spent the last 3 hours ripping markdown out of my code and replacing it with CKEditor and an HTML sanitizer because I couldn't find a good editor.
Thanks! And thank you for the pointer to the geoip options. I know I should look into astrology, but it kind of pains me. And I'll check out FB pairing as well.
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Ah, but you essentially have the 'evil maid' problem Schnier described. So I somehow gain physical access (or otherwise gain root) I then shut the server you are on down and replace the program that accepts your encryption key with my own program that saves the key for my own use. You'd see a reboot, you'd login and input your key, and I could run off with your data.

There are several other ways to do this; but really, countering the 'evil maid' attack is quite difficult.
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I'm not sure why they'd virtualize pure storage nodes. There'd be no benefit.