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Even more so, I would not even interview Jason for our company after seeing this. It isn't like anything was said that is negative... it is just that the hiring process (or anything HR-related) is private. Posting it online shows a lack of professionalism that would make me go to other candidates.
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It kind of goes to show that without knowing what to do, people just tend to do what they know -- even in drastically different circumstances. These forms are really intended for moving out of one country into another semantically.

These guys were clearly not even close to doing that, yet to ensure some kind of paperwork was processed this is what they ended up with.
It was supposed to be a joke!
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Enlarge the data bus and...are we finally finding a way out of the von Neuman architecture?
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Imagine when drones the size of dragonflies carry needles containing poison to assassination targets. Today's drones are very crude in comparison.

Once it becomes plausible that any squirrel, mouse, dragon fly, etc. could be an assassination weapon, it will become necessary for heads of state to travel surrounded by swarms of friendly robots, in all sorts of form factors.
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Think of it from the company's point of view. NDAs are actually there for a reason.

(Also, internships are hardly gifts. Making them work takes a lot of effort (and costs) from the company too)
Great, now we are linking to reddit's share bar pages or whatever.
Interesting interviews from Google, Facebook, Microsoft gets reviewed and talked about frequently by my friends and colleagues. I did not know that interview process should remain confidential.
This is a repost. I once respected Kawasaki, however he has turned into a huge social media spammer and baiter.
The video has a lot of good stuff in addition to the lessons he learned - http://video.svb.com/video/12-Lessons-Steve-Jobs-Taught-Gu#c...
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War is becoming much safer. The world is too. Fascinating article on it here. http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker
However I'd love to see any evidence showing drones keep deaths down in war. Maybe in the future, but right now they make life very unsafe in places like Pakistan, which given it's allied to America is bizarre.
Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to Boltcode.
there is a specific way the card numbers are issued by companies and that you could tell by the number which company issued it.

Here is a good resource for that info: http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm
> What they're doing is implementing approximations

The definition of CSS-px (for low-res devices, which includes all the mobile stuff so far; high-res in this context is print) is:

it is recommended that the pixel unit refer to the whole
number of device pixels that best approximates the
reference pixel

and the reference pixel is defined as:

the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel
density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an
arm's length.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#length-units

So the whole point is to approximate the reference pixel by doubling your device pixels (or tripling, or whatever).

I think you may be thinking of a different definition of CSS pixel that used to exist a number of years ago (when "px" and reference pixels were the same thing). That definition is no longer in the spec, and hasn't been in a while. And that's precisely because of the antialiasing issues you mention.
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I am a musician but I can see how this is useful given much practice and a creative, well practiced ear. One can, and people have, make music out of much less inspiring media. I agree that the piano and sine sounds utilized leave much to be desired. I can, rather, see this driving well crafted, masses of sound that can be later arranged by in logic or protools. You don't have to sound like a machine ( though you are certainly free to, and there is nothing wrong with it.) It might require hacking, but that is usually required for anything new, music included.
> Which would you rather be: Apple or Xerox PARC?

wow. i would much rather 'be' xerox parc. i think that they brought infinitely more value to the human race and probably had a lot more fun doing it. the author is nuts.
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I usually find a lot of fluff in Guy Kawasaki's rhetoric, but a lot of this content was actually meaningful. For once I think Guy's not so concerned of his reputation as an iconoclast or coming up with an ostensibly unconventional opinion that this comes off as somewhat genuine.
So does this mean the Chrome P2P protocols are now available to extension authors (and documented?)
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Ableton Live with the Session view is how I make my music. In fact, here's a stupid rough video of how I do my stuff.

http://www.bphogan.com/files/videos/livesession.mov
Companies are kind of weird about what's public and what's private.

In this case, the worry is that candidates will see common interview questions in advance. It's an open secret that most interviewers at most companies reuse interview questions to a ridiculous degree.

The right answer is to fix that, probably. Glassdoor is going to change this over time whether we like it or not. But the traditional answer is "crack down on people talking about it."
Additionally, the conductor frequently asks individual members of the orchestra to stand -- section leaders, anyone who had a solo, etc. -- or asks sections to stand together if they had a particularly prominent role.
Drive down University Ave in Palo Alto starting from 101 and going all the way in to Palm Drive of Stanford Campus. It's an exciting view. Going all the way back, you will actually hit 1600 Amphitheater Parkway.
If you have more time, take a peek into the streets crossing University Ave. But I also agree with byoung that Castro is a pretty cool spot.
That's a very high-integrity way to handle this problem. Well done.

If LinkedIn responds poorly after you did this, write about that :-)
Do you honestly think that the interview processes of tech companies are so secret that posting about them online means instant disqualification from consideration?

I mean, we already know about how Zuckerberg takes prospects on an enchanting walk through the forest. There was nothing negative or damning in Jason's report. Chill out.
How does this work? I tried drag and dropping my markdown file to the page and instead I got prompted to save the file locally.

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> He basically wants people to reject most modern software/technology/services

No. If he wants anything from the average person, instead of for them, it's that they pay attention to the value of their freedom (to keep using your software when the key server goes offline, for instance) now instead of later when it's too late.

> Most of the stuff he writes leaves me with a more negative view of free software.

Of course. You resent what you see as his spiritual purity in rejecting Trojan horse DRMed products that lock you in because you know you aren't capable of going without something you want now for greater gain in the future.

You realize that going with the locked-down answer is as smart as selling your house for the short-term gain, but unlike Stallman, are unable to control your urges. Thus you hate him, and those who can.

Now, we both could be reading more into it than there is, but this is how your over-the-top hatred of a free software programmer comes across.

> This is probably true but when they become an embarrassment and a liability it's better to distance yourself from them as much as possible.

I'm sure you don't put 1/100th of the effort into actually attacking real evil people as you do in knocking down the other teams' supposedly sacred cows.

Or are you on the streets/otherwise fighting for freedom in Bahrain, Egypt, etc, freeing Bradley Manning, stopping censorship, women/children/men/the elderly's rights and all the other good fights, and this is just what's left for Stallman?

How is it that someone on such a high horse lacks perspective?
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I liked the non-HDR parts of that video much more.

I hate that HDR look in photos. The effect looks interesting in the video, it makes it look like a computer rendering. Still gimmicky though.
And no less scary, 15-40% of the time a civilian is hit instead of the correct target. http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker
And given the dubious right of the CIA to hit there intended target in the first place, the acceptance of UAV strikes is disturbing to me.
> After a brief greeting, the interviewer asked me what is the most interesting product that's out there right now on web. I made my first mistake here and answered, Facebook. I had prepared for interviewing about LinkedIn product and set myself up to be interviewed about Facebook for next 40 minutes.

That wasn't a mistake. The answer you think you should have given, "LinkedIn", would have been a mistake. That's probably the answer everybody else gave, and tells the interviewer "I'm here to say whatever I think will make you like me most, so let's start out with the improbable claim that your company is the most interesting thing on the web".
I'm glad this has created a bit of discussion surrounding the possibility of using G+ as a primary blogging platform. I put together minimali.se over a couple of nights just as a concept, but many people seem quite drawn to the idea.

Personally I don't believe by itself Google+ offers enough to totally forfeit your current blog, but what it does do it does well. An implementation like this allows you to have the best of both worlds. I'm hoping in time the API will allow writes (in the form of comments at least) to make it possible to comment from external sources (like a blog), yet keep the actual engagement in one place.
We didn't have it covered in our CS program. We were taught the concept (keeping track of pointers to allocated memory, etc), but not the implementation part. Garbage collectors are pretty damn complex.
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I dont think Steve Jobs has ever claimed he/Apple “invented” the PC, Smartphone, AppStore, iTunes, iPad , etc. Steve Jobs was not an inventor. He “popularized” the technology to the masses — and thats what causes the technology to make an impact. If Xerox invented the GUI, but they sold a couple of computers using it, which flopped, and also had on some terminals for controlling their printers, thats it. The technology was going in waste. Steve recognized the technology had potential to be used for personal computers for everybody, developed the technology a lot, and marketed a computer that a lot of people bought or atleast was noticed enough for the mass-marketer Windows to copy it and spread it further. I think Steve played a very very key role here in popularizing the GUI and developing the GUI. The PC’s that were sold were better because of it.
Similar in the iPhone — I have never used the Dagger or whatever it was — but most people I know havent heard of it, or used it. It would have remained a model, which a few people used — what impact would have. It is the typically fallacy of scientists that they recognize “invention” as being the most valuable activity — but they forget that unless the invention is used by the masses, it could be limited to none or very little impact on the world. I dont know how the UI of the hiptop was — but the iPhone was the first smartphone to be really easy-to-use and powerful in surfing the internet, and brought in popular use of multi-touch touchscreens (they were not invented in the iPhone, but were hardly in use before it). It also brought a popular App Store to the market. Thats where in lies the contribution of the iPhone. Thats why all the smartphones borrowed a lot of ideas from the iphone over the next years — including your favorite android — (please dont deny, ask Andy Rubin) — and all the smartphones that are available in the market are better off because of it. Also it popularized smartphone and made it accessible to the masses — earlier smartphones were so clumsy to use, they were used only by a few. Today they are popular with everybody, and have apps that can do powerful stuff — which wouldnt have been there without the iphone. Taking a single minded view that just because Apple controls the app store (but keeps safari uncontrolled), it is bad is almost childish in my opinion. Most people who use the phone dont want the fear of downloading apps from an app store like the Android market where nobody has checked the app out before you, and has routinely malicious software.
Claiming that Steve Jobs made locked-in products, so he did more harm than good — is craziness. I have lost all faith in your judgement reading this article. He did not hypnotize anybody. He marketed the products. If people who bought it first wouldnt have liked it, it would have never become popular. But the fact is, they liked it. Millions of people liked the iphone. And thats why Android is also as good as it is today…. iPhone made the average smartphone available in the market “Smart”, and hundreds of millions of smartphone users today are better off because of it.
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1000 years? That is a timeframe long enough to virtually guarantee the occurrence of the Singularity, so I would have to say Vinge/Kurzweil/Eliezer/Goertzel/De Garis, or whomever switches on the first self-modifying artificial general intelligence.
Darkness is good... If someone was ransacking your apartment/work they'd need light. In places you wouldn't, like the server closets.

A timeout would be good - like the backup drive won't appear until the lights have been off for six hours. Name the server 'mouse' or something appropriately timid.
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I'm not really sure but they idea was to try to turn back the clock a bit. I'm guessing it includes the upvoter account's age.
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This is actually in the 2012 winter application form* - http://news.ycombinator.com/w2012form

Using a < silently truncates the remainder your text from the input field.

* But I couldn't find a better place to report this error.
This technology would also work great for nature movies and nature flight trips. Imagine you could rent rent an UAV , travel in Africa , from your home or a place with a giant screen , follow the great elephants crossing a river as if you were there.
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The original was right, but I think it was dong. Steve said "I want to put a dong in the universe."
I didn't say it was a necessary condition for usability. I said that Jobs positives greatly outweighed his negatives and that it is ridiculous to claim that it's a good thing that he's no longer influencing technology.
I'll let you in on a little secret: Heads of states are generally not assassination targets by other country states.

Why? If you were a country, would you like to deal with a decentralized/unofficial government that has no control over its citizens?
probably because a significant number of users still use the products that come default with windows.
> Assign copyright to the FSF which requires contacting all authors including those who are MIA.

What for? GDC is distributed under the GPL. Isn't it kind of the whole point of the GPL, that this kind of thing can be done without having to ask for special permission?
Especially if when mounted this way it kept much of the regular data and the true-crypt partition (appearing as random noise) was 1-in-4 interleaved throughout making it look like a uninteresting read error on a bank of chips.
There's a delay column in Renoise that make triplets trivial.

The Lua API and users writing scripts, such as this "Fractional Notes Generator" makes it even more trivial:

http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?/topic/28248-allow-fl...

I thought this was hacker news were people actually knew how to code? Musically educated in what? Last time I checked we're not troubadours performing occitan lyric poetry in the high middle ages.

Trackers aren't for everyone, some things are clearly not reasonable to do in them (recording a live band comes to mind), but the "musical education" and "crutch" comment is without foundation.
Other than making baseless accusations without a shred of evidence I don't see any point in your post.

Windows 7 install (recently) from disk is dead simple, please give an example of something you could destroy through fat-fingering. Anti-virus is pointless for most users who don't pirate software and who use a modern browser (along with some common sense... Like say, not installing viruses). Kiss it all goodbye is ridiculous, when was the last time you heard of a virus doing anything other than installing spyware or a botnet?

Most people pay your so-called tax because there is no viable alternative, these aren't the kind of people who will buy the parts and put it together themselves.

Finally, I found ubuntu to be more difficult to install than windows. Think "proprietary" drivers... And there are a bunch of fat fingering opportunities in the ncurses version of the install.
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I have been recently porting to Python (with NumPy) some badly written C++ code. I was really shocked that the performance drops nearly 100 times (because of many nested loops).

NumPy working on PyPy would probably get me really near original performance. And it's not the advanced features I hope for -- ndarray and basic linalg operations is all I need to do my thesis.

Anyway guys, great job so far, looking forward to the future.
I disagree. I had no interest reading other tech news that day and actually found such stories strangely out of place, like they were pre-scheduled and an editor forgot to pull them.
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The best solution, of course, is to develop this "sound recognition skill". While the amount of work it takes get there is significant, the benefits far exceed the mere ability to transcribe what is in your head. Most people think that the ability is magic, so that whe you develop this ability, people will think you are some kind of musical genius. It is similar to how the computer illiterate respond to programmers.

I use pen and paper. Anything else is an (understanably neccesary) shortcut. I feel for the trees, but I havent found an iPad app that allows you to simply write on a representation of staff paper yet.
RMS has never tried to stop anyone from being a more charming and eloquent and popular advocate for free software. No one has volunteered; everyone has chosen to let him lead.
Troubling to whom? You have to read the article to find out:

this is a new phenomenon, at least at these multimillion-dollar levels. And it's a very troubling one in the eyes of some investors.

Not troubling in general, nor even to investors in general. Just troubling to some investors. What's bad about the balance of power shifting toward founders when it was so unbalanced the other way for so long? Let's remember where the pendulum is swinging in from: a few months ago there was a video of Silicon Valley in the 70s with stories of entrepreneurs giving up 98% of their companies in order to raise any money at all. The real story here is the long-term trend.

Is there evidence to support the claim that these deals diminish companies' long-term prospects? There isn't any in the article.

Goldhaber said it sends a signal that entrepreneurs don't believe in the long-term prospects, and makes VCs question whether they should.

Obviously not the VCs who just signed the deal. Seems like markets behaving like markets to me.
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You could use a keyboard as a data-storage device. Simply cat stdin into a file. That file would be a two-way communication program using the Caps Lock and other status lights for the reverse link. At that point it's as good as a drive, but slower.
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Hah. I got this and just assumed it was crap.
There're arguably several more charming, eloquent, and popular advocates for free software, notably people like Linus Torvalds, Chris DiBona, Brad Fitzpatrick, etc.
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Are the digits of pi easier or harder to generate than other irrational numbers?

The best known algorithms for computing Pi takes O(M(n) log n) time, where M(n) is the time required for an n-digit multiplication (approximately O(n log n) using an FFT).

This makes Pi harder than algebraic numbers -- all algebraics can be computed in O(M(n)) time -- and no easier than any other elementary function -- all elementary functions can be computed in O(M(n) log n) time.

There are a few numbers for which the current best known algorithm is slower than Pi, but the only interesting one is Euler's gamma, at O(M(n) (log n)^2).
I don't see this as troubling at all - actually, the opposite.

In the 90's, people cashed out by taking their companies public. Now, for a variety of reasons including the new burden of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, founders are waiting much longer to go public. So they are cashing out by selling some of their founder shares to private investors.

This is in the interests of the investors because it aligns their interests with those of the founders. Say you started a company, it's kicking ass, and you face a choice. Plan A is a $100MM acquisition offer. But there's also Plan B, an ambitious expansion. Plan B gives you a 50% chance of $1B in two years, and a 50% chance of failure. If you had no assets before you started the company, the only sane thing to do is to sell out. (Not that I am suggesting that sanity should always rule the day.) But your investors probably prefer plan B. If they let you cash out $5MM or $10MM of your stock, then they make your risk tolerance more like theirs, and you can both get excited about Plan B -- which, assuming your startup is actually producing something of value, is better for the world, too.

And it's probably also better for the investing public that tech startups don't make it to IPO until they are a bit more fully baked.
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I was skeptical.

Customers don't know what they need? You can't go wrong with big fonts and big graphics? Experts don't know what they are talking about?

These lessons may work sometimes, but to generalize them across all people, companies and scenarios can lead to major mistakes.
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