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> there is no real excuse for having an interview so generic that someone can game it in this manner unless you're so large that you can afford the odd charlatan.

I'm also part of a small start-up (as an employee), and I can certainly vouch for that. I for one put a very high emphasis on the personal/professional projects the guy/dudette in front of me has been involved in, on how best s/he can explain them to me, on how passionate the person seems when explaining all this (and no, I'm not talking about the enthusiastic approach that can be easily faked, I just think that when you're a programmer you can feel what the other programmer in front of you is very interested in).

Also, this mania a lot of interviewers have with the interviewees "always ticking the right boxes and giving the correct answers" sort of scares me. It's probably because I work in a start-up, but I can assure everyone that at least half of the time we ourselves don't know the answers (assuming that we even know the correct questions), and there are lots of times when we seem to be knowing in what direction we're going but truly speaking we don't.
If you weren't right, then the whole point of industrialization, division of labour etc, would be all wrong isnt it?

The advantage here is they will be able to sell napkins to a community at a MUCH lower price and still make a profit using these small machines than the industrial ones.
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I was surprised to see "copy" there. I'd agree that deepcopy (and its friends like pickle) could be tagged with a big "use with care" sign, but especially when one can implement __copy__ to control exactly how shallow copies are made, I don't think it's a problem at all.
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Do it. I'm not joking. I'll even help find UK and European counterparts and chip in with the marketing effort.
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So, i just graduated in computer science and I am trying to decide what to do next as far as school. I could probably get into the doctoral program for either Computer science or Information systems. I'm not sure I am ready to pursue a doctoral yet though, but I really want to work towards a Masters in the near future if anything.

My question is what kind of jobs are related to each degree? I really don't know which way I want to go yet. If you have a Masters or doctoral in either, please say which and what you currently do and what you have done in your career. Also, what you consider to be pros and cons in your career or just pros if you really enjoy it.

Thanks!
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Yes it's more like a collection of anecdotes that have almost no bearing on the title.
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I do not think that an unpredictable loose cannon could be referred to as a "puppet state", no. Although China has been (and still is) North Korea's largest source of aid, China has also been distancing themselves from North Korea over the past decade.

China is a very different, and very complicated situation, but they are currently enjoying more political influence than at any time in recent history, and as they are poised to become a dominant world power, North Korea is a liability that they may well decide that they cannot afford.

I would also point out that our respective notions of "live on" must be a bit different; assuming that the data I've read can be trusted, North Korea has almost no paved roads at all [1], which means that the movement of supplies throughout the country is badly hindered. Given the well-known height differences between North Koreans and their South Korean neighbors, the gulags and other oppressions mentioned in this article and others, the threats which North Korea uses to squeeze aid in the form of energy and other supplies from other nations, their nearly complete lack of electrical lighting after dark, and what's known of their trade with China, I find it difficult to see North Korea as being on anything more than the barest of life support from China.

[1]: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/north-korea/roads-paved-perc..., among others.
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Speed up gameplay with UI improvements, etc, so that players can compete in more simultaneous (staggered) competitions, increasing their chance of a good score.

Do you have a tunable AI to test players against, for making sure they get into the right skill-group? If people are in a good group they'll enjoy a loss more than if they're totally outmatched but somehow forced to play it out. The game takes so long it'd be discouraging to try to learn it while losing badly. Maybe let people drop out at any point (to join a game starting today), and be replaced by a bot of their skill? This could also handle no-shows.
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Really great question, Daniel. I can see where it might often be the case that someone 50+ might not know people able to devote startup-level time to a new project. I've done solo deals from time to time, but having great partners is infinitely more fun, and that's what I'm doing again this time. In my case it wasn't hard. I tend to hang out with people similarly energized by startups, and did a decent job staying in touch after my last company. My last company had a good outcome (IPO) so I'm fortunate to have a fair rolodex of people I've worked with who wouldn't mind doing so again, some of whom are my age, and some are quite a bit younger.
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IMHO you are conflating subtyping and subclassing.

The fact that something is a list carries an implicit knowledge that you can iterate it, even if the concepts of List and Iterable are just interfaces.
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This is one of those quintessential moments where someone can act like Eliza and force the questioner to question themselves:

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* Which app has the highest score, or the most inviting review?

* Which app do you think is cheap enough?

* Or, which app do you think is expensive enough to guarantee quality?

* Which app do you prefer the look of?
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If you found this at all interesting, I would highly recommend watching the Vice Guide to North Korea - http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-n...
Also, if the "basic tenets of existence" (whatever you consider those to be) can be torn down by looking at them critically, shouldn't they be? (Perhaps.)

Should we look at Cthulhu just because we can? :p
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It's interesting info. I don't think you're going to find anyone who is able to speak with the full story. Given how locked down that country is, and how many smart people were murdered for no reason.
That's cute, but let's leave it out of HN.
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While I was working on a science project during my high school days, my dad once said to me "son, your teacher doesn’t care how much you know about the science behind the project until she knows how much you care about the project".
> In a world where everyone just copies everyone else freely (e.g. the desktop PC world) there is/would be much less innovation.

For a counterpoint, see e.g. Johanna Blakley's excellent TED talk on how the copyright-free fashion industry thrives despite rampant legal counterfeiting:

http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...
BTW: Thanks for the pointer. That book looks very interesting.

I'm actually not so happy about posting that link. For me, it states things that I had already mostly figured out on my own previously. For others, it might zap a lot of Sanity Points.

I would say Ligotti is a very unique writer, in that he's deeply immersed in existentialist philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, AND lovecraftian horror. It makes for a very... disturbing cocktail.

Of course, everyone on HN is seemingly a Nietzschean overman who can take these kinds of things in stride. Me, not so much :p
Indeed, it is not clear if that is just for the machine which produces the napkins or for the entire production line.

Also to take in consideration is

- warehouse area to store raw materials
- some kind of financial system to manage purchase orders / sales orders

21,000 napkins / hour. Let's assume there's 10 in a box, 8 boxes to a case and 30 cases in a pallet.

So that's 2400 napkins / pallet = ~ 9 pallets per hour. You're also going to need labelling, conveyors, people to pack the boxes, people to pack the cases, people to stack the pallets and then a few fork lifts to move the pallets plus of course engineering staff to maintain all this.

So it's not really small machine v big machine, it's small machine v production line which adds a lot of complexity.
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slashdot faced this exact problem back in the day, and iirc inserting spaces was what they settled on.
Yes another piece of evidence to backup my nascent opinion that there is very little to admire in Steve Jobs.
Yes, of course. Because in all of my comments, I was advocating the MPAA/RIAA position. </sarcasm>
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> Of course, another way to do it is to simply reject the input. That's the way Slashdot does it.

huh. i'm pretty sure i remembered slashdot inserting spaces to break up pagewidening text, but it's been a good many years so i could be wrong.
Very interesting. This is potentially one of the most disruptive moves I've seen come out of a university in a long time.

The size of impact that this has on higher education is fully dependent upon how successful their credentialing scheme is implemented and executed. Very curious to see how this unfolds.
Cigarette smoking is in decline because science has demonstrated that cigarettes are decidedly harmful to one's health (though still legal). As far as smoking, piracy is more akin to using marijuana, an illegal activity that is on the rise despite the government's multibillion dollar crusade to make everyone JUST SAY NO. The fact is, similar to piracy, people don't feel bad about smoking pot because nobody is actually harmed in the process. So what happens when the government criminalizes harmless behavior that people enjoy? Many citizens go to jail, and the black market for illegal goods continues to boom. The status of pot in America (ubiquity) is the result of a failed attempt to regulate a risky tangible contraband that has to be carefully cultivated for months in the real world. Now imagine pot with 50x the demand, infinite supply, negligible distribution overhead and you've got yourself a completely ridiculous regulatory agenda.

All the threats you describe come from those who would seek to reverse progress so that they can delay adapting to a world with a computer in every pocket. The culture that needs to change is the one that purports we outlaw the transmission of certain binary sequences because someone else sequenced them "first" (although I'm permitted to transmit an arbitrary sequence of copyrighted bits as long as my work is considered derivative).
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Anyone done any comparisons between this and the official (MRI/KRI/YARV) 1.9.2 or 1.9.3?
I would totally hire people who could prove the knowledge and dedication necessary for the work at hand, wherever they come from and whether or not they could afford to go to a big-name University from the 1st world or not.

This free education trend is a game changer for kids in formerly "safe" rich countries, and I see it as unstoppable.
There is a problem with even thinking about revolting in NK. If you show any signs of revolting, your entire family including your cousins will be sent to the gulaag and killed(Bad blood). If it is your life you can give it to save the country; but you will think twice if your parents, wife and children are going to be killed.
Sadly, I have been saying the same thing that there will be a big shortage of Pis since I first heard about Pi and visited their forums this summer.

So far nothing has changed. Delayed production, initial production run of 10k. It is being run as a hobbyist project(I am judging mostly from the Pi forums). Hobbyist project is not a bad thing, just not what the market is asking of this device.

At the moment, it seems like one mid-level guy at Broadcom, got some company support and got volunteers to help out.

Only saving grace would be, if someone higher up in Broadcom gets behind the project. The problem is that Broadcom does not want to really make these devices, it wants to sell its chips to manufacturers (who are unlikely to see much profit in making $25 devices when they can sell $100 devices)

Think Asus EEE line and how it trended upwards pricewise and netbooks in general..

All that said, the future is a bit rosier. Once the initial fixed R&D costs are amortized, we will see plenty of inexpensive devices like this in the next 2-3 years.
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I'm an iPad 2 user, and can't stand using my Amazon Fire. If one owns and uses both, the Fire's shortcomings are glaring.

That said, if someone says they want a tablet just for watching Netflix and reading Kindle books, and doesn't want to spend over $200 and will never do anything else it, the Fire is the one to get.

People with very limited goals and who don't know better, love it. I recommend it.

(If they want to do anything else, but are price conscious, I recommend the 1st gen iPad WiFi refurb.)
The Kindle Fire does have a terrible home screen, but my understanding is that it is patently illegal to use a grid or any non-cluttered design.
You made me laugh, indeed!

Yet, a Technion's alumnus is more likely to win a Nobel Prizes than praying in a Brooklyn's synagogue.
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Ahh, but thats the fun part. They ALL seem to be inferior to the website itself. I wonder if I should just do that instead.
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"you can control the cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about where you want to move it."

Imagine writing code by thinking only?
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Watched it yesterday. Incredibly strange and unreal to think such a fabricated society is possible in these times.
watched this a few times - very interesting yet also disturbing at times. Hats off to vice, I find most of their guides really interesting
I obviously have, but I have a lot of respect for the MRI folks and usually don't publish those results. You're free to try it out yourself. In general, JRuby should be significantly faster than MRI 1.9.2 or 1.9.3 for running Ruby code, and usually faster inside the core classes (String, Array, etc). If it's not, I consider it a bug, and encourage bug reports to that effect.
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When I first started to use JS, I loved it. Having recently done some hardcore development in it, I realized everything I loved about it was the freedom it gave you ... which is what I loved about Perl.

Then the reality of: weird type coercians; the cesspit that is npm; weird OO (rich from a Perl programmer, I know); no Moose (although I hear Joose is coming along); no DBIx::Class; wtf is up with the scoping; etc etc etc... became too much.

I use JS now if I need to write a client-side app. For any other purpose ... why bother?
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At my talk at the Italian RubyDay on continuous integration I received huge critiques for endorsing a Java solution for ruby CI. My point was that Jenkins was far more complete ( at the time of the presentation) of any full ruby stack CI product. This news is a fine Christmas present. This tells me that people clever than me share some of my views
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Ok, this might be true, and logical. But then, it still applies in the same sense to civil engineers, mechanical engineers, and all engineers in general, not only programmers. But still, only programmers are flagged with "asocial" flags.
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Nuclear weapons barely change the equation. The best estimate is that North Korea could begin firing around 10,000 artillery shells per minute into densely populated suburbs areas around Seoul on a moment's notice. Even if through some masterful and historic level of effort we managed to shut down those artillery bombardments or evacuate the targeted areas in a mere half an hour that still leaves hundreds of thousands of civilians dead and huge numbers of homes and businesses destroyed. It would be a destruction on the scale of a natural disaster such as the earthquake off Japan earlier this year. Add in the very real possibility of North Korean nuclear weapons landing on Seoul, Tokyo, Taiwan or maybe even the US mainland and that starts focusing your thinking about how worthwhile it would have to be to depose the North Korean regime.
Can you explain how you get from an alleged action of an individual to "their culture is incredibly broken"?
what a beautiful snippet thank you for sharing ! from the interview :

'people think of education as something that they can finish'

'like prison, the reward of school is getting out'...
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First off, I applaud the author, and all previous comments for what has been a constructive and meaningful debate.

However, there is an issue which I believe is being overlooked here, and that is that the internet is an INTERNATIONAL resource. Content on the internet comes from all corners or the globe, and overseas the issue that most people have with SOPA is that it allows the US government to play enforcer on a global platform!

When one considers international law, whether material infringes on copyright becomes much less clear. The definition of 'fair use' is really only codified in the American legal system, with infringements determined on a case by case basis in most EU countries. What about content created internationally? In the current US system certain protections kick in to any created work, meaning that a work distributed freely overseas may become infringing if distributed in the US. Should content be censored in this case? This is without even considering the myriad of different cultural issues which come into play. Should Lese-Majesty cases be considered here? Should libel and slander be considered here?

To allow the body to be internationally representative, then it must be powerless, as no system could possibly encapsulate the laws of all sovereign nations. If it is to be effective, it must choose the laws of one nation over another, in this case, probably the US.

I end with this final plea, to both the implementers of the SOPA legislation, and to the author: If you must implement legislation like this, keep it TO YOURSELVES. The US does not represent all countries using the internet, and certainly does not represent the laws of all countries on the internet.
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Agreed; my response reads a bit dismissive, but I did enjoy the article. I would still love to read more about the process of a (presumably innocent) person becoming a dictator. Were they molded, and if so by what forces? How much of it was a natural process like what happened to the guards in the Stanford Prison Experiment?
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I don't understand why all this urge in the "west" to change the north korea ? Not only that you believe all the western propaganda against NK but you have no doubts that you definitely know whats better and best for NK. Yes, you have no doubts that the west should rob them like they did with Irak and "set them free" and give them the shitty innefective democracy which strangely works only to make the western rich richer and the rest rich enough to not die.Why doesn't the west mind his damn business ? Why this arrogance that you know what others had to do ? If the US/Europe is a paradise, why are the poverty/corruption/unhappiness levels so high ? Why are u still in denial about what's really going on home but u have no doubts about whats really going on in NK and China ? This is some incomplete and not structured rant but still i make a case that the west and it's cool kids are arrogant, doubtless and biased like hell and work involuntarily to fulfill their invisible master's plan (again and forever ?).
I just update to java7 in ubuntu 11.04 then using

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there is an error: no alternatives for -javaplugin.so
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It is not possible to change North Korea in the short term. Like any communist society, everybody has learned to live according to the rules. It takes generations to change that, and even then it is difficult.

The learnt that the state provides everything, that they are nothing without the state. People over 20 years old are not going to learn ever to live by their own means. They need communism.
Your updated Java 7 is probably a 64-bit version. There's currently no Java applet browser plugin for 64-bit (and I'm not sure if there's plans to create one). If you don't mind missing out on Java applets, you'll be fine.
try:

$ update-java-alternatives --jre-headless

or

$ update-java-alternatives --jre

this will not update the plugin-alternative which is not available (yet), see headius' comment

=> https://gist.github.com/1501186

(UPD: sorry, the following only applies to the standard OpenJDK7 on Ubuntu, not the u2 release )

also on i386 and armel see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/850...

workaround (change armel/arm to i386 if that's your arch):

$ cd /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-armel/jre/lib/arm/

$ sudo ln -s jamvm/libjvm.so .
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You've left out energy costs to transport raw material to central huge factory, and product from that central huge factory.