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This sounds like a great technique. It also gives both sides the chance to talk a problem through, bounce ideas off of one another, and see if there are any interesting insights to be had on the other side of the table.

A candidate and interviewer both have to be fairly relaxed and comfortable to do it properly, but that's more of a problem for people new to the interviewing process (probably not senior management roles)
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The cost of hiring someone who can't do this stuff makes it worth the risk of putting off someone like you. Sometimes you have to ask rather than be faithful if you haven't personally worked with the person you want to hire. A shitty programmer will kill an entire team.
But the clever thing is the work required to answer these questions is a filter in itself. Firstly it filters for the seriousness of the interviewee - have they done their (days of) preparation? And even then only a few people will have he ability to actually understand the quiz questions, and even if the answers are there in front of them.
One of my favorite interviews was like this. The interviewer started by asking me some of the basic logic problems. I had heard most of these many years before. He actually appreciated it when I stopped him mid-question and finished the question for him. He asked another one, I finished the question for him. He saw that I had a math degree and asked about a particular problem involving infinity that he had heard about, and I gave him the summary of a half-hour talk I had given on the topic. Finally he sat down and he told me about a startup he had worked on when he was young and we talked through the technical problems. He stumped me most of the time but we both agreed that it was a very enjoyable interview. Funny thing is, that was also the only interview I had ever been on where I didn't get the job. Probably because I didn't where a tie to the interview and this particular company is apparently known for requiring ties.
Never trust advice that uses the word always or never.
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It doesn't. Sprint isn't getting new spectrum. Depending on how things fare with Clearwire, it might gain some additional capacity, but it looks like Sprint is going to be mostly alone for LTE. Clearwire will help a bit, but it isn't going to be as close as it was in the past. Sprint's current plan is to build its own LTE network and give Clearwire money for the use of Clearwire's network in high-traffic areas.

It's hard to say what Sprint's "network vision" is. Sprint announced it in December 2010 as integrating their SMR, PCS and Clearwire's spectrum and services. Since then, Sprint and Clearwire have gone their own way and come back a bit, but Clearwire will be building its own network. Sprint's efficiency will increase when it gets rid of iDEN and refarms that spectrum for CDMA, but it doesn't change the MHz/million figure. In fact, it mostly means that Sprint is running a less efficient network right now than the MHz/million would suggest.

I like that Sprint has a concrete plan to roll out LTE and has raised the money to do it. However, it's going to be challenging. AT&T and Verizon have a decent head start. If you're wondering, "will Sprint be able to become big like Verizon and AT&T?" the answer is no. Sprint doesn't have the spectrum nor the capital right now.

That said, there's a lot of value in smaller carriers. Sometimes people think that "competition" is about winning. It isn't (at least in terms of economics). Having smaller carriers around can mean better pricing for customers whose usage patterns differ, a different mix of services that match different people in different ways, etc. Millions of people have chosen Sprint and T-Mobile. As long as those companies continue to make their customers happy (and can find a way to be profitable), that works. I think Sprint's future won't be as big as AT&T or Verizon's, but I think their commitment to LTE will help them continue to make their customer base happy if they're able to accomplish it in a timely manner.

EDIT: I should note that Sprint is in around the same range as AT&T and Verizon in terms of MHz/million customers. There are some economies of scale there due to how wideband channels fit into the spectrum, but Sprint isn't unduly spectrum poor. I believe they have 10MHz of PCS adjacent spectrum they aren't using right now that they're targeting for their initial LTE rollout. As customers start getting LTE equipped devices, more spectrum can be allocated to LTE use.
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It might be a long shot, but I would not be surprised if Google bought T-Mobile. Maybe that's just wishful thinking though.

I, for one, love T-Mobile and would be very very disappointed if they died. They have a 4G network that I'm making use of right now. I can use Android's built-in WiFi hotspot at no additional cost. And they are the only phone company that I know of that discounts plan prices for out-of-contract customers:

http://deals.t-mobile.com/no-contract-plan
A .NET 2.0 app compiled with VS2010 requires either SP1 or SP2 of .NET 2.0. I'm certain that this is documented somewhere, but I have no idea where.
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Some of that latter part could just be older Java code; foreach wasn't introduced until Java had been out for 8 years already (2004). I'm under 30 and some of my older Java code uses that style of loop, because it was written in 2002-03 before foreach was available.
Prototypal inheritance and class inheritance are not one and the same. How do I call super or base in JavaScript?

You know this, you had to add it to CoffeeScript. Do you not think the ability to call super functions leads to significantly different design patterns? If not, why did you add it? And why is EmcaScript.next probably going to have it?
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Ok that's true, but not how I read your post. Yes the energy is transfered at the speed of sound in the material, but I read your post as saying the velocity of the marble on the end is greater than the velocity of any other marble, including the one you push in, which is certainly not true.
Filthy-rich has different thresholds in different parts of the world. $50k may be a middle class income in Arkansas in the US, but it would be a ridiculously huge amount in small-town India.
Show HN: InaPic: Yet Another Photo App that Isn't So. Smart Photo Albums.
http://getinapic.com

What is InaPic?: Photo sharing + Image recognition.
InaPic gives you photo albums with multiple collaborators. It then automatically organizes thousands of photos contributed by tens of users. This is accomplished by state-of-the-art image recognition technology. Clutter is removed by stacking repeating pictures, and highlights are created with a single click, which can seamlessly be shared on a more open forum such as Facebook or Flickr.

I invite you to check InaPic's self-organizing photo albums on getinapic.com. Some of the features mentioned above are currently being built so this is a dry demo of how it would look like. The shown results are created completely automatically, though. I am posting it early because I want your honest feedback!

Why InaPic?: So many photos, so less time. We believe, technology should assist in organizing our photos (say, by backdrop, by people, and by place). We should be able to tag photos in a bunch (stacks created by image matching). We should be able to search them by content. Also, we do activities in groups, then why do we have lonely albums? On-the-fly group albums is the InaPic's way. Please see the about page for brief description on our beliefs: http://getinapic.com/about

But why InaPic, really?: One day we will surely have technology seamlessly organize our photo albums. Why not now? Why not by us?

Here's my story: When I left my job about an year back I knew nothing about how to do startups. Heck, I didn't even know about hacker news. Flashback to early 2010: With a PhD in image processing/information hiding, I was happily researching and hacking computer vision projects for DARPA and Navy. Then one day it struck me: What am I doing that's creating value to the world? Am I doing anything worthwhile that could justify my time, effort, and even my salary? This feeling stayed in me for good 6-9 months. (I think) I am fairly respected in academia for my research contributions (>400 citations). So I thought of moving to academia. But the urge to build something useful overpowered my fears of uncertainty, and with support from my wonderful wife, I decided to leave my job to do a startup. The goal was to build a consumer startup around computer vision and image analysis. The first thing we built was LinkaPic (http://linkapic.com) a mobile visual search engine that would be the wikipedia for the real world. After a few months of struggling to market the idea, I realized that it is too broad and too vague for greater market adoption. Then came the depression. After struggling for a couple of months almost doing nothing, came the pivot. Using the same technology, we set out to build InaPic, and here I am, posting this, exactly 300 days after I signed up for hacker news.

Lastly, are you a python/django and/or javascript hacker and love InaPic so much as to want to join me in building it? Please send me an email (address in my profile).
The US Government should buy T-Mobile and turn it into a nationwide information super freeway.
He probably asks if they are pre-loaded (so when someone first visits your webpage they don't have to wait for the django config to be parsed and it get loaded onto memory).

It's common in free versions of such services, to only load things on demand, which is a little slow --in Google App Engine you can pay to have instances pre-loaded.
The thing though is that I think the marketing launch shouldn't be done as late as possible. Rather it should be done once you have a strong understanding of what your value proposition is. This takes time and it takes listening to customers, figuring out what works for them and what doesn't.

This means yes, do the product launch as early as possible, and if you are moving into an established area, market early too, but if it is a new area, be more cautious and put off the marketing launch until you have typical customers, and know exactly what you are doing for them vis a vis the competition.
There's a line here - I think the interview should cover a lot of bases, but by no means should a hire be a concrete thing. The first two weeks should be an intensive, fully-paid interview/trial-by-fire.

I suppose, I just don't see why a shitty programmer couldn't be filtered out almost immediately through this technique. Maybe it's a company size/age difference - what size company do you have in mind?
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Personally, I always have to wonder how often someone programs a computer if they don't know the asymptotic complexity of a merge sort. It seems like something someone would either pick up at some point in their career, or be able to figure out on their own at the interview.

(Come to think of it, I never took an algorithms class in school, and I know the answer to this question.)
Not relevant to the story completely: What does it mean that Google is rolling this into Chrome? Does it mean that now Chrome will by default pop up with tons of annoying bubbles whenever I highlight text?
All of those things enumerated depend on material properties, strengths, or tolerances that cannot be achieved with 3D printed plastic. Nobody is saying "it's impossible to design X in any other way", but rather we (I work for NASA) are saying that such objects make use of materials with specific properties, materials which cannot (yet) be used in 3D printers.
To be clear, Windows 8 desktop mode will almost certainly support .NET 2.0 apps; it just won't ship with that version of the CLR.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft (and yes, I know you did too), but this claim is based on my perceptions and should not be considered a statement of fact.
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In the real world, people often have to relocate to work for your particular company. So you're out $50,000 if they don't work out in the first two weeks and you fire them. Also, people that will work for you are working for you (rather than themselves) because they value stability. You owe it to them to get it right the first time.

(Also, at big companies, people cannot be fired. If you fire someone, their manager "loses an open" and they are less likely to get promoted. Remember, you have to deal with the bad employee, not your manager.)
A little fanciful I think. The stuff about generating your own energy through captured kinetic energy is silly. My house has a 20KW feed - thats about 27 horsepower. On my bike I produce a tiny fraction of a horsepower. Its many orders of magnitude off.
I just read that as "His roommate also testified but was mostly useless." Unless this is 1995 and parents should be concerned their child is a "hacker" if they stay up late on the computer. If that's what the prosecution was getting at then Manning is truly fucked. No way he's getting a fair shake from a crowd like that.

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I think he did it and is an idiot for getting caught.
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Why not just buy bulk medical gauze and fold it up? That's got to be cheap as hell, and if it's good enough for bullet holes...
I read both as talking about numbers.

"you can get background information on almost any prospective counterparty by searching Google, Facebook etc."

Reading that quote, I don't intuit anything about trust and reputation, but simply indexing data. He also talks about key dependencies becoming widespread--broadband, digital cameras. That's discussing numbers. I'll admit I might have a problem reading between the lines, but with such a short post and no additional information, I stand by my interpretation.
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Math is non-subjective. If you like the flow, great, but that doesn't relate to the math.
Cuil immediately came to mind after reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/technology/28cool.html
I can’t speak to recent events, but a decade or so ago when I was involved in some venture-backed startups, there was a lot of pressure from our financiers to launch in the press, while we wanted to launch (and possibly fail fast) in private.

As you can imagine, sometimes the interests of the entrepreneur and the interests of the VC are not aligned. They benefitted from press about their investments, while we benefitted from organic growth. They felt that even if this cost us revenues, it would be made up for by subsequent investment rounds at high valuations driven by our press releases.

n=1 and all that, perhaps things are different today than in 2002.
This hasn't slowed down Israel much.
Indeed. It took me about 7 months from "Hey, do you want to work at Google" to getting an offer. I would expect other companies are similar.
Note that I am not particularly competent in radio, but in those particular cases, wouldn't the geography (lots of hills around SF) and the prevalence of tall buildings (in the downtown cores of both cities) be a relevant concern?
So I'm going to learn either JavaScript or CoffeeScript over January. I have some experience in VisualBasic (took a high school programming class about four years ago). Which one should I learn?
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Does it do more damage than help? I don't know... How many Apple customers even know about the patent wars? How many care? How many are extreme Apple fanboys who will argue that Apple invented everything, starting with the phone itself?

It's only people who actually care about news like that who will see this as a bad thing. The rest get a new, shiny toy every year or so and are happy...
I know its not for everyone, but a lot of our users really enjoy this functionality.

I think you made a typo there, you surely meant to write: "a lot of our advertisers enjoy this functionality".

Right?

Because, as you are most certainly aware, nobody "enjoys" these keyword/selection-popup scams.

You are free to taint your name for the sake of scamming some clicks out of the computer illiterates (those with the AOL-toolbars). But please at least spare us the hypocrisy here; it's plain old intrusive advertising of the worst kind, and you know that.
Fidesz, got 53% of the vote. This translated into 68% of the seats in the parliament under Hungary’s current disproportionate election law

in case anyone is curious, it's not actually a Hungarian thing
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Congress has also created an essentially unsolvable budget crisis, so I don't see much difference there.
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What you've all just witnessed is power talk masquerading as service talk.

What cdata has actually said is, "Sorry, you're not our customer. The websites that use us are our customers. Your feedback isn't really wanted. Fuck off."

The "fuck off" meta-message is aimed at the rest of us as much as it is aimed at jerrya. It emphasizes two things. One, cdata is going to pursue a strategy of nitpickery, mockery, and isolation to dis-empower dissatisfied victims of his company's software, under the guise of smoothing ruffled feathers. The strategy is containment, not satisfaction. Think of what satisfaction would have looked like, then compare it to cdata's post. Two, it emphasizes that we can participate in the game of isolating jerrya, and doing so will shield us from his treatment, as well as the harsh treatment of any who join in. Additionally, as soon as the first toady chimes in, the apparent perception of an emergent group dynamic aimed at belittling jerrya, bolstering the perceived value in siding with the group or staying away altogether.

Now, I am using the same tactics, I assure you. The difference is that I believe that you can see that I have a good warrant for using it, namely that it is precisely the surreptitious use of the tactic that must be discouraged.

Don't let cdata get away with it. It's not polite and it harms the process by which we can provide feedback about our distaste to people who want to wreck the Internet for personal gain.
i am setting an alert in my calender 5 years from now with the text of this article and the author's email address.
Hey, Apple et al., here's an innovative idea: let's all agree to start the next thing from the most effective version of the last thing. We might all benefit.

(I wonder how Wikipedia would be doing if we weren't allowed to modify others' entries?)
Yeah this is something you can easily get by highlighting text, right clicking and clicking search Google when you really want to know something. Any other time it's going to be more of a hinderance than a help.

Although in saying that I don't mind the ebook highlight a word and get a definition as usually with an ebook you don't want to break the flow and venture back out onto the net, whereas while browsing the net this is perfectly normal.
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God. I am getting so fed up with Google
Because they can and not enough customers will switch to competitors to make them care.
The best example of prior art that I know is Simson Garfinkel’s SBook, originally developed in 1991. Any steps required to get from Simson’s idea to Apple’s version seem (conceptually) trivial and obvious.

http://simson.net/ref/sbook5/

It’s remarkable to me how much better SBook is at dealing with info like address book entries than anything mainstream today, 20 years later.
India has a little over 1.17 billion people, so if almost all the wealth goes to the top 15%, it's mathematically possible for the bottom billion to make $1 a day.

As you say, though, it still doesn't sound legal.
Right, but that would allow you to see and (gasp!) install apps that Amazon doesn't want you to install on the Fire.
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Prior to their purchase of Motorola, and I'd have laughed at the idea. Now, it at least seems possible. Does T-Mo have any meaningful wireless patents?
1. See mdasen's comment in this thread about the LTE rollout. TMo may not be as far behind compared to others.

2. You're assuming that unlike Metro PCS, TMo has no "other benefits". Not sure if that's true. Personally, I prefer TMo because they offer decent service at a good price -- at least in my area. I also like that they're not evil -- they're not actively trying to squeeze every last penny out of customers like some of the others companies I dealt with. Certainly many other TMo customers must see some value in TMO and their offerings, otherwise they'd not be customers and TMo would not be as large as it is.

3. TMo is competition to the largest players -- in the markets where TMo operates. If I didn't have TMo available in my market I'd opt for something else -- probably Verizon. So at least as far as I am concerned, in this market TMo (small co) is competition to Verizon (large co). The fact that TMo does not compete in as many markets as some of the other guys does not mean they are less meaningful competition in the markets where they do operate.

Also, there are some contradictions in your post.. one paragraph states you don't want consolidation, but the one immediately after has you pondering how to consolidate TMo and ATT to improve ATT's service. Reading between the lines (I apologize if I'm misrepresenting your position) it seems you believe that ATT is the "worthy" competitor based on size. My opinion is that it doesn't have to be a game of giants at the expense of the small players. Small players can survive as well in niches. Metro PCS / TMo are examples.
The pro-IP argument from Apple's point of view goes something like this:

In a world where everyone just copies everyone else freely (e.g. the desktop PC world) there is/would be much less innovation.

The investments that go into many breakthrough products (iphone, ipad) are made with the understanding that IP protections are in place to prevent copycats from waltzing in and taking all the benefits later on.

Take away those protections and the initial investments aren't made in many cases and the customer sees far fewer breakthrough products.
Better 'usage' numbers (as a female):

>assuming five pads used per period

Assume 1-5 per DAY, at 3-6 days per 28 days. So, 3-30 per month, 40-400 per year per adolescent -> menopausal female.

Oh, and don't forget these are also useful for men in their old age.

I almost cried with pride reading this article. It is a massive, massive problem in the undeveloped world stopping girls and women from working and getting an education. By putting the means of production in the hands of a village collective, the results could be staggering.

See S.H.E. (Sustainable Health Enterprises) for another market-based example in this effort, based in Africa using plant matter without all this processing:
http://www.sheinnovates.com/
Can someone change this to link to the actual IBM blog entry [1] instead of the CNET fluff piece?

[1] http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/12/the-next-5-in-5-our-f...
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i didn't downvote it, but G+ works perfectly fine on my iPad. my only complaint is that no matter how many times i try to force the desktop version, it keeps going back to the mobile version.