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I'm suggesting it will impact 99% of the casual users who just want content, and will impact 0% of the dedicated users who care enough to bypass those measures.

Torrents are attractive because it's easy to download content. If you go shut down the search engines for torrents - people will move onto the next easiest option - iTunes, Amazon, etc...
If your want to insert and delete in the middle use a binary tree. Linked lists are reasonable for queues and that's about it.

PS: Slip lists are not bad though.
The definition of gaming the system is different here. These days unless you are implementing a library yourself. You are probably never ever going to even reverse a linked list ever in your life. Or deal sit down with a math text book when you code. Those days are probably gone in the 80's.

That means asking these questions is akin to you taking an approach to judge an candidate on things which have nothing to do his job. That's why so many programmers don't about all this. The reason is for 99% of the work they are likely to do they don't need to know it.

Under such circumstances when you ask these sort of questions the only way candidate can deal with them is not by actually learning how to solve them. But learn them just for the interview sake.

So you end up hiring some one on a criteria doesn't matter. And the candidate manages to beat you by system of work which defeated your original means of judging him.

I think this is what gaming the system means.
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So, what was it? I am very-very curious.
Nice tech talk about the thinking behind the new router from Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) at MagRails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbobUPqhL4
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If the Github watch count for a Node module can't help you pick, just ask the hundreds of people who are always in the IRC channel.

In the Drupal world someone who proposes a module that duplicates an existing module that does things badly can be blocked. That's a bad policy because one size fits all leads to wearing burlap sacks.

The fact that npm is not a planned economy is brilliant. If you want to add ratings, etc., npm is backed by CouchDB and thereform ridiculously each to build upon. In addition to being able to freely read npm repo info, you can also extend package.json info with your own fields. I remember when drupamodules.com came out, providing a solution for rating Drupal modules (something drupal.org still doesn't have, AFAIK). The guy who made it got grief for not making something blessed by the mothership.

As an example of how CouchDB helps make npm awesome, wanna find every field used in npm package.json files? Boom (thanks to Isaac S for this tidbit)!

http://registry.npmjs.org/-/fields?group=true
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Apparently, many are in ad sales if they're up to 2400 advertisers on a platform where you don't have to see the ads if you're on mobile.
The comments here seem to undercut Cornell's technical pedigree and completely discount the fact that this is a joint proposal with the Technion - The Israeli Institute of Technology. Today's press conference, which I watched in its entirety, specifically highlighted the entrepreneurial culture and mindset (in addition to world class science) that the Technion will bring to the table above and beyond the traditional graduate level sciences provided by Cornell.

I shouldn't really have to list the accomplishments of the Technion in this forum. Its faculty and alumni have had a hand in thousands of patents, hundreds of companies listed on American stock exchanges (not to mention Israeli or European) an outsized influence on virtually every technology we use today, have attracted R&D centers for many global technology leaders and, oh ya, a number of Nobel prizes.

This is actually a Very Big Deal (TM) for New York City, Cornell, The Technion and Israel.
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In my area it will sometimes drop to zero or negative on early summer mornings during heat waves. The peaker plants are still spun up and they need the load to burn off the excess energy.

Granted, even a little negative doesn't mean you'll make money by turning on all the lights and cranking the A/C. Distribution charges and etc usually add a few cents per kWh.
Never trust advice that contradicts itself. :)
I know much of this is the same to the average person, but is it weird that I cringe a little when I see markup and stylesheets referred to as 'code'?
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It's a fine line between blocking the twitter usage of a Somali militant and blocking the twitter usage of a peaceful American dissident.
I ♥ this throwaway line:

The end-game for Zynga’s take-over-the-world vision is the human race slaved to artificial dopamine treadmills.

Continuing that off-topic digression, I highly recommend the recent 'Black Mirror' episode (from the UK's channel 4), "15 Million Merits": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_c_Kf8NtOg&feature=resul...
> I agree with the portions of this dealing in obsolete libraries (e.g. asyncore, SimpleHTTPServer, array).

The existence of third-party libraries that are arguably more featureful does not render core libraries obsolete. Handling the 80% case easily is a virtue, not a vice.
In my project, "rake environment" took 11.5 seconds on rails 3.1.x, and 8.7 seconds on rails 3.2. (1.9.3.p0 for both).

I'm quite happy about this, as the initial development boot time is what's been bothering me most lately.
I think the point he was trying to make was. If you are productive enough and serious with a little skills you are can be hired.

The reason being you work hard your way towards success. This is far better than the person who knows merely facts.

Knowing doesn't always doing. But in most cases if you are doing something you are likely to know what it is.
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Why does everyone forget education, especially highly basic education like what psychotherapy provides?

Letting people rot in misery increases human misery because those people multiply. I agree that throwing money at the problem is not a solution. But in the West, we have hordes of people who are trained to help others help themselves. Why aren't we throwing psychologists at the poor?

Inner city American ghettos are filled with single mother families that find it psychologically and culturally impossible to make use of the educational opportunities offered to them because before a human can learn intellectually, they need to learn basic emotional skills. They need to learn basic character and coping skills, which is what psychologists teach to those individuals whose parents failed to teach them.

Intervention in poverty should be tasked to the psychologists primarily. Educators make no inroads. Entrepreneurs rarely do either. You rightly pinpoint the issue as defeatism and other psychological disorders -- we have hordes of people who know how to fix this. Let's use them.
The overall motivations of the company are irrelevant, what matters for antitrust concerns is marketshare plus using that marketshare as leverage to own other markets.

Apple gets away with things like the 30% content tax on their devices because they don't have the sort of marketshare Microsoft enjoyed. In a world sans-Android and with the iPhone on all the major carriers, that would soon change.

And sorry, I don't believe WebOS or WP7 would factor into the conversation even if Android died (and I say this as a WP7 fan). WebOS in particular is all but dead at this point.
I know that when explaining what interfaces are, I just call them static duck-typing, and then go on from there.
Why would you ask questions to a candidate which have nothing to do with his job?

Will you ask a marathon runner to prove his worth by asking him how quickly he can sprint?
Would that be considered top 5% already? I thought it's pretty obvious. Honest question.
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Drown yourself in code (writing and reading) and make things. Even if they are simple, or insecure, or very, very inefficient. Just make them. That experience alone will help you get better.

To more specifically answer your question - find something that's bothering you, and make a web-app that tries to fix it.
To re-emphasize this point, there is no "choice" involved. You cannot understand Coffeescript without understanding Javascript... it almost looks like you can at first, but at soon as you start debugging you're back in "what is this prototype thing?"

On the other hand, after you work with Javascript for a little while you quickly start wishing for something like Coffeescript. It's a very natural transition, but you can't short-circuit the process.
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Just out of curiosity - what are your beefs with (Chrome) Web Inspector? I think it's fantastic, but am interested in hearing your opinion(s).
I'm not sure how you get that from this case. Apple isn't offering to license the patents to HTC (even though HTC has made it clear they'd love to do that). Instead, Apple is trying to get HTC's products banned from the US market.
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JS disabled by default - seriously? So many apps nowadays rely on it and are JS-driven. I can't imagine how that would be a better experience, regardless of what you think of the language.

Can you please elaborate more on that one in particular and why you'd want it?
Would the optimal solution be O(n*log(m)), where n is the number of IP addresses in list one and m is the number of IP addresses in list 2?
Thanks for the interesting detailed information about EEG resolution, which I can attest is in accordance with what I have read about neuroelectrical interaction in other contexts.

But what is to me implausible about thinking "phone Mom" and having my computer do it for me is that this scenario envisions an unusually high degree of usability that no consumer-facing software writers have ever achieved. Right now, on a BRAND NEW computer system using mostly application programs recommended by Hacker News readers (for example, I am using Chrome to Web browse), I can't count on my computer doing what I want even if I have my hands on the keyboard or a hand on my mouse. User-interface design appears to be HARD--or at least, it is rarely done right--so I am very doubtful that in five years or even twenty-five years I'll be able to use a computer that really does what I think.
lars's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371968) is right on target. I recently finished my PhD in biomedical engineering, and the hot field that everyone wants to go into is what we're calling BMI - Brain-Machine Interfaces. The trick is, there are very few types of signals than can be reliably determined from these brain-signal reading devices.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of tasks that can be easily accomplished; anything involving moving limbs, or simple, low degree of freedom tasks (like moving a computer cursor). After months and months of training, a person can be trained to manipulate numerous degrees with pretty good reliability (i.e., move a robotic arm, AND control the mechanical pincer at the end), but this type of work doesn't generalize to other types of thought. We're nowhere near being able to extract sentences or words or being able to determine what complex scene is being viewed simply using brain activity patterns.
HA. Error correcting codes? You realize that means the person thinking in bits would have to do that themselves. A 7-bit parity would be harder to do than just dialing the damn thing. Even then all it'd be able to do is tell you that you messed up. Something that actually makes corrections on the fly (Hamming). No way. I couldn't do it and I know how Hamming works. I really doubt a consumer could do it or would want to.
We see ~20% improvement with the same upgrade (on 1.9.3p0).

8.5s to 6.6s on my laptop (with SSD). Nice!
yes, I distinctly remember being quite amazed at SBook, when I used it on a NeXT machine in 1995. A year before this patent.
Going to a great school (like Berkeley) will immediately help, in terms of connections and job offers. Depending on your attitude and mindset, that may be it, or it may propel you to further things in life.

If you can afford Berkeley, I'd absolutely take advantage of it.
It really depends.

First of all, what type of money do you have? There are some excellent companies that can connect you to the right people for market research discussions.

Secondly, you should NOT walk in expecting to speak to the manager. As you stated, you already have connections in the industry, ask them to connect you to other restaurant owners.

Another solution, depending on the type of questions you would like to ask, would be to pose as a student and get an informational interview that way.

Alternatively, you can call them and tell them you are thinking of entering this industry with an idea you have but don't know how the industry functions/etc. and see if they are willing to open up and educate you.

You can find restaurant owners and bar owners on Twitter/LinkedIn as well if location is irrelevant to you. Try to get a variety of types of restaurants to get a better understanding of the different conditions at play that affect decision-making.

Will see if I can come up with any other ideas or leads.
> (even those who left) must still have company stock.

The ones who are no longer there should prepare for punitive dilution.
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Is it possible that this is just set as the default activity for the android market intent? Ie, what happens if you clear the default intent handler from the settings menu? I suppose that may not even be possible, depending upon how much customization that they've done.

Honestly, though, I don't think there is anything particularly nefarious going on here. I think they are just trying to make the experience more seamless, since I'm sure many users would be confused by hitting the Android market site and then being unable to use it from an "Android" device.
Also, try to make it as informational as possible. As conversation progresses, you can introduce your idea and get a feel for their response to it.
Hi HN, I'm Paul Hontz (the guy who wrote the article that was linked to) and I'd like to correct some core things that Kapil got wrong.

Kapil's first mistake is that he misses the context of my post and insinuates that I'm always for releasing numbers. That is not the case. The post he linked to was titled "Make your Startup ridiculously easy to write about. Put Together a Great Press Pack". The meat of the article was saying "Sharing numbers with journalists can be a very good way to demonstrate traction and get them interested in you".

It doesn't matter if you have an amazing idea (or product) if no one uses it.

The numbers game works indirectly as well. If I haven't heard of a startup before, but I know a lot of people use it, I'm more inclined to reach out with an interview request.

All that said, with the limited time I've spent with Kapil (in an interview), I believe he's a good guy, he just missed the mark on this post.
acting like a butthurt child. I have a Fire.. not a fanbou by any stretch.. its a fun device because of my use cases.
I was thinking the same thing. If someone wanted to learn to "code" in a day, they'd be better off learning an easy general-use programming language like Python. While HTML/CSS will have a more familiar result, starting a non-nerd off on Python might be more illuminating and demonstrate how to think like a programmer.
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and Zeno can handle the rest.
What about the "runway" question?

It's the same thing: I want a sense of the risk I'm taking, but without signalling (incorrectly IMO) that I'm just such a mercenary.
There needs to be a fix for this attack. I suggest inserting spaces in very long sequences of non-space characters.
Well, from this post you don't seem to love OPower. My personal thought is that if you join a startup or a small company, you should really love it.

To me Microsoft seems like the clear bet. Higher pay, and smarter people. Spend your first 2-3 years gathering industry knowledge, learning from the smart people, and building yourself a nice nest egg. If you end up enjoying it, you can climb the corporate ladder. If not, you should find it much easier to interview for a new startup with Microsoft on your resume as it holds more street cred. It is also easier to return to corporate (in the event your startup fails) with prior corporate experience.

The only danger of going corporate first is that you get too comfortable and don't want to leave your paycheck. You get used to having money unlike in college when you had none. If you make $100K/yr at corporate and need to downgrade to $70K for a startup, you really feel the bump. Just be ready for that.

I speak from experience. I graduated, took the corporate job and saved up a ton of money over 2.5 years and I never regret my decision. I saved up, built some corporate connections, and recently quit. In fact, people expected me to quit (I was always hacking on side projects and keeping my knowledge up to date), and they said to me "Good luck. If things don't work out look us back up.", no bridge burned.

EDIT: I just realized a con was "hard time socially connecting at Microsoft". This is actually a red flag in my book. Can you elaborate? Why would they offer you a job if you didn't get along socially?
Which one should I learn? Scala or Clojure
In the long run, probably I will learn both. But which will give better ROI?
Some parameters are:

> ease of learning
> tools available
> ease of integration with Java
> libraries available
Has anyone ever had to reverse a linked list in "the real world" (tm)? Is that a singly-linked or double-linked? Can I use Google, which is what any sane developer would do in "the real world". I don't remember squat about data structs 301. So what. What does the typical developer do daily? I would be much more interested in how they approach bugs. What approaches do they use? Any tools they carry on a flash drive? What drives them crazy? What do they love? What are they learning?
Good write up. I had a distantly similar problem last year. Needed a poor man's transactional email and newsletter blaster. I wanted to leverage my ruby app code and make calls to a mail delivery engine. Problem is, things fail, and you don't want to send the same email under the same conditions twice. I ended up with a brute force failsafe by logging a "signature" of each message send to a mongodb collection and do a look up as a safety check prior to each send (or batch). Its not efficient, but works and when my mailer fails, which it does often, I simply restart it and don't worry about ticking off my user base. I end up with a rather large mongodb collection, but every few months, I prune it by removing log items that I know won't happen again.
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It's probably not Rails itself...

I had a similar issue, which turned out to be a bad Rails plugin, which maintained a few unnecessary pointers to my model classes. The small plugin caused a 20+MB per request leak in development. I rewrote the piece of functionality I needed from the offending module & the issue went away entirely.

Sadly, there isn't really decent memory profiler support to help you track it down. I found the issue by running `git bisect run` with a little script which restarted the server, beat on it a bit with `ab` and then printed memory usage with `ps`. Took me about 10 minutes to track it down to the exact offending commit.
it wasn't a point, just an insight on this particular method, which probably most US-based HN users aren't familiar with. Hungary is an extreme case, but it affects all elections using this system, giving dominant parties a disproportional advantage and skewing the raw poll result.
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Go OO is like Java only they took stuff away. They took away class extension and they took away the requirement that you declare interface implentations. So if you have all of the functions required for an interface then you implement the interface, no need to be more complicated.

So it's hard to see why people from an OO background (assuming an OO background like Java or c++) would have a problem with it. It's like that only simpler.
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Your comment got down voted because your tone was arrogant & you didn't actually add anything to the discussion.

Here is an example (my own) of how to make a comment about business minutia on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2863071

Don't write like you are some sort of genius because you know more about accounting/finance/ops/whatever than people on a forum which is predominantly engineers. ("No, no, no, no.")
Contemptible. This emphasis on "culture" is fatuous horse excrement. Whenever you hear that word, reach for your resume. It means that a cohort of smug self-satisfied untalented didactic mansplainers is about to institute a policy of competent mediocrity. I used to think that anyone who presumed that the rest of the world was as intellectually limited as themselves was merely mistaken. I was wrong: if they have any power at all, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy as they kick anyone with ability out. The new twitter is a dreary testament to the deceased neurons of the new management. Color me unemployable for saying so.