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Read up on what this guy says, and just follow his advice. He talks the talk and walks the walk: alljapaneseallthetime.com ..this guy basically became fluent in Japanese in 1.5 years w/o living in Japan, and by fluent, I meant real fluent.

Basically:
1) Spend first 1-3 months just listening, pure input. Don't even try to talk. You'll just stress out. Listening will help you pick up the nuances of the language as well as the flow. You'll also learn idioms, and normal responses to questions. You can even pick an accent you like and use it afterwards.

2) Following #1, get yourself a bunch of audio CDs, movies, music of the foreign language, and just listen to it whenever you're free. And it doesn't matter if you don't comprehend it (although this shouldn't be the bulk of your listening). Again, get a sense of the flow of words. The rhythm.. the silence, etc. It's like listening to a song over and over, and being able to hum the tune afterwards.

Even when you're in the bathroom taking a dump. Even when you're sleeping if you want to. Just try and make sure you're listening to that language as much as possible.

3) Don't kick yourself for learning it so slow. And forget about the notion that adults learn slower than kids... remember, babies have 4-5 years of listening experience before they're ever expected to say something half-way sophisticated. 4-5 years! That's a lot! Babies suck at learning languages!!
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This is not sync. If u are looking for p2p sync tonidosync is probably the best one out there. Tonidosync is cross platform and it has mobile apps for all the leading mobile platforms.
... it happens just a moment after the singularity
So you took ifa.com and made it open to low end retail investors exchanging etfs for dfa funds. I had this idea a few years ago... then I read the Black Swan and realized I didn't want to be responsible for possibly ruining people's lives. Hopefully no "1 in 10,000" year type events happen on your watch.
And here's the reason why people who say economics isn't science are (mostly) wrong: economics is (mostly) applied statistics.

Yes, interpretation of the statistics isn't "just science", but when is it ever?
I'm guessing it would be on par with the money they'd lose being offline for even a day.
Thanks for the steawman. I was explicitly referring to a mentality, not to github itself. I use github. I don't share that mentality. It's not github's fault that some users treat them as an oracle, but it does happen. I have on multiple occasions heard people say that they won't hire people unless they can check out their work on github - github specifically, and no qualification or allowance for exceptions. Every time, the speaker was exactly the kind of hipster idiot that I just described. I suppose that could just be a coincidence, or it could be that people who follow one stupid trend often follow others as well. In any case, that one stupid trend is sufficisnt to make working with them unappealing, and since there are plenty of sensible employers out there it's unnecessary as well.
> Requiring machine-to-machine communication to do heavy parsing is a bad idea.

Why? Machine-to-machine communication is for machines, after all, isn't it?

What you call "heavy parsing" is heavy parsing for humans. It's actually easier for machines, because they simply reference (and verify) an offset.

Are you advocating designing a protocol primarily around how easy it is to interactively troubleshoot? Certainly that has value, but on the modern Internet, is it really the dominating concern?
I recently read Kahneman's 2011 book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" -- it should probably be required reading for everybody who's in charge of making decisions that affect a lot of people.
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It's not really an "incredible sounding statement", it's just logic. What makes a program more bug prone is the amount of logic there is in it. If it takes you 1000 lines of code in language X and it takes you 500 lines of code in language Y to write the exact same thing, you still have the same amount of logic in both language. The only difference will be the density of the code. Changing the density of the code doesn't change the fact that it will have the same amount of potential bug in it.
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To be clear, we're talking about an unsecured loan against the corporation. That is, it is clear from the beginning that if the corporation goes bankrupt, they will not be seeing their money again.

Of course, a bank would not be interested in this; only an investor with a willingness to take a risk and some confidence in the endeavor. That is who we are talking about. I'm asking about what %annual interest is typical for an unsecured loan from such a seed investor.

We're not talking about stock because we don't have current plans to sell or go public, so stock wouldn't make sense from an investment perspective. I'm sure there have been other start ups who have been in a similar place; I'm wondering how they set it up.
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I mean we all work hard to get in touch with great people when you start a project but sometimes you simply have to throw something out there to cast a wider net.
It's true that creators won't stop creating.

What's not true is that we'll continue to get the exact same kinds of things created. (Some of you may think that's a good thing.)

Take a feature film, for example. A film costs around $100 million to make, and $20 million to market.

Without copyright, that film can be easily copied by Illegitimate Theater Chain and then shown without paying the creator. Does anyone here think that $100 million films will continue to be made and marketed under such a system?

I don't.

Maybe, as a society, we shouldn't care about $100 million dollar feature films and maybe no one will be upset that they're no longer made in exchange for having no copyright laws.

One thing is clear though: copyright is the legal mechanism that allows $100 million feature films to be made today, and without it, they won't be.
Humble Bundle (YC W11) uses GAE as well and is definitely a profitable business, although it runs on a much smaller scale than the big AWS applications.

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-app-engine-s...
The engineer/lawyer problem explanation

(spoilers)

is only correct in a world where lawyers and engineers have all the same characteristics. That the sampled individual is a man will skew things all by itself.

Of the lawyers, approximately 40% will be women, whereas only 11% of the engineers. So our samplee could be one of 27 engineers or 42 lawyers - we've already bumped Peng from .3 to .39! That he likes math puzzles easily takes Peng to over .4, meaning the answer can't be A).
I have had an acer d150 netbook for over a year now. I initially picked it because the keyboard was the best one I could find on a netbook. It has been awesome, and I won't go back to a laptop ever again. I run ubuntu 10.04, and everything worked out of the box. I actually use gnome2, so not that lightweight, but with a single panel and the docbarX app, it's still very nice. Even after a year of heavy use I am still getting 5+ hours of battery from the 6 cell battery.

The screen is just a tad small at 10.1" but the battery life on the slightly bigger, more powerful 11"+ screen netbook/ultrabook is significantly less than what I am able to get.

When I replace this netbook later in the year I will be trying to stay with the acer brand. I will probably move to a 9 cell battery and an ssd to extend the battery to 8+ hours...

Acer seems to consistently have the biggest keyboards in the netbook class. As a fellow vim user I know just how important the keyboard is to the usability, and I think that really should be one of the main factors you use in choosing your netbook. I went to the store and tried out various netbook keyboards to see which was best. I have coded 4+ hours on this netbook with no issues on many occasions.
I've been using it on my computers as well as with a friend for at least a few months now — it works pretty well. And it uses disk space only to store your own files plus those that others share with you, the same as Dropbox.
Banjo only has 500K users[1].

Urban Dictionary is bigger (30MM page views/month[2]), but Pulse is an order of magnitude bigger ("100Ms of requests per day" [3]). Pulse ships on a lot of Android devices by default now.

[1] http://ban.jo/blog/banjo-hits-500k-users-in-under-six-months

[2] http://success.heroku.com/urbandictionary

[3] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/11/scaling-with-kin...
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How it is same as dropbox?
I'm afraid I don't quite understand the point of the second question. Does the answer mean to state authoritatively that that engineers are no more likely to do carpentry and partake in recreational mathematics than lawyers, or is there another explanation?

If it were changed to something like

"2. A team of psychologists performed personality tests on
100 professionals, of which 50 were engineers and 50 were
nurses. Brief descriptions were written for each
subject. The following is a sample of one of the
resulting descriptions:"

"'Jack is a 45-year old man.'"

and if we were to assume that 80% of engineers are men, and that 80% of nurses are women, we'd expect 80% of the men to be engineers (and so expect Jack to be an engineer with 80% probability). Maybe?

Question 4 - the theatre ticket - could be worded more clearly. I thought "as you enter the theatre" meant "as you enter the big room with the stage and lots of chairs". Who would buy a ticket after entering that room, no matter what the circumstance?
If you don't weed out your counter-productive citizens you end up with Digg. If you do, if you keep it tight, you might be lucky enough to have a metafilter.com which after a decade is still an amazing place.

Strangely, Something Awful is actually a great model for a community. A great case-study in how to keep a community from imploding.
There are many types of art that was created in large quantities for fun or sale to the common man like beautifully painted furniture, tree carving, jewelry, painted rooms and paintings etc. I think it's a false dichotomy to classify art based on who funded it.
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Nice to see an argument in such a civilized manner.
That's hilarious. You guys (assuming you're arguing the lesswrong perspective) are an intellectual house of cards, you know. Eliezer can't even keep his house in order.
All the people talking about whether HBO wants to "piss off the cable companies": you do know that HBO is owned by Time Warner, a cable company, right?
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I had almost exactly that happen to me as a college student. It was the worst interview experience I've ever had.

I set up an in-person interview for a java developer position over e-mail. It was rescheduled a few times and I was given the address at last minute. It's the middle of summer, I'm in a suit (as is customary for interviewing on much of the east coast), with no car in a big city -- I had to leave pretty early to take a subway and walk to the place.

When I got there, the manager I was supposed to interview wasn't there. What was there was three guys in a cramped two-room space mostly filled with cardboard boxes, some of them open revealing electronics of some sort and RC cars. Their product was apparently some kind of software for radio controllers sold to the government or something like that, I never got the details. One of those guys pointed me to their 'other office' where I'd likely find the manager. That meant I was now late, through no fault of my own, but running several blocks through the city getting sweaty and flustered.

I was told the office is in the basement at this address... it's a huge old building and the basement looks like a warehouse with some rooms around the periphery. None of it looks like office space, just metal stairways and dim lighting. I eventually do find a door with the company's name on it and knock and inside is a man, in a single chair, behind a single metal desk, with a folder on it. Nothing else in the room -- this is no office. This man is in fact the manager I was meant to interview with, who offers no explanation for why he wasn't at their actual office that I was first sent to... and explains away the current decor as new space in the process of being set up.

I don't even remember the details of the interview at this point. If I wasn't a fresh young student I would've bailed before even getting to that point, but I did at least make the decision that there was no chance at all I'd be working for these people before I left.

I didn't hear back from them either.
RSS/Atom feeds. There's a few folks I'd like to read updates from, but right now G+ is too 1998 for that.
Or the even-less-computationally-intensive algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_triangle#Calculating_an...
There's mod-spdy for Apache, and that's the future of SPDY adoption.
Nice! You'd probably like my series of posts (named similarly): http://poincare101.blogspot.com/2012/01/hi-hopefully-you-rea...
No pricing is a huge red flag for photo printing sites. It usually means it costs something ridiculous compared to regular printing sites and even expensive ones like MPix.

Your site took FOREVER to load, and then started blasting colorful backgrounds, making the text in front unreadable.
I totally agree the copyright system is unhelpful to society, but i think it's fair to say that copying wasn't exactly practical in the 1500's.

Personally I broadly approve of the 5 year term proposed by the pirate party.. it would still allow business to invest and get a return, but also allow information to be freely and openly shared with society within a reasonable time frame.
I think the question is whether there's any way to do this without moderation, because moderation doesn't scale. (Community-based moderation might work, if you could trust the average user to moderate right. Now you have two problems.)
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I'm new to HN but have a lot of experience writing and editing for non-technical audiences. It's a short piece, so if you're still looking for readability feedback we can google doc it, I can give it a blow-by-blow, and you're welcome to take whatever's helpful. Best.
Well, I could care less about "racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, ableism" etc showing up on some comments.

It's funny that the societies that really seem hangup about those, are the very societies that perpetuated them in actual life. You know, Uncle Tom's cabin, Turing's treatment, etc.

It's like how you can't publish Main Kampf or sell nazi paraphernalia in Germany. (Wow, nice of you, hypocrites, but how about NOT invading other countries and killing millions of people, several of those in camps IN THE FIRST PLACE --and then we don't care what you publish or sell).

It's also a little idiotic how and where those terms are applied. "Transhophobia", really? Because it's a mans/womans right to change sex AND not be mocked about it, right?

Now, as a progressive, young, geek person, you are probably inclined to say "hell, yeah".

But, wait, rights are not given by "god" or "nature".

Rights are given to individuals by their society, and if the society finds a "trans" person funny or weird, so be it (or try to change it socially).

Why should a society follow a philosophy of "let anyone do whatever he likes as long as it doesn't hurt someone else" and not a philosophy of "we want people in our society to be so and so and hold such and such values"?

Just because some people thing the first is better?

Well, even if it was, it's not about a society living with the better rules, it's about living with rules that society WANTS.

Is there a deeper philosophical / scientific basis for the first?
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You're all wrong.

Firstly, for the crowd arguing about whether this is a good/bad/ugly question, your initial premise is wrong, because you pre-suppose that there are any good programming questions to ask in an interview. Since waffling about this sort of crap is entirely orthogonal to actual coding skill, there are no good questions, they are all bad. It's like trying to find the fastest marathon runner before the race by interviewing everyone and deciding who will win based on who gives the 'best' answer.

Secondly, for the crowd debating the algorithms and offering better programming methods, or smug in your assurance of quadratic/linear/O(n) time or whatever, you're all wrong because your initial premise is wrong. You assume this is a programming problem, but programming is the wrong tool for the job. A much better general purpose tool for 'solving' this problem (but not even necessarily the 'best' tool) would be a spreadsheet for instance. Using a spreadsheet you could have finished (including testing - e.g. eyeballing the result for correctness) before the 'optimisers' have even finished typing in their code. In terms of effectiveness, you silly coders might as well be using pea-shooters in an ICBM competition.
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If the content is being streamed from within their network then I don't think it should cost me part of my BW cap, it is almost free to deliver at that point.

I think the same is true for Akaimai and other CDN's that host servers with ISP's to provide local caches to content. This would certainly also mean that bandwidth caps become more generous because so much of the content that most people are using is on CDN's.
replacing open subscription channels with in-site ones is more like too 2011 for that.
Two-time pad was considerably harder, I think, than average. What about the ASCII maze one? I always thought that one was pretty accessible.
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the article is about proxying SPDY, actually, like opera turbo does for http. in fact, using opera turbo gives a similar performance (except opera also compresses stuff, and the proxy is at opera, not at the isp, which adds some latency)

Note also that newest pre-versions of Firefox have SPDY (need to enable via about:config)
It's testing how well you can deal with problems that don't fit on a single node -- most problems at Google don't. And if you can't do complexity analysis, you can't scale to very large datasets -- which Google has lots of.
The "well-defined purpose" is actually:

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"

And the only reason nothing entered the public domain is that due to a copyright extension, there's a gap during which time nothing will enter the public domain. I don't like continual copyright extensions anymore than you do, but the mere fact of a single copyright extension doesn't illustrate that copyright isn't serving it's intended purpose.
Awesome story.

Who was the employer?
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Yeah, I'm serious. I'd rather own Facebook than the servers it operates on.
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The image he linked said he was forced to shut down his site, so I'm not sure that he cares that there is an error.
I've had the same process happen to me. After the third time this happened to me I had enough and I simply started realising that these companies didn't value me enough that I shouldn't waste my time with them. The phone interview times being off were the biggest issue. I don't want to play games, either you are serious about wanting to hire me or you are not.
Despite the article's imputation that heuristics is a quick vs. accurate trade off, Gerd Gigerenzer's work show that in fact it is usually "quick AND more accurate" when used in the real, "large", world versus the "small" world of games and logical puzzles where all of the rules are known and knowledge of the problem is perfect, with infinite time allowed for optimization and calculation. The video here is well worth watching to counter-balance Kahneman's focus on edge cases where heuristic's break down or the wrong heuristic was applied.

http://videolectures.net/ijcai2011_gigerenzer_heuristicus/
Alas, digital fountains are tied up in patents, and people have been leery:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/itw2004.pd...
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Maybe this just means I'm a bad programmer, but I tend to think that problems like "Pascal's Triangle" don't represent what we work on day-to-day.

You are right! In fact I seriously doubt any serious software project that is solving business problems ever works on these sort of problems.

These problems are basically more of testing mathematical knowledge through programming.

They may make a great interview to hire professors but not programmers.
I don't think that anyone is arguing that they should not be able to code a simple algorithm. What the original article and other respectable individuals in the industry have been arguing for, is the best way to deduce ones ability to code a simple algorithm. Some people are just so uncomfortable and out of there element coding in an interview situation, that the assumption that it is a negative filter does not hold true. May good candidates get missed over this assumption. What many hiring managers like those at 37 Signal and pen.io have found out, is you can actually identify more quality individuals while deducing the same abilities without placing people in that unnatural coding environment. They are writing about it, because they have seen evidence that it is an unnecessary filter. It is not that one does not need to deduce whether the applicant can code but rather they believe they have found a better, simpler way to deduce it. Their observations coincide with what I have seen in the industry, so I am an advocate for such practices.
The only working mirror I could find:

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Right. The granularity to be expected with an S3 object (~= "a file") is much higher than with a database index of tree nodes of a few kilobytes each. And of course EBS is subject to caching on the host. Rolling the index into a transaction can eliminate almost all the duplicate I/O to the tree nodes.
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To the point:

- try checking what a webapp does. TRIVIAL. We're talking minutes.

- try checking what a binary app on your computer does. one with DRMs or advanced "anti crack" stuff for example. FREAKING HARD. Even if you're a wizard, it still takes a few hours. For mortals, we're talking weeks. Weeks!

And that my friend, is why what you wrote is wrong.