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I've been saying this for years!

It should be called "James Cameron Goes to the Moon."

The movie is about James Cameron trying to go to the moon, but he is constantly sabotaged by the bad guy from Aliens. Ultimately, he succeeds and gets to the Moon. The last 30 minutes are just sweet, sweet HD shots of the moon, directed by James Cameron.
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For many people, an honest answer to this question has to include partner/family considerations, which aren't at all appropriate for an interviewer to be asking about.

I'd only ever ask this question by first making clear that I only want to know what you're looking for in a workplace or career goals.

If I got asked this, I'd tell them that the things on the top of my list aren't things I'm willing to discuss with them, at least until I've established a friendship with them , and then tell them what I'm looking for in a workplace, team, and product.
For one, it's something the government uses for its own crypto.

Unlike some crypto standards, PBKDF2 is just something too simple and too user-configurable to be able to hide a meaningful hole in. Given that PBKDF1 was found to be less-than-ideal and depracated in favor of the better PBKDF2, it would be a very risky proposition to attempt to weaken it in a way that gave a meaningful advantage to one party over the other.
Quick, patent this!
Since I ask this all the time, I can vouch that it rarely results in the candidate criticizing their previous employer (unless the previous employer did something truly egregious).
We would not reject a group for that. It's inevitable that it will happen. (http://ycombinator.com/faq.html)
how much it would cost them to run investments?

We know how much it costs them to collect money and do correspondence (aka mail stuff). While the SS administration is legally prohibited from running investments you can look at other government agency's that do so and it's significantly lower overhead than even cheap index funds. As to the actual costs of buying and selling stocks you can do that with moderately complex software buying 1000x as much stock is not a hard problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading

If those expensive ones: There is a lot of research that shows high fee mutual funds simply have a lower returns. but for a quick summary: http://bonds.about.com/od/bondfunds/a/Why-Invest-In-The-Lowe... Buffet in support of index funds: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2007-05-07/finance/30714109_...

putative differences in income inequality Taxing wealth and not the income that wealth generates is not inherently punitive. What it does is eat's away at fortunes that stick with ultra safe investments in favor of the risk takers. Because I don't think income / wealth inequality is inherently bad, what's dangerous is type of back room deals /networks that favor 'old' money.

In the end I don't think there is much you can do to prevent insider deals, but you can put a damper on what it means for your great, great, grand father to have built a modest fortune that was managed reasonably well after that.

PS: I have plenty of rich relatives, heck my grandmother went to Harvard and one of my closet friends growing up came from 'old' money with multi million dollar trust funds so I may be a little to close to be objective on this one. But, on net I don't have a lot of good things to say about what happens when your parents inherit wealth and you can look forward to more of the same.
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It's down to the weather.

But this is not a bug, but a feature.

Team an Idea Man from the Valley up with an Ops guy from the Midwest and you'll have excellent software on infrastructure that won't melt.

And you'll always have good backups.
You actually can't downvote submissions at all. Your only option is to flag it.
That's your discretion but for the sake of argument, what's the value in keeping that information private?

If both the candidate and the employer are honest in communicating their priorities in regard to what they hope to get out of the relationship it allows both parties to better understand each other. Additionally, assuming they are sufficiently aligned, such discussion allows both parties to focus on things that matter to everybody involved and not waste time quibbling over things nobody cares about.
It's fundamentally a live recommendation system, and those votes make it work better than anything else (see Digg). I click on a subreddit and I get recommendations for related pages.
TPB could easily encourage its users to use a truly decentralised model. Given that TPB is effectively simply serving small magnet links of a few bytes in length, this would actually be extremely easy.

But of course then they would have made themselves irrelevant.
That is the whole point. He was not attempting to be intellectually honest. There is no room for intellect in the theater. If you walk into Les Mis and use your intellect, the second you see that turntable in a prison camp you're going to yell, 'thats bulls*' and storm out.

I should have said if you don't go hear someone tell a story because of their past storytelling, you're being petty.
PBKDF2 is a fairly "obvious" construction (it's mostly just repeated HMAC'ing); it would be really hard to hide anything clever in it.
they wanted 4 years. But being as I'm not drawing a salary, I refused it and it was changed to 12 months.
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No problem. I think you probably know this stuff better than I do. In practice, I think PBKDF2 really means "PBKDF2/SHA2", and that in 5 years attacker tools will be most efficient for PBKDF2/SHA2, less efficient for bcrypt, least efficient for scrypt, and won't address PBKDF2/AES-256-CBCMAC at all because nobody will know how to code it.
Interesting but I had a few issues (in Firefox). Using the default text resulted in an image with no text and trying to go back and use a different text caused the Continue button to lock.
How much do we (US centric, sorry) spend on NASA or other space programs though?

I believe it is around 0.5% to 1% of the current budget. That means 1/2 to 1 penny of every federal tax dollar is being spend on pushing the boundaries of science in regards to space exploration, object tracking/detection, research, capturing the hearts and minds of current and future generations in regards to exciting science, and all the other research and development that goes into making the other things possible. How much is the defense budget? somewhere around 20% I believe.
I remember some X11 window manager that used BeOS like tabs doing something similar (either one of the twm hacks/successors, or a wm that allowed you to merge tabs)…
If an interviewer asked me this then sat back grinning all over themselves like they'd just knocked it out of the park with this ingenious keyhole to my soul, it'd definitely make my decisions on whether or not I wanted to work there easier. Still lol'ing at using the word "imagine" to knock someone off script.
I'm not drawing a salary. When we're profitable we'll either set up salaries or start drawing splits.
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There are lots of startups in Texas-- in Austin, in Houston, in Dallas. You're mistaken. And yes, we do have people fold up shop and move to other startups.

Sorry Kansas (your corner of it anyway) ain't workin' out for you.
VC. Or, lack thereof. What VC there is goes into older, more established companies and founders.

There isn't a lack of talent. Far from it, in my experience. (Actually, I think Minneapolis and Chicago would be great places to start a startup, on account of talent and COL. If the three worst things about a place are December, January, and February, you live in a great location.) Nor is there a mentality problem among the people who would be founders. It's a funding and access problem.

It's not just Chicago, of course. This funding problem is the reality pretty much everywhere and for everyone except extremely well-connected, upper-middle-class kids in California.

If I had the money, though, I'd drop a wad of cash on a Midwestern city like Madison or Minneapolis and try to build a Silicon Valley there-- not that there's anything wrong with the existing one, but just because I don't think it's healthy to have most of our innovation in one or two locations, and a place with low COL and high QOL might be a great place to start trying to do something new and different.
I completely support enforced style -- it's part of what I love about Python and F#'s light mode -- but it has to be the right style.

I strongly believe that code should look like a screenplay, not a novel. More white space, in other words, is rarely a bad thing. Inline braces decrease white space and make unfamiliar code harder to scan, so to me they're Not Good.

Also wow, I didn't know it was even possible to write Python without spaces. Are we talking no spaces in arguments, like

def func(arg1,arg2):
print "Indented"
return

or full-on no spaces?

def func(arg1,arg2):
print "Not indented"
return

I thought the latter was prohibited.
Totally agreed, that's why ActiveState's Stackato (which also supports Java) has a free micro cloud. The Micro Cloud is a stand-alone instance of the Stackato system running in a single VM. This lets you push your apps to an environment that is functionally identical to a full PaaS cluster. ActiveState Stackato gives you 3 ways to test your application (1) on a Stackato Micro Cloud, (2) with an Amazon EC2 AMI or (3) on their Private Stackato Sandbox Service. check it out at http://activestate.com/cloud
That is really smart. Though I don't think anyone is going to implement it (except maybe gnome) because the world of UI is shifting to mobile, even if the "desktop" computer will stay with us for many years to come. Had you thought of this 10 years ago ;)
Wow, this is fantastic news!

One of the fantastic things about grapheme is that it is so easy to work with and abundant material.

This simple method of reduction means you could create a machine for making long sheets of grapheme just with an uniform focusing laser bar, this means mass scales and super cheap. Very exciting!!
Competition is a great thing. :)
Spent a couple of embarrassing seconds clicking on the text on one of the sample windows until I noticed that I had to push the "Next" button to get to that stage…
C doesn't even define them, other setting a minimum. There have been C implementations where char was 64 bits.

As far as the documentation for the C langauge where they speculate that it's not defined, just given a minimum bound: here you go: Their implementation-deﬁned values shall be equal or greater in magnitude (absolute value) to those shown, with the same sign (C99 spec, section 5.2.4.2.1)

It also allows sign-magnitude integers (complement 1) in addition to complement 2 (C99 spec, section 6.2.6.2)

It also doesn't define the number of bits in a byte (C99 spec, section 3.6 p2)
It's insulting to be lumped into a stereotype, so it's hard for me to not get defensive. Chicago is one of the greatest cities on the planet. The population is very diverse. It's why I moved here in the first place and why I just bought a house here. So it's pretty strange for me to hear someone say we're all "midwestern". But we're used to name calling in the Windy City, so I'll let it go.

Bottom line the startup ecosystem in Chicago doesn't have it's fair share of Webvans for one simple reason: people go where the money is and the money is in Silicon Valley. It's an accident of history that all the money is in Silicon Valley. "Midwestern culture" has nothing to do with it.

Or maybe everyone is starting up in Silicon Valley because of the weather, I think PG mentioned this once. Well to that I say it's 70 degrees and sunny in Chicago as I type this...in the middle of March. Maybe global warming will mean we get a few pets.com here in the midwest.
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This would be awesome though on Windows (don't have much experience programming Mac UI, so maybe there too) it would break programs that make assumptions about how the non-client area of a window operates.

Quite a few programs do custom rendering up there in a way that would make it difficult to retrofit this in a universally compatible way. These programs would at a minimum need to get events to know that the various elements have moved which would require code changes in the programs to listen for and react to those events. Given how much Microsoft bends over backwards to maintain Win32 compatibility (less than in the past, but still far more than average), I doubt they'd put something like this in unless it was a wholesale interface change (similar to Metro... which avoids this issue altogether by just not having title bars).
Cryptographic hash functions, by contrast, are not well understood at all. They are "magic" in many ways, and aren't modeled after anything. Many more "bad things" happen in this space than in the block cipher space.

Is this a common opinion amongst practitioners? The opposite philosophy (e.g., that a random oracle is a "weaker object" than an ideal cipher) underlies some lines of work in the theoretical cryptography literature.
What's unethical about giving a hypothetical answer to a hypothetical question?
Thanks for the feedback. What version of Firefox were you using? It sounds like your browser was still trying to load the fonts.
That's right, but often the goal is to look for a right job, not for any job. In that case, sincere answer to the question could help forsee any number of problems (like culture/values mismatch etc.), which benefits both candidate and recruiter.
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Wow, just wow. That is all I could think while watching that. Neil deGrasse Tyson is such a great orator. It wouldn't surprise me if he becomes President some day.
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That actually sounds pretty great. The Silicon Valley Mentality is what it is because it advantages the venture capitalists and the small number of companies who "made it." I think for a lot of the rank and file, not to mention the 90% of entrepreneurs who don't make it, it is a net loss.
I've never heard anyone refer to Texas as the Midwest.

And Kansas is working out for me just fine wise-ass...
If everybody is honest about their priorities, does the question need to be asked at all? Why wouldn't the interviewer, or even the job ad/posting/req/etc. itself, list them?
I would rather have the button block simply jump to the other side of the window (instead of being pushed there by the window edge). IMO your version is just too fancy for the routine day-to-day use.
My answer would be: that's not how I would choose as it would box me into only using a limited number of parameters. Each offer must be viewed and compared as a whole, where multiple smaller benefits may outweigh a larger one so cannot be eliminated from the comparison.
You might find it more comfortable if you set your push.default to "nothing", which will stop git from pushing anything if no refspec is given.
I'm not sure why people are so offended by this question. While I've never asked this question as the interviewer, I've been asked similar questions whilst interviewing and felt they always lead down a path that was helpful to both sides.

If the things I care about in a job don't jive with the things your company cares about, why would I even want an offer from you? In my specific case, when interviewing in the past, things I've cared strongly about are things like test-driven development, a culture that values code quality as well as shipping products, and having a meaningful stake in the success of the company. If you aren't going to provide these things, or they don't matter to you, I sure as fuck don't want to work for you. If people are strictly upset about the word 'imagine', then that's one thing. Thinking this question is 'overly revealing' or something seems bizarre to me. Don't you want to work somewhere where the things you care about are valued?
If your problems are trivial enough that they reduce to folds, sure, these concerns go away; but AccumulatedSumWithNextItem would be a terrible name in any case, because it only describes the type, not its intent.

For example, List<Customer> describes both the type and its semantic content. List<Tuple<string,DateTime,int>> just describes a type; it's a lot less self-documenting, and code using it will be cryptic. In a dynamic language it will probably be customer_list or somesuch. Point being, "customer" is a name and it crops up somewhere, whether it's in the variable or the type.
If you were going to make a software, where you can see places though a webcam, would you call it Windows, even if it's a fitting name?

Tesseract goes by the name Tesseract, tesseract-ocr is just the name of the Google code project.
Exactly, which is why skilled players will do something called bluff when asked such a noob question.
Ad hominem is an attack on the person whose argument you're trying to disprove. Here, that person is the one who wrote the article, not RSA.

The argument "X is safe because its creator, Y, has a good reputation" can certainly be refuted by attacking the claim that Y has a good reputation. It's not an ad hominem.

The fact that the error by the HR person doesn't actually invalidate RSA's reputation as cryptographers is more a Non sequitur.
Or are you saying that every individual voter needs to understand the inner workings of the system for it to be effective?

Um, yea. That's what "public vote count" means.

As for the technical competence of our nation's election administrators, have you not been paying attention? I've met many many. Great at elections. Terrible at computers. Completely and utterly reliant on the vendors. Who've manifestly demonstrated their complete inability to code their way out of a wet paper bag, much less be entrusted with the foundations of our democracy.
How'd he manage that? It's quite impressive.
You literally stole the words right out of my mouth fellow RIT student... I'm amazed at how often I find us on the interet…
This seems like a great place to plug f-droid which is basically an Android "market" of all open-source apps that they compile themselves. Download reddit is fun from f-droid here:

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Ask HN: Solve my scanning pain.
I scan a lot to my desktop from many of the printers around the house and work. And I am really tired of downloading the so called bulky printer drivers ( > 120 mb ) to each computer with all the bells and whistles you don't have choice of not downloading.

Is there a simple desktop app that just scans my printer and puts the file on my PC? I will gladly pay a good amount for this.

Thanks,
Yep. There are off-the-shelf FPGA arrays available. Still, bad guys would probably find it much cheaper to rent botnet time for a $0.02/(host*day) or whatever the going rate is.

A solid 80 bits of security out of any of these functions might turn out to be safe forever. But, in practice, most password databases are going to have some fraction of users choosing passwords straight out of the cracker's dictionary, some fraction that will never ever be cracked, and the smallest fraction being crackable according to the defender's choice of work factor.
He's stated explicitly before that he has no interest in politics whatsoever.
I guess you haven't investigated the pay scale and working conditions of wall street lately. Programmers there can make a lot more than elsewhere but at the cost of any possible social life.
I think spectrum is quite a bit more expensive than that. Qualcomm recently sold a spectrum block to ATT for nearly $2 billion. Granted it was probably a more desirable block (lower 700 Mhz) than most others.
I've commented about this in the past. A Chicago angel investor friend of mine once made the comment that the local investment community was always looking to talk, but not willing to follow through. There is a conservatism here that allows people to hide behind the conventional; it's practical, ergo the right course of action.

I have friends and family who think I "lack experience" and "don't know about the world" because in the past 8 years I have been a trader, been involved w/ two start-ups, and went back to trading; all that effort for little (actually no) financial reward. What they can't grasp is all that is involved with the entrepreneurial enterprise. In the Chicago area, an entrepreneur is someone who buys a franchise or an existing small business (this is not a knock against those folks.)

That is why I'm moving to Austin (not the Valley, but not Chicago either.) I also want make clear: I love this town, but it's becoming like New York (a great place to live if you are rich and a great place to visit.)
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It's simple really - if the recruiter expects smooth, calculated responses, chances are the company sucks - so, by being sincere, you just avoided a potentially frustrating experience of working for them.
It's a great question...for a performance review where there is rapport between the employee and employer.

In an interview, anything one says can be used against you. Those who engage in amateur psychobabble are most likely to do so.

To put it another way, it's sincere once salary and benefits have been negotiated.
He sounds pretty fired up about this issue, which is one of the main reasons why people get into politics.
I guess we can ask which other sectors they could disrupt.

Education seems like a perfect fit. They could start their own publishing house to author first-rate dynamic textbooks for the iPad. The content could be better than it is in current books, and it would sell iPads to boot.
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It's important to know what you don't know. And I know enough about crypto to know that I don't know anything and should listen to people who do.
I kind of like the question, only because I like stuff that isn't run of the mill.

I'd also note that, if the question is about 'imagining' certain scenarios, then can the answer really be that honest to start with?

I.e., it's easy to think that i'd do X or X in Y circumstance, but if you ask hypotheticals, you'll never get a qualitative answer. I'm sure this scenario actually happens often, but imagining can mean you're imagining an interview with NASA as an astronaut and with McDonald's as a burger flipper.
Often it means the assets are mispriced (banking stocks....)
I was definitely debating with myself on that particular behavior. On the one hand it lets you preview themes more easily, on the other, it adds more friction / confusion. I'll play around with a "click once" theme browser. Thanks for the feedback.
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Is that bootstrap.js? Looks great! Barley looks like bootstrap, but after I worked with it on a project, I recognize some characteristic elements. How much work was it to make it look like this?

EDIT: Sorry for editing a question into my comment after you already answered. It's a bad habit.
How do you see this hooking in with it? I don't use Instagram.