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He said he met a 13 y/o but the translator said he didn't.

I can't believe that he met a 13 y/o factory worker who spoken English.

I wish people would stop excusing his bullshit. This goes way beyond 'stretching'.
After hearing their testimony, I actually wondered if it was politically motivated. For example, whenever I hear the term "this administration has <x>", it's almost always uttered by a partisan.
Caught me. This is a side project (doing a real startup as my day job), but I basically put in 20-30 hours a week for the last 3 weeks working nights and weekends.
That's pretty sucky. Does anyone know if chrome for Android support it? I was hoping for WebGL and Websockets in 4.0 but I guess neither is around :(
actually the best reply so far because it's sadly true
Yes, but thankfully compilation fails rather than succeed and then fail in some mysterious way at runtime.

As someone who has been stuck writing JavaScript for Yahoo Widgets (Vizio Connected TV) over the past month, my appreciation for the compiler errors you get in static languages has grown tremendously. Previously I had taken them too much for granted.
Try a simpler example to understand the value. Imagine employer asks you in the interview "what's the minimum salary you are willing to accept for this position? Come on, just be honest - tell me what you want to make"

PS. In a perfect world every job posting would state compensation, all perks, and an honest and detailed description of work environment. And every interview would consist of just one simple question: "are you qualified to do the job?". Unfortunately, the world we live in is a bit more complicated.
My decision drivers: (context: I have just 1 year of web dev under my belt).

1) How much responsibility and ownership will I have over my projects or pieces of the project. 2) I want to be surrounded by a smart team (both coworkers and managers). 3) Will I be challenged? 4) Money.
Just to give you a perspective, one trillion electronvolts is the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito.
This is a naive attitude. Mathematically-secure cryptography with an implementation that avoids all side-channel attacks is unbreakable, as in, would take more time than the projected heat death of the universe to brute force.

That's not to say that all implementations are secure, or that there are not undiscovered mathematical flaws in common algorithms, but the idea that all encryption is brute-forcable given enough AWS instances is just plain incorrect.
Or maybe make it easy to team up with other companies to rent out a space. So for example a 4,000 sq ft space could be split into two and the rent shared between the two companies who now each have a 2,000 sq ft space.
Considering NASA's recent performance record and what the motivation for spaceflight was in the 20th century (Russia), I understand your reasoning. But government sponsored space programs pursue valuable goals private organizations never can.

If you believe in the value of science and the importance of humanity becoming a multi-planetary species, I think you have to support government funded spaceflight. No private company would have had the incentive to make the Hubble or Spitzer telescopes a reality, and they have given us unparalleled insight into the nature of the universe. Because companies have to operate with budgets that demand profit or death within a small amount of time, they will never send probes to investigate other planets, the outer reaches of space, and invest in experiments that may not prove their value for decades. The exploration of space is going to be a long journey, and it requires organizations that can handle long-term goals.

It's also naive to think that SpaceX and other private space companies would even exist without NASA. Their largest contracts are with NASA right now because there is no profit in spaceflight outside of government contracts, space tourism, and satellite launches. And SpaceX engineers say themselves that they owe their success to the designs and knowledge of the early NASA programs which they copy (Very well designed spacecraft with lessons NASA has forgotten). Many designs on Falcon 9 are taken directly from the old Apollo missions, with improvements [1]. In most technical revolutions, large-scale accessibility comes only after a path is paved by a central power. Computers and the internet came to the masses after decades of investment by the military. The only reason jets became the new standard so quickly after WWII was because of development in the war. And when SpaceX goes to Mars, it will be thanks to the wealth of knowledge NASA exploration missions created over decades.

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/date-set-for-spacex-dragon-launch/208
Do you think the subject matter of the question is off-limits, or do you object to the way it's being asked?
Ask HN: How to use EC2 images as a marketing tool?
That strategy pretty much guarantees that you will eliminate both argumentative dicks and A-players. Good luck with that.
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I have found Launchy to be faster than the Start menu method. Also, Launchy learns from your behavior, so if you type [w][o] into Launchy and then select "Word", it will know in the future that [w][o] should bring up Word first.
Using statistics to solve the "find the next number in the sequence" problem...
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Capital Gains vs. Ordinary Income
"And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include /com\d(\..)?, /lpt\d(\..)?, /con(\..)?, /aux(\..)?, /prn(\..)?, or /nul(\..)? in any of your routes."

Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=655397
This article might be something other than a massive troll if it actually included an objective framework for what constitutes 'innovation'. As it stands it's a tautology, it isn't even wrong.
Trading off something you pretend to care about for something you actually care about is one standard negotiating ploy.
Which is fine, but you've clearly dressed it up as flamebait "don't use bcrypt" outright.
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By the way the HTML email from Leanpub has a tiny bug. The link from the following text includes the comma (at least on the Yahoo web mail):

especially http://leanpub.com/stealthisbook, which is also free!

P.S. I had the same feeling as garethsprice combined with some curiosity, so thanks for the book and the reassurance that it's ok to download it for free now.
For schools; we've been turning the money dial up for decades and the results meter hasn't moved it's needle. No amount of cash solves "why should I learn this?".

Figure there are 50million kids in public schools and we spend 12k a year per student. So if we spent $11.6k a year per student we could more than double NASA's budget. So a 4% school budget cut vs a 100% NASA budget increase. I honestly wonder what direction educational attainment would go if we made that trade.

I wouldn't be surprised if it went up.
OffScale is developing a new breed of database management and automation tools. We're looking into ways to make the trial experience as easy as possible. We have just released a precofigured EC2 image available as a way for users to try our product.

We'd love to get some feedback on this approach:
1. How can we make the experience even better?
2. If you have experience regarding EC2 as a marketing tool, did it work for you? What have you learned from that experience?
He wrote an op-ed at the NYT. You can't seriously claim he was just telling a story and should be allowed flexibility with the truth.
You can’t script imagining, so it forces them away from the script and toward considering the question from scratch.

You can't script imaginging, but you can script your answer to this question...

I think it's a reasonable question. I might try it. One I've started asking recently that's interesting is "tell me about some interesting programming books/articles you've read recently." If they have ready answers, it indicates that they're really engaged in the field. If they come up blank, it's not a good sign, though admittedly, they may be in a lull or have other priorities, so the question can't be viewed in isolation.

I think all of these questions can be gamed to some extent, if a candidate really does a lot of research/preparation. Of course. that someone is willing to put in the time to research/prepare for interviews is probably a good sign. But just because I've learned to say "I love solving problems!" doesn't mean I'm great at solving problems.

Hence, when interviewing I prefer to focus on technical problems.
Disclaimer: We write distributed systems software.

The question I always ask of programmers is this:

You have n=10 computers in a cluster. Every one of them is connected to every other (but not to itself), using bidirectional TCP connections. How many TCP connections total in the cluster?

If they can't figure it out, I change it to n=4, then n=3 and ask them to work their way up from there.
>"dividends signal to the market that you have no better way to spend your money than just giving it back to investors to spend elsewhere."

In Apple's case, what it signals may be a little worse - i.e. that they have given up on trying to find those better ways despite having had several years to work on it as the cash accumulated.

If Apple had announced dividends a year ago, before Jobs' death, it would look like Apple had a long term vision - and there was certainly opportunity to have provided dividends.

More importantly, there was opportunity to spend the money. If Apple couldn't figure out how to make a dent in $30 billion or $50 billion or $70 billion, it doesn't look like their problem has gotten any easier.
Argumentative dicks are often your key employees. If they aren't talking, you know the idea is good.

In fact, I'd argue that yes men and the under-confident but easy to get along with are the absolute worst kind of employees - They won't tell you that the car is headed off a cliff until it's already three feet off the edge.
It could help but it's not necessary. You can easily get that information by researching the company, asking questions to the interviewer, asking questions to current and past employees, etc. If you find out on your own there is a culture mismatch, you probably still want to get that offer just in case.
I don't know if I agree with that. At the time of the original Angry Birds launch, I didn't really think they could branch out as far as they could.

Rovio really redefined the limits.

Draw Something would obviously have to go in a different direction. But board game, game show?
I would answer "goodbye" and then leave.
Thanks to Hacker News for the feedback I received earlier! I have been able to incorporate many of your ideas, and still look forward to hearing more.
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Thanks for answering that. We are glad to hear that.
Not a question about Pinwords (good job, BTW), but...

I noticed that this is a repost of a submission originally titled 'Show HN: My side project helps you add beautiful text on pinterest images '. That post garnered just five upvotes and no comments.

Clearly, you've garnered more attention with this post. What prompted you to try this particular verbiage instead? Do you think timing played a factor?
I'm inclined to agree. You should never ever ask a question where you can't tell the difference between an honest answer and a good BS answer (and no, you don't have some superhuman power to tell if someone is BSing you). You'll likely just end up with more charlatans than legitimate candidates.

The fact is, anyone who's spent any amount of time on proggit/HN knows the correct answers here: work environment, smart people, interesting projects, cool technology, making a difference, etc. What you really want to ask is "how do you keep up with technology" and see if they say HN.
I would put money near the top for ethical reasons [1] and then feel the need to justify it awkwardly. How much I make is very important to me because it determines how much I can give to effective charities [2]. But this doesn't mean I'll be a bad employee who's "only in it for the money".

[1] http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/make-money.html

[2] http://givewell.org/charities/top-charities
He has stated explicitly that he sees himself as an educator. I agree with him. Politicians are, after all, people. Educating people is the best way to change how people think.
The most dangerous thing about this controversy is that people will take knee-jerk reactions to Daisey as an indication that nothing is wrong with the world of electronics.

What's more dangerous is what this suggests the proper reaction is to be. You're right, it is a tragedy that the message people take away from this might be that things aren't as bad over there as we hear. And it's a tragedy of his own doing because he directly contributed to that message by telling us things that weren't true.

I guess nobody told him the story of the boy who cried wolf when he was little.
I haven't been inspecting the code of the arm compiler itself, but it has yet to fail me on my project, so kudos for the original implementation.

Having previously worked for chumby industries (makers of those bean bag alarm clock internet device thigies) I've got a nice collection of ARMv5 class devices laying around waiting to become useful and it is nice to have a modern language that is relatively low level support development on them. Quite a few other projects out there with arm support only care about v7+.
Couldn't you dump the money on some place warm? Nobody is going to work in a garage in Minneapolis.

That might actually have something to do with California -- even if you are broke the weather is still quite good.
I bought it (paid for it), but can only seem to download the PDF. The other formats are just listed as empty bullets. (Tried in Safari and Chrome.)
> It is likely the predominant 'agricultural' culture.

Ironically, farming is kind of like a startup. You raise millions in capital to get started, and then you work for many years without making a cent in hopes that one year you'll finally hit it big.

With that said, I farm in Canada. Perhaps the subsidies you American farmers have access to changes the dynamics.
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As a midwestern startup-y guy, with coastal exposure, and a number of friends and acquaintances who are trying to, and/or have landed vc, some of whom have moved to the coasts, some who have not: I think this article is more self-congratulatory bullshit from coastals who thing the sun shines out of their nether regions.

Some points:

1. It's _very_ hard to raise vc out here. We like it that way (at least I do). There, I said it. The pie in the sky bay area nonsense ideas just don't hold water here. Nor should they there, but they do. Twitter couldn't happen in the midwest, it shouldn't have happened anywhere else either.

2. Stealth mode. anything you do here is stealth mode. Probably forever.

3. LOTS of startups move from here to the coasts when they start to pick up.

4. As a midwestern startup, you need business presence on one or more coasts, so there are significant efficiencies to be gained by moving your entire operation there. Unfortunately, everyone else has the same idea, so rents are huge, and the giant money you have to pay the local talent just winds up in landlords' pockets in the end.

5. If you can do startup-y stuff from the midwest, for coastal clients, you will live like the king of france, in your giant, and incredibly cheap house.

6. Many people dislike California, and/or Californians.

7. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

8. Many natives of the coasts have never even been to the midwest. Ever. The midwest is an enormous geographical area, full of enormously different people. To paint the midwest with a single brush is incredibly ignorant and patronizing.

9. Many midwestern families haven't lived on farms for hundreds of years. Just thought I'd mention it.

10. Working insane hours just means you're young. Kids do that in flyover country all the time, usually to make up for the crap quality of their code in volume.

</rant>
I was sarcastic and was arguing for the change...so many people new to Git miss that and must generally be told about it.
The habit of Windows apps to have entirely custom UIs is relatively unknown on Macs. It's not impossible, just (thankfully) much more rare.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does a farmer hit it big?
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Driving any sort of car has such a high likelihood of killing you and your whole family in so many dozens of ways, it's hard for me to see how the battery issue is something to get hung up on (not that any safety improvement isn't a good thing).

But I agree that a death-by-car-electrocution scenario would be big news, and not a good thing for electric car makers.
Is that supposed to be a trick question?

I can't tell if the answer is n(n-1)/2 or just n(n-1), because I'm unsure whether you would be looking to count a "bidirectional TCP connection" as 1 or 2 TCP connections...
HN needs a way for us to take subthreads for this kind of meta-discussion and fork them into another dimension.
This is one of those questions where the answers are only relevant and understandable to the candidate themselves and even the act of answering reveals only the work-life experience of the candidate.

For the above reasons, it naturally favors older or extremely confident candidates. If this is used as a primary positive filter for employment, then it is possible to discard a lot of talent, especially young talent.

In addition, the value ambiguity and personal depth of this question could confuse or incite negative emotions for many people, including even those with extensive work-life experience. Even if this question were used purely as a filler in order to attempt to relax the candidate, it would most likely achieve the opposite response.

Therefore, if I were a hiring manager, I would never use such a broad question since you could achieve the same with a series of technical questions, resume-focussed questions, specific value questions, or a cup of coffee/tea/hot chocolate/water...

To illustrate my point, my answer would be:

1. Growth.

2. Association.

3. Skill set.

4. Balance.

5. Compensation.
Also, I should point out, the VC who realizes there's a vast, fairly untapped pool of talent in the midwest, will make a killing.
The title is everything apparently. The first post was also early in the morning. I have a bad habit of being impatient with these things.
Wikipedia says 0.53% of the Federal budget.
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Perhaps it is how you are communicating that... I have no idea what you are looking for. Are you really asking the answer to 9 x 9?

Am I missing something?
The Scrypt x5000 seems to only apply when your attacker has access to a chip foundry

If your attacker is using GPUs, scrypt probably gives you an even bigger win, due to the compute/memory balance they use.
That's a reasonable question, and I think the strong reaction stems from two things.

First, the question seems designed to discover either personal attributes that are irrelevant to work or contractual preferences that can be used to hardball you during negotiations. Something like the Joel test is relevant to the questions you mention above. But the OP doesn't seem interested in Joel-test like answers, he says he wants something deeper and more revealing.

Secondly, virtually everyone is going to answer questions like this with trying to guess what the interviewer wants to hear. So it becomes a stupid waste-of-time mind game. As someone mentioned below, it's a lot like the "what are your weaknesses" question.

The biggest danger in interviewing is the tendency to hire clones of oneself. Questions like this are a huge contributor to that. It would be easy to re-word this question to make it more work-related and fit the kind of thing you're talking about, but the OP doesn't seem interested in that.
I'll go ahead an disagree here from Madison, WI as well. In fact, there are no less than three cool startups within a block and a half (Murfie.com, ContextClothing.com, Asthmapolis.com) of our offices. There is plenty of opportunity to land if your startup suddenly goes away.

And that doesn't even take into account the option of working remotely.
First off, I really enjoy your podcast, so thanks for taking the time to put out good content. One small suggestion though- It would be really helpful if your episode names were more descriptive of their content. It's not a big deal, but it's a bit frustrating when browsing my podcast feeds and I have no idea what the podcast topics are. Anyhow, just my 2 cents. Again, thanks!
You're right, in fact the Linux Kernel was used to minimize changes OEMs would have to make to support B2G. Also, Mozilla has been working with Qualcomm to make sure that B2G is optimized for their chips. It should be very interesting to see the potential market shift once B2G is released.
No, I think that the subject matter is perfectly appropriate and that OP is either pretty clever or quite experienced to come up with it. In fact, I would even hope to have a such a discussion to know that the prospective employer is serious and has put as much thought into the process as I have.

I have always believed the the interview process must be a 2 way street; we are equals interviewing each other for mutually beneficial long term possibilities. The way OP presented this seemed way too manipulative for my taste; it destroyed that "equal plane" I covet.

So yes, my problem was not with the subject material, but the way it's being asked. (Which is also why I added the little ASIDE; I wanted to demonstrate that without just looking like a snarky response.)