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It's worth noting that answers, particularly if you expect accurate ones, would be different depending on the language being considered. For example, private in Ruby is similar to protected in Java. But pedantry aside, those are fair questions for programmers.
No part of that story has ever been corroborated. Barrett Brown isn't exactly a trustworthy source.
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I have faith in Google+. Google has a big trump in the shape of the Android Market, which does not offer integration with Facebook. The Market is growing rapidly, as is the number of Android users. It's difficult to speculate how, but I have a feeling this will come in play in the future.
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Events like this are the main reason why The War on Drugs™ is so dangerous for everybody. It's not the drugs or gangs killing gangs. It's the gangsters that live through it sitting on piles of money who now have the resources to expand into crimes that take more than a gun, friends with guns, and some luck. Because of the prohibition they can now hire hackers to commit crimes for them in any place in the world. It's going to get harder to implicate them in crimes, and yet easier for them to make money off them.

Possibly the worst part is that this happened to us(and is still affecting us) in almost exact detail during the prohibition of the 20s and yet we continue to shrug our shoulders and keep giving them more money.
>Would work especially well if two or more kidnapped hackers were forced to monitor each other, adding a prisoner's dilemma to the mix. If one failed to catch the other's escape he/she and their family would be killed.

And you just described what would be an amazing cyberpunk novel.

Two security professionals both try to escape and prevent the other from escaping at the same time. If done right it could quickly become the best kind of thriller; the one where you're actually speculating as to what happens next.
You shouldn't. There are just too many errors in highlighting.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752447
It's just a publicity stunt. Some of their questions do not have answers that are both clear and concise because the language specifications themselves are not both clear and concise (in some cases they're neither). It's a classic example of people trying to make themselves look/feel smart by demanding that others' off-the-cuff answers meet a higher standard that their own researched-at-leisure questions. The proof lies in the fact that the answers are language-specific but "SuperCoders" apparently can't meet their own "accurate, clear and concise" standard in identifying that context.
If I were paying you to do PPC marketing for my products and you showed me those numbers and then bragged about how much money you spent on Facebook I'd have some serious concerns.
Well, here's the first one that came up when I Googled: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb...

I'm interested in reading the article, is there a free version somewhere?
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"Scratch your own itch" is what engineers do. "Build what people want" is what entrepreneurs do. Very, very few people can do both well. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg come to mind. Apple had one of each.

You're lucky if you're one or the other. Even luckier if you realize it and don't waste your time trying to be the other as well.
Everyone can do at least odd jobs to reduce the impact of being unemployed. The general point is that you want to maximize your strength so you can negotiate from the strongest position you can....
Hehe, I was just going to suggest running Rainbow against highlight.js's test suite. I doubt it would do nearly as well. Sagalaev's highlighter is awesome, he put a lot of work into it.
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That seems to make them 1/69th the size of Microsoft by revenue but 1/270 the size by profits. Notice that Red Hat's profits are about 1/10 of income but MS' profits are about 1/2 of income. Shows the incentive to get monopoly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedHat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
It proves none of your point. Your links don't prove your point either. You link to some tweets where people complain about HN, not to examples of supposed 'negative' posts. You are clearly worried about what others think of hacker news.

While the start-up biz may be all about pr, image, and hipness, Hacker-ism is about keeping the truth and contempt for authority. If HN needs to be sanitized for the sake of some software personalities sticking around, then maybe users were mistaken in coming here because the site is named hacker news not hipster scene start-up pr news.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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I'm glad Red Hat is enjoying this kind of success. We need open source code everywhere possible, and we all benefit from businesses running on secure, open source servers. At the same time, Red Hat has remained respectable, even when other open source companies manage to alienate the open source community with otherwise great software (coughOraclecough).
You're the one who's completely ignoring my post based on a few cherry picked instances from a single DOJ case. (The cherry picking done by the prosecution, not you, before you think I'm accusing you of something untoward)

Go reread my post and tell me how I'm wrong, please.
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Just as "Seventeen" magazine is typically read by girls under the age of seventeen.
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It's not a prisoner's dilemma; if they are monitoring each other, they can communicate. This will rapidly break down into a mutual win.

But maybe that's your third act right there.
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Why is this not done in electronic exchanges to render HFT operations pointless?
One of the biggest challenges with something like this is that not every app is treated equally in Apple's process. If you have the ear of the right person, you can get your app bumped up in the queue. I don't know how often this happens, but it may mess with your numbers...
No, but companies will only hire the top 0.5% of applicants to regional third-party IT recruiters.

The bottom 99.5% of chronically unemployed tech hopefuls is a very different group than the bottom 99.5% of software developers.
Hardly worth the hellban he seems to have received in response...
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>won't even consider job seekers who don't have this stuff down

That's not the point, it means different things to different programming languages, which means there is more than one correct answer unless you get more specific.

Further, it's virtually irrelevant to Python programmers since the OO model there is "we're all consenting adults".

Have what down? You haven't even stated a well-formed question.
FYI aside from requiring an email address to signup it appears to be US only (based on zip code requirement).

No dice.
I think it's fair to say if you can answer clearly and concisely in any language at all, then you have demonstrated a good deal of domain knowledge. Enough to convince a recruiter that there may be a job for you somewhere. The exact language hardly matters.
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I can’t think of any Apple iOS apps that are appropriate for pull-to-refresh. Can you?
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http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

I believe you want an MIT license.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
His answer regarding religion is in no way similar to Sherlock Holmes' rationale for not remembering the earth rotating around the sun.

This is not a good topic for a message board debate.
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Really like this post; articulating something I experience and something I see a TON of entrepreneurs quietly struggle with.

I share your intuition that it's not entirely a machine-ready problem; productivity tools (using that term WIDELY) have certainly improved, corrected in innovative ways for all of our typical human tendencies, and in some cases work really well for "some" people.

I've been consulting lately on a project focused on providing human coaching to this specific problem for big-thinking tech entrepreneurs. Also definitely not for everyone, but after chatting with a number of investors about how they might 'enhance' their influence on their portfolio founders, this was something that always seems to be a "lightbulb". It's most surprised me that entrepreneurs themselves seem to be very much interested in the idea: "Yes, if my investors provided me with a productivity/well-being coach I'd take full advantage".

Thoughts?
Imagine you answered on the phone that your expertise is in python, where all members are virtual and public, visibility is only by convention, duck typing makes interfaces largely unnecessary and abstract classes only exist as a standard library feature to allow isinstance(variable, BaseClass) to work properly. If a recruiter declares that a failed answer then I would question their process, but it can be a good interview question so long as it lets you demonstrate deep understanding of your favorite OO language.
I agree happier, but you said more money. So that's false. Still, I appreciate you chiming in.

BTW - many law firms pay $170k+ to t14 grads - not just top of the class - so comparing it to Google $1mm/yr salaries is a false analogy.

:) Precise thinking leads to precise writing. Reading wrong information leads to imprecise thinking.
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lol loved the last line, keep it up brother!
There have been look-and-feel patent fights.
I think what you mean is revenues. Profit and earnings and income are similar (but slightly different, depending on who you ask), but all 3 are on the other side of the fence from revenues.
I would rather read the un-educated essay than your over-educated pseudo-intellectual nonsensical dribble.
The questions you pose sound oh so 2006.
I think you are reading something into my tone that I didn't intend.

More importantly, I think you are wrong to think "Nobody knows we exist" and getting the details right are somehow separate. I built a business by a thousand small fixes. I worked on getting the SEO, copy writing, UX, ads, etc. better every day. Then one day the conversion rate was high enough that buying ads became nicely profitable and word of mouth started to take effect. Details matter.

If a fashion site has an UX issue that makes it not fun to use, it is a real problem. There is no next button at the bottom of the list of items. It feels like the site is broken, but this such a trivial problem to fix.
This may because most decent developers won't touch a recruiter with a 40 foot pole unless they absolutely have to.

Hence, you're seeing a somewhat skewed version of the developer population.
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The CLI itself actually supports unadorned functions, but C# doesn't provide a way of writing them, or using directly them without resorting to reflection. I'm pretty sure C++/CLI lets you use and write standalone functions in managed code, and come to think of it I imagine F# would too. Also it's not an exact equivalent, but C# extension methods can often be used instead of static methods.
What is sad is that US citizens do not understand that this un-civil war has been going on for the past 30 years and we as US citizens have done nothing that has a statistical impact of reversing the damage.

Instead we invade Iraq and Afghanistan based on the political connections of a former Haliburton employee and stockholder.

And if we do not wake up soon.. WWII will be on our doorstep.
Well, it shows the incentive to run a product company. Even with a monopoly on consulting you're not going to have great profit margins.

That said, it really pisses me off that you were down voted like you were. There seems to be a rash of that on HN now. You were contributing to the conversation and backing up your argument with numbers. Right or wrong, that doesn't deserve a drive by dismissal.

The voting buttons mean "More or less of this content on HN", not "I agree or disagree". If you disagree, post a reply. You might teach the OP something, or might even learn that you're wrong, as I have plenty of times on HN.

Edit: I've turned this into an Ask HN thread here, since I think it would be helpful to have a discussion about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275
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Money from selling Windows goes only to Microsoft, whereas Linux is widely used without paying a penny to Red Hat. Not to mention distros like CentOS which you RedHat without needing to buy it.
I bet most people get the "protected" one wrong, because it's actually strictly less restrictive than package access in Java. That is, protected members can be accessed by anyone within your same package. Do you reject people for not knowing that any class in the same package can access protected members?

If so, you probably just weeded out a huge percentage of Java programmers.
I have been working on basically this same thing but for a wider audience for the last 3 mos. Unfortunately I am a solo act and only have evenings so everything takes 10x longer.
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When you see all five questions together, it's obvious they're about Java (edit: or maybe C#, since the terminology is the same.) Taking them one by one in an interview, you'd have no way of knowing, so good luck on providing "accurate" answers.

Imagine if "What is an interface?" was the first question you were asked. That's so vague it's almost philosophical.

Finally, I'm really glad I've done enough Java programming to remember the answers to these questions. Apparently, if my work history had been a little different, I'd be unemployable.
Here's a tiny thing:

The UK uses the concept of "units" for public health when talking about alcohol. These aren't well understood. There's concern about binge drinking. But there's also concern about non-typical groups.

Make a little web-app game. Display a variety of glasses, and wine bottles. Include the ABV (alcohol by volume) rating. "pour" a glass of wine. tell the user how many mls are in the glass. (125 ml at 8%ABV is one unit. It's rare to see glasses that small, they're normally 175 ml or 250 ml. And wine is usually much stronger.) Then ask them how many units are in that glass. Give them a score. (and show them how much of that glass is just one unit) Repeat for 5 glasses. Show them the difference between what they guessed and true. Link to some alcohol awareness sites.

"Drinking "just a little more than they should" puts people at risk of serious illness including heart disease, stroke and cancer, the government is warning."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16869618

Nice chart:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_char...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16886547

Young people, especially women, with alcohol related illness.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7092347.stm

Rise in Cirrhosis.
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Baffling numbers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3303805.stm

Record numbers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13559455

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16443240

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15114325

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4581530.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15997695
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This is not a patent; this is a patent application. Anyone can write anything they like and file it as an application, and that is a good thing.

If a patent is ever granted from this application, I guarantee you those claims will be nowhere near as broad as they are now.
This is a problem we've assessed a bit at http://foodtree.com - there are some efforts in this space but none seem to have the penetration to make it useful at scale. Our approach is to help grocers "spread their great story" as an incentive to start mapping their inventory, both in the "where it's from/who made it and how" perspective and the "what store near me has OBSCUREITEM available right now" perspective, which is your problem but only to store level. Getting to that level right now is tough with food retail chains, but they're moving in the right direction.

So that we don't have to wait for them, we're trying to enable crowd-sourcing as well; "I saw OBSCUREITEM here in case you're looking for it in town".

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"allow any kind of derivative work only if it is released under the same license"
First, I am a little surprised at the number of people that laud this UX. The only time I have encountered it was in the Facebook for Android app and I found it not to be intuitive. Even once I understood the behavior, it is not always obvious what will happen when you drag down since there is no indication that you are at the top of the stream. You essentially have overloaded the pull-down action.

As to when this is patent worthy, I would argue no. Pull-down is as basic an action as you can do. The patent is equivalent to patenting the concept (as opposed to the engineering implementation) of selecting an item on a screen that a user points to with their hand. Or the concept of performing an action when you click on an item on your desktop (since clicking is as basic on a mouse as swiping is on a touch screen).

To be fair, it is difficult to argue where to draw the line for patents and some people would probably argue that my examples should be patentable (regardless of whether they are - I don't actually know). It just strikes me that rewarding people for these "innovations" does exactly nothing to increase people's effort to figure out a good UX for their product.
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As someone who was (fairly recently) once there, this is definitely true. I think I'm pretty smart but if I knew then what I know now about potential resources and methods, I would have done much better and wasted much less time and energy.
my opinion on re-learning - there were multiple subjects that I took in college which went over same content that I had learned in High School. I actually enjoyed re-learning them because the content was presented in a different way, so it made more sense to me that it had before.
It is one thing to learn something once, but when I learn some concept over and over again, I tend to discover something new about it or related to it. Even small concepts can have greater meaning to it that I did not saw at first.

I have similar experience with movies - Dark Knight - I watched it 4 times and each time I find it more fascinating because I saw new details in the movie.
I totally agree on that Howard Aiken quote, but the type of people who run YC and those that apply to and get into YC aren't the type of people Mr. Aiken is talking about.

I tell everyone loudly about what I'm working on and other ideas I've had, but I'm not working on, and I've noticed that those that have the foresight to get understand of them and their value more closely approximate the types of people that get into YC.

Assuming that my point is true and that my ideas and some of the ideas of YC applicants are good, then in applying to YC, we are subject to the issue you state in the first line.

"I also tend to fear that my ideas might be stolen, but the truth is that anyone who is good enough to make something work generally has too many ideas on their plate to steal someone else's."

The problem now is that there are people who are going into YC not with too many ideas, but one they are working on, but with no ideas.

I would say that there is certainly a conflict of interest, not a huge one, but one nonetheless. That being said I think it's still worth applying, because there's a lot more details in an idea than fit in a YC application. Oftentimes there are months to a year or more of thought in a YC app that an idea-less team won't have the luxury of having if one of the YC partners suggests the idea/market to that team, even if done so subconsciously and without malice (i.e. not citing the specific application, or even remembering having read it.)
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It limits nothing just because it's a game. In World War II a guy was held in solitary confinement (a small wooden box) for 2 years. In that time to keep himself sane he designed and built 100% in his mind ... a complete working clock despite never having built anything like a clock or watch.

After the war, he built that clock and it worked.
So I really don't want to work in an OO shop. I would far prefer to work in a dynamic or functional shop.

Answers there would look something like this:

Explain public.

N/A

Explain private.

N/A

Explain protected.

N/A

What is an abstract class?

N/A

What is an interface?

Ah, we get to something shared... A list of functions that can be applied to an instance of a type without raising an error.

The times I've used Perl, Python, Javascript, and Common Lisp all do not relate to public/private/protected/abstract base class. They have simply not been required to do the job, and I'm unsure whether they even carry the concepts with them without building an extension into the language. I'm fairly sure a MOP could use it if you really wanted.

So while this test might be great for C++/Java/C# hiring... I don't even bother asking these questions when I'm on a Python/Bash/Perl hiring team. They don't relate.

The questions aren't interesting. They can be Googled, and I would be brutally tempted to think better of someone if they stalled and I heard keys being whacked as they found the answers on Wikipedia or StackOverflow.

But, you know, maybe OO teams need their OO FizzBuzz. I can totally appreciate that, and wish SuperCoders all the best :-)