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While I don't agree with software patents and don't like Apple pursuing companies because of them, nobody is forcing other cell phone companies to violate those patents. It's not like Apple has patented the only way to make a smartphone.

On the other hand, if companies could refuse to license or could name any price for a patent they've gotten into a standard, that would make it impossible for newcomers like Apple to enter the cellphone market.
People need to stop holding up Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg as examples. Those are exceptional individuals, much in the same way that a Lebron James is an exceptional athlete. College is not necessarily the best use of their talents.

In interviewing my fair share of candidates for technical roles, the most exceptionally talented people were well qualified regardless of educational background. For good or merely average candidates, college became a more significant differentiator. Those with a college CS background were able to convey basic computing concepts easily while those without struggled mightily. The differences were even more apparent when reviewing their code samples.

College degrees are not necessarily an indicator of great talent or that someone will be a good employee. However, it at least insures that candidates have a knowledgebase of skills and a grasp of core concepts.
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Don't be ridiculous.

A conditional statement saying there is no risk is utter nonsense. The reason for this is very simple - there is always a risk the conditional has already been fulfilled.
I know, it does sound like I am but I'm genuinely curious.
I worked full-time in my industry for five (six?) years before finishing college.

College for software engineering/comp sci lacks depth and applicability. They try to pander too much to people who don't have the discipline to learn what a computer is.
Not possible because of optical resolutions. If you web search that question you'll get more details.

https://www.google.com/search?q=can+I+use+a+telescope+to+see...

Here are some responses:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100906195045AA...

http://stupendous.rit.edu/richmond/answers/lunar_lander.html

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=134/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/12/mo...
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The PI is a standard platform which allows further tinkering - including hardware tinkering.

Lots of people write software. People could just follow Learn Python the Hard Way - guided by a clueful teacher that could be a successful method - but the critical mass of a bunch of people doing cool things on a standard platform exposes exciting possibilities.

Imagine a 512byte / 1k graphics demo challenge. Everyone has the same hardware, so you don't have the cross-platform woes of modern intro challenges.
Lots of people do burpees. The Crossfit crowd uses them extensively. It's been a part of conditioning at every Brazilian jiu jitsu school I've trained at - and for good reason, because they're hard.

"Working out" can mean many things. If you are already decently fit, and your goal is to build muscle, then burpees won't help. To build muscle, you need to lift weights. But if your goal is to improve endurance, then burpees are fantastic.

Also, of all of the movements and activities I do, burpess are on the very low end of liklihood to cause injury.
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Maybe I'm missing something but what about operator overloading?
It's up for me. I logged in this morning, and when I reload the site it loads correctly.
Apple didn't license the patents directly from Samsung, but they did through Qualcomm. Apple claims that Samsung has exhausted their patent claims since they've already gotten paid by Qualcomm for those patents.
You: That's a mistake on my resume.

Him: Oh why is that?

You: Because I had someone else do my resume.

(odd pause)

Him: You're hired!
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The "insanely lucky" part focuses more in initial traction and less on future actions. He got in at the right time in the right milieu. THAT part is luck. You take it as a foregone conclusion that the social revolution would happen, but its not clear when or how it would manifest.

Later on, even if he made a misstep Facebook wouldn't blow up. If he tried deploying Beacon earlier on, for example, FB might not have proliferated.

"He could have sold Facebook for billions of dollars at any point. If he felt like he was riding on luck, he should have expected his luck to run out at any moment in the last five years or so, and thus have a strong incentive to sell."

That's true of many people, including the Digg people.
Oh I see what you mean. That's a good point.
As a UK based programmer I've had 3 jobs since leaving University. Out of those, 2 I recall asked to see proof of my degree (photo copy of my graduation certificate). The other I can't remember but I think they did too.

This is probably because I am a more recent graduate, if I had 10 years experience I imagine that would be more important to companies than my education. However, I think plenty of places do take it quite seriously.
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I can see how a bar would hold it stretched out, but what is giving the appearance of motion? And making the bottom corner look somewhat lifted up?
I consider even small lies on a resume to be red flags. The worst ones are lies that don't have to be told to get the job. They expose character flaws that I don't want in anyone working with or for me.

For example, I had a software development candidate who put "Fluent in Spanish" on his resume. Spanish wasn't a requirement for the job in any way, but unfortunately for him there were several native Spanish speakers in my office. I pulled a co-worker into the interview room and asked her to speak with the candidate in Spanish. I understand a little Spanish and was able to follow as she asked him about where he was from and what his hobbies were. The candidate could barely converse with her. I guess he had a couple of courses at school and called himself "fluent".

You never know everything that is true and isn't true on a resume, so interviewing someone is a process of building up a web of trust. I'm going to validate whatever I can in an interview from software design and pattern knowledge to whether or not you really were an Eagle Scout. It's all fair game if you put it on your resume.
By the way, I wonder why biomass is green while coal is not? I mean, in the end you burn organic materials?

Of course, existing coal plants are dirty, but for that kind of money you could make like really nice coal plants.
How would you feel if you paid for the course, but their current farm wasn't working because of all the new signups, or people trying to do the same course?

They want to build a big farm to begin with to handle the load.
Would you have interviewed him if he'd left off all those relevant bullet points?
> This was oracle so what parts of oracle were you allowed to use? – Hogan

Nearly spat out my coffee.
I had ruby - I was missing the ruby-dev header files.

My original complaint though is that people are using "gem install" as the sole documentation for installing a general purpose command-line tool. I'd rather not even know it's written in Ruby (I just want to install it and use it) - instead, I need deep Ruby knowledge just to get the thing running.
As someone who hires if I find a lie on your CV, even a relatively small one, I have to make the assumption that you're untrustworthy and I won't hire you. It may be the only one but I have limited exposure to you and limited time to build a view so one lie is a big deal.

And if you say "I did it to get your attention", my response would be "why, haven't you done anything real worth my attention?"

The problem is that most people who lie aren't undiscovered geniuses, they're simply liars. I might miss out on a genuis at some point in my career but I'm certainly going to miss out on a lot of the grief that comes with hiring dishonest people.

EDIT: Removed a section based on something I think I've misunderstood.
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Videolicious Relaunches Video Editing App, Raises $1.4 Million From Amazon
The dates in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, and the dates of when California and then the US banned the use of LSD in the article align to the fact that MKUltra was cut down in 1967.

It did stop "them".
That is unfortunately the belief of many that use college as an excuse to goof-off for a few years and simply get a job on the way out. Unfortunately, students are finally realizing that it is not so easy.

Then there are those students that were diligent and made use of the opportunities college provided. This not just means classes, but building relationships, participating in groups, starting businesses, etc. Do you need college for this? Not as all, but the things I mentioned are made a whole lot easier when in a community of like-minded individuals.

Your point about still learning however is a good one. So many stop truly learning the few years after college once they get into a career.
actually it fucking is, after the entire securom debacle you think they dont know they are putting in rootkits? ubisoft is known for this stuff. shut the fuck up you toady.

the only way you can say its stupidity at this point is if they are MASSIVELY retarded at ALL levels, thus malice, is simpler.

fuck i hate people like you, you are the ones that ask for sources on shit you can google.
I feel the exact same way.

What's funny/weird about this sentiment is that if Envy Labs/Code School got $2mil+ in funding from an investor I would be totally cool with it and happy for them. The fact that they are crowdfunding while I am a paying customer just rubs me the wrong way.
I'm sure most companies would require proof for a recently graduated programmer but as your experience grows, the quality checking decreases.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but wonder ....how does this belong on HackerNews?
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I was tempted to introduce Bayes' theorem to explain the base rate fallacy; however, I couldn't devise a way to very quickly introduce it without just making it a magical formula I pulled out of my rear. It deserves more discussion than that. When I take a course on Bayesian statistics I may write a follow-up on alternatives to the flawed frequentist methods in the article.

Thanks for the tip about parametric statistics. I'll do some research.
I've had the recent experience of interviewing for a Java programmer with some devops experience.

In all the interviews academic achievements were neither considered nor mentioned.

However, it was astonishing to me how much the candidates own opinion of their programming skills differed from the actuality as evidenced by their performance on a skills test.

No trick questions, just Java basics like the immutability of strings and some basic inheritance questions.
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just loaded in the midwest ok
I think people in the US read a lot of local papers. If you sum them up it should be more than the 1mm readers of the NY Times. That's because the US is huge compared to Holland and people everywhere tend to be primarily interested in what are the most immediate news to them.
If it is considered green by some it's probably because biomass doesn't result in things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tagebau_Garzweiler_Panoram...
The New York City metro area has a population of about 20M. NYT has only really expanded into the national market in the last 15 years. It is primarily a local/regional paper. NYC has a higher periodical subscription rate than other regions, partly due to the reliance on mass transit. NYT competes with the Wall Street Journal and other local/regional dailies.
I have a "desktop pc" that has a dual core Arm Cortex A7 at 1 GHz, 1 GiB of memory and a GPU that will tear the RPi to shreds. And it runs almost vanilla Ubuntu.

But it's not usable for a desktop PC. The desktop is slow and sluggish because it's not properly hw accelerated. You can't use it for web browsing because all the modern web sites are too heavy.

The low-cost ARM system on chips can run Android fluently only because so much effort has been put into making Android run on them. This work is done by the SoC vendors and is generally not upstreamed.
I know Halifax at least uses a separate string for those checks, which presumably is stored unencrypted.
Agreed, and I think it shows a disrespect for history since Apple would not have been able to thrive if Xerox, IBM, Microsoft and others had taken out patents and enforced them back in the 80s.
Thanks a lot everyone.
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I thought that part was interesting. How did they sync up? She was on his home network so the default is his stream? This also implies that there is some kind of stream syncing problem. What if we are in a public place and we all watch slightly different streams? We all have separate experiences? Who gets the rights to different public streams? How many billboards are currently showing on this blank white canvas on the highway? How many virtual worlds are currently overlapping the real world and who has the rights to the default one?
"We kept the idea really small"
Google Approves an App that Steals All Your Data
For the same reason burning wood is green- as long as you are regrowing it.

So - if you're burning timber from a forest which is sustainably managed (so you're renewing wood at the same rate you're using it), then there is no net carbon released.
Because biomass will naturally released CO2 when decomposing. Burning it won't add to the footprint.

On the other hand, when you are burning coal, you released CO2 that was previously sequestered.
>how did we know he wasn't lying about certain achievements or even jobs from the past //

Why would it matter if he could demonstrate the right level of proficiency for the tasks you wished him to perform?
Here's one that's shell-based: http://i8a.be/
Well, it might still result in refitting agricultural areas for biofuels, increased food prices and people starving.
Putting long-accumulated carbon back into the atmosphere does not look green to me (unless reaching the very-high levels of CO2 that were present several hundreds of millions of years ago can be defined as 'green')

Biomass is green because it does not change the percent of CO2 in the atmosphere: it fixes it into wood first, to put it back later. The net effect is zero over the human timescale.

Burning coal has also a net effect of zero, but over the Earth lifespan timescale, which is not very good for the current ecosystem (including us).
I don't know why this got downvoted - we all know it's true, even if we don't want it to be.

Does anyone really believe Apple are going to support a codec that they can't hand off to power-saving silicone?

edit: it was gray when I replied
Given that there is no air resistance on the Moon, any residual motion when it was planted would remain for some time. If the astronaut started it flapping when he planted it in the ground and adjusted the arm, it would probably flap for quite a while.
Hold on. I might have misread, but I thought the point was he -didn't lie-. He put 'Mensa' because he was in Mensa. It stood out because so many other people had an 'education' section at that spot on their resumes.
But... a proper password reset mechanism wouldn't send the password via email in first place, but rather a one-time link to set a new one.
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I was sure you could use the Hubble at least. Shows how much I know about this stuff :) Thanks for the links, they are quite informative.
The right way to do it is:

$ ssh -N -L <localport>:localhost:<serverport> <user>@<yourserver>

and

$ ssh -N -L 5000:localhost:5000 bob@bobsbookwonderland.com

(the : is standard syntax used on platforms, including OSX and PuTTY, and some platforms don't support getopt arguments after the first non-flag argument)
But he didn't lie... He was part of Mensa.
Protocol handlers are a pretty shitty way of interfacing with desktop apps. There's no two-way communication and no error handling. Lots of potential screw-ups and incompatibility issues will/can happen. Sure, they don't require a browser plugin but that's about the only advantage.
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Rule #1, never let anybody else touch your CV/resume.

Allow others to proof read or make suggestions certainly but all keystrokes on the page should have come out of your own fingers.
This is barely related to the actual article, and only occurred to me because I was excited by the name "NewsBlur", but then discovered that it isn't necessarily news-related.

Are there any startups doing interesting stuff with news, journalism or any of the like? I've seen a lot of services that will aggregate the links your Twitter friends are posting and so on, but I'm more interested in the actual reporting itself.
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Sorry for the stealth job ad! Would love to come out and say who we are, but we have reasons for being stealth about our funding and participation in YCombinator.

We are not a stealth company though. We have been around for a couple years, and are a pretty big cultural meme with beaucoup traffic (10MM+ monthly uniques). We will of course tell you who we are if we like your email.

We're looking for a seasoned Rails developer to join our 9 person team. Stack is primarily Rails, Javascript, jQuery, Git, Heroku, SCSS.

If you've just cutting your teeth on programming, I love you, but we're probably not looking to hire you right now (with the caveat that there are always exceptional cases).

If you're interested, email hugememe@gmail.com some stuff you're proud of building, and recommend me a song to listen to. No CV necessary. You should live in New York or be willing to relocate.

Thanks for your time!
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Without need to discuss security implementations - no.
So you're not the average comp sci college grad, congrats...

For me, there were a lot of learning opportunities because I am naturally a curious person.
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Are you going to fix the feed archival problem at some point? (we've spoken about it before :-) )
It could be argued that Apple is acting within the legal system, whereas Bill Gates and Microsoft were convicted and settled numerous lawsuits.

And while I disagree with the patent suits, I'd have preferred that the competition found ways to make smartphones that _didn't_ infringe of any of those patents, and made an even better product because of it. (For instance, a phone with facial recognition doesn't need slide to unlock).
This speaks with authority about things I didn't think were confirmed (iPad mini). I don't know much about imore... reliable site?
When that's your title and your first paragraph has at least 2 errors in it, how likely am I to believe what you say in the rest of the piece?

$25 does not get you Ethernet on a Pi.[1]
>700mA on USB is not within the USB spec, and probably not accurate for current draw of a Pi.[2]

[1]:http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?id=83T194...
[2]:http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6...
Well, your degree seems mostly useless for your chosen line of work, so you don't really need the diploma, but as you already know and stated, that's stealing. It would also kill your credit score meaning that you might never have good enough credit to buy a house.
If you drive through Bavaria, especially the area between Munich and the Alps, it's very hard to find 4 houses/farms in a row that do not have photovoltaic cells on their roofs.
I just had a mental image of Jobs as a line employee at a perfomance review: "And really, why did you drop the prototype in the fishtank?"
I heard at a power conference last week that Germany halted installation of new solar panels on homes recently due to the problems integrating solar onto the grid.

As the lecturer put it: We've spent the last hundred years building systems to safely and reliably send power on a one-way trip from the utilities to businesses and homes. Modifying the electrical distribution system to be multi-directional is not an easy problem to solve.

Anyone know more?
That sounds very impressive. But I wonder at what cost overall.

For instance there is a great deal of talk about windenergy, but the primary customers are states and these windmills seems to require quite a lot of maintenance.

So the questions of course is. Even if the energy is sustainable, is the economic model?
You mean keeping stories indefinitely? Absolutely, it's just a technical limitation right now. At some point we'll move to a real archive.
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I liked this historical reference to the Setun computer.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11694546/divide-a-number-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
Please don't take this the wrong way – I'm not trying to judge whether it's good or bad – but it sounds like this might be cultural, maybe associated with the American "fake it till you make it" approach.
Disclaimer: I have 1 semester left of undergrad, so I've only done internship interviews so far. These are just my intuitions from visualizing myself as a senior engineer trying to hire competent engineers and whatever interview experience I have as a candidate.

During a technical interview, my experience is that it's best to talk to your interviewer and interact with them as you solve the problem. Usually you will get a nudge in the right direction, and you'll find the problem is not nearly as daunting as your initial impression.

Even if you don't end up getting the question right, the interviewer can get a positive impression based on your problem-solving approach and how well you communicate your thought process.

This really isn't as difficult of a question as you think, especially in an interactive environment (interview) as opposed to noninteractive (pencil and paper test). I would not be surprised to see this question on a test for sophomores or even 2nd semester freshmen in ECE here at UIUC. Not that everyone would get it right... But that's the point of tests and interviews anyway.

Finally, keep in mind that based on this question, the position the interview was for probably required some decent low-level understanding. If you find it daunting, it's probably not a position you would have interviewed for anyway, so you wouldn't have to worry about it. (Basing this on the statement that deriving addition with bit-logic would only be a "maybe" for you. This knowledge would be a given for most Computer Engineers or Electrical Engineers. I hope neither of those was your discipline of choice. No offense!)
Biofuels is also destroying ecosystems because of the use of pesticides and fertilizers you a sharp decrease of the number of insects living in fields, decreasing the number of birds. In Germany, in 30 years, we had a 90% decrease of the number of "field birds". This is really worrying but at least, it is now a known fact and the EU agricultural subventions are going to shift to help prevent such issues. Still a long way to go...
The difference is Microsoft is supposed to be a software vendor and has a very large number of OEMs depending on them staying that way.