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When I got my first job in Silicon Valley it was through serendipity (my part) and desperation (on the part of my first employer.) I really didn’t have much of a resume – four years in the Air Force, building a scram system for a nuclear reactor, a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else.

Statements like that make me think most of the HN crowd live in a different stratosphere. That's a pretty good resume by normal standards.
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In theory, since you are already working as a developer at a startup, you might not necessarily need that music degree. But there are lot of other potential issues that you need to look at. Firstly, the university will come after you for every penny and they will send your account to collections. So you risk ruining your credit. Another thing, if you end up leaving this startup, you never know if the next employer will ask you why you did not get the degree even though you studied through the entire undergrad? This could be a red flag for some employers because it shows you as a quitter.

In short, don't do this. Figure out a way to pay it off. You will be thankful later on in life.
"So between just these three, some $40 billion has been extracted from pension funds and other last-sucker-in-line investors."

This is incorrect, David takes the change in market cap and then equates that to losses in pension funds. But this does not represent the state of affairs because when companies go public they don't put all of their stock on the market, rather they put a small percentage of the company on the market (called 'the float') and it is those shares IPO investors get to buy. For Groupon this was an notably small percentage of the company (which caused short sellers to complain that there wasn't enough liquidity to short the company).

So lets be generous and say it was 10% of the companies involved then you are looking at a change in value that is 4 billion not 40 billion. Next pensions invest in hedge funds just as much as they do companies, and those hedge funds took a good chunk of that money because they are shorting these companies with questionable valuations. They could be having a great time with the IPO market.

So yes, there are investors who are holding GRPN, FB, or ZNGA who have lost money but it isn't a travesty, and it isn't 2000 again, and it isn't newsworthy. A pension fund might own a big position on Ford (NYSE:F) which they bought at the beginning of the year for north of $12 share and its now worth $9. Doesn't mean the 'music has stopped for Automakers'.

If you look at CalPERS [1] (one of the largest retirement funds at 236 B$) you will see they diversify their holdings pretty well.

[1] http://www.calpers.ca.gov/eip-docs/about/pubs/annual-investm...
Commodity hardware, as we know it, grew up on the back of Windows. As MS transitions into their "lifestyle" phase, what will the effect of a reduction in crapware have on the prices of components for everyone else?

If a significant number of component purchasers exit the market, the cost of iterating new technology will go up and we'll see prices go up or the rate of technological increase go down (or both).
95% of energy production is hydro or nuclear in Switzerland, which depending on your views on nuclear either makes them very progressive or terrible.
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I graduated with a 2.8 from a top 15 school (actually, I believe it was 16, now that I think about). I never felt the need to put my GPA on my resume. The few times I was asked, I explained I was working nearly full time while attending school full time.

If a recruiter asked, I would respond with, "Is there a minimum GPA?" If so, tell her. If not, I would say its not important. The important thing is you have a degree from a top 5 school.
I would love to visit these sites someday in person.
What time do you feel it's best to do that then?
What if you rely on the service to know all your password and you only know your key to the service .. and then somebody manages to take over your account (getting access to your mail address) and to delete all your data?

That would be not as bad as him knowing your passwords, but still inconvenient.
I am not a brain scientist and I'm sure they've considered this at least at some level of depth: But what are the chances that we are just seeing this as a side-effect of the tool being used to observe the brain?
contrast that with advice from Neil Gaiman http://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address

"""
People get hired because, somehow, they get hired. In my case I did something which these days would be easy to check, and would get me into trouble, and when I started out, in those pre-internet days, seemed like a sensible career strategy: when I was asked by editors who I'd worked for, I lied. I listed a handful of magazines that sounded likely, and I sounded confident, and I got jobs. I then made it a point of honour to have written something for each of the magazines I'd listed to get that first job, so that I hadn't actually lied, I'd just been chronologically challenged... You get work however you get work.
"""

I'm lucky enough to have never been faced with a situation where I felt like I needed to lie to even have a chance, so I have a hard time judging. Always a tough call.
>700mA on USB is not within the USB spec, and probably not accurate for current draw of a Pi.

The raspberry pi quickstart guide at http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide says to use a power supply capable of supplying 700 mA.

The page you link to says the RPi can consume 435-465mA just from CPU and Ethernet, meaning only ~250 mA of the RPi's 700mA power budget remains to power the two USB host ports. Just plug in a USB device that draws more than 250mA (like a second RPi) and the claim of consuming more than 700 mA will be proved correct!
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What do you mean what does it mean?

My question is connected to his statement that he knows the following and is intended to verify if he really knows or is also making the mistake he is pointing out.

"The general trend is more towards extreme narcissism than enlightenment"
I think this is related to statistics regarding how fast the power grid can be expanded in relation to how fast it has to expand. Can't find any news items on this, though.

There are not enough land lines to transport the energy that is created in wind farms to the parts of Germany that need it, for example. Seems Germany is missing about 4500 power grid kilometers to supply every household.

I'm not completely sure if that is in anyway related to the big players in nuclear energy who won't allow the use of their networks. Could be it's just the basic infrastructure missing. However, it's probably crucial to hook up big wind parks first.

Try searching for Energiewende on the matter, maybe.
I have, but I wanted to get some feedback first, hence the "Show HN"
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Whatever the current HR types say, it doesn't define you.

It will matter to them for the next couple years and then real world experience will be much more important. And more enlightened companies will care more about real world results instead of grades most of the time anyway.

I didn't meet the "GPA minimums" for my first job but since I left my GPA off, no one realized it until much later.. a year after I had the job and I was invited to do college recruiting. ;)
Maybe with 1/6 gravity the creases stay folded up more than they would on Earth?
I just wish there was some option that would let Steam warn me if something like this was going to happen.
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I guess with some of these startups though the ground is so untrodden that's it would be impossible to come up with a way to value them other thinking about things like future monetisation of users.

Without it's users, Facebook is worth very close to $0. With it's users? who knows?
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I love the fact the you choose not to 'shove it in your face' wrt the paid options.

My personal belief is that if your users love what you've created, they will adopt it and then be happy to pay for it. In comparison, giving them multiple paid options at sign-up is kind off the wrong idea as your user has not had the chance to experience and understand your product.

Newsblur looks good; am going to give it a good try.
I especially liked how she characterized the experience of the Sight system crashing while she was running with the assistance of a running/exercise application: 'Sight crashed, I didn't see anything. I couldn't find my way home. I didn't see anything!'

Good illustration of cyborgism: her tech-augmented vision is so tightly integrated into her life that she "can't see" without it.
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> However the percentage of renewables will continue to rise, as new wind and solar is installed.

True, but not related to replacing nuclear with mostly coal and other fossil fuels. If the trend of solar power and other renewable sources of energy continues, the percentage of power produced that way will, of course, go up.
Google in talks with 16yr old creator of Kruger wildlife-tracking website
After graduating I wrote to nearly 100 companies it cost me a fortune in postage. I never heard from any of them. I decided to call one up because I was shocked I didn't get a response, such was the fit between my previous university placement and the job spec.

Cue an awkward conversation. A polite lady candidly told me that I clearly hadn't proof read my CV because in the third paragraph it read 'I am a smelly cunt' randomly in the text. Presumably a prank gone wrong.

Clearly someone had doctored my CV in my flat or in the labs and I'd not proof read it. I would have been embarrassed but I was too devastated.

Needless to say, I picked myself up but not before I edited my CV!
Let's think about this for a minute. Most students earning their BS are around 20-22. Were very good at programming when you were ~21 with little to no experience?

I'd expect a 21 year old who studied computer-science to have programming experience outside school exercises, and not show any signs of sucking at it.

If this isn't the case I see no reason to expect them to improve to a level that they "can program your socks off" after another 2-3 years.

We can argue about what "bad at programming" and "program your socks off" means, but my main point is that there is no excuse not to have some programming experience by the time you graduate.
I have experience of interviewers routinely either
lying or not knowing what they're talking about,
and expecting the candidates to lie and be as
dishonest as they are.

One interviewer even got offended when I was
truthful about one of my weaknesses - a skill
I believed not to be a requirement because the
company - a large, reputable French bank - had
lied about the job description.

In fact I had previously specifically asked his
boss (the hiring manager) in person about that
area of work, and he had lied with such a straight
face that he deserved an Oscar.
This is good.

Also, Quebec relies on hydroelectricity for 97% of its energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec (need to search for "97%" on that page)
Looks like Mozilla's talking about WebM while implementing hardware-accelerated H.264. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714408
Nuclear will be replaced primarily with CCGTs. It's publicly available information.

I really don't understand how/why you make such statements, demonstrating no idea of Germany's energy investment/infrastructure roadmap.
Critical thinking (especially in regards to finance) isn't what got 37s's blog to a high level of readership. It's more about regurgitating the same ideology over and over.
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Does the A4/A5 support WebM?
There's a lot of confusion about that. I thought that was the point, too, but enough other people thought differently that I searched for him.

He doesn't seem to be a current member of Mensa. That doesn't mean he wasn't a member at the time, though. So far as I know, there's no way to look up records of past members. (Except maybe by a Mensa employee, which I'm not.)

Still, I don't think he meant that it was a lie. If someone asked me about it on my resume, my answer would be much the same as his. I usually have a second reason, though: If it bothers anyone that I'm a member, I don't want to work there. In my experience, people who have a beef against Mensans tend to make life very hard for smart people in general. They seem to make it their life goal to bring them down a notch. I don't need the extra stress, so I just avoid those companies.
If you are willing to use HTML5 'magic', could you not stream the JS down via a web socket and then execute it? That would prevent most of the conventional HTTP intercepts from having access to the code.
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I don't agree that we need "less liberal arts degrees" but having more stringent STEM courses that push students to excel is never a bad thing. Bill Gates used to say "smart people go where the money is" and so if by the author's assertion that the new economy needs people who are good at math, then the market will reward those people and the system will change to focus on math skills. This does not mean that liberal arts degrees are useless as the best innovations usually come at the intersection of liberal arts and STEM fields.
This might sound stupid, but the most straightforward solution I can think of is to back up the passwords locally every now and then.

Some background: I wrote this to scratch my own itch. I have really secure passwords, and different ones for every site I use. I keep those in a Truecrypt container, which is stored on my Dropbox.

That's secure, but it's not convenient. I simply can't securely access my passwords while on the road, e.g. from a friends computer or from my iPhone. I would always have to install Truecrypt and get the image file from Dropbox etc.

I wanted something with a true zero setup. I can still back up the passwords to my Dropbox Truecrypt image once per week.
Who is "we?" The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.
The Nexus 7 is my first table and I'm still sitting on the fence about the whole experience. The version of Chrome is superb and it's a pleasure to surf, but there really are a lack of tablet specific Android apps. Some Android apps are also missing features present in their iOS counterparts. For example, the MLB app is very basic compared to the iOS version. I was hoping the 7 would be useful for reading PDFs, but it's merely passable when there's nothing better around.

Android 4.1 is a pleasure to use and is snappy. The hardware is nice, but I had to call for a replacement since my screen started to peel off after about 10 days.
I don't think you'd really consider Zuckerberg an investor at all. Employees & founders in particular are really a different class.

Anyway, you can't be last in line if you're first in. Most of the pre-IPO investors made profits. Most of those that have cashed in those profits, cashed out by selling their shares to post IPO investors.
I did a similar thing because I was almost exclusively using my PS3 for Netflix, but my motivation was mainly because the AppleTV runs at ~6 watts and my "fat" PS3 runs about 170 watts at idle and we were always leaving the damn thing on. By my calculations, my Gen2 AppleTV paid for itself in electricity savings about 3 months ago.

I keep it because it's my only way to play discs on my TV, but it's seldom used, and PSN's massive security blunder left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Está pronta a primeira "Scooter" elétrica portuguesa que foi concebida pelos Investigadores do Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica da Universidade de Coimbra. O protótipo possui três modos de utilização - Eco, Sport e Safety - «completamente configuráveis» e dispensa a tradicional chave, utilizando um cartão sem o qual a moto não funciona e que insere no sistema de controlo do perfil de cada utilizador. Saiba mais sobre esta inovação em http://www.autoportal.iol.pt
I'd say Groupon and Zynga aren't in the same category is FB.

Zynga made it big on those "free" ringtones that would cost you $10 a month for the rest of your life. Groupon is a ponzi scheme.

Both Zynga and Groupon did quick IPOs because they had to get an exit before they fell apart. Many agents on Wall Street have aided and abetted this (underwriting banks, anyone who bought that stock for you or who encouraged you to buy it, etc.) It's stupid short-sighted thinking from the industry because it harms investor trust (in short supply today) and will hurt future IPOs.

Facebook is a real company that delightes customers. They only did an IPO because they couldn't keep up being a private company the way they were. (Blame regulation) The big weakness of Facebook is an ARPU that's south of $10 a year... It's believable they can get it up, but I' afraid being public means investors will force them to be tactical rather than strategic which could kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

FB has some real problems, in particular a $10 /year ARPU
We can't see into the minds of others, and what I've observed is that many of the people who lie, do not even seem to realize they are lying. They don't accept themselves as liars. They twist their view of reality to the point where the self serving lies are truth. I've seen this reality change almost instantaneously when the needs of the lie shifted.

Think about politicians. Do politicians know they're lying when they lie? I think in some cases this is the case, but I think in many cases they have convinced themselves of the lie for so long that they can't even conceive that it isn't the truth. Probably goes a long way towards making them convincing to others.
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Germany is a horrible country for solar. It's like putting solar panels in the middle of the Quebec province. (http://www.solarpanelsindustry.com/2012/04/solar-radiation-m...)
Methane does not last all long and 'quickly' degrades into CO2 which is vary stable. (2xO2 + CH4 => 2xH20 + C02)
You'll never get away with a 20k debt. That amount of money will end you up in court.
Not only that, but when you look at peak prices, you have to take into account the volume traded at that price. Theoretically, for stock X, you could have a single trade for 1 share at $100, while the pension funds bought in mostly at $45. If X trades at $35 now, $65 off its high, you can't conclude that pension funds have lost $65 per share across all of their shares.
"Why don’t you make something up."

Aren't recruiters precious.
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Was hoping they'd talk a bit more about what Mobizy actually does than how neat they think the Nexus 7 is.

Our sales reps have been using Kindle Fires and iPads to show marketing materials to clients during inservices as well as their general "on-the-go" work needs, so the Nexus 7 would just be another nice, cheap device to get that done. We're also going to a conference in a month and will be showing off 3D scanning, giving them a Nexus 7 to view their model (and subsequent quick edits I make) on the fly.

What I'm REALLY curious about is the overlooked 4-pin connector on the lower left edge of the 7, which I can only assume is meant for docking. Would love to see how that pans out once there's an actual dock available.
OK, that puts it in a different perspective - the question at hand now is whether those patents are covered by the ETSI FRAND agreements, and if those agreements are relevant in Australia.
>Q: How do you use the Nexus 7 differently than you used your Xoom?

>A: Mostly, I use it more. It’s just small enough that it will fit in my shorts pocket (though admittedly sagging them to dangerously teenage levels), so if I’m walking over to lunch at the sushi bar, I’ll bring it. It’s replaced my Galaxy Nexus as the device I carry around the house or the property for browsing, Twitter and so on. And once I start traveling again, it will be making every trip, not just the long haul ones the Xoom was relegated to by the end. And it will replace my MBA for the short duration visits, an up and back to NYC, let’s say. In short, I think Tim is correct: the 7″ form factor is the correct one for personal use. My personal use, at least. Portablility might be its most compelling feature.

The best computer is the one you have with you.
The article and its title are misleading as they give the impression that this map gives the whole truth. It looks to me the equivalent of showing a map of the connections on a computer motherboard and not mentioning that there's a lot more going on, e.g. in the chips.
But a huge number of bonus geek points for pulling out a slide rule in an interview :-)
How is nuclear renewable?
I didn't say i thought it was strange that BS students can't program, only that i agreed that they can't.

Personally, if college is not preparing them for the practical practice of their art (I'm not saying it should be done to the detriment of the theoretical side, i'm just saying it's not being done at all right now), that seems like not necessarily the best use of time/money.

FWIW: I have the same view of law school, which is essentially worthless in terms of real world practice. If you practiced law how they test you in law school or on the bar exam, you'd be disbarred.
One of the real features of not lying is that you don't have to remember it. But if you lie you have to tell the same exact lie to everyone or get caught up in it. Why add to the stress of an already stressful process (interviewing) by adding a bunch of untruths you have to keep track of?

On the College Degree question I see a degree as the first thing you do where you don't have to do it. Or more precisely you have found it within your self to accomplish a goal that took longer than a year with an uncertain outcome and one where you could quit at any time. A lot of engineering work can be like that. Something that is going to take a couple or three years to realize, will have bits of crap in the middle that will be annoying but required to do, and will have an uncertain outcome.

So if you have a degree I know you can do that, if you don't I have to probe to see if you can. If you haven't had a job where something took more than a couple of years to deliver I don't know if you can stick with something long enough to get it done. That is an issue for me as a hiring manager. Now if you left college because you were working on something else and that took you a few years to get right and shipped, well that works just fine for me.
College can also open your eyes to a vast array of scholarly disciplines and help you become a well-rounded, cultured, and thoughtful person. It doesn't always work, and it's not the only way to reach this end, but it's not a bad option.
The title is a bit ironic when I read your blog on an iPhone. Hint: It's readable but the menu is broken.
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Just because you can hammer a square peg into a round hole doesn't mean you should. The primary use case for Emacs Lisp is for extending Emacs. At that task, it does a pretty good job. As a general-purpose programming language it's not horrible, but it's not great either. You'll be much more productive if you use one of the many excellent general-purpose programming languages for general-purpose programming. CL and Scheme, for example, are fine.

Emacs Lisp's flaws are forgivable when writing Emacs extensions because it integrates so well with Emacs. But without the Emacs integration, it's not that great.
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When trying to understand how this happened and what Ubisoft will do about it I agree that it probably was stupidity rather than malice. But when considering whether to do business with Ubisoft in the future remember Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil".