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I always thought that strange too. I get a fair number of recruiter emails, and almost all of them seem to assume out of hand that relocation is the least of my concerns, when it probably easily the #1 thing. Every reply I give[1] ends up being a cheeky way of mentioning that I have a life and a home in a place and I do not intend to abandon it for a mere job.

Perhaps my current job isn't the most interesting thing in the world, but I love my coworkers, my family, my friends, my little town. That's a lot for a job offer to compete with.

[1] http://simonsarris.com/blog/626-why-i-love-recruiters
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This idea that there are no real concerns about losses of anonymity is to me very odd. Its odd, because its obvious that the information is valuable, and the possibility for abuse is almost unlimited.

To point to a few of them, what if, if ever time you drive to fast, your car insurance increased in costs? (already happened in sweden).

What if, if ever time you took a job interview, the company order up a complete review of your activities, actions done at party's, ups, downs, relationship, political affiliation, health status, friends and so on? (some do already, some dont't. Mostly US companies. Companies that do reviews exist but few except the military pay's them regularly).

What if, every time you bought a beer, your medical insurance company got a notice by the friendly credit company and thus added a dime to the premium? (Some credit companies do sell this information, but its not in real-time yet).

What if, at every election, you would have to attach your name to it (thankfully, I have yet to hear about a election like this. I would assume its because the output would be obviously and bad).

Anyway, the categorization of the autonomous vehicle as a 'geek toy' is wrong like you say. The opportunities for improving safety, lowering pollution and improving the traffic system is many.
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I went through a 3-month long interview with google in 2007, they said I did great in the interview and told me they'd be sending me an offer.

Two days later they rescinded and said they would not be giving me an offer without explanation. I was really pissed off.

A couple years later they contacted me again for a job and started the interview process, then I told them what happened the last time. They then said they didn't want to proceed.

Then a few month ago they contacted me again (these were all for basically the same job) - I sent the recruiter a rather terse email stating my experiences and said "stop wasting my time - either give me the job at salary $X or stop contacting me."

They replied that they couldnt meet my salary requirements.

Personally their recruiting method is farking ridiculous.
They're not now?
Except then things like warranties get tied to whether you've customized the software on the device. And never mind the herd of people scared into not taking control of their device ("jailbreaking") by nebulous threats of virii or future manufacturer retribution.
The title (and article) is really bad journalism. I'm an Ubuntu Developer at the summit and listened to this talk live about an hour ago and he said nothing of the sort.

He did say that Microsoft and Apple are moving away from the open platform model and that Valve has always been in favor of open platforms. Linux is the best option for a continuing open platform in the future.

Actual video of the talk will be online within a day or so, so I suggest you watch that instead of reading contrite stories like this one.

Here is a much better article about the talk from OMG Ubuntu: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/valve-talk-steam-for-linu...
That was because they didn't want to be broken up as a monopoly. VISA has no such worries.
The tooltip is correct though

http://i.imgur.com/9g56l.png
So are you going to seek to raise money eventually, or try to bootstrap?
I didn't read the grandparent as meaning "the past ten years" but "ten years at some point in the past".
Maybe "as intuitive as it gets" means "as intuitive as it can be"? There is innate complexity there somewhere. Can't say if we've necessarily reached it though.
I hope he explains, I am having a hard time just now trying to find how someone would be able to spend $50 on shipping unless they were wanting to overnight it.

I did notice that as of today 10/29 Nexus 7 prices/configurations have been updated, so it is now 16GB for $199 or the new 32GB for $249. The 8GB model is discontinued.
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"This means that I support the notion real names on Google Plus,"

That's strange, because I'm a fairly normal white guy with no marginal traits that might cause me to have different viewpoints than I currently do, and yet I don't support the notion [of] real names on Google Plus.

Being a fairly normal white guy isn't destiny.
I'm coming from the scientific computing side of python, so beyond the BDFL's suggestions, I use the following protocol to make python fast. Note, that I'm doing numerical analysis and manipulations, so this isn't a general workflow for all python applications.

1. Write algorithms using numpy, attempting to not use too many crazy indexing/array tricks. You can generally avoid costly for loops using broadcasting.

2. Profile code using cProfile and Robert Kern's line_profiler

3. Judiciously optimize by re-writing computationally intensive methods in Cython. Numba also looks like a contender in this arena as well, but I haven't done a benchmarked comparison.
This sure sounds like Corporate Welfare to me. Those damn Socialist Capitalists are pretty good at calling the kettle black.
The problem for Apple is that they defined Retina as "you can't see the pixels" and there is no need to go higher PPI than that. But the pixel doubled iPad mini would have a resolution higher than that. So they would need to spend battery life and processing power on something they have themselves stated is worthless.

It's an odd situation.
Ah, good catch! I remember a while back comparing CNT prices per gram versus gold and it was something like $20 a gram for gold. Must have been a low then. Thanks for catching it.
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> So when will Steam let me add third party repositories for software?

This was never a comparison between Steam and the Windows 8 app store. The two are not equivalent, because one is baked into the OS, while the other is 3rd party software.

What is comparable is the Windows 8 app store and the Ubuntu Software Center. And it's very clear that the latter is much more open.
> Desktop Macs (iMacs and Mac Pros) are much more difficult to upgrade than Linux/Windows desktops

'Much more difficult' is an exaggeration for Mac Pros. The biggest issue for gaming is the GPU. With Mountain Lion, you have seamless support for 600-series NVIDIA cards using NVIDIA's own drivers (I use a GTX 670 at home in my recently built Hackintosh). The bigger issue from a game developer's point of view is that the OpenGL implementation on OS X is still a mess, though it's been slowly getting better, partly from pushback from developers like Valve.

I know the guys doing the Linux work at Valve personally. They've been doing a ton of work with vendors in the process of getting their games to run well on different GPUs. Right now NVIDIA and Intel have the best Linux support. Hopefully AMD/ATI will catch up if Valve's Steam push creates enough momentum.

Almost all the issues with gaming on OS X and Linux are chicken-and-egg problems that will resolve themselves if there is ever enough anti-Windows momentum to warrant the sufficient vendor work.
In this case "open platform" means "platform where a publisher other than the operating system vendor can make a profit".
My dance instructor says that learning to dance goes in three phases that spell MAP: Memorize, Automate, Personalize. First you just memorize the steps and walk through them. Then you get to where you can do the steps without thinking about them. Then you get to where you're able to add some personal flair.

For me when learning a new programming language, I find that I move through three important phases. First I'm copying what other people are doing and consulting books and manuals constantly for everything I do. After a while I'm consulting other things I've done myself and imitating those. Then finally I get to where I'm not consulting anything and the code is just flowing, often with my own interesting twists.

Incidentally, feeling like it's too hard for you and that you're not smart enough just goes with the territory. Also try to ignore the temptation to feel like it is all very easy for everyone else. I find that the feeling of failure is often its worst right before I make a breakthrough. After about the fifth time of thinking this is too hard for me, I can't do it, then doing it, I realized this is a pattern for me and learned to ignore the feeling of it being too hard.
It's my understanding from watching the DeCSS fiasco unfold that the "illegal number" phrase was coined to mock the DMCA's criminalization of circumvention tools, and the first illegal numbers described were various representations of DeCSS. I don't think that position is unreasonable or wrong headed at all.

You are right that, when applied to actual copyrighted materials, the only obvious options are A: "We'll voluntarily submit to the legal fiction that bits have color (or at least shades of gray) in the form of copyright law, because we can see some benefit to doing so," and B: "We believe that a society whose rules can be fully justified by concrete logic, evolutionary morality, and the laws of physics is preferable to a society founded upon legal fictions, and abolition of the concept of intellectual property follows from this."

However, I believe a good number of people hold position C: "We believe copyright law has significantly overstepped its useful bounds, and will pretend to hold position B in order to achieve a reasonable compromise."
I guess the main area we differ then is that I do feel like I can say whatever I want on G+. Actually, let me take that back, I feel like I can say whatever I should, and that's a fairly important distinction.

I could easily foresee some kids trampling my lawn and me writing a hasty reaction on G+ of something like "I think all children should be murdered." It would be a joke, and anybody that knows me would know that (though potential employers and the like almost certainly would not) -- but I'm free to make that statement, though I might not post that publicly. Whether or not I should make such a statement on the emotionless internet is up for debate.

While I'm open to agreement that perhaps my views are just that vanilla, I've never had a political statement or personal statement that I believed in that I didn't feel I could express on whatever forum of my choosing, while acknowledging that sure, if I say positive things about political_candidate_x, I might very well inflame my friends and colleagues who adamantly support political_candidate_y.
> For example, if I were to counter you, I would then say the entire of Apple's presentations and Marketing is just plain BS.

It's unfortunate you think this to be a counterargument.
I was interviewing at a startup in the Bay Area and the CEO insisted that since "being surrounded by people smarter than me and getting better at what I do" was a huge driver for my professional life, I'd be better served by working at Google.

I did not understand that then, and I don't understand it now. I don't blame the guy for saying that I guess, and maybe he's right. That said I don't want to work at a megacorp doing software engineering, even if that megacorp is Google. It's just not for me.
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you're treating the company as monolithic, and it's not. every group has their own hiring practices and contractors, and manage it differently. i came across this when a bunch of infosec people (myself included) got spammed for entry level jobs. every group has their own targets, methods, faults and strengths. it's just how it is. can't fault the entire company for one bad incident. if you do have concerns, reach out to people and let them know their tactics are turning good candidates off. that gets attention, and that gets changes.
Yes and no. Replacing someone who can't possibly be happy with the work you have available is cheaper than keeping them on. It depends critically on the details of D and Q. If you get hired by, say, Facebook and refuse to do web development you're going to be a bad fit. The goof here may have been hiring him in the first place.

It's important for both sides to accomodate. But sometimes fits just don't work. If what someone wants to do isn't something you need, or if they aren't as good at it as the other people you have on staff, then the correct fix is just to part amiably. It's no more Google's "fault" than it is varelse's.
The simple answer to the question, "How do you stop online students cheating?" is that you don't. You discard the idea of "cheating" altogether.

In days not so long past, rote learning was important because, in many professions, there was no way to access the source data within a reasonable amount of time within the arena where that information would be useful. A trip to the library in the middle of the workday was generally not feasible. Pausing to locating and consulting the correct medical textbooks in the middle of an operation was dangerous and could have proven fatal to the patient.

Contrast that with the current state of the world where, in the vast majority of cases, the answers to many questions and the solutions to many problems can be located within minutes or even seconds from a smartphone or tablet. Combine that with widespread wireless broadband access in the developed world and it becomes obvious that not only is rote memorization of many facts, figures, formulae, and so forth not needed, it may actually be counterproductive.

I say counterproductive because, due to the way university-level education works much of what you are learning, especially in technical disciplines, is obsolete by the time you learn it. That's not a swing at formal education, mind you. I'm not asserting that what is learned at a university is not useful. I'm asserting that by the time you memorize that information it is highly likely that some other development has arisen which either invalidates or supersedes what you just recorded.

What I believe would be more productive than online universities worrying about cheating would be to more aggressively time-limit their exams. Doing so would at least validate how quickly students are able to gather and synthesize information to arrive at correct conclusions - a skill set that will serve them well even in today's rapid-access-to-information world.
Amazon is a big company. Net loss overall doesn't mean the tablet is at a net loss.
Thanks so much for the words! Everything along the way I struggle with how exactly to implement it in my mental logic model and actually recall it when needed, but once I can do that that individual element becomes much easier. That's how I originally thought of "when will this get easy" until I realized what I meant by easy: when will I just want to do this more than occasionally, when will I ENJOY it.

That's when I realized the answer. It will never be "easy" in the sense that learning these new elements will always be difficult in a way, but there will come and already is starting to come a time when I can do it in a way that fulfills me instantly when I'm doing it.
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Discussion from 2 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648275
This sounds like unabashed Apple fanboyism that hopes Yahoo will become cool again:

"Even Apple is acknowledging that this is where the world is headed."

"It makes total sense for Yahoo! to become the Apple of the web."

I think it's more likely for it to go the opposite way, for Apple to become the Yahoo of the computer industry.

Apple gained in the market because they made music devices a lot better than existing music devices. Then they noticed that phones sucked, so they made an awesome phone. Then they re-invented the tablet space using the principles that worked in the mobile space. They haven't made anything new since the iPad, only incremental updates to their existing devices. In the mean time, competitors have closed in and even surpassed Apple in some ways.

Apple has just been spinning its wheels and raking in the money recently. People will eventually realize that there are real competitors now.

That's basically what happened to Yahoo. Yahoo started as a search company, and added the "web portal" part the author speaks so highly of later. After a while, all resources were put towards better content, while search stagnated. Google steps in a shows the world that search makes a difference. This is what's happening to Apple. They've stopped innovating in hardware (where they shine) and started trying to get into software (new Maps app, iCloud, etc). If this continues, Apple will turn into Yahoo, albeit a bit better funded.

Search may change, but I don't think it will look anything like Yahoo. That has already failed.
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You aren't the first to try to attach a different meaning to the term free speech and you certainly won't be the last. That isn't what it means, though.
You should move the purchase button higher on the page or put multiple buttons. My immediate assumption was it was not ready yet until I scrooooled way down to find the purchase link.
I can only assume that he actually means "we have less competition on Linux", because my experience with Windows 8 as a gamer has been pretty damn good. Everything gaming-related works just as well as Win7, as far as I can tell. The games available on the app store are alright, but I don't see it competing with Steam when it comes to the high-powered AAA titles.

Edit: From another comment, it sounds like this is a bad quote, and that the Valve guy said nothing of the sort. Sorry to Valve for what I wrote previously, and shame on UbuntuVibes...
Depends on what he meant by "expert". If he meant he has PhD level expertise in D and that is his life's work, then it's completely understandable he wouldn't be happy doing Q, and would seek to do D elsewhere.

People tend to misuse words like "expert" and "fluent" though, when they're really not, but on HN odds are higher that they're using at least "expert" correctly.
The hint itself: That's complete nonsense and doesn't improve your security by a bit. The only reason why you might want to do something like this (at work) is if you don't want to follow non-worksafe links. And even then - what are you going to do if it's a tinyurl or goo.gl link? Just not following?

The attack: This completely misses the point. If a site wants to mess with you it doesn't need a link for that, it can just directly execute Javascript code and do whatever it wants to do.
There are some among us that won't do tasks we don't enjoy. Even if it meant that our pay was to be cut, we'd flock elsewhere to seek the fulfillment of being applied to a more meaningful duty. The key here is that 'meaningful duty' is self-evaluated and the organization's value of that position holds no merit or sway to the individual.
I'm going to confess that I gave you an upvote because it is exactly right (even though I have lost friends over political views, that's hardly earth-shaking) while simultaneously wondering whether or not your comment was meant to be for or against me.

It's quite possible that the answer is neither, and I read in in a neutral tone and, as I stated, I think that it's spot on. My argument comes from the position of privilege. I haven't personally felt the privilege, but I acknowledge that it exists due to the piles and piles of evidence in its favor.
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I sort of like the approach of Chromium OS and Boot to Gecko. I don't know how useful this particular project is, but I'm interested in how the end result works.

Theoretically, the newer HTML5 extensions are getting these closer to native apps in terms of features, so let's see how they do!
Those big agencies also get a retainer just for trying. If you're talking about a million dollar campaign, you pitch, but you get a retainer that pays for your time. It's not even remotely the same thing. Moreover, you compete against one -- maybe two -- other agencies.
If Facebook hired someone who wants to work on their compiler and put them on web development I'd regard that as an extremely bad decision.
> "None of this should be an issue if Valve decides to release some kind of Linux based 'Steam loader' that boots directly to the game itself"

That's a pretty interesting angle. But it might be a bridge too far. Gamers would almost certainly follow Valve to Linux. But asking them to give up their mp3 players, chat programs and background tasks while they're gaming?

Only if it were a living room solution, which has its own "day 1" sorts of challenges. (e.g. the number of titles with not only gamepad support, but where you truly do not need the keyboard/mouse to play.)
Let's get this straight: Square/Dorsey have an amazing PR machine. We hear about him like some kind of startup God due to it, not necessarily because he is so incredible.

To be clear, he's never had an exit and I don't see one for Twitter or Square anytime soon. There's hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars of VC cash sitting in those investments without getting a return.

Meanwhile, Square announced in April it was trying to raise $250m at a $4B valuation (Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/square-now-processing-5b-in...). They just finished that raise with $200m at a $3.25B valuation. That's a huge miss for such a big company. They're also burning cash at an enormous rate (see http://i.imgur.com/b1Sm9.png - leaked slide).

So just remember that he may be an amazing person, but the PR engine surrounding him so distorts everything that we hear that at least for me, I've stopped paying attention entirely.

PS: Don't even get me started on how much the press entirely screwed up the Starbucks partnership reporting. It's a tiny marketing ploy is all.

PPS: This is mostly just my opinion obviously. I prefer businesses to focus on creating a viable, long-term business instead of a clever marketing machine with an unsustainable revenue model.
That won't work here. Here, the goal is to have 'cfree': zero'ing out memory and then freeing it.
The one thing I took away that really is a pain in the ass is recruiters hitting people up and asking them to apply. If a recruiter reaches out, in my opinion, they should already consider the person in question a genuinely attractive candidate and should be asking for a little more info, not asking them to start at step 0, they can do that on their own if they decide to.
I just personally value the kinds of conversations that occur when people are using their real names more highly.

By real names, do you mean the names they're known by, "real sounding" names or their legal names? Is George Orwell not a real name?
There is a significant difference between someone else possessing this information, and actively distributing the information myself.

I would prefer not to have people possess the information (because I am beholden to institutions that, unfortunately, rely on security through obscurity and have abysmal security procedures) but I don't support criminal sanctions against people if they do happen to come into possession of it.

The criminal sanctions should only cover abuse of the information. If you possess my credit card information and do nothing with it, then I don't have a problem with that. If you use it to make unauthorized purchases, or use the information to blackmail or harass me, then you should face criminal sanctions for the harm caused by those actions.

Simply possessing the information doesn't cause me any harm.