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The other thing I've embraced is that there isn't a right way to interview, or perhaps more accurately, there isn't anybody who can be trusted to identify it. This again factors into my willingness to not feel too bound up by convention.

I certainly may have brought my own feelings into the multi-day marathon issue, but it's for the purpose of making sure I understand the other side of the table. I think not appreciating giving away two days of your time is of a different nature than not liking to write code in an interview. The latter seems pretty clearly like a "suck it up" problem, if you know what I mean. Personally, I consider the interview being unpleasant for the interviewee is a given, and all I can do is minimize that, I can never eliminate it, because the stress and uncertainly is sufficient on its own to make the process unpleasant.

In interviews when I ask code problems, I try to do my best to work with the interviewee. They get to pick the language, and I'm generally not looking at any style issues at all (if by "style" we mean "things that have no impact on running code"). If anything I'm a little too accommodating when I also ask them to choose their own data structures for the problems in question. This throws a surprisingly large number of people. (It's the price of allowing people to pick their implementation language; I'm not going to go write a separate test problem for each of the ten languages I might reasonably expect to get an answer in, especially when I don't even know them all. I actually feel I've sort of blundered into a good test here; a surprising number of people know "arrays" and nothing else and choose very bad representations for things of their own free will.)
Soooo ... how long until people pull the SDK apart looking for indications of a new iphone with new hardware in June?

Software streaming video support, the recent release of an Apple patent on a front facing camera behind the screen - are we likely to see a videophone iPhone?
I'm most impressed with support for integrating the iPhone with miscellaneous hardware. I believe from this space the century's first killer app will emerge.
Does the MMS and voice notes support mean you could record a voice message and 'text' it to someone?

Like the best bits of voicemail and SMS combined? Because that would be brilliant.
Initial impression, the account name, site subdomain, and user name are all quite redundant. At best, why not just use username, and subdomain?

However, the interface is VERY impressive, and very responsive. I love that you can see your weekly total, and daily total in the main navigation toolbar. At a glance, that helps out a lot. I haven't yet produced enough time for an invoice, so I'm not sure if it can create invoices so far, but so far I am very impressed. This might persuade me to move from FreshBooks.
Smartphones affecting trial outcomes
To be honest it's pretty hard not to get excited over features on the iPhone 3.0.
Could you elaborate? I found those sections to be the most interesting.
This is seriously creepy.
This video from the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology - http://iaomt.org/videos/ - shows mercury vapour being released from a filling under such ordinary situations as drinking a hot drink, chewing, etc.
Why does apple not just release new features once they finish working on them? Why do they have to do these we-got-new-features press conferences and only release new features on those dates?
clang clearly performs much much worse than gcc. I would much rather correct results than fast results in the general case.

The compiler should not make this decision for me.
IPhone 3.0’s dichotomy: playing catch while pushing the envelope
It has been recommended a lot on hacker news before, I didn't realize it had a negative connotation. I just signed up for a year, previously was hosting off a local machine for my personal stuff, for $10 a year I'll make it someone else's problem. We use Engine Yard for our business stuff, but can't beat this for personal.
Ask HN: Please review my side project, Mancala Time?
Hi

I was hoping some of you could review my side project Mancala Time? Hopefully some of you already know how to play Mancala...but any feedback whatsoever would be appreciated.
You can play against the computer or can play against another human over the internet.

I have been working on it as my fun side project for about two months. Although since I have a full-time programming job and do freelance stuff too this is starting to get kind of boring. Since it seems like the part that was the most fun hacking on is over. I am looking for more motivation on what feature/thing I should work on next.

I know I need to hire a designer if any of you have any recommendations. I am not even 24 yet though so my funds are somewhat limited. Also I am not sure how much money I want to pour into it. I go back and forth on if I can make any money with this at some point in the future.

I did it more for fun and as a resume-builder type thing. I have been programming since I was 13 but only graduated from college a year and a half ago. I don't have any ads on it now...I would rather make less or no money than having a whole bunch of ads everywhere.

Thank you so much. I don't think more than 2 games have been played at one time yet... so hopefully this will cause be some stress-testing for my server.

http://mancalatime.com

Only been tested in Firefox (because I want to get it perfect there first and then go after the other browsers)...but feel free to try a different browser and report back.

Thanks so much.
The logic here is nonsensical. "(a) Dick Fuld lost 9 figures on LEH. (b) If he knew about LEH's exposure to toxic MBS's, he would have avoided losing that money. (c) Therefore, he must not have known. (d) And if Dick Fuld didn't know, how could Jim Cramer?"

Not one of these points follows from any of the previous points.
Nope.

---- Engadget ----

11:27AM "What about the rest of us? iPhone OS 3.0 will be available this Summer. A free update to all of our iPhone 3G customers. And it works on the original iPhone. Now the hardware has changed between these two devices. For instance, A2DP and MMS won't be available on the iPhone 1st gen. It's also available for the iPod touch... for $9.95."

---- gdgt ----

11:27AM - “As a bonus, we’ve enabled it to work on the original iPhone. The hardware’s changed though: MMS and A2DP won’t be available on the original iPhone.” iPod touch users: $10.

11:27AM - App Store will be in 77 countries. 3.0 ships this summer for free.
Funny - I don't use the iPhone, but think the features it's bringing in are starting to sway me. Decent summary though.
Lots of great updates, but still missing voice-activated dialing, which -especially with a bluetooth headset- is very useful when driving.
Totally nothing to do with the hemispheres - nonetheless, really frustrating that I can't seem to control which way I see her 'spinning' - that all happens behind the scenes in my head. ah!
Don't worry, Apple specifically said you can't do this. (Create a free app with paid content.)
The Washington Post is right. We shouldn't blame Jim Cramer or other financial pundits (most people will try get away with whatever they can if they are allowed to). Instead we should blame the Washington Post itself and other news organizations for not publicizing how bad the corruption actually is in the financial sector. We (the people) are also to blame, but that's a whole different discussion.
The UK isn't similarly unmetric. We're, admittedly, in a half-cocked halfway house where food is sold by the gram (and it's legally enforced to be that way), but beer is still by the pint, speed limits and distances are in miles, and temperature is optional. What a mess.
What about in-app payments? Pay Apple 30% to process a micro payment, and pay the customer for the service they have just executed via an iPhone app - a restaurant review for example.
Meaningful girlfriends? You mean zero?
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Yea, but he has to at least get to the interview first. If he isn't invited to that process then there's nothing to even consider. Once invited to an interview, its a good time to start considering any major decisions (and you will have a few weeks). Up until that point, theres nothing to lose but a free weekend in Cali.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/Immortal_Daemon/Spinn... makes both rotations clear, if it's driving you nuts.
adblock can have its disadvantages as well, however.
This is true, but clang is new software under active development. The intention of the project is not to trade off speed for correctness but to eventually be correct and fast.

According to the follow-up posts, the differences in rendering may largely be due to bugs in the floating point code generation. Once these are fixed, it is entirely possible that clang could generate the correct images at the higher speed. We won't know until then, however.
thanks for the comments!

The reason for account, user and subdomain is that a single user can be a member of multiple accounts and a lot of people name their account one thing, but want a different url.

Invoice creation via freshbooks is not quite wired up 100% but is very close.

Thanks again for the feedback!

- Bradley, Squeejee/TickStart
The web interview where Cramer admitted to manipulating stock values with his hedge fund seems pretty damning to me. It betrays a mindset focused on manipulation, rather than providing any kind of real economic value. While Cramer might be only one small cracked cog in the broken machine of banking, he had the opportunity to investigate and expose the inherent instability in the financial system but instead rode the wave like everyone else.

What happened to real journalism? With Uncle Rupert's claws sunk into the Wall Street Journal the future of quality investigative reporting seems dim.
This has been tried before and it has failed miserably. Perfect price discrimination does not work because price is a key component of the average person's value assessment. I'd be very surprised if it works in the long term in this case.
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Except for video recordings, a decent camera, and built-in TV. Those are standard features in high-end phones in Europe and Japan.
It's always been possible, utilizing Tk.

For example:

Eshell V5.6.3 (abort with ^G)
1> debugger:start().
{ok,<0.32.0>}

Or, to see all your processes:

pman:start().

Truth be told though, I think you'd be better off using something like Tcl or Ruby for GUI coding.
Apparently I use my right brain. Couldn't make her change direction.

Then I looked over to the right hand side of the page and noticed out of corner of my eye she was now turning counter-clockwise, so now I was using my left brain.

Now I can't make her turn the other way.

I used both sides of my brain and used them together to decide that this test is bullshit.
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Yellow Journalism at it's finest. "The George Costanza of the mathematics community", he calls him. Must be nice to always be a critic, and never have to create anything real.
It's one thing to be fresh out of college with no debt and no responsibilities. I could imagine finding a roommate, eating ramen and stretching $5000 for 6 months or more.

However you sound a bit more like me. I'm 30, married, with $60,000 of student loans and a car payment living in Mountain View. In case you don't know what expenses are like out here, let's just say $5000 wouldn't even cover my loan payments + rent for 2 months. You will not find a decent one-bedroom under $1500. You can do better if you cram yourselves into an efficiency or get roommates, but just FYI, I got a 30% raise to move out here and I've never felt poorer. Given your situation, your runway will be shorter than most, but if you are good, that may be the extra drive you need to get something up and fundable in under 3 months. Me? I'm bootstrapping from someplace cheaper when I leave my current startup. I see the YC model as more appropriate for those with no experience, no connections and no responsibilities.

Good luck.
Great...I can get a 10-15% increase in speed in exchange for results that look like shit.
Thank you for the response. I may give the wax a try. I recall trying a pair, many many years ago. I also tried silicon some years ago; from that, I have some idea of what you mean about the difference in feel.

The foam plugs I wear are rated at something like -29 or -31 dB, depending upon which exact box I have (even though they all carry the same brand name). Even if the rating is accurate, it is measured against a frequency / frequency spread that does not apply much if at all to speech.

Here's a resource I've been considering mining; I haven't pulled the trigger on an order, yet.

http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/

It appears to be a Yahoo store account. Maybe pg could get us a discount? ;-) (Viaweb went to Yahoo, right?)
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Thanks. That's actually going to help me a lot.
Yes, definitely. Now that I think about it, your point is especially relevant in light of the examples the article chooses.
Now it is useful to identify the human behaviors that led to this and insure we do not make the same mistakes again.
There's absolutely no reason. Then again, there's plety of bad code to go around in this crawler. Just a few nuggets:

* Magic strings with no comments.

* Global variables

* Attempting to write his own URI parser.
I guess a combination of the Guardian, the Telegraph, the IHT and the Economist? A spectrum of political interests, covered by motivated, professional reporters?

I am probably missing one or two good sources but that should cover all the bases really.
check for duplicate URLs when submitting or a confirmation page showing similar stories already submitted.
That doesn't say how many times the app had to be resubmitted before approval. I'd like to see the rate of first time rejections.
This clears a bit up for me as we are in pretty much the same situation. Thank you. As for your last sentence,

I see the YC model as more appropriate for those with no experience, no connections and no responsibilities.

I see that I have all three....
Agee except for the "own" term. About 100 people have contributed/are contributing to web2py.
This would be true in a market driven by competition between near-equals.

The iPhone does not live in such a market. It has no competition. It is a qualitatively different product from other mobile phones. The cell phone market is divided into two categories: the iPhone, and inferior crud. If Apple were to begin charging $0.05 per "click", you would have to cough up the dough or switch to a vastly inferior product. Therefore, your ability to "vote" with your money is academic in this case.
Please cite sources.
Misleading statistic - developers are probably just getting better at self-censorship. They don't bother submitting non "politically correct" apps anymore.
Ugh, if you ever wanted proof that Evil lurks in the heart of man...
I think it's cool that Linus Torvald's is using Linux to teach his daughters computing (with handy parental controls he wrote himself).

I think it's cool that Guido van Rossum uses Python in most of his daily programming.

I think it's cool that thet Lighttpd website runs on Lighttpd.

I think it's cool that I use my own project for my daily websearching needs (okay, bad example, since I'm in Search UI and most of my job consists of putting a pretty web interface on the stuff the backend engineers do. I think it's cool that I use lacker's stuff that I slapped a frontend onto for my daily websearching needs. ;-))
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I found it seriously disturbing that there were some parents who actually thought it was ok to involve their kids in child porn.
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As an adult I use Facebook more like a teen. I'm so busy I don't have time to really interact with my friends, so I can keep in touch there. I think of it as a lightweight way to connect with people.

I use twitter to keep in touch with my techno-peeps and for business. I started following those in the know in a couple of areas and try to give quality updates or responses to questions. I also use it in conjunction with a couple of sites I'm developing.
And that is part of the problem. This news agencies are owned by large corporations, whose motivation is profit and not the telling of news. The news media are no longer a strong force in helping to shape this country. It is not in their interest to ask the hard questions and do strong investigative reporting.

I was listening to an interesting pod cast on just this subject (http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive) if anyone is interested for a unique perspective on this.

*edit: grammar fixes
It is objectively awful. By objectively awful I mean that as a designer, I can see plenty of flaws in the design which irk people beyond the usual dislike for change. Anyway, there's no point arguing further. You have your view, I have mine. We are the Paul Boutin and Owen Thomas of Hacker News. http://valleywag.gawker.com/5172407/what-was-mark-zuckerberg...

I will ask you to reconsider your stereotype of users though. Go run some user studies (or at least observe them) before being so quick to make all-encompassing stereotypes.
what is an Entrepreneur-in-residence?
That thread as far as im concerned is dead.

I always thought PG would give the site to someone willing to keep it up.

Put like one ad on it so the person updating the code can get some small amount of revenue from it.
Reminds me of a handset project I once worked on. We had two baseband chipsets (with associated cpu) in one mobile phone. The software that sent commands between the two was called BundleOfNerves. Fun times :)
One nice little addition not really mentioned anywhere - it will have the ability to sync notes with the desktop, making the notes applet actually useful.
Please add full titles to links in the "title" attribute, especially in comment parents. Then, users can hover over the (often truncated) parent link and see the full title without clicking.

Just to be super explicit, what I am asking for is for a link instance like this:

<a href="item?id=519555">Super last minute advice for startups applying for...</a>

to be changed sitewide to this:

<a href="item?id=519555" title="Super last minute advice for startups applying for Y Combinator">Super last minute advice for startups applying for...</a>
I've used escrow.com with great success. You can split the fee to escrow between the two parties or have 1 side agree to pay it. I think the seller decides what the split is, so make sure you agree on it before they set it up.

At first i was cautious since escrow.com looks like it straight out of 1996 but it's legit.
and pay is better? I pay the $4.99 for your app and then you nickel and dime me to death?

In fact for paid apps its even worse because the developer has already gotten the $4.99 from me(which used to be their sole source of revenue up to this point), so any additional money I'd pay would just be bonus, so they have no incentives not to abuse the nickel and dime option
I've been with Dreamhost for a couple of years. I have a lot of sites with them. It's fine. It's very trendy to bash them.

I have had a private server with them for the last year, and recently added a 2nd one for a higher priority app I'm working on, as I don't want any of my other sites to crash it. The private servers are cool. I can crank up my server size using an API (or from their main panel) from the low of 150MB of memory for $15/month up to 4000MB of memory for $400/month. I enjoy this sort of flexibility.

Last night, I just upgraded from Apache to lighttpd, which unloads your processor still more. (They just rolled out lighttpd as an option yesterday)

I've been down a bit, usually for less than 6 hours at a time, and some of this was due to things I caused, like moving a https id from one private server to another.

Enjoy them, they're great.
Like I said, it's easy to hack anything to do exactly what you want. The hard part is making your hack work with other hacks. How many Wordpress plugins can you install before things randomly break? How do you detect breakage, anyway? (Do all plugins have test suites? Can you compose these test suites to ensure that two plugins don't break each other?) How are variable and class namespace conflicts handled? How are conflicting database schema changes handled? Is there a way to request similar information from the database in two places without doing two queries? Is there a cache that can consistently share pieces of data between two plugins?

I could go on and on, and the answer to most of these things is no. Most of the time, it doesn't matter because the plugin is "too simple" to break things. But simplicity has its limits -- there are a lot of features that Wordpress is missing that I trivially implemented in my Angerwhale prototype (cleanly).

As to the number of extensions, it's simple. Wordpress is the only blogging solution out there, and there are millions of PHP programmers. (OK, there is MT also. But MT killed itself with weird licensing, and lost all of its mindshare. Oops.)

Those two factors combine to create a huge ecosystem. But it doesn't say much about the design of Wordpress, other than "it works well enough for people with simple needs, and rewriting a whole blogging engine would take a little more time than hacking Wordpress for this one site."

Anyway, sometimes good enough is good enough. Sometimes it isn't.
Yes, early in the article it says "Facebook has northwards of 800 memcached servers creating a reservoir of 28 terabytes of memory enabling a 99% cache hit rate." I've covered this stuff before so I don't explore the topic. It's a device to quickly show how memory is being used by serious companies to do serious things.

Caching is mentioned as related to but not the same as SoR, but you are right, I don't spend a lot of time on it.

I understand why you wouldn't be keen, but it is at least something to think about.
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But what if I don't care how much value I'm going to deliver?
I suspect we may see an influx of 'demo' games costing $0.01c, where you can buy the additional levels. At the moment there are a host of free 'Lite' games with paid-for versions.
Who else would own them?
One of my buddies just started working for them. Cloudera is a real braintrust.
I'm assuming that the parts can be used for many different things.

The botnet can be rented out. And it can be used used to distribute ads. There was recently an article on HN about a guy who got arrested for putting spam on a botnet.

And I'm sure having access to private servers can be monetized in other areas too. At the very least you could use it to sell pirated material.

And of course the money laundering method they're using can probably be used in other areas too.
But as they as say The people deserve the government they elect and in this case, the people deserve the entertainment they get.

CNBC knows that if they show just serious journalism, not a lot of people are going to see them, and at the end of the day, it's all a business !
Paid to have an office in the VC firm and sit in on pitch meetings with new companies. May help bring new deals to the partners. May have his or her own companies that may or may not be funded by the VC in question.

The local state owned biotech investment fund calls them "Executives in Residence" which I think is really funny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_In_Residence
just out of interest - do many founders bring their girlfriends with them?
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