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Maybe you should! You should be interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. When they ask if you have any questions for them, respond with, "Could you solve this for me?" Then give them a programming problem.

If you're being interviewed by a non-technical person (who obviously can't program), that could be a red flag right there (in and of itself).
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Create a fake fb girlfriend - that desperate?
To say that it "in no way" says that is simply incorrect.

It's quite clearly swinging around the threat of a big sentence. I can't see how that could possibly be more clear.

It's meant to intimidate and frighten, not just Swartz, but any one else who may come into conflict with the United States Attorneys. That's why it's there.

It's not merely a statement of fact, it's bragging and intimidation.
I was debating moving there.

Instead I moved to Tulsa, OK.

It had a similar feel to Palo Alto for me. At least in the area I live now. In fact, the biking/walking seems to be slightly better. It feels like the beginnings of a tech and startup community are forming and I am kind of hoping I can be a big contributor to that. The city is investing massively in the area to promote tech and startups.

And the biggest factor for me was cost of living. I own for (far) less than 1 bedroom rent in Palo Alto or San Francisco (with my 20% down payment of course): 2000 sq/ft 3 story condo on the river for less than a grand a month. I pretty much went months without using my car too, walking and biking only.
The pressure relief values are essential, what happens after that point is a separate issue. The advantage of Flares is there simple, cheap, can quickly deal with a lot of gas, and render the gas inert. Holding tanks on the other hand need a lot of piping, pumping equipment, and then some system to deal with whatever miscellaneous gas ends up in there. However, if C02 start being taxed expect to see far fewer flares.
The problem isn't so much that the taxes are high, it's that the money is wasted. I think that if Americans saw a (domestic) example of high taxes being used in a productive manner, they would be much more open to the idea of a Scandinavian style cradle-to-grave system.

But as long as the states with high taxation are poster children for governmental dysfunction, there will be a palpable opposition to taxation. And that's why people who live in states like Texas (where there is no income tax, personal or business) enjoy having a small government so much.
hmm. Or did they? It looks like they were just pointing down and added the whole top in post.
If it's easier to have your terminal in a browser tab than for it to be a separate application, that is a major failing on the part of your window manager (or at least your understanding of it).
A few reasons. Less populous states have proportionally more representation, since representatives are proportional to state population but every state gets two senators. Rural states are earlier in the presidential primary season (Iowa is the first), so they wind up getting more. And the less populous states tend to be poorer in general, so they have less to give and greater welfare need.
The tax amounts don't include state and local taxes. NYC residents pay ~12.8% state/local tax on top of federal taxes.
I feel like you have misunderstood me in exactly the way that I hoped to avoid by writing such a lengthy reply.

In brief: I have no problem with teaching kids how to defend themselves. But I think kids who know how to defend themselves but were never taught healthy boundaries are at greater risk than kids with zero training in "defense" but much clearer boundaries than average. My sons were never taught to shoot and never took martial arts. That did not prevent my oldest son from hitting or shoving classmates in elementary school who were refusing to respect his boundaries.
It focuses on 2.7.x primarily, but a lot of the advice is usable regardless.
Not doing it is poor strategy, yes, but that doesn't mean that we have to accept it as good public policy. I found the recently posted paper on the German system enlightening: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059044
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There is a bottleneck in the metadata propagation code that slows down the system after roughly 16 nodes (there is one place where we used an O(N^3) algorithm in the interest of shipping the product). This isn't an inherent limitation, just the state of affairs today. We'll resolve this in the next few releases, but we wanted to be up front about this limitation for the time being.
Snark is easier than addressing philosophical questions.

See also Tyler Cowen's insightful comments on a similar snark-fest: Beware of moral arguments which do not address "At which margin?"*

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/doe...
I have absolutely no interest in moving to San Francisco, and I only happened to glance at this article because it was so highly voted on Hacker News.

Boy am I glad I did. I still don't care about living in San Francisco, but I am in awe of your amazing blog-writing skills. This is not a book or newspaper article: it falls solidly within the typical boundaries of a blog article, talking about own experiences and opinions on a matter of interest to him and his neighbors. But so WELL written! The amount of detail, the little touches like pictures that reflect, illustrate, and even extend each point being made... I could only aspire to someday be able to write like this. I've bookmarked it under "examples of great journalism" as an exemplar of the "blog post" writing style.

Thank you for writing this and spending the time (it must have taken a good deal of time) to make the presentation so polished.
First off I am not really pro riddle per say, however we do use some 'riddles' at my current employer.

1) Sometimes they can point out really big gaping holes in basic logic ability, for instance we ask about basic logic with the NAND gate riddle, we explain you can compose the common logical operations just using NAND. Ask the interviewee to construct NOT using NAND, usually if they have never seen anything like this, we walk em through it as a freebie... so now they have NOT and NAND, and we ask them to construct AND. How many Architects we have interviewed, with 10+ years of experience who could not logically figure out how to combine NOT and NOTAND to get a logical AND...

2) Second, we mostly dont actually care too much about getting the correct answers to the riddles. Its partially to look at the way person solves problems, but mostly its psychological. In software dealing with non tech, high level biz people, you get all kinds of bizarre requests. If you throw a hissy fit in the middle of an interview, or storm out because someone asks you a riddle... Are we to expect you to keep your head when the VP of Sales asks you for something 'crazy'?
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If, as the theory goes, the product structure mimics the organizational structure of the group that created the product - you could extend to situations like this. In which case, you would argue that until the GOP changes its (hierarchical and paternalistic) structure the tech advantage will continue.
No. There's something to be said about West Coast vs East Coast vibes, but the article accurately describes SF and it mostly doesn't apply to the smaller cities like Portland, Seattle and especially Vancouver.
The 8-ride ticket was recently nerfed+. The discount is smaller, and you have to use all 8 rides within 30 days now instead of 60-90-whateveritwas. So if you're going up and back at least once a week, it's a small savings, but if you miss even one ride then you've probably wiped out several 8-rides' worth of savings.

I think they're doing a paper-ticket surcharge anyway so get the Clipper card, and consider paying with Clipper-loaded cash value instead.

(+ They were planning to get rid of 8-rides entirely and making it paper-ticket or 25c-discount-for-Clipper in something that amounted to a stealth fare hike - of course they denied that was the main motive).
Are your "black lists" based on poor communication, or making an offer to another candidate while they haven't interviewed you yet?
It's not true that those tax dollars are going to Mississippi's general fund. Rather, they are going to things like Medicaid and food stamps. Presumably the federal transfers equalize access to food and medicine across states, so they both start from the same place when they start levying state taxes to provide state services.
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Don't you mean Frisco?
Diminishing marginal utility tells us that a progressive tax code makes the most sense. 10% of a wealthy person's income is worth less to that person than 10% of a poor person's income. It makes sense to have higher rates on higher incomes because that's the fair way to do things.

What alternative do you propose?
"The above is valid Clojure code, not another language whose syntax you have to learn or separate compiler to use."

Even though this is a fair point, the comparison between the Jade solution and the Clojure one is invalid. Jade was conceived as a whitespace-significant language. Its biggest benefit over plain HTML (or HTML-based template engines like Moustache) is the usage of indentation to determine hierarchies.

The comparison would be more valid with something like http://domo-js.com, which is solving the exact same problem: using a single language (JS) for markup production – and even replacing CSS.
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I'm not sure I buy that. Aaron Swartz is not exactly Willie Horton. Even if you paint him as a dangerous computer hacker, that doesn't strike me as a particularly convincing political ad.
Not anymore (previous googler)...

My google interview was the best part of the whole time there to be honest. If the work had lived up to the people and problems presented in the interview, I would still be there, happy as a clam.

Instead, it was a complete forced bait and switch onto a team doing something irrelevant to my skill set, which is my way of saying there are plenty of problems with Google, but this is not one of them.
Here's one that I don't see discussed much:
The tech meetup culture isn't that great.

In other cities with moderately sized tech communities (Seattle, Portland, Austin...) the user group communities are a strong social force - it's how people collaborate, and how they share skill and technology news.

In SF, people are too busy working late at their well-funded post-startup jobs to go hang out and talk about code as a craft. So everything is siloed by company, and you get the Google Way and the Apple Way and whatever from the various places that people worked together, and knowledge only moves as quickly as people can get poached from one company and brought into another.
SF is nice. I spent time living in different areas along the peninsula, but definitely enjoyed living more toward the south, like in Mountain View or Sunnyvale. Easy access to SF or SJ. Lower rent. Easier access to good hiking at Rancho San Antonio, easy drive to Santa Cruz.
Major highways in metro areas are regularly resurfaced and repaired. It doesn't take a long-term shutdown of the road. They just shut down one or two lanes late at night, repave or repair a section of the road, and then do the same for the other lanes a different night.
I've perfected getting Python looking good in those formats :) (Or at least spent a year doing so).

But yes, there are a lot of poorly formatted ebooks, which is especially problematic for Python code.

I've already reached out to Danny via other mechanisms, so perhaps there will be a properly formatted Amazon version...
The author missed the true significance of the Maker Revolution. It is not about people being able to design their own products or having a market full of craptastic products.

The Maker Revolution is about being able to provide for your needs without depending on a global supply chain. It's about the kind of material freedom you might have if your neighborhood hardware store, or even your household fab in the garage can make all the goods for your basic needs, and then some.
The same can be applied to pre-interview screening problems as well. I recently send my resume to a company that was advertising on the Hacker New job board (I'm not going to say which company it was). They replied to my email telling me that in order to get to the next step in the process, I need to solve a problem and send them my code. They wanted me to send them a conway's game of life board that, after 1000 generations, could be converted to a GIF and would make up a black and white image they included in the email. Basically they wanted me to take their image, convert it to a conway game of life board, and then figure out how to calculate backwards game of life generations. Sounds to me like a fools errand. I deleted the email and never thought about it again. I have better things to do to fill up my free time. Maybe if they had me do something actually useful or meaningful...
What did his accent have to do with the rest of this?
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...which is a similarly unreliable indicator.
Very well explained. Hope you don't mind that I pimped your comment on my personal blog http://www.blogoftravis.com/
"...and some weirdness means they don't spend that money on roads"

Of course they don't! They spend it on public-sector employee pensions, and boondoggle public-transit projects like that high-speed rail link between Bakersfield and Fresno. :P
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Not my opinion, but I once read somewhere that you should aim for a savings (+investments) of 1x salary by 30, 5x by 40, 10+x by 50.
Wow. I knew I was below the Wall Street Journal's target audience, but I didn't realize how far below, assuming those four examples are meant to by typical WJS readers.
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Based on your comment, I can only surmise that your "nowhere near $230k" remark means you are really well past that mark in income, or your mortgage payment is indeed quite low.
Depends strongly on the area, with probably more focus than in the U.S. on whether the company will produce either scientific or cultural innovation in addition to profits, because many of the funds come from nonprofits or state initiatives. There is a lot of seed funding for companies that can show they'll produce a scientific impact, through either state-funded "research commercialization" grants (where a company will propose to turn academic research into a product), or through quasi-charitable private initiatives like http://www.novo.dk/composite-364.htm

There is also a ton of arts funding, much larger than in the U.S. on a per-capita basis, to the extent that it bleeds over into funding tech companies too. For example, Playdead (makers of Limbo) got their initial ~$150k in funding from the Danish Film Institute, and I know two founders with seed funding from the Nordic Game Program.
> I think how much money you make is a very good measure of how much you benefit from the existence of government and civilized society.

Please explain how a web designer making $250k a year freelancing out of an apartment in NYC is "benefiting" from the government more than a $30k/year individual on welfare.
How can you be mad. They are showing you the numbers right there on the page. It's not like they're lying. How can they be out of touch if they know the numbers?
I went through the blog (the last 3 pages of articles) they all have quite consistent share ratios (Facebook likes are almost always 6 - 7x the number of Tweets) and the number of likes seems to hover around 4k for the "average" post (so it's plausible they have a regular audience liking most posts).

Every blog post on their site follows the formula talked about in this blog post (explaining "why" it went viral) so why haven't these posts gone viral?
From my experience with interviewing in SF, most companies don't have a Human Resources department. You're mostly dealing with people who are winging it.

The timing issues you described are rampant. In my opinion, that is because there is a tension between companies fearing that they will find no one to hire and trying to find the best candidate for their money.

The textbook way to hire is to publish an ad and set a closing date for weeks later when you will start considering candidates. You interview everyone in an orderly fashion and make your decision at the end of the process.

I think that some companies will argue that they can't wait for 2 weeks to collect resumes because the early applicants will get snatched up by another company. Though, in my opinion, I'd rather know how long I am waiting than to be subjected to delay tactics every few days.
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haha totally is. I moved to SF from Pittsburgh, a home of cold winters, hot summers, and greasy foods. I felt like I didn't see an obese person for the first 6 months of living here, but it was all relative to what I was used to seeing on a regular basis.
That doesn't sound like a "riddle" to me. It sounds like a programming task, although one which might not be directly relevant to a lot of domains.
Oh, for the record, I am female. I sometimes forget not everyone realizes that. My bad. I also have a second user name that I don't use. I can list that if folks just desperately gotta know.
I've come across your Quake experiments before, I think. That or someone else has a page on modifying Quake to support stupid high FOV.

4 cameras wouldn't work very well with the cameras I used. It was a struggle with 6 cameras to find enough overlap get good quality stitching.

One thing that would be great is to get cameras that can be arranged in a tight enough configuration that they all share the same non-parallax point. Then, you don't have to do anything fancy to stitch them.

One piece I kind of glossed over is that at lower altitudes the ground is much closer to the camera than the sky. That means that you can't create a general case stitch profile as you're not working from the center of a sphere (in relation to the objects you're trying to use for control points), so as the payload rotates you have to stitch each frame individually. I may play at it some more and try to get a stitched video of the low altitudes of the descent. First, though, I'm going to take a break from the project for a bit.
Including state and local taxes opens up a huge additional can of worms since that varies so much; if you want to do it really thoroughly, you have to start looking into how common renting vs buying is and how property taxes vary.

You could also throw sales taxes in. This would show how its impact is felt more at certain income levels.
Also meetups here suck because most of the people in the tech scene aren't really that fun to be around. I've been to a few launches and it was nothing but the following: 1) people inflating their egos talking about worthless metrics, how many exits they've been a part of, and how what they're doing now is changing the world (guess what, it's not), 2) people just looking to be a part of the "it" crowd of SV, 3) people looking to find some engineer dumb enough to be their tech guy and execute the idea they have for a paltry equity stake.
No. I've been living here for 15 years and the rent increase in the last 1.5 years has shocked everyone. I thought it the worst was during the dotcom bubble and my rent went from 1900 to 2300/month for a 2ba/2ba, but I've seen some rents go up $1000/month in the last year, and 2br/2ba in SOMA is $4k/month.

It's on a pace that we've never seen before.
It's most certainly true with regards to weather. Nights are noticeably colder everywhere on the west coast than in the hot, humid north east.

canine-friendliness

I'm not sure you understand what a canine-unfriendly city looks like - Seattle is certainly canine friendly.

fog

Not as bad, sure, but fog in Philly or Toronto is like an bi-annual event.
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Be sure you're counting both sides of that. If you can get work in a lucrative field, higher cost of living is offset by higher income, and you actually get ahead on aggregate since some expenses are the same nationwide.
But that's ridiculous. The only thing that made this case big news was his death.

It's worth reading over old HN threads on the criminal case. The consensus was pretty close to my position now, which is that prosecutorial discretion worked pretty well in determining the charges. That doesn't make the outcome any less sad; nor does raging at the wrong people.
On the other hand, heterogeneous preferences suggest that redistribution to the lower classes might be welfare destroying.

Rich people tend to want money a lot, as demonstrated by their propensity to work very hard. In contrast, poor people tend to prefer time to money, as demonstrated by their propensity to avoid working and not even look for work. If we transfer money from people who value it to people who don't, that's hardly a good thing.
Threat: "expression of intent to harm"=. Yes, I would say that it does.[1]

Stating "Charges X, Y, and Z could result in 35 years" is not a threat. Stating "Charges X, Y, and Z could technically result in 35 years, and I will seek at least 7 years" is a threat of 7 years. Stating "I am charging you with X, Y, and Z which could result in 35 years." and putting that out in a press release... that is threatening 35 years.

[1] http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=threat&submit-result-SEARCH...
No pun intended... :-)
We had similar problems as well, but I do miss the user experience. Performance-wise it's just not there though.
^This. I've lived in both SF and Austin. Austin is a bad ass city. In terms of quality of life, as a young and single male, it is a complete and total no brainer that Austin is better than SF. Better nightlife, more attractive women, cheaper cost of living, less bums, more sunlight, better weather (if you prefer hot to cold), better urban/outdoor balance...

BUT, in terms of the startup scene, SF is in another league. Austin has some successful startups, but they seem to be largely enterprise focused. It's going to be a long time before you see a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, Dropbox etc. founded here. If you're doing a startup, particularly in the consumer space, SF is the place to be.
There is no incentive to pay higher taxes as an individual.

Country prosperity and supporting social services are nice concepts but ask any CPA how the average high earner feels about being "business partners" with the govt.

So an honest suggestion - what if there were some small incentives created in govt controlled systems for high earners?

Pay the highest tax rate? Free carpool lane access for the next year.

Nothing insane, but some direct positive benefit in a transaction that overwhelmingly feels negative.
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And don't forget to multiply each of the "investment income" numbers by 25 for a rough calculation of their wealth, assuming a 4% return on investment. For example, that family of six with $180,000 of passive investment income has net worth of $4.5 million. They could move almost everywhere in the U.S. except Manhattan and San Francisco and never work another day in their lives.
I had the x120e that I put a SSD into and upgraded the RAM on - a very nice, supercompact machine.

I would love an affordable Chromebook with Thinkpad build quality, which is my only complaint about the $250 Chromebook. An ARM-based Thinkpad would be awesome.