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Why don't companies have "great programming skills" as part of their "culture"?
I was told today by a company that very recently hired me that I am "A very talented developer, but unfortunately not a cultural fit". This has been told to be <i>literally</i> by every single company that has ever hired me except for one. I have never been told by anyone that I can't get things done, or that my insights are wrong, or anything like that. The common thing amongst the companies I work with are the founders who are extroverted, love smalltalk, sales based, etc. While I'm the opposite: likes to work in quiet environment, introverted, strong engineering intuition, poor sales/people intuition.<p>I have this fantasy that I'll come across a company some day that will tell me "You're a great developer, who gets stuff done, and thats exactly why we want you on our team!", but I'm beginning give up on that dream because I've seen so many companies that are the opposite.<p>Should I give up hope, or maybe someone has a recommendation of a company in the NYC/Bay area that is looking for someone like me?
Eric Schmidt Plans To Sell 3.2M Google Shares
I cannot wait for this to become part of the rbenv install list. Looking forward to giving it a spin, particularly due to the require enhancements. They should improve rails boot time significantly.
agree with pikewood. if you are not already doing that on your own, you are probably not someone who enjoys sitting in front of their computers 24 hours a day. If a startup requires you to have an active github account, chances are everyone their sits in front of their computers 48 hours a day.
Bridging the Ann Arbor-Detroit Gap
This was submitted to arxiv.org for a laser using a hologram as its reflective mirror such that different beam properties can be dialed in on the fly without changing optics.

Back when I was trying to get optical 10Gbit links going this was a huge issue in terms of getting the beam adapted the actual fiber/install. I could imagine that if you built a communication laser with this capability you could have it tune itself to the fiber for maximum gain much less expensively than the current high tolerance fittings and connectors.

I was always fascinated with the work the Dr. Tim Strand was doing in the Optics lab (which was the lab next to the Image Processing Lab at USC) with holographic lenses as a way of minimizing optical setup costs. Fun times.
The register is a tabloid, not a news site. God knows why this is even on the front page.
I found Vynnycky & White's An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling [1] fantastically interesting to go through. I know games are the traditional "fun" way to learn a programming language, but simulating a Resident Evil or 28 Days Later apocalypse is, for me, far more interesting :).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Infectious-Disease-Mod...
I hope this isn't just a rewording of "where are all the girls?"
This looks like a great way to find movies. I was a bit confused at first about what the different colors (blue, red, grey) meant. After looking at the markup I came to the conclusion that blue meant positive and red meant negative. A bit later I found the explanation hidden behind the "Click to Learn More". There's no visual indication that this is a link, so I found it easy to miss. Perhaps it would be good to move the explanations somewhere not hidden behind a click, or make the place to click more obvious.
It's The Register's friendly name for Google, and comes from -- I think -- Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, an impenetrable monolith where nothing was what it seemed and anything could happen.
Perhaps having public housing adjacent makes them less desirable to developers?
Yeah you're right, I guess I was thinking in the context of things I have supported on Kickstarter in the past. I'd definitely share your view for some things.
May anyone offer a good synopsis of the movie? If you know of a good blog post about it you may post it too. Thank you.
It's a shame it can't utilise my actual 3D stereoscopic webcam. I wonder if they'll add support for using multiple webcams?
The HN title is misleading. What the article is stating is that Google is essentially building its own FBO [1] at the airport. There won't be any additional runways, nor control towers. Just a small (relative to commercial terminals) terminal and space for Google to store their planes at.

A little bit of background for people who aren't pilots / have never flown private before: if you're not flying commercial, you fly out of a Fixed Base Operator at the airport. These are usually on the other side of the airport from the commercial terminal, and are responsible for filling up planes with gas and providing hangar or tiedown space. They usually have a nice lounge area with flatscreen TVs, comfortable seating, and a pilot's lounge with computers that can be used to file flight plans and check weather. Some of the nicer ones go so far as to have beds for pilots who are doing a layover, and offer amenities like free snacks, and movie rooms. These FBOs have (in almost all cases) no TSA security - you just walk out to your plane and hop in. This is infinitely nicer than commercial air travel. The people at the FBO actually want to earn your business and treat you nicely, going out of their way to help you!

In this case, Google is just contracting with an existing FBO to build a new building with a lounge area, and building out more hangars to store planes, both of which will be exclusively for Google's use.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-base_operator
What's your impression of the Z10?
I'd also recommend choosing different colors. When scanning the list, I want the hottest movies to jump out, while the less-good movies fade into oblivion. As it stands now, red is the dominating color, and my eyes are naturally drawn to the worst movies. If you want to stick with the blue, I'd recommend the same dark blue for "hot" movies, a lighter blue for mediocre movies, and the gray for the worst movies.

Nice idea, though; seems to work impressively well.
OS X is based on Darwin, not Linux. It's a UNIX environment, not Linux.

I would disrecommend Mac, because he'd be buying an overpriced piece of junk.
Stay away from Samsung if you're planning on using Linux [1].

There's a new BIOS "feature" called "Secure boot" which will affect Linux on Windows 8 machines. There's been a lot of discussion of this here and among distros. Everyone says that everything will work out, but it's still a new thing, so the road may be a little bumpy. You may want to stick with Windows 7 for now.

You can often improve your experience cheaply by upgrading your RAM. You can put 8 GB in most laptops for a cost of $100 or less. This is particularly important if you use large numbers of browser tabs, or virtual machine software like Virtualbox (an easy way to get started with Linux).

As for getting a Mac -- Don't.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4O...
Shine a flash light on your face (possibly from your smartphone) and watch what happens.
The Earth's crust recycles itself every so often, so given a large enough timeframe, most of the existing surface will be gone, nuclear accidents or no. I suppose a ocean spills could last longer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustal_recycling
WebRTConf
Our company, &yet, put on RealtimeConf and RedisConf and we do a lot of realtime-focused consulting using a variety of technologies.

We've been playing with WebRTC for a year. We have a lot of friends doing interesting things with it.

Seems like it's gaining a ton of steam, so we've decided to host a one-day conference on WebRTC the day before RealtimeConf (and the day after RedisConf) in Portland this October.

We're going to be looking for some great talks and demos and we'll announce a call for speakers in the next month or so.

If you've been playing with WebRTC or are building a product that uses it, it would be great to have you there!
Yup, also true of architects.
Under the '1' in "L12" is a tree complete with label. Gave me a good laugh.
38 seconds! I play nullpomino 40 line too and have been stuck at the 1minute mark forever.
Apps are trouble for apple
Bonus points - you can use it with Twig too.
Why? Honestly - if you're shipping version 1 the only people that are going to care are people who know what twitter bootstrap is. That's less than 1% of 1% of the population. So why spend precious time catering to that group? Did you check whether the site works in IE6 too?
I think you need to include speculators in your equation. If S is the number of bitcoins being horded, we would get (M - S)V = PQ. Since the perception seems to be shifting where more and more people believe that Q is going to continue to increase, S becomes larger (and in extreme cases, a bubble).
Improving Noise
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If you like the idea of Kickstarter but can't use it for some reason then check out Indiegogo (http://www.indiegogo.com/).
Nicely done.

Now if they could add freeloader tipping point as a function of population mobility it would really drive the point home.
They were quite powerful given that they had a 65MY head start. I hoped they might have brought them back for a visit to handle the borg/dominion. Geeky enough for ya?
Exactly. You also get a much more unique look from PS.
This shouldn't be a deterrent for any incubator per se. The value of your idea will purely depend on the size of the market in dollars that you're planning to attack. YC is an investment business where they make bets for the maximum return, so if the outcome of your focus realistically means your business would top out at a million dollars a year in revenue, then no, they won't be interested. You'll need to compete on estimated ROI with all the other applicants which basically boils down to projected return and percent chance of success. If you're attacking a somewhat smaller market, but your chance of success seems very high, then they will be just as interested.

If you haven't already, get a book that talks about estimating startup value, and then create some rough numbers.
Can't wait to see refinements start getting used in libraries. I guess it'll be some time until people start requiring Ruby 2.0, but there are some seriously excellent new features in the works. See https://speakerdeck.com/a_matsuda/ruby-2-dot-0-on-rails for a good overview.
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Mashape - The Cloud API Hub
Stellar.js - Parallax has never been easier
I'd be surprised if House of Cards goes down as a failure.

It's an HBO-quality show that didn't cost Netflix nearly as much as some HBO series.

Netflix bought 2 seasons for HoC for $100M. As HBO shows goes, a single season of Rome ran $100M+, Game of Thrones $50M+, the Boardwalk Empire Pilot $18M.

It's unknown how much of the subscriber fee HBO takes home, but the Internet seems to think it's somewhere in the $8-10 range, not too far off from what Netflix charges.

Yes, someone could sign up for a single month of Netflix, watch the series then cancel, but I'd expect the truly cheap/broke to simply download whatever they want to watch for free anyway.

The show has wide appeal, plenty of hype, reviews are largely positive and if torrent interest is indicative of popularity, the peer counts for HoC are right on par with with other recent premium cable series.
If you pin the tab, Firefox and Chrome should glow the favicon on title change.
This is ironic, considering at the start of the presentation they pointed out this exact point.
I didn't get it when Google decided to name their language Go because it was awfully hard to google. Same here : the name isn't bad but will be impossible to google for anyone forgetting to add "python" to their request.

Anyway, great initiative, I'm looking forward to read it ! (star or bookmark it if you intend to find it next week) :)
Try out ConEmu instead of Console2. It also has clink integration from the box.
Ask HN: Bookmarklet library + community
I find myself making quite a few bookmarklets to make my life easier and funnily enough, there's a bookmarklet to submit to HN as well. Does any one know why there isn't a community where people can submit bookmarklets and have other's vote on their usability. I guess Greasemonkey / tampermonkey is one way to do this. Any ideas?
Strings and concatenation do, however, form a monoid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid
When the news about the change in structure of the shares came out a while back I decided that this is a company that I could never invest in (a big enough discount to intrinsic value may change my mind). The execs can reduce their economic interest in the company while maintaining control, which isn't great for keeping their interests aligned with shareholders.

e: Here's a study that shows that companies with dual-class share structures pay executives more in compensation than usual and make value destructive acquisitions.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1080361
What'd really be great is if someone did that for design conferences. Seriously, all they'd need is an airbed or something, and you could stay in a stranger's apartment, and then meet a really good friend who's going to the design conference!

(https://www.airbnb.com/story if you haven't heard it before.)
Not sure if you have, but try a company that allows remote workers
Congrats Sir, you've just discovered the Internet Kill-Switch!

The “red telephone,” used to shut down the entire Internet comes to mind.

You discovered howto immunize friends and kill enemies in CyberWars.

Do governments have an Internet kill switch?

Yes, see Egypt & Syria they're good examples. We know China is doing Cyberwars, they are beyond Kill-Switches.

Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/in-search-of-the-internet-k...

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch

We know Goverments deploy hardware that they can control when needed. Smartphones are the best examples for Goverment issued backdoors, next to some Intel Hardware (including NICs).
It's not clear what your tool does or how it can help me now.
Just because some things have intrinsic value and have been used as a currency doesn't imply that something that doesn't have intrinsic value and is a currency can't be trusted.

You have to take a look at society's motivations, situation and psychological makeup, and from there you can make a prediction as to whether a currency can be trusted or not.
Not available in Canada. Sigh.
I'm curious, what Twitter display guidelines is the author breaking?
I've seen CS papers that use mainstream programming languages directly, instead of pseudocode, so you can just copy/paste it.

However, many CS papers aren't an easy lecture either, even if they talk about something really practical. I remember reading the paper on String B-trees, which is a data-structure for string search optimized for external storage (so you don't have to fit the whole index in RAM) and even if I understood all the concepts, the language was rather obtuse for no reason.
>When I asked these guys about it, they said they got past it after a while. They all say, yes, I have experienced Tetris Effect stuff, but at some point the brain seems to filter it out.

That corresponds with my experience with the Tetris Effect from other games. I used to play a ton of DDR, and initially experienced the same phenomenon (as I've mentioned in a past comment, I took the SAT the day after buying and playing it all night, resulting in the fascinating experience of seeing DDR arrows superimposed over an SAT scantron). I was pretty heavily addicted to the game for a long time, but eventually the phantom arrows simply went away.
I have the same problem with Mario Kart!
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Saying someone is "not a cultural fit" is a polite way to say that the person is difficult or impossible to work with.

In the workforce nowadays, you are almost never going to get direct feedback about what you might be doing wrong: you have to read between the lines.

If you have been told by several companies that you are not a cultural fit (and then let go), then you might consider what aspects of your behavior are causing friction.

Think of it this way: due to the high costs of acquiring and training employees, companies hate to let people go, especially new hires. One has to be doing something very wrong to get let go, and employees are usually given many chances to get it together.
Yep, probably they are.
When does the course start?
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted in this forum. I can't tell if you're genuinely ignorant or just trolling. You're saying that the reason patents covering a given product are so difficult to identify is that nobody knows about regular expressions? That has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

The difficulty isn't in finding patents based on keywords or patterns (Google patent search can do that all day long), the difficulty is in identifying patents that might cover a given device or product. If you've created a cell phone you can't just search the patent database for "cell phone". A patent could cover some piece of the device and never even reference cell phones, or a patent could cover a method of doing something that you didn't even realize was novel enough to warrant patent protection.

This requires careful study of a given patent, by lawyers but also by engineers. It is an expensive process with potentially tens of thousands of patents to sift through for a reasonably complicated product.
I was thinking along the same lines as rayiner, but more about actual coursework: hardware, compilers, operating systems, networks, protocols, optimization, security, etc. I could be wrong, but from the HN articles that rise to the top and general comments here, people seem amazed when someone masters these things. Yet to me they are fundamental to programming and allow you to go in new directions. My thinking is that inventing Facebook doesn't require this knowledge (that's a different domain of understanding marketplace and human needs), but implementing it at scale does.
Users don't care about your startup; they care about outcomes
This sounds like the plot for an excellent sci fi horror flick.
> call a doctor in the end

Which is the point of this article.
I can't say much about Tetris Effect, but I think this happens in various fields.

- When I studied Descriptive Geometry I started seems projections everywhere I looked.

- When I was doing research and development on procedural buildings, shapes appeared whenever I looked at real buildings.

- When I was studying graph theory (and I basically drawn everything to help me remember) I could see blobs appearing on the tv screen for random shapes.
So -1 -- 5 with the comment box right? how do you account for nicer/meaner do you smooth based on average review for that person's reviews?
Hey, git-crypt author here. I agree with Junio Hamano that you shouldn't use this technique to encrypt an entire repo but of course I think it works fine for encrypting a few select files.

Another important difference is that the example in the thread was using GPG, which is non-deterministic encryption, whereas git-crypt (also git-encrypt[1]) uses deterministic decryption (i.e. the same plain text always encrypts to the same ciphertext). Using deterministic encryption is absolutely essential or else git thinks the file has changed when it really hasn't. This was one of Junio's main objections ("making a pair of similar 'smudged' contents totally dissimilar in their 'clean' counterparts").

[1] Beware that git-encrypt uses ECB to accomplish deterministic encryption, which is insecure (the pictures here speak volumes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operatio...). In contrast, git-crypt uses CTR mode with a synthetic IV, which is secure.
Yea, for a second I thought this might be doing structure from motion. A simple rotation of the map and look at the source says otherwise.

Nice hack though. Can't wait to see some real CV with WebGL.
Ask HN: What ever happened to Broad Groups Skyscraper?
So Broad Group, the Chinese company that does pre-fabricated buildings was all set to build the worlds tallest building in 90 days. There was lots of press on it last year, and in theory its going up right now. Except it doesn't seem to be. Curious if they cancelled, delayed, or what.
Since the amount of mining is going fluctuate based on the potential profit, I'd say the electricity cost of mining is stabilizing to a factor around the price of bitcoins rather than the other way around.
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Is it worth the trouble to sell rather than borrow against it? Anyone have any idea on the economics of borrowing against such a large amount of equity in such a stable company?
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Interesting that the questions haven't changed in quite awhile.
I know this is a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a source (book, video, website, etc) which you could use to review the math from 0 to Calculus in one day? A sort of big picture overview of how math evolves from simple to complex. I've always wanted to do it, just to keep the math in my head fresh.
It's not clear to me why or how this will be better than the five existing services listed at https://www.usps.com/business/online-postage.htm
Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data’
The argument of the author sounds like an argument of someone who is addicted to writing ugly Perl one-liners. Many, many, complicated and co-dependent one-liners. "But I need this expressive power to do things!" Perhaps you primary concern should be about explaining things you did, rather than doing them. Especially if your job it to explain something to people.
This is just idiotic. Different package naming conventions provide no meaningful lock-in. Certainly it does not force users to use distribution maintained repos; it tends to be trivial to set up your own mirror of official repos.
I feel like it's valuable just to read this document every once in a while, even if I'm not thinking about applying to YC.
greasemonkey/userscripts/tamper etc are ways but not really user friendly for masses/non-programmers. ping me over email if you'd like
> Fear of ingesting synthesized chemicals in quantities to which our species has not been exposed during its evolution?

This line of argument is a quasi-religious appeal to authority.

Evolution does not have our best interests at heart, and it did not design us to be optimal machines. It did not get rid of cancer, for example, and for that reason quite a few people are happy to ingest synthesized chemicals that help preserve their lives.
Is there a website that will sell a single printable stamp online? I send maybe 2 letters a year, and would gladly pay something ridiculous like 500% markup when I can't find a stamp.
If all value is relative then there is no such thing as value at all. Of course the converse statement, that "inherent value" is a construct is true, since people rarely agree on the value of any given object, and generally the only way we can speak meaningfully about value is to take something that people agree has value. That said, there are certain types of objects that have been considered by most people to have value at most points in history. Gold, a fungible, maleable, shiny metal has been considered to be this for most of human history. There are other things of course, water being a very good example. The problem for currencies has historically been that alternative valuable objects either are not especially limited or not fungible, making them a bad base for a currency.

There may also be things that have "inherent value" insofar as they are necessary to the continued existence of humanity, whether or not we perceive them as so. Damaging our environment beyond a certain degree would certainly be this. Unfortunately international governance has not risen to this particular challenge and fully utilized available technology (e.g. carbon credits).