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haha. Chad, I love you, but I'm never introducing you to a reporter again :)

As you know, we at Balanced are trying to encourage openness as well [1], but recently made the decision to not video record and publish (or live stream) guest speakers that come into our office. We feel this actually promotes a more honest and open discussion for the attendees. We may revise this decision, but it seems to be going well so far. We're also working on events specifically for remote audiences. Those will be recorded and published.

[1] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3008944/open-company/why-i-made-my...
I'm not sure I'd call NYC's policy less liberal overall, though it's different. It puts considerably more effort (and money!) into providing housing in the first place: about 5% of NYC's population is housed in public housing, versus about 1% for SF. NYC's homeless shelters have also been somewhat more effective at transitioning people off the streets and into apartments, though with recent budget cuts some of the programs that were used for that have been cut, so we'll see if that persists.
I'm saying that taking a work day off is probably more of a gamble than the $350.

> To the overwhelming majority of people, money and not time is limiting factor in their lives.

Sure, but this site's primary audience is not made up of the overwhelming majority of people. An average HN member has more money than time and likely wouldn't be using their personal money to attend anyway.
Couldn't you just deny further access to the service?
I know some of the guys @ Cylance, they're good people. They've done a lot of good work regarding embedded and grid security awareness. It is pretty funny to see what people leave unprotected on the internet when they usually have pretty good security practices.

In a situation like this, I'm going to guess that "facilities" was run as a fiefdom and its network presence was obfuscated from infosec staff. Or in the worst case, infosec was told to leave it alone...
Sure, but in both cases that's because when there aren't as many cops, these protests result in widespread property damage.

This has unfortunately been the case since the WTO protests in Seattle in late 1999.
I'm really looking forward to same-day delivery from Amazon.
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You are right. I've been away from megacorps for too long. Thinking of them as rational actors is a huge mistake. :)

My point still stands that it is their product and it should be their choice even if they piss it away.
> As for getting people to "apply" for this $400 ticket, they appear to have nothing in the way of information or any hints as to what will occur at this event. It just seems odd that they expect people to "apply" for tickets without any knowledge of the actual conference.

Who's to say this is the primary way they are selling tickets? I'd imagine an invite only conference has actual invitations...
I think it's a combination of both. He sounds ashamed to be a software developer to the extent that he doesn't want his daughter to know. What's up with that? It might not be the same as being a heart surgeon, but at least in the US software engineering is viewed very positively as a career, probably alongside chemical engineering and law (actually law is viewed fairly negatively by many these days).
It will be interesting to see how Ive resolves the tension of a 21st-century digital device and its 20th-century analog interaction cues. Remember how the iPhone was the first device to have a black background in its launcher? And how when turned off it looked like a black slab? Nothing else looked like that before it came out. But then the faux leather and textures ... ugh. A reverse example would be the brushed aluminum of iTunes being used in the cartoony Windows interface.
I like to ask if "this" solves a big problem for them, if it makes their life easier. Is it something they feel compelled to use once they have started using. It can get dicey when you ask too many hyper focused questions as you can get people who are way down in the weeds on certain features but then again you don't want to miss out on a pearl of an idea. It truly is a balancing act.

It really depends how long I talk to each person, some people you can tell pretty early on are going to be very helpful and I try my best to get them to talk to me as long as I can. One thing I always try to do is record those conversations, with permission, in order to come back to later and take better notes on what was said.

Watching people use your app can be illuminating too but it can also be a bit misleading because people won't always act/interact with your site/app the way they normally would because they are being watched.

Good luck with customer development, it's fun/rewarding/daunting.
I would've been happy to look harder for a compromise, but clearly he wasn't interested in wasting his time with me. And why should he? TechCrunch has no shortage of stories. Gittip is peanuts.
My issue is not the complexity and methods of collection (although that is problematic); it's what it will be wasted on once collected.
Yes, I found it a bit odd too that the OP claims interest in math yet seems to have problems understanding computational complexity. Although, mathematics is a very broad subject, maybe his focus was on something else.
What problem are you solving? What stage are you at in development? Are you looking for basic validation of your idea or getting validation for potential features/tweaks?

If you are still early on, I would start with "What do you use currently to ________?" Where the blank is the problem you're trying to solve better than it is currently being solved.
Most likely I used a poor choice of words, more like I don't understand it. I want to know more, but my knowledge is limited and nobody seems to be able to explain it to me in a way that I can understand.

In all honest I don't understand any of it. When I ask about it, instead of explaining it to me, most people just link to the Wikipedia article, instead of using their own words. I've read the Wikipedia article, and I don't understand any of it.

My perception is that it does not follow any logic or reason that I understand, there is nothing that I can understand from it, and I don't want to be ignorant on the subject, I want to learn it.
Yep same for me
"the federal government definitely has authority to regulate interstate commerce"

Agreed, but that's not what they're doing. They're granting authority to one state to regulate commerce in another state. They might have the authority to enact a national sales tax paid to the federal government (but then again, they might not -- note that the income tax required an actual constitutional amendment), but I don't think they can make citizens of one state subject to the tax (or other) laws of another.

If they do have that power, how far does it go? Can the feds require that you abide by all the laws of (insert least favorite state) even though you've never set foot in it?
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The headline url is: https://www.facebook.com/sorry.php?msg=account
doesn't this just mean that their error page works...?
As a developer at such a retailer, all I can say is: ugh. I hope this dies or is vastly simplified in the house.
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It probably helps that "Wharf 7" is in Australia [1] and the access was from the US. I can't imagine any officer in Pyrmont Police Station being too keen on the paperwork involved in following up an incident of this magnitude!

[1] http://maps.google.com.au/maps?ll=-33.867302,151.198268
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Who are you referring to here, Jony Ive? After Tim Cook, Jony Ive has to be the most well known "brand" at Apple, based primarily on the large investment they make on the classic Jony Ive hardware/design descriptions he does for new devices.
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> I admire your prolific output, even if I don't agree with a lot of your conclusions (historical and political, that is, because your math/stat is too complicated for me to understand). I have to say, you have sparked a lot of discussion amongst me and my friends recently.

Hm, intriguing - I don't write about politics very much, I wonder what it could be... My little thing about the American Revolution, perhaps.

> BTC coming your way.

Thanks.
I work with UPCs a lot. We're regularly disappointed with how FEW things have UPCs. There are whole categories — foods, apparel, etc. — without UPCs, and other segments - old books, beer, wine - where UPCs aren't actually used for unique products, but instead for things like brands or prices.

Add to this that state and local laws change frequently, and that they aren't machine-readable (and, even if the rules were easily accessible, the rules frequently would require a lawyer to parse, and might change based on where the goods are sold). It is a very thorny problem.
In fact, they have fired a few people.
Unfortunately this is far from an isolated issue. There are a multitude of BMS's and control systems out there where security has had next to zero consideration. Traditionally these systems have sat on isolated networks and favoured serial communication. Unfortunately many of the people who have spent the majority of their lives designing, installing and deploying these systems have very little exposure to even the most basic network security principles.

When you consider these system have complete control over many environments - signal distribution, HVAC, occupancy sensing, motor control for things such as dropping 3 tonne screens from roofs, even occasionally extending to physical access control - this is a very scary thought.
Not sure on a plugin, but perhaps adding image formats to your file_exclude_patterns could be a workaround?
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I agree. TechCrunch has jumped the shark a long time ago, and uses the weight of its name to focus on articles that have high pageviews. This reflects extremely poorly on TC -- the TC author could've easily agreed to the open call and participated in the open initiative OP feels strongly about.
I did CF over a decade ago, I remember this: http://nowostey.net/uploads/posts/2010-01/1264151016_84f0bc9... was one of the first things that I really liked that was killed by the Allaire -> Macromedia -> Adobe mergers. I'm not sure if I can blame adobe for that as Macromedia just left it to die.
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From my limited understanding a list is a data structure that contains an ordered number of items. For example a linked list that has a pointer to the next item in the data structure that keeps the list in order. A tree data structure has sub-sets of linked nodes starting at a 'root' node, much like a tree.

How does time complexity fit into that?
Ever heard of a heart surgeon that can't pay his bills?

Now have you heard of a developer that couldn't pay his bills?

That's why he wouldn't want his daughter to know what he does.
I'm a bit saddened that nearly ten years after we reached 3GHz, desktop clock speed increase has come to a halt.

I know that FSB speeds are irrelevant now more than ever with multithreading and multi-core architectures, but the performance afforded by high-clock chips in high-demand areas, along with multi-core technology, it seems could be far greater than it is now.

Especially with several 8GHz nodes, it seems like cheaper supercomputing could be more viable.

Am I wrong, right, misguided, inaccurate, incorrect?
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I can't seem to install GVIM on Ubuntu without avahi. I wish I had more choice about it.
You do know Amazon is backing this?
Whoa! These cadence utils are great! Bridging jack and pulseaudio has always been such a pain...

Thanks for the link!

In case anyone is interested: I'm using them on Arch, they are available through the AUR.
"""So why were people always asking him for it? Because even when Richard didn't understand, he always seemed to understand better than the rest of us."""

What a gift of a human.
Thanks for the response. I am excited to jump into more of it and will start trying out things like seeing how people use my very early stage product.
>>>In 1978, having found a better rubella vaccine than his own, Dr. Hilleman asked its developer if he could use it in the M.M.R. The developer, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, then of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, was momentarily speechless. It was an expensive choice for Merck, and might have been a painful one for anyone other than Dr. Hilleman.

>>>“It’s not that he didn’t have an ego. He certainly did,” Dr. Plotkin recalled in a recent interview. “But he valued excellence above that. Once he decided that this strain was better, he did what he had to do,” even if it meant sacrificing his own work.

That is how the hell things used to work, not driven by damn accountants and MBAs and people who want to CYA or get all the credit.
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You seem to know much more about this situation than me, but given my experience in the left, I would be very surprised if the people involved in an open air drug den had much to do with the people attending and organizing this protest.

And there seems to be a discrepancy between the extreme danger you claim I would be in, and the claims of other people that this is a harmless gathering. Can you shed some light on this? No sarcasm intended there, I really am surprised by how you characterize the situation because in my experience, no one provoking left wingers is ever in serious danger.
Is that because you think it's bad for them?

Have you considered the implications of the fact that Amazon is pushing for this?

Byzantine regulations favor the incumbents. Even sometimes ironically the complicated regulations designed to favor the little guy, who is unable to hire enough lawyer power to take advantage of them while the incumbents work out how to use the new loopholes.
You can read books on a screen, too - they are called ebooks
There were two small dogs. One red and one blue. One day the red dog found a bone and the blue dog was jealous. The blue dog appealed to the queen and the queen said "spongebob rutabaga" and there was never again a red dog or blue dog.

Now you are all as enlightened as I was after reading this story.
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Your comment demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the question at stake here.

The issue is not whether the state can tax entities outside their boundaries. The issue is when the state can ask companies headquartered elsewhere to assist in the collection of taxes owed to the state by citizens of said state.

In legal theory the taxes are owed regardless of whether third parties like Amazon assist in their collection. In practice they don't get collected unless it is done by those third parties. (Because people don't volunteer that information, and the state has no way to prove who bought what for how much without paying taxes.)

Until this bill, the question centered on how broadly states could define companies headquartered elsewhere as having a business presence in the state, and therefore within the state's power to compel. But this bill is being passed by Congress under the Commerce Clause, and there are no legal questions about whether sufficient legal authority exists for this purpose.
Confirmed. I give interviews and people get offers or not based on my feedback. I also don't know what I'm doing. It could be Imposter's Syndrome or maybe that's just what imposters tell themselves.
The thing about techcrunch's response is that the guy doesn't even try to make something work. If Ycombinator and other start ups decided to stop doing anything with techcrunch it would be over. Obviously TC has clout, but that doesn't mean they should piss in the well and ignore a great story. They should have capitalized on the fact that Chad stuck to his guns and seen if they could make it work. The could have posted the video themselves and tried to be innovative. Instead they wasted his time and treated him poorly.

Gittip is a great concept and Chad has done an amazing job building community based on the ideals of the community. He has created something that has value. I'm glad Techcrunch doesn't get to leach off his innovation and creativity.
i always assumed you were a transplant from up north - ohio maybe.
The online affiliate industry should be happy about this. For the past few years states have been instituting laws stating online affiliates earning commissions on sales constitute a physical nexus. This first passed in New York and Amazon began collecting tax from New York residents. Many other states followed, but rather than collect the tax like they did in NY they started killing off their affiliates in each of these states. I know of one particular case where Fat Wallet moved out of state to avoid being severed by a majority of their affiliate partners. States have been trying everything they can to force online merchants to collect tax, but they've been failing miserably. Amazon even said they would start collecting tax if the federal government steps in. It looks like we've finally reached that point. There's a lot more history to this issue than it appears.
One thing I find strange is how this Minnesota accent has come to represent "Canada's" accent in American pop culture. It is, unsurprisingly, somewhat similar to nearby parts of Canada (Manitoba, Northern Ontario) but it is not the accent of a large percentage of people in Canada, and it never was.
100% agree.

For a web position I have no idea why you would ask them to write a tree parser or binary search algorithm which I experienced not that long ago.

Asking about what happens at a low level when entering a URL however is a good question. Or perhaps asking how to do cross domain JSON requests etc...
> Imposter syndrome does sound quite right. Or the guy is just depressed pretty hard.

Setbacks at the interview stage rank among the most depressing and confidence sapping experiences in my professional career. I think it could make anyone fairly depressed, but IANAD.
He could've participated in the open call just to see what it was like, and there is a story there in and of itself. If TC was interested in tech journalism, they would have agreed to it, but sadly they're interested in page views and maintaining their "too good for you" image.

Keep up your awesome work and transparency, which is incredibly important and desperately needed in transactional businesses. Transparency builds trust.
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The money the states are losing to lost sales tax revenues pale in comparison to the money lost to esoteric corporate tax loopholes. Those loopholes were sacrosanct to the republicans in recent negotiations over the debt ceiling, tantamount to a tax increase. In this case apparently it's ok with (many of) them.
> But many people feel the same way about, for example, physical exercise: they don’t enjoy doing it and find it to be very hard work when they try. But it would be strange indeed to say that you can’t “do” exercise. You may not want to do it. You may be unwilling to invest the time and effort into doing it. But you aren’t incapable of doing it. And the same is true, in my experience, in mathematics.

I think a more apt comparison might be to sports, rather than to exercise. Everyone can get reasonably good at "exercise" i.e. be able to run a mile in a reasonable time, but I think we can all agree that there are certainly many people who simply "can't do" a sport.

For example, I am pretty bad at baseball. I was a terrible batter and an even worse fielder. I "persevered" and played Little League Baseball for several years, eventually realized I didn't have much if any aptitude for it, and stopped playing altogether. Does this mean I'm lazy or that the Little League coaching system is broken? No, it just means I'm not that good at baseball and probably never will be, and I don't think any amount of great coaching would have changed that.

Are there some people who could have been good at a given sport but "slip through the cracks" due to laziness or bad teaching? Maybe, but I doubt it's a significant number.

It's easy to take mathematics ability for granted on a focused forum like HN, but perhaps being good at math is no different from being a great sports athlete - Some people are really good at it, but most aren't and it's pretty unrealistic to expect everyone to change their expectations and opinions on the matter.
And jwz's rant about scenetap (estimating via camera): http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2012/05/16.html
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Perhaps group B have legitimate complaints, but I somehow doubt they are serious enough to justify violence against anyone who makes light of their "struggle".

If it's true that these people have organized an event where someone would be physically assaulted for wearing a Google sweater (if there were no police there) then that's precisely why I would want to do it. People have a right to express themselves, they don't have a right to make other people feel unsafe.
So far I find ZFS "sensible", considering I am no LVM expert.

So far volume creation and snapshots seem straightforward, and it only took a bit of research to find the page size and ARC limits that so far are giving me better than XFS on CentOS.

What future pitfalls am I looking forward to?
I've only ever used BitInstant, granted, it was back a few months ago when you could buy several for under $100, but the convenience of paying in cash at WalMart was pretty cool.

My MTGox account ended up being funded quickly as well. I'd definitely recommend them.
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That's amazing UX? Everyone was so happy about flash going away and now we are just moving into abusing html to do annoying animations on every possible thing. I find it grating.

Why does the text disappear and then reappear at the top, seems like anti-UX

Also their font is not very legible.
I think an embargo would be a good place to start. Suggest that the Skype session will be reported, but only published after the article goes live. In fact, TC has a whole series of videos on their blog [1], so I can't imagine this type of interview would be too out of line.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/video/
Can someone provide some context here? With 16 votes at the moment it seems there are some folks who recognize "project r and project b." However after scanning some of the other pages on the site I wonder if this prose means much to anyone other than the author.
Clock speed hasn't increased, but instructions per second per core has more than doubled over the last decade, and instructions per clock cycle per core continues to increase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second). Slower than Moore's law, but it's something.
There's a reason for that clock speed stall and it certainly isn't for lack of trying. Billions have been thrown at the problem. It's just a fundamental limit of transistor design and heat dissipation. If it were possible to manufacture 8ghz cpus that could run reliably for years they'd be on the market.