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According to one grooveshark software engineer on twitter "@jameshartig: @fernando_takai Groovr was abusing our internal API to provide download links. We have a public API for developers that is free to use."[1]

[1]http://twitter.com/jameshartig/status/337307876890648576
Seems like this is just an early run to test usage of 2 factor authentication. In my opinion, twitter has different access patterns than Facebook and Google especially with lots of company/product shared accounts.

Based on the "..much of the server-side engineering work required to ship this feature has cleared the way for us to deliver more account security enhancements in the future.." I'd expect support for an OTP client soon.
The author expects us to be outraged that a text message was used to inquire about an opportunity for "...some drudgework that might be good for a resume and could bring in some spare cash."

The real outrage is the entitlement of the author and many employers enjoying the slack labor market.

Millennials have been handed a very raw deal by their elders.
Both Minecraft and Braid type games will also launch on the XO since both games had a publishing deal (both under Microsoft actually).
The problem with categories like 'millennials' is that it generalizes an entire generation of people and makes it easy for people not within that group to say rude and untruthful things about an entire set of people. Instead of trying to understand where a group is coming from, it makes it easy for people to simply brush off any differences as inappropriate instead of understanding where a group might come from.

I've hired plenty of what you might call 'millenials', many via text, and they have been some of the hardest working, most professional people I've ever worked with. I've also been courted for an exceptional job via text, Twitter and Facebook. The hiring manager was in her 40s, and she understood those interfaces better than I did.

Hiring should be very personal, not cold and professional. Hiring is about getting to know someone that is the right fit for the team so that the hire brings passion and cleverness to the table. Even at a larger company this should be the case.

Hiring is changing, and has changed for many people. I don't think it's fair to force people into what someone somewhere considered a proper 'hiring process' if you end up hiring someone from a piece of paper and not for who they are. This kind of process can cause companies to lose talent, flexibility, and ultimately money.

I'm not suggesting that everyone hire in the way I do, but in the way that's most suited to the person you're trying to hire. Having empathy and attempting to understand and respect people on a case by case basis is important, especially when you'll be working closely with them.

I'm not a 'millennial' or whatever generalization buzzword some individuals use to make themselves feel more comfortable with the uncertainty of different people in a workplace, but I work with people of all ages and understand each of them as an individual, not as a generation. I communicate in the format they are most comfortable with. I text my boss, who is two generations above me, and email some of the more formal, younger members of our team. The college student in this post is not in the wrong in his communication methods. I understand that the author may be trying to teach him a lesson, but it's not that cut and dry across all industries, especially tech.
> many employees taking 1 or 2 home every day

It is kind of staggering to think of 90,000 employees times 2 sodas every workday.
Exactly. I am pleasantly surprised to see the AG taking up causes for his citizens. I remember a time when my parents wrote complaints to their AG. Perhaps those aren't such bygone actions.
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Didn't Tesla repay this loan back with another loan:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-tesla-stock-idU...

I'm not a market economics kind of guy but I don't see how this is any kind of special achievement. Surely any other car manufacturer could have done precisely this?
I'm pretty young and would consider myself on the "full use smartphones" side of the generation gap. However, I still think it's extremely rude to use a phone, tablet, and yes, even laptop, during a meeting.

There is a very noticeable difference in attention capacity between those who take notes with paper and those who use electronic devices of any kind. Devices with a screen tend to draw your attention even when you are not typing. More importantly, almost everybody can write while looking up and making eye contact, but very few people can type while making eye contact. Almost nobody can use a touch screen no-tactile-feedback keyboard without gazing off into the great glowing yonder. Even if you can type on a laptop while maintaining eye contact, your shoulders are postured towards your keyboard and not towards the speaker. Writing with a pen or pencil gives you much more upper body range.
You think the author's entitlement complex is better? The kid was saying "I'm stressed and have no time, but I need the money so I'm trying to make time for you", and the author just scoffs at him. That's incredibly rude.
I have a simple technical solution to this problem:

1. Charge employees by volume for sodas.

2. Reimburse them for their urine.
"serverless" databases are usually called storage engines: LevelDB, BerkeleyDB, BitCask, InnoDB. There is a (good) trend towards modular software, separating the storage engine from the server is a natural consequence.

But yeah, requiring a new obscure language pretty much obliterates any reason you'd want to use this. Lua is fast, popular, made for this exact use case and already used by Redis.
nice. love it.
are any perf numbers available?
Thanks for the link !
i know plenty of academics with healthy, safe, spouses and children. they eat just fine.
Yes but how do we make money then ?
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Matt is making an "A implies B" argument: PhD's by definition must contribute original knowledge. He didn't address the converse (that non-PhD's don't or can't).
Not if the rate was 10%, 20%, etc. It's just a form of bootstrapping. The government stepped in and bootstrapped it so now the private sector can finance it normally.
I think the parent's point was all of this is subsumed by "personal satisfaction".
I don't know if Elon should be so quick to thumb his nose at the other auto manufacturers. For one, he's facing a pretty substantial uphill climb WRT dealership laws in a lot of states, and rattling the snake cage won't win any friends.

On the other hand, when brand value (save Ford) for the domestics is strikingly low, maybe he's throwing punches exactly when he needs to.
Absolutely -- and trust me, the SEO industry is full of so much bullshit I have come to expect a lot of hate by association alone. Someone even made an aggregation site for it!

http://shitbound.org/
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I'm not sure what to think of the premise of this hackathon, especially since they had a previous "thinktank" which basically discredited many of the objectives here.

I guess I could also point out that one of its statements is just outright incorrect, and one of the statements contradicts the others...

I think everyone wants to stop violence, but when its akin to "Person A: Stop violence!", "Person B: Cauliflour!" what do you do?
This has got to be the most uninformed comment I've read in a long time.

Buddy, if soccer isn't a sport, then what is? Chess?
"That's not the main topic of the writing :)"
So you're suggesting that articles without compelling content should still have compelling titles?

Not at all. Obviously this exists on a continuum and is somewhat subjective, however. I would never advocate posting low quality content with a flat-out link-baity title like "Learn About Bill Gates and Ada Lovelace's Secret Lovechild: Mark Zuckerberg" or something. But I think you have to create a title which is as compelling as you can, while being faithful to the content.

But, as in all cases, there will always be people who agree and some who disagree about whether you've accomplished that or not.

All I'm getting at is that a headline shouldn't dissemble and be wishy-washy and say nothing. It's an opinion, that I'm asserting (that the "Star Trek Computer Will Be..."), but even I won't go quite as far as saying it's "a foregone conclusion". There is evidence to suggest that such a thing may be the case, and that's what this post was about.

In this case, I'm perfectly happy with the congruence between the headline and the content. If others aren't, then I'll be curious to hear their POV on it.
Thank you for the kind words.

You forgot to mention many other websites on the market :)
A PhD is definitely not the only time that a person can delve into original research or knowledge, you're right.

But I don't see any place where Dr. Might suggests that it's the _only_ experience that can lead to original research.

I think a PhD is definitely one of the only experiences where upon completion you are required to have contributed to the world of original and new knowledge in some way, though.
Side suggestion for you. You are using bountyoss.com for what you do, I strongly suggest you lock up both bountyboss.com and bountyos.com as well. (bountybos.com and bontyos.com might also be a good idea but the other two definitely.)
How exactly do you use javascript cross domain like that? i'd love to know.
Many of the ones I would list have been said before so I'll not list them, but I would also add.

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - at it's core I felt it was about systems and how we can never truly eliminate or remove them from our lives but only replace them with other ones. A hard lesson for me to learn but I feel it really changed the way I look at the world.

The Book of Five Rings - it's a book written by a masterless samurai duelist about his thoughts on dueling. But there was one statement in it that changed how I looked at everything, he basically broke down how we shouldn't have favored tools but rather use the ones that are best suited for the task at hand. Which had a profound impact on me.

there are more but I'll need time to think about it some more
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Maybe it isn't a special achievement if you're suggesting GM could pull this off.
"I'm so sick of economists/journalists/outsiders implying the reason to"

They're not implying reasons, they're reporting it. Its all about how much your culture values people with PHD / in the pipeline to get one. You may not like what your culture is saying about you, but no point in blaming the messenger.

Rotate into a (hopefully) nonpersonal analogy. Say a statistician reports that your average ex-con makes 25% less than someone who hasn't been punished yet. The proper response isn't against the statistician, or that the point of prison isn't to make money, or that ex-cons used to make more money in the good old days, the point is to observe that our culture doesn't particularly value ex-cons, much less than most assume, and much worse than it used to be.

Like being a black sheep? Nothin wrong with being an individual. But don't give someone a hassle for reporting the emperor has no clothes.

They're reporting outcomes, not processes. Reporting actual measured price not self perceived value.

IF they were morally or ethically attacking because academia leads to poverty etc etc ... you'd know. The tone of the article wouldn't be "hey guess what"
I hate to say it, but I agree completely. Forgive me for wanting engineering articles to look like... engineering. I wonder if this is just a generational thing. I don't have a bucket full of GIFs to drop on an article.

It seems to be tapering off lately, but it used to irk me greatly when a technical blog article would have a bunch of random photos stitched in that had absolutely nothing to do with the content.
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I spent seven years doing a PhD in Computer Science. It was an unpleasant experience from about year three or four on and I would have gotten the masters' and left before finishing if I knew then what I know now, and probably a) not gone through a suicidally depressive period b) have done more interesting work c) traveled more since I could afford it and d) also been paid more.

The educational aspects of a PhD, at least in my program, were essentially equivalent to the educational aspects of getting a masters degree in the same subject area. The difference between them was after you finished the educational aspects you were now expected to produce between 3 to 6 papers a year corresponding roughly to the important conferences in your field and get most of them published. Speaking personally it takes me about three to four weeks to write a good research paper assuming I already have the results, so I worked out at one point that I had about two weeks to generate meaningful work to write about if I was to publish to that schedule. It is impossible to do anything more than the famous Least Publishable Increment of Work in that environment, and as a result most papers in Computer Science aren't especially compelling. A healthier field (say, chemistry, physics, mathematics) has you write perhaps one or two a year, with actual data.
Seems that not all electric car companies getting loans from the US gov't are repaying their loans.
The story is that they paid it back via the private market, meaning that the financial community believes in the company enough that they no longer need public support.

Incidentally, they did issue corporate debt (a form of a loan, sure), but also issued more equity as well.
You can have amortized O(1) with trees for example. Appending elements to the end of Vectors in Scala or Clojure is done in amortized O(1), being a tree with a high branching factor. And I'm not sure how the immutable Queue is implemented in Scala, but it's also O(1) for queue() and dequeue() and it can't be a list.

It's true though, Lists are easy to implement, easy to reason about and speaking of frozen algorithms, you can view a linked list as being a frozen tail-recursion :-)
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You used the wrong syllogism.
Thanks !

I will check it out.
It wasn't free. Meal plan is a line item on the student bill.
Sending a paper for review can help with identifying whether

(1) What you're solving has already been solved

(2) You have a bug in your solution

(3) You can get feedback from the reviewers such that the system is ultimately improved (this happens more often than you think)

(4) You have actually shown that it works better or just deluded yourself into thinking it does (because you happen to have done a lot of work and are convinced that it was good work).

Submitting a paper for publication is essentially independent verification and validation from (hopefully, but not always) impartial people. If you can convince a committee of peers that what you do is the state of the art and you can show this on some public benchmark, then it's a very different proposition from beating some internal benchmark, which may or may not be well-constructed/biased/etc.

The downside is that you have to write a paper, go through the reviewing process etc (i.e. what a boss at most companies would consider a waste of time).
The parent site backliftapp.com looks really interesting, like Parse for front-end devs.
He's not fighting car makers, he's fighting the (generally very independent) dealers in those states. Playing nice isn't going to have them withdrawing their complaints.

At this point better PR, and a mention on the six o'clock news seems worth it.
What a wonderful idea! I just tried it and was able to push/pull without issue. Free private repos ahoy!*

* Please don't do this. Github has always been so nice, especially regarding DMCAs.
I'd even go so far as saying his boss arguing with him over the correct wording is another red flag that you're not being listened to.
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That is pretty neat! Thanks for the link.
I wondered if the payback a political move; something to make the U.S. government look good after the problems with Solyndra and Fisker Automotive. Mentioning the other auto companies doesn't sound like an attempt to make the government look good, though, just Tesla.
We share your sentiment! We are a large-scale startup built entirely on the MSFT stack, in Azure cloud, for the MSFT platform.

People on HN don't often talk about it, but it does happen, and apparently quite a bit judging by our users :)
You didn't explain how HC had the leverage in this negotiation. Apple had already closed deals with a number of publishers. They were go for launch and it was inevitable that the overall market was going to ultimately decide if iBooks was a winner, not if HC's content was on board or not. If iBooks tanked after launch, it would almost certainly not have been due to HC not being on board, and if iBooks was successful, or at least was getting traction, HC would be groveling at Jobs's knees to participate with the stated terms, if not better ones. Essentially, Jobs saw HC's participation as a net positive for Apple, but only if they participated without altering any of Apple's terms. This mindset is exactly why Apple had the leverage: they could comfortably walk away, while HC saw themselves as potentially missing getting in on the ground floor of something that could kill their business if they weren't.
Don't forget, we tried to make Tesla dealerships illegal first here in Mass. NC was late on that one, so let's not make it a "Red State" matter.
I guess it probably made sense financially in that the private market believed in Tesla enough to provide a better rate than the original loan.
I obtained a PhD in pure math 30 years ago, and promptly went into computing with no programming skills.

Mathematics allowed me to see things in a more general light, appreciate the importance of elegant code, and work on interesting problems that others might find difficult (eg. graph-theoretic constructions, encryption, etc.).

And it's really nice to formulate and prove your own theorems just to make your code work.

Putting a $ figure on higher education is like setting the value of a hair transplant.
I'm sure there was some money wasted along the way, but this makes me think of the often-quoted (around here at least) anecdote that VCs succeed not by getting decent returns across the board but by having one or two "home runs".

If Tesla is the home run that this ATVM program made possible, maybe it doesn't matter if all the rest end up defaulting on the loans (which this article doesn't even imply, Tesla seems to have just paid back the loan early). Obviously the economics of government loans aren't exactly the same as those of VC investments, but making the large-scale production of electric cars economically feasible is a huge accomplishment that seems like it'd be worth the cost of this whole program.
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Never thought about it that way before, but that makes a lot of sense. As I alluded to before[1], you'd have to be insane to the a startup founder. And there's no question that my life is "messed up" by any normal standard.

So, how do I rationalize it? Well...

1. I cannot stand the idea of having "a boss" anymore. Yeah, yeah, I know that "you always have a boss" in a metaphorical sense, but I don't want one specific person who can walk in the room, yank my chain and command me to "do this" or "stop doing that" etc. It goes against my intrinsic nature and I've lived that way too long.

2. I think building a startup is the best chance I have to achieve the kind of financial independence and freedom I'm looking for. Yeah, yeah, I know the stats about how you can go into investment banking, maybe a few hundred K per year and have a better average outcome than being a founder. But I don't plan on an average outcome. Which leads straight to...

3. Like most founders, I'm irrational and think that I'm special somehow. Of course I'll be one of the ones who succeeds, why wouldn't I? But that's obviously irrational, which leads to...

4. I don't care if it's irrational, because I can live with failure, as long as I fail with honor, so to speak. Chasing my dreams, reaching for the sky, going for a moon-shot, and failing and dying penniless, broke, alone and destitute is absolutely acceptable to me. Living an average, boring, dull, bland life is not.

5. I just want a chance to do things on my own terms, live my own life, and call my own shots. It's my internal "Howard Roark" guiding me. I just plan to do what I plan to do, and I don't really care who does or doesn't like it. In fact, I like the idea of having doubters, detractors and adversaries, because they motivate me. So casting myself into a story with those elements is just part of my own internal mythology.

6. It's fun, in a perverse sort of way. Not getting enough sleep, forgoing social interactions, pushing myself to the breaking point, all in a mad, desperate quest to achieve something... what could possibly be better?

7. I'm a child of the 80's and the era of the "feel good movie" where the good guys win in the end, thanks to hard work, determination and perseverance, and sheer will. Again, internal mythology... This is my chance to live out a Joseph Campbellian "Hero With A Thousand Faces" story. Or, depending on how things turn out, an H.P. Lovecraft story. :-)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5688444
The reason why Tesla is able to pay the Dept of Energy loan early is because of a secondary stock and bonds offering worth about >850+ million. In another words, Tesla is raising funds by generating more debt (from bondholders) and diluting share value (from shareholders), roughly about 3.5 mil out of 40 mil float, and using that money to pay the US govt.

TSLA rose on the news despite diluting shareholders is because coupled with the announcement, Elon Musk mentions that he will personally put an additional 100mil into the secondary offer; and general exuberance that TSLA will use the cash for more infrastructure build-out, a la Google, Yahoo during their heyday's. Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering.

It's incredibly smart for Musk and company to raise money in a very favorable environment as TSLA climbed from 45 to 90 after earnings. However, it remains to be seen if they can be still profitable. Note that they are still selling each car at a material loss; and only managed to show a profitable quarter by trading green credits they gained from their manufacturing. To truly scale, they need to either drive down the production cost of their cars down and broaden their market as there are only so much supply of carbon-emission credits on the market.

Disclosure: I trade TSLA options on volatility, without any directional bias.
> A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The only part that is perjury is if you don't actually represent the client you claim to. Assuming the request isn't from a random person pretending to represent a company they don't, the request is not perjury regardless of how frivolous and unwarranted it is.
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Totally on point. I don't think it's useful to compare the value of a successful PhD experience to some amount of money. This is especially true for the people who would be considering a PhD in the first place.

I agree that people value the environment they work in, but I think that to the people you outline, working in a culture that values original ideas and open discourse is more important than having workplace perks like free sodas.
I don't know where the "Einstein had little formal education in physics" meme originated, but I'd like to kill it. Einstein was awarded a PhD before the publication of any of his seminal 1905 papers.
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Wouldn't the health damage from coffee be much bigger than from "soda and snacks"?