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My hypothesis is speculative. I think what we call "shit work" is in fact something that is less creative and as such is likely to be subject to automation/algorithmization.

In other words, with the right tools, platforms and algorithms you have less shit work to do.

A few things that can be considered "external bureaucracy", such as accounting, patents, legal stuff etc, that are kind of beyond your control, so they should simply be outsourced. For bookkeeping, hire a company. There will be some amount of interaction with them of course, but that itself shouldn't require full time involvement. I did that for one of my companies, worked OK for us.
Hahaha yeah. Been there, suffered that (though not from Acton). I appeared for an interview at Gameview Studios once right after College. Claimed my knowledge of C++. The interviewer burned me... badly. And now that I am aware of the mysteries of C++, i'd hardly say i am more than familiar with the basic syntax of that language.
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This is what I'm seeing in IE v11.0.9600.16384 on Windows 8.1 Pro (x64): http://i.imgur.com/9Vhx1pe.png

Enabling/disabling Compatibility View has no effect - it looks just fine to me either way.
You mean, assuming there was only one Bitcoin: if a VW Beetle costs 1 BTC this year, and next year a Porsche is published (growing the economy by replacing cars with better cars), the Porsche would also have to cost 1 BTC because there isn't more than 1 BTC?

That seems incorrect. While impractical, there might be other solutions, for example the Porsche could cost 1 BTC+ 1 Carrot, or maybe it could cost 2 BTC anyway. The buyer just wouldn't be able to pay in one go.
Such a brutal punishment, indeed. A guy makes a plan to kill citizens and he's just moved to another office to continue earn money extracted from these citizens.
I haven't seen any releases yet. One article says he plans to open source it within the next year.
I understand that cats have face blindness. To a human, another human looks very distinctive and unique as we have been crafted by evolution to notice the tiniest difference between faces. To a cat, we all look pretty much the same, it takes them a bit more effort to work out who is who.
I logged in to upvote this story because I encountered the same problem on a military communications system once (!) There was an interaction between the system beep() function and message processing throughput. If a large number of alerts ever queued up, communications slowed to a crawl as the CPU spent all its time going "beeeeeeep...beeeeeeep...beeeeeeep..." for a few minutes. Moving the mouse caused a rapid-fire "bebebebebebebebebebebeeep" as the buffers flushed and throughput returned to normal.
(Non snark ahead) Could this be why working at Google is no longer the prize it once was? And why developers would rather go to Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, et al?
I guess it's a question for NANOG and not HN (if there are any TWC netops here, chime in!), but I'd love to hear a PM why the very expensive routers they buy are not able to automatically re-route to a different peer AS when this happens.
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I run product development for a toolkit company that exited to a public company in 2011.

Our .NET and Java toolkits sustain a 25 person division with healthy margins and decent growth.

The keys have been:

* make something valuable and charge enough for it so that you can offer great support. If you charge $500, you lose money if anyone calls you -- instead you should want people to call you -- so, charge enough money to make that worthwhile.

* have ways that make the engagement scale. Meaning, it's ok if an average deal is 5-10k, but if someone gets a lot of value, you should want that to scale up to 100k or more

* you can charge like a Saas for things that are not delivered like Saas, and some people prefer it. Meaning, we sell .NET assemblies (not a hosted service), but you can pay xx,000/year for it if you want unlimited deployment.

* You have two segments (broadly) -- companies that make software for themselves -- companies that sell software. They have different needs and get value in different ways -- think about segmentation to price appropriately.

You will be competing against free -- so you need to deliver value. Don't look for markets with no free alternatives. I compete against a ton of open-source very well. We're better and we have support.
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You probably are in the US. Outside that, bing just cannot find anything.

Anyway i also have a lumia but I set google as search engine in ie mobile
Will the videos and slides be put online thereafter? Where can I find the ones in past years?
I'd be interested in seeing the results of a poll either way.

In any case, my point is that even if we nail it down, all we're doing is figuring out what people mean by "code", not discovering any fundamental truths about coding or programming or HTML or anything.
Well, no, nobody said you need a library to help you write your README, but if you get tired of writing the same structure or making the the same updates over and over again, you can use this to automate some of that process if you so desire. Seems pretty nifty to me, though I may well never use it.

I really don't understand the mindset that takes people from "hey look somebody wrote a free piece of software I can use if I want" to "what, now I need to use yet another piece of software for something?"
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This is where "disallow advertising" comes in.
I think you misunderstood my point. In terms of actual advantage, 1ms vs 5ms is negligible, considering the fact that human reaction time is 200ms. So in the case of shooting someone as they popped out from behind a corner, the 200ms reaction time + human variation + variation in network latency + discreet server time, will absolutely dominate the effects.

I definitely agree that small latencies can be noticed, even latencies approaching 5ms (but not 5ms itself--I've seen monitor tests done that showed this).
Now you're just responding to an entirely different argument that no one is making.
I set option HTML5 users and see: please download adobe flash player. Im sorry. I would love flash...
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GPUs are no more a kludge or waste of power than CPUs. They just provide access to a different point on the efficiency vs. ease of programming graph. FPGAs may be getting cheaper but they're still much more difficult to program than GPUs. The sea change will come when someone makes an FPGA that's an order of magnitude easier to program.
I like the model of a README that shows high level project structure and common use cases, with links to specific wiki pages for more depth on a topic, and a catch-all top-level wiki link at the end.
> in which a 200x200 map is generated from a randomly created heightmap.

The question asker is using a height map because they're nice ways to get pseudo-realistic terrain, and because they're easy to generate randomly.

I had a quick look at Tiled[1] and it seems nice. But can it do random generation?

It seems it can fix transitions. Here's a basic shore, turned into a nice lake. (https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki/Automapping)

[1] https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki
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I'm honestly surprised that nobody has yet DoS'd a larger port or other infrastructure.

It's probably because most people don't want to do that. Outside of prisons, a good chunk of human safety relies on the fact that most people would rather preserve their own safety than take away that of others.
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I agree. Having lived through an SAP implementation while at an in house IT department, I think SAP is more of a lifestyle than a technology. The whole point is that consultations are done, RFPs are written, sales executives shmooze, directors feel that buying SAP makes them important, consultants are hired and armies of business analysts are deployed. The servers you're running on, cloud or internal, are not an issue. Going after smaller businesses will take more than saying we'll run it on our servers for you. It'll be a massive cultural change for SAP.
Deleted my comment because a) you were correct and b) I don't have time at the moment to completely rewrite my comment to express my thought on it in a cogent manner.

Thanks for the reply.
You're assuming that the average user on their site = the average user on the internet.
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With the advent of SDR, such attacks are becoming easier to accomplish and also come into the focus of IT (security) researches. There is already an OSS AIS decoder [1], and I suppose it will not be too hard to make an encoder.

Still, we have seen similar attack vectors to GSM (you can DoS a multi-million city with a dozen of manipulated 20$ phones), but no real attacks.

Transmitting on licensed frequencies without the proper permission is an offense in most countries, and I suppose you can be liable for the damage, provided the regulation authorities can triangulate you while you are sending out.

[1] http://gnuais.sourceforge.net/
True story: I sort-of-interviewed at Google. The interview ended because the interviewer, after having been told that I had already completed the project they were trying to recruit for, became agitated and told me that I was just a hobbyist and my product did not exist -- this while he was being shown it in motion. I put a spare PCB for my product in his hand and asked him if it didn't exist, why was it making him bleed. Then I closed his hand hard around the PCB and told him to keep it, it's under GPL, and go ahead and crib from the design.

People who reject physical reality should receive a bit of negative conditioning about doing so...
How to destroy someone who hosts stuff at Hetzner dedicated server
I'm using Hetzner services for several years so far (luckily only for personal stuff and friends minecraft server), and had this problem few times. Every time I said to myself "I will get away from Hetzner ASAP", but I always stay there. I would NEVER imagine to run a business hosted there at all, and here is why...

DDoS is a common problem many companies are facing, but Hetzner's policy on that is really crap.
If someone starts DDoS on your dedicated, after several minutes they just shut down your dedicated from network, and send you an email like "We disabled your network because you have DDoS attack on your server. Write us an email to reenable your network". And of course, several hours later I saw that email and tell them "Okay, please enable my network", but boom, I will have to wait Monday, because their support that can ACTIVATE network on a dedicated works only from Mondays to Fridays ...
And then the person who attacked me sends me anonymous email like "lol, I bought 5$ packet at [some random booter/network stresser website], and I have put you offline for few days for only 15 minutes of DDoS, HAHAHAHA"

So basically yea, start small flood from random VPS/dedicated or whatever that is 100mbit or more, leave it on for several minutes until Hetzners system automatically disable network from person you are attacking, and look at them being offline for few days :)
I'm ordering a new dedicated from someone else now, no more Hetzner...
Don't forget the rear USB slots on the iMac. If you have to plug in multiple times a day you go bat shit crazy. And if, heaven forbid, you tilt the screen to change the angle (in tall) the cable must be free. If someone has pushed the desk back as jammed the cable against the wall, tilting the screen pulls the power cable out. Great stuff.
Thanks, that actually does reassure me. I mean, I figure everyone has to start with something, right? And while I do harbor some feelings of dread for our launch, I'm also very excited for it.
So that's about £47 per person. What percentage of alcohol spending is that?

(I'm don't really mean to suggest that a low percentage would justify wanton drunkenness or invalidate what you are saying about doing a poor job, more that comparing the adverse consequences to the consumption is probably more useful than examining the big totals)
It isn't necessary, but many physicists have to analyze huge amounts of data out of necessity. Telescopes and particle accelerators generate petabytes of data. So they have a lot of practice with this sort of thing. Physicists also have to be ridiculously good at math and particularly statistics, again out of necessity.

Again, physics isn't really a prerequisite. It is just that many physicists have the relevant experience already to be a good data scientist.
What conferences?
Best of all... research done by Sacha Baron Cohen's cousin.
I wonder how it compares to: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom

(in terms of architecture, not performance benchmarks)
I'm still on my first smartphone and it's an HTC Android phone. Using iphones and ipads that weren't mine, it took me a while to figure out that you can double-click the single button to get it to do something different. Trying to interact with it with only one pressable button kind of feels like having flippers instead of hands. I haven't quite grokked the one-button doctrine.
Most server ticks are nowhere near 5ms. Quake 3 ran on 20-30 tick, CS:S/CS:GO runs on 33 by default and up to 66 if you run on high quality servers. 100 tick was somewhat common in CS:S. Some really expensive servers claimed 500 tick but I never bought it. Either way no one's client would update that fast.

Furthermore, if you watch pro matches, you'll quickly realize their skill has nothing to do with having the fastest reaction time. Once you get to a certain skill level, it all comes down to game knowledge. Having a consistent 4ms advantage is absolutely negligible.
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That is sadly how parents raise their kids these days...
(Completely idiotic response ahead) Umm, really? Every day I see thousands of developers who would rather work in Google than Facebook... :)

(Non snarky response) I dunno. I joined Google in 2008, and as far as I know Google was always like that. So, unless you claim developers have preferred Facebook etc. to Google for more than 5 years now, it's probably not related to the interview process.
This is like saying 'Apple didn't revolutionize tablets - Microsoft did'.

It's pretty ignorant to keep attacking Apple for not 'inventing' every aspect of every technology they use. That simply is not how the industry works for any company.

When Apple 'revolutionizes' something they do so by understanding how a particular technology can be applied to deliver value to users. Period.

This same logic applies to Google. It's hard to dispute that they 'revolutionized' search, and yet they did not invent crawlers, minimal search interfaces, or even using backlinks to rank pages. What they did was to combine these things into a brilliantly engineered solution.

This is yet another linkbait semantic argument that gains attention only because it attacks Apple.
On a related note, given that Google has been using their hiring and employee performance data to try to improve their interview process (http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130620142512-35...), I wonder whether they have also managed to identify good and bad interviewers.
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Or you could go to your doctor where they can do tests and get an idea about what you are and are not deficient in.
Have been using this service since the time id had pretty bad UI, was correct each time with most updates to SMS via Twitter in India. Now, the UI is amazing, though we use it only for few seconds.
Maybe it's been fixed by Google already?
When I bought a new computer in 2002, I specifically got one which still had a floppy drive, because I wanted to be sure I could play all my DOS games via boot disk [1].

DOSBox [2] was still in its infancy then, and the DOS emulation in Windows was...less than one hundred percent compatible with all the hardware tricks various DOS games used to squeeze the last ounce of performance out of the hardware. (In the DOS days, it was common practice for application programs, especially games, to directly deal with I/O ports, interrupts, DMA, etc.)

[1] A DOS boot disk is similar to a bootable Linux CD / DVD -- removable media containing an OS. In this case, you mainly use it to customize the loaded drivers on a per-game basis. Regardless of how much physical memory you have, in DOS only 640K is conveniently addressable [3], so it's very important to selectively load only the drivers a specific game needs.

[2] http://www.classicdosgames.com/interviews/peterveenstra.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_memory
Totally agree, that's why I mentioned this is about technology accessibility and really not much else. That's what I mean by kludge- it's far from ideal, but it "just works." And it's funny you mention CPUs- Von Neumann Turing machines are looking like a real kludge to me at this point as well... In my view SOCs like the Zynq are the real news, and those don't get talked about much on HN. Sequential PLUS parallel with high efficiency. So what if it's difficult to understand? Trying to really flexes the brain, and it's been worth it for me. But not easy.

That's why I wanted to start this conversation, I think it's germane to GPU efforts and people may not be aware. I would be more excited about a project like this spreading FPGA tech, and more effort being spent there. My company is doing it and we want a bigger open-source community with us. (We're not in a position to release code yet, but we will.)

Effort is energy. I'm hoping mentioning these technologies will give people pursuing projects like this some options on where to spend their efforts. There's a finite pool of people who are working in this space and I hope it grows.
Genuine questions: why does this service require a login? Why does it require a secure login?
I am most excited about the office hours. The past open office hours have been very enlightening.
Could you pinpoint a single founder who did this? Non-technical and technical cofounders combos do not count.
Neither domain has a CNAME set up.
You can always put the wiki as a submodule in the git repo since the github wikis are just git repos too:

git clone git@github.com:whatever/whatever.wiki.git
It does look impressive but keep in mind the presentation would likely be tailored to the tool's specific strengths.

Every WYSIWYG editor I've ever used was always only useful up to a point. Maybe this one breaks that mold but there's no way to know until we can take it for a spin.
She's 1, and has "her shows"? That's awesome. Kids these days!

I'm 24 and I remember having my parent's 30-floppy install of Word Perfect, I just never had to use it. They had a Windows 3.1 computer when I was 6 or 7 and I used it, but frankly it was so hard to do anything with I didn't find myself interested in computers until after Windows 95 had come out.
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In addition to GPU, Cray has recently added the Intel Phi coprocessor to its XC30 Cascade supercomputers (http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsA...). I think that this supports the argument that certain problems are better handled on traditional processors than on GPGPU platforms.
From Glassdoor's data, it appears Facebook employees rate their experience better than Google employees from 2009-2012:

http://www.glassdoor.com/press/wp-content/files_mf/133228554...

Also base rate is higher at Facebook, and interview difficulty is rated lower at Facebook.

Somewhat disappointing, as I'm a huge fan of Google.
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> AIS is not used for navigation,
> or any critical decisions.

That turns out not to be the case. I know of more than one port that has not installed a radar surveillance system relying instead purely on U/AIS data, even though they have no checks that it's been correctly installed and configured.

It worries me.
I doubt that you were rejected (even if you were, which it seems like you don't know) based on needing to be prompted about select, and getting syntax wrong, especially for a non-dev position and in a phone screen. If I were doing a phone screen, I'd honestly be probing more for whether you know how code works in general, and if you knew what select was (i.e. when I prompted you, your response wasn't "uh...what's select?")

Also, did you not sign an agreement with Google that you wouldn't share interview questions before you started interviewing? I think sharing questions is generally considered somewhat uncool.
Physics is pretty close to data science. In the end, physics often is about applying the scientific method to sth. Traditionally, sth is "the world", but it's not too different if it's just another set of data.
"... flipped the disk over..."

They called them flippy disks...
Crystal clear is a bit of an overstatement for the water in South Florida. Did you know Miami Beach closes for a day or two every year because the level of fecal matter in the water is too high? It's still kind of murky in South Florida, though The Keys are a bit better. You are a boat ride away from the Bahamas though, and there you'll find very clear water.

Definitely true on the Spanish. More than twice as many people speak Spanish at home than English. (though a lot of the Spanish speakers are bilingual, it's the dominant language in the county)

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> If im ever being interviewed by Google, i'm going to say "hold up let me google the solution to that real quick."

If Google just wanted people to take existing publicly known parts and hook them together, they would be recruiting people fresh out of community college instead of fresh out of masters and PhD programs, and they'd be offering around $50k/year salary.

Google is trying to find people who can create the parts that ordinary programmers hook together.
6 hour update. Now both sites are up but they are both listed as down and with "Keyword Found".

http://cl.ly/image/2L1V1A2K180f

Liking the service a lot by the way! That's why I am reporting what I find.
The code for the importer is here: https://github.com/andrew/module_import

It's early days but could be quite an interesting way to handle dependencies in ruby.
Please put the info on your project in your profile and tell HN when you launch. The hardest job you will face is wrestling with your own ego. You think will be embarrassed.

So what.

My very first outing as a lawyer was to a Court of Appeals (!) hearing and an argument in front of a panel of three judges. I was tongue-tied and the only thing I could have done worse was pee in my pants in the courtroom.

HN's feedback will be ruthless. Your server will melt.

So what.

Revel in the rookie mistakes. You only get to be a rookie once.
It's not certain yet which party broke google.com - I've been running Windows 8.1 for over a month and it just broke in the past 24 hours. So either Microsoft pushed a new app compatibility list recently or Google changed their UA detection with the availability of 8.1.