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The only person pointing out that he's sixteen years old is himself. Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a description of hardship related to being 16 years of age.
This is not going to happen. Internet connectivity is a race to the bottom. Think of all the effort that has been put into delivering a fairly unreliable service over existing copper rather than implementing FTTP. Oh and then charging as much as possible for it.
I don't think the human costs are the major source of inefficiencies in US healthcare. Plenty of countries have much better health for much less expense, and they're not doing it through automation. My understanding is that too many players in the US system are incentivized to administer as much healthcare as possible (which may well not produce the greatest health), and at the highest possible price.
> I also had to _write_ two Chrome Packaged Apps (fun learning experience, haha) to replace the WinXP camera import wizard he was using and his photo slideshow screensaver.

Seems like a good startup idea.
That seems like the obvious answer, and I'm inclined to believe it, but it seems like a very strong implication that they did get one if they do that. If they're not allowed to tell, are they allowed to imply this strongly?
The relative toothlessness of the individual mandate was one of the reasons it was upheld by the Supreme Court (it's a tax, not a penalty).
Asking about the colour of the bikeshed always draws more upvotes and views than a question asking why the screws buckle and eject when the outside temperature reaches 30C but only if the interior is 21C.

Popularity does not mean a question is within the scope of the site guidelines.
I think Linus runs linux on a Macbook Air.

Techcrunch interview here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium...

*edited to add link
Is there any tangible, real-world value to points on Stack Overflow (maybe some form of recognition when applying for jobs), or are they really just imaginary internet points (like reddit karma)?
Maybe the relevant question for this audience is "Chromebook: Is It an Addressable Market?"

I wasn't able to find an application in the Chrome Web Store with a price. Maybe the store for proper Chromebooks is different? Sure lots of things are freemium or charge on the services side. However, I was expecting at least a few applications that cost something. Are there enough Chromebook users and do they buy software/services?
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Any person can be a good programmer, and the criteria for a good programmer changes each generation. Women were originally thought to be the better programmers because it was considered office-style busywork. Then it shifted to mathematicians, then to nerds, and now it's shifting to "anyone."

And yeah, you're evil — not because you believe those things (that would make you merely ignorant) but because you revel in the fact your beliefs are problematic.

But, much like your beliefs, your comment brings nothing to this discussion. It's a lot of unsourced, pseudo-scientific nonsense hidden behind a veil of verbosity.
FWIW, I live in Mountain View, have a car, and still frequently use Caltrain to get up to friends or events in the city. I'm within walking distance of the station, and during rush hour traffic Caltrain will often get me there faster than 101 will.

It's somewhat ironic (and telling about SF) that as a suburban commuter I've made better use of public transit than you have in the city, but it really is pretty convenient if you're going to any of the downtowns on the Peninsula, anything BART-accessible, or Candlestick Park.
I totally agree with you.
I'm taking a discrete mathematics course on college and we were asked to solve this.
>"Indeed I went from the top 4% of contributors at my time of departure to the top 3%"

>OMG, I didn't realize this issue was so serious.

It's actually a fairly big jump. If you look at a distribution of Stack Exchange users[0], it follows a power law distribution, where many users have few points and a handful have a lot[1]. Once you reach the 96th percentile, it takes a fairly large jump in reputation to get to 97.

If I ran Stack Exchange, this might bother me because it suggests that many high-reputation users are no longer contributing. (Otherwise, other contributors would overtake the OP as they gain after-the-fact upvotes plus upvotes from new answers.) An alternate possibility is that the OP wrote answers that are unusually long-lived, garnering enough extra upvotes to make up for his lack of posting.

(All of this is not to pick on you. I just thought this was an interesting statistical point.)

Finally, it looks like percentile is calculated based on users with more than 200 or something similar. Otherwise, the OP would be in the 99.9th percentile based on his rank and the total number of users.

[0]: http://imgur.com/a/bfcSl

Data: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/15710...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

EDIT: Here's a better distribution of users' reputations: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/90233/repu....
Wasn't the original brief of SO mostly "be a better expertsexchange.com"? Which was... a site designed to be at the top of a search engine result for a programming question, serve you ads, and aggressively try to get you to become a paid member to see results. Everyone hated expertsexchange.

Now people are starting to hate SO, for very different reasons. At last! They've become the new expertsexchange in every way.
Admittedly, there's no 'flag' or 'remove' option. There is however a downvote option--but only for users with enough 'karma'. You and I, being (relatively) new users, don't have enough karma to downvote posts. _That_ is unrelated to gender.
a) Offline mode is unreliable. I know because I trialled it on a borrowed C720 last week. It's barely usable. Not only that you can't easily shift a document onto an SD for example in offline mode. Try it, then poke it in a PC and see what happens.

b) school doesn't have a public WiFi network and all the ethernet ports are MAC address locked to the workstations plugged in for security reasons. This is the correct way to do it.

c) We have ADSL here in the UK as the primary connection. When it goes bang, usually several exchanges are out. This happens surprisingly frequently. Friends will be down too, as will other free internet options. Your only option is to drive or get a bus 5+ miles away which just sucks.

Sorry but your solutions are bad as is the product.
In most locations you can get 4-hour support by buying AppleCare Premium.
He's on a chromebook pixel these days.
He switched to a chromebook pixel recently:

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/dk1aiW4JjHd
I'm not an expert, but I hear that ACA platinum plans cover 90% of costs, which is a lower coverage level than some pre-ACA plans.
That's the unfortunate part of it. You could have an interesting conversation about strategy. Its an interesting puzzle because the ultimate crude brute force implementation, if my math estimates are correct, is a "couple day" project for a "several hundred" sized parallel cluster, but a slightly smarter algo would be much quicker. There's only 64!/56! possible board configs for 8 pieces ignoring symmetry speedups, and a couple 1E9/second class machines would only take a couple hundred machine*days.

The funniest thing about puzzle interviews as an observer is I can't stop thinking ... "and if he gets the job he's going to spend 12 hour days writing a boring frameworked CRUD app" ... "this poor noob probably thinks real on the job programming is like solving chessboard puzzles all day long LOL".

The unfortunate part about the abstract puzzle fad is almost no one is paid to solve abstract puzzles but no one is tested on real puzzles. "Yes I know quite well traveling salesman is infeasible for 48 states, I'm asking you to solve it for 5 sites because we only have 5 warehouses" etc.
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Not in Europe which means that isn't most locations!
This is a great list. Spot On
What's the law for how many stories there are per month about this obvious-for-close-to-ten-years-and-was-only-ever-a-marketing-meme-anyway "fact"?
>They also mention using a "two-handed technique" and "moderate traction."

I was comfortable with the article until this.
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I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with this programming question, except that it might be a little involved for a short interview.

The purpose of this question isn't to tell you whether the candidate can program chess boards or not. It could be used to help find candidates who:

* Have experience with search algorithms

* Specifically have experience with backtracking solutions

* Can reason through a complex problem (and communicate while doing so)

* Paid attention in school / knowledge retention (for recent grads)
It's more work than it appears. And it's work that doesn't seem to have immediate benefit, since Python 2 is still around. Augie Fackler has started tackling it, but even if we do get the change to Python 3 itself, it also requires a substantial rewrite of the hg codebase, since we use strings everywhere. And again, it's a lot of work with no huge payoff.
You seem to be conflating a lot of things.

For starters, no one is saying it's pg's job. The interviewer asked him if he felt there was anything he could be doing to get more women into YC.

Second, "encourage" does not mean "order someone to do something." No one is going to up women, putting their hands on their shoulders, shaking them, and telling them they must be developers! Instead, they're creating spaces that are welcoming and friendly to women. They aren't forcing them through the door; they're opening it for them and showing them all the delicious cookies inside.

> There are plenty of jobs that have many more women than men. Do you see massive outrage because the workforce is lacking in those jobs?

Yes. There are plenty of initiatives to get more men into nursing, fashion, and teaching. Just because you didn't take the three seconds to search for them doesn't mean they don't exist. You don't hear about them because, what a shocker, you aren't part of those communities. It's almost like you're on a website dedicated to tech culture or something!
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Good thinking. There's no chance that the NSA is reading any other email. I mean, it's not like email is sent through the Internet as unencrypted plain text.
Is there any follow model or does every participant receive all messages sent by everyone else?
If I were homeless, I'd definitely want to be somewhere in that area for sure, if I could make it there. Obviously there's plenty of homeless in the DC area, but some nights it gets dangerously cold and I wonder how they cope.
I get all my software for free just on principle.
This is best comment to tell about the current state of some of the programming interview questions.
Regarding drug prices, there's also Sam Peltzman's book "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" where he shows with statistics how the 1962 FDA amendments have caused large price increases in drugs while greatly reducing innovation. Such lack of innovation means many cures are never developed, indirectly resulting in harm to patients.

The question is whether this indirect harm is greater or less than the direct benefit of the 1962 mandate that drugs be "effective".
Some day they are going to have to get this guy (James Mickens) on Dara O Briains science club show and/or the infinite monkey cage radio show.
The Chinese exchanges still have money coming in and out through a variety of methods. The primary method is internal bank transfer from your account to their account, using one of the state banks. It's not clear if this is a permanent solution, but it's how things work as of now.

The main thing that happened a few weeks ago was that 3rd party processors were forbidden from dealing with bitcoin. The transfers from banks to exchanges were handled by 3rd party processors, so for a few days there was no way to get money into the exchanges.
Forth has it right: One data stack and one return stack. Though you could argue that using unsafe languages is the real problem I suppose.
if the Author like he says is so good at c++ why didn't he pick the harder questions and does theme ?

If the Author is an expert then answer/discuss questions on your level and most of the issues will be gone...
In AI, related work is usually at the beginning, but sometimes at the end. A common form is to set up the problem in the intro (section 1), then use the related-work section (section 2) to survey existing solutions to the problem and explain 1) whether you build on any of them, and 2) what's still left to do. It's sort of like an extended motivation: the intro motivates the problem, and the related-work section motivates your choice of jumping-off point.
i thought that to be the one obvious position.
the other (imho) equally obvious position seems to be the following:

copyright is protection of intellectual property, and securing property rights is the prime reason for goverment to exist.

according to the second position (and taking opposition to the estate/death tax into account) it seems consistent with a libertarian position to argue for infinite copyright terms.

am i wrong? i am not a libertarian, but i try to understand you folks.
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I'm about to start a modest research project that involves collecting eye tracking data while in front of a screen (no roaming). The idea has been around for some time and it looks like it's used in marketing a lot, but it seems very fragmented (quality and price) at first glance. Do you have any experience with this? Are there any low cost solutions built around your average laptop/webcam setup that wouldn't require delving into code?
OK, OCZ's replaced with Samsung's:

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/envoy510/saved/3iHB

I'm looking into mobo's that support ECC and are Hackintosh ready.
it is sort of confusing... do you really consider it a hard problem? I am first year maths student at Uni Warsaw and we literally had this problem in the first month, and solution was found by most people in just a few minutes. It sometimes amazes me how people here at HN find some hard for me problems easy and vice versa
From the comments:
>Here's another really radical idea; how about.....eating them?

At first I wondered, "What? Eating? Eating what?" until I realized he was referring to baby hippos. Then I wondered what baby hippos taste like; veal? It's so stupid it might work.
Yeah. I was expecting Pebble to be on the list.
> there's a clear positive correlation between education and wealth

I'm not seeing it. There is very little variance except on the lowest rungs:

<20K 5%
20-29K 8%
30-39K 11%
40-49K 14%
50-74K 18%
75-99K 22%
100-149K 25%
150-249K 25%
250-499K 24%
500K+ 23%

And we can derive from other data that people with the lowest incomes tend to be people just entering the workforce. i.e. someone straight out of high school might work a low paying job to gain experience in the field instead of furthering education. By the time his peers are graduating, the gap narrows considerably.

If bachelor's degrees and incomes had a significant correlation, you would expect a considerable increase in each income bracket like you see for the postgraduates, not just a few percentage points between them.

The only interesting correlation is with those who have post-graduate educations, but that was never disputed. It was the argument all along.
Generally speaking, the merchant takes the loss. It would be a good thing for the merchant, except then, they wouldn't have any buyers. I know I wouldn't use a financial instrument structured like that, especially when there's a plethora of ones where I don't hold that liability.
Note the words typical company though, it depends a lot on the culture I think. Reminds me of this BTW: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011013
The SQRL idea could certainly be implemented under FIDO and he doesn't seem to make that distinction. FIDO is a platform for integrating many authentication technologies/companies/standards. It is a shared layer that biometrics, devices, etc can plug in to and authenticate. There is WAY more choice. For instance, company X might want to use a SQRL solution. If it is FIDO compliant they could use SQRL anywhere FIDO authentication is available. This could now include Microsoft software and properties. It is unlikely that SQRL would ever be directly supported by Microsoft. FIDO is possibly the way in.
The excess dollars in circulation tend to be absorbed by treasury bonds, which is backed by the US taxpayer. If there were doubt about this tax base, then the dollars would stay in circulation and devalue the currency. Of course inflation still happens, but it is controlled to a low level which economists claim is helpful to spurring the economy.
There's a long distance the average software company can go toward encouraging diversity before it becomes forced, luckily.
I am not trying to put any agenda. It was a mistake to include random idea off top of my head.

My excitement comes not from being able to get free from government, but rather from the fact humanity found a way to agree on complex topic (money) and set these rules in open source software.
I am very interested in finding out Emily's approach on this.
Well, if you really wanted to de-couple health insurance from employment, you'd have been better off voting for John McCain, whose health plan transformed the tax-advantaged status of employer health care into an individual tax credit available regardless of how your health care was purchased.

Neither President Obama nor Sen. Baucus (the real author of what became "Obamacare") ever had that in mind: If you weren't going to get single-payer, there was no way you were going to cut government worker and blue collar labor unions away from the very cushy tax-advantaged plans they'd negotiated with their employers for current and retired members. They're already extremely upset about just the "Cadillac" tax.
The geometric part of the idea is what really caught my eye. I think there's something to be said for a steeply escalating cost for maintaining publicly protected monopoly rights.
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For each of these projects that herald the BSD license as a feature, I ask myself - what's wrong with GPL? In fact, if it wasn't for GNU and GPL, the world would be a very different place than it is now. I would claim that there would be no such abundance of free software that we find today.

So why do some people route around GPL?
M of N is useful, yes. All I'm saying is that reversibility is an important part of online transactions, and you need _some_ kind of mechanism here to facilitate trust.
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Technically, you'd be looking at BTC fiat CONVERSION cost + traditional TRANSACTION cost on the secondary party's ensuing transactions.

Fundamentally, money is nothing more than a unit by which to quantify value. Fiats can temporarily solve some problems like the issuer's spending constraint caused by a lack of units. The problem is that the unit is not standardized and thus becomes undesirable for trade as contracts for future goods/services become speculative beyond the operating complexities.

Which is longer: 2.54 cm or 1 inch?

The traditional transaction cost of the legacy financial system depend on the legal system perpetuating. Without the legal system and administrators (government) and its users (everyone), there are no contracts, no taxes and no fiat money.

This is why global legal harmonization is critical in the context of preserving the status quo. As discussed in the HyperMusic thread, changes in IP law in one "stable" country can engender massive economic flows to less regulation or more regulation depending upon who is favored.

BTC and its forks represent a parallel financial system that could possibly facilitate the preservation of much of the world's functionality in the event that the present legal system doesn't survive its next iteration to global force.
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Ah. So this is something like US DHS coming to raid the accounts of Mt.Gox affiliate Mutum Sigillum at Dwolla.

The Chinese exchanges are then adopting the practice of Coinbase, the situation sounds much the same (Coinbase initiates ACH transactions with your bank and makes you wait the 5 days until it clears to actually receive and withdraw your Bitcoins.) Mt.Gox works the same way now, except last I heard their Japanese bank was limiting them to some absurdly low number of ACH transactions to USA, like on the order of a maximum of 10 per week. Coinbase, being a US company with their choice of banks, obviously does not have this restriction.
> This already is a problem on ebay.

Exactly. It's a problem that doesn't go away with Bitcoin.

> Credit card companies are paying people with their own fat.

I am certainly not arguing that they don't charge a premium. I'm saying that they do add value.

> We dont need your middlemen.

You may not, but I am quite certain most people do.
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>It's more work than it appears.

I completely believe that, and good point about Python 2. I wasn't considering that side of things.

Is it a complicated rewrite, or just big? Superficially it seems pretty mechanical, `bytes.format` to `bytes_format` (though finding them might be hard). I never feel like I have free time, but I don't tend to get exhausted from things like that, maybe I can contribute a bit. It would be good to get exposed to some decent, real Python code :)
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I really don't understand writing a program to solve this problem. Granted I play chess casually but I had a solution before I even finished reading the problem.

I think it's an interesting puzzle, but I don't think that makes it a good interview question.
"The people asking are learning nothing useful beyond the shortest of the short terms"

Not for me. It's my go to place to find syntax equivalent examples for languages I don't typically use. If Google has a universal translator for code, I'd probably use that instead.
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The DIY PC route is still going to be more affordable. If we go the Ivy Bridge E route and opt for a Core i7-4930K, you get more cores than either of the options above for around $600 for the CPU. Adding in another $330 for a motherboard, $180 for 12GB of DDR3-1866 memory, $1400 for two W7000 GPUs and $220 for a fast SATA SSD (Samsung 840 Pro) we’re at $2730 for a configuration that would cost at least $3499 from Apple. That’s excluding case, PSU and OS, but adding another ~$350 takes care of that and still saves you some money.

As the AnandTech review points out, you're looking at $2700ish if you opt for hardware that is apples to apples comparison... regardless of whether you went with hackintosh, Linux, or Windows.
Agreed. Knight's tour is much more of a "programming" sort of chess problem.
That is certainly an interesting datapoint, though paying your employees in bitcoin... I'm not sure how I feel about that in ethical terms. What would you as an employer do if you paid someone on Friday and on Monday that paycheck only bought half as much bread as it did on Friday? Also doesn't it make income/FICA tax kind of a pain?
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