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I don't get that you want free wifi without being prepared to jump through a small hoop. Delivering that service is not free, so requiring you to do a little work for it, or pay (e.g. to verizon who'll happily provide data connectivity), is not unreasonable.

I love how you first complain about dictatorial regimes, then proceed to declare that "society should probably try to get rid of Facebook, at least the way it currently functions".

What was the problem with dictatorships again ? Oh right, stupid edicts from above based on interpretations of individuals. You want to deny a billion people's freedom to play on facebook just because of your ethical/moral concerns. Please note that over a two billion people feel the same way about killing you/me because of premarital sex, why would we respect your moral concerns and not theirs ?

To use your kind of hyperbole : how are you different from the Taliban/dictatorships ?
We are living under martial law. The NSA isn't even operating under civil law, but martial law (procedure and customs entirely decided outside of court proceeding, outside of the rule of law, and based on military interpretations of the law).

People just don't realize this yet, or won't admit to it because they're still in denial.
Did you try cmocka? http://cmocka.org/

It was the most featureful that I found when I was looking last year.
Evolution Hidden in Plain Sight
How should states fight the NSA? Turn off the water, say some
We're gonna have some job listings up come February.

Might be a tough sell for a lot of the folks here. We're not in the valley; we're in a small Florida city called Pensacola. And we're not slinging web apps. And we don't use super-sexy languages, we use Java. We're working on software for humanoid robots.

I work at the IHMC (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition). We just came in 2nd place in the DARPA Robotics Challenge after SCHAFT, so we're moving forward with decent funding and we have a Boston Dynamics/Google Atlas robot that we used in the competition.

We don't suffer from a lot of the poor project management that is endemic to pure academics; we have a pretty healthy "Agile" culture, so much so that Atlassian is actually an official engineering partner on our team and occasionally sends engineers on-site to work with us both with their products and contributing code to the 'bot itself. Our team is very international (French, Dutch, Taiwanese, Spanish, American, Canadian, and if you count the Atlassian folks then we have an Aussie) and Pensacola is actually a pretty cool town. Plus it's on the beach. If you're interested, take a look at http://robots.ihmc.us/jobs come February.

EDIT

I foolishly posted this right as I'm about to go to bed, so I won't be checking in on comment replies. If anybody has questions, contact info is in my profile.
I don't know if it will take a lot. Yelp seems to me to be in a fairly precarious position. Localinfo sites are highly dependent on data-entry, and the industry and its users have recreated these databases over and over in the past 15+ years. Usability and relevance is key, and no site has solved that problem yet.
What is your background? Do you have a particular development area or industry that you are interested in (web development, scientific computing, etc)?

Government agencies (NASA, DOE, etc) and related industries (aerospace, defense, healthcare, etc) work on some very interesting and unique problems. But these jobs are generally more limiting (think legacy languages), often come with their own sets of cultural overhead (sometimes the antithesis of agile), and will likely pay less than what you are used to (if coming from SV). The trade-offs are tricky.
I hate Windows 8 and refused to switch to it. I would actually consider it given his changes. MS - Hire this guy.
Handy, but less useful. Facebook picture albums have a larger variety of the same face, and is more likely to be up-to-date, and often contain relationship information for help in actually tracking someone down.
It's Web 3.0: lonely people engaging in meaningless activities with ads. Or, in FounderSpeak: "social synergies with creative tie-ins."
>As a user I'm not going to allow your app to waste my limited data plan with ads, learn to cache them, or do something clever when the device is connected via wifi.

You have the option to NOT use the app. You are not entitled to free ad-less apps created by other people's toil, anyway.
Interpy: Ruby like string interpolation in Python
Why is there a leap year? (2012)
How does PGP differ from S/MIME?
Kinda like HN kills such stories because hey, we're still using it.
A few months ago I read the compilation of Feynman's letters that was published in 2005 that this is referring to (title: Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track). I believe I even read it after someone mentioned it on HN. If you are interested in that personal side it's pretty interesting. A little raw at times but the content speaks for itself.
Joe Walnes' tinytest is just a 113 line header file: https://github.com/joewalnes/tinytest

Greatest is 591 lines .h and 133 lines .c.

You can see tinytest in action here: https://github.com/cucumber/bool/blob/master/c/test/test.c
I've always found this theory of hiring interesting but I think it eliminates some of the best possible candidates. People who are really good at what they do don't need a 20+ hour try out to find outstanding jobs - especially not in software.

If I have a choice between working for the company that wants to try me out ... at a rate grossly below market, and a company that can look at my experience and examples of code I've written - well it's a no brainer.

I feel like a company that hires like this has no respect for the potential employee.
Yes. Less government, more free market. The government should be fighting anti-competitive behavior not granting monopolies. There is no reason for a government sanctioned monopoly in ANY market...it's just a breeding ground for corruption.
Thank you very much guys! Microsoft actually got in touch with me and I am going to Seattle for a day or two in the coming weeks to meet the design team.
China blocks the Guardian, censorship-tracking website says
Refining Valve's Steam
More like self-knowledge -- those "silent" people are making far more impressive shit done than _I_ do too.
It's not just Biz Stone (is that his porn star name?); there is other soulless cream cheese with hair:

http://jelly.co/about
> "Person of Interest" debuted ahead of common knowledge of the extent of mass surveillance

By the way, I've got to hand it to Person of Interest for creating a show about technology and the singularity that isn't completely ridiculous with its use of computers and jargon. They're also not really pro-surveillance. To quote Finch:

"...the machine is... wonderful and terrible..."

It's also a show where bad guys (the government) are using torture, and it's horrific. On last night's episode they mutilated a main character just to make a point.

In a sense, I think PoI is somehow the spiritual successor of the X Files in a sense that it alternates between "monster of the week" (in this case: criminal of the week) and the big storyline which is about a corrupt and power-hungry government at every level from local city politicians all the way up to vast and limitless government agencies, and about everyone's love-hate-and-exploitation relationship with a superior intelligence (which was the aliens in X-Files).

It's a show that makes some powerful and ballsy statements, while at the same time keeping up the light entertainment of what's ostensibly a vigilante show.
Flir One: Thermal imaging for the iPhone
Haha I wish I was that smart! An ironic thing is that they are so non-technical they have no idea what Hacker News is and will never know about this post. But yes, I do need to talk with them and just be frank.
Also depends on what you consider a deal -- the lower tier hardware works for a Wordpress blog, but not necessarily for much more. For the price, a good Linode or even a dedicated server will get you more bang for the buck.
My goal is to build build a great company that makes housing easy for students. They don't buy into the scope and hard work involved. I think compensation for their 20% is fair but we have not even incorporated yet?
Not sure if you're more interested in spending time working on an open source project and getting paid to do it? We are looking to hire in 2014: http://ionicframework.com/
I don't know what systemic tech problem you think exists for web hosts. There's no lack of bandwidth on their side of the internet -- heck, if you excluded Netflix and YouTube, over 60% of last mile capacity in the country would be completely unused during peak hours. Those few sites, like video streaming services, that are bandwidth-limited also tie their revenue to consumption -- more bandwidth on the consumer end just widens their potential customer base.
Yeah I don't think so. They are just not that motivated and I am. We have not incorporated so I don't know if that is a good or bad thing.
I have Comcast at my business in Los Angeles. It's $65/mo for what I measure at 50mbps down and 10mbps up.

When I tried the small, local cable ISP they were offering me 10/2 for 200 per month.

There's definitely no rhyme or reason to it.
Is this the same if we have not incorporated yet? Right now we are three guys in college working on a "project". I just treat it as more than a project.
Philz Coffee (at least the one at Golden Gate and Larkin) has this. Before you can access any non-HTTPS pages you get a Facebook page with a big "Check-In" button and a very small "Skip" button.
Yes, thats it! It turns out we (humanity) did know more, its just that I did not :) Thanks.
Hey that is kind of cool. I imagine you could take the UMLS Metathesaurus and load the parts you are interested in to a in-memory store for fast lookups.
Semantic Dictionary
We are the reCaptcha or Duolingo of semantic information. We crowdsource semantic data with educational and fun learning tools designed to identify and capture the semantic information revealed in the game play.
For first and second level concepts (the least abstract) we target children aged 3-6 with games that their parents deem educational and worthwhile in preparing the child for traditional schooling. Our tools will be free but we generate revenue by licensing the semantic data we capture. Distribution will leverage the US federal government's new Universal preK policy.
By way of introduction, I am a serial small-business entrepreneur. My projects have included a pre-internet scholarship search database and a pre-broadband telephony service. I have an MBA in Finance and have vetted investments in the context of a Private Equity group within a top-ten US bank.
Not to mention that "terrorism" is a very nebulous term. I've heard of schoolchildren being investigated for "making a terroristic threat". Their crime? Pointing their finger at another kid and yelling "bang". And of course, the FBI can investigate all those people on Facebook who joke about "killing someone". Busting kids is a much less risky way for FBI agents to make a living than chasing after the Mexican drug cartels.
It'd be really interesting to read how your meetings go.

e.g. what MS was interested in, what did MS rule out because of other concerns, how did MS built upon/refined the ideas, etc.
It's what we do daily on HN. Can it get its own menu item?

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NSA's Top Geek: 'I Don’t Know' If There's Another Snowden
Not the new one! It's up to 2048xsomething-or-another.
Don't believe the hype. hg will be around for some time.
Do you think part-time positions/internship type things would work out?
I'm in the same boat with my co-founders and totally agree. It's a tech startup and that requires a certain degree of savvy. I mean, if the company is successful you will hire more engineers. If they are clueless that should be a sign.
Comparison to shared memory or mmap'd files -- by using files we let the filesystem manage the cache, so we don't have to be concerned with the data growing and causing memory pressure. We also don't have to worry about how to store the data in a format friendly to fast retrieval, since this is provided by sparkey.

Comparison to local dbs like cdb, sparkey, mapdb, gettext files etc. -- hammerspace is a gem that uses sparkey under the hood, so these solutions are more or less one and the same. The difference is that hammerspace exposes a ruby hash-like API to make integration with existing applications easier. It also provides concurrent writer support, which many local dbs don't do.

Whether it's a good idea or not is for you to judge -- we've open sourced the gem in hopes that it will be useful to someone, just as sparkey and gnista were useful to us.
If I am building an HTTP(S) API server that is I/O heavy (which many are), I will pick Node every time until something else comes along to replace it. That is what Node is specifically designed for and does it well. What is really great is that almost all non-trivial Node modules are also async, support streams, etc. I don't have to add a bunch of wrapper code to make some module/library behave async which I have to do in many of the other popular languages (C++, Java, Python, etc). Now is Node the best for everything? Nope, definitely not.

I do agree with you that being able to share code between client and server is a poor argument. It is a rare case in my experience where anything but the most trivial JS code can be shared between client and server.
"24" and "Boardwalk Empire" are 2 series I stopped watching due to torture scenes.

In "24" it was some scene where Jack Bauer had to shoot and kill one of his own guys in order to not blow his cover. I tapped out.

In "Boardwalk" I lasted all the way to some scene where some poor sap got buried up to his neck on a beach and then they took a shovel to his head. That was it for me, no thanks.
Good luck on the half! I started out the same way (started training for an indoor triathlon & wanted to share my experiences).

I think wordpress is used by the wide majority of bloggers. It's pretty customizeable & you can get it setup in 5 minutes flat so you can focus on writing rather than coding. I wrote a brief free guide a while back on starting a blog - you might find it helpful[1]. If you want to make it super-custom dashboard for your training - you might need something else, but WP does the trick for a lot of people.

[1] http://impossiblehq.com/how-to-start-a-blog-guide
No, he's apologising for using 'he' all over his comment.
A shorter audition: ask people to write code on a whiteboard or a laptop during a day long interview.
In 1984, Orwell called it the "Ministry of Love":

"The Ministry of Love serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty and love of Big Brother through fear, a repressive apparatus, and brainwashing. ... It is arguably the most powerful ministry, controlling the will of the population. The Thought Police is part of Miniluv."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Love
You could look at this another way: you are trying out the company, and they are paying you to try them out.

A few hour interview may not tell you much about the candidate, but as the candidate, it doesn't tell you much about the company either. The future boss/colleagues could appear pleasant for the hour you get with each of them, but could be real jerks when you actually work with them. Maybe they just have a different style of work than what you prefer. Or maybe they said "agile" when you asked them, but they are anything but. I could go on.

For me, I really like companies that hire this way because it also allows me to try out what it's like to really work at that company. And get paid to do it. No one wants to be the guy who quits after 2 weeks coz the job sucks.
I recently watched an interview with Brian Chesky (Airbnb) and he said how he's only as smart as those he surrounds himself with. I'm finding that out the hard way. It's a big world and the people around you are not the only ones to choose from. I'm on a mission to meet new people.
And there is also https://rhodecode.com/
AT&T’s lost octal revenue
I live literally across the street from the Univ of Illinois, in a fairly big college town (150k), and Comcast is my only option. No competition at all. ATT used to provide DSL here, but they weren't interested in upgrading so they just let it become obsolete.
If you've protested something? WRONG. I cannot emphasize enough that they do not restrict surveillance to suspected protestors or terrorists. They spy on everyone and every device they possibly can.

EVERYBODY is being spied on right now. There is NO preselection of who gets spied on and who doesn't. They are using fake mobile cell towers, packet injection, deep packet inspection, and actively attempt to infect ANY computer they can in ANY way they can.

They are spying on you right now. They possibly have webcam photos of you. They possibly have some of your passwords, personal communications, and other info they try to collect ON EVERYONE.

Don't believe me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLT7ao1V8vY
A 1-800 number for data plans?
That's okay, they are all worthy, and it's much better than 10 separate replies. :)
I switched to linode because my credit cards got nuked it left me without an option to pay anymore. Desperate, I started looking for VPS hosts that accepted paypal and digital ocean luckily supported this.

I started using digital ocean and it's just too wonderful. I should've made the switch a long time ago. linode is good too but digital ocean's droplets are a joy and at half the cost and SSD, it just adds more. I also noticed that the dns management was super simple with digital ocean, it recognizes gmail mx records and adds the rest for you. these little subtle attention to details provides a very pleasant experience. in the end, it was financial but user interface that sold me and I'm here to stay with them.

the fact that you can take snapshots of droplets and clone them, and have an api to spin up new ones and also shutdown ones that are idle is just too awesome to ignore. not to mention quick ram upgrades and disks.

one of my droplets cost $5 but it shows the charge by hourly and if I shut it down, I can save even more money. I know this is little pennies but I love the fact that they give you control over this. It's almost like Amazon AWS but way more friendlier and easier to understand.
There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton
one big market for you is researchers. if only i had a penny for each time some economist came to me asking for a list of xxx in yyy, where x could be anything from flight prices, to businesses, to startups and yyy could be city / state/ coutnry /world. The internet is really good for current snapshots, but what reserachers most often need is repeated snapshots of the same thing. that helps us analyze how things change over itme. if you're a data company, please, please dont overwrite your tables to "update". save the old data. its really really useful. for research. and more importantly, for you.
Are we becoming lazy as developers?
3 Reasons Why You Should Go to Hackathons and Bring Your Female Friends
My Charter High Speed internet went from $60 to $40 a month on the spot just by threatening to leave them and go with AT&T U-Verse. And I did it all through their chat with a sales rep online without calling anyone. They even gave me a free cable modem.

Moral of the Story: Shop around and make threats, you are the customer they need you and your money. They'd rather lose $20 a month than lose $40 so you can almost always talk the prices down.
I'm also interested in this - I'm graduating in August with a Masters in CS, (degree in engineering), and all I can find are the likes of Google graduate program, (or other similar sized companies), rather than R&D-style positions...
They've got a lot in common. tinytest looks a bit simpler, but also doesn't do any allocation and looks reasonably portable. Cool.

The single biggest difference is that greatest has more control over about which test(s) it runs. tinytest just bails at the first failure, whereas greatest can run everything and report, or individual test(s) or groups of tests whose names match a substring. That adds some to the implementation, but I've found it particularly valuable once a program has several modules and hundreds of tests.

Also, greatest supports parametric testing, which means that adding fuzzing/randomized testing is pretty straightforward (though usually project-specific).

tinytest requires C99, greatest doesn't. That shouldn't matter, but unfortunately sometimes it does. Embedded compilers for proprietary architectures can be lacking, in particular.

greatest also doesn't assume ANSI escape sequences are okay. Sometimes dumping out a bunch of [1;31m stuff is annoying. That's a matter of taste, though, and it'd be easy to make it optional.
Master of His Virtual Domain - Addicted to Clash of Clans
Through Prim, these Stanford grads invented low paying jobs with long hours, even by YC standards. I wish somebody would have told them what a terrible idea this is in advance--but more likely than not it would have fallen on deaf ears. People fall in love with the idea of being a startup founder and only hear what they want to hear.
Look at the conspicuous large corporations: Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, AMD, Amazon, Apple. Plenty of interesting jobs for engineers in this companies.

On the flip side, consider something like product management.
The problem with using the kernel-managed the fs cache is that you don't control it. If the kernel decides it wants to reclaim that memory for some reason, well, guess what, you're going to the spinny metal bits.

Two memcached points:
1. You can run memcached over a unix socket.
2. You can have it use locked memory so it will never page fault.

As others have noted, mmap is another option.
The fact that Google is one of the largest, most successful software companies in history and you are arguing on the internet using the handle "moron4hire" just about sums up the merits of your position.
I don't see much potential upside. This is not a scalable business.
Decent read but I vastly prefer W. Daniel Hillis' "Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine" as it is actually more about Feynman (in his later years, around the same time period as Wolfram's piece) rather than using him as a jumping off point to remind everyone of how smart the guy writing the essay is.

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
HEY BUDDY, if you don't think the country has come a long way from where it was in 2004, then I just don't know what to say to you.
It would probably be worse from space, actually. This was imaged at the diffraction limit of the telescope (~λ/D where D is the diameter of the mirror) and Gemini has an 8-meter mirror. We're not going to put an 8-meter IR telescope in space for a long time. Even JWST is only 4 meters.
Thanks. Will definitely look deeper into this. Know of any good sites where researchers make such requests?
Ireland Stirs Homegrown Flavor Into Tech Scene
The way this is going, this will actually be a part of Parse (parse.com) now that Facebook bought recently to provide a more robust MBASS platform for app developers.
The Wikipedia journey I just took thanks to this was amazing: Rule 30 -> cellular automata -> Conway's Game of Life -> Golly_(program). This lead to the package manager and then an hour of fascinating entertainment going through the samples. Wow.
> They're not exactly as supported, because they're not on by default

I really don't get this. In almost any software there are features that are not 'on by default', but it's still implemented and supported (except explicitly stated otherwise). How can this be a reason to not use the functionality when you need it?
Any good examples of a push feed you currently like?