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Believe me, I can and do implement them, but I always do so backhandedly. ``I am a security engineer, what does this have to do with security''.

In reality, I have not accepted an offer from any companies who ask me these questions because most of the positions are not exactly what I am looking for.

Also, I tend to disagree. Some of the best security guys out there never went to college. It's hard to expect these guys to know algorithms and datastructures even if they are really gifted exploit developers, or the like.

edit: To clarify. What this really shows is that I am not being interviewed by a security person...ie there is no special interview process for my position compared to a regular software engineer.
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Nice article. I'll add from my own experiences: use squid-deb-proxy; it will save you an immense amount of time when working with docker and ubuntu/debian, or in any situation where you're repeatedly pulling the same packages from aptitude.
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Good luck finding us! :) Even if you comb through the entire great Pacific garbage patch, we'll still elude you!
If you don't define your problem, how can you come to understand how you think about it.

That's achieved through identity recognition. All computers are generally treated the same.
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In related news, Viber manages to bootstrap their startup all the way to billions of messages and talking minutes per month with MongoDB.

Sounds like Mongo was a great choice and they're just growing up.
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I’m really not sure why anyone would be thinking that. That way of thinking makes no sense at all in this instance.

During the last years there have been many indie games with a strong narrative focus. His mission statement together with his actions (small team, digital distribution) fits more with that than free to play mobile only games.

It seems to me as though Ken Levine saw that he was making very narrative focused games (Bioshock Infinite in particular) with a side dish of shooting for that AAA appeal. Maybe he also saw all the indie developers making games with narrative focus who were not afraid of getting rid of such AAA trappings altogether because with digital distribution everyone can reach their niche and make sustainable amounts of money.

Ken Levine is obviously not going all the way, but he is going pretty far with the downscaling (and it’s always worth to talk about whether he has gone the right way). AAA development gets you some nice things (God Only Knows sung by a barbershop quartet, for example) but comes with its own set of restrictions (you have to go for mass appeal) and when you want to make something smaller and more focused that doesn’t appeal to everyone then there’s lots to be said for getting smaller.

(During the last few years we have seen the middle fall out from game development, with mid-sized developers and publishers going under. It seems that this gap is now filled from the bottom and the top, with former AAA developers scaling down and successful indie developers – Jonathan Blow with The Witness, Mike Bithell with Volume, … – scaling up.)

There is whole diverse and crazy world below AAA titles. Some of those games are awful, but some are awesome. There is lots that can be done. And lots of cool things that are done.

Why would you think of Candy Crush first? Especially the mention of the narrative focus makes me think of many excellent (and successful!) recent indie titles that also had a strong narrative focus: Stanley Parable, Gone Home, Kentucky Route Zero, …

It seems to me that Ken Levine has something like that in mind plus his own game mechanics twist (the highly repayable part, whatever that means), certainly not some free to play mobile only bullshit.
I'm new to Silicon Valley need salary advice
Hi, I'm a hardware engineer that recently moved from Europe to Silicon Valley and believe that my market value is about $100k/yr. I helped a startup (2 founders) for a few days by designing and building hardware of the first prototype. They want to hire me but they cannot pay 100k/yr for salary. Instead, they want to offer me part cash and part stock. I'm very new to Silicon Valley and know little about the invest stages of a startup. For me it is completely new to get my salary partly in cash and partly in stock.

Let me give you some background about the company, before I post my questions. Right now the startup has 2 founders in Silicon Valley and a few people doing software in another country. The founders are very convinced about the future success of their product. They have more than 10 years experience in founding and have started several companies. Those companies are so successful that now they can spent 100% of their time on this new startup. They are currently in the seed fase and want to show of with the first prototype to possible customers. They have self funded this new startup.

For my personal situation: Normally I would ask a salary equal to my market value of $100k/yr. I need at least $50k/yr to pay my bills and to save a little. I have never worked for a startup in Europe or US, so I'm completely new to company stock.

So here are the questions:
- Is there a big risk in stock?
- is it acceptable to have 50% cash and 50% stock?
- what salary should I ask for a temporary position (2mo's), and how is it divided into cash and stock?
- what salary should I ask for a long term position (>1yr), and how is it divided into cash and stock?
- where can I learn best about salary for engineers in startup companies?

I really appreciate your replies! Thanks!
Maybe try to post your project and ask for help on Designer News https://news.layervault.com/
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Is this a disco-pants selling company? That's pretty sexy.
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Wouldn't it make more sense if I chose 0 equity and all salary, but then bought equity with my excess salary? Now there's no vesting period. I get it all now just like an investor.
> it is unconfirmed

It actually was confirmed.

> I'm surprised you see that much worth in the article to even discuss it with me.

A bit - is their strategy of splitting power and basic really the way to go? I don't agree, but it's a valid argument even if I disagree.

You claim no content, but there is content - the very argument I repeated in the paragraph above this one.

> Do you have any direct involvements? That would explain...

No, it would not explain. Not only do I not work for Microsoft I hardly ever even use any of their products. Linux for me, and I used OS/2 for many years.
Others have said it in softer terms, but IMO this is a horrifically bad design.

The fact it's not implemented in a car is why it seems like good design - because sitting focusing on your iPad with no other way more important task to deal with means you can 'figure it out'.

How do I tell a casual driver of my car how to adjust the A/C? Or the radio and GPS? How do I tell - at a glance - which control I need to hit? I can't even hit a control - I have to somehow apply steady constant pressure to the screen to execute a gesture - so that's completely incompatible with anyone who likes their seat a little further back.

The use of any amount of press and hold gestures is completely unacceptable, yet that's the first thing we see on the screen.
I'm sure it's been talked to death but touchscreens lack the most important feature of any car interface. The ability to use it without looking at it.
Interestingly it's currently on its second attempt. The first attempt was deemed a failure after earning the second gym badge, when it got stuck in the wrong town and released its starter Pokemon, leaving it only with a single Magikarp it had purchased from an NPC. (I guess it's pretty hard to catch a wild Pokemon using random button presses.)
I once (sarcastically) argued in a student newspaper that attractive people should be favored in college admissions, since students would much rather share a campus with more attractive people. To me it made more sense in terms of promoting the desirability of attending the school than a whole lot of existing practices, such as favoring athletes or the children of alumni.
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Regarding work sample test, what about candidates who don't have several hours to waste doing homework for each interview?
Some of the best software engineers are .NET and Java software developers. These are the guys running massive systems, but no one ever hears about because its boring government/corporate work. But that work is infact the most challenging. Imagine the amount of transactions a bank has to handle every day, without fail!

It's just that Hacker News biased to a certain section of society.
To expand on that, mega.co.nz does attempt to do encryption end deduplication. Each file uploaded is encrypted with it's own hash, and the hash is stored in the users encrypted account. The idea is that if two users upload the same file they will have the same hash and be deduplicated. It's not particularly secure or private in their implementation, but it can certainly be done.
I think they really love it because they have plenty of time to take courses online while they wait for their Scala code to build.
There are a few efforts to support docker (and other) containers in Mesos under (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-816)

As part of this, a couple of new docker efforts were released today:

https://github.com/tarnfeld/mesos-docker-containerizer

https://github.com/mesosphere/medea

I'm pretty excited to see fleet. These types of distributed systems are a natural complement for containerized infrastructure.
I doubt "the best security guys" end up with the same interview experience. If you are widely known in the industry as an expert or the best at something I think the process to obtaining a job is significantly different from someone applying for jobs.
With phrases like "economic activity" and "mindless hoarding", you're using language that short-circuits critical thinking. You're on the right track, though, with your parenthetical note, so let's start by replacing "economic activity" with "spending". Then, instead of using the inflammatory phrase "mindless hoarding", let's use the word "saving".

With this neutral terminology, we're now ready for some actual thought. We can recast the claim as follows: devaluation is good because it encourages spending and discourages saving. There's no doubt about the factual claim—devaluation does indeed encourage spending and discourage saving. But why is saving bad and spending good? This is an ethical judgment that depends on your particular set of values, but it is undeniable that devaluation (currency dilution) transfers purchasing power from savers to spenders. In particular, it's mathematically equivalent to combining a perfectly hard currency with forced confiscation (from savers) and transfer (to spenders), i.e., organized theft. Thus, from an ethical point of view, there is a strong reason not to give devaluation the benefit of the doubt.

And yet, so far as I can tell, devaluation is always given the benefit of the doubt by the mainstream. Doesn't that seem odd?
1) How are you arriving at that estimate of your market value? Is it tied to your previous experiences in Europe? My understanding of market rates in the Valley is that if you can solo-prototype hardware your market rate is probably substantially north of that. (If you put a gun to my head and said "Pick a number!" I'd say "Oh please don't shoot 140k!")

2) The options you receive are not directly comparable to stock of public companies in terms of variance of returns. +/- 90% of options in startups will be valueless.

3) You ask what is acceptable. Anything which you and they agree on is acceptable. As your peer who wants to see you get the best deal possible, I would strongly suggest negotiating primarily for hard currency and treating the equity like the lottery ticket that it is.

4) It is not the customary practice of Silicon Valley firms to award equity for temporary (2 month) positions. A company doing that is signaling bad things about its likelihood for future success. Silicon Valley firms which need specialized contract work done for them raise money and then pay market rates for it. (n.b. Market rates are probably at $10k+ per week. Yes, that's a much larger number than the salary we discussed earlier. Ask if you don't understand why that would be true.)
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I still remember HN/reddit bashing Chinese crap router with crap firmware yesteryear :)
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Maybe he isn't solving this problem but I'm glad it's being thought about. 10 years ago I think swipe to unlock could have the same crticisms. People can and do adapt. There eventually will come a set of standard gestures that make sense for most situations. These will become standardized and everyone will think that this is the way it should always be done- until someone else creates the next big thing...
.. because those are the reasons startups fail?
What takes more time though? Quickly reviewing a listing of 20 expenses that an employee made on a trip and signing off, or getting an alert 5 times a day for 4 days for an expense that needs to be approved.

I think you guys under estimate how valuable a managers time is and that this doesn't actually save them time but puts the hassle of expenses from the employee to the manager.
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"Baby Boomers make up 35% of the American adult population (Scarborough)."

"By 2015, those aged 50 and older will represent 45% of the U.S. population (AARP)."

http://www.immersionactive.com/resources/50-plus-facts-and-f...

Ok so not exactly 75%, but I was a lot closer than the 15% you mentioned.
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Apparently only a third of their phone sales are high end s3/4 stuff. Wonder where it leaves the crappy s3/4 mini?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/12/idc-data-shows-66-...
Satire: "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices".

What is being held up to ridicule are the various criticisms of bitcoin, not central banking. For example the article quotes an economist saying that paper money is evil, satirising Krugman's article about bitcoin. Quite entertaining!
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I've heard of those systems but never knew anyone who used them. Any good writeups or demos to try?
I think this FUD gets repeated a lot - however, is there any evidence that Mongodb "doesnt' scale"?

I don't think MongoDB (or anything) is a magic bullet, - however, like any technology, it optimises for certain technical trade-offs. There is no free lunch.

If you're a real engineer, you should do your background reading before using any product (MongoDB, Couchbase, Postgres etc.)

There are a lot of very large MongoDB installations (e.g. Stripe, FourSquare, eBay etc.) - and I'm sure a lot of large Couchbase installations). Probably larger than most people here would ever deal with. Hence, I suspect an inability to get either to scale to your dataset if probably more an issue with how you're using it, or a failure to READ THE FINE MANUAL.

Remember that hoax article from a few years ago, "Don't use MonogDB" - one of the claims was, we were at capacity, and we had issues adding in sharding.

Gee, your system is at max capacity, and you wonder why you can't tack on sharding and re-balance your shards.

I know it probably sucks to hear, but don't you think you should have monitored your systems, to know before they were full?

It's like say, running ZFS on a Raspberry Pi and complaining, gee, why the performance suck? ZFS SUCKS!!!

If you're read the docs, you'd know that ZFS needs RAM for the ARC cache. Oh, and running on that little RAM, you expose yourself to FS corruption issues.

ZFS is a great filesystem, if used correctly.

Use the right tool for the right job, and read the docs.
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Not exactly what you are looking for but might be something interesting for you to check out: venturepact.com
I'd add to this that either way, whether interviews work or not, the problem is more complex than that: is the potential hire at the right point in his or her life to work for you? Are current open positions a good fit? Will the team get along? This may speak more about less mature candidates, or for smaller companies with more specific skill requirements, but my ultimate point is that rejection shouldn't be forever but few companies take that route...
Without a central regulatory authority, what would prevent any private bank from lending out all its deposits? Nothing. And in fact fractional reserve banking predates the modern central banks by hundreds of years, and is one of the economic risks that central banks exist to manage.
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Can you link me to the research you're drawing from?
Note the word programming. If a brainteaser puzzle has nothing to do with the job you'll be performing then of course it won't indicate real-world performance as well as one that's related to the opening at hand.
I really need to go through and read all of his site some time. I've been a fan for years, but still only read a fraction of what he has on there (basically, what people link to).
The Australian Navy doesn't do this at all. There have been calls for the navy to do so, and calls by politicians and activists for more intervention, but the Navy does not put itself between Japanese whaling boats and whales.
And sometimes when you interview at a place you get the feeling it's full of creeps and fedoras and you moonwalk on out of there as soon as you possibly can.
Considering how much it must have cost to produce, yeah it's believable. #6 on the list was also considered a failure for not selling enough copies.

Rough outline of the business plan behind most AAA titles:

1. Assume all 10 of us have a >50% chance at being among the year's top 3 sellers.

2. Scale budget according to assumptions from step 1.
The obvious answer is "Because I can't." Unfortunately, this admission of incompetence carries a nasty subtext which is "because the task in question is beneath me."

That's why you hear people saying "It's 'just' a matter of execution", which simultaneously elevates the person with the idea while diminishing the person bringing it to life (which frequently requires fairly major departures from the initial concept).

God I hate that word, "just". 9 out of 10 times the person using it is an irredeemable asshole.
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They won't be posted online because my team will have put you out of business by then.
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I'd rather have one Don Knuth than a hundred ninja rock stars.
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Ever wanted a brief to create some self portfolio work? I have. I made this site in a lecture where I was wondering what I could make for my portfolio.
You can run docker containers with marathon pretty easily plus other stuff:
https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/908362/1405593/a19d12da-3d...

I'm liking marathon, it makes mesos much more accessible and is under pretty active development.
Don't forget about the "zen" of YC: Zencoder, Zenefits, ZenPayroll, Zenbox, & Zenedy.
With words like "invest" and "hoard", you're using language that short-circuits critical thinking. Surely, for example, you agree that not all investments are good? But "invest" has an undeniable positive connotation, so in order not to prejudge the outcome let's replace "invest" with "spend". Then, instead of the inflammatory word "hoard", let's use the word "save".

With this neutral terminology, we're now ready for some actual thought. We can recast the claim as follows: currency dilution is good because it encourages spending and discourages saving. There's no doubt about the factual claim—dilution does indeed encourage spending and discourage saving). But why is saving bad and spending good? This is an ethical judgment that depends on your particular set of values, but it is undeniable that currency dilution transfers purchasing power from savers to spenders. In particular, it's mathematically equivalent to combining a perfectly hard currency with forced confiscation (from savers) and transfer (to spenders), i.e., organized theft. Thus, from an ethical point of view, there is a strong reason not to give dilution the benefit of the doubt.

Regarding the so-called "gold standard", the historical evidence is not nearly as clear-cut as you've been led to believe. Though flawed in many ways, What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard is a good place to start: http://mises.org/money.asp
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> People believe this to be an indication of their strong desire to communicate with us.

I'd desperately try to reason with my captors too!
You can't go on the interstate with a vespa.
The future ideas are just as worthless than the first.
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I don't know if anyone remembers Bob Newhart standup shtik, but this article (abridged/down-sized) would fit right in there...
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This looks like some kind of scammy thing, but I've known a lot of top people from a lot of top schools and there's nothing like a Princeton alumn for school loyalty (me personally I went to state schools and have been dodging the fundraisers for years and years)
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Recruiting good web developers is tough, no question, but I remember trying to recruit good analog IC design engineers at my previous startup. That made hiring developers look like a cakewalk in comparison. There were maybe 100-200 worldwide who fit the bill, all of whom were already happily employed at very comfortable jobs.
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We have a list of phrases that get replaced in titles and their replacements (which can be the empty string if we simply want to remove something). A moderator accidentally added an identical pair to it.
That's not deflation, that's a drop in real cost, which is only created by investment.

Under deflation the same computer would cost half as much 2 years later, and you would only have half as much income to spend on it.
I didn't say that they did although at least on liquidity they do.

Having said that I still don't see any good reason for bit coins to have any substantial value at all. (Arguably the same could be said of national currencies since the Gold standard was dropped but there is more history there).

My main point was that the maths doesn't actual support (nor does it contradict) the properties of interest to use of bit coin as a value store.
I personally feel one should be able to locate and modify any automobile control without having to look away from the road.

I find it interesting that the Boeing 787 uses five 15 inch displays, but for information display only. Input is still done with buttons and knobs.

[1] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/2012_...