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What are some things that programmers know, but most people don't? [quora]
I wasn't sure, but I thought that there was an even older game that was extremely similar to 2048 and Threes. I remember people got upset when the Threes developers accused 2048 of cloning them [0], because they thought Threes was itself a clone of something earlier.

[0] http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/#letter
The article points to 54 emails. SF is a city of almost 800,000
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Is that thing still alive? The open issues and unapplied pull requests are really piling up, and some of the public servers seem to be down.
For generations, thi is how property tax has been protected from riing; it is legal to transfer property to a blood relative without a re-assessment of the property tax. i.e. the tax level set when purchased can be maintained.

However with sale of property between strangers, there is a new assessment at each transaction. This should be the same for coding rights too, it would seem. There may be instances where this is not the case...

It would seem though that some people want to preserve such classifications when it comes to historical properties - which may be the play Khosla is taking.

(He is also claiming that his LLC owns it - and not him directly, thus he doesnt need to go to court, personally).
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I connected my email. It is a little scary but I figure it'll be worth it if I get any money back from flights.
Damn, dumplin.gs got snatched...
I have a few from 2011 for some reason, a lot from 2013 and a few from this past month.

Happy to ask the Quora folks who we play ultimate frisbee with on Wednesdays.
Are you saying that since all land is connected that no one should be able to have any say about their own land? I hope not because that seems a bit ridiculous.
This was my first impression as well. It seems to me that if you're allowed to spend the $37m to officially "own" the property then it would logically follow that you should be allowed to alter it or decide you don't feel like having random people on it. If not, then the road should be state owned with all surrounding property private.

I recognize that there's complex case-law here that differentiates between those varying shades of grey, but that's just my (unpopular) opinion.
Of the top 20 billionaires on Forbes ranked list, 6 are from tech, if you call Michael Bloomberg a tech billionaire (I would). Your argument gets even weaker as you widen the window to 30 or 40.

Take all the billionares from tech form the Forbes list, and try to distill out the egregious actions of that pool of billionaires.

Now rope the oil barons, Saudi princes, ball bearing magnates, Koch brothers, and Wal-Mart founders up, and distill out their egregious actions.

Prediction: the tech founders will be marked by things like "donating all their money to charitable foundations", and the rest of the billionaires will be known for things like "organizing efforts to disenfranchise large blocs of voters".

Furthermore, your jab at "the sharing economy", which I have qualms with as well (punch my name and "Airbnb" in the search box below; or, do the same with "Uber") is a red herring. Whatever you might think of Uber, their founders aren't restricting California beaches.
Another useful honeypot approach is Bitcoin Vigil, which will let you know if (bitcoin-stealing) malware has already made it onto the machine
Or alternatively, any company that demonstrates this kind of thinking is only interested in people not as cynical as you.

;-).

Jeez, can't anything just be fun and interesting?

And aren't those companies that give you a task to do just to get an interview (I've encountered this before) that the company will probably code review and put into production far more insidious? It seems to me the "Work for free before we even really talk to you" crowd of companies is looking for drones more than the company interested in a unique way of evaluating the way a person interacts with other people in a competitive and out of the ordinary situation.
Have you tried The Old Reader (whose blog post you just read)?

I absolutely love it. Unfortunately, I had to give up on using it last week since I had too many feeds to stay on the free version.

I'm now using Digg's Reader and I'm happy so far. Updates more often than (the free version of) The Old Reader too!
Thanks for your feedback!

"Where's your privacy policy detailed? With the nature of the service (gathering email addresses etc) you could head-off lots of questions with that."

We haven't worked out a formal privacy policy ... but of course, user privacy is our top priority! We won't use user emails for anything else. In fact, from the post page, you can't find your email address.

"A default serif font drags anything down. For me personally I'd prefer another font."

We are still improving on the UI ... We would appreciate if you tell us your preferred font :)

"You sensibly replace emails, but other links like 'unsubscribe' remain intact, which could be problematic (don't worry, you'll still get your costco emails although it can sometimes lead to real emails/names)"

We also take care of unsubscribe part if the unsubscribe url contains your email address.

"I guess grouping and parsing is the next step, i.e. process them and provide features around them a la tripit. Is that the direction you might take it?"

Definitely there are many possibilities to explore from what we have right now. We'd like to hear users comments / critiques / suggestions first.
What? You have to connect your email to this thing?

Sign up for a temp gmail account and give them access to that.
Awesome! I blogged about people sending emails with content that didn't have an associated URL recently (and how that pained my heart): http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1441

And mailp.in solves that issue perfectly. If someone sends you an email that is chock full of content that should be shared, just mailpin it.

One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?
"how about organizing a large beach party and get some boats to ferry people in?"

What would be the point? Vinod is not living there so he would be indifferent to it, at least until 2021.
Note this appears to just concern access by land. I believe that the public still has access rights to the beach between the low and high tide marks if they can get there without crossing his land.

This could be a nice little summer money-making opportunity for some college students, as long as Khosla is able to keep land access closed. Get a boat, and for, say, $20 per head ferry people to the beach and back. I bet a lot of people would pay that, assuming that you don't ferry so many people as to make the beach as crowded as other beaches. You could probably make $1000/day at this, at least.
With a focus on consumer goods rather than services, toxic customers is not as relevant a concern in the context of the article as it would be say for a consulting business. Likewise repeat customers are more of an unambiguous signal for a service business.
Alibaba's model (in eCommerce) is very different from Amazon's. Alibaba is only the middle-man platform, and doesn't keep its own inventory or warehouse.
I think it's like people see some bankers triggering a financial crisis, and some bankers taking home huge bonuses, and decide bankers are assholes.

Likewise for politicians, cops, CEOs, lawyers etc.

Fortunately, the reputation of us techies isn't yet as bad as the reputation of bankers, politicians and lawyers! Just as well, as it's not clear to me that we have the will or ability to improve or manage our collective reputation.
Honestly, I agree. However, there are often laws that protect right of ways that are already in use and things like that. Heck, people often sell property separate from mineral or water rights that have been sold separately. I don't have any problem with it if the owner bought it knowing he would have to retain public access, since then it would have been priced into the cost.
How else would you add N new persistence options to your class that implements persistance & data model?
Couldn't agree more with you. That's specially why joining another course and just taking the cool stuff of the last semesters is the way to go.
We are grateful for the Flynn project's emphasis on modular, reusable components that can be leveraged by those building platforms. I suspect we will collaborate more in the future :)
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I think there is also a cohort of customers - people who are really, really attracted to 'new and weird' who are constantly on the lookout for products to fill their super-specific pain point. When something new comes along, they jump on it and get enthusiastically engaged, to the point of likely trying to alter the product direction/roadmap.

Going away from the supermarket example and onto software - it's easy to become engaged with these types of customers, particularly if they are well funded - and lose a connection with the general market.

That is where the real danger lies. Going back to the supermarket - if these customers could affect the Cola recipe, they'd be saying 'maybe add some salt' to tailor to the unique taste they have been looking for. As they increase their purchases when you add the salt, it's easy to think you're finding the market- when in fact you're moving further away from where everyone else is.
My daughter is five and Labyrinth is her favorite. She can play Blokus too, and she enjoys Carcassonne, even though we have to guide her.
Ah, yes -- the down vote has come.
Is this April 1st? No?

The simple truth is this: people have no idea how to hire good people, or even how to evaluate their existing employees to see who is good and who is not.

And it is especially difficult when the prospective employees know the stakes. If they don't present a particular image well enough, they won't get the job. Every single person that comes in for an interview is acting out a role--the person they think you want to hire. If you invent a tactic to see the real person behind the role, it only works for a short time, until people know you use it and adapt accordingly.

This is why the Monty Python sketch with the job interviewer ringing the bell and counting down loudly still holds up. That was from 1969. Nineteen sixty-nine. If you re-made it today, you could even keep the same punchline!
I thought the same thing. Sounds like a classic case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Maybe they haven't heard of it.
Me too. Loving it so far. A bit too white, maybe.

I just wish they fixed a bug where pressing "j" does not mark as read the first post. Kind of annoying. I have to press "k" first, then "j".
Google Keep is a frontend to a Doc in Drive, and is integrated with the Google Now reminders system, so it's not an experiment to wither, it's closely tied to core offerings. It replaced _something_ that was standalone that died because it didn't "get with the program".
Ask HN: Seeking advice about job/future
Premise: Sorry, I know that HN get a lot of those. I've been here for a good while, and I've read many "Help me" posts, so I'm sorry for making yet another one.

Hi, I'm 20 years old and I don't know what to do/what I want to do with my life.
I just finished High School last year (Informatics, but from what I gather online it's more akin to Computer Science).
I was going to University until a while ago, but I stopped going because I couldn't get interested enough, most of what was teacher either didn't interests me or bore me (already done in private or in High school). Maybe I just picked up the wrong one ("digital communication", a branch of Informatics), I'm considering re-enrolling to a different course/university next year.

I think I want to be either a programmer or a sysadmin, as I enjoy both in my personal time. Maybe a bit too late to choose, right?
The problem is, I don't think I'm good for neither. I know a bit of Python ("vanilla" and Bottle.py/Flask), a bit of C and PHP, but that's it.
I know how to configure a server, ssh, vpn, nginx... I also know a bit of Fabric. But that's it, I have no experience in anything big.

I've talked with my parents, and according to them, I just miss experience. They're probably right, but how I can get it?
I've searched around for junior positions and similar, but it seems that where I live (Italy) there doesn't seems to be any. I also don't have any connections/know someone in the field, so I can't just ask around.

Okay, I'm not sure what I'm actually asking. Probably just looking for advices, not a particular answer.
Because they are not the "poo.rest"?
I think "state and behavior" is a bad way of thinking about it; in OOP design objects provide behavior. Its true that they encapsulate state, but the state (ideally) is simply that state necessary to provide the intended behavior. The behavior covers the area of responsibility, the state is part of the implementation of the behavior.
I think Alibaba does more bulk shipments, connecting manufacturers. Alibabas' customers are businesses, Amazon is a consumer company. They are not comparable at all. Searching for pens on Alibaba gives you offers with minimum shipment of 500 pens.
You'll probably be interested in the Lambda Papers.
http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html

You may also be interested in the Connection Machine thesis.
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It's all about the execution. I don't presume that I can execute above the average, even if my idea is smoking hot. Therefore, I take the $10 million.
I'd flunk that job interview.

I dislike ping pong in particular. I find it dull. I long ago lost interest in winning at dull, pointless games.
Have a look at that tumblr - it's not the day of acquisition announcement that matters here...
Have an HNers used this service successfully?
Even the author says "Without any reference to the SRP it's obvious that this class needs fixing." He just makes an allowance that it's pretty much not worth fixing if your app is small enough and basic enough, IE it might be good enough design if the app in question does not do anything besides draw rectangles and calculate their area.
I don't know if it's really a matter of pride, it just feels random, even with the explaination. The candidate is also evaluating the company, and I understand people not willing to work for companies that have evaluation practice they're not OK with (there is the risk the same kind of thinking goes for other evaluations as well)
As other have said: it can be solved in the library by defining a string type with the appropriate semantics (e.g. the MaybeOwned[1] type they refer to).

[1]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/str/enum.MaybeOwn...
Although there are lots of examples where people switched the word order. It might not be historicaly accurate, but the example I remember being told is that an 'ear wig' was so named because it went from one's wig to one's ear.
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I'd have said yes, because I enjoy ping pong. But I certainly wouldn't go along with the crazy stuff, like having it videotaped for analysis, answering a questionnaire about my playing ability and aggressiveness, etc. It's pretty clear that, despite saying the opposite, they are literally judging people by their ability.

But if you replace ping pong with something similar that I'm not interested in and don't enjoy, then I would probably say no.
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MongoHQ is a database as a service company, hosting databases for thousands of developers. We have serious revenue, a large A-round in the bank, and an amazing set of customers that love our product. Our customer base is growing quickly, and we want your combination of tech and people skills to help our customers solve problems and get the most out of MongoHQ.

If you are a developer, and know how to help developers with technical questions, we want to talk to you. You will be most effective if you have an inquisitive nature, love to learn, can read and tweak source code written in a variety of languages, and understand how to approach and solve problems from a customer's perspective.

This is the perfect position for a smart hacker who wants to gain experience at a customer-focused infrastructure startup. Spending time with our customers and product will let you improve your tech chops vastly, and should be solid preparation for a high-end distributed systems engineering position (we need those too, so if you start on support and do a great job, there's a huge amount of room for growth).

Hopefully, this sounds like you. If you want to talk to us about the engineering problems we help customers with every day, send an email to jobs+support@mongohq.com and we'll pass along work samples so you can get a feel for the day to day work.

We are currently a company of 24 people, with offices in San Mateo, CA, Birmingham, AL, and remote employees scattered around the United States, Canada and the UK.
Thanks!

"One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?"

You decide. If you don't delete it yourself, it'll be there forever.
And it's private. You decide who to share with. You decide whether to keep it or not.

We will commit to improving mailpin, making it a robust and useful service.
Here's the (now somewhat old) definitive reference on what a hipster is: http://nymag.com/news/features/69129/

"We do know what hipster means—or at least we should. The term has always possessed adequately lucid definitions; they just happen to be multiple. If we refuse to enunciate them, it may be because everyone affiliated with the term has a stake in keeping it murky. Hipster accusation has been, for a decade, the outflanking maneuver par excellence for competitors within a common field of cool."
That kind of attitude makes me very happy that my native Norway (and the rest of Scandinavia, to various extents) have the legal concept of "freedom to roam". It has also (in a much more limited version) been embedded into law in the UK where I live now, in recent years.

In Norway the concept pre-dates written law, and in its current incarnation it guarantees public right of access to most non-urban land, as well as almost all of the coast line. Basically, outside of urban areas, as long as we avoid peoples gardens, and things like tended fields, we can pretty much go where we want, whether or not it is private property, without seeking permission from the property owner (though it is considered polite to introduce yourself to the owner and seek to take their wishes into consideration if you make use of the rights in the vicinity of where they live).

We can also, with some further limitations, pretty much camp where we want. Further, tradition creates legal rights of access - if a path or a road has a history of public use (20-30 years is a typical yardstick, though frequency of use and the owners actions in the period that usage is becoming established will mattr), that access is legally protected; if a new owner decides to try to prevent continued public access, they will generally face an uphill battle.

The reasoning behind this is basically that allowing a property owner exclusive use of large areas of land would be a massive curtailment of the liberties of the population as a whole, and that maximizing public access to land is a substantially larger net positive in terms of liberty than the relatively limited negative impact for property owners.

It is considered so fundamental in Norway that it was not considered necessary to codify in law until 1957 (almost all of Norwegian law is codified), as it was seen as intrinsic to the legal system. In Sweden, their variation is protected by inclusion in their constitution.
Giffen good
It's gone now. :( I clicked through hoping it would still be around.
It's one of the companies I was investigating for hosting. Them, EngineYard and DotCloud/Docker. Probably gonna go with EngineYard since it's older and more established but it's nice to see good products emerging and creating disruption and competition. Best of luck to them.
Yes, their microloans business is what makes investors particularly excited. They have the technology (big data) and resource to disrupt internet finance.

One note: <another comment posted here is inaccurate>.
Their microloan business is not called AliPay (AliPay is the Chinese version of Paypal from Alibaba).
Is there an export? I couldn't find it easily.
Would it be better to combine both types (e.g. a MutRc<T> type), and get rid of Cell/RefCell?
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I believe eminent domain trumped property right in most if not all cases. The property right "inherited" from Mexico is just property right. Eminent domain is for public good. A court can always grant easement access to the coast to the public using eminent domain.
More cynically: Trying to apply a set of principles (any set) instead of thinking will likely lead to trouble.
What else do you need, that money could not get you but ownership of a startup could get you?
I'd rather play ping pong than spend 4 hours programming on a white board. Though maybe that makes me a bad programmer? Ha ha.
Thanks, it's always great to see other projects using our components :)
I got featur.es. I'm thinking @breaks.featur.es or @adds.featur.es...
How can you even call that "overconfident" without knowing the methodology she's using for her rating? Does 7/10 mean "I'm better at ping pong than 70% of the world's population," or "I'm better at ping pong that 70% of people who self-identify as ping pong players," or some other methodology?
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Quantity trumps quality (at first)
Yikes. Allowing some random startup to go through my email willy nilly? Yeah right. "We use secure connections & care about your privacy" What does that even mean? Can you download the full contents of my gmail account and keep it on file?

I've flown more than 300 segments in the past 3 years, but it still isn't worth the risk.

Connect to TripIt, or something else. Or tell me there is a way to use Google to search my gmail in a targeted manner without me exposing other sensitive info.
A very fun snippet from the linked article, giving a clean explanation of the benefits of functional programming, idempotent operations, and logged data storage:

"To use the technique, record every update to an object as a log entry, consisting of the name of the update procedure and its arguments. The procedure must be functional: when applied to the same arguments it must always have the same effect.

In other words, there is no state outside the arguments that affects the operation of the procedure. This means that the (procedure call specified by the) log entry can be re-executed later, and if the object being updated is in the same state as when the update was first done, it will end up in the same state as after the update was first done.

By induction, this means that a sequence of logentries
can be re-executed, starting with the same objects, and produce the same objects that were produced in the original execution."
The "guy" (Vinod Khosla) is not advancing an argument based on "ancestral lands" as he was born in 1955 in Delhi, India.

He's claiming that the original owner of the property was granted it in whole by the government of Mexico, which precedes any claims or legal statutes enacted by the US or California governments. I think the property should be confiscated to be held in trust as a lesson to this guy and the rest of the ultra-rich that this is our planet too.
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It's not enough to create a culture you can "live with"
UPS delivered parts of a NOAA drone to a random reddit user
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