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The best advice I've seen on how to structure an interview came from Nick Corcodilos of Ask the Headhunter [1] fame, from his book Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job [2]. If you want to show someone you can do the job (or see if they can do the job), do the job, or as close as you can get to it in an interview setting. Anything will be selecting for indicators that will be more or less correlated with job performance.

[1] http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/articles.htm

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452278015/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
Accountants don't create something out of nothing. It's an inherently supporting activity.

Also, the question doesn't imply in any way that it has to be an off-work project. Its only point is to see if a person actually cared for any code they wrote in the past or if they treated coding just as means to an end.
To address things scientifically you need to talk about groups not individuals in isolation. Ghettos, police profiling, stop and frisk, exonerated death sentences based on DNA testing, dog-whistle politics, voter ID laws, and U.S. media can statistically be argued to show that the U.S. is racist against racial minorities. To speak scientifically you need to address group behavior and what perpetuates that group behavior. If you want to address Black or Latino racism then show the group power which is oppressing whites.
Pretty sure you are referring to Star Citizen.
Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? (2013)
I love this article. Some people are surprised that I tried hard (and succeeded) to avoid army service (obligatory at the time), and that I'm not keen on people joining army by choice. It's hard to explain all the reasons clearly, but this post has the essence of it. The stupidity, the submission, the lack of responsibility, the disregard for life. The atomic bomb didn't even matter that much in this story.
>Most alphabets don't have letter case.

But the latin alphabet is apparently the most common alphabet. I don't really see your argument here.
I second what programminggeek says. What is important is you write.

That said, I use the static site generator mynt. Host the generated website on digitalocean droplet behind an nginx server.

If you want to go the static site route and want to try all the options that you like, (and lets be honest, that is a big part of the fun setting up a blog) here are some aggregated lists

http://staticsitegenerators.net/

https://www.staticgen.com/

https://wiki.python.org/moin/StaticSiteGenerator
The question in the article was 'will you please tell me about the best project that you’ve ever create', which excludes most work projects, since work projects are typically not single-developers projects.
We could at least do the minimum. Like using techniques from the 1970s and 1980s to let the compiler help us write correct code.
Elon Musk on recruiting: “Anyone who struggled with a problem never forgets it.”
However, the presence of chaos implies that we can only study the long-term fate of the solar system in a statistical sense, by launching in our computers an armada of solar systems with slightly different parameters at the present time—typically, each planet is shifted by a random amount of about a millimeter—and following their evolution. When this is done, it turns out that in about 1 percent of these systems, Mercury’s orbit becomes sufficiently eccentric so that it collides with Venus before the death of the Sun. Thus, the answer to the question of the stability of the solar system—more precisely, will all the planets survive until the death of the Sun—is neither "yes" nor "no" but "yes, with 99 percent probability."

I wonder: How ergodic (this is likely a misuse of this word) is the system? If there's a 1% probability of mercury crashing into venus over this time period does that scale? If I run all 100 simulations for 10 times longer do 10 of those hypothetical mercuries crash into hypothetical venuses(.99^10 ~.9)?
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I don't know if I'm phrasing this in a calm, reasonable way, but your "snarky" reason has a lot to do with it. Not only was Java (pitched as) fool-proof (garbage collection!), managers really really did think that invoking "object oriented" like a magic word would help. I think that being able to develop on Windows NT (early 2000s context, right?) and run on something bigger was also a help.
I'm going to second what gnaritas has said and suggest that perhaps you just have an insufficient understanding of the evidence and the current state of cosmological theory.

Also, despite the name "dark energy" has no relation to dark matter and the evidence for either does not overlap. Moreover, the inability of one theory to explain everything else in the universe does not invalidate that theory. The theory of biological evolution fails to explain the existence of neutron stars, yet it is still a valid theory.
I agree with you that if someone is spending forty hours a week writing code at work, it makes no sense to expect him to write more code in his spare time. That's the bad part of the article.

The good part of the article stands, though. In a good programmer, there will be a spark, and he has the right idea about the interview question.

A perfectly valid way to respond to it would be to refer to something you did at work. "Oh boy, that's difficult because the code I've had to deal with has been legacy stuff that... well let me see, there was this big ball of mud where it took us a week to track down an intermittent bug, the debugger was useless... but after that, I figured out a way to put in logging code so we could at least see what was going on and we'd have a better chance next time..."

You're not looking for spare time programming or some particular answer. You're looking for a non-rote answer. You're looking for the spark.
True, maybe it should be rephrased to something more like '... best programming work you've ever done'.
This did a good job of highlighting the benefits of a traditional city and an awful job of recognizing why American cities and suburbia are the way they are, which is space.

What's the stereotypical American Dream: a house, a yard, a family, and white picket fence. And while a stereotype, I think most Americans would prefer to have some sense of personally owned space in their domicile. A traditional city wouldn't be very good at providing this.

There's certainly a cost to be paid for this individual space, which the post did a pretty good job of pointing out. But to completely ignore the benefits of suburbs and why the culture created them in the first place is not a recipe for change.
Just imagine the networth of the guy who invented the wheel
It seems the sentence is correct; Kepler found the fact, and Newton 'showed' why.

As in the way you describe a math proof: "given one planet and a sun, show that the planet follows an ellipse with the sun at one focus"
I would read that as having kids.
This is fantastic. Great breakdown of the different city types.
Read up on the concept of a "luck surface area". You can start building it now no matter where you are.

If you're the type of person who say, "I will just quit" you might not be the type of person that a VC wants to fund.

I've heard it said (might have been from a Stanford ETL talk) that you should do a startup because when you wake up in the morning you absolutely can't do anything else. If I was a VC I would want to fund people with that level passion.

Access to capital or a VC is just a roadblock. Detour around it or take another road.
You could ask the NSA for some money, their budget is larger.
Trouble is a lot of attacks come from places like Russia where it is not convenient to travel to file a legal case.
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Ffs stop with this! s (center of mass energy squared) does not need to get larger if what matters is statistics! Things like rep rate and number per second are more interesting quantities to improce, imho.

The future I want to see are smaller accelerators driven by things like laser and plasma acceleration. We don't need another LHC.
You're going to japan? Wow!
> they count Apple in the total because Steve Jobs had conversations with Robert Noyce (co-founder of Fairchild) when they were starting.

The initial $250,000 investment in Apple came from Mike Markkula, who made his money from Fairchild options.
> Things have changed dramatically since the constitution was conceived.

If this is true, why aren't all the NSA apologists trying to promote a constitutional amendment? The drafters of the constitution knew that the original document wouldn't be sufficient for the changing needs in the future, and gave a very clear method to modify tour "highest law".

While I suspect I wouldn't agree with such an amendment, I would certainly give the argument for it a full hearing and debate. Given how mixed attitudes are, it's hard to predict how successful such a proposal would be in practice.

What I do know, for now, is that trying to subvert the constitution's guarantees in an attempt to skip the necessary amendment with "vigilante justice" is at a minimum a violation of some people's oath to defend the constitution. At worst, trying to subvert the constitution (and the guarantees it provides) might even qualify as sedition. Reality is probably somewhere between those points, of course.
From an interviewee's perspective, these are my favorite interviews too. I get to talk about something that interests me, and have a discussion about the different decisions I made. If the interviewer wants, they can dig into specific details, or ask more pointed questions about the programming language. I find trivia questions off-putting, and tend to limit the depth of discussion into my skills.

And to the people saying that this necessitates projects outside of work - I don't see why it does. You can talk about school projects, projects from previous jobs, etc.
Then you think racism can be fixed by just condemning publicly open displays of racial prejudice. So if a Michael Richards torpedoes his career by doing a public racist rant, I guess you would argue that is proof our society is not racist instead of saying that only public displays of racism is unseemly. Racism is institutionally perpetuated, that is where you fix things. Otherwise you limit condemnation of racism to public displays instead of finding the source of group behavior.
I'm about as militant an antitheist as you're going to meet (even for the UK) and wish we had something like this to organise e.g. BHA Humanist meets/community.
For Y Combinator startups, the average Series A is 5x larger than in 2008
Wow this is an incredibly short sighted and "get off my lawn" piece. The author completely negates the massive cultural multiplicative affect humans get from living millions at a time together, among many other advantages.

I'm a New Yorker, so I'm biased, but I don't see problems with any of the types of living, they all have their advantages and disadvantages. The author writes as if this is not a preferential thing.

To be honest, this isn't HN quality: it's poorly written, and poorly reasoned. The author is not an expert in city planning and doesn't seem to understand even the basic challenges being solved.
I came here to say pretty much the same thing. Articles like this are why I love HN.

The post is also very well written. I'd enjoy reading more from this author.
Civil War, World War II, and more!

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=assault.attack

Ok, what happened in 1871?
jl, I enjoyed the last talk you gave including the gem:

Quietly determined people tend to win because the
scenesters usually can't build anything.

- Jessica Livingston
> While the "white devil" philosophy can be supported with case studies of deplorable acts against blacks

To be clear, the NOI teaches that "white" people are literal devils - they were created by a scientist named Yakub ~6,000 years ago for the express purpose of fighting the "original" (i.e. "black") people.

I can sympathize with mistrust, and even hostility, towards a culture which historically and presently supports systems which oppress those of ones own culture but I find such teachings undesirable and dangerous. I only bring it up because I don't think most people are aware that the NOI teaches such things (or that they have ties to Dianetics/Scientology, but I digress).

It should also be noted the NOI didn't invent this play. The Israelites used a story of a curse upon Canaan to justify their conquest of it, and later various "white" religions like some Protestant sects, Mormonism, some Baptist groups, etc used the same story or "the mark of cain" to justify their treatment of the people of African origin - another set of disturbing/dangerous teachings that I'm sure many people today are unaware of.

At any rate, I agree that someone subscribing to any of these religions, or advocating actions I don't approve of wouldn't preclude me from being able to admire certain aspects of their personality/life or learn from them.
Yup, I've done that in 2011 when I had less work obligations..it was a great time.
Not sure if sarcasm or not. But regardless, I hope to see one of the few remaining A6M Zeros in person while over there. Also, I'm flying over on a 787 Dreamliner. What a treat!
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It's not really much of an argument. I mean, even your paraphrase is being highly charitable; the article itself is much more muddled. A colder, less charitable reading of it would be that he's blurring together the statements "improbable things are improbable" and "I never grew out of teenage angst, which makes me superior to you". There isn't really much to respond to.
Bachmann: Hawking Blunder on Black Holes Shows Danger of Listening to Scientists
In a slightly parallel universe, NASA is already sending colonies on a terraformed Venus due to typos on government cheques to the NSA.
The hills around the bay area could be filled with smaller scale, well built cities like this, if Americans were civilized and tasteful enough to demand them.

But... we aren't. Rather we will get sprawl and ridiculous techno-mansions.

'murica!
The original and current title are definitely misleading. These quotes from the article clear it up:

"Our team at Endeavor Insight recently worked to quantify the impact of Fairchild Semiconductor and its co-founders. We identified over 130 Bay Area tech companies that were trading on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange. Our analysis indicates that about 70 percent of these firms can be traced directly back to the founders and employees of Fairchild.

The total impact of these businesses is staggering. The 92 public companies that can be traced back to Fairchild are now worth about $2.1 trillion, which is more than the annual GDP of Canada, India, or Spain. These companies also employ over 800,000 people."
Coincidentally, the most recent Ask the Headhunter article [1] is "The Single Best Interview Question... And The Best Answer". Hint: It isn't about your hobby project.

[1] http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/habestinterviewquestion.htm
Sure! In classical mechanics it's nice when you have a problem for which the solution is integrable. Oftentimes these solutions will also be periodic. One very useful example of this is an elliptical orbit---the object will return to the same position in the orbit at equal intervals. Unfortunately, there aren't very many problems that are simple enough to have periodic solutions in the real world. While Mars's orbit is approximately periodic, perturbations from Jupiter cause it to vary a little bit, so it's not strictly periodic. Now, we know from observations that the orbit of Mars is almost an ellipse, so these perturbations from Jupiter don't blow up and cause Mars to go careening through the Solar System. Intuitively, it makes sense that this should be possible because if you have some infinitesimally small perturbation, the orbit should remain approximately the same as the unperturbed orbit.

The question the KAM theorem answers is "Under what kinds of perturbations do the perturbed orbits remain approximately the same as the unperturbed orbits?" The answer is that if the perturbations are (1) small, (2) smooth, and (3) non-resonant, then the perturbed orbits will be close to the unperturbed orbits. Now, condition (1) doesn't tell you exactly how small those perturbations need to be---only that they exist if they're small enough. Condition (2) will be met for any realistic system---it just prevents you from choosing some pathological perturbation function like the Weierstrass function. Condition (3) basically states that if the perturbation is periodic, then the ratio between its frequency and the frequency of the orbit must be an irrational number. If you had, for example, a 1:1 resonance, so the two frequencies are the same, then the perturbation will be applied at the same spot in every orbit. It will then build up over time until it will eventually have a large effect and the perturbation will no longer be small.

The KAM theorem goes further, too. If you look at the unperturbed orbit in phase space, it will just trace out a nice, simple ellipse (or, in general, some closed loop). Since the perturbed orbit will be close to the unperturbed orbit, the KAM theorem also tells you what shape it will have in phase space. By energetic arguments, the KAM theorem tells you that the perturbed orbit is restricted to a torus centered around the unperturbed orbit. This is what's called the invariant torus. Not only is the perturbed orbit restricted to this torus, but given enough time, the perturbed orbit fills out the entire torus. The perturbed orbit will eventually come arbitrarily close to any point on the torus. (I believe this is due to the non-resonance condition---that is, if the perturbed orbit was strictly periodic then there would be a resonance between the perturbation and the orbit---but I'm not sure on this point.)

These orbits are known as quasiperiodic because they are confined to a torus centered around a periodic orbit, but they never strictly repeat themselves.
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What?!!! How the hell were schools in the U.S. South desegregated in the early 60's but with force of troops.
I agree with most of the author's points, however... isn't it too late to think about that, in the US?

I might be wrong, but I don't think a lot of new cities are still being built there, so it would be necessary to destroy city centers to re-build them in a more human-friendly way? I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Otherwise, I completely agree. The last time city centers were rebuilt here in France in large scale was in bombed cities after WWII, and they were transformed into car-friendly places (some of them really ugly). Only today are we trying to turn them back into pedestrian-friendly cities... but the wide avenues stay, it's better because there are less cars, but it's still not as nice as narrow paved streets (I'm thinking of the recent overhauling of Nantes' center, here).
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My argument is one in favor of being more flexible than the OP proposes, by introducing the idea that letter case isn't a universal or even frequent trait of similar writing systems, and that you can even call into question its utility.

As for modern Latin (Latin originally didn't have letter case, either; widespread use of letter case is a fairly recent development), most common doesn't mean best - how the "market share" of languages and writing systems evolves is a more complex topic (Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a good book). That means looking at and comparing with other examples is often useful.

It's a little like the reason you want to learn more than one programming language - it trains your ability to think about problems on a more abstract level than a single toolbox allows, and gives you insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each of your tools and how to apply them best. Even if you wind up only programming in a single language anyway. It also tends to make you less dogmatic and more willing to go back to first princples. Or willing to entertain notions like "just because this man isn't capitalizing his letters it doesn't necessarily mean he has nothing to tell me".
I thought it was just buried in some desert, correct?
Building new urban cities that doesn't suck is extremely capital intensive, but also potentially very lucrative. New cities that doesn't suck needs laws that ensure the city will continue to stay that way to. The economist Paul Romer has proposed the idea of charter city.

I can recommend some of Jan Gehl's writings. The man who made Copenhagen into to one of the most liveable city on the world, with more than 40% of the population commuting by bikes.

Last week I came back after two weeks in the southern parts of France. Visited old cities like Conque, Couvertoirade, Belcastel, Toulouse, Albi and Cordes. Nice to see human scale towns where no two buildings are a like, but still they all look similar.
Israel pays students $2K each to spread propaganda
Maybe it's just me but this seems like far reaching hyperbole.

It's not you, it's typical lowbrow techcrunch idiocy. What amazes me is not the stupidity of this blog, but the fact that there are enough dumb people interested in tech to support sites like this. I've never clicked on a TC link here based on HN commentary alone. But somehow, a talentless, unaccomplished hack like Arrington was able to take this idiocy to a multi mm cashout. I dont get it.
I'd love if the photos were tagged with city names
The "project you're the most proud of" might be a more precise way to phrase it because "best project" could mean either:

- created the most value for your employer even if it was a soul-sucking nightmare / merely maintenance project with no challenges.

- you learnt the most from it / overcame challenges you didn't know you could / came up with moonshot solutions to issues no one even realized were there.
My Wife's Grandmother worked at Fairchild for many years in her 20's-30's. She worked on a "computer" all day. When she left she never touched a computer again. Never a smart phone or ipad. She passed April 2014.

She kept scraps from spools of gold wire that was used as solder. She twisted it all up and gave them to family.
The Perseus Cluster is probably one of the most interesting galaxy clusters I have every had the privilege of studying.

Anyone interested in the universe should take a quick gander at this massive, massive scientific wonder.

New physics!
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It is simply needed to calculate which type of city can support more people/area.

If a large mall can provide more goods to people that smaller shops that take the same area, then it is better.
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Surprisingly, this is not dated April 1.
How you present yourself has a very real effect on how you perform. When you stay in pajamas and a t shirt all day you are holding yourself back.
Does 'DK2' mean "ready to be released before Xmas" in their language?
Heavy use of backquote might be a problem because it's one of the first keys to drop when keyboards are localised.
The first thing that popped into my mind when I read the question was a data-processing script I wrote at work in three days that saved hundreds and hundreds of person-hours of manual work, a task that had stumped a couple of better programmers than myself.

If Nicolas Bize would accept that sort of thing, I think it's a good test. If not, yeah, it's problematic.

Edit: I've just asked him about it in comments under the original post.
Virtual handshake. And a drink of your choice if you're ever near where I live (nl at the moment).