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Soft skills are more important than tech skills, especially at entry level. It usually becomes pretty apparent in the interview whether someone is capable of problem solving or not; the interviews conducted for my department are purely to see if the candidate is a cultural fit. We don't even do technical interviews, though occasionally we'll do a code challenge to separate two very close candidates.

My point here is that you should take a look at your personal presentation and see if there's anything you can tweak to improve your interview performance.
Holy heck, I get being defensive, but you've let logic totally fall by the wayside here. Where do I start...

The fact that BIOS/DRAC/RAID initialisation is slow on some servers is irrelevant. Linux's init and the firmware initialisation don't run concurrently, therefore if init takes longer the whole boot takes longer. Additionally many servers manufacturers have improved boot times in the last few years (down from 10+ minutes, to 5+ minutes, to less).

Most routers don't take as long to boot as you claim. The entire OS is about 8 MB (uncompressed) and RAM is only 32 MB, and the medium that the OS is stored on is faster than a computer's hard drive. So just looking at IO should tell you your supposition is flawed. In my experience most Linux based routers boot the RJ-45 interface (LAN side) in under 20 seconds unless it is allocating slowly on the WAN interface (e.g. unable to get an IP, etc). If you set a static WAN IP/gateway/etc, then boot times comes down substantially.

Additionally the whole concept that every time your PC turns off you'll also turn off your router at the mains is, uhh, strange. Sure there are power cuts but that isn't the only time you shutdown your PC throughout the year.

The concept that your PC needs to wait for the server is equally flawed. Again, yes, power cuts. But PCs get shut down significantly more often than servers and if we're playing that game then wouldn't a "server" have a UPS anyway?

So overall your argument for why boot times don't matter lacks any kind of substance. It is also purely based on a PC->Server->Router infrastructure where nothing is on a UPS and everything suffers from a power cut (then "races" to all come back up).

In the real world my phone has Linux, our "Tivo" has Linux, our printer has Linux, our car's entertainment system has Linux, etc. So bad Linux boot times will be noticed day to day. It matters to a lot of people and while I don't know if systemd is the solution, I do know that progress is needed relative to the classic UNIX init system (per the article).
Full disclosure, I just graduated and really don't know anything of value yet BUT imho building things that are functional and working outside of your dev environment should have more of an influence on your job prospects than the stupid coding exercises.
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Okay, but what is the Heroku's endgame here? Their dynos are way overpriced and migrating from Heroku to Docker infrastructure(or other PaaS/IaaS combination) on the scaling stage of startup lifecycle could save $x0 000 and $x00 000 per month for resource intensive apps. Do they want startups migrating as soon as they start scaling? I don't think so.

They definitely have some lock-in strategies in the works. Lock in may be not technological per se, but a behavioural one, like in a Github to git network effect. That "Deploy" button is one clear path to lock-in.

But I agree, Docker ecosystem is not mature enough and doesn't have its own killer app, platfrom or collaboration process. Though with the acyclic directed graph model of building containers they may have stumbled onto something really big.

I can say with 100% confidence that it's really exciting to observe the evolution of the hosting industry and the overlapping between production and development environments.
For people not familiar with Acme, I found this 20-minute video tour very informative:

http://research.swtch.com/acme
It will stay at the ISS for a month to allow cargo transfer [1]. Then it returns to earth under its own power and is re-used after refurbishment [2].

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-41-trio-waits-for-dra...

[2] http://www.spaceflight101.com/dragon-spacecraft-information....
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Back in the 1990s, CACM carried an analysis of UNIX programs' robustness against malformed inputs. The authors were motivated to do the study after noise on a modem connection had crashed jobs they were running. Their conclusion was that the robustness wasn't what it should be. I think that DEC's variant tested best of all.
I'm not at the top of comments list am I? I agree that there are definitely more important take aways from this article. However, I felt that it would be worth my while to write this comment to make people aware of the issue.
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Not speaking for the parent, CoffeeScript is even worse than Javascript. The killer for me is indentation forming scope. If you accidentally indent your code incorrectly, like when you're copy/pasting from one file to another, you can change the scope of all of the variables within.

The other major problem I have with it is that it encourages us to go back to the class-based patterns that we've been trying to get away from.
It's still fairly alive in the academic community, with things like Sweave/knitr/IPython workbooks/Maple stuff/etc.
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I ha a three year queen before. Most start to flag around year two and need to be replaced. I've heard anecdotes from other beeks having four to five year queens, but it is exceedingly rare. The big players don't want the production drop that comes with old queens.
The premise had more potential. One set of individuals, evaluating a scenario presented to them in their native tongue, were found to react in a statistically significantly different way from a second set of individuals, evaluating the same scenario in a language foreign to them.

The problem is the people in group one are not the same as those in group two. Statistical controls can mitigate the risk of randomness crashing the party. But there is an experimental solution: have the same people evaluate similar situations in a foreign and their native tongues. That said, something gained if it inspires a more rigorous study.
Although the Dragon is reusable, SpaceX's contract with NASA stipulates that new capsules be used for each resupply mission. Not sure if the contract allows SpaceX to refurbish the capsules for other commercial missions, but the other CRS Dragons are being used for showpieces at the moment.
Wait what? What happens if the process manager crashes if you're running non-systemd: you might respawn it but not be able to log the fact that you did so. Worst case, you fail to respawn it and your system crashes.

What happens if the process manager crashes if you're running systemd: the process manager is in PID1 (or, equivalently, in a tightly coupled process that PID1 depends on - because the whole point of your post was that you can never get to a state where PID1 is working but logging isn't working), so your system crashes, every time. How is that better? And if that's really what you want, it's easy to configure a decoupled init system to do that.

Hey, some people like their logs to be sent as email. Maybe we should move sendmail into PID1 as well.
I guess I made a couple of assumptions when I wrote my comment. 1) I thought a lot of people wouldn't know the difference. 2) I guessed that royal jelly would be host to a similar spectrum of bacteria to honey. These are possibly not true, but I figured that caution was better than anything else.

Thanks for your clarification though!
It's a nice site and everything, but who is this aimed at?

It doesn't seem to be non-coders as far as I can tell.

1. You need to already have a github account

2. The setup assumes you have CLI experience

3. The setup assumes you use linux or a mac (because all non-programmers do that)

So has wired misunderstood the target audience, or is the site comically anti-n00b?
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Past year there's been a competition organized by Setup where people could enter algorithms for generating art like Mondrian: http://elegant.setup.nl/ (It's in Dutch though..)
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The cynical part of me thinks because manned spaceflight, at least in the context of being stuck in a LEO tin can, is of questionable utility and we try to find things for people to do? We can automate quite a bit of this, in fact, the ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle just docks itself. Wikipedia:

At a distance of 249 m, the ATV computers use videometer and telegoniometer data for final approach and docking manoeuvres. The actual docking to Zvezda is fully automatic. If there are any last-minute problems, a pre-programmed sequence of anti-collision manoeuvres, fully independent of the main navigation system, can be activated by the flight engineers aboard the station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Transfer_Vehicle

Or what's that apocryphal story about early astronauts fighting with NASA engineers to put in pilot controls with manual override so these guys could claim to be pilots and not mere passengers? The ugly truth is a lot of this stuff is best left to automation, robots, etc.
Also, I asked HN about modern Acme clones recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8269442 (glad this came along)
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> for the purposes of displaying the website.

What about analytics tools ?
Thank you for the clarification. I corrected the title
> I dislike the proprietary nature of Heroku platform

What about Heroku is proprietary?

Who'll look after your docker infrastructure?
Do you have a good github account? Most (decent) employers will probably take this in lieu of a technical interview.

You have to remember that its not just them testing you - it's you testing them. As a newbie coder you want to be in a good team where you can learn good practices from solid performers.

I mean put it this way - if you were in a team and everyone was at a low skill level, do you think you'd get a good time of things from sales/marketing/all the other stakeholders?
Entry level can be pretty different. They're looking at potential rather than ability and things can be competitive (depending on the specific skills or organisation).

I'm really thinking about programmers with 5 - 10 years of experience who still struggle to reason their way out of a wet paper bag or produce anything but the most obvious and narrowly scoped solution to problems.
So you're saying we might have a fighting chance against environmental depredation if instead of using government bullying, we used the private sector to buy those lands, so long as we could guarantee the money wouldn't go to bureaucrats?

You might want to look into libertarianism, as it has been saying that for a long time now, and it has very good arguments as to why it works better than the alternatives.
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Yep, law should apply equally to all (in theory). In practice, prosecutors have great deal of discretion on which cases they decide to pursue with limited resources at their disposal. All I am saying is that there are certainly hardened criminals and corrupt politicians in NJ who deserve those fishing expedition resources far more than a talented MIT hacker (who as it appears didn't commit a crime). I am no law enforcement expert, but Rubin's resume doesn't read like a hardened criminal to me - http://rubin.io/static/portfolio/media/resume.pdf

Really hoping they get in front of a sensible judge who puts a kibosh on this whole nonsense.
I don't see how HFT does any good for anyone. It adds no real value, and serves no purpose except to shift money from someone else's pockets, not by clever investment and market knowledge but pure technical advantage.

It's a lot like BitCoin, it turns some expensive resource (be it CPU/GPU power or optimized data links) into money, but it doesn't help with earning/generating the money in the first place, so it just extracts it from someone else.

It's a scam and should be banned worldwide. I don't know anything about trading, but I guess by making very small changes (make people hold stock for a few seconds?) you could render the whole HFT industry useless without any negative effects to the real economy.
I think that the arm was designed specifically to be manually controlled.

Even though it might be possible to 'computerize' the control, realistically there's no benefit to doing so.
It'd be nice if djb could back up what he says about waiving copyright in Europe.
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As others have said, nimrod-as-an-insult seems to be a thing mostly in the US.
Hi, a few question i hope HN people can answer. I don't want to offend anybody and think that typeform forms are really beautifuls but if i think of all the "lean startups principles" i find hard to give a positive answer to the question "does this product really meet an unsatisfied need?"
Did you tried idea validation? Have you built a prelaunch landing page and gathered hundreds of emails from people really interested in your product?
Mine is really curiosity so i hope not hurt nobody!
If blame is a meaningful thing to assign, I'm going to assign at least some of it to you for not watching your son, and quite a lot of it to you for not flipping the switch.

I much prefer a world where you are sad and your son is dead, to a world where hundreds of people are dead, all their families are sad, and your son is alive.

(That said, it's at least somewhat plausible that if I was in that situation, I would also make the wrong decision. That doesn't make it right.)
The landing page for this site could stand to be improved, especially if it's target is absolute beginners.

* The instructions provided are very Unix specific and assume a reasonable level of familiarity with the command line. Lots of beginners are probably on Windows and not used to using the shell. Much as devs shun them, installable GUI clients have their advantages in this area.

* The language used on the first page is still fairly technical, "test suite" for example.

* How it works is not made clear, "practice problems" is only mentioned once at the top of the page in a hard to read colour and small font.
Don't feel bad. The thing is that "good enough to get a job + that's a low bar" means that the people end up way over their heads and usually don't work out. I have interviewed lots of people. Some needed jobs badly. They came in, knowing HTML/CSS + enough jQuery to make a pretty web page, and were applying for a systems architect position. We obviously rejected them, but lots of companies cannot tell between truly qualified people and those that are not. This works both ways: lots of unqualified/underqualified people get hired and then you hear stories like "you won't believe what my co-worker did", but it also means that qualified candidates do get passed up.

Basically, don't get discouraged, and don't worry about others getting jobs. Just keep getting better at what you do, and most importantly work on projects that you can show off. I found that these where the best way to get noticed/get hired.
Well, they /could/ factor the recoil into their insertion burn calculations. That's just a matter of the repeatability of the railgun's acceleration.

Of course the better way to outpace Voyager at this point is probably an ion engine, Voyager is sailing along at 17 km/s and the highest number I could find for a current railgun is 2.4-3 km/s (and these way waaay more than 300kg), that leaves the orbiter with >14km/s of the velocity required to beat Voyager. Each mission will come in at different orbital velocities but I found that Odyssey had a velocity of "5.907 kilometers per second" [1] before it's orbital insertion burn. Missions are more inclined to come in at or around their final orbital velocity (getting there faster requires more fuel for braking into orbit and more weight dedicated to that fuel requiring more fuel [repeat until your entire launch weight is fuel with a postage stamp as your probe]).

[1] http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mission/timeline/mtmoi/moid...
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Keeping the hive alive is actually the most natural thing to do. While the bees won't carry the same genetics, they will support the queen while she lays. This is crucial, because a mated queen cannot truly defend herself. The new queen an immediately get to work if bees remain.

The hive won't be too "dirty" - bees are remarkably fastidious. The queen just won't survive/thrive without bees.

The best way to think about it is that while the queen is the center Of the hive, she is just one part of the whole organism. The bees will even kill her off if she stops producing and raise another queen.
Lacks explanation. Maybe some bits of code in the front page, to give the visitor a better idea of how it looks like.
As an art handler, I've a theory that they placed thick blankets under the blocks and pulled the blankets. You'd be amazed at what a couple of people can pull with a blanket.
It seems strange to see all the historians' objections to the exploration of counterfactuals. Much as they may protest that they are only interested in cataloguing what actually happened, to make a jusgement over whether or not a particular event is significant, one has surely to consider what the world might have been like if it hadn't happened. If you can't explore the counterfactual realm at all, then you're unable to make any judgement at all about how important a particular event was, and so as a historian you might as well study what Al Gore had for breakfast the morning of the 2000 election as what led the supreme court to its decision on the Florida recount. We take interest in the Supreme Court decision because history would be very different if it had gone another way. Exploring that counterfactual lets you figure out just how different: it is a worthy question for historians to determine how significant the choice of president was in 2000. Would it even have mattered, since politics for the next decade and beyond would be changed, within a year, by 9/11 anyway?
It would be awesome if more copies of Firebase existed, both for Firebase, for the copies and for the users in general.
Same here. Keywords are just strings with standard meaning I learned and got used to. They are not actual words and I do not relate them to their real-world meanings.

Microsoft Excel uses different function names in different languages. It is hell. I learned what the function is used to be named in English and it is hard to guess what translated version would be.
Tom Ford != Henry Ford.

There's a quote in the article from 'Tom Ford', but it's actually from Henry Ford.

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Source:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Henry_Ford#.22If_I.E2.80.9...
Ok, you're right. I was trying to compensate the fact that the language is learned in a classroom as opposed to in real life. I guess I had the intuition that bilingual people still have a language that is "more native" than the other, but I don't know if that is true.

However, I don't understand the downvote?
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if you make people hold stock for a few seconds, you will increase bid/ask spreads and that extra cost will be imposed on the real economy. The cutthroat technical competition in HFT space serves the real economy by having HFT firms spend lots of money on technology, fast computers, etc.
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I grew up in Florida and started school around 1989. We were exposed to a lot of indian culture all throughout my grade school years.. In fact we were the "Indians". I remember Indians visiting our school as early as 3rd-4th grade as a cultural learning opportunity. We also learned about the trail of tears, the reservations, and yes we saw the exhibits.

I find this a bit of a shame as I really enjoyed those dioramas myself as a kid. I'm not sure anyone would argue that the Indians did not have an "ancient" way of life when the Europeans came.. To me this feels like just pushing the fact that we destroyed their way of life under the rug.
I like that they show cases where it has problems. It's very much "here's what we can do, and here's where it doesn't work." There is no hype, no claims of "novelty", no speculation on uses, just results. I wish this were far more common.
What is your background? I know that for a lot of corporate type gigs HR is really more concerned with whats on your CV than what your actual skills are. For many, a good GPA in a programming related program will get you an interview and the rest is soft skills. So, I feel like if your background isn't directly programming related then you really have to look for smaller companies/startups or via recommendations.
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Heroku PaaS itself is proprietary. Their dashboard, monitoring and other tools are proprietary.

PaaS services based on open source PaaS solutions (Deis + Docker, Flynn + Docker) and proprietary PaaS solutions ( Tutum + Docker, for example) will look after my infrastructure. Or I will host it myself. In any case I'll be able to migrate my containers to any other infrastructure easily, quickly and with nearly zero additional configuration.
Note the date:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_105.html

The writing was on the wall in 1993 but it took a couple decades for the courts to realize the mess they'd created and companies to realize that paying ransom doesn't lead to fewer bandits.
Can someone please add Eugene to the end of the title?
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Why doesn't running Docker on Elastic Beanstalk (on AWS) count as a real hosting provider?
That would work for the pre-entry mass ejection, but that's only half the challenge. Half the balance mass is ejected after entry begins.
I find the focus on doing nothing versus taking action (like in the 2nd paper you linked) misguided.
Utilitarian principle has place in about every serious ethical system in the history. Doing nothing to avoid responsibility doesn't. You can't really use that argument without reference to cost of action and in Trolley Problem that is conveniently close to 0.
There are other factors like ensuring that people feel safe (so they don't need to worry about doctors killing them to harvest the organs) and that we value life of healthy young person higher than older and sick.
Assessing how far you can go using your personal utility over one of the population is another interesting problem (mother would be justified by most for choosing to kill 2 people instead of her own child in a Trolley Problem but would be condemned by choosing to kill a whole town).

In the surgeon's example there is also cost of killing (surgeon as well as patient may feel bad about it or some other values in moral system of a person might be compromised like honor or keeping an oath) but it's again only matter of weighting the arguments not action vs inaction. It's easy to realize once you up the scale a bit: make it a scenario with whole town dying instead of young healthy person and you will get a consensus. From that you can see that action vs inaction isn't really what the problem is about.