madmanslitany

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by madmanslitany 15y ago
New York City, NY - Palantir Technologies http://www.palantirtech.com/ I haven't officially started work at Palantir yet (and will be in Palo Alto for training once I do), but Palantir is hiring engineers aggressively for its brand-new of
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Former HBGary Federal CEO says We Need to Learn from LulzSec(threatpost.com)
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by madmanslitany 15y ago
The exclusivity was also emphasized by everyone knowing it had come out of Harvard at the very beginning, which had and has a social cachet that Google Plus won't.
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by madmanslitany 15y ago
I remember an old article, probably from Wired, floating around a few years ago. I think it had something to do with a single operator seizing control of a stolen credit card number cache or marketplace. Either way, one of the takeaways was
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by madmanslitany 15y ago
I don't really have much to contribute on the story itself, but I suddenly realized that my former CS472 Artificial Intelligence project partner and friend from Cornell works for Silver Lake, which has led me down an interesting path of day
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by madmanslitany 15y ago
I could speculate on any number of reasons. A large number of my relatives work in defense contracting and you see the same videos passed around there as well. I admit that I feel slightly unnerved by the videos sometimes, but if you're an
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
There's a great applicable quote from Nikola Tesla here: “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sor
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I occasionally do Topcoder SRM's and Marathon Matches. It's partly for fun, partly to keep myself in practice since I don't feel my current job pushes me as hard intellectually. The pressure and problems are also good interview practice--th
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
Dude, the normal career path of pretty much everyone is over by 35-40. Lawyers that haven't made partner, traders that haven't made been made head of their desk, engineers in general that haven't made it to management, teachers that haven't
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I doubt this is actually what happened, but I can picture Zed finishing a post suggesting that students take some time to learn about culture while at university. Then he decided that he wasn't going to piss off and fire up his usual quota
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
Your best bets are electronic trading at a bank or hedge fund or realtime market data work at a place like FactSet or Bloomberg. I don't know of anything non-finance related though. All the startup people I've talked to around here are Ruby
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I'm sure I can one up you with the kind of code that goes into a trading system. I think production code in any realtime environment, whether it be at Amazon or a trading desk at a bank, tends to converge towards crap just because of the ti
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I was in your situation immediately before the recession and chose "honor" over reason. Have regretted it ever since. At the very least, interview with the company that's approached you to see where it goes. No harm in exploring the option
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
All I can think of right now is the Chinese room thought problem for artificial intelligence. Even if you make people laugh following these guidelines to the letter, would you have a sense of humor?
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
There's another pg essay out there that talks about "premature optimization," which is what I generally think of apprenticeships. Giving teenagers a chance to see what really goes into a particular career is a great idea, but I wouldn't put
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
Just the kind of thing I've been looking for since the end of the Netflix Prize and the cancellation of its sequel. Seems that the site is relatively new, hopefully it'll get some traction. Out of curiosity, is the submitter one of the foun
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
Am I already, at the tender age of 25, on enough in years that yesterday's bad taste stirs feelings of nostalgia today in my web weary heart?
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I have a younger cousin in high school right now who's just starting to show some interest in an engineering career. It could be interesting to try to use this to teach her to program. Tempted to try over the summer and then blog about it.
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I do think that some more real-world and unstructured experience added into standard schooling would do some good, but I sometimes think there's an odd anti-schooling bias on HN, maybe because we all hated high school. Another common theme
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
Anecdote: I'm a software developer writing trading systems at the moment at a large bank, and I've known three people at my workplace who have interviewed at NYC area startups in the past year or two. All of them received offers from at lea
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
This is why I was pretty content with Google's original China stance; censor, but make the censoring obvious, arguably still adding net good for the average mainlander using its services. If it wasn't for the cyber attacks, I'd agree that t
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by madmanslitany 16y ago
I'm very impressed with Google's willingness to back up "Do No Evil" with hard action. For a while, I was wondering if the initial incident from last month was going to fade into obscurity, but the news from this week shows that Google is w
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
Hacker. I work on trading systems, it's a huge part of the job to find obscure and occasionally somewhat ridiculous bugs in other people's code under time pressure. And, unrelated, but why are there pictures of sushi everywhere? It's very l
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopp
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
If these allegations are true, and really, I don't expect anyone to be better than Google at tracking who's doing what on the internet, then this is the right choice. It's refreshing to see a corporation back up its beliefs like this and th
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
I don't think this is valid in the context of what the parent was saying about this guy; hackers and investment bankers are specialized professions which contribute to society in their own specialized way and specialization makes life bette
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
I don't know if I'd put it like that, but I do tire of this statement as well. I agree that it's rude to hold an extended conversation in front of someone else, particularly if you two were alone and you've left the other physically presen
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
No, I'm pretty sure people don't. In general, I think the attitude is to avoid parks at night. I would imagine that it's hard for police to maintain visibility that well when there's all kinds of bushes and trees in the way, not that much
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I think you already covered the counterargument to this; in the aggregate, humans may not be more effective reviewers than a purely computational system. There should always be some sort of recour
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by madmanslitany 17y ago
All I have to base my opinion on is some familiarity with Blackboard/CourseInfo and a few friendships with schoolteachers, but I think you would need to approach marketing to high schools and colleges differently. Most high schools, even f

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