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I would be interested in sorting by company's location. A list of YC companies outside of San Francisco would also be acceptable.

I would imagine that a large portion of visits to GeoHot's website was due to the publicity of Sony's legal case. If Sony is trying to provably demonstrate “defendant’s distribution”, shouldn't there be a distinction based on the intent of access?

E.g. IP hits from Google's bots out of Mountain View should not count as "those who downloaded Hotz’ hack reside in Northern California".

Considering that Amazon is currently looking to hire people for the sole purpose of trying on shoes... Yes, they need this tech.

http://www.amazon.com/Careers-University-Recruiting/b/ref=gw...

Search for: 133938 (reference code)

> "Amazon.com is looking for a Women's Shoe Fit Model to try on our shoe selection and provide fit feedback to help our customers make the best purchasing decisions. The perfect Cinderella must have the perfect Size 8..."

At any rate, those are "lowest-level" SDE jobs available at such companies. They hire _many_ recent grads with nothing but a few internships worth of experience too.

Entry level at top tier companies such as Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft will break $100K if you include signing bonuses and stocks.

I suppose those are the exception though.

This is what I'm finding weird. At the very end of the article, it does mention just this:

> Non-compete contracts have previously been upheld in Washington state courts. In California, where Salesforce.com is based, non-compete contracts have repeatedly been found invalid.

So is the guy choosing to stay in Washington, or is this some cross-state non-compete magic?

This seems pretty amazing, but I guess there's no way around letting users work on arbitrary JavaScript and XSS? http://jsfiddle.net/wk7sK/

At top-tier software companies, expect all of the (applicable) questions to be accompanied by the "and what is the runtime complexity of your solution" followup question. Depending on your abilities, the interviewer will try to lead you towards an optimal solution.

What if the infringing content was committed after the fork was created? It'd be pretty bad locking repos that did not merge in the offending line(s) of code.

Is that background from Groupon?

http://assets1.grouponcdn.com/images/groupon/landing_pages/b...

"FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers."

What?

Edit: oh, it works if your referrer is Google instead of HN.

Supposedly to "LiveCD" onto random hardware. I have lost my ability to function productively in a Windows environment...

After Amazon's investment into LivingSocial, the valuation shot into "over $1 billion" http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/livingsocial-confirms-175-m... but controlling only 8% of the market, vs Groupon's 79%. It would have been a very expensive acquisition.

For everything else near 0% market share, Google can probably easily get ahead on its own brand name.

Persistent desktop accessible from anywhere via VPN.

A much more interesting dive into exploring a binary's internals, at DEFCON CTF difficulty -- http://hackerschool.org/DefconCTF/17/B300.html

It costs nothing to you and I to switch search engines. The cost is a lot greater for the kind of people who type URLs into Google's search field, to navigate the intertubes.

> Maple says nlognlogn, which could solve NP party?

And you are all invited.