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"You think you will provide value which exceed the knowledge you might gain from learning about their systems and working/talking with their other employees, etc.?"

That's not the point. I program for money. Therefore, me writing code for someone else is a business transaction. If I want to get experience without compensation, I'll contribute to an open-source project. But I'm not donating my time to a for-profit organization unless they donate money to me.
Assuming you're a male between the ages of 25 and 44 with a college education, probably not that bad. The New York Times did a good infographic:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/econo...
Don't know about HTML5 (I can hope), but it can be accomplished with JS + hidden iframe for uploading. I think it requires querying the server for the progress, but I could be wrong there.
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If I were seeking a job, the primary motivator would be having peers/assignments from which I can learn, I will gladly invest a day of my time to ensure the place I am going to spend the next many months/years of my life, is actually an interesting place — even if the other party might (also) get something out of it.

Though if I know in advance that the “trial day” will consist of me “donating work for free” then I doubt it is a place for me.

This might sound like a cliché, but money is the last thing on my mind when selecting a job or employee (I am presently an employer), and I am somewhat surprised by the point assignments given to the parent and grand parent comments.
I heard he's stuck in a fish tank, swimming along the edges of the glass to find a way out.
This well: http://grab.by/2eT3

That's from the Mac OS X zoom function. Interestingly, it's far more readable than the zoomed-in graphic on their page.
Exactly.

The concept of "publisher as angel investor" only works if you assume the old publishing model of printing, storing, and distributing physical objects.

Electronic publishing is a completely different cost paradigm.
Berkeley Hackathon
100 kids spent 24 hours hacking stuff together, watch the presentations.
I use it. I'm working on open sourcing it.

I kind of worry that the timing for open sourcing it now isn't the greatest, since with the advent of all sorts of commonjs bits, people probably already have their own frameworks. Also, the implementation lags behind what Rails looks like now, so its a bit... weird.
Chrome doesn't crash either, just the plugin in a separate process.

Same with the latest versions of Safari, except it takes down all instances of Flash, even those in other pages, which is obviously inferior.
RePublish : Pure-JavaScript ePub Reader
Storm, meet teacup.

Drama on the interwebs.
Ask HN: Why No Search?
I'm sure this topic has come up before, but I can't find the thread(s) because HN doesn't have a search for past threads.

There must be a reason, can someone enlighten me?
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pretty cool judging panel with:

Trevor Blackwell (YC)
Dave Fetterman (Facebook)
Scott Dale and Cadir Lee (Zynga)
Vivek Wadhwa (Techcrunch)
I am pleased that the truth has prevailed. Nature is now accused of trying to undermine Mohamed El Naschie deliberately. This accusation is not frivolous. How else can we explain the blind vicious attack by certain doubtful blogs on the golden mean work of El Naschie and how Quirin Schiermeier the journalist working for Nature utilized these vicious attacks to write a completely unacceptable article in Nature. Then came the heavenly justice when a German professor von Storch complained on his blog that the Nature article of Schiermeier deliberately misquoted him. He was gentle enough to say that the harm was not great. However in principle the harm could have been great. No one has the right to smear the reputation of anyone whether deliberately or recklessly due to irresponsible journalism. Now to the burning scientific question. How does the golden mean enter into quantum mechanics. The answer is as simple as it is ingenious. Mohamed El Naschie reformulates quantum mechanics in spacetime following the same concepts used by Richard Feynman as well the classical work of Einstein. Since the building blocks of spacetime are his elementary random Cantor sets and because these random Cantor sets possess the golden mean as a Hausdorff dimension, the golden mean slips into the fundaments of quantum mechanics. Nothing that quantum mechanics is the most fundamental theory upon which science is based, the golden mean could rightly be described as the basis of science. From this reasoning the ideas which Ed Nash expressed in his previous comment follows effortlessly.
As a side note 4x 1080p projectors fit with that assumption.

The 4K resolution of the new panel, which measures 1.64-inches diagonally, translates to 8.85 megapixels and is four times the resolution of full HD
http://www.gizmag.com/epson-2160p-lcd-projector-panel/13333/
Note there's also ActiveJS: http://activerecordjs.org/

I'm not sure if it's being actively maintained though.
Bookmark it: http://searchyc.com/search

Works brilliantly. For very rare exceptions,

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+s...
Actually the bug had to do with support for 16 bit code and was present in the Windows 9x line as well. It might not have mattered so much there, but the bug existed.
I really thought the topic was okay and fine but personally it was impossible to watch the spliced upped video being shown so I just switched to another tab and listened.
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I had contemplated that as well, but in other instances I don't think it would have played out the same way. (If the same thing were repeated, it might not work--this one just timed out nicely.) So, for many in a trademark dispute, lawyers may still be the way to go.

My reason for referencing TechCrunch (specifically here) is that we tried doggedly to get on it with one of our startups. It proved to be very difficult to do, regardless of who we approached or how. We finally did get on for that project, but it took an awful lot of prodding and wrangling.

This one, however, was done in a pretty casual way, and I just tossed Michael an email (on what was probably a rather slow day). It did strike me as notable that no matter what I said regarding the startup, none of it was as easy to get his attention with as this was.

And I suppose that's the whole point. People like stories, not feature lists or pitches.
Not as much as you think: writers still need editors. They still need someone to help them market their books, since every minute not spent writing is a minute not spent honing their craft. Merely saying "get a blog" isn't enough. They still need to be able to eat. And so on. A lot of these analyses have been busily pointing out physical costs account for a relatively small proportion of the overall cost of a book.

In addition, you, the reader, still needs someone to help you sort through the vast amount of stuff out there that you could read. Publishers, for all their other ills, help do this to some extent, despite all the false positives and false negatives that get through (or don't).

Electronic publishing might eventually become "a completely different cost paradigm," but it sure isn't there yet.
Feel free to ignore the 'hnsearch' link at the bottom of the page, the links RoG gave are much better.
By the time you've noticed that it happened, it is too late to avoid trouble.

Furthermore many organizations set up and organize branching in such a way that you have no option to freely define your branch like that. For example in the Microsoft story I linked to there is a multi-level merge process. If you just merge from a random other branch, then multiple merges later when code from your branch is officially merged with the other branch you'll have caused a nightmare because you've got an old and buggy copy of all of the changes in that other branch. The people whose job it is to sort it out will want to kill you. Particularly if you've merged in code that was explicitly discarded from the other branch.
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I'm still working on sorting out how these are edited. Most are linear and shot in one take with no editing. In order to get longer stories into a tighter time frame, though, I've been playing with compressing the gaps.

So far I'm unsure of how to approach this. I've been casually asking friends on Twitter and Facebook to view and comment on their thoughts. Most seem split right down the middle, with half preferring them without edits, and the other half liking the ones with.

But, this is very much the way we've urged others to approach such things. Put something out, test it, augment, refine, repeat. (Perhaps it's "agile" storytelling.) With each one I think I'm figuring some things out. Hopefully in videos to come they feel more natural.

Thanks for giving it a listen!
The disconnect probably stems from types of job. You say you can get the same experience from contributing to open source, so it sounds like the job you have in mind is pretty much just a consultant gig, i.e. “here is your assignment, write the code” — that is not exactly the type of job I had in mind when involving giving a day of my time to find out if the job is a good match (for both parties).
Extensions are enabled in recent Chromium Mac builds: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-ma...

However, I'm unable to get this particular user script to work in Chromium. Haven't looked at it carefully though.
What do you think about VoltDB? Have you applied for the beta?
These guys really didn't have a legal case against Discovery? Sure, Discovery has a lot of lawyers. But they also have a lot of money. Where's 'grellas when you need him?
I know all of you hackers love your Chrome, but when I tried to switch, it was a total bust for me on a Macbook Pro.

Chrome is indeed much faster than Firefox, but it is embarrassingly bad at running Google applications... GMail and Docs are both heavily bugged in Chrome, and I depend on those daily. The exact moment I switched was when Chrome wouldn't let me send an email in GMail because it would always want to scroll up to the top of any GMail page... a really bizarre bug.

Other annoyances that switched me back to FireFox:

* Chrome crashed on me several times

* I had to put up with annoying ads

* The JS debugging tools are alien to me

And also, quite honestly, it was frickin' annoying to re-login to a billion websites. If they are importing my settings and such from FF, would it be insecure or some such to import my passwords?
Don't worry about the timing; people are always looking for better software, better programming languages, and better frameworks.
Microsoft excels at a vary specific type of marketing.

While they suck at the traditional approaches, (Jerry Seinfeld / Bill Gates etc) they are willing to spend insane amounts of money so they can leverage what works. Buying Halo / Bungie sacrificing all that cross platform money so they could "buy" hype. Buying Hotmail for far more than it was ever going to be worth so they could change the backend to use MS server. The problem for MS is they don't know how to scale back to less profitable industries.

Edit: It could be argued that MS simply understands the value of creating a monopoly and is willing to spend to create new ones. They seem to make money selling MS branded mice without those tactics just fine, but I don't know how profitable that is.
More redirection spam by tsecuritytimes that leads to another site that opens a popunder advertisement? Isn't this against the HN rules?
> I've just heard a lot about stock options for employees and seen the math for it

In other words, you haven't done the calculation for this circumstance. You're early enough that "the math" that you've seen may not apply.

You're not going to get rich from salary either, so the fact that stock options won't necessarily make you rich doesn't mean that they're a bad idea.
Well,

At best, this is an argument for postponing layoffs at long as practical. If you in a declining industry, for example, layoffs are inevitable.

Indeed, the goal of keeping as many employees as possible is nice but if it causes the entire corporation to go bankrupt, you haven't avoid layoffs.

It seems like the best policy for an organization would be maximum honesty, minimum practical layoffs and giving all employee a shot at switching positions within the organization.

But these generalization really are hard. Intel has profited while laying-off people through continuous internal competition. It could be brutal but it worked for keeping the company profitable.
I completely disagree. Credible news organizations would certainly name the guilty party and provide whatever evidence they have that something unethical took place.

They would also generally investigate each of the past articles by the author to check for problems. See, for example, Wired.com's handling of a reporter who fudged sources: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/05/67428 They hired a well-known investigative reporter for the sole purpose of checking the facts in all her past articles.
Tell HN: AS, my story....
Until a months ago, I had always thought that I had AS (due to a now faulty self diagnosis, in retrospect). I had always had the symptoms of someone suffering from it, i.e. social awkwardness, inability to develop relationships and friendships, compulsive behaviours, etc. All until a few months ago, when I got a day job that forced me to interact and interface with a lot of people for at least 11 hours a day, 5 days a week. To my surprise, I noticed that my social skills has greatly improved, I now know what to do in most social situations, I have developed some close relationships with people, I am now more outgoing, more assertive, and more vocal.
All this have gotten me thinking, most hackers who lack social skills blame it on AS, and resign themselves to fate, but I think that it can be 'cured', I got into programming because of my character makeup, and the more my programming skills improved, the worse my social skills became, it then became a vicious cycle, which has now broken. Maybe I never had AS after all, maybe I did, but the thing is this, social skills, developing relationships etc can be learned and with practice, you can change and become a better more wholesome hacker.
Yes, I realize. I was pointing out that his assessment may have been a bit off. :-)
Power of pull (Semantic Web is the future?)
I wish the author had provided citations for his costs, because I know at least one of his number - book printing cost, is just plain wrong, which causes me to suspect the rest.

"The Printing process costs, on average, 10% ($4) of the cover price of a book, "

So, "Printing Process" is not a function of the cover price of the book. It is a function of what size of book, spine design, what type of binding, what type of covers, whether there is printing on the inside of the cover, whether there is color, what type of paper, and how many pages, and how many books you will be printing.

For example, sitting on my bed right now are two softcover books:

"Maps in a mirror, short fiction of Orson Scott Card", 671 pages, $23.95 list.

"Advanced Unix Programming, Second Edition", 717 pages, $64.99 list.

Both Black and White, perfect Binding, color cover, no printing on inside of covers.

http://www.instantpublisher.com/Price-quote.aspx sugests that the cost of each should be $4.72 - which is 19% of the Orson Scott Card, and 7.2% of Advanced Unix Printing.

In addition, this is what it would cost _me_ - I have to believe that large publishers are able to print their books for less that what I would pay.
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Not an intern.
Our trademark is a Canadian one, not an American one. We could have opted to get one in the US when we first registered, but cash was limited, so it wasn't really an option. Plus, trademarks are like country domains--getting one everywhere just becomes impractical (unless you're MS).

The second aspect of the challenge was that they weren't in a directly competing area. We build websites and create little startup projects; we make no television content. As such, we would have had a pretty weak case on our hands.

And besides, this was much more fun. ;-)

BTW: Who's 'grellas?
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Well, I think a lot of times you’re right, the “Arial” at the end is just cargo-cultism, and should be scrapped; blame copy-pasta.

But yes, I think it’s completely reasonable to have a design request Helvetica but fall back on Arial: to the regular reader the two look pretty much the same, which means that the design will stay working, both in layout and style, as the designer intended.
If you are in SF area, tell me if you need help!

cheers!
Of the factors you listed, it looks like being 25+ and having a college degree are the main ones. The unemployment rate is almost as low for 45+ as for 25-44 among college graduates, and the unemployment rate for women in those groups is actually lower than for men (the lowest unemployment of all groups in the infographic is for white women 25-44 with college degrees).

(edit: thanks greatly for the link, btw. it looks like it's been up for a few months, but I missed it the first time around.)
If such an IDE was built, it would pretty much mean the end of Flash on the long term. So my guess is that there is a market for an open standards IDE.
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> We can quantify value.

That's not enough - you have to be able to produce value.
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That's why I routinely stop using accounts. This is the only thread you'll see my name on Hacker News.

I argue my point not for karma, but for the hope of changing the minds of bright people. My name will be forgotten after this, but if the idea I write about makes some people better, I consider myself satisfied.
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I'm surprised at the low amount per active premium user, my numbers are much lower overall, but the amount per active user is almost 7 times as high.

The free to paying ratio is (coincidentially?) almost exactly the same.
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I have tried to use hadoop at lizten.in, but it seems overkill specially for small deployments like the basic slicehost option.
I tried memcached and sure, it is a good fix for some page rendering issues, but for elements that you want to cache forever (or a relatively long time), I prefer to create a blob table in mysql and store the entries as if it was a key/value pair. I am sure there are more sophisticated persistent datastores, but I guess the idea is the same.
Maybe with some high performance storage, such as SSD's and something like berkeleydb it would be feasible to keep a relatively big cache.
Mentioning a competitor's developer contest is not courteous and is confusing users? That has to be one of the weirdest excuses for abusing a dominant market position since Microsoft banned VARs from installing 3rd party software. In my view banning that software would be an illegal action that should land them in court.
Google's freemium services, such as GMail and Google Apps, are plenty generous, and they don't really get conversion until you buy an entire institutional version (and for universities, they even give you an institutional version for free).

Now, Google does also make money on ads, but the point remains that it really doesn't take a high conversion rate to get a freemium service to make money; as long as the cost per user is low enough, it can be beneficial to be very generous to your free users in order to attract a lot of people and get just a few more premium users.
karjaluoto already sorta mentioned it in a comment on here, but a key aspect of this is that usually (but not always!) trademarks only cover names for a certain type of product or within a certain area of industry - the main goal of trademarks is to prevent consumer confusion. (For example, for many years in the UK there used to be both a lemon juice and a kitchen cleaner called Jif. The kitchen cleaner only became Cif to match the European brand name.)

If you created a fabric conditioner called "Microsoft" with a radically unique logo, then Microsoft probably wouldn't have a good trademark case, but they could cause one hell of a fuss and most likely bankrupt the defendant from legal costs alone. This guy and his company almost certainly couldn't do that to Discovery and since they're not using the trademark in the same line of business, the chances of them winning and getting any costs back would be low.
I don't think he's being particularly condescending. I know I'm not very bright, but I've walked away from recruiters simply because they were clueless and condescending.

You can pitch me to work for peanuts, but if you're a slimeball, it's probably not going to work.
Do you know how meaningless the ability to make money is? Anybody with a hint of talent and a hint of focus can make lots and lots of money very easily. If your only goal is to make lots of money and make even more money then, what do you do afterwards? Die and give away your money so that somebody else can play the game?

But yours is the voice I most disagree with, Ryan. Your MightyBrand stands out in my mind as the worst sort of startup — you appeal not to a person with a single, concrete objective, but to somebody with a vacuous sense of what he's looking for online. I'm sure you have the best intentions, and I don't doubt your ability to make things, but I could never spend a part of my life developing tools just to let other people look at numbers online. It seems like such a pathetic goddamn endgame to me.

Useful? Useful's good. But useful isn't the end of the job, like Google routinely assumes it is. Once you've made something that people can use, your goal needs to be refinement. And Google's refinements are geared toward an unpleasant goal. As they've evolved they've become steadily uglier. My favorite things of theirs are the ones that add the least function, like the new fade-in on their homepage that adds simplicity without removing anything.

But I guess you don't know why breathtaking experiences are good. I guess you've spent your life in a gray box staring at the numbers and comments of people who as far as you're concerned aren't really people. You've never watched movies or read books or done anything that was enjoyable beyond simple utility. So you wouldn't understand why I think web developers need to learn how to create enjoyable, pleasant reactions from their designs. It would certainly explain MightyBrand's design.

"Useful is better than innovative."

No it's not. It's different. Some people like the one, other people like the other. I regret that so few people go for the latter, but I suppose, like you, they've this binary worldview wherein doing one thing your entire life maximizes some variables I'm not aware of.