skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system is indeed broken. Finding a job is a horrible experience for most people. If you know enough people in your selected field, it is usually not that bad. However, if you want to change careers, move to a new area, or are generally not interested in networking for networking's sake, finding a job is a soul-sucking misadventure.

Monster/CareerBuilder sites are absolute crap, especially for IT-related jobs. Indeed, Dice, and Jobing aren't that great either. The Web 2.0 job-hunt startups are just mashups of existing job sites so while the interface is cool, the content is no better. Most of the jobs have no mention of salary, benefits, or the social/managerial environment. Recruiters / headhunters are only interested in you if you are a potential fit for a specific job. The moment that job gets filled, you're back to square one.

I've actually been more on the other side of the job hunt i.e. finding people to hire. The problem there is that the good/quality coders are just impossible to find. Most of the resumes I come across are people who taught themselves Active Directory and are applying for ERP-coding jobs. I've looked at "superstar" job hunt sites like jobs.joel and jobs.37signals but there's barely any traction in my area (Tampa, Florida).

Surprisingly, Craigslist has been the best choice for me as a former applicant and as someone looking to hire. Craigslist is very blunt, direct, and accessible. The last part is the key here. You don't have to sign up for 10 services to place a job ad on Craigslist. As a result, I've found many more job offers on Craigslist that end up in an interview than other sites. I know with near certainty that someone is actually reading my email when I reply to a Craigslist post. I feel my email ends up in a large junk folder when I apply on other sites. Similarly, whenever I've posted an ad on Craigslist for a job, I've received direct emails from candidates and some of them have been pretty good.

I don't know how this system could be fixed. All I know is that there are a lot of good candidates and good jobs and it's not easy for them to find each other.
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Sure, comes with the entrepreneurial territory.

However, getting mad because you fear a google query may have given away your idea, is pretty unhealthy.
Tell HN: Come hear me talk about crypto at BSDCan'10
I'm going to be speaking at BSDCan'10 in Ottawa on May 13th. The designed-to-infuriate-tptacek title of my talk is "Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour" and the basic premise of the talk is that 99% of the time you can write secure cryptographic code without being an expert cryptographer, as long as you follow a few pieces of basic advice.

Come hear me talk! The conference website is http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/ and you can register at http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/registration.php .
Clickable links:

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Pirsig. The lecturer recommended this in a first-year computer science course, (a while ago now).
Could you save the list of users + colors? So, if John disconnects, I can check with the document and see that green were revisions John made. I know if John typed in the chat I could associate his color/name. Maybe highlighting colored text or mouseovering colored text would show the revisioner's name!

Otherwise, smooth and no complaints. Maybe custom urls? Then again I'm just lazy and could tinyurl for customizing.

Possibly an IRC like interface (with privs for writing) or read-only urls and read-write urls!
Thanks, I'm looking forward to release an open source app, but I've never done it before, just looking for recommendations on how to do it well.
If you think a feature that could potentially behave differently in RELEASE and DEBUG modes is problematic, you'll want to avoid floats and doubles in .NET. Runtime optimizations that do calculations in the processor's 80-bit FPU can alter the results of float/double calculations. My personal example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2225503/clr-jit-optimizat...
Wow: this review, and now these comments, what a microcosm of the generation gap...
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources" - Albert Einstein.

Obviously Apple, MS, Google, and others need to do a better job of it.
Congrats Brian!
and congrats to DailyBooth!
Reported fake Intel CPU sold at Newegg
That is some amazing blog spam.

http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/harmony/
Sometimes these 'Ah-Ha!' moments just don't hold water on close examination.... and every other time, doing a close Google examination will show you that someone just implemented your idea two weeks ago!

Or at least that seems to be the story of my life...
The DD-WRT is just general purpose computer operating system that happens to be configured as a router which Linksys calls firmware to discourage you from tinkering with it. The ethernet and wireless devices, though, have more code, several thousands lines of it, running on slower, low power (but still complex) processors.
Spoonfed? No.

Would I like commonly repeated problems to be solved elegantly so I can easily integrate them into my project without digging through poorly documented source code? Yes.
The japanese are generally regarded as not having done nearly enough in counter-cyclical spending over the last 2 decades, specifically at the beginning.

The problem in 37 is generally understood to have been "too much, too soon" in terms of austerity measures. Penny-wise and pound-foolish if your austerity measures cause the economy to collapse back into recession.
Ah, that turned out to be easier than I expected, after I remember that I always keep a copy to give to someone depressed (it fully satisfies the "or at least should know about" criteria):

Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns, M.D. (http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Therapy-Revised-Updated/d...)

This is the best popular treatment of cognitive therapy (nowadays cognitive behavioral therapy, I haven't read this newer edition). Anyone who's depressed really needs to try this out, with or without the aid of anti-depressants.

The thesis is that you, at least in part, make yourself depressed by telling yourself depressing things that are largely false, about yourself, about what others are saying and doing to/about to you, etc.; in general, incorrect filtering of what you perceive.

So you identify those things and do you best to correct your mis-perceptions. Since I read an earlier edition in the '80s, behavioral therapy has been added to the mix, and that's supposed to help (I can't vouch for it either way).

Anyway, after I read this (and a few other cognitive psychology works) talking therapy became absolutely useless ... I'd "fixed" myself as much as possible in this way.

(Knowledge of this is also really useful to understanding the end of the Evangelion anime TV series (seriously, the creator was coming out of a multi-year bad period, "living by not dying").)
This is really interesting. I'm about 1 month into my public beta now and I find myself constantly remoting into my servers and manually checking if everything still works. Already it's a notable drain on my productivity.
Its easy to see what facebook gains by this (local ads) but what do I gain by giving them my location?
one sided story. I don't believe he got Steve Jobs to "shut up". The Open Group tried and failed to sue Apple over the use of the Unix trademark.
A sewage plant is not intended for producing energy (or resources). Its goal is reducing pollution, and people are willing to trade energy and other resource usage (and their pollution) for that.

> Subsidies on solar plants are based on the time value of money if they produced all their energy in the first day they would cost far less than coal.

If that were true, you would not need subsidies, investors would be happy to fund it.
Now I'm hungry and still completely confused about the point you are making.
Yeah, the audio thing is weird. ALSA actually has drivers for the vast majority of hardware out there, but somehow this doesn't translate into an acceptable userspace experience.

I've never used Hulu (yay, geolocation blacklisting!), but I was under the impression that it used Flash; this is probably why it's so slow. Mplayer, Xine, VLC, etc. can generally handle HD video playback on a reasonably recent CPU.
This engine has been sold commercially since 2005. I can't even find any reference to the other engine you mention.
True, but you have to take into consideration the type of job she wants.

Very few, if any, entry-level jobs in media and publishing pay 70K.

Plus I'm not so sure that $12/hour is so ridic. An entry level job at a consulting firm is ~70K but you work ~80 hours a week which results in a whopping $18/hour!

Living large indeed.
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How important is writing a blog for the success of your startup? I wouldn't write a blog if the only reason I do it is to help my business.

The three things he lists, coding, networking and blogging all have to do with expressing your point of view. That is the motivating force behind your startup: your need to communicate the way you see the world.
That's a good point.

On the other hand, the legend that Steve lifted the Xerox PARC UI persists -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i... and
82 billion in the last quarter. That's some nice growth there.
Try it in Firefox and then in Chrome - really shows the JS speed advantages of Google's browser (at least for this).
I made the koolaide dude without really thinking about what I was getting into at first.
http://giantrobotlasers.com/post/437605692/i-made-the-koolai...
One is more predictable than the other. In that video, I can point out when the arm will come around again with relative ease, and can very easily be accurate to below a tenth of a second.

Now picture it going several times faster in terms of RPM, and tell me when it'd be safe to stick your arm in its path.

Lets scale it up. Picture the earth. Near the equator, the linear velocity is almost 1000mph. Scale it down to the size of the centrifuge in the video, while keeping linear velocity the same. I can easily point out when half of the earth is facing the sun. Could you point out when the centrifuge is pointing north?
Yeah, validation layer was one of the many, many issues with the system. Maybe a dating site type system...have an index of jobs and applicants. Free to send messages back and forth, completely anonymouse. Messages are "request for application", "application", "denial of application", "denial of request for application", "application accepted" (not you're hired, but the application was received and we're reviewing it), "request for screening" and "accept/decline screening". You can't send a message if you have one pending a response. Make it 100% free, charging money to increase the number of pending responses you can have and still send a message.

Don't mind the rambling...this is literally typing as I think.
Retweet.com sold for $250k on Flippa
It seems "disruptive innovation" has gone lately from being an overused buzzword to being an entirely forgotten concept.

Short version: it is not always necessary to be better at everything to be a threat to an established product.

For an example see the case of mainframes vs. mini-computers which was brought up (and sneered at) above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
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I thought Jonathan's vision of Open Source was pretty interesting.

He may not have had time to implement his vision, and he was handed a brilliant but broken company to work with.

I've followed his blog closely for the last few years, and I would say he comes off as one of the most in-touch CEO's out there.
Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support
HP Slate includes Flash
Silently banned from Reddit...
The core i7 can issue 4 instructions, and execute 6 micro-ops per cycle. As long as your code is not a single huge dependency chain, you are mostly reading data out of L1 cache, and you don't use complex instructions like division, you can expect to get at least 2 instructions per clock. I have profiled real code (crypto stuff) that got a tad bit over 3 instructions per cycle. That's 10 billion instructions a second on the processor it ran on.

Most instructions have not taken over 2 cycles on x86 since P4. This is a mesofact, update your worldview. :)
Even a broken clock is wrong twice a day, throw enough darts and you'll hit a bullseye, at least one woman in this bar has gotta be drunk enough, etc. Insert your own folksy analogy here.
'1984' by George Orwell - Even after all this time it is a chilling look at one of the many ways a society can go wrong, particularly relevant these days because so many parts of it are coming true.

'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson - Awesome cyberpunk novel that anyone with an interest in programming.

'The Night's Dawn Trilogy' by Peter F. Hamilton - Fantastically engrossing series of books that are so good you will finish them wishing they were longer. The portrait painted in the books is so vivid that you will remember it for years to come.

(In case you can't tell, I like Sci-Fi :-p)
I like the idea of consolidating services and it will be a real enhancement for users of Facebook who are mobile.

However, part of me is saddened for Foursquare. Many start-ups hope to grow large enough to be bought out by a big dog, not knocked over by its tail.
It's dishonest to pitch it as a product you're selling when the technology to build it doesn't even exist yet. You can't say "Sure, we can do that for xxx million dollars and ten years", because you don't know if you'll have it all figured out even after xxx million and ten years, because nobody knows what would actually be required to produce that product. There may be some theory, but if that theory is erroneous for your application and you placed bets on it, you're screwed.

You have to pitch as a research investment. If a company wants to give you money for that kind of research, that's great, but you really need to make clear that it's not something you can just go and implement even if you have an infinite supply of money.
It's still nice feedback to have in the beginning. Makes it feel like you are actually accomplishing something.
Whether or not we respect him for what he has done in Sun, through this post he gave us a window into a world that for most of us is completely hidden. He also showed that it takes balls to stand up to the likes of Apple, MS etc.

And just for that he has my respect.
I highly doubt the purchase price is real.
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CompSci / English double.
UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Interesting metaphor. At least speed bumps often increase the safety of some group of people. This sort of speed bump does nothing but infuriate those who pass over it, and perhaps inflate the ego of the owner of the bump -- or, in this case, crash the bump, er, blog.
That late '30s experience suggests that counter-cyclical spending might only delay the day of reckoning

It in no way suggests this.
That assumption might be wrong.

At a Y Combinator meetup in Seattle, someone asked me, "So where does Y Combinator get money to invest in startups?" My response was "Well, Paul and the other partners made money from previous startups..."

His response: "Paul Allen?"
A Mosaic of Cassiopeia
$699 to attend lean startup conference
Hey, I liked Battlestar Galactica too, but I don't want a religious nut bag running the country based on her crazy visions...

I think the main thing to get out of this article is this:

"many people have reported feelings of suicidal depression after seeing it because when they wake up the next day they realize that reality just doesn’t measure up to Pandora."

Someone make an awesome 3d Avatar video game stat! Apparently the current incarnation isn't enough and is leaving people suicidal!
Ask HN: Any Zend Framework Experts in SF?
I'm helping a client with a Zend app and wanted to know if anyone out there is very familiar with it?

I've used a lot of MVC frameworks before and have also written my own, I'm just trying to get brought up to speed on the way things are done with Zend quickly.

I can read forums and such, but if someone had time for lunch on me (if you're in SF), or a Skype, that would be terrific and save me time.

Thanks!
His moustache needs no defending. It is indeed awesome. It's just not a beard.
Do companies need customer service standards?
Well, think of it from their point of view. They don't need a code to open their desk and they don't need a password to open the break-room fridge. And to them, having something go missing from there is scarier than someone logging in as them and looking at numbers.
That paragraph kind of struck me too. I know I have thought that I need to learn new programming languages in order to get a job. Its hard not to think that when the majority of programming jobs have very very specific requirements on languages and technologies that you MUST KNOW in order to apply, despite the reality of the skills of the person hired.
I don't question the value of this, but this price for a one day conference kind of limits it to mainly funded startup.

Most bootstrapped pre and early revenue would find this hard to justify.
"Look & Feel" suit was a copyright suit. At least in theory. It established that you can't copyright "Look & Feel", like I said.

What the legal system enables and what is 'right' are two different things.

You were wrongly conflating the two.
That's the route I'm currently taking.

I had been running Facebook ads linking directly to my "Farmville Timer" iPhone app on the app store. Then I realized I was getting no network affects from that. So I set up a fan page and I'm now running ads asking people to become fans. That way I'll also get noticed on people's walls and feeds.
The other has been used since 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Online

EDIT: appears to be USPTO trademark reg # 75824303, filed on Oct 18, 1999.
I don't understand what about it is 'fake'. Could you elaborate?

Do you mean that you believe the seller colluded with the buyer in some way? Some other shady situation?
I highly doubt this is fake. Did you read through the listing and the comments from the seller?

http://flippa.com/auctions/85167/Retweet-com

Also, Flippa verified that the seller had access to the site. Now, you might argue that the bidder will fail to pay up, but I don't think this is "fake".
Yeah, but then the user would have to type the password in once. Apparently, even this was too much.
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This is just Etherpad (see http://etherpad.com). They're just hosting it since Etherpad's shutting down soon.

Also, there are custom urls. Just go to http://typewith.me/foo and if that's not a pad it'll let you create one.
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It also works on other touch-screen devices with recent WebKit builds too that support touch events, such as Android. I helped mrdoob by suggesting various improvements including the usage of touch events.
I made something similar a year ago, minus google maps:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9683205/Resume-with-horizontal-tim...
One of the top 4 (not sure if it's 2nd or 4th) by rating for me is the linked demo in the OP, FWIW.
I wouldn't be surprised if its fake because Kevin and crew likely didn't want to admit failure, so put in a fake bid looking like they had a "win". Lets watch and see if the domain details change (hosting/ip/etc.)

Mesiab labs ( the company that owned/owns retweet ) also runs hummingbird, the #1 twitter spam tool so dont congratulate them too quickly.

More information about how shady these guys are here : http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/retweet-com-for-sale/

One final note: Even if the purchase is real- The buyer is going to be very disappointed when he finds out that 95% of the claimed traffic is from the iframed retweet buttons and not run-on-site traffic. For a semi accurate analysis of the traffic, just look at alexa (which doesnt count iframes) - It barely registers
I don't think that justifies an editorialized headline.
Wait, why not just have your users upload videos to you, you automate the process of adding in a preroll, and then you upload this video to youtube on behalf of the user.

I don't know much about youtube, but this solution seems too easy for it to be applicable. Why not?
As a point of information, how many discussion forum websites ban some users by giving them nontransparent ban messages (e.g., responses to server requests that look like error messages rather than a statement that the user has been banned)? Philip Greenspun advocated that a long time ago

http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

(the link describes a twist on his practice, used by Joel Spolsky), but I don't know how many site managers follow that suggestion.
Regrettably, having a brain is not a requirement at many companies, because having an agenda for a meeting is uncommon in my experience. (And let us not mention the quality of the agenda when it is used.)

You are clearly not the target audience for this book. As a victim of far too many pointless daily and weekly meetings, I'm looking forward to reading it.
As far as I'm concerned, once Godwin's Law has been invoked [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law], the writer has lost all credibility.
Here's the problem. Truly awesome people can jump from job to job with ease. They're always in demand. They're always having offers thrown at them, even when they aren't looking.

Where there's a need for a website is for inexperienced, but otherwise awesome folks. Those people that haven't been discovered yet because they are fresh out of school, perhaps like this person. The big problem with this idea is that there's no guarantee that somebody who is an awesome student will make an awesome employee.
I tried, it sank to the bottom of the new items list sadly.
The professions, and everything about them, are designed for people who don't have to work to earn a living, and who work out of service to society. Professional culture is a result of this. That's why rich kids do better in the professional environment. It's not anyone favors them because of their families. It's because they aren't ruined if unemployed for a while, so they don't fear the boss, get more respect, and handle a professional environment better.

The difference, circa 2010, is that nearly everyone has to work to earn a living. So the professional norms are out of date for most people.

This should shine some light on why interview processes are the way they are. For people who are working for love and leisure, a 2-month process from application to decision, with 2 or 3 rounds of interviews that require time off work, isn't unreasonable. For people who either (1) are unemployed and have a ticking clock, or (2) are employed but will be in trouble if they lose their jobs (which is likely if they're caught interviewing, in today's environment).

As for why it's so difficult to find good candidates, the interview process is a big part of it. Good candidates are only willing to go through with it for something approaching a dream job (for a hacker, Google Research; for a quant, DE Shaw). Otherwise, they ask their friends who they know and search informally.

Also, the fact is that most corporate environments are utterly mediocre and soul-sucking, and that hurts all but the most-established companies. There are probably 1000+ companies where a smart person could work and have smart co-workers, good pay, and interesting projects... but only a few stand out for having this reputation (e.g. Google). If you're not on this list of 20 companies, you're going to have a hard time proving that you're not one of those mediocre failboxes.