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As Dave rightly schooled me here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149503

aditya: dude, if you can't create at least 5 jobs in 2 years with $250K in capital, you're a pretty pathetic excuse for an entrepreneur.

The article is a little too sensational, which seems to be the norm with BusinessInsider these days.
I'd be wary of having a big group lunch with all the candidates; that gets dangerously close into "group interview" territory (which, to be fair, is pretty common in some industries, but leads to candidates feeling pressure to "stand out" and act unnatural just to be noticed).

I'd much rather see (both as a candidate and employer) a group lunch with one candidate and a few members from the team they'll be working with - ideally after they've had at least one interview, and not including the person who'll be interviewing them right after lunch.
Some context:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/mar/22/conservative...

Directly linking to a site with a known XSS exploit perhaps wasn't such a great idea.

Edit: Looks like they've pulled the plug.
I couldn't agree more. I can't imagine how many hours of clean-up it will take for all the webmasters to clean vendor prefixed properties out of their CSS files once browsers drop them.
You just have to understand, for those of us that have been here for three years, this kind of thing gets old. It happens every month or so, and it's always the same plea.

You know, HN has changed... but everything changes as it grows. The original sense of tight community is hard to maintain with so many users, but c'est la vie.

And the submissions go in waves. I pretty much stopped coming here for two months because I got tired of a certain type of submission that seemed to be trending... but I came back one day and found we were in a technical submission era again, which, along with the insightful discussion, is the reason I come to begin with.

So really, it's better to demonstrate the standards through your contributions than spend timing talking about the standards. The welcome guide and FAQ talk about them plenty, and the point of the karma/flagging system is to allow the existing community to enforce those norms and traditions.
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Some things are allowed to have 2 ends. Why not weeks, too?
Agreed; there is that risk. We often do company lunches anyway - so to mitigate things what I say is "guys, today is actually a company lunch day so if you'd like to join us and chat to some of the current employee's then feel free - no pressure, it's not part of the interview. If anything we see this as your chance to ask questions."
Interesting - although I've heard tell that sometimes stock can actually go down, instead of up.
Perhaps there's a middle-ground solution - a universal prefix that denotes experimental or non-standard features that may be liable to break or not work cross-browser.

In the long-term (i.e. a major browser release), once the property is stable and has been standardised (or is a de-facto standard) then the prefix can be dropped.

This experimental prefix could exist side-by-side with vendor prefixes to allow for workarounds for broken draft implementations.
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That's a good point but it doesn't change that the overall dynamic of the Act would be to put way too much power in the hands of investors.

I hope you're right and that's how it will work out, though.
And the stuff about it being "bad for investors" is pretty rich. Sure, there are might be some funny incentives created by a Founder Visa program, but none that wouldn't be transparent, known, and probably avoidable.
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I just took a look at your http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs/ page and saw that you guys have open salaries. What type of feedback have you received from doing that? Are people resistant to it? Do they come around eventually?
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I think ppk is wrong here. Completely wrong.

As mentioned in the comments of the article, this would mean the first to implement a new feature would be able to define how it works. Not a good idea. We need some form of consensus.

And also mentioned: some things do change. The definitions of border-radius for Gecko and Webkit are not the same at all.
Either you are too shy, and the usual prescription of go out there and overcome it isn't going to work. I was painfully shy when I was younger, and it took determined and sustained effort to overcome it. Even today, after years of this, it often takes a moment of deliberate effort for me to talk to a stranger. At parties, I am often one of the people holding up the wall.

It's clear, however, that that will not work for a small number of people, and if you are one of them, then you must consider counselling/therapy. For a really small number, drugs are called for. If you find that a determined effort to be outgoing is not possible/helpful, then I seriously encourage you to seek out the right type of counsellor.
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Using this idea you only bet when your batteries are charged, you have two hours guarenteed before your next crisis, you know the market is moving (almost every day something is moving), you feel good, you got enough sleep, you've already been to the bathroom, your favorite Starbucks/McDonald's/$WIFI-HOTSPOT is open, etc. Make sure you're ready to bet, watch the market, bet, go eat lunch.

I've been playing with this very idea. I've had to mentally hold one position over night. I don't like holding a position. I want to be in and out in two hours.

Gambling on the stock market is risky. I think lots of people, maybe most of the people that gamble this way, want to be rich. Well, I don't. As the OP asked the question, I only want to make enough to comfortably get by so I can spend the rest of my time living and learning.
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More information on his incredible contributions to computer science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner
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Asus should buy Palm. There is room for a non-iPad tablet and webOS has the capability to corner that market over Android. Asus is an aggressive and smart company. They could do very low-priced tablets and have another big win, as they have with netbooks. I also wonder how blazing fast webOS would be on a Tegra2 CPU.
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One issue is that most successful startups in the past two decades have been related to computer software, while Japan's strength has rather been electronic appliances.

Since computers are becoming more appliance-like, Japan's fortunes may well be on the rise again.

In a "software-appliance" world, attention to detail across the whole user experience will rule the day. A lot of Japan's companies have this in their DNA. Most American companies get it at most 95% right and leave the rest up to the "smart and motivated user."

Perhaps a part of the reason for the App Store's success, is that it promotes the model of "Application as Appliance?"
I suffer some shyness.

Where it gets in the way most is telephone calls. Mostly I'm fine on the phone but sometimes I'll procrastinate so much, because I'm anxious about making a phone call, that it will impact my work or social life quite negatively. Unfortunately that stress works against the situation.

My point however is that there is nothing rational in this it is like an occasional phobia. The fear doesn't come from anywhere, it just appears.

It's possible that this anxiety is due to being chastised heavily for not taking phone messages well as a child.
Good catch, I'm looking into this one. I know I've seen this behavior before in some JS environment. I'm glad it's not the case for V8 and will shortly update the article.
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So far we've received only positive feedback (see here, for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190533). Of course it could be that some people are so against it, they don't even bother voicing their concerns, but as far as we can tell all developers welcome this.
Wrong. An expert system only draws conclusions from a knowledge base using deductive inference. This system also uses abductive inference and inductive inference. Read the paper.
Very true, but consider that a stock can only move three directions: up, down, or sideways. This takes money. If you have the money to buy 5,000 shares of a $5.00 stock ($25,000), how long does it take that stock to move $0.10?
He talks about that. Just scroll down to the text immediately after the images.
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You're right, but rude. Please stop.
I wrote an article about adding gaming components into your web app a few weeks back if you're interested: http://blog.areastudios.com/2010/01/14/make-your-web-applica...
Small business != (entrepreneur or start-up)

A convenience store owner in Germany whose father and grandfather owned and worked in the same store can't be put into the same category as a 25 year old who quits his job to found a groundbreaking internet technology company.

Both count as small businesses. One is changing the world, the other one is not.
Abstract: "An empirical model of player motivations in online games provides the foundation to
understanding and assessing how players differ from one another and how motivations of play
relate to age, gender, usage patterns and in-game behaviors. In the current study, a factor
analytic approach was used to create an empirical model of player motivations. The analysis
revealed 10 motivation subcomponents that grouped into 3 overarching components
(Achievement, Social, and Immersion). Relationships between motivations and demographic
variables (age, gender, and usage patterns) are also presented."

Nick Yee has run the Daedalus Project for years. I know and like it for its insight into the demographics of MMO players: http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/
This sounds like a really neat product and you sound really smart. I would love to chat with you because I have some (hopefully) unique ideas about how to tackle this problem, and would love to share. My email is zackster@gmåil.com
This is a great point for the person from the other side of the interview as well.

I think some of the jobs I've taken which I later looked on as regrets could have been avoided if I was paying more attention / placing more weight on the poor interview process.
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Before we can start measuring it, we have to define it. What is intelligence (Collective or otherwise)?
I agree that these are annoying for developer and somewhat harmful for traffic. However the real problem lies in politics. When browser representatives suggest a new standard and everyone says "fine, we like it but we must think about it" it makes sense to implement this standard in vendor specific way. That serves as a live example for all developers, standards committee and developers of other browsers, yet nobody can blame them for implementing new standard cowboy style and trying to get it become de-facto before everyone has agreed like MS use(d?) to do. The question is "when should the vendor prefix go?" Obviously right now it's happening too slowly so maybe the whole process needs to be improved and maybe there needs to be a mid-state for new standards - one that is not "in-draft" and not complete either ("release candidate", ha!).
That's not totally correct. From http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html :

Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.

Having said that, I very much prefer "Thanks." to "Thx!"
Your idea is way better than mine. I like it and I seriously hope it will be heard.
It's all about the education. Internet start-up are now cheap to start. So I think most students/developers in Japan can do it. There are two factors that can affect it: 1) education and 2) the network.

When you have a network like the Bay Area, this will encourage, enthusiast new young students to become entrepreneurs and start their venture. If they are successful the money and funding will come.
Border-radius has no unified syntax. Neither has gradients. Two examples that prove the thesis in this article (that all vendor prefixes are bad) to be incorrect.

Having just one property to target multiple browsers that do not support the same syntax would be pretty harmful.

So yes, properties that have a unified syntax can do without vendor prefixes. Nothing new, see the w3c specs. Stupid browser makers copying over -o-* to webkit browsers however, should be considered harmful. We should target those.
That's rather common with MIME types, HTTP and MIME headers, where experimental or vendor-specific extensions get prefixed with "X-". The same thing could work here, I agree. I think that "-x-transition" would work better than "-webkit-transition", frankly.
While I think you are completely and utterly wrong, and that it is inevitable that aging will be cured or anyway worked around, that's not what I was trying to say. The GP claimed that curing aging would "break" the economy with indefinite pensions. My point was simply that if aging was actually "cured" then pensions would be unnecessary as everyone would be in perfect health, willing and able to support themselves, indeed with increasing productivity and hence value over time.

I don't really have the inclination to get into a detailed technical argument but I don't think these sweeping claims that aging is "not going to be cured. PERIOD. FULL STOP!" are credible in the least. The human body is a machine that can be repaired like any other, given the technology and understanding. It might not be in my lifetime, but I can't think of any reason why perfect anti-aging technology would not be available eventually. And if you're going to make broad claims to the contrary, you'll need to back them up.
I guess PPK gets an auto-post on anything he writes.

No prefix leaves us in a situation where we have to assume each vendor implemented the draft spec properly. In the case that one of them doesn't, we're left either omitting it completely or writing conditional stylesheets for each browser.

An "experimental prefix", e.g. -x-border-radius, doesn't work either because we're left in the same situation as the above case. As on of the commenters on quirksmode.org pointed out, the gradient implementation in Webkit is significantly different than the one proposed by Mozilla. Using a unified prefix wouldn't help anything.

I guess one could say that we shouldn't be using draft specs in production code but that also seems counterproductive as it doesn't give us the chance to field test new functionality.
Quoth the article: "The best people not only welcome a challenge, they require it. ... I cautiously asked a candidate who looked twice my age and had a stellar resume to code a binary search."

I hope you're not trying to imply that coding a binary search is challenging for most of your interviewees. :-)
Thanks for the post. Do we have the video of the talks or materials used in the camp hosted somewhere?
You need a scope to repair the scope...
well reviews are definitely the highest value on Amazon, people (including me) look on Amazon's reviews even when they are buying products from somewhere else
In some cases people are simply to verbose when making their point. Many arguments or positions can be put across in fewer, less or not so many words as are being used in a particular situation. Such posts, being long winded, wordy, repetitive or simply grandiloquent in their rambling can lack focus and require more of the reader than they deserve. In short, and not to put too fine a point on it, nor to wax over lyrical or beat around the proverbial bush this turn of phrase can provide utility and often does.

tl;dr this is useful sometimes and necessary at others
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Speaking of 0 evidence ...

The human body is a machine. It is a very complex and intricate machine, but a machine it is nonetheless. Yes, we do not yet have the understanding. Yes, we do not yet have the necessary tools. But we will have them one day.

It is a machine, and any machine can be fixed with the right knowledge and tools, and it would seem quite foolish to claim otherwise.

It would seem equally foolish, of course, to plan one's life around the very uncertain wager that these technologies will be acquired by humankind within one's lifetime. No disagreement from me on that one.
No, it's not futile! Finding ways to get good information fast with the data explosion is one of the challenges we face in computer science. Anyway, the good folks at GATE are building a great set of tools for NLP for several years. The tools are similar to what you are doing. You are not crazy and we need more people like you to advance computer science! http://gate.ac.uk/
Yes, I agree it would be a nice way to do some personal time boxing ("How do I divide my free time between projects A, B and C"). But as I already noted in the parent post, this layout simply does not suit my kind of appointments.

However, I think most people in my situation would be able to use a daily version of this.

Three bars of six hours each: morning, afternoon and evening, for example. The additional height would allow me to write down overlapping appointments, and the extra width gives me room to write down some details. And in case of major messiness, I need to copy only one day to a new page.

re 1) Your example is ridiculous, but I really do need a first or last name and a location. Even for 30-minute appointments.

re 2) But there is quite a difference between changing a five into a six, or somehow moving an appointment in the bar chart.

re 3) I don't actually try to be in two places at the same time. It's usually just meetings and presentations I want even should attend, but simply overlap with other appointments. I do still want to know about them, so I can go but leave early, or drop in at a later time.
So won't that result in somebody that's healthy, like me, having to pay more so somebody that doesn't take care of themselves can afford health care.
It's probably a side effect of the quantity of submissions going up.

I've noticed that the last few submissions I made scrolled off the "new" page inside of 20 minutes. One of those articles made it to 100+ points on programming.reddit (and onto the front page), so it wouldn't be surprising to learn that a lot of good stuff is simply falling through the cracks.

Surprisingly, programming.reddit.com's "new" page is about 4-6 hours "tall" most of the time. HN has evidently become the new hot place to dump linkbait tech articles.
oh cool, so I can tell my friends about OSS and suddenly I am a contributer to OSS!
But what about having -x-border-radius (for those who don't care about the differences) and -webkit-border-radius (for those who do) as halo suggested? I don't see the drawbacks.
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I think, that vendor prefixes prevents us from getting into incompatibility nightmare.

If they were dropped for less stable css properties, web developers would start using css hacks again.

Because newer css properties don't have consistent behavior across browsers (border-radius don't work properly with border-style in firefox),
and experimental properties can even have different syntax (for example css gradients in safari and firefox).
I have been here for about a year and only commented like twice, both in the last couple of weeks. HN is great. Prefer the stuff here as apposed to all the others.
I don't know if it even needs to be said but if you don't have any luck finding a free couch/floor, check http://www.airbnb.com/

Plenty of couches on there for $20/night in SF
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Not only that, but there needs to be some way to detect the bounced beam -- implying a ridiculous degree of accuracy in the placement of the satellite, the smoothness of the glass, and the strength of the laser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
>If universal health care were really that important to entrepreneurship, why isn't Silicon Valley in Europe?

Because universal health care is not a sufficient condition for entrepreneurship, only an important one. I might go so far as to call it semi-necessary, but obviously if you have a spouse with corporate health care (as I do), or are less risk averse, you can make do without universal health care.

Silicon Valley has other things which beat the pants-off of Europe in terms of encouraging entrepreneurship (fewer roadblocks, easier access to capital, easy access to large markets, a culture where entrepreneurs are looked up to)
Yes. In fact, I'm not even sure what prompted it this time around. I am not sure why these posts even show up.
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Thanks. BTW, my telephone number is on my web site - I'm available to talk, preferably in the morning (Arizona time)
Sorry, I should have been more clear. It's not just the headline. It's also putting a blog post in front of the actual article. Their is a term for that I can't think of at the moment. Hopefully you're smarter then me and understand what I'm saying. =)
I think that makes it even messier. Now we'll have 3 stages of prefixes: vendor specific, vendor agnostic, no prefix. And using something like a generic prefix also assumes all browser vendors are on the same page and agree that the spec has been baked long enough to call it final.
IF PG thinks its a problem, he can make it easier for long-time users to nix stories.
I don't see the advantages. Setting up that much formal convention just to prevent having -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius both in the stylesheet next to each other? What do you win beyond the savings about 20 characters?
That doesn't make any sense. I'm asking to be persuaded. Obviously I'm looking for your words. Asking me to invest a week of my search traffic just because? That's more likely to have absolutely no effect in persuading me.
I have a slight problem with your 'open salaries': You don't define the ranks. Obviously if I took a job with RethinkDB I would be an "Engineer" rather than an "Intern"; but would I be an "Engineer I", an "Engineer II", or an "Engineer III"? Between them, the salary ranges stretch from 65k to 105k.

Presumably everybody inside the company knows what rank everybody else has, so to that extend the salaries are indeed open; but from the applicant's perspective, all you seem to have done is renamed "negotiate salary" to "negotiate rank".
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A lot of this is science with computers, not computer science.
I don't see the problem. I like vendor-prefixes.

Who cares about having 4 lines in the stylesheet instead of one for rounded borders? I'll happily pay that "price" as it gives me a trivial way to tweak for the individual browser peculiarities or disable it for certain browsers altogether (e.g. when a js replacement is needed because the impl is not up to snuff).

In my book vendor-prefixes are one of the few sane ideas in the CSS space. We have seen the alternative after all: <!--[if IE]> -->. You can't seriously suggest that's better?
That's true, and I hadn't really thought of it that way. And of course, I was focusing on Global Karma. =)
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Works fine now. I had downloaded the SVG the same way as I did the files in the downloads area (by right-clicking and 'save link as...'), but in the source file case this retrieves a webpage, not the SVG file. Sorry about that.
I wonder at the ambitiousness of your recruiting vs. the salaries you pay. Can you reasonably expect to get a world class programmer for 100k and stock options?

According to your criteria, you're thinking more of 'potentially world class', which I guess is more in line with your price range. The world class guys work for Google.