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We're currently going through a hiring cycle, and while admittedly, there's a lot of people applying, I get annoyed by some of our guys doing interviews removing people from consideration for things that simply do not matter.

I would likely have failed our own interview processes, yet I was one of the guys let know I was indispensable and not to worry about my job security by upper management when we were going through layoffs in the middle of the financial crisis, going so far as to offer me a raise in the middle of it.

The post-interview review of candidates needs to be:

(1) Are they smart?

(2) Do they practice self-improvement? A given if (1).

(3) Can we work with them?

But not many people have the balls to take a chance on someone from the left field, so they'll settle for the mediocre plodder who has learned how to game the interview process.
Writing a link-bait title about getting to page 1 of Google certainly won't hurt either :)
An illegitimate process makes the treaty illegitimate as well.
cool. how did you find/end up at the "music player" company?
I'd guess that anyone who needs to receive text messages already knows about the email to sms gateways that their phone carriers provide.
He was certainly famous at the time - MS Basic was good enough that they could charge for it to people who already had a free Basic with their hardware.
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Start building it first under a code name.. name it later.
Over time you'll come up with more names and some of them will turn out to be pretty good and previously unused.
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> Have you ever been in a classroom?

Are you suggesting Anigbrowl does not have any education ?
The book is definitely worth a read.

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/d...
I think they mean the ads only appear if the animation detects that it's been served from a website other than the original.

I don't think this is especially novel; not for ads but I remember writing code back in the 90s for Java applets to check that they were being served only from the original website.
I guess if you've seen your IP so blatantly stolen it would make you a bit cynical.
If you install an application, you get to see what services the app can do. It pays off to apply some common sense. In theory you are right, though.
Is there a list of achievements of the foundation ?
I prefer Eclipse, but I haven't spent much time using Netbeans or IntelliJ, so I can't really say that Eclipse is "best." I can just say that it works very well for me, and has a rich ecosystem of plugins and additional tools that I find handy.

On the downside, Eclipse is awfully memory hungry in my experience. Not sure how it compares to Netbeans or IntelliJ though.
But the thing is, weak points in Google's algorithm at this point in the game are probably not bugs. The algorithm is probably doing what it was written to do, but the problem is that Google is essentially trying to create an AI that can pass a worldwide Turing test with highly trained professional testers working to outsmart it.
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I clicked this link hoping it was about how to make a search engine, and this was the first page of many to come. Drats. :P
It's kind of clever actually. Right now the best phrase we have to describe it is "iPhone 4 antenna problem" -- "Antennagate" implies there is no (real) problem or it's at least open to debate. Maybe even a slight conspiratorial tone along the lines of Hillary Clinton's vast right wing conspiracy after FBI-Gate, Travel-Gate, Monica-Gate, etc
You do realize that smoking cannabis can be against the law ?

And that if savemylife is in the wrong jurisdiction that can put him/her in an afwul lot of trouble ?

I take no stance on whether or not it should be legal, it's just a fact that it currently is illegal in many places and I'm kind of surprised that you'd suggest someone do something that may very well be against the law where they live.
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Hehe.. anyone thats started a company here knows full well the importance of marketing... especially those who've failed =)
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I'm not sure how practical this will be.

The magnet in a shake-light is large, and the coil probably has at least a hundred turns of wire. A magnet and coil that can fit into a battery is going to be much smaller-- and then you still have to fit in the rectifier and capacitor.

All of this in the AAA form factor? Implausible.
This article is from last year. It misses pictures of the new #2 supercomputer, Nebulae. They are very hard to find, but I did find some:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=18
I see all your pages end with .html. Are you generating static pages for everyone behind the scenes or did you just name them that way?
Originality of solution is not in developing a technology (though getting patent for that might mean it is), but identifying a key problem in business and using technology in an innovative way to solve the problem.
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Sometimes, you can get lucky and just get a simple combination of legit words which describes your product perfectly (I got lucky with Pretty Graph). Otherwise, do what designers and advertisers do - pick one keyword related to your product and couple it with a colour or animal or some other memorable word appealing to people's emotions.

If nothing works, make ridiculous combinations of real words but please don't get a domain with missing vowels and ly's and tr's. When you are starting out, your domain name is your brand name. If I have to spell out your brand name, you have already failed.

Think DuckDuckGo, not Srchly.
> Why don't companies just hire people after a quick discussion at 50% salary for the maximum of four months and see how they do.

Because best developers already have jobs and aren't knocking on your door desperate to take a risk like this.

That's the problem with the "probation period" ideas, in addition to creating churn and other unpleasant hygenic effects, why would somebody with a great job willing subject themselves to limbo? It will likely end up being a filter for people who have no other options available to them.
No the pages are dynamic, although partially cached.I just added a .html suffix
I read it as "if academia were toy boats, industry would be aircraft carriers."

Edit - the blog post clears this up:

The way I think of it, being in academia is a lot like building toy boats and playing with them in your bathtub.

...

Whereas being at Google is like working on an aircraft carrier at sea.
Ask HN:  Given a URL, how do I find the HN submission of it?
I'm positive there is a simple answer to this, I just haven't discovered it yet.

searchyc.com searches within HN posts, but doesn't appear to allow you to search based on what the HN post is referring to.

Thanks.
I strongly prefer NetBeans to Eclipse. I haven't used IntelliJ, but would like to.

The big feature of NetBeans is simply that it's fully-integrated. Out of the box, it works with Maven, Subversion, Mercurial, etc. Comes with Tomcat and HSQL so you can deploy your web apps from within the IDE. It requires far less setup and just generally "does the right thing" without really requiring me to make a bunch of decisions and install a ton of plugins. With Eclipse I never managed to make any of that stuff work; there are many different plugins you'll find for any given task by searching, and many of them have plugin dependencies or are outdated or just suck. My time is too valuable to spend it making Eclipse into the one IDE to rule them all. I have not been disappointed by NetBeans, and three of my coworkers have switched to it since I've been there, I suspect because they got tired of configuring Eclipse.

Just my two cents. I'm sure a lot of what I gripe about is "easy" to do, and I certainly would admit that more is possible with Eclipse, but the tradeoff just doesn't seem worth it to me.
I really like your determination here. Sales might not have come rushing through the door but you've persisted and changed tack where you needed to in order to make it a success.

Keep at it!
I think Amazon EC2 cannot be trusted for these benchmarks.

On the physical hardware I tested node scales very linearly with the amount of cores added.

On Ec2 I have seen very strange results / bad performance. There is something seriously odd here, and I suspect it has to do with Amazons virtualization.

On the box the author tested with, I would expect node (or nginx) to easily serve 50k req / sec.

I'll have to do some more research to figure this out.
I'm upvoting you because this is a good and thoughtful comment, but it gets me thinking about chickens and eggs.

> He makes it to page one through social site manipulation and people may think he's better than he actually is.

I think of the chicken and the egg. It's easier to do interesting things in the world if you're connected with good people, and it's easier to connect with people if you're doing interesting things. So in this case, the author starts building himself on Google, kind of a hack of the process - but then he writes this interesting guide on how to do it, which people will notice and potentially remember him or reach out to him.

So I get where you're coming from, I agree that it'd be better to do amazing things and then try to get popular off those amazing things, but - a lot of amazing things never take off because no one knows their creator. This probably won't be the case for Johnny as he creates more things going forwards.
Really great work here. I love organized data.
I don't think he's saying it's necessarily bad to sell domain names but I think the intention here is to help out your fellow hackers.

If you've got a domain you're not using and a member of this community can make use of it I think that's good karma.
"if Virgin Music and EMI etc., would have bought Napster (instead of suing it and closing it down) and then converted the site into their official mp3 website, iTunes would have been a me-too and not the gorilla it is today"

This part is interesting. Not so because of the concrete actors mentioned, but overall. It raises the question about the way the whole film/game/music industry battles piracy. Do You think they too could have found a better way, making it all to their benefit (and profit). Or have they done that already?
Yes, in a way it does affect the substance of my post. If a person (myself included) cannot form a complete sentence and do so in a grammatically correct manner then I tend to take that person less seriously. For example, the run-of-the-mill Internet posting looks like this: "Yo! dAwG - ?sUP" Would you take anything this person has to say seriously?

I merely expect that when "experts" communicate something that impacts a large portion of the world population, that they make damn sure of their "facts". All of them!

BTW: I never claimed to be a grammar expert. :)
There is a free, open source version of IDEA now (without all the plugins):

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/free_java_ide.html
If you can get the title of the submission, then a quoted search with the site: operator on Google or Yahoo! would find it.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22PagerDuty+%28YC+S10%29+M...

Both have APIs.
Did Apple even attempt to provide evidence of the Blackberry having a similar problem?
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I guess they mean lost in the sense that it has an immediate successor available for its intended use, e.g. BD replacing DVD.
Sure you can—just let them stomp all over a virtualized processor/memory space.
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I bet they're making a lot more money from the technology used to serve the ads via licensing than they are from the ads served in their own games.
@all - Quick points to clarify - my partner and I have 'filed' for patent but not received it yet. The concept is not unique in itself - the auto switch from visible to invisible is. As a fully funded VC company, any patent is value creating - the intention is obviously to use the patent tag to then seriously license the solution to folks like Viacom etc.
They showed a video of a Blackberry that, when gripped, looses bars [+]. If they wanted to really convince me they would have to show me better measurements but I would say that’s evidence, isn’t it?

[+] You can scroll down and watch it yourself: http://www.apple.com/antenna/
Kinda cool - How to Obscure Any URL (2002)
Plus the fact that the upside (if any) to revealing the reason for no-fire is negligible.
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>> "PagerDuty is an alerting system which plugs into any monitoring system (Pingdom, Nagios, Cloudkick, etc) and alerts your team via phone, SMS and email when problems are detected."

Pingdom already does that. I'm not clear what you're offering here...
Clojure + terracotta should work well for small to medium scale-out of shared data.
They showed a video of the Bold 9700 having a death grip issue which probably also effects very few people in real world usage. (13% of 9700 owners based on this site's poll)
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Or you could just get an iPad.
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Two or maybe three weeks ago I read here|slashdot|reddit (can't remember) talks about uses of magnetic tapes: they are still being used for large scale backups. Not outdated (unless you take the point they have a successor, which I am not sure is valid for those using MT)
Modern browsers automatically decode encoded URLs (ie, if you enter %20 into
your address bar - it'll change it to the space that represents)
IE (at least) won't let you use the auth@domain format either
Using the IP almost in any form won't help - as most sites are name-bound

what do you use today to do this
It goes without saying but I'll state it anyway, this
cascade of down-votes is not the reaction I'd expect for
making what I consider to be a pretty innocuous comment
about something that potentially affects the priorities of
my startup

It's probably a reaction to your advocacy for ignorance at the expense of a story marking an important milestone in DNS's capabilities.

If you insist on not caring, do so quietly. Some people around here are trying to fix things, or break them, which hopefully will result in better systems. In any case, you appear to be doing neither.

(As a side note, your assertion that I agree that this doesn't change anything practical is false, as of yesterday people can resolve domains over DNSSEC, that wasn't true last week. I consider this a practical change. I'm not a big fan of DNSSEC as a protocol, but this is a big deal(tm).)
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> winning the nuclear war in planet start up

all start ups lose?

to the mine shafts!
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That's true in some cases, but in a lot of cases the difference does come out even when n is in the thousands/millions range
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Ask HN: How do you spend on food?
Do you eat out more than you cook your own food?

How much do you spend weekly?

I'm slightly puzzled that ordering out is more expensive than cooking for ones self. Shouldn't centralized preparation be more efficient?
Why sit around replacing packages by hand when you're not really learning anything? The best fix for a system like this is to nuke it from orbit and reinstall. I mean, odds are, you'll miss something, and then spent hours fooling around after getting hacked, when you could have just spent your time concentrating on what's important: saving relevant data and configuration, reinstalling, and securing the updated configuration.
If the antenna is internal (and invisible) how many would even realise they were affecting it in any way? Apple drew a lot of attention to its antenna, both in terms of design and marketing, so how many people reported problems after deliberately trying to screw with it?

I just made my iPhone 3GS, Blackberry 9700 and Nokia N97 all drop a couple of bars by covering their internal antennas with my palm. I expect this to happen with any phone.
I hadn't realized that the journal titles are not alphabetized within one letter's page (for example on the J page). EDIT: Fixed!

If you visit the Journal of Avian Biology on the publisher's site, you only get those two items... http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/118513172
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Seems like whenever I click on a drop that is 2+, it keeps zooming in until it reduces to a single profile, losing all other profiles..
Seems like a rare edge case. Also a bad design IMHO

Expanding your network IO handling code to use multiple cores sounds like fun, but it's the wrong way to do things.

Network handling code is not CPU heavy. Have a single process handling the IO, and for CPU heavy tasks hand off to other threads, handled with callbacks.

I also wish we'd stop benchmarking these sorts of things in NNk requests/second. As if most use cases will get anywhere near that in production.
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yeah, and many people disable those due to spam problems.
I'm wondering if anyone uses/has used Syncplicity? IMO, it's better than Dropbox.
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Agreed. Doesn't mean it's patentable tho'.
By adding dates it would be easy to see where journals are not keeping their feeds up to date and so give some feedback on the relative quality of the search results.
More than likely, the inclusion of modern formats is a preliminary act.
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This is silly.

I congratulate you for writing an interesting blog post and I can understand that one would like to obtain a monopoly if he's found a working business model, yet I consider such a practice to be highly unethical.

You are right in thinking that you deserve to reap the benefits after you've found a solution to that problem. You truly do. But you're wrong in drawing the conclusion that you've somehow acquired the right to shut out your competition.

Software patents are a sham(e).
My BB Bold 900 looses a bar or two if I cover it in a way that it would be impossible for me to make calls then. Never had any issues with it, never drooped a call. But to be fair, I'm in Slovenia in Mobitel's network which is one of (if not) the best in the world. So maybe all this problems come from crappy network services too.
Yeah, thats happening because all the points are exactly on top of each other, seeing what i can do to fix it now.
Jobs clearly stated that the demo of bars being dropped on other brands of phones was done in an area of bad network reception. If people try the death grip with good network reception they won't see any drop in bars. As I understand, this is the same for the iPhone 4.
see:

"huge antenna lab" + "antenna sucks" = "lab is useless"

just basic math, no degree needed (although I have one ;))
as of yesterday people can resolve domains over DNSSEC

People can resolve the root over DNSSEC. This is a milestone, but it's one to be followed by many, many more before it affects clients.
definitely one of my main inspirations not only for wanting to make money in software but also to start my own company.

If I remember correctly, Woz didn't want to make money or start his own company!
fantastic attitude
Went to see Inception tonight and this played during the previews.
I spent several hours looking at various boards and reviews and it's turned into a chaotic mess since I last bought a router.

My requirements/would like to haves are:
* DD-WRT capable (this is a must have)
* a/b/g at least, n would be nice
* dual band n even nicer
* gigE ports that support jumbo frames

At this point, I'm looking at the Netgear WNDR3700 and the Asus RT-N16. FWIW, the router that just died was an Asus WL500G Deluxe and it worked fine until it croaked.

PS. There also seems to be factions that are variously for Broadcom, Atheros etc.
Apparently computational complexity is no longer the first thing that comes to mind when I read "Big O".
Selling (or donating) is about timing. MSFT‎ has seen its best days, while AAPL hasn't yet.
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Pingdom doesn't provide our full range of alerting features, such as phone alerts, on-call scheduling, and two-way SMS (so you can hand off problems to other engineers straight from your phone).

Actually, Pingdom is one of the most common services used in conjunction with PagerDuty.

At a higher level, what we're trying to provide is an on-call management and alert dispatching tool. What PagerDuty does is let you control who, how, and when people are notified when problems occur. In contrast, monitoring tools like Pingdom and Nagios focus more on detecting problems. While they have some native alerting functionality, we think with PagerDuty's advanced alerting, they can function all the better.
The point is that you can have the same effect on an iPhone 4 with your pinky.
"Expect the worst, but hope for the best" is the advice I can give you.

I have the exact same thoughts as you and I truly believe that if you work as hard as you work before product launch, you can make it. I'm not sure whether this is true or not, but I see a lot of people getting excited during product creation and launch and the whole energy and excitement kinda goes away with time. You gotta endure on the slow days, too.

Although I hate to give pessimistic advice, check this link: http://goo.gl/MF7D - Rob Walling talks about that your focus shouldn't be to get rich on your first product, but to learn as much as you can.

Good luck!
I don't think it was ever released, was it?
I doubt if that would work in the cases where the submission title on HN is different from the page title.
Agree. Software algorithms should not be patentable.