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From the parent: Maybe this is just a way to get a foot in the door with publishers so you are giving them something familiar

I think this is an important point. If you can get your foot in the door by making them comfortable, you can drive a new UI with their help: private beta, asking for feedback, etc.
Make a contribution to an open source project. Post code on github.
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Sigh. When will employers (even good ones?) realize that the value of a developer is primarily in their approach and talent rather than years of experience?

If you're not opposed to relocating to the DC area and working primarily on the JVM, send your resume my way (gmail, luke dot vanderhart). We're a consulting company hiring junior developers. You'll have the chance to work on some pretty high-end government projects, and if you're worth it you will advance nicely in the company.
It will depend on the bike. In Vancouver BC my Ducati Monster 696 costs more to insure ~$1800 then my Infiniti G35 Coupe ~$1600. That is with a 42% discount safe driver discount.
If you are concerned just about cost you will need to get a small displacement city only bike.
You also 'win' if you give away your money and realize that you never had anything to begin with and help other people instead of lining your own pockets. You win emotional value instead of physical value.
The higher you are up the escalation pyramid, the more available you have to be (though you are hopefully bothered less often).

Of course humans can't be "always" available, but there can be a (self-imposed) obligation to be as available as possible. Personally, I turn my phone off in theaters and museums, and at weddings and funerals.

I've considered setting up multiple numbers, but haven't yet.
Everything bad has to be somebody else's fault
Wireless net neutrality and fair competition
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Funny quote from that article: "Some people are so devoted to their keyboard that they search for backups and worry about finding another copy of a discontinued version."

That could be about me, I spent a week tracking down a working SGI keyboard because I managed to mess up my 10+ years old one. I dread the day when I won't be able to buy mother boards without a keyboard connector.

It's weird how you can get attached to certaain hardware, screens I'm not so partial to but that keyboard is something else. Haven't found a replacement yet.
Actually, most of the criticism aimed at Google for this issue stems from the fact that they do claim to be a pure entity by trumpeting "Don't be evil".

Most people are resigned to large corporations always acting in their self interest, but when you be claim to be non-evil and imply that you will do this regardless of self interest, any infarction, however minor, will be met with criticism.
How about a nice big disclaimer:

Bloomberg Opinion
Google Begins Rapid Iteration Plan With Chrome 6 Beta Deployment
People are generally overreacting and free-associating, Verizon and Google announced an agreement about how the neutrality debate may move forward, there are some concessions that I suppose people didn't expect Google to make, it being a huge proponent of net neutrality, but they were on the side of practicality as the agreement in general is non-binding and meant as a framework for discussion.
So no there isn't much evil there it's just people being surprised that a for profit company can make few compromises on ideals in sake of practicality.
Ask HN: Looking for help (Co-Founders)
Hello,

I need help. Linked-In has a gap in how it handles recommendations. Sites like http://onething.com and http://talentag.com have picked up on this and have already launched. I have been working on my own version of this here and there for a couple of months, but I need help. I am a back-end/database developer with crappy front-end skills, and for this to really work the interface has to be right.

If you're a Rails developer with some spare time and want to work on a startup (part time is fine, as I have a full time job), shoot me an email at maxdemarzi AT gmail DOT com and we can go from there.

My half-(ass)built prototype is at http://getvouched.com . It's not much, but I'm just making the point that I'm not an "idea guy" looking to get someone else to do all the work.

If you don't like the idea of working on something someone else has already done... remember it's not about the idea, it's about the execution. Both of the sites above are making what I believe are mistakes in their approach to this problem.

Thanks,
Max
What do consultants with 5 years experience on the JVM in dc working on high-end government projects make? Just curious.
I think that depends on your definition of poor, which is sadly left vague in this article. If by poor you mean paupers and the truly destitute that are homeless or avoiding that fate only by government handouts/charity then I suspect you are certainly right.

If by poor you mean what some refer to as the "working poor" or people only slighly above the working poor on the economic ladder, then my admittedly limited and admittedly anecdotal experience would contradict it. They tend to be hard working, generous with what little they have, and would be insulted by most suggestions of charity (though I have known a couple to take loans from friends to be paid back when they were able...) In short, my limited and anecdotal experience tends to support the concept in the article that the lower and working classes tend to be generous and helpful.
In what way does the stated agreement move the situation incrementally forward?

Google certainly claims that it's compromise to improve the current situation, but I don't see a single proposal that doesn't have gigantic exemptions, exceptions and loopholes.
That may not have a simple answer.
"we still haven't gotten that worthless dollar and inflation"
Oh yeah? Dollar is at 85 vs the yen, from 115 three years ago. Food prices doubled (food portions also got smaller), healthcare costs doubled, gas prices doubled, and so on. Are you using the old trusty government CPI for your inflation stats?
Interning for free is usually really hard on people, it became really hard on me. I also understand the whole legal gray area. That being said, the fact that I interned with the company I'm with before taking a job with them was incredibly advantageous to me in the hiring process. If you can do freelance work (maybe 2 or 3 days a week) while interning for a company that you think may hire you (when you're not freelancing), I would recommend it.
"benevolence" does not mean "doing it for the sake of some one else". It is more like, "doing what is right; right for me and right for others"
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Amazon could build smartphones, MP3 players to compete with Apple
Thers space or some char before http i can see in Chrome
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"Hacker news" is getting more and more political everyday. Thought I signed up for a tech and VC news site.

Disclaimer: I actually agree with the opinion in this article, but I don't want politics with my tech news.
But the real average wage adjusted for inflation has decreased for a long time.

Is this really true? If you blindly apply inflation calculators to wage statistics, you get this result.

But on the other hand, people earning average wages live a much better life (in terms of goods/services consumed) than people in the past. Even the present day poor live what would have been called a "middle class" lifestyle in the 70's.

Something doesn't add up. Can anyone shed light on this?
It was just a round number and that's the way percents worked out. I mean, it was more like 18.43%, but for the sake of brevity...

The actual number I gave took into account current market rates, my job requirements, responsibilities and how I stacked up against other developers in the company.
I'm not sure that's true - certain comments negate the need for others. For example, if I eventually get around to mentioning my mother's maiden name, the probability of the question "What is your mother's maiden name?" decreases.
If there is no work, then why are you worried about getting a job? It's impossible. You might as well give up now.

Just put yourself up on elance / rent-a-coder, use that to build a portfolio.
know ?

Last I checked Israelis and Palestinians weren't generally living in the same neighborhoods, subject to equal treatment under the same laws, shopping at the same markets, etc.
I agree, if you're looking to work and not just program as a hobby, start with web projects. There's always a friend of a friend (or somebody on Craigslist) with a $1000 and an idea. Your effective hourly rate will be low, but you'll be learning and getting paid at the same time. You'll also find out whether you really want to be a programmer for hire, as it is often the case that the programming is the easy part while the clients are the hard part.
Why do green threads always get thrown under the bus unequivocally? Aren't Ruby's green threads essentially coroutines that yield the processor when they wait for IO? So for an IO-bound app, which seems to be what evented framework users are concerned about, why can't you just write normal synchronous IO calls and run multithreaded Rails on C Ruby and be fine?
"but as long we are still at the top, we remain at the top."

Said the captain of the titanic.
So?

The fact that they are monopolies calls for a tougher line and no compromise absolutely.

Are people so scared of these guys that they are basically going to corrupt all the politicians? I mean, if they lobby, google has more than enough money to match their lobbying and the fact that they are "monopolies" makes google's argument even more powerful, not to mention that they have the backing of the public and the president.

So why compromise? Go for full attack! Fight like brave men. We did not have to compromise with Hitler tho there were plenty I heard who wanted to do so at that time.

You know good and bad are not some metaphorical stuff from the bible, but real concrete stuff which applies to the real world. Internet prioritization is evil, in any platform and form.
Apply to work at smaller companies.Most big companies have to follow "hiring guidlines" and the like, but if you apply to startups and companies with sub-100 people, they will often over look things like a college degree for prior work experience and general bad-assery.

Also, get active in open-source projects. Submitting patches to projects you love on github is a really easy way to get yourself noticed.
Craigslist testing new design?
After looking at the docs it doesn't appear to be incredibly hard.

I think the most non-trivial thing would be integrating with the current site sign-on. Issues such as an existing users that decide to sign on with facebook (which is linked to a different e-mail address) could become a problem on the backend.
In high school. Actually not in school because school didn't have any computers.

There was a business machines store with a Commodore PET in the window, and a Radio Shack with a TRS-80 Model 1 on display. I was allowed to sit and program on them in return for answering any questions the customers asked of me.
Bingo! Thats how I got started in programming as well. I did programming as tech support for almost 5 years. Oddly enough, it was PHP and Excel macros. Once mgmt found out I was taken off the phones.
Sqoot seems to be identical to a project that a HNer just posted.

On another note: These look pretty impressive. I'm particularly interested in what MatchLend will be like.
Not quite.

First Google attempts seems to have been half-hearted to say the least. Google is not a start up: they have a lot of power, a lot of money, and a lot of connections. If they wanted to put real pressure they could.

Second it was Google that put itself on the pedestal. They did not use half measures in the past: net neutrality was really really important. And they have tried to portrayed themselves as the customer's white knight.

Just as two examples (with reference to Apple, but I am sure there are many more) remember how Google spoke of Apple and Apple's future with the iPhone: draconian, big-brother, etc... That was another case where they tried to speak the language of morality, not of business. Same thing here (the arstechnica article is very eloquent in that).

Another example of how companies can push when they want take Apple who (allegedly) went to Verizon first but since Verizon didn't want to give up its privileges (their power over the phone) Apple went to AT&T. That probably meant less money for Apple and less market share. But Steve Jobs is so obsessive about these things that Apple can be quite blind in these cases (though that's something its fans like).

And mind you: I am not saying Apple is any better than Google. These are just two examples of how Google tends to speak in moral terms, and how other companies have used their power.

Basically Google is being accused of having been one huge hypocrite.
It varies widely depending on the company, education and other factors, but I've heard of anywhere between 70 and 100k for that experience level.

edit - That's salary, by the way, for salaried positions. Billing rate is an entirely different kettle of fish.
All you need to do is listen to people like Ron Paul and annihilate people? like Obama, Bush, Bernake .... are :) And audit Fed of course.
The linked article does not distinguish between what Google wants and what Google was able to get Verizon to commit to.
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I'd suggest a screencast on how to use it. Is it a separate site? An add-on that allows me to explore/suggest sites based on what I'm currently viewing?
Is it just me or is that viewer way nicer than scribd as an ad-hoc PDF viewer? And it doesn't even disable the download button, like scribd.com/slurp does.
parent is referencing the Hawthorne Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Where are you located? I'm trying to hire a junior-level web developer in DC. Send me a message if you're interested. Seriously.

Anyway, a few things:

- You're not going to get a reply from many/most jobs you apply for. This isn't necessarily you. It's just the way it is.

- This is just a hunch, but I think you're going to have more luck with smaller companies and startups than with big companies that filter all applicants through an HR department first.

- Don't sell yourself short. I got tons of applicants with Comp Sci degrees who are totally clueless. I would consider someone who is smart but lacks a college degree without any hesitation. Apply for jobs even if the requirements say "BS Degree."

- Send a letter/resume to companies you'd really, really like to work for
Actually this is Laurence Kotlikoff, he's pretty interesting : )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Kotlikoff

Wikipedia: In Kotlikoff's words, using the deficit as a guide to fiscal policy is like driving in LA with a map of NY. For unlike in our physical world in which we are all using the same language (have the same frame of reference), in the world of economics, we are each free to adopt our own frame of reference -- our own labeling convention. Thus, if Joe wants to claim that the U.S. federal government ran enormous surpluses for the last 50 years, he can simply choose appropriate words to label historic receipts and payments to produce that time series. If Sally wishes to claim the opposite, there are words she can find to "justify" her view of the past stance of fiscal policy. And if Sam wishes to claim that that economy has experienced fluctuations from deficits to surpluses of arbitrary magnitude from year to year, he can do so. Language is extremely flexible. And there is nothing in economic theory that pins down how we discuss economic theory.
Great introduction for anyone (such as myself) who found themselves quickly lost in most of the other posted discussions. Not only do you get a general idea of the proof, you feel better equipped to look back over those higher-level discussions.
Well the compromise is hardly reasonable.

Still, you can not answer a question with a question. Why should there be any compromise? Verizon's goal and that of the public contradict each other fundamentally. The public votes in the politicians and votes them out, thus is immensely more powerful than Vrizon, thus why compromise at all?
Looks good to me, it depends on the quality of the content. Will you make the content or have some sort of moderation to guarantee a high quality ?
Auch, but love tips like that. Will work on it. I get the message, lots of bla bla but not examples.
Hardball: "Are you playing to play or are you playing to win"
This is a good book, which used to be used in the Harvard MBA curriculum. I really like the last chapter which discusses some points on what to do when u really need a win or to bring a company back. These points i believe can apply to your personal life and a business, i will use it in a personal sense:

1. Survive first then gain competitive advantage: In that make sure you survive first.....so get income(9-5 job, freelance, anything), then get competitive advantage(make yourself feel special) by starting a business.

2. Make everything Fast, Focused and Fundamental:

Fast-- This relates to the time element, every task/action should have a stated timeline in which it should be achieved.

Focused-- These key tasks/actions should be protected from other tasks/actions cannibalizing time.

Fundamental-- Only efforts that go to the heart of the matter should be pursued. Only actions that are going to make a big difference to the underlying should be pursued at this point.

3. Don't tolerate failure to deliver more than once: Two or three failures to deliver suggests a lack of will, incompetence or even subversion. This applies to anyone.

You should now ask yourself, am i satisfying point 1? Then make your way from there.
These kinds of articles often seem to include a line like the one in this one: "And bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece."

What is it that makes people think people in US bonds are "asleep"? I certainly don't know whether they are or not, but it seems to go against the almost dogmatic claims you see elsewhere that the market "knows" and already has rational future expectations priced in.
Totally. Which is why I said "thanks for downvoting". I'm happy disagreement resulted in deserved punishment.
Your data seems...wrong. Or at least not consistent with my observations. Currency fluctuates significantly and one currency comparison tells us nothing. I've seen no evidence that food portions are smaller. Food prices don't seem to have doubled. Gas prices have definitely not doubled. I've seen no indication that health care costs have doubled.

If you want to claim that the CPI numbers are full of lies (because of a conspiracy?) then you need to bring serious evidence.
Didn't. Aren't they becoming capitalists also?
Personally I'd be very happy to have prioritisation based on they type of data. The point is not that VoIP goes faster than webpages, but that Verizon can make _one_ VoIP faster than competing VoIP.

So yeah, I agree that if you talk of type of data "as a group" prioritisation should be allowed. Not sure if the strongest believers of net neutrality are also against this though.
This is no mere political news, but an ominous sign of the times - of today's broken system. It might/will directly affect more than half of the hackers and indirectly all of us.
I would think that news about U.S. bankruptcy should be of interest to the startup community, so let's maybe re-orient this discussions towards: "Does this kind of doom-and-gloom news also scares the crap out of you as a startup founder? Or is it just meh?"
This comment is misguided on a variety of levels:

1) Wal-Mart offers huge benefits to consumers, who can make ends meet (or work less hours) because of the substantial savings. Wal Mart employees are among the happiest and most satisfied in their economic stratum.

2) How is a trading partner an economic threat? China represents billions of consumers to buy American products and services.

3) If you think China is a military threat, you are paying too much attention to GOP propaganda. China's biggest problem is modernizing China without causing revolution. China has been a loyal and valuable trading partner for the US for decades, and the typical Chinese or American person has no desire for war whatsoever.

4) Capitalism is the accidental synchronization of peoples' needs and wants in a way that results in the most overall freedom and the most overall prosperity (of any system yet discovered by mankind). Are you seriously under the impression that "worst motives" don't exist in other economic systems? Sorry but I don't look at a postal or DMV clerk and admire their lofty motives.
For the sake of anyone trying to search: That should be "SICP," short for "The Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs." (There are several organizations that actually have the acronym "SCIP," so Googling that leads nowhere.)
The state of the economy is not inherently political (although the response to any proposed solution is often coloured by political ideology)
Hmm, this is odd. Clearing the cookies cleared all the signins for me. We'll have to wait and see, I guess (wait for a user with multiple Gmail accounts, I mean).
What we're teaching companies to do, then, is avoid publicly holding themselves to any standard of responsible behavior. It's a total liability, because it makes people crucify you for stuff that is expected of companies that don't make the effort.

If you're starting a new company, stay the hell away from any hint that you will try to do the right thing. It just opens you up to people looking at every turn for opportunities to prove that you did evil, that you've sold out, etc. because it validates their self-fulfilling prophecy that corporations must be profit-seeking automatons that would off their own sister for a quick buck.

I guess you want the 90s back, where Microsoft was the behemoth who unabashedly crushed any possible competitors with shady OEM deals, embrace-and-extend, the halloween documents, etc. Maybe you want your closed-source OS's and browsers back, along with their proprietary APIs and platform lock-in. Maybe the next behemoth after Google will do away with any attempts at this openness crap, and you'll be happier because at least they didn't pretend they were going to try to do what's best for end users.
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Dropbox handles this beautifully.
We all know the U.S. is worse off than most citizens earnings compared to the 14% GDP of what the government brings in every year. And to date, the U.S. Government has NEVER missed a payment for their debt, loans or interest. So until they do, will our economy be destroyed.

What this will take is some think tank getting together and congress listening to them with a KEEN ear. We know our country is under bad circumstances, but with personal greed and politicians thinking that this $200k trip won't do anything in the overall scheme of things is what we need to change. It needs to change fast and with a drastic scale, but when are we actually willing to listen.
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