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I'm not buying it.

About hosting: I'm in the process of creating a startup. I've chosen Java precisely because I do not have enough money and can only afford a single EC2 or Linode instance. I cannot do too much load-balancing with my current resources.

I first learned Java after seeing how PHP was limited to web development, and not doing a very good job either, at the time having to write my own framework of reusable stuff because everything sucked.

About video games: that's what got me into programming. I used to do all kinds of shit in Turbo Pascal and then C++ (with the Allegro framework). TPascal was very limited, compiling for the 286-standard mode, and I had to deal with "conventional" memory, extended memory and the 64k segment limitation when allocating arrays. I also had this whole library for graphics rendering, written with inline assembly, by me.

It is no wonder kids today don't appreciate the current state of the art, since they take those tools for granted.

Today if I were to go back to video games as a hobby, I would choose Java. That's because I want performance without going too low-level. Pygame is nice, but just as I felt about PHP, I don't want to be limited by what the Python interpreter can do.

The reason you won't find good Java developers, is the same reason you won't find good developers in general.

And WTF are you thinking requesting Java experience? This I'm only expecting from incompetent HR people. In 3 months since you got that job opening you could have retrained someone and be done with it.
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I can't agree more with that... As a software development company, my best customers have been people who didn't understand the technology. The best ones accepted that it was my job to understand it and take care of it for them and would stay out of the way...

Customers who understand a bit about technology (because they've programmed a small Visual Basic software to help them before) are the most micro-managing people I've had and are a hell to work with...

So, the simple thing is that in any working relationships, you need to respect the other otherwise you're not going to go anywhere. The same goes with business and technical cofounders (and way too many tecnical cofounders don't respect enough the amount of work needed on the business side of things).
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Perhaps I explained my position poorly.

As an example, I could qualify for this role due to my experience with Groovy and thus Java by extension, but I wouldn't be interested in it because I wouldn't be satisfied in any position where I was restricted to pure Java.
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GazeHawk (444 Castro) will have a ping pong table (if we get enough people we'll throw a tourney together) and we'll either grab burritos or order pizza.

Our office space isn't built out yet, which screams "office chair races".
> Logic isn't a translation layer. It's more like a theoretical machine.

More precisely, it is a model for human thought. The way logic is similar to UI is that logic's philosophical success is a function of how well human thought maps to it and how intuitive theorems in the logic are, just as UI's success is a function of how intuitive it is. The last hundred years of discourse on philosophical logic have been focused on one thing -- to formalize the human notion of implication better than material implication does. That's why logicians came up with non-classical logics of the modal, counterfactual (which captures the very intuitive notion of mutatis mutandis), fuzzy and intuitionistic varieties.
I don't agree. The accumulation of a corpus of knowledge is fundamental to the scientific endeavor. Even if you are systematically acquiring knowledge through observation and experimentation, if your work can not be built upon, it's not science.
This article I found while pondering the same question states that it was de-orbited a day after the test firing (http://maikelnai.elcomerciodigital.com/2009/12/30/salyut-3-d...), granted it doesn't provide sources for that specific claim.
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See, I read the "we're profitable" as "we make enough money to keep ourselves alive with ramen noodles and maybe hopefully pay rent". Perhaps I've just grown cynical in my old age...
Who would want to buy property in california in the past couple of years? Does this lawyer not watch the news? Seems like Zuck's a pretty smart dude. Smart enough to realize the real estate mark sucks in california.
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Um, no they don't. I am in the Bay Area with a startup on an H1B, and the fee for filing my application with the USCIS was close to $500. Expedited processing costs another $1000.
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I don't think you'll get that kind of security in this space-time continuum...

If you send an open message to X, you just aren't going to keep X from sharing that message with others.

-- There no real way around this. It's essentially the "problem" that DRM aimed to "solve". Thankfully, it couldn't. Only share things that are appropriate for a given friend or group of friends. This applies on Facebook or anywhere.
I use it (dashboard) almost daily. most used app is a great javascript based calculator (can eval almost any js), and iStat for viewing processes

FrontRow, on the other hand, I use rarely. When I do, I'm glad it's there though
Java has a huge open-source ecosystem that you could search for contributors with junior level skills. And some projects are interesting enough to warrant hobbyists to play around with them just for the heck of it. For example, I'm looking to start studying computer graphics and I'm looking into playing around with JOGL instead of getting my hands around C++ (not that C++ sucks, its just that I wanted to ease myself into it). I'm getting pulled into non-Java JVM languages though, so Java doesn't look all too promising for me as a hobby language. At the very least, you could look into somebody having Clojure or Scala skills, they'll probably have knowledge of the JVM and Java would be just easy for them to pick up.
Good anythings are hard to find. People are always asking if anyone knows a good mechanic, accountant, lawyer, dentist...etc.
Yes, this is true - it's not going to stop someone who really wants in from finding your SSH port. But at the very least, it's useful when looking through your logs, because the ONLY failed log in attempts you will see are from people who mean business.
This particular startup is more profitable than that.
Ask HN: Which are the most awesome "Instant Search" sites you have seen? 
Instant Search is popping all over the place and is taking the whole web to a whole new level of convenience and aesthetics. http://www.shelfluv.com/ is an elegant example. Can you submit all the Instant search apps you have seen so far so that the HN community can vote the best up.

Bing has taken Instant search to a whole new level. Which other sites do you think can benefit from such Instantness?

What are the general techniques that make kick ass Instant effects... Eg:
1)The dynamic shelf in shelfluv,
2)The seamless transition from search page to search results in bing.
3)Faceted filtering in Bing, Hipmunk, http://milo.com/ etc.

Are you working on an Instant Something right now?
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Google handles email for many companies and even personal email accounts for people in a variety of jobs. Chance of some of that being insider information is pretty high IMO. Google also has a corporate search appliance that may be used in publicly traded companies too (I don't have a list of customers on hand).
The problem is that only 10% (or something) of programmers are any good. Not 10% in each language community, but 10% overall. When you put out an open position for Java, you are attracting everyone that knows Java -- Java is big for "programming as a career" because there are lots of certifications, and it's mandatory for all college students. So that 10% isn't going to apply to Java, it's going to be 99% people looking to advance their career (read: collect money for clicking buttons in Eclipse), and 1% of people that are actually good at programming.

(Honestly, my resume claims I know Java. I do. But I would not be a good fit for your position because I hate Java with a passion. Even though I might interview well and be interested in collecting your huge salary, that just means I am advancing my career, not being a good programmer. And that's what you don't want, but what the word "Java" encourages.)

If you pick a less popular language keyword to search on, though, you might get better results. We added the keyword "Scala" and got a lot better resumes. Nobody learns Scala because they think it's "good for their career". They learn it because they like programming. That's who you want to hire. (Incidentally, this does make it good for your career.)

I've found that this works in a variety of language communities; C++ is popular in industry, so ask for C instead. Java is popular, so ask for Scala instead. OO Perl is popular, so ask for Moose instead.

This is not as good as knowing who you want to hire and just asking, but in a field with 1000s of landmines, you want to minimize your chance of blowing your leg off. Yeah, you are going to eliminate a lot of great Java programmers when you search only for Scala. But the people that you do interview are a lot more likely to be good at programming.
Try using haXe for your JS code. The syntax is extremely close to AS3 and you'll get the static types and classes back, as well as lots of other nifty stuff.

IDE support is still kind of lightweight, but there are several options out there: http://haxe.org/com/ide

I use Geany, because I only really need context-sensitivity, highlighting, and search+replace.
For example, clipperz en-/decrypts in the browser and not on the server.
It was clear from the beginning that Diaspora would have problems — they were a handful of NYU students just learning to program who'd never shipped anything before, starting from scratch on a white-elephant project that several other groups had been working for years on. When they were forced by their schedule to release something a month ago it had more fundamental security vulnerabilities than features!

Had they not taken donations none of would have cared that they'd released a totally unviable social network Rails app licensed under the AGPL. Kickstarter did them a great disservice by raising $200,000 instead of their goal of $10,000 and swamping them with the publicity to match. The expectations were far higher than they could possibly meet.

Kickstarter sure got a lot of marketing out of it though (and a $10,000 fee)
And then when they find it, they don't want to pay for it.
It's really quite simple. Once an open protocol is established and popularized, then social networks are just software that connect into the distributed network.

Think of it in terms of SMTP and e-mail. Mail providers come and go, but nobody has to move email providers because all their friends changed emails.
The strange thing about this article is I read the first patch of job descriptions and I thought you were poised to make fun of them

Me too. This bit could describe the local transit system: "We’re profitable, make the lives of hundreds of thousands of people better every month, have a rapidly expanding user base, and napping is an encouraged part of our corporate culture."

Maybe I'm unusual, but my idea of a perfect job posting is one which says something about the job. Don't write platitudes about how you're looking for people who think outside the box; say "we think the most exciting thing in the world is designing algorithms to target advertising better, and that's what you'll be doing if you get this job".
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First of all, this market would never hire a copy writer. They would throw some of their own words together. Hell, I don't even think this market knows what copy writing is.

You illustrated an excellent point though: It took 3 hours to teach someone how to use a "teach yourself" product. Amazing!
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and how did it manage to become so powerful? The countries it dominated didn't quake in fear of its mercantilist policies. It was the guns. And it was the trade that their manufacturing made possible and the rule of law that made it successful entrepreneurship possible.

And yes, it all eroded away. It wasn't the loss of the colonies, but the loss of the things that gave it the ability to project its power in the first place.
Well, even long ago, a lot thought 640KB ought to be enough for everybody. ;)

[although mis-attributed - but nevertheless makes a good joke].
> Do you know many people who say: "I won't run C applications because they are vulnerable to buffer overflows."

Unless your C program takes in input from advertisers and posts from people on the internet, I don't think that's a valid comparison.

Also, you say "very unlikely" but these attacks happen all the time. Most of them don't make the news, but they're pretty much an every day affair.
If access is rescinded, that user loses access to view that data.

And if the user has a script that saves all the data they momentarily had access to, what happens? I mean, I'd do that since I expect continued access to any data I get. I don't think that makes me "evil".

The whole thing seem ridiculous. If you have 500 different messages for 500 different people, send them each an encrypted email and be done with it. If you're sending the same message to 500 people, the chances that you'll be able to rescind it seem negligible. I mean, for 500 people not to share a message either 1. It's very boring enough they wouldn't bother, 2. They are really tight with you somehow, 3. They're part of a very tight, well managed organization. But none of this can be controlled by software.

If a node is just supplying information transport, that is different and encryption works and is intended for that situation. But thinking there's a way to send information to your friends to read and somehow force them to keep it secret seems ten times as preposterous of earlier "trusted platform" end-to-end DRM schemes.

Am I missing something? Tell me.
Just because they are obviously calling it "Lion" doesn't mean it wont be just another iterative update (Although it might not). Look at iTunes 10. They had the chance to do something huge with revision number 10 (like make it work on Windows!) but it was just another version of iTunes with a horrible icon and Ping!
Hmm, if AOL and Yahoo somehow did merge, that would mean Techcrunch would belong to Yahoo.

Would TC still trash Yahoo in their articles?
Same as with layoffs, big corporations can use the "global financial crisis" to scale back OSS work if there only motivation was to not look like the bad guy.
There might not be tenure in it, but there's certainly a lot of citations around for well written tools. The license to use them often requires citation in related work.
There should be a "This is free, stop and think about that" equivalent to LMGTFY that you (and others) can use as a response.
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I had the idea to build a photo mosaic program rolling around in my head for a while, and was looking at a handful of languages to use for it, as a fairly recent college grad. I did look at Java, since there's a lot going for it on an abstract level. However, I looked at step one (Read in a bunch of images and scale them down so they fit in memory) and naturally blew the stack. So I was left with two choices:

1. Learn how to micromanage Java's garbage collector so it actually freed images I'm done with...

2. Use a language that manages memory directly: http://github.com/lukeschlather/ImageWeave

For less ambitious projects, I use PHP (if off-the-shelf solutions exist) and Python (if I need to build it.)
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Like most articles, I only read the HN comments, that's where the good stuff is – not in the articles themselves. For this kind of articles, anyway.
No, the scientific method is fundamental to scientific endeavor. Everything else is just gravy.

A man working alone is doing science, he's just not benefiting society as well as he might. Science isn't "pushing the bounds of human knowledge." Science is forming hypotheses and testing them empirically. When kids drop two objects of different weights to see which falls faster, they're doing science just as much as Galileo was, despite the fact that their findings will never get published.

What a researcher does doesn't magically become "science" when he publishes. It's science all along. If she does it in a cave for years before she publishes, it's still science for all those years she was in her cave.

Children who perform experiments that have been done a million times before are still being scientists.

People who perform experiments but never get published are still scientists.

Science is about the process, it's not about the result.
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And how did THE Telco get that way? Why the government gave it a monopoly. I'm not sure I would hold that up as an example of enterprise. More like the-entire-country-is-captive enterprise.

If the government hadn't established AT&T as a monopoly, we would've had more innovation. Somebody would have tried to send faxes decades earlier if it were legal to plug your own equipment equipment into the wall.
It could, it could also hit you with people who expect you to drop everything, even if exams are on or assignments are due. Not saying this doesn't happen on the low end to but you can at least say to decent people that your lowering the rates to have more flexibility.

I come across a guy with the same sort of attitude when I first started, occasionally hit up hes website to see if it ever went anywhere after I realized the work was dead end, it didn't.
What's the feature you expect the most in Lion ?
The URL for this item points to my lightly hacked version, but the real thing is at http://www.quasimondo.com/StackBlurForCanvas/StackBlurDemo.h... . (I just made it update when the slider moved, instead of requiring a button press, so that I could see how FF4 beta did at maintaining interactive perf with it.)
These coupon codes aren't the same as the ones from iTunes. These are generated by TapZilla and redeemed within the app itself so that it can inform us which user from our service downloaded the application.
Only x86, though. x64 isn't there yet. http://arewefastyet.com/?machine=4
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The page would be regenerated on each new comment, of course.

Votes should be done the same way friends' lists are: on the client side, via javascript. The cached page with its comments would include Javascript to grab the most current scores for all its posts (one request) and modify the DOM appropriately.
There's just no way AOL can buy Yahoo. It's impossible.

YHOO: 20.56 billion

AOL: 2.70 billion

Plus AOL is not doing well. They are losing 20-30% of revenues every year for the last 4 years.
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So his problem is, basically, that his software is too good...?
One possible takeaway from these graphs is the urgent need for better JavaScript benchmarks. Both SunSpider and the V8 benchmarks are sets of microbenchmarks and the difference between them is enormous: JM+TM is significantly faster than plain JM on V8 but is a little slower on SunSpider. The fact that the conclusions can vary so greatly among these two (both deeply flawed) benchmark suites suggests that the true "real-world" performance of the engines is all but entirely unmeasured. Which loads Gmail fastest? That would be a step in the right direction.
> if it was AGPL, we wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

And so you wouldn't participate in the developer's disgust. All positive to me. AGPL FTW.
That's absolutely true. Rather than give up copyright, it's now very slowly turning to releasing stuff under open licence, the Open Government Licence (OGL): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/uk...
Agreed. After reading the first job description, I know almost nothing about the company or the product. I feel the opposite from his rant about that description.

The second job description (once you read the full thing) is actually quite reasonable. They describe their product, responsibilities, their financing, company size, languages in use, etc. It's not stellar, but it's far from bullshit.
Don't "they" know that the Appleseed family is very litigious?
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In a nutshell.. user contributed content, original content, good SEO, and monetize on views. It pretty much takes care of itself with little effort. If you look at what stackexchange they pretty much commoditized the tech.
Alternative hypothesis is that many highly qualified technically but not adept at office politics (or other soft skills) people might be let go. These highly skilled people might just stay in "basement" and produce FOSS because of their idealism and lack of other options.

In other words, instead of kissing ass in the office they would rather produce kick ass software on their own.
Just for kicks,

Let me ask how a project like this could provide possibly any more privacy than a situation of a group of people who each having a mailing list with which they email messages to their friends?

Seriously.

Maybe I'm not thinking clearly tonight but I can't see any plausible way to provide "more security" than the security of deciding what message to send to what friend. Am I missing something.

-- I mean, you just aren't going to keep your friends from forwarding your messages. They'll video-type to screen if they need to. You might decide not to forward them more messages but that's different.