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You're right about the Google-like design, but to be fair it's been done for a long time for Apple software as well.
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Fair point... This is being fine tuned before printing.
And this is why it is critically important for there to be a way to have an X server on Android so that we can use Android devices to serve up remote display/input sessions, i.e., access client applications running on virtually any OS and any hardware.
Just launched something different (well, not aimed at the HN crowd). Actually one of my better performing sites. It's an iPhone Gossip Browser which builds off our automated news feed aggregation platform.

http://gossipbucket.com/app
I have personal goals. I want to have all of my personal startup debt paid off by the end of next year (as I absorbed a lot initially and didn't pay it off when I should've, more fool me). I want to start paying off heavy chunks of my mortgage immediately afterwards. I'd like to fork() in the next year or two. I want to lose at least another 8 kilos before the end of the year.

I used to spend ages working on my business plan, updating it and so on. It was about 30 pages at one point. Then I realised that actually it was all fiction, except for that which already happened. So instead of planning I have a general idea of what we're doing and where we're going for the next quarter, six months and year in less detail the further you get out, and I use the information we get from sales, customer feedback and other areas to tweak the outline plan. There are no figures in the outline plan. They're worthless.
Not sure why this isn't getting in to the Ask section...?
That's looking at it the wrong way. Look at the percentage of immigrants who are creating jobs, not the percentage of job-creaters who are immigrants. Or net jobs created by immigrants. Or something.
No-one wants to hire someone who won't work in a language they see as "beneath" them. The author even goes onto mention F#[1] and CUDA in the next sentence as examples of what he considers cutting edge.

[1] A major project of Simon Peyton-Jones, who in his spare time is a leading light in the Haskell community
I have a BA too, so your comment is interesting to me even though I have a somewhat dissenting perspective.

To begin with, "the arts" (defined as anything you can get a BA in) is a wide, wide field. At my university, a BA is often a less rigorous degree option in fields that also offer BS degrees. You can't talk about BA's generally--they range from various instances of "Identity Politics: The Major" to pretty tricky stuff, like philosophy, which at its highest levels is comparable to advanced mathematics.

Philosophy has a lot of intellectual content that's difficult for people to grasp, because you're basically taking raw logic and using it to blow up fundamental parts of people's belief systems. Getting people to take the skeptical argument seriously is an ordeal in itself, much less coming up with intelligent responses to it. Even after you get past tricks like that, it's a rough slog reading philosophy. Analytic philosophy, which is exceptionally rigorous, is about as difficult to read as mathematics; other philosophy is even more difficult if it has any meaning at all.

Philosophy actually exercises most of the same muscles as math and CS, in my experience; learning to think of counterexamples as you write general statements is a skill you pick up in all three contexts. Counterexamples in philosophy fill largely the same role as test cases in software development--any attempt to define "knowledge" in the past half century has had to contend with Gettier's famous counterexample (http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html) which sunk Plato's millennia-old definition.

In terms of contemplating the human condition? If I had to manage actual people, I'd look for a psychology or anthropology grad, and both of those can be had as BS degrees. One of the coolest (and most useful!) things philosophy ever gave us was empiricism, and so far, psychologists and anthropologists are the ones applying empiricism to humans in the contexts most useful for something like running a company. But actually, I don't know if formal education helps at all with management. If I was going to hire a political leader with vast amounts of power, I sure as hell want someone who understands history. (And I'd hire a poli sci major to manage his campaign, naturally.)
I apologize. I've removed the offending words. My argument stays.
What sort of tech job are you looking for ?
A short history of the Tea Party:

It was started as a libertarian-minded movement with a Ron Paul flavor to it. Initially, the right- and left-wing mainstream media were unsure of how to cover the Tea Party. Their ideology of libertarianism was foreign to the two-party landscape, and the movement had no visible leader.

Eventually, the Tea Party gained enough momentum that non-libertarian politicians (most notably Sarah Palin) saw it as politically useful and started speaking at rallies. These politicians were not libertarians, however; most were neo-conservatives. They echoed some of the familiar Tea Party rhetoric, only what was politically palatable and made sense to the two-party world. The rest of the libertarian ideology was thrown in the trash.

Because of her familiarity to the public, both sides of the media identified Palin as the de-facto leader of the Tea Party. Her ideology replaced the movement's. The complex story of a decentralized, leaderless, libertarian-inspired grassroots uprising was replaced by the simple story of Palin leading a bunch of people who hate Obama.

Of course, you are what the media says you are. The rallies themselves began to draw more and more Palin crazies, after they were told it was her movement. Those are the people you see on CNN holding up the often-racist, always-illogical signage.

And that's how the Tea Party went from enlightened to bigoted.
I'd go back and tell myself "Apply apply apply!" Seriously, if something doesn't make sense, find a way to put it in a context that you understand! My biggest challenge in school was just figuring out how to apply the things I was learning to myself and my own problems. Once I actually started using some of the stuff I was learning to further my personal projects it was like stepping on an express train, I made so much more progress, and did so much faster than when I was simply trying to memorize what I was being told.

Also, I'd tell myself not to miss that date with that cute blond. "Dude, you're going to marry her someday and she'll never let you forget that you stood her up on your second date."
Yes, but that's the fitness function you want to maximise (i.e. the end result you will get with each "individual"). I'm saying that you might want to use heuristics in maximising that, rather than a GA.
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Maclean's also has an article about this:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/01/umanitoba%E2%80%94phd-dip...
"The rest just want to forget about whatever is going on in their lives and get high. Why can't people just admit the truth?"

Many people consuming alcohol are doing so for similar reasons.
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the concept is interesting but i doubt it'll catch on. for reasons similar to why dvorak didn't.

using this will require a learning curve, which will mean substantially slower, more frustrating use before your typing becomes faster. and for most of the masses, immediate expediency is preferred. most people will likely switch back to normal keyboards before they actually successfully learn to type on this.

as a side note, i love swype. its similar to this, and doesn't have the same "relearning how to type" issue.
Some people may follow the money for pre-IPO stock options, but those are exactly the kind of people you don't want. They are in for the money and will jump ship at the next perceived opportunity to strike it rich.

Most people change jobs because they want a new challenge. They want to build something new, or do something they haven't done before. The fact that stock options are part of the deal is frosting on the cake.

In the case of high profile startups with multi-billion dollar private valuations, the upside potential at IPO may be pretty limited anyway. Stock options are always a gamble. In this environment of limited IPOs they are a big question mark.
omg my mailbox is, once again, full of facebook joining requests ! :)
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Reservv | http://www.Reservv.com (11/22/2010)

A self-service web application for companies to manage appointments online. Customers can view a calendar of open appointment dates/times, reserve appointments, cancel appointments, and receive reminders by email/phone. No monthly fee. Pay by usage (number of emails sent/phone calls made).
There are a lot of interesting jobs open in the UK. Startuply has a fair few, as does the cufp job board. Language specific job boards (haskell, erlang etc) are also useful. The best method I found is to watch videos from conferences (cufp, erlang factory) and look up the speakers employer if you find the talk interesting. That's how i found my last full time job in London, building a prediction market in erlang.

Even if a given company don't advertise open positions its still worth inquiring. Good developers are hard to find.
[bingo cards] is not a huge fraction of my business (4%ish) -- [bingo card creator] (with both brand & generic intent), [bingo card maker], [make your own bingo], [custom bingo cards], yadda yadda yadda, and then I start getting longtail searches from about a thousand activities which cover most of what an elementary school teacher could want in a lesson plan. Obviously, most of them don't contribute a sale in any particular month -- heck, 80% of them have yet to contribute a sale ever -- but the aggregate economics work out to staggeringly efficient. This is one of my Big Ideas, see the greatest hits section on my blog for it done to death several times over.

Every reason people have for buying bingo cards in September is a reason to buy bingo cards in October, plus the various promotional activities, plus my AdWord spend goes vertical after around October 15th.

Normally, my AdWords performance is constrained by inventory: I could literally buy every click available for sale from Google for the keywords I care about at prices which make sense to me. When I don't bork the heck out of my conversion codes, I'm also inventory-constrained during Halloween, but inventory levels are much higher than usual.
Why would bright folks in the US leave the comfort and familiarity of their home to work elsewhere in the US? Or if you think that's a false analogy then keep in mind that there are plenty of European, Kiwi, Aussie, Canadian etc. immigrants to US as well.

There are plenty of reasons to leave the country you are born in, and not all of them implies that you had it worse before. Wanting to get away from comfort and familiarity is in itself a reason to emigrate.
I will be launching http://lotaar.com

Lotaar is a TV/Radio guide that rminds you when your favourite programs are about to go live.
I use swype now and am extremely happy with it. I can't imagine this would be any better than it. With swype, I can enter n characters with a path of at most n vertices, with this thing, it seems I need to create n differently-sized arcs. Swype also has zero learning curve, assuming you know qwerty, because you can use it as a touch keyboard by default.

It's not clear if the finger needs to be removed between letters (but I doubt it does). This would worry me.
> When Google decided that cellphones needed an open option to keep carriers and developers honest, Apple reacted vociferously against this perceived incursion into their territory.

I thought the reason they were upset was that Google was substantially "inspired" by design choices that Apple pioneered (or at least popularized). I don't think it's solely about defending the smartphone market.
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Here are five things that the truly unlucky have found in food.
You can "challenge" me all you want but that still doesn't justify you or others downvoting my comments ;-) And it's just not three downvotes because I was up 6 at some point.

I worked briefly in the pharmaceutical industry and it taught me a few things about the level of testing and knowledge labs have about the pills that you compare to coffee. There has been much more research about coffee (which I remind you I don't drink either because I know of its side-effects) than there has been about the neural enhancers you kids take. You want to believe it's OK. Go ahead but don't blame me for saying it makes no sense to me. And you are right, I am not willing to put much more time into going in details on this. Too busy and the topic is really so off the charts to me that I am pretty sure of myself here.

I have heard so much of the same non-sense pseudo-chemistry from all the people advocating for one drug or another for their wellbeing. The argumentative here really sound of addiction. So I challenge you to explain in bio-chemical terms why these drugs are as harmless as coffee. Good luck!
My biggest problem is pushing into an army backed up by a planetary fortress. I think I need to wait for the Terran to push out more and then destroy his army in the field or drop into his main. Pushing the front of a Terran base is suicide.
Key problem?

Commit 5 billion dollar to a 'frozen' business plan, that will take years to execute, while the world changes under your feet. You know there's no room for iteration, so you don't pay heed to whats going on until you've burned all the cash.

Bliss in ignorance that was by design because of the nature of the business plan.
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. The fact that they are well-credentialed does not excuse the fact that the study in question just flat-out isn't science. It's not reproducible without getting the same group back in a room together, it's based on subjective opinion or subjective interpretation of objective data, and it compares legal substances to illegal substances without offering a principled way to control for the effects of that regulation.

Do you really think the Lancet wants to get caught publishing highly controversial rubbish ("link bait")?

Um, The Lancet frequently publishes controversial articles. They published (and later retracted) a paper that claimed a link between vaccines and autism, they put out one of the highest death-toll estimates of the Iraq War, and they've called for a complete ban on tobacco products in the UK, to name a few.
You're mistaken. The metabolites of seratonin, in excess, are neurotoxic. MDMA works a vesicular releaser, flooding the space between cells with the neurotransmitters that make you feel good. As the brain metabolizes the recently released flood, waste is produced. The brain can healthfully handle a certain level of waste, but beyond a certain level and you risk cellular death. However, this suggests that low doses of MDMA may not pose a significant risk.

This is how it was explained to me during my "Drugs and Human Behavior" class 5 years ago at Drexel.
One time I met a guy that had a dating site for people in Rio de Janeiro that was only for hot or rich. All the people had to be pre-approved by the rest of the members to get in. If not approved you could pay something like 500$ to get in.
I wonder if it's still around.
Topguest - San Francisco, CA (on-site strongly preferred, will cover relocation for strong candidates)

We're a location-based offers provider for the travel industry. Early stage, but comfortably funded.

Looking for generalist engineers to work across web and mobile apps, third-party integrations and ops.

Professional experience with Ruby or Python will be highly regarded. Overwhelming desire to build + ship is critical. Autodidacts welcome.

ozan@topguest.com
This looks pretty neat! I worry that the repeated circles that seem to be involved will lead to some joint stress issues in the thumb that's doing it, though. I'll find out tomorrow...

I feel like this has a potential for use without looking that Swype doesn't; it only relies on hitting one big target rather than precisely and fluidly hitting a bunch of small ones.
My resume is a website/page, how exactly do I submit that in this resumator thing? Reformatting a website as DOC/DOCX/PDF is a bit absurd.
I am all for empowerment and making devs productive, but taking it to an absurd level (making devs push code to production one day one) is not good.

Making employees feel empowered is much more than one day show. Hopefully, its going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
Choose the domain first and then the language. Decide what type of programming do you want to do and what type of company do you want to work for. Then choose the biggest or hottest language / framework in that domain.

Do you want to do science and R&D? Then maybe Matlab, R, OpenCL/Cuda? Finance? Maybe F#. Big Data and statistics? R, Hive, Scope, Pig, Cascading, DryadLinq, Clojure. Web front-end? Javascript. Web back-end? Javascript, Python or Ruby. Mobile? Objective-C or MonoTouch. Games? Lua. Etc, etc.
Sent my resume over this morning.
This isn’t relevant to HN. See the HN FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
For example, their rental policy for video is horrible. I have just stopped renting because I never finish anything. How is it that Amazon can have a strictly superior policy, but Apple's sucks?

Is this 100% on Apple though? I know there was some hoopla awhile back before variable pricing came into play where the RIAA allowed Amazon to set lower prices than Apple with their goal being to get Apple to bend to their demands on pricing. Apple wanted to keep everything at 99c, but the RIAA wanted tiers and finally got what they wanted.
I think the Iridium situation in 1990 was a limitation of silicon chips. Moore's Law pretty much guarantees that a problem caused by limitations in silicon will be transitory problems.

In the case of the iPhone, there was a lack of innovation. The silicon of the day was up to the task. It's just that nobody had a product like the iPhone. The closest you'd find would probably be a Blackberry.
"The only lesson I can think of here is don't finance a project that's going to cost a lot and take a decade to implement, because there's a good chance that technology will make it obsolete by the time you launch."

I think the lesson is to be continually re-evaluating the project to see if your assumptions still make sense given the current state of the market. This would be especially true for multi-year projects. It's basically the fallacy of sunk costs.
Probably because changing the actual prices on the board is a Big Deal; they probably paid at least six figures to devise the exact pricing scheme they have. Rounding pennies at the register on the other hand is not a big deal; nobody should care.
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Considering that the author of the article is the CTO of the company, I don't think we can take the title as a mistaken assumption.
For those who missed the other thread.. There were many jobs posted (though primarily non-remote positions): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855569
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They do, often through places like TopCoder, but it's a very expensive way to recruit (not because of prizes but in terms of the amount of employee time taken to run these things and the risk of it not paying off).

The average BigCo already spends in the region of 10-20k per candidate hired, running a graduate recruitment campaigns is an expensive business, so return on investment is an important factor.
The size of the volume discount (up to 60%) is pretty surprising. If they're making any money at 5.5 cents/GB then they must be making a lot of money at 14 cents.
I wish everybody would do this.
Swype seems a lot more likely to take off than this. Anyone else think that the finger in their video seemed to move at superhuman speeds? Seems like a lot of finger motion for each character.
When I first started up I worked 80-120 hour weeks, busting my backside off to the detriment of my friendships and even my marriage. I decided one day that enough was enough. There had to be a better way. I'm still looking for it but it's rare you'll see me bust over 60 hours a week at the moment.

The two most important things in your life are your time and the company you keep. Time is the most valuable resource, you only have so much and you're not able to get any extra, so what you do now with your time is gone. Once you recognise that you will hopefully start to optimise your time, not as an organised obsessive, but with a basic understanding of the value of your time. I'll pay extra for certain things that others won't, because my time is more valuable to me than it is to them. My mum takes the bus to see her sister, it's about 7 hours by bus. I take the train, so that I can go up on a Friday and work on the train and lose no time, or I'll fly up.

Your relationships are closely tied to your time. Perhaps the two people you know the best - your parents - will only be around while you're young. At some point they're not going to be here anymore and the time you spend working all the hours $deity sends is time you could've spent with them and you'll wish you did afterwards. The same goes for your significant other. They should be your closest friend. I try to spend as much time as I can with my wife, sometimes to the detriment of friendships. The simple reason is that I'll only have another 30-60 years or so with her, and anything that eats into that time better had be extremely valuable. I still try to see my friends as often as I can, but I'm fortunate to have so many friends that I can't always see everyone.

You can have it all, you just have to prioritise. Sometimes the things you slave over, no matter how much you may enjoy it are not necessarily the most important thing. I'm reminded of an oft-misquoted quote from Richard P. Feynman sent to a Mrs Chown after her son wanted a birthday note thinking it'd help him when he tried explaining scientific things to her:

"Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough."
With Wave getting the axe, I'm sure he could have easily moved on anywhere internally that he wanted to... If he really wanted something new, with a taste for social, Google, I'm sure, could have benefited from his talent in their latest social efforts.

So, I don't think it was for a new challenge. I think that door has been WIDE open to him for around a month now.
Fantastic idea! Now all I need is a motion charged mouse.
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you can probably just send a link in a cover letter
A work permit for the US is not necessary. We recently sponsored an engineer who is currently working with us!
The Tea Party is interesting as a grass-roots movement. They started off fairly ignored, then they were noticed and ridiculed, and finally regarded with alarm. They are now in the phase of being co-opted by personalities.

But there isn't much clear policy that binds them together.

I find the fear-mongering towards them to be silly. This is the face of democracy, and it is rather telling to see who finds this threatening.
When Arrington's on as a writer, he's on.
Also, here are some screenshots of designs I tested for the frontpage: http://drop.io/frkcsbx
I'll launch http://socialgrapple.com/

Track anyone's Twitter social graph over time.
I launched http://tekbob.com :)