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Ask HN: features you'd love in a hiring app?
I'm thinking about creating a hiring app. Do you hire people? If so, I would love to hear about your process, and about the parts that you would like to see automated. Hiring is painful, I'd like to make it just a little easier. I'm especially focusing on people hiring for web product teams, ie. hire designers, devs, ...
Short note on Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
I want a CR-48, Google Chrome OS laptop.
Well, voluntarily running a remotely controlled DoS tool isn't hacking or even scripting.
Additionally, I'd love to hear from people who I can contact personally to discuss their hiring needs :)
I'm busy playing with other things on EC2 right now. :-)
What would you like to achieve with that ?
edit: You're right there is a landing page.
I upvoted you for the insight, but I disagree.
Even some geek friend of mine has defined anon's DDOS as a "revenge of the hacker culture". I think it doesn't hurt to remind people that 4chan is to hackers what a tagger is to banksy.

As for the sterility of the discussion around the world hacker, I don't see anything bad with it. In fact I find much more ridiculous the new fashion that anything is hacking. Hack your brain, hack your coffee, hack your wife and hack your dog.

To be honest, I even dislike the definition hacker for someone who is "simply" an outstanding programmer but that's borderline, I recognize it.
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"In 1976, still back in the USSR, I got a very serious case of food poisoning from eating raw fish. While in the hospital, in the state of delirium, I suddenly realized that the ability to add numbers in parallel depends on the fact that addition is associative. (So, putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.) In other words, I realized that a parallel reduction algorithm is associated with a semigroup structure type. That is the fundamental point: algorithms are defined on algebraic structures."

This has got to be one of the best outcomes of sickness in computing history!

I love STL, it's the major reason I stick with C++ rather than switching to Java et al. It is extremely well thought-out and most algorithms have clear complexity guarantees. I think it forms an example that libraries in other languages should strive for.
What's an AP teacher (for us forriners)?
As a female, I occasionally address my other female friends as 'gentlemen' when in a group to illicit laughter. We find it amusing, and have no problem being addressed as gentlemen. Take back the night etc?
Techcom Mobiles Price India; Techcom Launches 7 Dual SIM Handsets In India
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Just use the print friendly version of it.
Please mind your words. Every kind of multivariate testing requires you to theoretically have data for every combination. In partial factorial or taguchi methods you simply estimate it from other live combinations. This doesn't mean you don't need data for all combinations.

Moreover, this article's intended audience is beginners. If you know about full and partial factorial audience, you probably know main differences between A/B testing and multivariate testing.
> They won't stop to try and puzzle out "dihydrogen monoxide"

If someone has basic scientific literacy, they won't need to stop to puzzle it out, it'll be immediately obvious.

If someone doesn't have basic scientific literacy, they shouldn't be in a management position in an organisation dealing with scientific matters.
While we're at it we should throw out foreign companies who create jobs here. Toyota, Honda, and BMW all have plants in the US...oh wait
Even if I accepted the left side of your first graph, the right side tells me that intelligence continues to fall monotonically during the final burnout of the community. It's just as likely that average intelligence would start to rise again (especially given the basic quality of the archives of the community) and so you'd see a damped oscillation finding some equilibrium.

And in fact, I'd argue that equilibrium has been reached, and is high, here at HNN, as well as at other fora here and there (Making Light being a great example, or PerlMonks.org). There are, in fact, smart communities that don't get overwhelmed.
I don't really see why the rate of productivity should matter as much as the absolute value of productivity in regards to distribution of wealth.

I agree the American suburban lifestyle is and will continue to decline as it just simply is not sustainable. These will be the new ghettos as more and more poor are pushed out of the cities into the now decaying suburbs.

As to why American productivity would rally, I can only imagine vast advances from nano and bio-tech and machines that build other machines.
And how they cope with immigration.

German law states that people who help, instigate, prolong or support the stay of an illegal immigrant can be penalized. That means that doctors, nurses and other hospital staff is required to report people to the authorities when the illegal status of an immigrant seeking medical help. The medical profession opposes this rule that is a lot stricter than in many other european countries, where help can be given to aliens without revealing their identity.
I want very badly a '79 Yamaha SG2000, but have decided to spend the money ($1700) on charitable donations instead. I have led an exceptionally lucky life and this is as good a time as any to spread some of my good fortune around.

Personally, I want vinyl records (Dischord is re-releasing their catalog!) and a weekend away from the startup with my girlfriend.
Nobel Committee Awards Peace Prize to Jailed Chinese Dissident
Netflix Cloud Architect Adrian Cockcroft explains: http://blip.tv/file/4252897

slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-on-cloud-combined...
Is your operating system a girl?
"Netscape Time", by Jim Clark
I was trying to think of an example of a multinational company that many Americans think of as an American company. I believe Ford fits the bill.
> They can flourish by forcing US decline

I'm not sure how that would work out. US is a huge consumer pool and forcing its decline would damage everyone.
I recognized myself in many of those sentences. Great story.
Are you suggesting socialism as the answer to the issue?

I don't understand how in a place where we talk about building fortunes via startups and innovation, we also talk about stifling the very motivation for these companies to exist.

You do this, and suddenly every company moves overseas and chooses to pay taxes in another country, at which point we lose the possibility of jobs and the tax money that these companies provide.
Other articles about tcpdump:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983915 <- Repeat

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982509 <- Different

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=712395 <- Repeat

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=502898 <- Repeat
I have heard the same thing. Someone I know smokes rarely, but he plays chess online quite often. He tells me after every time he smokes (probably just one or two joints) his performance is noticeably worse for a week after. And this is from someone who just smokes maybe once a month if at all, daily smoking could impair your cognitive abilities a lot more. But then again this is all more or less anecdotes, still seems to be something about it though.
Wil Shipley used this image in a 2005 WWDC talk to rebut the claims that Cocoa developers weren't doing well:

http://i.imgur.com/Q9c13.jpg

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2005/06/student-talk-from-wwdc-20...
Lower than gasoline as a general rule. Once you get to butyl alcohol the differences start being minor.
Actually, I heard the bot computers were provided by volunteers. Regardless, the fact that the attacks affect those who have taken neither side, i.e. customers of the sites being targeting, I still feel the behaviour is immoral, not to mention the fact it makes it easy for the anti-wikileaks guys to denounce the argument for wikileaks as that of 'computer criminals', etc.
I've asked the same question of my friends at http://www.bestgifty.com

So far the best suggestions I've received has been
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You could almost make a rule that any comment that had a high profile user's name in (including pg) should get some kind of karma deduction.

Don't get me wrong, some of these comments are very good, but way too many people vote up celebrity instead of content.
If you live by the sword you should not be surprised if you are either hurt or killed by other people's swords.
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I'll agree that most online communities seem to follow this pattern, but I'm not sure it's inevitable. There are at least a few community sites that (IMHO) have managed to maintain a high level of intelligent, polite discourse. MetaFilter comes to mind as an example as well as, so far at least, HN. Anyone else have other examples?
I would also like a NAS, but I haven't picked out a specific model.

I also want a PC Engine LT (http://cgi.ebay.com/PC-ENGINE-LT-rare-game-still-working-con...), but I can't really justify spending $600 on a toy I won't use that much.
I sadly have to agree with jd. Another way of seeing the article is that americans no longer contribute enough skills effort,value to the new economy to justify their lifestyle and that they should leverage taxes on the wealthy to compensate for that. I'm not rich, but I can see why this is not a winning proposition long term.
Advanced Placement (AP) courses in U.S. high schools are intended to be much more intensive than the "regular" courses. When done right they tend to make students better prepared for college coursework.
This theory elegantly explains the structue of one of the known planetary systems, but as far as I can tell forbids the structure of most other known planetary systems which contain at least one "hot jupiter". From a theory that relies on the impossibility of gas giants staying gas giants near a star, I'd expect some arguments as to why all the observed gas giants that are extremely close to their stars do not invalidate it.

Is this just a sloppy writeup, or do they really ignore that?
And oldy but a goody. I like to re-read it every couple of years or so; Stepanov is delightfully bonkers and clearly operating on a rarified intellectual plane that, with binoculars and on a clear day, I can sort of make out the general form of; but the interview is so well done that he comes across as nearly human.
I loved making Christmas lists as a child. I knew that the amazing and impossible things I asked for weren't always even possible but it's the only time of the year to ask!

For Christmas this year I want a suitable house to raise a family in.
Interesting. I must have missed the timeupdate events.

Seems someone has already implemented a nice player with sync'ing subtitles and slides: http://johndyer.name/post/HTML5-Video-Player-with-Slides-and...

This is cool! Thanks for the update!
There, precisely, is the problem. Not every nation can be like Germany. It's not possible for every nation to have an overall trade surplus. Being like Germany is not a solution.
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Attention has focused on three separate matters, each pending in the Spanish national security court, the Audiencia Nacional: the investigation into the 2003 death of a Spanish cameraman, José Cuoso, as a result of the mistaken shelling of Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel by a U.S. tank; an investigation into the torture of Spanish subjects held at Guantánamo; and a probe into the use of Spanish bases and airfields for extraordinary renditions flights, including the one which took Khaled El-Masri to Baghdad and then on to Afghanistan in 2003.

I didn't know about any of these cases in particular, but as an American I see nothing surprising (sadly) in the fact that the U.S. tried to obstruct these investigations. In two cases American acts are the target of the investigation. In the other case it is the acts of people helping the U.S. government, whom the U.S. has even more powerful incentive to protect. So I guess it was a surprise to Spaniards how much the U.S. was able to affect the investigations? I don't know enough about the Spanish justice system to know what standards to expect, but criminal investigations into another nation's actions in other countries (the first two cases) seem explicitly political to me anyway, hence naturally amenable to diplomatic "pressure."
Time to read some fiction books and spend time with the family and leave the digital world behind for a few hours
Oh, and the elimination of the null pointer and a relational database system NOT based on SQL. WHERE'S MY CLOSURE UNDER COMPOSITION?
This remark interests me: "except that OOP languages know to pass this for you".

In practice, i'm not seeing this. In that procedural example, you can pass in any input you'd like. Suppose the function in that example accepts an array. Now, inside the function, I have to devote a non-trivial amount of effort to determine if the array contains the type of data I'm expecting. And if I want that function to change the array for possible use later, I'll need it to return the array and I'll have to store that return.

Now, that array, implemented as an Object, is structured. Strongly typed. Even private properties with setters to enforce consistency.

And that procedure, implemented as a method on that object, needs none of the consistency and validation code at the top of the procedure. And it can make changes to the properties themselves without the need to pass around variables.

Sure, most of the benefit of OO is in the structure and organization it brings. But no, it's far more than, as you're making it sound, the compiler is passing around an implicit argument on your behalf.
And this was the main problem for us. Drupal's internals were a mess of multi-layered abstraction and unclear organization.

Wordpress's core code has some frustrating choices in it, but even I as primarily a non-developer have been able to find what pieces of code in the core are causing something to happen, and how to change them if needed.
For the love of the FSM... that is one of the most brain-dead ideas I've ever heard in my life. Gene Quinn is a complete tool. Where do they find these people??

Glad to see mises.org taking on the task of debunking this kind of silliness though.
Ask HN: Charging for niche app a money grab? 
I recently created a simple iPhone app that solves a small problem for a niche group of people of which I am a member. I posted on one of the community's main forums about this app (which I'm charging $0.99 for) and all I received were complaints of a money grab. It's not like this small niche of people would make me a millionaire from this one app.

How has it gotten to the point where you will be vilified for simply trying to get a small return on your work?

Within a small niche do you have to be a prominent leader to avoid this kind of animosity?
The energy a battery is storing, in the event of an electrical short, is converted into heat. More energy, more heat. It's tough to work around this basic proposition of thermodynamics.
I do believe it is important to correct it.

It depends on how you look at the words hacker and tech savvy. Tech savvy these days is anyone with enough common sense to know their way around the computer to accomplish tasks, it is just a matter of digging and googling now. So everyone in this forum is "tech-savvy". So then it is not a moot point because some assume the title of hacker when they have not even took one step inside of bash (I have lurked in the background while I read people speak about hacker being a flexible term that can be applied anywhere but then it becomes one of those metaphors - He was able to put together that item as savvy as a hacker with his tools not a different set of meanings). Hacker is now used for every and anything so the value in the word is lost. 1337 has become a big joke and more of a game play slang. HackerNews (change ay yc spotlight, entrepreneurship,politics,web design freelancing,life advice, jobs, apple, microsoft , app development etc etc.) ,Household Hacker , Hacker (the Movie) all watered down and sometimes misused version of the original meaning.

If hackerly means using tools without needing to know the inner workings then I guess that is one man's way to put it, because you will want to remove the boring repetitive sections of your method and make it automated (not having to resolve the problem every time). An other way would be to open things and observe until it is understood how it works.

You can also think of the a graphic designer being offended every time someone says they know web/graphic design because they got a pirated version of Photoshop and Dreamweaver online.

Or when people "hack" in games, they are using software that exploited the system. He (the original coder) has accomplished his task maybe even learned something new (about the registry , about game mechanics) along the way... The teenager on the other hand who acquired the software ends up just trying to feel like he is better than everyone else when in fact he has unfair advantage. No real "superiority" there.

Useless battle or not, it is a title the author prefers to keep as clean as possible (even if that puts him in a elite set)
> the overall feeling was one of intense mortality --- a dread of the eventual senility that will probably come with aging, and a realization that when it happens again it will likely be once and forever.

Reading about these kinds of things is exactly why I donate to organisations that are working on curing the diseases of aging (mostly http://www.sens.org). Nothing scares me more than slow decline and decrepitude.
I think that it is a bit premature to speak of an 'always' when we haven't had more than a few years of experience with any of this. It may take some time to get it right, and as long as the lessons from the failed communities stay learned there should be some visible progress.

HN is an excellent example of progress compared to those that came before. It almost certainly won't last forever but whether it succeeds or fails it has already raised the bar for what is possible considerably.
It is arguable that creating a very attractive environment for international corporations can actually make the problem worse - look at Ireland.
Outlook support for IMAP is extremely poor. It always has been.

I'm truly not one for conspiracy theories, but the fact that IMAP is barely compatible with Outlook certainly can't be hurting Exchange server sales.
I disagree; by the poster's definition, HN failed. It started out discussing technical items and startups, lasted for a while, and the topic has been completely diluted to "anything at all which is either new or interesting." In the words of the post, it has "pivoted to an off-topic focus." PerlMonks is a good example, though.

I agree that the presumed link in the post between topicality and "intelligence" is a strained one.
I just hate the kind of title the article uses. Don't write a question in the title, especially while making such a big prediction like that.

It's very Wired-esque.
"Finally makes it much more easy, and much more readable, to do the right thing."

I think this gets to the heart of what feels 'off' about PHP to me: this kind of passive-aggressiveness against "doing the right thing" seems built-in. Kind of like how in order to avoid XSS, PHP offers htmlspecialchars(), or to avoid SQL injection, mysql_real_escape_string() (I'm aware of PDO, but it seems few if any major projects use it).
Sounds like you meant that in some kind of snarky way, but absolutely yes. A thousand times yes.

I could care less about brand, whether from commenters or famous people in titles. Just give me good content. I don't come here to join some kind of fan club, either for authors or commenters.

And of course the reverse is true. We have folks purposely downvoting based on authors or commenters. Which is just as whacked.
So you're assuming Google is editing out the porn sites. I was assuming porn sites legitimately didn't make the page, and I was surprised by that.
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Yes, thanks for correcting the typo. I actually spelled it right a couple places but it's hard to see right now without my glasses.

> Also, he spends less words on the 'hacking' terminology issue in his piece than you do here and there is far more in the piece than just that

Well let's see...

The first and last sections are press bites about 2600 magazine. A little self-promoting, but I think they're more or less fair...gotta give background.

However, what's the very first topic brought up? ...that's right...complaints about the use of the word "hacker".

It's a topic Emmanuel has spoken about at length many times, and it's clearly a theme that permeates this press release, including sections not explicitly about it.

That's actually the problem: I feel it's counter-productive for his presumable goal of promoting the "good" hacker community, and also distracts from the good points made in the press release.

I think the rest of the points are great and more or less agree with them.
Got a kindle3 few days ago. Best decision I made this year.
As long as it's the rich who have the money to pay for increasingly expensive resources like gas, what's their motivation for moving away from the suburbs?
More than that, the editor of El País said [0]:

All in all, it's been the biggest story I've had in my
five years as editor of El País, without any doubt. And
measured by its international impact, it's probably the
biggest story this newspaper has ever been involved with.

He also mentions the impact in Latin America.

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/09/wikileaks-cables...
I think the general theory on Venus is that there was an impact with another body that caused it to start rotating the other way, albeit weakly.

Interestingly enough, astronomy textbooks don't usually refer to Venus as rotating the other way. Rather, they say that it is flipped 180 degrees, which as a result means it rotates the other way.
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You're just gonna have to try.
In light of wikileaks, his article is probably influenced by the large number of teenagers who's within grabbing distance of the law that subscribe to 2600 or attend meetings whose ideals are well intentioned but their implementation suck.

"Overall I'm inclined to agree that these shenanigans are likely unproductive, not difficult to do, and hard to support ethically....still, I think it's fair to say they fit the rather liberal rubric 2600 generally uses to judge what constitutes "hacking" or at least what belongs in a "hacking magazine."

DoS attacks have been introduced by 2600 from many many years ago. It's tired now. That's the point.
Ask HN: Anyone else get a CR-48 today?
I'm just curious if Google is still sending them out. I know a lot of people got them yesterday, but maybe a few people will get some today.

So anyone get one the day after?