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This is probably the impression (however wrong) that they're forming. I can't see how any sane company could see technical knowhow as a black mark, but "too technical" is a polite way of indicating they think your skill set is too narrowly focused on the technical aspects of the project.

Instead of downplaying your technical background, maybe you need to add more emphasis and examples of your experience in budgeting, managing stakeholder expectations, leading teams etc.
they keep their exact algorithm hidden

They didn't keep the exact algorithm hidden, they kept the whole algorithm hidden. They didn't even describe it in general.
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Where applicable, I use MS Visual Studio - applies "intellisense" to your JavaScript code and supports "step though" code debugging with access to variable values.
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None at all. I would prefer not be vague and indirect, but if he asks (and he does now and then since I gave a print interview regarding the G20 activities around our building) I can honestly say I did not name the company.
These are people who grew up in a rich country sure, and used every advantage they could. However, their daddies didn't fund their dreams. They only had the same resources that everyone on this board has.

Maybe, maybe not. I have had many advantages in my life mostly given to me by chance. My family is fairly wealthy. I attend an extremely and prestigious and expensive college which is paid for by my parents, leaving me with no student debt. Most importantly I have won a genetic lottery purely by chance. While most studies say that there is a very large component of environment in innate intelligence, most also say that there is a significant genetic component, both of which influence my testing in the 99th percentile of most standardized tests. Bill Gates seems to have had some similar advantages.

So, if my daddy does fund my dreams, does that make my hard work worth less?
Is curious, I've launched it after the one with few indexed pages :)
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Postmortem of the previous winner: http://a1k0n.net/blah/archives/2010/03/index.html

Shocking how similarly they begin.
Is something going on here of which I am not aware? Why do they both start so similarly?
>Any time I've done it, it's been out of cheapness. Why is it so hard to admit obvious truth?

Because that's not the truth for a lot of music pirates. When you have free, unlimited access, you're willing to try out a lot of stuff that you wouldn't actually risk good money buying at the record store. The reality is that very few people actually buy an album without first deciding they like the music and want to listen to it forever -- they simply receive the first hearing over public airwaves or a friend's recommendation and sampling instead of BitTorrent.

But many downloaders use BT as a sampling service and try out new music they'd never actually buy (at least, that's the idea when they first download the album), and by so doing introduce themselves to whole new genres, bands, etc., which gain their money in a variety of ways. Some may not purchase CDs for various reasons, probably foremost that CDs are a pain compared to a good torrent, but there are other revenue sources, like merchandising, concerts, etc.

AND, even if someone tries out an album and decides they don't like it enough to pay the band, there is still a net benefit to the band in that the music has been heard by someone who otherwise would have never heard it. For many bands just that is enough, but for those with more commercial orientations, this can lead to a lot of financial benefit, because you never know when this person will be riding in the car with a friend who puts on a similar album and say, "You know, I listened to band X's album, it sounds a lot like this, you might want to check them out."

The point is that there's really a lot of reason for both consumers and producers to be happy about filesharing. The 1:1 correlation of downloads to lost sales that media companies and their backers posit is really ridiculous, imo, and not remotely reflective of the real habits of the downloading populous.
I also love Haskell's syntax. It's very tasteful in most choices. Although my opinion of Python has gone down over the last few years, I still like its syntax, too. Especially the significant indentation, but I believe that Haskell has the slightly better mechanism, by defining indentation as a syntax sugar that you can avoid, if you want to.

OCaml's standard library is also quite dismal. At the recent meeting of the OCaml consortium in Paris we suggested creating a new extended standard library. (We will reuse Core and Batteries et al, of course.)

A co-worker and I are in the procss of writing a regular expression module that doesn't suck. It will be threadsafe and use poor OCaml---the module from the standard library calls C-code to run a backtracking bytecode interpreter with lots of mutable state.
Its a tribute, as he states in the first sentence that is his own. And links to a1k0n's post.
Great, I will call you in the evening.
So, if my daddy does fund my dreams, does that make my hard work worth less?

Just the opposite! I'd say your hard work will be worth far more than average :)
Since when has legality had to matter for hackers when hacking?
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Oh wow. I missed that completely. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't taken the indirect citation into account.
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A site with a sitemap, but nothing else (already ranked) linking to it would probably not get indexed.
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This is awesome.

They could have put the same message in two paragraphs of text and a bullet-point list, and I would have quickly glanced over it and forget it the same minute. Instead, I had a lot of fun reading each point, several times.

It's amazing how user experience IS the key.
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Hmm, the title isn't quite the wording on Adobe's page, and from the reactions so far should be qualified "for small values of decent"
I hope LastPass will help Xmarks to overcome its difficulties...
One day, Chinese central planners decided to do a city "right", from the ground up, complete with utilities, roads etc... all for 1 million people to live in it. Turns out, it's a ghost town:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1975397,00.htm...

A pretty ghost town nonetheless.
I think it's more appropriate to think of Instagram as similar to Twitter rather than MySpace. And once you do, the analogy breaks down.

Path is great for super personal stuff, and the 50 user limit is good for that. Instagram is more like Twitter, where you can take interesting photos and anybody can follow you.
Strictly speaking, yes. O-notation describes the growth of a function as the argument tends to infinity. Formally, the statement "f(x) is O(g(x))" means that there's some point x_0 such that f(x) is less than a constant factor times g(x) for any x > x_0.

This is clearly the case for f(n) = 1, g(n) = lg(n), hence the constant function is O(lg(n)).

An algorithm can be O of different g(x)s, depending on the properties of the input. For example, the runtime of a naive quicksort implementation (which always chooses the leftmost value as a pivot) is O(n^2) if the input list is sorted, while it has runtime O(n*lg(n)) on average and in the best case (where the pivot is always the median of the section of the list being partitioned).
I was actually going to include a reference to Twitter in the original post, but I edited it out of the final draft. Here's what I had written up:

>Twitter isn’t social networking, Twitter is blogging. Therefore, the “closed” social networking argument does not apply.

>With blogging you wish to share everything you can with the rest of the world. The same can be said for Twitter. The Twitterverse, like the blogosphere, is a place to go and get educated. In these two scenarios, an “open” system trumps any and all closed-systems.

>Remember, a social network provides no real value other than fulfilling a social need. The blogosphere and the Twitterverse provide much more.
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Hm. Not a lot of sites tell a story. This one does with a suited dark theme.
Really? I don't think that Apple has acted with such altruistic intentions. Certainly they're not just pumping out whatever they can to get more cash, but they're obviously working to make a profit.

If their number one priority was really to please the end-user, they'd be selling everything at cost, open-sourcing and giving away OS X for free, etc. People are generally greatly pleased when they can get cool stuff for cheap or free.

Apple wants to please their customers so much that Apple is deciding what apps their customers are allowed to use, because their customers are too stupid to correctly choose the application that works best for his/her needs. And if you attempt to circumvent this restriction, Apple will do everything in its power, technically and legally, to stop you from doing so.

Did Microsoft ever endeavor to do this? Personally, I find top-down control of the entire distribution channel more of a "platform lock-in" thing than encouraging the use of proprietary IE extensions.

It seems to me that Apple develops more to please Apple than to please end-users. The worship that Apple gets is so very silly, in my opinion.
Also, Telecom Greenland has a nice fiber cable running through Newfoundland-Greenland-Iceland-Scotland.
No bunker is really completely nuke-proof - even Cheyenne mountain had multiple SS-18s with single 25 megaton warheads targeted at it - it would not have survived.

You might survive a near miss or fallout in a bunker - but in the age of precision delivered and/or high yield bombs nowhere is 100% safe.
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What the fuck is wrong with your opinion generation mechanism? Ever heard of reason?
Nokia laid of people close to Cambridge, UK. We hired a few of them at Citrix.
Very interesting stuff. Is the source for the various bots posted anywhere? Is it even a requirement that you disclose your source or that it will be made public after the results are published?

I looked around but couldn't find any obvious place to find the source for the bots used.
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It would be great on long comment threads if I could tell which comments are new, possibly by changing the alpha slightly for newer comments (relative to the age of the post). If the change in alpha was very subtle it wouldn't be distracting and I could easily scan for new comments.
iTunes sells AAC, not MP3, as far as I know. My _opinion_ is that 128kbps AAC is about the same quality as MP3@V2.
I love architecture and interior space design.

Along similar lines is: http://www.thisaintnodisco.com/ which is one of my favourite sites to have a browse through when I'm pretending to have a real lunch. For some reason that escaped me though, a decent percentage of the users of thisaintnodisco think that making your office look like a strip club is their ideal solution (check #1 in best looking/most popular).
Unless you crash it.
This is more than braindead.
Arguably some of the material on Wikileaks violates Amazon's acceptable use policy. For example, you can't use Amazon services to host things that are violations of privacy.

It's also possible that some of the materials violate copyright, and so hosting it would violate Amazon's AUP. Works authored by government employees within the scope of their employment will be public domain so most of the material is probably OK, but is all of it?

Finally, under the law on the books, I believe it is illegal to make much of the material available, and hosting illegal content violates the AUP. (And could get Amazon in trouble). It is possible that under the Supreme Court decision in the Pentagon Papers case that the First Amendment would override that.

I say "possible" because it doesn't seem at all certain to me. That case was largely, I seem to recall, about prior restraint, and it was kind of a fuzzy decision.

Amazon just wants to host stuff. If there is some serious question over whether it is legal or not, I don't think they want (or should be expected to want) to be the ones to deal with that fight--that's for whoever wants to actually publish the documents.
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Given how much baggage the words "closed" and "open" have in software development, I'm not sure it's wise to use them as this article does - as stand ins for "public" and "private".
'Average Speed Cameras' in the UK use automatic number plate recognition technology. They 'read' your licence plate at set intervals and use that to work out how fast you're going on average, rather than at a single sample point like a traditional speed camera.

A few years back the police were agitating to get these cameras on every motorway and A road with a camera every half a mile.

The stated reason was specifically to allow tracking of vehicles after crimes had been committed, but everyone was suspicious that it was just to raise revenue by catching more people speeding and I think the scheme has been scaled back.
Did anyone here use one of those contraptions? Any thoughts?
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This is something I've come to take for granted using Erlang.
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As someone living close to you(Pune, MH), I think I can offer relevant advice:

First, realize - and I think you do already - that the days of the software tester are over. Only if you are working at the larger firms (read Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro) will your skills be called for in a full time context; even here, the scene is rapidly changing.

Second, PHP is very easy to learn and easy to produce something useful in. It is also in greater demand here than Python or Ruby. This will get you a job fast. Focus on core PHP5, learn to use Smarty, practise writing a few Joomla plugins and you will have a sellable skill.

Third: if you choose to go with PHP, get the ZCE certification. This will help you skip the technical rounds at several companies (This is not a good practise, but you sound like you need whatever you can get your hands on).

Fourth, learn MySQL to the point where constructing joins is second nature. If you want to, get the CMDEV certifications.

Fifth, learn HTML5 and CSS3; even if you don't use them alot at work(likely if you're working at a Joomla shop), knowing these will help you clear interviews. In any case, being ahead of the curve never hurt.

Sixth, and this is very important during a jobhunt: do not get desperate. Recruiters can smell desperation a mile away and will negotiate you down to a horrible wage if you let them. Don't. Also, make a point to distinguish between companies, and favor those that ask you tougher technical questions during your interview. You are likely to learn more from such a place.

Finally, if you must stick to testing, learn white box testing in any particular language(Java recommended) and/or learn Selenium thoroughly. There are still pockets around that hire skillsets like those.

Feel free to pass me a copy of your resume; I'll forward it to a friend I know who's doing reasonably well in the testing domain.

Good luck.
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Hehe, cool :)
But still I have no idea what this stuff actually does. Some encryption software? Maybe.
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Although there are many apps that let you keep list of things (workflowy, thingist, notational velocity for MAC) it lets you access lists right from search box.

With special syntax (<list name>.<item to add>) you can add items to existing list. Or access existing lists with <list name>. This <list name><dot><item> syntax is optional after first use.

Using it as default search engine is privacy safe and doesn't increase search latency.

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Ask HN: Anyone would like to team up? I have tons of unfinished projects.
I have many projects laying around, waiting for their heros to get them up and complete. They might not be the next biggest things, but might be fun.

Projects are based on python and django.

Some of them are:

1 - A social job listing board. Users can submit their ads for seeking jobs,
for employees, or about their services etc. My aim is to eliminate the sending
cv and waiting for a possible reply or having to struggle gazillions of cvs or
applications all stating that "the applicant is the best for that job" problems.

For that reason a dynamic questionairre system is provided where ad owners can
ask applicants to write code samples, essays, or answer some specific questions
to see if applicants fit their needs. I'm planning many other features, but need
to get it online first.
status: almost done, needs effort on design and bugfixes

2 - An open social bug filing system mostly for fun. you can file a bug on anything,
on your girlfriend, on god, on your cell phone, on your drink etc. Bug reports are
legit, though the content may not be :)
status: almost done, needs some work on features and design.

3 - A soc^H^H^H community based recipe & question & answer system for web developers
to improve their skills. The drill is that it provides a canvas based draw board
where users can quickly come up with a mockup of layout of the elements and ask
their questions, or provide sample css & html recipes on them. nothing big, but might be fun.
status: mostly done, needs design and some more work on draw board, bugfixes.

4 - Awesomelist. A very old project, where users share information about the things they find
awesome (or sucky?) in life which'll eventually build up a community(ha! no escape from communities).
might already been implemented a gazillion times.
status: uhm..uh.. don't remember where i left it.

5 - Pros & cons. Another old project. Listing page about the pros and cons on anything.
Most probably this idea also has been exploited to death, but you know oldies are goldies.
status: not really sure. i might have never started this.

So if anyone would like to team up with me on any of these projects, please drop me a line.
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(69) The Never Ending Story

I came up with and specced out something like this for a school which never got passed the planning stage. The idea was more simple in that there was a seed story, and then the kids took a word or phrase from the seed story and that was the title of their story, with the chosen word/phrase becoming a link (it was a user-friendly wiki in effect). This could be repeated to infinite depth and words/phrases could link to more than one story (or partially overlap etc).

I still have it in perpetual inactive development.
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Great.

I want it.

But what is it and where do I get it?
Wonderful! Wish you a ton of good luck!

>>underwhelmed by my safe, boring corporate gig
I know how it feels! :( And am yet to break those handcuffs.
It might be that some people are screaming that, but I'm not. I'm saying, if you are interested in a multitude of releases for each album to chose from and the technical aspects of digital audio you might be more pleased visiting a private torrent site. They are impressive pieces of collaborative work.
I do not judge people buying music from iTunes, nor do I judge people that "pirate" music. Each to his/her own.
All the Social networking sites eventually start being used as marketing platform by the people. Take facebook for example; things are no more constrained to being social there, people find gratification when more and more people are friends with them and interact with them. I know a lot of people who have more than 3000 friends on their FB profile. Now, is there anyway to actually be friends with 3000+ people in reality. IMHO no. People do this either to promote their blog or product. FB pages might be an argument for this, but that does not stop marketeers from being friends with Random people.

As far as privacy goes, I ll just repeat the cliche = "don't share something in public which might hurt you later"
I see html5boilerplate.com is getting reused properly :)
Any idea how they did the graphics? Is it straight photoshop + illustrator or something else?
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Thanks for the feedback. You make a valid point. Have taken your reply into consideration and changed out the words "closed" and "open" for "private" and "public".

Unfortunately, the title on HN cannot be changed.
Very neat design, no question. Kind of the antithesis of the functional web, though. It's like a flash only website without the flash.
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Wow, that's a great way to get your API integrated all over the place. Win-win for the company and developers.
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It would appear that Xmarks is a good fit for LastPass. LastPass already deals with cross-browsing syncing and I would assume that their backend hardware would be generally 'compatible' with whatever requirements Xmarks has.

So if LastPass already has a viable Freemium model, then they should be able to integrate Xmarks into their business plan fairly easily.
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Part of being an entrepreneur is knowing when to change directions or abandon an idea all together. Spending a decade on an idea that is not working and won't possibly work is not all that smart.

This type of life is definitely not for everybody.

The fact that you know people who have failed also doesn't mean anything. I know a lot of people who haven't even tried and that, to me, is a lot worse.
I have to admit I was hoping Ben would fall in a open manhole cover towards the bottom of the screen, but alas he did not.

Just shows you can always make improvements, even on something as clever as this ;)
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I am surprised you recommend getting certifications - I have never seen anywhere where those are held to be of any sort of value, especially if you have a computer science degree (I've been working as a programmer for 9 years at 4 different companies - I've been through my share of interviews).

Might be an Indian thing?
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These ideas are intended to be fun little weekend hacks and not serious businesses right?

Figured I'd ask because I clicked hoping for something else and wondered if I was the only one that did so.
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