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That math doesn't work. If you hire 1% and retain people for three years, you'll be sued once a year ($100 000/year) and spend e.g. 30 x $100 000 = $3 000 000 / year on salaries, before considering hiring costs. It's still expensive, but is it that ridiculous?
Ask HN: Investments/Savings for Infants
OK - so I'm thinking about christmas presents for my brother, his wife, and their 2 month old. They have more clothes and diapers then they know what to do with and both make very comfortable livings.

I'd like to put away some money for my nephew in some sort of investment vehicle that cannot be touched until he's 18 (or out of college). I was wondering if there were any funds, CDs, ETF's or other investment tools I should be researching. Please, share your thoughts/experiences.
The only time when I had a bad feeling about such an email was when I felt that I got positive feedback during the interview, got no "warning" signs during it and so on, yet on the other day, I was told almost exactly this.

Otherwise, it's quite ok. Make it short, who wants to read ton of shit just to hear no? If you can list one (or more) serious reason (lack of experience, education, whatever, once, I was told that I was simply too pesimistic, but that was on phone), fine, but still, keep it short. And well, don't expect much feedback.
Point taken, but with the given numbers it wouldn't actually be that bad. If you interview thousands of candidates, then paying an amortized $100 per candidate is not too much. If that is what it costs to give people a good impression of your company, it might well be worth it.
If the government thinks it can get coins into circulation by having people order them from the government it's going to fail no matter what. Not saying this makes the guy's scheme is OK, just that the mint doesn't have a chance.

Why won't depositing these coins into the bank get them into circulation? It has to be either because the bank won't hand them out unless you specifically ask for them or because people don't want them. That's a sure sign that a coin is DOA.
Thanks for the context
Yes, but what is going on here is the situation of there being so many picketers that it takes you a while to get through the picket line.

The picketers aren't touching you, but you do become aware of the fact that they are there.

It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest.
I'm not sure that increasing battery capacity is correlated with more explosive activity. These guys are using using the virus to increase surface area but the amount of lithium polymer may still remain constant so I don't think it will be more dangerous than the current line of lithium battery products.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but what do these three checks mean? LA Films Music got paid $0.13 by HFA in October?
Extra interesting interview since Gowalla just integrated Foursquare (!) Josh explains why he did that -- the 'turn around and hug the bear that's chasing you' move.
like trowing tea in the sea is super responsibly and grown up. I also bet it affected more the small businessman than the British gov

bye-bye karma :)
Having both a mechanical engineering degree and a comp sci degree, and having had jobs in both fields, I really think most software creation is not "engineering". I prefer software developer as the proper term.

When I was a kid, I built a lot of things for fun. I would tinker in the shop and build a go kart or a boat. If it broke, I made it stronger. It was fun, creative, and looked a lot like engineering when I was playing with machinist tools. There was even a lot of intuition and experience going into the designs. But that wasn't engineering.

Right now I'm doing some engineering. I have a CAD model open and I'm building a mathmatical model of the stresses imposed on it. We iterate the CAD model based solely on the math. The draftsman had made a first pass at it, I came back and said these areas need to be strengthed and these can be lighter, he adjusted the model, and we rechecked the math. There was never a real part created because it is simply too expensive. The cost of this part, once forged and machined, exceeds $85k. So we will be working on the model and tweaking it until we have a design that we know works. And then we'll both go on to do other things and at some point a few months from now it will get made by other people who I probably will never even meet and then I will show up again when we test it.

In contrast, most software developers work directly on the final product. There is no model. You might make a spec, a test suite, a UML model or sketch of how you think it should work, but there is no testing on that. That is a hypothesis not a model. Nobody ever stands there with a UML model in a production envirement and runs tests on it for twice as long as it would take to code it.

So software developer seems like the right name to me. This is far from a knock on software development. A lot of times I think engineering is more straightforward. I either pull formulas out of a book or plug it into FEA modelling software and look at the pretty colors. But the "engineering" part of the title for me speaks to the process I employ not me being superior to anyone who is not an engineer. I just think "software engineer" is a funny title for people who write code on the final product 99% of the time. We don't call designers "photoshop engineers" even though a lot of them are super smart and super skilled at what they are doing.
If you do need to borrow money, having a good credit score allows you to get better interest on loans in the U.S.

I think the question you're really wondering about, though, is why someone would borrow a significant amount of money given the state of the economy. I don't have good answers to that question.
It's in Google's best interest to lift the time limit for all videos. Keeping people in the YouTube app on GoogleTV is best for Google. Pro-sumer content creators need to be able to post their full-length video on YouTube.
We, the pluto activist, do not take kindly on actions like this. We demand that pluto regains planetary status if your demands don't get met we will take agressiv action. :)
One time I got a rejection letter from a company that included a list of reasons that people are usually rejected. One of the reasons was spelling or grammar errors in their cover letter or resume.

As it happened, this letter that they sent out contained both a spelling error and a grammatical error. In retrospect, this was perhaps a little too snarky, but I wrote back to them and pointed this out. They contacted me again, asking if I would be interested in another position they had available.
Mirrors a bit of my own experience doing agency work. We actually built a site for a client Drupal, and then completely scrapped it and rebuilt in Rails because some seemingly minor interface improvements would have been impossible to complete due to the structure and interaction of a couple modules.

CMS solutions are good for only one thing: giving people a bunch of boilerplate functionality when that's all they can afford. Building a product on top of a CMS is a sure route to a mediocre product surrounded by dead-ends.
Life is just self-replication. I don't see why it's interesting in a moral sense — especially when we're talking about something that has nothing to do with self-replication.

Anyway, we kill pigs, which are actually intelligent, so if you're looking to get worked up about something, bacteria in batteries seem like pretty odd candidates.
Many of the comments below talk about potential legal liability from rejecting a candidate in an inappropriate way. Would someone care to clarify the sort of problems that can arise?
I do get confused when I apply for a MEng (Master of Engineering) degree in Computer Science, though.
yah, did he pay someone or did he get paid? Some context is needed.
Not keywords, but often books will come with what's basically `man foo | lpr`. A big old reference section that'll just be bad with the next point release.

Of course, that means there needs to be an updated version of the book...
The content of you post does not bother me if that is your intent. What does bother me is the upvotes you recive. It is sad to see the decline of a great site so enshrined in a single line post. The active approval of your post, by other members, just becase they dont agree with my position on the subject, is sadning to say the least. Your comment is devoid of quality and only serves to try and infuriate another member.its active acceptance is indicitive of the decline so many members complain about.
They are royalty checks, sent to Steve Martin by his recording company.
Depends who you are.
If you're MSFT, IBM, etc then you don't even send a no thanks letter, you have nobody who isn't a certified HR person talk to a candidate and you don't allow any off the cuff remarks. The lawyer target cross section is too high.

If you are a small startup in a high tech hub trying to attract people, and especially if you are in a market where the programers you reject might be future customers then you're risk is different.

Companies often forget that the people they reject don't disappear. It used to be a big thing in merchant banks in the last boom to really grind and humiliate candidates - you aren't smart enough to work here etc. What they forgot is that those people went to work for companies that might need a merchant bank and that the victim is suddenly the customer.
O ok, I get where you're coming form now. For sure there are workarounds or rituals to augment your natural drive. I mean, peaks and troughs in motivation happen to everyone. Most people may have some practices and rituals such as going to sleep thinking about what you'll accomplish the next day (Marc Andreessen blogged about this) or keeping a running journal of what you hope to learn, accomplish (I do this), but I do think that the largest chunk of efficacy in maintaining the drive to "take it to the next level" comes via leveraging the community.

Success rarely happens in a vacuum. There is a fraternity of sorts among CEOs, there is a community among founders and any sort of craftsmen/engineers (this is why YC is awesome).

Personally I regularly schedule going to technical conferences even if it's not directly relevant to what I'm currently working on, and meetups to go to. These let me witness how awesome some people are and remind me of my desire to be like them, to learn from them. I'm sure most technical folks will agree with me that conferences are a huge motivator. As well as regularly scheduling lunch/coffee with people I really respect. These events remind me of what I'm "here to do" and I find brings me out of the troughs of low motivation.

Lastly - repetition comes into play always, in everything in life. My first startup I remember these rollercoaster rides of emotional highs and lows when we got a first customer (yay!), or found out about a competitor doing it better than us or beta users not liking the product (crap!). Now, being a bit more seasoned, I guess I'm just a bit cooler headed just by having "been there before." The same goes with coding a blank project. And with the boxing analogy I made in my previous post, even a timid person will probably become steeled once he has stepped in the ring many, many times.
It could be implemented by only replacing the bulbs by using a bulb that registers g-force. I could go on but I have to get to a mailbox to send these certified letters to the big automakers ;)
Search for information about 529 plans for college savings, see if that fits your intent.

Otherwise you should be looking at trust funds, I think, if you want to keep the money away from the child/parents by law until a specific point in time or condition.
I like this philosophy. In general, people should learn how to give and take feedback. I've been in the position where I wish I had known why I didn't get a certain job or opportunity. Knowing the reason not only softens the disappointment but lets one learn and improve for next time.
Wordpress is simple, stripped down, easy to use, can double as a CMS, and is easily customized. I've set it up for a number of my personal clients and they're very satisfied with it.
(The following is based around a United States perspective, would be interested in more international views)

In the US, as I see it, there seems to be a view of engineering is a capitalistic endeavor powered by private investment, where science is an academic endeavor powered by primarily government investment. (Exceptions seem to be defense contractors and medical research. The first is normally the government buying a service, the second is typically the transition from academic to commercial prospects.)
This is a really useful idea and gives useful more fine-grained information without compromising the overall message: "I'm slowing down."

Along a similar vein, I want car horns to be as loud inside a car as they are outside, to ensure they're only used for emergencies. I live in a city and car horns dramatically reduce quality of life because "no honking, $350 penalty" are never actually enforced by the police.
Peering problems: digging into the Comcast/Level 3 grudgematch
13 year old hacker who loves computers and freedom.

Might explain some of it.
This is the sort of title that would make some people flag it as spam without following the link (if they didn't notice it was going to Reddit).
The people being talked about here are ones who have both started businesses (or at least run them very successfully) and given to charity.
I've actually often thought there is a business idea here - there is no easy way to give kids investment gifts without a bunch of painful dealing with banks.
"Congratulations! Your account is now enabled for uploads longer than 15 minutes. Click the Upload button below to select a video."

I guess I finally have a reason to celebrate 560,016 total upload views :-) I wonder what I should upload first! Maybe I can do a 24 hour silent video and call it modern art.
The new Ford Mustangs have a kit you can install that does just that. I thought about this a few years back and want it so bad!
to the extent that the GOP favors a smaller government (and though they say this, they don't actually do so, but that's a different discussion), this would make one expect that those against such governmental funding would be morally bound to find other means of employment.

I can support this with anecdotal evidence. I have a friend who got his Ph.D. in physics, but decided to work outside of academia. His primary reason for this was that he felt that as a libertarian it would be immoral for him to take government money. He currently works at Intel.
I believe these are royalties being paid to Steve Martin (LA Films Music seems to be his music company).
I think this is largely an imagined scenario. Even in "small towns" the developer network is not so tight that you're going to have people trying to blacklist your company on the grounds of not getting a formal rejection notice.

Plus, if the 1 developer you DO hire continuously tells people it's a great company working on cool stuff, that would outweigh the negative comments from the other 99.
I don't begrudge him the few hundred dollars he made. There was a loophole, he exploited it non-malicously. So did a bunch of other people; eventually the loophole got closed. I am personally out a miniscule fraction of a cent, and I got more than that's worth of entertainment out of reading this article.
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Thanks, can't seem to reproduce it though. I'm running Node from ry/node master (v0.3.2-pre) on OS X.
I think 3 is a really great idea. Do you find that, in doing so, you get additional benefits yourself? I imagine you've already got places to look for new hires ect.
Is there a way I can just waive my ability to sue? I would love to know my weaknesses in the eyes of others.
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"half a block to delicious Indian food, a block to Sprout salads and two blocks to Venezuelan coffee"

..and you'd better be happy with them, because you'll work so much you won't see anything else.

(And no pancake breakfast?)
I think the article makes a good point, and the obvious solution is to make a fair percentage of those conducting research switch party affiliation.
I would claim that there are two factors that lead to the fact that most scientists are Democrats: the overall lean of universities, and the source of funding.

And the overwhelming anti-science bias within large segments of the Republican base has nothing to do with it? Yeah, it has just got to be all of those liberal universities and scientists living off the government teat... You can delude yourself all you want, but the fact is that most scientists did not just aimlessly gravitate to the Democratic party; they were chased there by pitchfork-wielding, bible-thumping, Republicans who sought to "refudiate" their work (aided in large parts by conservative think tanks that will tell any lie and spread as much FUD as possible if it helps the short-term objectives of their corporate backers.)
Hopefully not HR copy editor.
>Changing that equation such that average battery life is on the scale of weeks instead of a day or hours is quite significant, enabling people to use smartphones in new ways they would not have before.

At which point battery life will promptly drop back down to a couple of days.
Ask HN: Anyone hiring for summer (J1)?
Hi,

I'm a programmer from Europe. I spent last summer working for a Rails company in the US, based on J1 visa. It was great.

I would love to do it again, but I want to experience more of this startup culture. So I'm wondering if there are any startup companies looking to hire programmers for 3 months during summer.

It's too soon to look for some particular job, so I'm not gonna write things like "I can do this and that". I would like to know, if you would even consider hiring someone for 3 months.
The original article explains this:
http://www.eng.umd.edu/media/release.php?id=71

"TMV becomes inert during the manufacturing process; the resulting batteries do not transmit the virus."
I never forgot a quote attributed to Liebnitz in my high school trigonometry book, which went something like:

"Although the world may be a dream, I would call that dream real enough if, using reason well, I was never deceived by it"
There were only a handful of Lisp entrants while Java had more than any other language in the competition. I agree with you that we shouldn't read much into this. I also think we shouldn't be reading much into the posts about how it was Lisp that won the competition.
Git-annex (managing files with git without checking in)
Seems to break links from "old" groups, eg:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thre...
That's a good point, but moving from selling products to selling client-based services is a regression in the eyes of many.
So you're taking it as assumed that there is one, singular interface that people will be using for the whole day. Even now, while designing and thinking things through I usually alternate between typing in a text editor, drawing on a whiteboard, taking notes on paper, discussing verbally with other people in the office, and just pacing up and down thinking to myself. The whiteboard for example is essentially a specimen of the much-maligned vertical touchscreen interface, and I don't see why it couldn't be made into a computationally-driven dynamic display.
I have a hobby launching wallpaper sites. http://www.ScienceWallpaper.com has gone from 0 to 80 organic visitors per day in one month. I've linked it from 3 or 4 of my blogs, and it had a popular reddit post last month. Other than that, just regular updates.

Same story for most other sites. Get lots of content up there, and carry on.
they use oauth. I'm wondering on what permissions they need. In order to send scheduled emails, I don't see the reason to have to have access to all my actual emails. Is this possible ?
Is chess the best game to prepare you for a life in business? I think so.
Yeah, but it wasn't too immoral for him to take advantage of government funded university research labs in order to get that Ph.D. in the first place, right? Once he no longer needed the government's money he was free to let his strong moral position take over, but up until that point I am sure the cognitive dissonance was keeping him up at night...
I think he was trying to point out that it's a credibility problem. For instance, where science aligns with political belief, it makes it harder for scientists to argue that they're impartial when they generally share the same political beliefs with eachother.
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I'm not sure that revamping would help. Android isn't a JVM, it's already it's own, independently designed and built virtual machine, and yet they're still getting sued by Oracle.
>It's well documented that universities are strongly slanted to the left

I think that this just deflects the question. Why is it that universities are left-leaning?

The implication is that knowledge acquisition is co-related with left-leaning politics? I'm not about to go into the implications of such an assertion, lest a political flame-war break out, but I think answering that more general question will explain the more specific case of scientists.
It looks like their team is a bunch of a stanford MS grads and phds, so probably not mediocre. http://www.alphonsolabs.com/team
Consolas is optimized for ClearType, which makes fonts clearer by not only using subpixel antialiasing but by also fitting them to the pixel grid.

If only I had ClearType on OSX, I wouldn't have to look at fuzzy text all day ( see this screenshot http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp... )
Ha, funny.
Me neither. I believe he wasn't a target this time. Someone mentioned a position on copyright.
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I found this rather amusing:

"We don't care much about your college, your major or your GPA."

we don't care much? I daresay this is the first time these people have ever applied or recruited for jobs..
> Was it the Innovator's Dilemma that pointed out power users as a primary source of product innovation?

I am reading that book at the moment. But to me it seems to tell exactly the opposite story.
Mostly true, but conservatives hardly have a monopoly on willful ignorance. Ask the stereotypical liberal what he thinks of nuclear power or GMO crops, and you're not likely to get a response based on sound science.
The real problem is that there aren't enough scientists to vote out Republicans.
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balony. Most scientists do work that's not at all related to what the public knows about and talk about their work in ways that no one else can understand.

Your claim that scientists are being "chased" from the Republican party is ridiculous.

Unless, of course, you have data that shows they are?
Thanks for the reply. I'm going to sign up right now.
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