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Sorry - I call an Emacs skeleton function and use identical supervisors to every other supervisor. I have never written a line of supervisor code in 8 years of Erlang coding.

The Turing complete argument implies that representation is not important. Joe Armstrong has a great line for dealing with that red herring. He asks people to write an algorithm for doing long division with Roman Numerals. Guess what the representation of a number in Arabic numerals make alogorithms easy even though Roman Numerals are 'Turing complete'...

Having run an internet bank in J2EE with a budget of over $100m dollars and then built a clustered full stack in Erlang for under 1% of that I have the data to prove that your talking mince. Please bring your comparative costs to the table.
DJB > Kaminsky

DJB has some of the best cryptographic implementations out there while Kaminsky's only interesting work is actually someone else's (CVE-1999-0024).
I think it has the potential to revolutionize drawing and resemble the traditional drawing table.
Can be very comfortable and efficient for anyone designing physical objects (civil engineers, architects, industrial designers).
There are already graphic tablets, of course, but they are very expensive and very specialized. This makes me hope that my current way of working staring directly at the screen while moving the mouse might change in a few years.
It's very useful for my work. I upvoted you at Reddit too.
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Your point about the salary is valid - stating the salary does create some problems. However, not stating it creates much bigger problems.

It would be relatively rare that you advertise for a senior developer and end up hiring a junior one (when you had no intention of hiring a junior at first). It would be much more common that your job ad is ignored by the really good developers and instead you have your time wasted by those who are underqualified.

If your existing employees are paid below-market rates that is a latent problem in any case. Eventually they will figure out that they're underpaid. Even if you don't advertise salaries some of your competitors will.
It should seriously not take much more time than it takes to warm up a nasty styrofoam cup of noodles to cook something cheap, easy and - above all - tasty.

The first step is to get a rice steamer. The second step is to realize that you can, in fact, prep your vegetables, meats and sauces ahead of time and just leave them in the fridge. Feeling hungry? Pour a little oil into a pan, toss in some ingredients, and voila - stirfry in no time at all. Grab a bowl, stuff some rice into it, and top it over - lunch!

It's more cost-effective than takeout, at the very least. Timesink may be an issue - if you aren't working with one or two cofounders. If you are, the minimal amount of competence to use a rice steamer and heat up pre-prepped ingredients means you /should/ be able to safely rotate cooking duties without excessive risk to your health.

Or, at least, less risk than a diet of salty ramen and oily pizza.
One thing you have to realize is that a counselor/doctor is not your friend, but someone that helps you solve your problems with professional advice (level of competency varies of course).

Getting over any recurrent destructive mood is much like a war. First you need to go to war, then you need strategies, you need to work on it and there's going to be pain involved, with multiple battles won and lost.

Going to counseling is one way to do it, another would be medication, or support groups or just good friends that care. Either way you have to deal with it and it isn't warm and cozy.
I see your point - initially when I read the same, I thought that making reference to programming insight as a conclusion was a bit trite and insensitive.

I don't think the OP was trying to be insensitive - but it's not possible to take anything good from this act alone. The only possible positive thing that can result is increased personal understanding of the challenges that our own friends and acquaintances might be going through.
I think your point was that "middle aged women" don't know any of this.

No. The web (and computers) should adapt to us, humans. Not the other way around. If people want to search for a question, then that's the correct way to search.

The reason 'spammy' sites show up high for that query is because they are better at knowing what people are searching for.
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I class things like "writing an email" as content creation too, and it doesn't look like a pleasant experience on a tablet. You could write a sentence using one hand whilst holding it in the other, but if you want to write a paragraph or two, you really need to put it down on a surface and then hunch over the device to type down on it. I say "hunch", because the screen is flat rather than at an angle when you place it on a surface, unlike a laptop.

I'm not considering the fact that you can plug a tablet into a hardware keyboard because if I had a tablet I certainly wouldn't want to carry a keyboard round with me just in case.

I'd rather just carry my laptop around for content creation, and use a combination of my laptop and mobile phone for content consumption.
Through keyword generating tools such as the Google Adwords keyword generator and a host of free online ones (of questionable quality).
Given that you were able to increase CTR, I don't know how you can be so sure that visitors were not missing noticing the button. And even if you had good reason to believe that, why didn't you just change the button text instead of replacing it with a new button?

Sorry, I'm probably coming across as nitpicking, but I'm just trying to understand how people use A/B testing.
> Part of the reason I never bothered with them - IMHO a company who heavily bases their hiring choices on school grades is not someone I want to work for.

I worked for NVIDIA in a key group on key projects, and I never even finished my university degree (though my grades were very good). To make a general and hopefully obvious statement, if you're hiring someone fresh out of school with a bachelor's degree but no real-world accomplishments, you have to judge them by some objective measure, and grades are part of that. If you're dealing with someone with real-world accomplishments, it's a completely different matter.

When interviewing people during my time there, I personally never so much as glanced at their GPAs. But then again our group generally only hired people who had (and would soon have) Ph.D. degrees or experienced hackers whose past work spoke for itself. I imagine if you're hiring for entry-level positions, you need a very different approach just for the first round of culling due to the sheer volume of applicants.
You can check my answer below. But I am myself not convinced that is the best method.
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I saw a small football on a line and a goal (to which the ball could be pushed) in a couple of bars. I guess this is the next step
Yes! Something changed in the search algorithm recently, for the worse. I search for X and get Y. Is this documented anywhere?

(I didn't know that a "+" prefix can fix this. Thanks for the info.)
If I remember correctly, those bars are usually a different colour from the rest of the page (probably a shade of blue or green). Yours looks just like a footer because it matches the colour of your page header (black).
Adwords - adsense earnings tracking
Hello,

I was just wondering if there is any tool (way) to track how much money adwords campaigns produce via adsense.

For example, I have a classifieds website, I create an adwords campaign for keyword "free ads". Then some visitor clicks on adwords link (costs me 50c let's day), he posts on my website a free classified that will produce from other visitors 1$ => profit = 50c

So I need a report that will say:
campaign x = cost 50 usd,
adsense from campaign x = 10000 impressions, 200 clicks, 30 usd earnings.

Is there such a tool? Or would you be intereseted in one, cause Im thinking to develop one.
Ask HN: recent changes to character encodings on the web?
I visit a lot of sites written in languages which require characters which don't exist in the English alphabet. Back in the 90s and early 00s this was slightly problematic, since these special characters would often show up as gibberish. Then there was a long period between (roughly) 2002 and 2009 where shit Just Worked - one might even call it the Pax Typografica - but lately I've noticed a regression to the bad old days of the 90s. I might see an "Ä" being rendered as "Ã¤" four or five times a day now. During the Pax Typografica, this was unheard of.

So, what's going on? Has the Unicode Consortium fucked up? Bugs in the latest versions of Firefox (my browser)?
No, you are totally right. The way you describe is how an actual A/B test should be done. But in practice companies resort to making changes in A/B test which involve changing more than one variable (in this case button style and text). That's because they can't afford the time and traffic it will take to methodically test one factor at a time. Also, primary motivation for many companies is to increase conversions. Knowing and deducing what increased conversions is a secondary priority.

By the way, I did not do this A/B test. I just interviewed one of my customers who did this test.
I didn't even notice the bar the first time I read the article, I actually had to go back to the site to see what you were talking about in this comment.
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Correct, it looks like footer. So, you did not notice it in first glance?
Written from a truly male perspective. Even girls who choose not to make attractiveness a priority find that, eventually, it becomes a priority that society imposes on them. Or at least a topic that's constantly brought up when talking about a woman's abilities. How many articles talked about Elena Kagan's "mannish, butch" looks when she was appointed to the SC? Or Michelle Obama's fashion sense when she became First Lady?
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I really hope somebody comes up with an innovative solution to add a hardware keyboard to a tablet. Something along the lines of a very thin hidden internal keyboard which you can pull out of the bottom, and then bend to an angle so you can place it flat on a surface with the screen angled towards you. I'd barely need a laptop anymore then.
I noticed it only when I scrolled. And then I was disappointed there was no hide button :-D
Oh, I see. That's too bad that not many people are noticing it. Any ideas how I can improve it without making it look too spammy or intrusive?
Actually MIPS was the original architecture target for NT (the DEC Alpha didn't exist yet when they started).
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This is the general problem of listening to a million people. Maybe a HN-like or a Slashdot-like software solution would let one delegate the filtering to the community itself?

There's also UserVoice who claim that they solve this problem, but I am not sure how well they perform.
are you also collecting people who think otherwise?
Did you mean to say that "no" org domains are signed? As far as I understood it, some are, but the vast majority aren't?

I'm not an expert in this stuff, but I thought that getting "org" it's self signed was a massive achievement because it now means that domains beneath "org" can be signed?

If I do an A record lookup of "baddata-a.test.dnssec-tools.org" it returns NXDOMAIN on my system which supports DNSSEC, and 75.119.216.30 on my system which doesn't...
I highly doubt the unicode consortium has gone awry.

I have seen examples and might attribute it to poorly designed or misconfigured CMS/regurgitation systems that don't handle the unicode properly. It could also result in people not knowing what they are doing - and cutting and pasting between editors and saving as the wrong encoding.
It's debatable whether aligning the mapping operator - be it a colon or a hash rocket - is a good idea to begin with. The point has been made in the past that if you edit the map so that the longest key changes, you'd have to realign all other entries too. For code versioning, e.g., in shared development, this creates unnecessarily large diff's. For instances, patches become more difficult to read, because they include lines that haven't actually changed content-wise, just layout-wise.
Why do you believe that this is the wrong question? Are you pointing to the fact that RockMelt, Flock, etc. are products for which there is no real market? If so, then I agree with you.
The StackOverflow scrapers ranking higher than SO is the thing that most irks me about the big G at the moment. That and all the sites like wareseeker that just act as pointless aggregators of FLOSS download sites or forum sites.

Last time I tried Bing though they weren't any better, and DuckDuckGo had really low coverage. Maybe it's time to try again.
Ah, now I get it. Sorry, for some reason, I assumed you did the test for the customer.

I shouldn't doubt your A/B testing ninja skills.

The button test, even combining style and text, is still quite a small change to test. Don't your customers want to test more drastic changes?
Rephrased: Square peg, round hole, commence hammering.

Most of the world does not think like a nerd. Not even remotely. Remember that when working.

Clue: remember all those things that many of us nerds thought the iPad really needed?

Corollary: why is WinARM likely in deep trouble? Because it's three years late to market, and Microsoft is only recently shown themselves capable of designing a UI for mortals, and the question is whether the Windows UI or the (ill-branded) Windows Phone UI will win the internecine politics. (And I'm betting on the mass of the Windows group.)

Implementation detail: your Google Internet searches are already tuned, if you're logged into Google.

And for completeness, when using the phrase "the problem is..." remember too that with problems arise opportunities, and through opportunities can arise profits.
But that is not true of any other human activity. Every human activity is learned.

The correct way to eat is not to throw handfuls of food towards your face, hoping that some will end in your mouth. That is how toddlers eat, until they are taught otherwise.

The correct way to write is not to scribble on a table with the wrong end of the pen. Etc.

Yet you argue that the correct way to use a search engine should be "how you do it when you first try it and don't know anything about it". This is inconsistent with what you have been doing since you were born.
Some people enjoy programming enough to do it unpaid (and get some valuable lessons in how software is actually made at the same time, if lucky).
You could animate it to slide up a few seconds after page load.
Show HN: My November(++) Project. Facebook Stream Reader for Mac
Hey,

In early November there there were a couple of threads encouraging other fellow HN'ers to finish, and release a project by the end of November.

I decided to try to hit that goal, but in the end my meticulous attention-to-detail prevented me from finishing the app in November and it took until end of December to finish it (sadly, that required me to work through through the Christmas Holidays). So, even though it was only 2.x month, a lot of work (and lots of little-sleep-nights) went into that project.

Of course, I could have continued developing forever, because there's still so much that I'd like to implement - but given the 'release early and often' mantra I was already pretty late to the party.

But now it is ready, and even better in time for the Mac App Store opening, as it is a Mac App.

The name is: Clarity

http://www.clarity-app.com

Clarity is a Facebook desktop client for the Mac that aims at simplifying your friends' news streams. Facebook offers with its News Streams a feature that is very similar to Twitter but oftentimes succeeds where Twitter fails as more of your close friends are probably on Facebook and so it is easier to feel connected.

However, even though there are a couple of very good desktop Twitter clients (Tweetie, Echofon, Kiwi, etc), there are far less desktop Facebook Stream clients. My idea was to develop a Facebook Stream client, that would run on my desktop and inform me of the newest events in my friends‘ lives.

An important objective behind Clarity was to support very good desktop integration of the Facebook News Stream and to clear it up so that it looks and feels more streamlined and less cluttered. This means Clarity is first and foremost a Facebook News Stream Reader. It sorts your news stream, clears it up, and offers enhanced filtering options.

I also added enhanced security features, so that one can only write status updates to certain friends groups or only read from certain friends.

- - - - - - - -

I'd love your opinion. Do you think this targets a viable market? I build this in my spare time, so I hope that will turn out to be a worthwhile investment (however then again, the learning experience that I had so far already almost made it worthwhile).
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Try Rock Climbing. You get all the benefits of the gym (it works pretty much everything), plus all the leveling up benefits from WoW.

Every sport climb and boulder problem is graded. Most of them you won't be able to do. You'll need to spend weeks at first to get good enough to even do the easy ones. The hard ones will take years to get strong enough for, and even then will still require you dedicate a month of specific training for that one single route.

Leveling up? It's got that too. Climb at the gym for a while and soon you'll get to the point where you've done your first V1 problem. V2 is an order of magnitude harder, as is V3. The scale goes to V16 (at the moment), and 15 years of motivation have thus far only gotten me as far as V8. Given the dedication of a recovering WoW addict, I think climbing would fit your psyche perfectly.

Oh, and it's crazy fun too, so no more of this "I should go to the gym" crap. You'll go. You'll be upset if work intrudes on your climbing time. You'll start taking climbing trips instead of vacations, and eventually forget when it was that you last boarded a flight without your rock shoes.

You'll start spending your winters climbing rocks at Tonsai beach [1] in Thailand. I'll buy you a beer when you get there.

[1] http://blogabond.com/Photos/PhotoView.aspx?imageID=2746
I wonder if there would be a way to split Google up into multiple companies to deal with the (multiple) conflicts of interest it has viz-a-viz providing both search and buying/selling advertising. I doubt it would be good for Google stock holders, but good for the market in general.
One thing you have to realize is that a counselor/doctor is not your friend

For a person dealing with trust issues, this sort of realization shatters any chance of progress, at least in my personal experience.

I can't feel safe if I think I could say the wrong word and have the cops drag me off for questioning. That's why I never got anywhere with counseling. For a person with trust issues, it's extremely important that you feel safe in counseling since you're making yourself extremely vulnerable by exposing yourself to them.

I've since dealt with a lot of my issues on my own. I haven't hurt myself intentionally in over two years, and that was an anomaly. It had been over two years since I had last hurt myself at that point.

The point is that these aren't easy problems, and there are no easy solutions.
No, you got a "citation needed" for "junkfood is bad for your brain functions". And for what it's worth I'd love to see that citation too.
Taken from one of the examples :

final HAppend<HCons<Boolean, HNil>, HCons<Double,
HCons<String, HCons<Integer[], HNil>>>, HCons<Boolean,
HCons<Double, HCons<String, HCons<Integer[], HNil>>>>> one = append(zero);

It's here that I miss the repurposed auto keyword of C++ to do some rudimentary type inference.
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Except if they can somehow argue "act of god." A friend was bumped from a flight because an earlier flight that day was canceled due to weather. He called and complained about it and was told by some gov't agency that in that case his bump was due to weather. Even though my take on it was... he was bumped because the airline decided to give his seat to a more valuable customer.

And the opposite nearly happened... My dad, his wife and my half sister were flying down to meet me in Florida a few months ago. In his case, an earlier flight was canceled due to mechanical breakdown. It looked like they would all 3 be bumped and he was a little pleased over the idea of a $1200 windfall. In the end he got on the plane. I suppose there weren't enough Mileage Plus Elite members on the earlier flight that needed seats.
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Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results
Given the current high-ranking thread about spammy sites in Google results, it strikes me that a very simple solution would be to let logged-in users blacklist sites.

Bam, no more wareseeker or efreedom.

This would solve a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop.

There are greasemonkey etc. scripts to do this, but they're tied to a single browser on a single machine. A global filter (like in gmail) would be so much more useful.

Would this be particularly hard to do?
Which makes me wonder...why do it all if it is just for a limited case. Seems to make the code less understandable (to me) and it seems an unnecessary change to the language (to me).
eh, I don't know if ADD/ADHD are real "disorders" or just personality temperaments.

I know I can't get in the zone right when I wake up, I have to first satisfy some other basic needs like food and human interaction. I'm not a robot.

That, and sleeping well.

Basically my advice for tacking this problem, and what I've been doing for a while (and seems to be working for me) is to not start any coding or working until after several hours from waking up. Maybe even half way through my day.
Yes, they do. See our case study library (we have more than 15 A/B tests): http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/case-studies.php
There's a lot of big cities that have horrible mass transit period let alone airport service. How about all of Florida, for one. TPA is my home airport and it's a beautiful airport but there's no significant mass transit service. Likewise for Orlando and Miami.

I also fly into DTW a lot, same story there.
Physics and medicine both rely on rationalism and the scientific method.

The difference between what you are talking about and what I am talking about it the difference between objective and subjective proof. Your social proof easily falls into the post hoc fallacy[1]. While I will happily admit medical science doesn't get it right all the time at least the onus is there to prove the safety and efficacy of the drug.

A great example of this is those power balance bracelets[2], where anecdotal evidence (your "social proof") is provided in the form of celebrity endorsement. So a piece of rubber and a hologram like those you see on credit cards is sold for $30. They've been force to admit there is no evidence they work yet people will swear blue murder they do. Why? Because we are subjective beings, right now to our physical makeup (try plunging a hand into luke warm water then hot water then back again sometime).

We are poor judges of things, especially when it comes to ourselves.

[1] http://www.skepdic.com/posthoc.html
[2] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/23/3100270.htm
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