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Ask HN: Anyone run a job site?
Way back in 2007 my first ever venture on the web was http://hire-engineers.com, an engineering job board.

While I was putting my time and effort into it, it was making a few hundred bucks a month. However, it's been sitting dormant for a long while.

All that to say, I'm interested in selling it so if anyone who runs a job board and wants to pick it up, please to get in touch... will also thrown in the domain hiredash.com

Thanks!
Actually, it's on Android as well. I haven't tried it for a few versions (it...needed some work then), but it is available.
Does Eric Schmidt steps down because Larry Page is a more open standard as a CEO?
No mention if he keeps his role of Chief Dismisser of Privacy Concerns
I haven't logged in to comment for 37 days and this little essay is such utter garbage. The fact that it takes him just 7 paragraphs to completely dismiss all potential religious truth as "clearly false" should set off anyone's dogma-alert flag.

Being focused in the present is awesome, but the fact that we have the ability to pay attention on things other than reality is not a problem, but in fact essential to the health of the mind (our "spirit" if you will). Imagine if all your circumstances sucked and all your mind could focus on was reality...

Secondly, this essay sounds like he's much more inner-focused, as I know that I rarely have these "flow of thought" and self-conscious moments that he calls being "submerged again by the flow of thought"... If you asked me at any moment what I was thinking, I would tell you "nothing"... Obviously I'm thinking something behind the scenes, but my focus is just not on my thoughts when I'm doing. So my own personal thought-life does not confirm this silliness.

Then again, I'm very extroverted and rarely focused on my own thoughts -- maybe it's my "clearly false" Christian religion, or the fact that I've been a runner for 20+ years which is essentially meditating on present experience (pain), but I just have a strong natural tendency to focus on the present experience rather than my own thoughts.

Even if you're looking at this under the domain of science, I would still argue that the ability of humans to cope with present circumstances is directly correlated to their capability to focus upon that which is not the present. (i.e. thinking joyful thoughts, etc.).

That little essay is pitiful, talk to "robg" here on YC if you want to hear from a Neuroscientist who has a better respect for this domain of mind and spirit. The way this guy just starts with a bunch of assumptions and blasts away at all potential truth in less than 1,000 words gives me no respect for his method of thinking.
Ummm, profit?
Especially considering he has 52 karma points!
(2005) Jeffrey Zeldman on style versus design
Google Earnings Call
Google Co-Founder Takes Over as Chief Executive
I like both of them, I think they are both usually right or at least I'm confident that they've thought about things thoroughly. Larry though in general is much less guarded when he speaks. He talks a lot more like an engineer, which I think contributes substantially to his likability.

He might say things that are controversial, but he's curt enough that he's not going to be misunderstood. If people disagree with him, they're a lot more likely to be disagreeing with what he actually believes rather than how the he's been sound-bited.
I apologize for simply lifting this off Wikipedia, but I too had that question before, and this paragraph was helpful:

The Lotus position is adopted to allow the body to be held completely steady for long periods of time. As the body is steadied the mind becomes calm, the first step towards meditation. The posture applies pressure to the lower spine which may facilitate relaxation. The breath can slow down, muscular tension decrease and blood pressure subside. The coccygeal and sacral nerves are toned as the normally large blood flow to the legs is redirected to the abdominal region. Digestion may also be improved.
Even in China, my dad didn't eat rice until he was in his teens.

What did he eat?
+ HP's news release.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110120xa.html
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> Apple could still choose to WebM support.

Not in any meaningful way: as far as I know, there is no hardware decoding support for WebM in production. That leaves 150M iOS devices dead in the water, and a bunch of Macs having to decode HQ videos in software instead of relying on existing, well-supported and well-understood hardware.

> The point isn't that Apple and Microsoft can choose.

Apple and Microsoft also have been investing in h.264 for a long time. They're the least likely players to be able to change and (especially Microsoft) they're not very good at turning on a dime.

> you can't expect to ask Google to support H.264 and not ask Microsoft and Apple to support WebM

Why not? Google already had h.264 support, h.264 is the current leading video standard and enjoys wide support across the board, from hardware to software, from embedded to full-blown computers.

> No, and no. I'd explain more, but I can't follow your logic.

So you'd explain why I'm wrong even though you don't understand what I say? Original.

> No, and no. I'd explain more, but I can't follow your logic.

You'd explain why you disagree with what I say even though you don't even understand what I say?

Uh... right.

It's very simple:
You're being a bit hyperbolic[1]. The video included in the article, at least, is low resolution, jittery, and grainy. It says absolutely nothing about the methods used by Malaria to enter the blood cells, much less "at a molecular level." It's cool, of course, just not quite as cool as you're suggesting. Admittedly, the fact that the second parasite completely ignored the infected cell is really interesting - if how it knew to ignore the infected cell was known, that would be a huge advance.

[1] And I'm being a bit cynical. Hopefully we'll balance out.
Note, if you like Windows, you can create an instance that runs Windows and log in with RDP. This is particularly nice because it's dead easy to install and configure an RDP client on Linux, Windows or MacOS... Whereas getting an X-Windows installation working perfectly on a non-Unix machine is a lot of work.

I'm pretty amazed that it took Microsoft about two years to realize how much fun it is to use Windows/RDP in the cloud and they still haven't quite added this to Azure. A lot of what I like about AWS is that you can do an awful lot of things the way you're used to doing them.

That said, I mainly use Linux instances, and normally work with an ssh text console from Linux, Windows and MacOS clients. I use jedit on the client machine to edit files through sftp. Some of my instances are production instances that run 24-7, although I commission development machines and machines to run big batch jobs from time to time.
How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller
I actually use Wing IDE, which takes me to the offending line automatically. But in some cases you get a traceback through indirect means (e.g. server error log, print statement from a separate process) and then you have to go to the file&line manually.
Hiring Front-End Engineers
I'd like to think so, but it seems very unlikely.
can't replace my usage of Paypal (which is just sending money to people and buying things on Etsy etc.)

You could if Etsy supported using Wepay. They provide billing and an API for just that sort of thing.
it's also nice to not work
It really is great for fiddling with html,css,and javascript all on the same screen without having to deal with a complicated development environment or separate files.

It would be a nice platform for teaching basics, or even introducing something new.
Triple-display Flip phone powers our dreams with Android (video)
The reason that cross-domain requests are disallowed has to do almost entirely with cookies. The concern is that since almost everyone uses cookies for identity, it is possible (without the cross-domain barrier) for a random web page to tell the browser to go fetch all their secret data and then return it to the malicious page.

This whole thing isn't an issue any longer if the server containing the secret data is expecting random people to access it and implements auth with something more than cookies. Take a look at Twitter and Facebook. They both allow cross-domain requests.

janky.post will only work if the server is expecting the request (it won't allow arbitrary requests to anything on the remote server) and then, it's up to the remote site's engineers to make these endpoints secure.
you probably still want a proxy to keep your development site off the public internet.
But you still know all my secrets? Or is it Larry Page from now on?
Pedantic much, christ - I in no way was inferring that the qwiki would or should supersede food production.

Get off your high horse - youre an asshole.

To say that you lack vision because you are focused on all the reasons why something doesnt work is acurate.

Additionally, I fully agree with you about agricultural innovators being needed - but simply because there are still many many other issues, entirely unrelated to my point, you dismiss the value of what this could also be used for.

You must fucking hate yourself every day you go home to your comfy pad and open the fridge and gorge on ben and jerry's ice cream because millions upon millions of starving brown people dont have access to such delicacies from the warmth, safety and comfort of your living room.

I guess we should all just give up on anything else as a possibility.

We can spend trillions of dollars on wars, which BTW are predominately run, managed and monitored by satellite coverage, yet youre telling me I am a fool for suggesting that we could deliver pre-packaged video to Africa (your choice of location) is trivial.

I am a fool for telling you that the current incarnation of Qwiki doesn't have the depth of text which you suggest - yet I never once discounted any other medium in any of my posts.

Also, Mr. Internet Asshole, in which K to 5th grade syllabus have you seen calculus lessons?

Jesus, take a step back from your ego for one second.
A few years ago I stopped thinking in terms of desktops. This was around the time that I settled into system administration and web development for multiple groups at a time. I set up my Linux desktop and began to really develop good command-line skills. I also made the effort to learn Vim.

A few years on and I really don't think about my computer, but rather a network of computers. It is not uncommon for me to be logged into four different systems at a time, running different things on each. If I need more processing power, I log into one of the beefier systems and start a job. If I'm just editing email it's local, but if I'm editing web files, it's probably on a server hosting my dev instance so my changes are live. I just do each task wherever it is most appropriate.

The real change is that you stop having one entry point to your "computer". I can access the same resources from almost any laptop or desktop. I keep desktops with large dual monitors at work and at home and rarely worry about synchronizing them because the work is actually being done in the same place.

It really is liberating to build your own set of cloud resources and realize that your desktop is just another resource at your disposal in your network.
I'll save you some time: No.
Me neither. He's obviously amazingly talented, however, he has always struck me as shy/inarticulate/"slow"

Watch this talk he gave a couple years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFb2rvmrahc

Doesn't strike me as CEO material, especially for a company like Google.
No I couldn't.

https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen
Did you read the post?

I mention PayPal 17 times to explain why the comparison doesn't make sense, and to explain where the comparison came from.

> WePay offer 1/3rd the functionality of what Paypal offer

This is factually untrue. We offer different functionality, like multiple accounts under a single login, the features that make it easy to accept donations and sell tickets, the ability to share accounts, etc.

> Even this comment is ridiculous

What about that comment is ridiculous. The fact that mastercard got bashed for also being honest? Not sure why that would reflect on the quality of the comment itself. Is it ridiculous that I tried to be honest?
Hiring students for temp work using Symplicity
The more work I take on, the more I realize how wonderful it would be to have some eager talent working alongside (virtually). I've done the outsourcing thing, with mixed results; it seems that the people on freelancing sites are more concerned with making a few bucks than passionately devoting themselves to a project. It's an unfortunate reality.

I'm only a few years out of undergrad, but I distinctly remember that my school has a fairly well-run career center, which includes an account on Symplicity. So, with little effort, I registered for an employer account at my school, which gave me access to about 1500 resumes at no cost.

Most of the resumes were as one would expect: boring, dull, and offering no real insight. Especially rampant were resumes listing "considerable" or "extensive" experience in C/C++/Java/Assembly/etc. after only a year working with the language. Other resumes, however, didn't use ambiguous qualifiers, and instead evinced considerable or extensive experience with a particular language. These resumes teemed with passion, and I am extremely eager to talk to some of these students.

So, I ask for some input on this: do you think it's worth contacting students for a semester project, offering maybe a $1,000 stipend for the semester (on top of an outstanding recommendation, if the student's performance so warrants)? Is $1,000 too high/too low? How responsible/dedicated do you think a student would be, while simultaneously studying and enjoying the best four years of their life?
> In 25 words or less, what's a "social class"?

Your social class is defined by the people you associate with, typically in terms of wealth and culture.

Some people do not have a well-defined social class. Others may associate only with financial and cultural elites, etc. etc.
No, he's just trolling.
Bravo on conjuring a list of relevant counterexamples. Surely boards on product companies will look to the Enron scandal when assessing whether a founder has the competence or vision to lead a company.
> Sergey['s]....title will be Co-Founder.

I can just imagine the conversation. "So, Sergey, you're okay with Larry taking the CEO title, what will yours be?"

"You can call me 'Co-Founder', bitch"
My cynical suspicion is that the lotus position is traditional, and looks cool, and therefore people have come up with rationalizations for it.

Someone has already quoted Wikipedia, so I won't repeat it, but most of those sound like benefits that you can get by lying down, or finding a really comfortable chair, or something similar. And the bit about improving digestion sounds especially dubious, since it doesn't really say what that means, and a lot of Yoga folks have a bad habit of making vaguely shiny-sounding medical claims without evidence.

(Do I sound negative? I actually do sometimes meditate, because it's a pleasant thing to do. I just want to make sure I'm not fooling myself about why I'm doing it.)
My work is mostly in distributed real-time systems. All of the really hard debugging problems (e.g., race conditions) occur in situations where you can't pause one of the components with a debugger or you won't be able to repeat the problem. In those cases, logging events and studying them right after repeating the problem is your only recourse.
How to weigh extinct animals using only pen, paper and arithmetic
You might want that if you want to have your setup with you no matter where on Earth you happen to be.

I was thinking of using a dedicated server for this for a while, with visualization maybe: a VM for server, a VM for my desktop... Using EC2 for this instead gives you an option to relatively easily choose from several locations in different parts of the world. Also it forces you to learn using EC2.
How to Get Paid to Work on Linux
Would be nice to have a preloaded example - i had to look at the screen for half a minute just to sort out all the elements that don't make immediate sense if there's not context that you're accustomed to..
MDC, use this!
Eric Schmidt Stepping Down, Larry Page To Become Google CEO
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I wonder if this was in the plan all along. Schmidt acting as front-man until one of the founders has learned enough and garnered enough respect to credibly take over.
Samsung's HDTV-based app store passes two million downloads
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It wasn't impossible but it was indeed difficult.
It would be very interesting to see the percent of these "rags-to-riches" events compared to the less-fortunate population of China.

It is quite amazing that your father's university was covered by the government, and in a logistical sense, good to see that they want to promote intellectual pursuits.

Also, when you leave a country you emigrate :)

I hope you are living a good life!
The average includes (I think) your last 50 posts. Your karma is life-long.
NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators to Listen for Beacon Signal
Why isn't John a billionaire already?
Is it just me, or is the inability to select or deselect text on the page kind of obnoxious?
The one I use in Chrome is called "StayFocused", and it includes an option that prevents you from overriding it. I also use LeechBlock for Firefox.
I think your response hits at the intent of my question. It is widely held that "execution matters more than idea", but I personally get tripped up by feeling like something has to come from my own light-bulb epiphany to be authentic or ethical. Clearly this is wrong.

Is this model of scenarios more or less correct?:

1 copy a mousetrap design: bad
------- ethical/unethical line -------
2 build your own mousetrap (even if there's really nothing "new" about it), but market it better or present it differently: pretty good
3 build a better mousetrap: really good
4 invent a whole new way to trap mice: awesome, not likely

2 and 3 are probably where the majority of successful business ventures fall. Most 4's probably started as 2 or 3.
As mentioned in previous discussions on HN, software development is not the same as computer science. Just building stuff will probably make you a better software developer, but won't necessarily teach you theoretical topics such as algorithms. I think it really depends on what you build and what you are interested in. For example, writing a jquery plugin might teach you about frameworks and certain design patterns; building something like a recommendation engine for Netflix might expose you to some more theoretical concepts.

With that said, I think the best way to self study theory is to pick a university course that has posted materials online (MIT OpenCourseWare comes to mind) and try to finish it. To do something like that takes a lot of determination, but I think it could be well worth the effort in the end. Good luck!
So can we conclude that parts of Asia, primarily China and India, are experiencing what the US went through in the early-mid parts of the 20th century?

A development of the middle class and a wider gap between said middle class and the upper class?
This looks extremely interesting; I've felt for a long time that the social sciences would do well to study biological models more closely and adopt a more simulation-based approach. For that matter, it's often interesting to consider social structures as analogs of organs within the human body and vice versa. /handwave

Unfortunately, the Nature article is paywalled and eager though I am to read it, there is no way I am going to spend $32 when I could buy 2 or 3 books for the same price. (Why don't they just sell individual articles for $1.99 and split with Amazon or Google? They'd probably generate thousands of dollars on every paper, and many times that on pathbreaking ones. Extinction looms for the publishing industry as well as the banks if they don't adapt!)

Instead, here are slides from a 2010 oral presentation on the subject by May, which will probably be sufficient for most HN readers: http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/colleges/merton/notes/may...

More by May: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7181/full/451893a... (overview) http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/46/823.full... (technical paper referenced in slides, lots of meat)

And the study referenced by May: http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/07v13n2/0711part3.pdf from http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/2007n1.html

Transcript of related speech by Haldane: http://www.bis.org/review/r100406d.pdf

Loosely related (network/system theory): http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/policy%20page/EP_HammondNet... http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/~stoddj/MacroPrinc/Journal%2...

And a few unrelated economic modeling papers that might however be useful in this context, on bank runs: http://mfi.uchicago.edu/publications/papers/a-model-of-a-sys... model validation: http://mfi.uchicago.edu/publications/papers/correct-specific...
and DSGE modelling: http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/10v16n2/1010sbor.pdf
Just do it, I'm an engineer who only took two programming classes in college. Nearly every language I know is self-taught, I just jump in with a goal/project in mind and start building and learn along the way. Just started a php/mysql site, I haven't used it in years but should have a functional prototype after a two weeks.

With stackoverflow, tutorials, and google once you get the basic terminology down (so you know what to search for) it's really easy to build as you go. Then you also have a portfolio to show when you're trying to find a job.

Programming is more of the logical thought process of how you work through a problem. If you approach it like that, different languages don't pose much problem to learn since they all adhere to the same basic format/structure.
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Why April 4th? Symmetric date. Hidden meaning? :)
I do sometimes the "close your eyes and care only about breath and nothing else for 30 breaths" thing. It sometimes helps me to get back on track when my thoughts start completely spinning off.
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Google CEO Schmidt replaced by co-founder Page
I do not meditate because I fear that doing so may cause me to ascend to a higher plane of existence and I'm not prepared for that.
@cgs1019: It's been a a while since I've read the commenter guidelines, and I was due for a refresher.

Without wanting to drag this out (and I'll end this thread after this comment), I did nothing that goes against those guidelines. I'm sarcastic in public like this all the time and don't think a joke like this is too uncivil. I wasn't baiting anyone to downvote me. I wasn't even complaining that I was. In fact, I even agreed with people that did.

As I hinted at in my follow up: My brand of humor that works better on other sites isn't exactly suitable on HN. I get that now and will act accordingly.
Before I decided to start meditating, I read a ton of material on how and why to do it and none of it really stuck. So instead, I just sat down on the floor and started thinking.

At first, it was just free-association. I would let my mind wander, noting rather passively the landmarks along the way. As I refined my process a bit, I was able to spend more time noting than wandering, until a single topic could span weeks worth of almost-daily sessions.

So I firmly believe that there's no one right way to meditate, but there is a deep and proven benefit to setting aside part of your day for contemplative, abstract thought.
Plus it's easier to scale up EC2, with all their other cloud features available nearline....
He said that he mainly ate sweet potato or yam (I'm not really sure of the difference).
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