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What the naysayers are missing is that it probably IS a good way to get hired. Yes, he's going to get dismissed by a sizable chunk of resume readers for all the reasons listed: no Facebook account, doesn't fit into HR's straitjacketed process, harder to mentally parse the handwritten low-contrast text, the focus on presentation buries the content, or just plain crackpot. But he needs to connect and stand out sufficiently to just one hiring manager to be a success.

He may have lowered his mean perception among readers of the resume, but he blew the variance through the roof. And that's what you need to be picked as the one best candidate for a job hire. Your mean perception has no relevance when you need to be 3 standard deviations above the population mean to get your desired result of being the top 1 out of 300 candidates.
How does, "a new pair of trainers and a television" help someone get off the street? This article is sort of light on facts.
Sigh. This reminds me of the story about the poor guy in San Francisco who developed a small business (selling flowers? shining shoes? can't remember) but was caught and fined and made homeless (he'd just put down a deposit on an apartment) by the city because he didn't have a business permit.
When these companies hire people without telling them the percent, what caliber of person do they think they're getting?
I was asking what definition of pure capitalism is being referred to, not what the proper role of government is.
Does this also work with HTTPS?
If everyone reported bugs this way my life would be over 9,000 times better
I don't know or care about all the particulars. This feels like pure greed, not some cool strategic play.

In other news: this is the first decent thing I've read on TC in six months!
Also the motivations of the state are based on the motivations of any government. Buracracy is unavoidable.

If you're going to be handing out money, it would be better to give it to genuine charities that have an interest in helping the homeless. They generally will be better (imperfect of course, but better) at spending the money to help the most people.

The homeless oriented charities I'm aware of do amazing things with small amounts of resources, and they have to scrape by.

A real shame when we're blowing a $3.7 trillion dollar budget every year.
The Ruby approach is that you should have good enough unit tests to make sure that you can pass everywhere you want. That is also a generally good idea with other dynamic languages, as you get checks that the compiler provides on static languages (like making sure that if you renamed a method, you renamed calls to that method everywhere).
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Meaning remote enough to have at least two methods of connectivity? Yes. Constantly. Even used my early windows smart phone to run performance tests through HP's performance center while on vacation in Paris (no ide, only web controls).

Being remote can be very hard for most people. It took about a year before I was able to handle discrete paid work and personal life. As a self-employed consultant, I learned some very valuable tricks and techniques for being highly productive.

Test yourself for a at least half a year if you can before deciding on something like this. As mentioned, stepping out of your normal social life in addition to changing work (where many of us socialize) is a really hard adjustment to make.

Without changing work habits, preventing procrastination and finding a sense of accomplishment without physical direction and feedback most people will fail miserably.

For remote and travel related work:

1. Always have a spare power supply and uninterrupted source
2. Always have at least TWO methods of connection, even if 1 is dial-up, test it frequently - know where your nearest source of reliable internectivity is and how long you need to get there
3. Your customer and employer will only accept internectivity issue problems as an excuse once - after that they won't trust you, which will limit your options and may end your remote work, making it worse for everyone else
4. Create office hours and keep them, regardless of time zone, at first try and match your co-workers when possible - for the first 3 to 6 months, treat your personal life the same as you would in an office - don't stop work to do laundry or go shopping "just because you're home" - especially if partnered with someone who "has a real job"...

When I got started I found it most useful to spring out of bed, start-up the computers, feed the cats, make coffee, get into sweats and get to work. I stopped for a shower and lunch and shifted gears. Over time my day ended up being over by 2PM wherever I was, getting more work done than I ever had in an office, being more creative and still have time in my day to solve problems, question the universe, garden, learn cooking and French... and excel in life.
Sorry we read this article 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2210635
What's with the witch hunt? Search has been dirty for years.
Leo focusing on value offered!

Imagine a programmer resume. None of this "have you worked with ruby"... "I know how to construct complex system that are able to scale such that the cost per given unit of load declines as load is increased", etc.
Seems like something over which the local media would be quite willing to raise a stink.
My unsupported speculation is that the public see the homeless as people that tumbled downwards because of mental issues and addictions. What's not often considered is the community that they live in - they still have social interactions; they still feel pride and depression and snark and remorse. Mommying them by giving them a bed and curfew isn't just demeaning to a homeless man, it's demeaning to anyone. I'm not sure if this is the right solution but I'm glad to see they're trying new things.
If you are being paid market rate, there is no reason for you to know the % of equity offered until you bring the company to an important stage. But if you are discounting your salary for equity, then it should be in writing.
If you're talking about the Community Reinvestment Act then perhaps you should go into more detail about why you feel it was responsible:

http://www.businessweek.com/investing/insights/blog/archives...

Supposedly 50% of loans were done by institutions who were not regulated under the CRA. There were plenty of institutions making bad loans w/o any pressure what so ever.

Wall Street pretty much deserves about one hundred percent of the blame. No one investigated or cared where mortgage back securities were coming from or how viable they were. Just because the temptation is there to take advantage of something, doesn't mean you should. For a sector that keeps shouting about how regulation is ruining the economy, they are very poor at self-regulating themselves, as shown by the housing bubble. They needed to learn restraint & showed they actually had none.
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Am not going to argue whether a machine can "really" be alive, "really" be self-aware. Is a virus self-aware? Nyet! How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you tovarishch, but I am. Somewhere along evolutionary chain from macromolecule to human brain self-awareness crept in. Psychologists assert it happens automatically whenever a brain acquires certain very high number of associational paths. Can't see it matters whether paths are protein or platinum.
While I'm appalled at the incident and upset, I don't think this belongs in HN...
Zynga has revenues in the hundreds of millions, based on "You pay us money and we pay you pixels." They have had explosive growth. Betting on that growth to continue, FB to not bleed them dry, and users to continue loving their product is a bet, but it isn't crazy like saying a pet food company which loses money on every shipment would make it up in volume and hit the same valuation.
Indeed. I really tried to use Google Bookmarks for years, and its horrible browser integration (no toolbar integration plugins at all for Safari and Chrome, only a semi-functional one for Firefox) finally made me give up and switch to Xmarks yesterday. A few minutes of effort and finally all browsers are in sync.
Sure, everything's a trade of value if you define the term "trade of value" loosely enough. As far as I can tell, that's more of a semantic game than an actual revelation.
Unfortunately, the amendment didn't specify where you can assemble and petition. Government in recent years has been making sure that's a "free speech zone" that's quite a distance away.

They removed him because they don't allow you to petition the government, you know, within earshot.
I would call it a protest, a silent one, and with some degree of effect as well especially if cameras ever showed the audience. However, such prompt removal for such a passive/peaceful gesture is troubling.
Good memory!

You're thinking of Larry, the shoe-shine guy: http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-06-04/news/17208451_1_larry-...

The local media indeed jumped on it, and raised a stink.
it's almost a CouchApp :) http://couchapp.org/page/what-is-couchapp
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You are willing to begin regulating what is and is not protest speech?
"when Apple commands such a large portion of the global market for a key component it creates enormous barriers to entry for potential competitors. "

This is true, but it also creates enormous opportunity for potential suppliers of the component that apple has secured.

Apple's operating here to ensure they are able to meet their own internal demand. They have a lot of difficulty doing this, as was acknowledged in the last conference call. This means that they lose out on sales they would have otherwise made.

Over time, the component industry grows capacity to support Apple and everyone else. This does take time and is a competitive advantage for apple in the short term. But it is not sustainable. Meanwhile the long term pricing contracts on critical components is a financial (rather than supply) advantage.

But note that the barriers to entry are only for competitors creating a derivative product.

If HP or any of these other companies had spent the last 10 years working on a tablet design, they would have likely made different choices than Apple and likely arranged for a different spec components. It is only because they want to quickly ship a replication of the iPad that they are going after 10 inch displays.

If they'd developed their own touch UI and their own ergonomics they would have their own specs and thus be seeking different components.
There are homeless because the flop houses and super cheap apartments (think ten to a bathroom) have been killed off by permitting and zoning laws. To solve homelessness you just need to make it legal to open up a for profit ten dollar a night mens dorm somewhere in a city. Hitler lived in one for a couple years.

As it is the shelters are all government run and sane homeless people avoid them because of rampant drugs and sexual abuse.
Still kind of ugly, and not something which you want to litter than Django sources. Especially if you are going to put them all back when 2.4 support is dropped.
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That's not the point in question and you know it. Stay on topic please.
I suppose when Rosa Parks quietly sat at the front of the bus she wasn't protesting either.
Yes, but do your presentations have a guy smiling and winking in them?

I thought so.
Well said, but the post title doesn't say anything that would give an idea of what it is about. A lot of people would do well to read this.
Guh.

Shockwave Flash, 10.2. Fix it! ... takes me to Adobe's site.

You have version 10,2,161,23 installed.

The table below contains the latest Flash
Player version information.

Platform Browser Player version
Windows, Linux Chrome 10.2.154.12

Sidenote: I really wish Adobe would settle on using periods or commas in the version number. Are version number delimiters really localizable?
And the new one isn't much better: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/187533_6809274_...
Destruction. like an adult.
I was not. I was describing evidence of distribution being offered to justify seizing control of the domain from whence child porn was being distributed.

If I were a defense attorney, it's possible I could find myself having to represent someone on trial for that kind of crime. In fact, I have spent quite a bit of time thinking over that very issue in the last year, and the complex ethical responsibilities involved. Although I expect it would be a very unpleasant task, I would have to be prepared to do it as best I could, because that's what 'the right to an attorney' boils down to.

But I really don't think there needs to be any legal protection for the continued operation of a child porn website. The people abused during the creation of such material have rights too, which I think are a lot more important than the porn distributor's property right in a domain name.
Can you explain? (I didn't quite get the preempt part). Watson seems to be getting answers correct as well
So, to paraphrase your argument using another recent example:

"As others have said, the Amazon Kindle app browser redirect competes directly with Apple iBooks, meaning Apple would lose money if they left it in place. Apple still needs money to function, just like everybody else. Their updated terms are to either disable the browser redirect, driving people to use iBooks, or to enable in-app book purchases and take a 30% cut."

I guess "unreasonable" is a somewhat flexible term in the community depending on the players involved...
Thanks for digging up that link. Larry got taken care of because of the stink, but here are thousands of other stories of a similar nature, up and down the spectrum. Many small businesses started by "amateurs" run afoul of regulations, or simply discover that the tax burden is too much in the early days. Once when I started a small business it turned out I'd located my office in a special tax zone that wanted %3 of all revenue earned by the business.

I have a friend who spent 4 days in jail because he was caught near a bar without a drivers license. He didn't have ID, couldn't prove who he was and got locked up. They didn't let him make a phone call, and he stayed there until they decided he'd "learned his lesson". This one was sometimes homeless, but not a drunk or drug user. Just lost his ID.
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Am I supposed to cite Godwins Law now? (Just kidding... )

There are many cities where these permitting and zoning laws work as a subsidy for wealthy people. For instance, they do not want walmart and they do not want more apartments built in my town (which is a very liberal university town) because they want to "preserve its character"... but they go way overboard.

The effect of this is that home prices go up significantly and they profit when they sell.

This seems to be common among towns up and down the west coast. I've seen it in California, Oregon and Washington.

Artificial constraint on the supply of homes means more homelessness, but also, more returns for homeowners there.

So, they have a financial incentive to vote to prevent these apartments from being built.

And I'm talking $600-$1,000 a month apartments, not even cheap housing.
Why do you keep going on about civil forfeiture? That is not what I have been talking about at all. So you are opposed to it, so am I in many respects.

Shutting down hott_kiddie_porn_pix_4_free.com is quite different from impounding someone's car or putting a lien on a bank account. Please stop arguing with me about the latter when I have only ever been talking about the former.
Very creative Bro, if you were a developer/coder you would have gotten lots of offeres for being creative, business/marketing guys do not have much credibility especially in this community, good luck!
Anybody have an idea on how this was done?

Javascript by hand?
There is a desc tag:

<desc>Created with Raphaël</desc>

http://raphaeljs.com/reference.html

Awesome stuff.
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This pretty great, but it's also pretty anecdotal. How were these 13 chosen (probably not randomly)? What is the outcome going to be in 6 months? A year? Five years?

Based on the (admittedly not extensive) work I've done trying to help homeless folks get back on their feet, a lot of people do just need some money to get their life back in order. For instance, it's hard to apply for jobs when you don't have an address or a phone number for people to call you back at. Giving someone the ability to not have to worry about making their rent payment for a couple months can be huge.

But a significant portion of the cases I've seen can't be solved this simply. Despite what this article says substance abuse issues /are/ a big factor for a lot of the homeless people I've worked with. Providing cash money can alleviate some of their problems in the short term, but there are generally more fundamental obstacles that are holding people back. If you don't address these issues people can very easily fall back into the trap.

The best intervention I've ever seen for a homeless person is an employer who is willing to give them a steady job and be understanding about the difficulty of the situation they're going through. Anything that can get a homeless person to this point should be encouraged. Sometimes that can mean covering their expenses for a while to get back on their feet. But often it means providing substance abuse support; often it means teaching job skills; often it means connecting them with the right social service or civil society groups.
Very cool, but I'm not sure creating a site that looks JUST like a flash site is really the right direction... ;)
But it was; the walking worked, despite how it looked.
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We are two high schoolers who have made something the big G released right at the same time as us (literally a day after). While they have the Android side of things, we are on our third version of our app.

What the issue is, we can't figure out how to find or get users. Our app is called Gruburg, www.gruburg.com
I've had issues with gzip and wget, though I don't know if that was just a mis-configured site or something (and wget isn't a browser).
That's about $1,300. Or about $7.50 an hour for one month. This is about minimum wage. If they could get minimum wage jobs, they would, and they'd quickly not be homeless.

But they can't because students and recent graduates and stay at home moms, etc, get the minimum wage jobs.

If we eliminated the minimum wage, then all the jobs that need doing, but whose economic value is $2.75 an hour would come into being. This means that the homeless person would be able to earn that $1,300 in two months. If low cost housing were legalized, they'd be able to live cheaply while getting on their feet and saving for getting a better job.

Minimum wage is the idea that we'd rather have someone homeless and not working at $0 an hour than have them have a home and be digging themselves out working for $2.50 an hour.
Well it appears that at least the linked site does need flash. If you click on features and specifications the embedded video is flash (firefox 3.6)

So not quite true.
Except that "payment processing for iPhone applications" is a very artificial category. It seems the language would be more appropriate for a situation where, say, Apple was financially discouraging developers from porting their apps to Android; in this case, they're forcing developers to accept less money on their platform, which, if anything, encourages the competition.
This is awesome. I was expecting to see HTML5 and was surprised when it wasn't. The doctype is strict and a lot of the interface uses JavaScript. The center navigations use svg and Raphael[1]. Either way, this is pretty sweet. And so is the car.

[1] http://raphaeljs.com/
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I love how the first thing so many people do is post their results here, where they can be associated with their YC handles. Opt-out privacy, I guess.

That being said, I suspect there's not a lot of variance among most of the commenters on here, so maybe it's not that interesting.
But it's only 10 times revenue.
The best resume format I've seen is this: list your job duties in a plain English paragraph or two without getting too verbose. Directly after that, stick all the keywords for that particular position in a box. Move on to the next position and do the same.

This way the mouthbreather HR folk that just run off dot-points and couldn't give a fuck get their keywords, and the folks next in line who want to understand what you actually did and can understand what you're talking about can hear you describe it in your own words (plus refer to keywords as necessary). Short, plain English paragraphs speak volumes as to your skill in communication and that is picked up by those who care (ie: not HR)
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Or, for those who aren't quite ready to do a steady job, the legalization of interent or part time jobs. Let them work when they are sober and not when they are not.

Unfortunately the burden on businesses for "hiring someone" is so high due to regulations that it only makes sense to make positions that are full time, or part time with dedicated hours.

There are a lot of jobs that could exist where people worked some number of hours when they wanted to work, but where if they didn't show up for several weeks someone else could be doing it while they're gone.

Businesses would be willing to hire people on such terms (especially for some jobs like construction, or cleaning, etc) but they have to create positions that are focused on specific people due to the impact of regulations.

Hell, under Obamacare anyone who hires a kid to mow their lawn and pays them $400 over the course of a year has to file a 1099 on them!
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Give it a second and it replaces it with a javascript site.

I have click to flash set up and before I could click, it replaced.
Milton Friedman's idea for alleviating poverty was a variation of this idea. It's called the negative income tax and the basic idea is that people below a certain threshold get cash from the government each year. The further below the threshold you are, the more cash you get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Until it's possible to do audiotool.com you are not even close to be able to replace flash
Good luck discouraging Apple from doing something with a one-off small claims court case. :|
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Who has experience with hiring a virtual assistance from India or the Phillipines? Was it a positive experience or negative? What's a reasonable rate to pay per hour? Should I use elance.com or somewhere else?