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>Google still does plenty of testing. And we still get messages from people who wonder if they’ve been hit by malware. But it feels like this is happening less. Ideally, the company would regularly advise people of when a test is underway.

Have they not heard of "New Coke"? Constant, minor flux is accepted much more readily than periods of non-change followed by a big change.
This is not that important. What's important at a big company is title or pay grade; after you're there for a while, it's going to be very hard to get a significant raise. But when you're coming in, it's very easy. Plan how long you want to be at the company, then ask for the title and salary you want then. Otherwise you are just going to be bitter, because the people that have no programming ability but have been warming the chairs for ten years are going to make a lot more money and have a lot more decision-making power than you.

Remember, as a programmer: they need you more than you need them. There are plenty of other places to work.
France announces action on Libya
Reading on iOS devices will go directly to the app, which I appreciate. That said, I would prefer a transitional page to the developer's site with a description first, and then be given the choice to view the app in iTunes or the App Store.
Quora is growing and the more people we hire the more we can do.

You can actually seem when a question was asked on Quora, if you click on the last activity timestamp on the question. It's just not that easily accessible because we want to emphasize the fact that each Quora question page is something that will last over time and not be transient. The page should mean the same when the question was first asked and when others visit any amount of time later.
Strongly agree =). Once I was coding assembly and I thought I might be able to avoid operating-system-specific graphic APIs by going through openGL.

Unfortunately, both openGL and DirectX are C libraries. A graphics driver is just a C library translating openGL api to your cards undocumented internals. As a result, you talk with C calling conventions and C data structures (which are a chore without a C compilers help).

This shouldn't limit innovation. It is just specifying the calling convention and structures (and choosing ones that are easy in ASM). A C library would then sit on top of the ASM one, which is the natural order of things =).
Not everyone goes for yoga. It's not mandatory for all. There are times when only a handful of the team goes. Same for team lunches together.

Thanks for the compliment!
They're already planning to do just that: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-5-en.htm

($185,000, with $5,000 down to apply.)
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The best answer depends on the magnitude of the payments. Are we talking about penny/dollar payments or O($100) or O($1000) payments?
No he's not. Kevin is a product person, a tv host, but if by tech skills, you mean ability to program, then no.
Show HN: synchtube.com Synchronize YouTube videos
As I write on the site: "synchtube allows you to instantly create public and private rooms where you can synchronize YouTube music and videos with up to 50 people"

I've been working on this on and off with a friend, and we just recently made a big push to make it stable and scalable. I never thought I'd say this, but I think I'm finally happy with it now. The code feels clean internally (whew), and the site presentable. That being said I wanted to show it off!

This app was inspired mostly by coincidence. At the time my friend was studying for med school and wanted to watch surgery vids with friends. I was in a long distance relationship and wanted to share YouTube videos with my girlfriend. We talked, realized we both had the same idea at the same time, and then just built it. It was definitley a interesting (and painful) experience to architect this type of app.

Please let me know what you think, feedback would be great.

Should run on most browsers, not IE7-8 though.

Hope you can check it out: http://synchtube.com
Depends on how he's incorporated, as an 'eenmanszaak' he's not.
MindSnacks is the cutest thing I've seen all day.
Thanks for enjoying, do you have a suggestion on how to improve it? Not sell hiring at the end perhaps?
I started out in a medium company not really doing anything exciting, but doing it fast (and in .NET... bleh!). I decided to go the startup route and tried that and failed twice over the next two years. At some point I got fed up with job hunting and decided to move into a bigger company.

It did wonders for me. Not only did I learn all the things I couldn't with startups (managing 200+ webservers, 75 DBs, tables with over 100 million rows etc...) but I was able to fine tune exactly what I DO want in a career.

Every opportunity offers something unique so its just a matter of extracting the things that benefit you until the point at which it becomes boring or you stagnate. Then move on :)
The site never comes up for me.
French jets starting bombing Gaddafi's military
Well color me stupid. I suppose I'm going to have to be more careful about what I call RPC.
in the book.
Just wanted say thanks for all you contribute. Your textbook manifesto is inspirational. Also, I wanted to offer some encouragement on your Complexity book. It looks lke it's off to a great start.

Any chance we'll see a Clojure version of any of your books? It seems to be shaping up as a good choice for scientific computing.
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Bhoomika Chawla was born as Rachna in New Delhi, India on the 21st August 1978. She is a Nick Name is Guddiya. Her father was a military officer and her older brother followed his line of work. Bhumika Chawla completed her schooling from Delhi and then shifted to Mumbai (Bombay) to pursue her acting career. She started her campaign in glamour world with Ponds talcum powder advertisement.
Just because we had different interpretations, you shouldn't assume I haven't read the article.

To me, there is a difference between saying: "From my personal experience, when my friends ask my advice, I present them these reasons for not buying a house," and: "Nobody should ever buy a house."

If nobody bought a house, who would we rent from?

Update: fixed spelling
Microfactories, eh?

See also:

Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (2004)

http://www.molecularassembler.com/KSRM.htm

Advanced Automation For Space Missions (1980)

http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/

As for the idea, ehhhh. Obviously, companies have powerful incentives to reduce the price of manufacturing facilities, and yet they still cost millions of dollars.

Poor nations are not poor because the tools aren't cheap enough, but because of official corruption, or uncontrolled nationalization, or because the state can't maintain a monopoly on violence.

If they actually pull it off, it would be great, and might have some actual commercial applications, (like how the OLPC project resulted in the creation of the netbook concept, despite the OLPC itself being quite useless) but the stated use case just doesn't exist.
I guess too quick a tie-in to a recruiting sell?
Was that a 100% mortgate or did you put down a deposit?
Would there be interest in a TalentRoulette type of service for tech recruiting?
I'm curious if there would be interest in a service that helped identify tech talent and more specifically, help identify specific talents in a verifiable manner? (eliminate resume inflation)

Tech recruiters get pretty significant referral fees. I'm inclined to think this could be community powered, and I know the HN crowd can poke holes in it or validate it.

A lot of companies have little “tests” they give applicants to help validate knowledge/domain expertise.

Community members (individuals or companies) could post these little quizzes/logic tests/tasks and the individual can take them. It would need safeguards to protect it from being gamed.

As a person claiming technical proficiency in a particular area, they can login and ask for a “task” to be completed. Webcam fires up and records said user while completing the task. The task is completed online. As said user is completing the task, the author of the task is watching. The system is recording the audio/video, the time to completion, etc... and storing it on the server for later review. Upon completion, the contributor of the task verifies that they witnessed completion. The task can have time limits such that if it isn't completed within x time, it's automatically expired and marked as incomplete and session is terminated. Everything is anonymous while tasks are being witnessed and completed (i.e. task taker isn't aware of task author and task author isn't aware of task taker).

As the person claiming technical proficiency, I don't get to select the task given to me. Instead, I select subjects of interest (CSS/JavaScript/HTML/Ruby/etc...) and the system pairs me up with a random task and task contributor that's available to witness my completion of it.

My userid/handle is able to store a history of my tasks for employers seeking talent in those areas. Every time a user is engaged/contacted by a potential employer, the contributor is paid a royalty of some sort.

With sufficient questions/contributors and randomness of tasks and task verification, it seems the gaming of the system could be minimized.

Task Takers may not be actively seeking employment – they may do it for the challenge. But they can also put in their profile (again, anonymous) that they would be interested in new job opportunities given x conditions. When an employer reaches out to said individual, they can accept or reject request (protecting their anonymity in event employer is known to them or currently employing them).

Would this be a service anyone would use? Problems/features not mentioned/thoughts?
Housing is an investment, a home is not.
and many advanced users accustomed themselves to it while working without GUI

Ah, the old HN anti-GUI bias again.

As for the eyestrain issue, I suspect people don't remember how bad CRT monitors were until near the end. Getting a consistent, bright white was difficult and very expensive. Horrible dot pitch meant bloom between very bright and dark colors. Color-related eyestrain just isn't the issue that it used to be.
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This is a beautiful piece of link bait. His advice might make sense if you live in New York, but it doesn't work at all in most places in the country. If you live in the suburbs you can't find places to rent. If you have kids and care about where they go to school, you don't want to follow this advice. If you live in a city like Cleveland or Detroit or a hundred other Midwest towns where the price of a house can approach $50k, it may not be worth it either.
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As an outsider, I can't give Quora's opinion on how many people it takes to run/develop Quora.

I would say that given their ambition, it'd be a big mistake to ever look at its current state, as if it were a finished product, and then ask exactly what it would take to make/maintain that visible feature-set. That's leaving out everything that led to that point – which is not a clone of any other site – and all the options they've created for next steps, and all the hidden expertise/systems for keeping it vital.

You can get a superficial clone of lots of sites by treating their current instantiation as a frozen spec, and bidding it out. But you can't discover new constellations of winning features, and adapt the site endlessly to new problems and opportunities, without staff that knows and likes the codebase as if it were an appendage of their own bodies.

P.S.: Regarding your PS, click the timestamp representing 'Latest Activity' on the bottom of the right column; you'll see a dated log of all question-activity, back to when the question was initially asked.
Not so clear cut. A needs to put something down for the house, let's say the standard 20%. B invests those $20k at a conservative rate of return, say 5%. After 15 years, B has $41579. Also, A will have to pay maintenance costs on the house, which are very hard to estimate. On the other hand, A's house might appreciate, he gets a tax deduction on the interest paid and B's rent might go up over time. My point is there are a lot more factors at play here.
Coal plants releasing more radiation than nuclear power plants?
How can he make such sweeping statements about the financial implications of buying a home without actually making calculations based on real numbers? Depending on real estate to rent ratios, the calculation varies dramatically.
Point #1 annoys me a lot. It would be possible to perform many interesting analyses on your own (think Venn diagrams, association graphs on natural language) if the numbers were accurate. But they are not.

I actually heard first-hand from a Google employee an explanation for why these numbers are like that. She said something like, "they are only estimates." Well the point is, if these estimates are as inaccurate as they are, why put them up at all? Doing so is almost dishonest-like.

I almost have a feeling (warning: getting into conspiracy territory here) that the search recall numbers are inaccurate on purpose, so that no third-party analytics could be built using them.
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I actually like those desks, I just think it's funny.
I understand that your point probably is "as long as you pay your mortgage and taxes, no one can kick you out". I think the likelyhood of being kicked out in both instances is extremely low if you continue to pay your rent/mortgage.
He also says >>> housing is a great investment right now. I think housing prices have gone down far enough and I can list the reasons why housing as an abstract investment concept is going to go higher from here.
I think the general concern is that today it's clients. Tomorrow it will be something else..
Sigh. English grammar is hard. The word "than" is a conjunction (like "and"), but it can also be used prepositionally. Your second sentence is more colloquial American English, and it's not wrong, but it's also not wrong to keep the nominative case ("I"), as in your first example. If the verb in the subordinate clause is the same as in the main clause, it can be assumed.

tl;dr Being a grammar nazi is a mug's game.
your email address is only visible to HN admins. To make it visible to everyone, put it also in your profile's 'about' section.

Anyway, you can email me via the address here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
There is something heroic about taking a bullet for your friend and not shying away from your duty for your country (even if it is run by evil maniacs). Couldn't help feeling sad.
I studied a fair amount of NLP (a true passion of mine) at school and after I graduated I spent several months working on tech which did this (and other things). That was intended to be a startup, but sadly, at the time, my business sense sucked and I couldn't decide on a good product to fit the tech to (the fact that I was developing tech before I had a strong sense of my product is already telling).

I since have started a completely different (and profitable) company and the code has just been bit-rotting. I'm not sure what I should do with it. Keep it around in case I ever decide to do a business model like some of these companies (I probably don't have time for that)? Open source it (time-consuming to clean the code and what do I stand to gain from that)? I guess I could use the open-sourced stuff to help me find contracts for freelancing, but I just don't see a lot of NLP remote work being offered.

Still, I hate seeing the code rot...
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You must have been typing while I was. Yes, thanks for providing that perspective. I echo your thoughts too.
You wouldn't take a photo and project it on a wall. You'd whisper into an ear.
"NBL is JavaScript 2 / EcmaScript 4."

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/

Of course ES4 was scuttled so I guess you're right. It can still be created.
I'd be interested in your recommendation for dollar amounts as it's actually likely to be 100s at a maximum really. Thanks
I am. All browsers -- seems to be a network issue (I'm on Verizon FIOS).
Sounds obvious now, but I remember advising quite a few people "not build their house on other people's land" several years ago.

It was true then, is true now, and will always be true.
It sounds like you are looking for something like Obopay [where you can send money to their bank account if they give routing information].

I would check with your bank. IIRC Bank of America provides this service.
there is no war for talent. It is just a market that started to favor seller a bit (smart buyers buy in a buyers market by the way). When i recently "came up on the market" (laid off), 2 companies gave offers under the asking price, one din't make the offer at all as it was "above the range", and another company (that i even didn't hope to get into) offered ~15% more than the asking price was and of course i'm happy to be there now.
Blueprint is also the name of a grid framework for HTML/CSS.

http://www.blueprintcss.org/
> He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

surely i know that it's impossible to 'parse' words out of the speech without talking to language speakers all the time. when English speak i understand a half! actually I (as many Russians) appreciate that you know Russian and tried to understand what he was saying. i guess it's seldom for a native English-speaker to learn a language out of the list of Spanish and French :) Russian is the hardest of the wide spread Indo-European languages, i think, due to all it's flexes and stems, which you know ('umru'='i will die', etc), so you're cool :)

> the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.

AND there might be something in that illegible part of the compilation, deciphered with the special techniques. for the show it was complied with the clear part.

actually i dont know what would i cry in this situation, definitely wouldnt greet the nation etc :)
Someone already fixed it and has a pull request on the github repo.
https://github.com/chrismatthieu/CHATS.iO
In the 13 years that I rented, I was forced to move once because the landlord's kids were moving in, once because we had a baby and the apartment had lead paint, and once because the building was being renovated. My point wasn't merely theoretical.
But surely the interest makes up for this. It wouldn't make financial sense for the lender otherwise; why lend money to homeowners if it won't beat inflation than, say, invest it in the stock market?
If we want security, programming languages must either make secure code easy to write or insecure code impossible to write. (Or both!)

PHP doesn't do well on either count.

Writing secure PHP code isn't impossible, but it's tedious even for seasoned developers.
What does the tech do exactly?
I had to stop at the 'hate' for cached pages. He doesn't really expand on it at the linked article, either: http://daggle.com/search-engines-permissions-moving-forward-...

In fact, he does not put forth any argument at all. There is talk of the fact that it was indeed ruled 'fair use', and he essentially just disagrees and considers it evil, and expects that to have some weight.

I fundamentally disagree: it is fair use, I have personally found the feature useful more than once, and I really just don't see it as evil. As he mentions, publishers extra-concerned about their content and copyright can opt out; for everyone else, it has let the web be a little more stateful. Letting people disappear controversial content from pages early on in a public backlash just does not strike me as having any benefit.
With small payouts, a significant percentage of the payments will be taken by the middlemen.

With large payouts, people will have to wait a long while before the first payment, and may end up believing its a scam.

If you dont mind can you describe what you are doing?
My thoughts exactly. People in 2003 were so spooked by the dom-com bust that people started reflexively yelling OMG BUBBLE! to any uptick in startup activity. Seems about the same now. Most of the startups I'm aware of have decent business plans and customer activity, in contrast to 1999. But it's easy to forget how frivolous 1999 startups were compared to now.
I've went from a startup to a large (15k+) company and back to a small company.

The overall experience is that it's hard to foresee what workplace factors are important to you. Perhaps the ones you take for granted, but won't be at the other place.

After leaving the startup, I had high hopes for better organized workplace at larger company. Boy, I was wrong.

Untill I took a goot root at the large company, I never imagined programmers and managers could create so many, countless even, artificial problems. Every tool in our toolbox was inadequate, but changing that was next to impossible (decisions taken at the uppermost level). Most people exhibited the ``don't touch it if it works'' attitude that drove me almost crazy. The software would pass the tests but a lot of weirdness was swept under the proverbial rug with copious amounts of special-cased code. Software delivery took months. We were implementing features in an ungainly way, and had no way of reporting a much better implementation of very similar feature was possible on this hardware. The list goes on...

Now I'm happy at a 60 strong company. We aren't a software shop, but a small dev team builds software for internal use, marketing purposes and for our co-operants. We iterate quickly and deliver features in between 3 hours and 3 weeks. Every person in team has vertical responsibility -- oversees all steps of development of his feature. We are in touch with users (both internal and external ones) and work with them closely (that turned out to be an important factor to me I never appreciated before -- I thought I'm a lone wolf, turns out it's not the case).

But the best thing for me: people genuinely like using my software. Feels great! :-)
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> and died in panic

What makes you think that's the case? In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe tells of test pilots in out-of-control aircraft who remained firmly in command of themselves, trying A, then B, then whatever they or the ground crew could think of, right up until impact.
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Not right now it's not. :-(
The bulk of it was:

News article title extraction. News article relevant thumbnail extraction. News article text body extraction. Generating publicly traded stock symbols from business news articles. Some Techmeme-style document clustering.
It's human error, but it's not a bug. There's no mistake being made by a human due to faulty thinking or execution. You can have a good faith misunderstanding about what an author's intention, especially if your tool does what you want, and it's author decides the lib is headed in a different direction during the next update.

Not your fault, not the author's fault, just two different intents.