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Hmm - I think it implies it pretty obviously that the delegation step is what makes it too complicated. Personally I agree - I don't see much use of that additional redirection. It insulates you a bit from the provider - but I would not use OpenID for things that need that additional security.
I disagree that it isn't currently broken. I can't think of how many sites I've completely passed up on because I didn't feel like going through yet another registration form and having to create another username and password. Ever since I began actually using openid on sites, I've been really looking forward to a time when I could just go ahead and log into an interesting new site with whatever open ID I happen to prefer at the moment.
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Facebook's new version drops IE6 support. If they maintain this, it will force a lot of people to upgrade.
I forget where I heard this, but supposedly the Mail "Bounce" feature does more harm than good. Whatever method it uses to bounce is easily identifiable as fake, so it's only good for tricking humans who don't know any better.
The answer is obvious and right before your eyes: you can't.

This problem has been examined again and again. The only way to find people with sufficient skill in any field is to test them (formal graded test, not idiosyncratic problems).

No one has ever demonstrated a reliable technique for selecting "great" software developers (or great scientists, or great engineers, &etc).
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It's certainly not surprising that Chrome is taking market share from Firefox rather than IE... the people who are likely to use FF are the ones likely to use Chrome.

What's more interesting about this data is the huge jump IE got on Monday. It makes sense, lots of people who are required to use IE at work might use Firefox at home on the weekends.

Of course this might mean daily browser market share stats are statically flawed.
I don't think stories like this are harmful. People read them, look around, comment and that's the end of it. That's not so much the case with the politics/economics stories, which are the ones I have a problem with.
Not to be a downer but you really do get what you pay for. For $500 to work with someone over a few weeks you're only going to get the kind of person you don't want.

You would be far better off, especially in this venue to explain your cause (it is non-prof, after all) and see if there are some people around here that might be interested in helping you come up with a good design.
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Supply and demand also may be a factor.
Making love for longer than 5-10 minutes seems like the exact opposite of marriage. Maybe that's the point, gawking at how peculiar non-married people can be?

If he did the exact same thing to an ugly chick he'd be mercilessly mocked.
As I mention in the article, you don't need to break down the whole task into 15 minute increments - just the next chunk.

Think of it as a kind of extreme-agile approach. Don't plan the whole task ahead of time (well, do plan roughly where you want to go), but before working, do break off a small chunk of the task ahead that you can do in a short time.

I've conducted all sorts of coding tasks in that way, from building new functionality (easy - just make sure you don't break old stuff while building new stuff, until the new stuff is ready and tested, and work in small increments) to major, multi-day refactorings (always do one tiny bit of the refactoring at a time, and commit as soon as it's done).

It doesn't need to be "tested and working" unless it's visible (or non-trivial to hide). If it can be hidden easily and doesn't impact other existing functionality, then it's easy to maintain in a closed state.

With SCM's like Git, you can do that committing into a separate branch so that you even have a "meta" roll-back ability, in case you find out halfway through that actually you were going in the wrong direction.

PS: Also, 15 minutes is just my ideal time length for each sprint. Adjust that for yourself - the key concept is to close tasks regularly, not to worship an egg timer :-)
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I find that a 15-minute chat about a related topic that's not on their CV (i.e. something tangential to their "career") is a great way to sniff out hackers. Being a hacker myself, I have a very sensitive bullshit-o-meter and fairly varied interests, and I can quickly figure out whether that person is a "career programmer" who will end up disappointing, or someone who's got real passion for the job.

Add to that an intelligence filter (well, I have an affinity for smart people too), and maybe an informal chat about some past projects that they've worked on if still in doubt, and I think I can recognise good programmers even on a text chat system.

In fact, I spotted our last hire on IRC and was about 80% sure that he was someone we wanted to hire, after just 30 minutes of chatting.

Someone already posted the link to my article on how to recognise a good programmer - that breaks down the process I follow (though it's more internalised by now).
I'm not a business guy.
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I guess we have differing experiences then :-) My current startup's CEO is also our founder + product lead.
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Either San Francisco proper (especially SOMA), or around Palo Alto / Mountain View would be my suggestions.

Most of the meetup type events I've been to have been in SF. Lots of startups are based in SF too (of the winter 2008 YC companies I think only a handfull are still in the valley, the rest are in SF or elsewhere).

Startups seem to congregate in or near SOMA in particular. The three SF JS meetups I've been to have been in SOMA: Hi5, SlideShare, and Serious Business. Also: Twitter (and their old office's new residents, Get Satisfaction), Engine Yard, and numerous YC companies like Disqus, SnapTalent, Xobni, Justin.TV. And lots of others I would probably know about if I actually lived up there.

But the valley is great too. Of course there's lots of startups there as well. Palo Alto and Mountain View are both quite nice. But be careful because there are lots of boring suburban and strip mall type areas in Silicon Valley.
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Exactly. It's akin to asking, "How can I tell that I've found Mrs. Right (or Mr. Right) during the first hour of talking to someone?"
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Do we really need headlines like this? This isn't "US Weekly" or "The Enquirer"...
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Sit down for a week with each candidate, perhaps with all candidates, in a hackathon. Solving a real world problem. Then you can see who is worth what, their strong points, their weaknesses. It costs you time, but it's --in my experience-- worth every minute spent.
Cappuccino can win if it does just one thing:

Make an IDE with a blank page and a bunch of "tools" on a toolbar. One can drag a tool to the IDE, double click it and type alert('hello world'). I remember when I first did that using VB5. How exciting that moment was when the dialog displayed.

Make the start very easy. What the web needs is a gui builder.
The snapshots seem to be closer to hourly: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp...
I'm sorry but those few numbers really do not convey any deeper meaning.

First of all, there is not enough data to prove that the shown variations are greater than the standard variation of browser usage.

Then, Chrome usage has not settled yet. I mean, who is going to give Chrome a try? My mom, who is using the-installed-browser, and is completely oblivious about alternatives? Or the Firefox 3 users, who probably tried Safari, IE8 and Opera, too? Every new browser will trigger an initial hit with those people just because of their curiosity.
Then again, any new gadget will, so what's the point?

Let's wait some weeks (or months) and review the browser adoption then.
Many years ago I watched at documentary on porsche/ferrari recordings, even F1 recordings, being played in small cars like a Citroen Ax. There was some noise cancellation going on, and a synchronization of the high-end engine rumble with the gas pedal. A mind-blasting effect.
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I was referring to the price he stated in his original post (he said he didn't want to pay more than $500/wk). I'm living in the mission now and paying much less than $500/wk (but I have 4 roommates).
He fixed that and now it resizes them live much faster than the cappucino version.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you, I'm sure one of the WYSIWYG companies will try to tackle this (Dreamweaver already has some JS routines for certain things), but the web will never _need_ a GUI builder.
I interviewed someone recently, someone much older than me, and it was a strange experience. We talked through his career, early on he had done some really interesting things, attacked some problems from unexpected angles and won big. But as we progressed through his career, it seemed to fade. Gradually all that early fire was crushed out of him and he became a 9-5er. So I thought, do I hire him and maybe try to turn him back into what he was? Or is it too late? In the end he was rejected by the other interviewer anyway, but it was a tough decision, and I could have forced it if I really believed in him. But it just goes to show, an interview can open up more questions about a person than it answers, and there's just no way to tell without actually working with them for some time.
I don't know if raised levels of testosterone necessarily indicates sexual arousal

It doesn't. Test can be raised through exercise, for example.
Damn right. I nearly got run over by a Prius the other day, they are like stealth machines. My vote is they should blast whalesong from externally mounted speakers whenever anyone is sitting in the driver's seat.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296255
The C programmers said the same thing...
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Interesting slides, I like the rocket ship/driving analogy. A few quibbles/clarifications:

From slide 13: "Learning: cross shard joins & transactions aren’t required"

Do you mean that there was never a time where you had to do a join or transaction between shards? Would this in turn imply that your data was embarrassingly parallel?

Also, just-in-time here seem like it refers to rapid architecture iterations. I was expecting something ec2/appengine-ish, maybe this is just a problem of terminology overloading.
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Disagree. More likely they realized that sustainable revenues from teenagers was a better bet than being the online equivalent of a 1-900 number, then having parents pull the plug and dispute charges.

Save the general concept of a long-term play, I see very little here that implies anything about the free service -> monetize later path.
Ask HN: What is your database sharding strategy?
Need some feedback from experienced DBA on how you would go about sharding a mega huge database. Assume you would want a app-agnostic strategy that you can deploy with any application.

Range/Modulo/Hash-based partitioning?

Table-level sharding or DB-level sharding?

What sort of architecture? Do you have a centralized lookup directory at db-level/app-level? I don't like this idea as I don't want to have a single point of failure.

What about a DHT architecture for the DB servers?

How do you deal with the loss of joins?
I am sure Microsoft could have patched IE6 themselves years ago, if they wanted to.

With IE8 out, they probably don't mind if IE6 gets "fixed".
I would probably give them a problem that involves processing/handling a large copious amount of data and compare their strategies.

Usually the great programmers come up with clean, elegant, efficient and scalable solutions.
My father has a tiny box in the shape of a coffin, about 15 cm x 4 x 4, that takes a coin and then a dead hand comes out and grabs it, followed by a nod of the skull in one other end. Mechanical, from the 70s.

A machine whose only function is to (amuse and) turn itself off, is indeed more interesting. Just sharing memories.
When hiring you should be thinking like a business guy.

You are dealing with a high level of cost (direct cost and opportunity cost), not to mention a massive degree of risk (people are not predictable).

Therefore it is worth some mitigiation - and the budget for it depends on your assessment of (risk * the total cost of a mistake).

The mitigations (such as a few months initially contracting for potential new hires, running internship programmes, recommendation bonuses) can then be costed and compared against the savings you make by reducing the probability of, or the cost of, a hiring mistake.
Oh I see. So it's different from Me.dium.
It does way more harm than good.

Spam is sent mostly from forged addresses, so when you bounce the message it just gets sent on to the poor sucker who owns the mail address that was forged.

One of my domains was used as the 'from' address for a big spam run, and I would cheerfully strangle _everyone_ who bounces spam after recieving 90,000 or so returned mails that had not originated from my mail server in the first place.
But there are a lot of inexperienced computer users, who just don't know how to upgrade any software. I think most of them use IE6. If those people will see your site is broken, they will just not visit it - they will not even know the reason is their browser.
IE6 isn't going anywhere anytime soon - at least in the corporate space. There are a large number of crappily written (but essential) intranet applications tied to IE6. As Google tries to push Gmail out to enterprise customers, its finding it's got to keep supporting IE6.
Set up a competition geeks would be interested in, then try to hire the bests (for your definition of bests).
This person might make a good engineer.
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I read about a study a few years back that required participants to spend some time with a member of whatever gender they're most attracted to. Each pair was required to (I think) do something slightly exciting and challenging together, talk about something significant, and look into each other's eyes a lot.

If I remember it correctly, several of the pairs from the study were engaged shortly thereafter.

So the answer to your question is simple, but not for the reasons you think.
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I'd not hire someone who had so few personal ideas to hack on, that he'd do every programming competition that came along.
A wholesale indictment of American capitalism, if I've ever seen one.
I'd give a real world problem that is quite large, for example: Develop a school management system which synchronises across several computers.

I'd ask for 2-3 possible ways of designing the architecture. Then just drill down to the details, ask about the technology they would use, how they would go about implementing the algorithmic parts of things, the networking part of things, etc.

You'll get a good sense of how the person works on a high level as well as on a more detailed level. You'd also find out if the person is current on available technologies.

Algorithms are pointless to know, very rarely does one use that knowledge as a real life programmer. I know how quicksort works, but I've hardly ever _needed_ to know, and I've NEVER had to implement it.
Cool concept - but the last place I'd want to have to avoid adverts is in a text book digital or otherwise! Let's hope their business model remains add free.
AskHN: Do you participate in any programming contests?
do you do so?
Yes, although it only runs on our servers, unless we were to share the code. Alternatively, you can start collecting it from the NWS and build your own. :-)
I've been following this for weeks in The Economist. They recommended that the Fed do this, but I honestly didn't think it would happen. Here are a couple recent articles if ou haven't been following:

Recent background article:

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...

about nationalisation:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1....
Hackers are usually driven by that which is interesting. Some people, however, are more driven by that which makes them feel that they've accomplished something. While boredom precludes my doing something like this well, I can admire the doing. :)
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I ask questions about two things that seem great predictors. The first is interest in music. I'm not sure why but people who can read music and play any instrument well tend to make great programmers. I have no explanation for this. The second question is what the highest level math course they had was and what they found hard about it. This one reflects a personal bias. Knowing the answer for myself gives me a rough measure of how hard the person can think and their ability to handle abstractions.
Not really. Both were chartered by Congress, and at best are considered quasi-private. This position (being quasi-private) may actually be worse than either totally private or totally public, but in any case isn't anything close to unfettered capitalism.
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Makes a lot of sense. Something the big corporates should be taking heed of - it seems the higher up the structure you go the larger percentage of your day is consumed by the one hour meeting! A lot of the concepts remind me of the strategies Ricardo Semler talks about in his book Maverick - a good read if anyone's interested.
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Repeat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294915
In this particular case I don't see how this is not causation. Unless they made a huge blunder in the setup, like showing sexy pictures with some cars but not others.
The sound of the cars is a constant. It's not influenced by the subjects nor by external factors. So correlation in this case pretty much indicates causation.
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Like I've said before and I'll say again because it's important to realize:

Computer languages are just as much social/cultural/psychological constructs as they are technologies.
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Yes, but he said "American capitalism" not "unfettered capitalism."
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A video as well! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyOgDlUWfFE