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And now I have my stupid typo all over the Internet under my real name. How embarrassing. (Worse---I work for a network appliances company!)
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Google's process is broken because it generally presumes job candidates know what specific job they want, and they don't. To put it in contrast, I also applied to Microsoft and they immediately assigned me a specific recruiter that I could email directly. Google needs to give job candidates a person to contact rather than expecting talent to go online and do that weird "job shopping cart" thing they have on their website.

The other reason the hiring process is broken is because it's totally backwards. The hiring process doesn't indicate any appreciation of talent. Talent in this industry consists of wanna-be rockstars. Talent wants the company to say "Hey, you're great. We want you. What's it going to take to get you here?" Google's approach, like many other companies, is "Go online, email us a resume, and we'll get back to you whenever we feel like it." Most people with talent are going to say "Forget that. You got it backwards. You need me more than I need you."

To put it in perspective, think of how professional sports teams recruit college athletes. The professional teams do every damn thing they can to get college athletes to agree to join the team. They send out recruiters that pay for meals, make the candidates feel special, and everything else to make the talent feel appreciated. That's how you recruit talent. Taking the approach of "Go online, do our rinky-dink job shopping cart thing, email us a resume, and we'll get back to you when we feel like it" doesn't attract talent and never will.
I can't imagine how I used Excel before I learned pivot tables, and it still makes me appear fairly godlike to my co-workers.
Never new how this actually worked. Thanks for sharing. I hope others have some good suggestions.
I obviously don't have hard numbers on this but I can say from my own experience we purchased macs exclusively to build iOS apps for clients. We run a pretty lean shop so we viewed buying macs just for web dev a luxury item. We spent the money early-on on bigger monitors and beefy PCs for less than getting some MB Pros. However with iOS apps being something clients now want, we had to spend the money and of course buy the devices to test. The money spent upfront certainly wasn't trivial. But I admit we could be the anomaly; maybe we were the last shop on earth still coding on PCs. :)
Sure if you live on the coast in a bigger city it can be quite hot (I like it but I appear to be an exception; most people just whine about it, native or import alike), but if you just move to the mountains above the coastal cities the temp is just fine. Or the Sierra Nevada; fine there too. It's much greener too there. Of course then people whine they cannot see the sea and they came for the sea and the beach (but that's just import :)
What calendar software do you like? I've been looking for a good one, but I have yet to be really happy with any.
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More info:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-4491....

If you scroll down you'll find the "consultant for the marketing" MIGHTYTHOR who responds to some questions. Funny that it was exactly today, last year, that he replied.
True. The point I was trying to get across is that lock-in doesn't necessarily stop devs or people from jumping in. The potential to save or make money is to me the more powerful driver.
>>It's not, and not by a long way. For example, there was no damage caused by any aftershocks, which was incredibly lucky.

Actually that wasn't luck, the plant is designed to handle violent earthquakes, it would be astonishing if there were an aftershock greater than the main shock. Anything signficantly less than an 8.0 was part of the design.

And yet the reactor vessel was breached. Given that it was already breached, I believe a significant aftershock (not of 8 magnitude, but maybe a 6.5-7) would have caused additional damage and/or spread contamination worse than it was.

>>People are told these reactors are safe in the event of a terrorist missile attack - it's pretty clear they are no where near that safe.

Think about that statement for a moment. The energy released ina 9.0 earthquake is the equivalent to 475 million tons of TNT, or 23,000 bombs the size of the one that hit Nagasaki. [4] If North Korea dropped a nuclear bomb into the plant it would clearly destroy it, but there isn't a terrorist organization on the planet that has the capability of deploying that much energy to the plant.

You and I both know comparing the "energy released by the earthquake" with something like a deliberately positioned shaped charge on the reactor vessel is silly. A properly designed shaped charge would be almost infinity smaller, and yet almost sure to cause a breach - eg: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/m15...

It's pretty clear that a "sensible" terrorist organization wouldn't need anything like a nuclear bomb to cause a significant incident, and probably a leak too. It's always been claimed (since Chernobyl anyway) that the reactors have defenses in depth and multiple containment layers. It turns out that this is misleading at best, or a lie at worst, because the outer containment vessels are - in some cases - only designed to contain a pressure leak. Sometimes (eg this case) they are designed to blow out if the pressure is too much!
Does this app have its own data store that it syncs with iCal or does it just use the built-in calendar data store? I am always much more skeptical of trusting yet another app to sync properly (no duplications, lags, etc). These apps tend to make life harder since I have to deal with their issues rather than just being a better interface to the same data.

I'd love to know.
huge electrical bills.
Google Calendar does have 'natural' event creation, except they call it Quick Add.
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Gets stuck at "Freeing unused Kernel memory: 124k freed" on my Cr-48...
Please please please add something like MS Project...
They would fall in the short term and then rise when a new CEO would be found. I doubt Ballmer would be able to stay as CEO if Gates went against him. Gates is not worried about fluctuations in the stock price of Microsoft. He's a long term investor.
Interesting that this is on the Mac App Store, mainly because I didn't think that Apple ever introduced a proper API to add icons in the menu bar.
From the sounds of it:

You generate (on Braintree's site), a RSA keypair and you use the public key and JS library they provide.
You call a JS method on the fields you want to encrypt like credit card number and CVV, and it encrypts it using the public key.
When an user submits a form, you send the encrypted values to your server, and then you pass them off to Braintree's API as you normally would.

Braintree then decrypts it on their end using the private key. If you set it up properly, you are never aware of the users credit card number, CVV, etc.

It prevents your servers (if it's setup properly) from ever knowing the credit card details. SSL only prevents somebody from seeing the data as its sent, your server will still know the plaintext details.

It doesn't fix the fact that if your JS or the forms itself are compromised, credit card details can be leaked, but the transparent redirect setup has the same issue anyway.
You know who complains about slavery? Slaves. I've never heard of a plantation owner who complained about slavery.
Ask HN: Best ways to bill when consulting?
I'm starting to do some work as a consultant/freelancer, while I transition from a full-time job to working more on my own projects. I've already set my hourly rate, and I'm wondering: what should I be doing when billing my clients?

For example:

* How often do I send my clients a bill? (Every two weeks?)

* What should be included in the bill? Do I simply state the hours worked * hourly rate = total charge, or do I list a breakdown of what I've done?

* Are there any particular products/apps I should be using (e.g., I've heard vaguely of http://www.getballpark.com/), or is it standard to simply send a plaintext email?

(Hopefully I'm not being too anal; I just don't want to look like too much of a newbie.)
I think they spent 8.5 billion dollars for the skype brand. It also reduces competition. In the article it sounds like Microsoft Research has a good amount of tech of their own. I almost wonder if Microsoft Research has the next big thing, and they're planning on using skype to put it out there.
"I've never heard anybody who WAS hired by Google complain about anything."

Yeah, I don't badmouth my employer in public either.
Ah, if you're talking about politicians that's a completely different issue - then you have a good point, because changing the law requires getting a majority of legislators to vote in favor of reform. I'm talking strictly about litigation.
It's a trust issue. One of those companies has repeatedly broken my trust on a very important issue, the other not.

I know gmail scans my message contents for contextual advertising, but it would never surprise me if facebook subsequently sold my email address to advertisers based on the content of messages, both current and historical.
The developer does have an option to add a contact email address for support, but it's so rarely used by customers that it serves little purpose. It always amazes me how large tech businesses can dismiss such large flaws in their design.
Remote Timing Attacks are Still Practical
Show HN: Later Locker: for content that sucks on your mobile phone
To be honest, I think one of the biggest problems with using a Microsoft stack is licensing. With Linux/OSS infrastructure the only limit in terms of flexibility is your imagination. Want a server? All you need to buy is the hardware. Want to change the OS on a server? Just takes time and effort. Want to change your infrastructure from a few big iron boxes to 10x as many smaller boxes? Again, just time and effort and hardware costs.

In contrast, with an MS stack you have licensing and purchasing friction at every step. You get mired with infrastructure inertia, you don't want to waste the money you've spent on buying OS/database licenses, you don't want to spend new money on new licenses. Even when the money isn't very consequential (and in most operations it's not) the mere fact that budgeting has to be involved in so many technical changes often reduces flexibility and development velocity. For example, what if you want to merely investigate a potential new server configuration? With Linux you can perhaps find some older hardware and spend some time prototyping a new system, and if it doesn't work you've wasted time but you've at least learned something. With Windows you have to commit money before you've completed your test.
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"Genius" may be overstating things a bit especially now that Rails has gotten pretty popular. You do find some people in the Rails world who are a lot like PHP programmers[0] these days, and you do need to take care to weed those out. That said, you'll probably have to do a lot less weeding out to find somebody to work on a Ruby project than a .NET, Java or PHP project.

[0] In this context, a "PHP programmer" is not simply a programmer who uses PHP, but a programmer who uses only PHP and is almost certainly clueless about CS fundamentals.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Russell%27s_t...

You can say that I have not disproved the existence of a teapot orbiting the sun, but I would counter you saying that you are being patently absurd.
Hey HN,

Just thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this weekend.

It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone. Later Locker lets you email a link to the webpage to an email address and have it automatically appear on your computer. Sites like the http://nytimes.com or http://newegg.com are kind of annoying to view in your mobile browser. So, you send a link to the webpage from your phone and automatically appears on your desktop!

Still really rough, but would love any feedback/suggestions you guys have!

Using mailgun for parsing!

- Benny
Ask HN: Government involvement with the Internet and Computers
This is not a conspiracy or paranoia thing. I've noticed recently that the U.S. gov't is slowly trying to regulate and control the internet and computers in general (mostly the internet). The problem is that these senators and representatives don't know what they're talking about and don't understand how technology works. It seems like they're being fed lies from big companies.

Should we do something about this? Setup a website or organization? I'm NOT talking about anything like anonymous; something legit and that will actually work before its too late. What are your thoughts on this?
I've got it, though I don't really know how to use them yet.
If any caller can find out if I am on a call or not (among other details), it could be a big privacy or even a security issue.
I am not saying Apple isn't doing well, just that they are great at consumer products but "meh" at business products. That is not a problem though. They are great a consumer products and I admire their ability to release a product without what would be essential features to others because they are not satisfied with it. For example, cut and paste was missing from the iPhone until v3.0.

Apple is great a certain things and at deciding to focus on those areas, such as dropping XServe and WebObjects.
I like the emphasis of the "real" online threats, as opposed to what they might have thought we could imagine were "perceived" or imaginary" threats.
Heh Armor Games got one of those today and they don't even use in-game purchases, they got Lodsysed just for having a free version of one of their games!
I've noticed some serious interest from a guy at Barclays in New York to start something along these lines. He's been showing up at the NY Machine Learning Meetups talking about it. Not sure if it's for the bank, or for his own thing though.
Even AOL attempted anonymity with the released search data by simply replacing personal information with IDs. But given enough search terms, people were able to find out quite easily where and even who the person is [0].

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/AOL_search_da...
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Likewise, only trusted callers can. Think your mother ;).
I thought it's a great piece of sarcasm targeted at people who are obsessed with "getting things done" to the point when they don't even think if stuff actually needs to be done or can it be done in a better way etc.

But I can see some people are seriously disccussing it? Now I'm confused.
God, I hope so. If there is any industry more deserving of a disruption, it's the fumbling, backwards telcoms.

Sadly, it requires so much money to fight them that whatever replaces the telcoms might only be slightly better. I will take that, anyhow.
Or they could really go for it and buy a carrier. Perhaps Sprint might start looking tasty?

What I would really love is if they innovated in the Wifi / unlicensed spectrum space and made a p2p type mesh system. Then even if you don't have Wifi you can piggyback on nearby handsets to "hop" to a Wifi point. This would require deep integration into the handset and opt in to make it totally transparent to users. Skype seems to be about half of this equation and maybe deep collaboration with Nokia could be the other half.

Having said that, people are so used to Wifi working well that they don't realize what the limitations are once you try and scale it into different situations. Start moving more than 5mph and you'll suddenly see what all that technology in "real" cell networks is there for.
It's creme-'de'-la-creme, baller.
I wonder when they'll drop the concept of "versions" and just ship "Windows".
Bing adds Facebook 'friend effect' to search, hopes you 'Like' it
Blog spam. Why isn't this a direct link?
We all want that day to arrive faster, but Nokia means nothing in USA, and sure they are still quite powerful in the rest of the world, but I think carriers have enough strong options right now to not care about whatever "threats" Microsoft or Nokia would throw at them. WP7 is virtually nowhere, and Nokia is declining fast (lost 15% market share since 12 months ago! - 26% left).
An API to easily create a full Texas Hold'em game
It's actually Greek, sed cui significat?
Whether Groupon is overvalued depends on its price to earnings ratio. What is its current P/E ratio?
Paywalls for scientific research are evil.

Here's a copy of the paper: http://209.20.67.195/misc/lamc3.pdf

(See my profile for why I do what I do.)
You best bet would be the job description for the job you're applying for. You could also check out glassdoor.com to see what previous interviewers have encountered.
I'm not really trying to refute the broader point you're making, but Passport existed long before OAuth. Late 90s I think.

They're only trying to do the same thing in the most superficial way. Passport was Microsoft's attempt to do single sign-on across the internet by centralizing authentication. It never really caught on. The only place I saw it was on eBay for a few years, nowadays I think it's mostly for MS properties.
Easier to get bought than hired?
What do you mean by roots in science or engineering?
interesting, but wont this clash with US wiretap laws? As far as I understand, many states require two party consent
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@JasonFreedman That's great if it works for you, but personally I feel that you're just putting all the risk with the employee, which is shitty.

If someone is out of a job, the last thing they want is a 3-week gig. Yeah, I get that "well if they're good, they'll probably be allowed to stay". I wouldn't even consider working for a contract-to-hire position with a "few weeks" of guaranteed work. As a business, the risk is on YOU to hire the right person. As an employee, you're offering me what, maybe a month of rent while preventing me from going on most other job interviews? That's not a risk I'm willing to take. I'd rather do 3 interviews every day and have 5 jobs to pick from at the end of a week.

Also, the projects...I'd guess that the projects you have people work on aren't very beneficial to your company, or are so focused that they might not take advantage of the talents of the employee.

On the flip side, I think working with someone is the best way to get to know how they are / can be as an employee, and sometimes I feel that otherwise good employees will stumble on inverviews, so giving them some time to really prove themselves can be a good option....but I think that by limiting yourself to people willing to risk a few weeks on a long interview are going to be the most desperate of the desperate.
On the eve of a huge product launch -- the HP TouchPad -- wtf kind of CEO goes and scares all his troops like that over one quarter?
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Excel can access other data stores such as databases using ODBC.
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"1) a good GPA "

I dropped out of college (with a ~3.9 GPA) and I know many people with 4.0s that can't build SHIT in front of an IDE.

Your method ranks glibs over passionate people who are socially awkward.
"I don't see how a system can be both egalitarian and meritocratic."

Egalitarian: education is free for all, and richs and poors (normally) go to the same school, the one of their town, until at least 16. Egality of chance.

Meritocratic: but after 16, you go to the university or a grande école according to your abilities/ranks. The best can go to Polytechnique, the good can go to a grande école or a good university, the rest goes to the other universities (and it's still free for all).

It doesn't matter if your parents are poor and if you were born in the country and not in Paris, if you're great you can go to Polytechnique. And no matter how rich the parents, if you suck, you won't go to Polytechnique.
A combination of both. If you constructed a list of the top technology companies, few to zero of these would appear on it.
There's a very nice counter argument to the objection of obviousness: if a given invention was obvious to the skilled man at the time of the application, and the invention is useful then why can't you find it in the prior art?

Basically the argument, which I find quite compelling on one level, is that truly obvious stuff is known and citable. Very simply novel inventions can seem obvious once they are presented to you. I found this a lot examining patents - they would often seem obvious but nonetheless be absent entirely from the prior art.

However, to answer some of the proposed solutions there is also the aspect of presentation of the invention to the public domain. That is, even if it were possible for an engineer ("the notional skilled man in the art") to create a close enough solution if they are set to work on a problem this does not provide a reason not to provide some form of patent protection.

The deal is that for disclosure of a workable, industrially applicable invention that a limited monopoly is granted. The monopoly does not only reward but also encourages. Whether others could solve a problem is not necessarily relevant to rewarding those who have addressed it and solved it. Do you see. You want to motivate progress in the relevant arts by rewarding those who solve problems in those arts by the sweat of their brow.

Re ability of patent officers: a judge can watch ice skating and tell you if the people fall over, if their toe-step is dramatic interpretation of the music or them tripping, if their Salchow is wobbly, if their outfits breech regulations, etc., but possibly barely ice skate themselves.

That said in the UK at least there is a good deal of art-specific expertise so much so that the patent office makes a substantial income hiring their examiners out to large companies to do "commercial searches". Mind you when we assessed international searches for the US ones were nearly always useless and had to be re-done (WO patents entering the national phase would sometimes have pre-existing examinations by foreign examiners, usually US or EPO).

>"more useful as engineers"

I don't think people stop being engineers because they become patent officers. That said they probably would be more use to the human race using their skills in a more directly constructive way but this assumes a lot about the world that just isn't going to happen. When there's no greed and everyone works for the greater good then we'll have no need for patent officers.
Since I can't see comment scores (sigh), I don't know how well voted this is.. but it ought to be at the top of the comment list because it's the answer to my question, exactly.
I would actually recommend against Rails, unless you have a fair amount of programming experience already. I really like it, and Ruby is a wonderful language, but it's extraordinarily complex. It'll get you from zero to something very very quickly, but the "magic" behind the scenes will inevitably bite you, and the solutions can be difficult to grasp. It's also a very quickly changing framework, so you will have to watch out if you change versions, even fairly minor ones.

If you take your time with it, it can work, and there are a fair number of very good guides for it. But be willing to take the time you need to really understand what's going on.
Ed, thank you, it means a lot :). Hope to see you again before my next time in Miami.
My contact information is generally available in my profile. I realize that permission to contact is only implicit by that, I'll update my profile.
>"But now you can just quit paying him, and try again."

Which is great for people trying to make rent who are one paycheck away from living on the streets. Dick.
This article doesn't describe how the iPhone 4's noise cancellation technology works.