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I think the concept of online portfolios have been around for quite a while now.
These are what I call Resume 2.0's http://mashable.com/2011/01/17/tips-video-resumes/
I can't buy NetFlix in the app so it's not relevant. The problem was in app subscriptions or purchases.
Having been recruited, and been forced to hire through a recruiter, I can honestly tell you that both employers and employees want to find a way around them. These are the guys that hang out in the most trafficked areas (certainly monster.com) and just try and pick off either the employee or the employer early so as to distort the market and increase barriers and inefficiencies. If the market is weak, then create something like behance.net or dribbble.com or github (and never throw in an extra 'b') where people can meet each other. Brokers distort Markets.
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There are a few comments from a previous submission here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622912

Perhaps most notably that the author of this piece is the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition to the three books reviewed, Crazy Like Us is definitely also worth a read. It's a more anthropological look at mental illness so it's maybe not quite as good as Anatomy of an Epidemic as the first of these books to read, but it's still incredibly fascinating.
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For my exam revision (university) I've been reading about the history of computing.

In general what happened with many (Pascal, Leibniz, Schickard, etc.) is that they had an idea yet the current state of technology and skilled workers was not adequate.

So, many of them learnt how to do build their ideas themselves. They learnt the necessary skills. From the textbook:

".. he designed his first machine and contracted some local workmen for the construction work. An unworkable instrument was duly delivered. As many were to find after him, having a good idea was not enough, one also had to master the arts of tool making and engineering."
Awesome interview that sheds a lot of light on how Abelson thinks programming should be taught. I really wish I could have taken 6.001 instead of 6.01 though as a CS student. I had a bit of an a-ha moment reading about the abstractions Abelson talked about in 6.01, but when I was taking the course, it went straight over my head.
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Hey erik, I was in the same boat. Here's my advice. Be proactive and target specific individuals who are doing interesting work. Then invite them out for beers, and pitch them your idea. If they are not interested, then their friends might be. Most people are not looking for work, if they are working, and these are the people that you want to meet. So just invert your search, and instead of broadcasting, start focusing on the individual.
LA has tons of tax breaks for new and small businesses. As a new business or one making less than $100k you pay no city taxes at all.

I have actually been quite surprised by how accommodating such a large city was in facilitating tax breaks towards starting my business there. The city clerks actually called me up and helped me file for deductions after I had completely missed deadlines.

Anyhow the problem with LA as a startup culture has a lot to do with the proximity of Hollywood. People dream big, and have a tendency to ignore the more pragmatic aspects of building a business over the long term. Businesses in LA tend to go big and flame out very quickly. It doesn't help that its relatively common for LA startups to be funded by dumb money from someone who made their bucks as a big dreamer. LA is unique because of its lack of tempered pragmatism, but unfortunately and ironically I feel like for a startup culture, thats its undoing...
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Or in the streets of Montmartre, sold as genuine Parisian paintings...
From the facebook and twitter posts, he seems like a troll or a literal crazy person. I don't get it.
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you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC

To steal means to deprive someone of something that by all rights they should have had. So the only way this could be construed as theft is if Xerox PARC's plan was to wait 20-30 years and then capitalize on the idea. But damn, Apple stole it at the last moment!

To prevent the world from benefiting from an idea just because it came to you first is the ultimate theft. Fortunate the Xerox PARC guys are not evil or dishonest and won't charge Apple with theft. If they don't call it theft, no one else can.
You've got lots of nice curves on your site, then these sharp angles in your green banner.

To my eye, it puts off the whole layout a bit.
The whole point of OO is that you don't want code reaching into the internal member data of the object. The real reason that algorithmic code reuse is so difficult in C++ and Java is that they lack usable first-order function literals.
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That's an interesting and objective viewpoint, and I understand completely where you're coming from.

Personally, my sole objection is that they knowingly violated the law for personal gain.

Is that excusable? Pragmatically, yes, but only because we tolerate it.

I would hate to live in that kind of world (even though we do), so I speak out against this behavior.
I understand where you're coming from. As other people have said (including yourself), this post is directed at a certain subset of business guys who don't bring anything to the table and demand too much. I certainly agree with you (I'm a current finance major who is learning to code so I can put out my own MVP and not be the person you describe), and I see these types all the time.
Maybe I'm not understanding something but if it's secure anyway, why would it matter.
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I got off easy with doing Set Theory with Greggo. I know that Cummings once taught it ... and assigned 6 homeworks! That class must have been impossible.

EDIT: I just read over their final ... and it looks as hard as either of the math studies algebra finals.
I agree with all your points and would like to hire you to code up my idea for mashing up internet memes and home improvement supplies. I have already purchased the domain name: lolcatphotosharinghomedepot.com. Although I have made this much progress already, I am prepared to offer you 5% equity in this endeavour. The combination of my prestigious Harvard MBA and my 1 year of consulting experience at prestigious Bain, Co. will assure our success. Please let me know when we can begin. Your first step will be to deploy an Oracle/Microsoft cloud server in the cumulonimbus formation off the coast of East Africa to handle the user traffic that I am sure will arrive shortly.
I'm not sure why I care if someone attempts to connect to my network and fails to because they don't know the password.
Facebook recently had job posting for desktop application product manager. These sofa guys seem to develop UIs for desktop apps.
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On the advice of people here on HN, I've started reading Whitaker's "Anatomy of an Epidemic", which is one of the books reviewed here. It's a solid book, but not doing a lot for me. As a counterpoint for pro-drug advertising it's fine, but it feels more like a journalistic expose than science. It's not that it's wrong, rather it feels like the author started out with a conclusion and then did a lot of fine research to find supporting evidence. I feel like I'm being given only half the story: a well-founded and less-told half, but still I worry that the author might have chosen to omit any evidence that weakened his case.

I'm enjoying another book (not reviewed in this article) that I grabbed off the new book shelf much better. "What is Mental Illness" by Richard McNally. He's a Harvard psychology professor who's served on committees for DSM-IV. It touches on a lot of the same issues, seems a little more current rather than historical, and by and large I trust that he's representing the field as he sees it. I also like the prose better: a fun combination of low brow and erudite. It's highly critical of the field, but also balanced in a way that I don't find Whitaker to be. http://mcnallylab.com/
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Do you really think Apple went through all this to kill off some tiny company building software for their platform?

There has been at least one "coincidence" of this sort before: http://sivers.org/itunes
I think the international and domestic food policies of many countries help to cause wars and starvation. But if I had to choose between having and eating my cake, I would prefer to let international relations slide in favor of growing food with my family, neighbors and co-workers, because I would rather increase the peace in relationships I can directly affect and growing and sharing my own food is a great way to do that. In fact, I do make that choice. Because I can see its benefits directly, I also encourage others to do it.

As for agrarian society I think we disagree on what it is. Typically the fundamental unit of agrarian society is the family farm, something virtually every developing country wants to consolidate and eliminate in favor of a city-based manufacturing and service economy.
Spoilers: his reasoning does not involve Vogons.
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You're right. I hadn't realized the compiler not only ensures the selector exists, but does type C-style type checking on dynamic calls as well. I was surprised to see that two messages with the same selector but different parameter types required a type cast to use.

Of course IMPs aren't identical if they take different parameters. This doesn't affect interchanging Objective-C types though. Yes, the arity and order are important, but the compiler doesn't enforce anything beyond that a pointer is passed for id types.
Some things I didn't know:

1-
While you can select only specific fields by using {fieldA: 1, fieldB: 1} as a 2nd parameter to find, you can also exclude fields using -1. Interestingly though, you can't mix inclusion or exclusion (which makes sense if you think about it), except to exclude _id. So {name: 1, description: 1, _id: -1} is possible.

2-
Sending SIGUSR1 to the running mongod process will rotate the logs

3-
We got a 25% memory/storage reduction by shrinking our field names. YMMV. I knew how data was stored, but I didn't know what amount we would specifically save :P

4-
Count returns the value of found documents regardless of paging. This lets you pull documents + get total # very easily. If you pass true to count, you'll get the actual returned # of documents.

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Replica sets either have a priority of 0 or 1...future versions will introduce more flexibility
That team will be here in Seattle[1]. Sofa explicitly says they're moving to Palo Alto.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2011/facebook-making-windows-mac-des...
There is a well-known patent strategy where you patent a technology, wait for other people to start using it, and then proceed to sue them for large amounts of money.

From the point of view of other companies these are hidden traps that could be anywhere. You're just doing business as usual, solving problems, and bam, you're told that you weren't allowed to think of obvious idea X because someone has a patent, pay up $10 million dollars. (Actual dollar amount varies widely.)

The really evil ones patent stuff, get their patented ideas into standards, wait until everyone is following the standard, then start filing lawsuits. Past bad experiences with this are why standards organizations usually require that participants license any relevant patents that are needed to implement the standards.
Ask HN: What is the greatest book you've ever read?
I am looking to buy some books for summer reading (Fiction and Non-fiction).
One network name I've enjoyed seeing recently is of the form "DEA Mobile Surveillance Unit #8". I presume this is a good joke rather than a clueless Drug Enforcement team...
Feels like a manifesto for the freedom of knowledge workers, love it!
It would be interesting to set '9.95 a minute' as the SSID and leaving the network open.
I'm a conservative and I was only offended by the barely descriptive landing page.
Maybe an application that has Facebook features + Facebook Chat a la Gtalk / Aim + Some sort of Skype integration to enable video chat for its users ..
It's quite hard to pick the "greatest", but I recently re-read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and it's still as wonderful as the first time I read it.
That page's background image is an almost-certainly unlicensed use of an image of SHODAN from System Shock 2 http://cyberpunk.asia/shodan.php?lng=fr

Not that that's super relevant; it's a hacker game, hacker website, SHODAN is something of a hacker icon, too, I'd wager, and I happened to notice it. Bleh.
> What is the added value of a black box representation of a black box?

The ability to make predictions.
I work for Atlassian (but not on JIRA). Just curious what was wrong with JIRA other than it being written in Java? Sad your leaving us!
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There's plenty of nerds here so I'm sure I won't be the last to nominate Lord of the Rings and Dune.
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Headline is not true.

Everyone who bought LinkedIn stock at $90 and sold it at $115 made a fortune.

Everyone who bought LinkedIn to hold long-term doesn't care about day-to-day price fluctuationns.

Why is DHH so obsessed with fluctuations in LinkedIn's stock price? Doesn't he have a business of his own to run?
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If only we had cheap bandwidth and SSL by default it wouldn't matter...
This is not even worth the time it takes to click and wait for the god awful page.

Attention is what this guy wants. Why are we even bothering about this on the first page?
"I feel like I'm being given only half the story: a well-founded and less-told half, but still I worry that the author might have chosen to omit any evidence that weakened his case."

I've been checking since the book came out and I have yet to find any intelligent criticisms of the book. There was one Amazon reviewer who claimed Whitaker was leaving out specific studies that contradicted him, though when I actually read them studies mentioned they either supporter Whitaker or else were orthogonal to the claims. If anyone has found anything intelligent on the subject I'd love to see it though.

It's important to remember also that the best case scenario is that these drugs aren't as outright harmful as the research suggests, the other issue is that most of the research supporting them is of extremely low quality, which is pretty self-evidently true.
I see it as a useful tool for culling resumes from Monster-type job sites. Submit a job offer, and candidates apply to it by solving a couple of easyish tests. You wouldn't use it to interview promising candidates, but to assist you in filtering out the promising ones from the rest. Think of it as one step above FizzBuzz.
What was that limit on data transmission via copper again? 300baud? Or was it 1400? Nice the way science always ends for idiots like this...
"The future extinction of the human species cannot affect you if you are already dead": I thought one of the implications of evolution was that we have a vested interest in protecting our genes, rather than acting solely on individual-level self-interest.

Edit: What on earth would cause you to downvote this?

Edit2: Thanks. I would still appreciate a comment if I'm 'doing it wrong.'
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I'd also strongly recommend Terry P's Going Postal and Making Money.

I have a long list of non-fiction books I've read and enjoyed. Most recently, I read Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters. Would definitely recommend it!
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I have no illusions of being able to be the technical side of this business. I was just trying to move things along, learn something (which was fun), and find a partner. A great technical partner and good compatibility interpersonally is key to the opportunity to having success. I (now we) haven't done shite yet, but at least now have the beginnings of a team. -Will
For some reason the info graphic doesn't load on my iPad. I have to open the image in a new tab for it to load... Otherwise, interesting but nothing new.
-All my friends are superheros
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
-Outliers ... and other Malcolm Gladwel books
-The Professor and the Madman

many more.
Thank you sir, that's the one. I was off by a few years I guess :-)
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Of course I agree, but felt like I should point out that this was another example of Apple picking up a ball Xerox "dropped".
+1. Indeed, the entire post seems to glibly sidestep the question of what rational humans would do.

The author implies that we only have a rational interest in what happens during our lifespan. But many of us, through childbearing or other means, try to leave something of value behind us.

Irrational? Perhaps. But there's no reason pure hedonism should be any less irrational.
While I think I may agree with your sentiment (though maybe not your tone), I think it's kind of humorous to compare interstellar exploration and colonization with modem speeds.

Edit: Curious about downvotes?
I'm not a huge fan of Java for web, but we use the latest JIRA at one of the companies I'm involved with and I'm very very impressed with how well the software functions. Way better than trac or redmine imo.
I'm sure there'll be plenty of sci-fi, fantasy, and tech- or entrepreneurship-related non-fiction books mentioned, so I'm specifically trying to approach from a different direction.

The two I've seriously got to recommend are East of Eden and The Count of Monte Cristo. East of Eden is Steinbeck, of whom I'm usually not a fan, but it was phenomenal and definitely made me rethink my approach to life (it was high school, so this was easier to do, but it's still a nice feature in a book). The Count of Monte Cristo is also a classic, and I'm sure I won't be the only one to recommend it, but it's absolutely brilliant through and through. Make sure you pick up the Robin Buss translation, though (unless you're comfortable reading in French, of course).
I used to call my network "Disable Networking" so I could enjoy the confused look of visitors.

It's since been renamed to be an in joke between my fiance and myself, which is even more enjoyable.
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1) Optimizely is a YC-funded company

2) Has no voting / commenting / flagging so it's a jobs post

3) Has no submitter so it's definitely a jobs post

I don't agree with the wording either. But I guess it's supposed to purposefully provoke. I wouldn't be surprised if they're running an A/B campaign on the page linked right now, or will be later on with a different jobs post or something. If so, kudos to them and smart work. I don't give much a damn about 'helping him get re-elected' however.
>Just think about computer chips. On any long voyage they'd break down so you need to be able to make new ones.

Chips are small and light enough that you can bring along a thousand times more chips than you need, at negligible additional cost. PCBs are a bit more trouble, but those are much easier to produce and recycle.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Some translations are better than others, but I have found The Emperor's Handbook[1] to be the best so far.

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Ask HN: In college, how much did you care about grades?
I have been looking at my grades for this year, and they have been extremely disappointing. I'm a bad test taker, but I'd be lying if I said that was the only reason for my sub 3.0 GPA. I didn't have the motivation to do well in tests because I didn't see the point in them; especially classes that are just requirements and uninteresting.
Don't get me wrong, I do love learning. It's just that I hate being "tested" like a lab rat. I know for a fact that I am hazy on details about things I learned 2 years ago, so what would be the point of testing? At the same time, there is tremendous social pressure to do extremely well. I know so many people who would freak out about a "B", and I have gotten much worse grades than that. :(

So HN, how did you do in college? How much did those grades affect your life?

edit: Added a little bit more detail
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Interesting, but is he willing to cover lost items or shipping to insane countries?
There's two levels of magic wand here.

The first is some breakthrough in physics that makes interstellar travel feasible. Not likely, but a staple of sci-fi.

The second is a series of improvements in nanotechnology making interplanetary colonies feasible (though less necessary).

And the looming confounding factor is that a "singularity" event might make all of this moot.
Considering how much people are charging in BTC for goods and services currently and the difficulty of earning BTC, I'd rather spend real currency.

Note that I didn't check the Newegg BTC prices. I'm only applying what I've seen so far and expecting nothing different from bitspend/Newegg.
"That's the same as the yield of the entire US Minuteman III ICBM force."

So you're saying there's a chance!
i kept a 3.2 which was exactly enough to maintain my scholarship. CS was a difficult major at my school and a lot of larger, easy classes suffered from grade deflation. a lot of times i decided to just take the B in classes i didn't care about.

i also did a lot of CS group projects on my own which led to a lesser grade but better learning experience. i put a lot of effort into learning material i was interested in and got good grades in those classes.

post college, my GPA has had absolutely zero effect on any facet of my life.
Why wouldn't this work for any store or currency? Or is this just a creative way to go long on bitcoin?
So if it wasn't for your scholarship, you wouldn't have cared about grades?
Didn't Hemingway or some other author do something like this? I really like the idea- it works.