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Ask HN: Anyone know a good online Human Resource Management product?
I'm trying to find a product to manage our HR work (position descriptions, performance reviews, KPIs etc). Ideally something like what 37Signals might make if HR didn't mean Highrise to them :-)

So far everything I've come across looks like scary mega-corp, windows, more buttons and menus that you can imagine, no usability stuff.
Has the author of that post looked at the distribution of reviews in other cases at all? From everything I've seen a bimodal distribution in reviews is not at all uncommon in the real world, especially for a product that is trying to be edgy.
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Point A sounds perfect to me. Why bother with GET at all?

For point B, I notice that I get an "x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest" when doing ajax() from inside jQuery. I assume this is not there when someone SCRIPT SRCs something (why would it be?), so that may be useful to someone.
Your hurdle might become your best friend, I think. When only a select few can do something, based on some criteria, that makes it so much more desirable for those who can't (yet). Then I would be dreaming of getting married to get a honeymoon package! :-)
"Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, like nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new. Culture like science and technology grows by accretion. Each new creator building on the works before. Overprotecting stifles the very forces it is supposed to nurture."
If you haven't seen it, Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music [1] is an interesting source of how different electronic music genres evolved and are influenced. It contains example samples of many tracks and I've found whole sub-generes of electronic music that I never knew existed.

[1] http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ (warning: autoplaying sound)
Black Hole Caught Eating a Star, Gamma-Ray Flash Hints
Not really going into specifics, I have used it when I have a database of information that needs to be tagged. I then put those images, articles, etc. onto mechanical turk and let other people tag them. It is usually a good idea to have 3 or 4 people tag the same item or do the same task, to make sure it is accurate.
Yes, I assumed that the light is spread over that area. I didn't assume it's spread evenly over a square of that area. Maybe the shape of the 0.1m² region wasn't important to whatever you had in mind, but then I'm really unsure what your point was since I'd already said I was assuming an area of 0.1m².

You can get very bright $500 business projectors. They aren't emitting laser light. If they were, they would have serious problems getting non-scary laser safety classifications. Part of that is because the rules governing laser safety classification are kinda paranoid. Part of it is because coherent light really is specially dangerous. (A 100W light bulb has a luminous efficiency of about 2.5%. A 2.5W laser is really, really, really dangerous.)

Anyway, you could do your eyes some serious damage with that $500 business projector. It just happens that there aren't such stringent regulations governing incoherent light sources, because the worst case isn't quite so scary as it is with lasers.
Lots of older drum and bass does sound very similar. Some of the newer stuff, like Pendulum, Sub Focus, and The Qemists, have taken the genre to the next level. It's much more interesting and exciting than in the past.

Pendulum - http://www.youtube.com/user/pendulumlive#p/u/9/X6BKBIOtRXw

Sub Focus - http://www.youtube.com/user/subfocustv#p/a/u/1/MYO_0Xfh58k

The Qemists - http://www.theqemists.com/youtube/video/OTGJW0-QPuw/
We tried this in rural Virginia as well. We got non profit status, circulated surveys and petitions and got some gear to start the roll-out. Everyone was super excited and called us community heroes. When the time came to actually sign up, and the rural-ites found out that the service would be 39.99/month, it turned out that dial-up suited them just fine after all.
We can add husband/boyfriend
In San Francisco, major bus routes are notoriously unreliable. It's not at all uncommon for one to just not show up, and the next one to literally be so full they can't let any more people on. There have been some complaints about the N–Judah turning back before completing its run to the outer sunset, but light rail in the city is much more reliable overall.

As with other suburban sprawl, the valley doesn't have enough density to pull off good service. Buses are infrequent and you may have a long hike to and from the nearest stop. Caltrain is fast and very reliable (IMHO, even fewer delays than BART) if you happen to be travelling between a handful of city centers (some stations have housing nearby), though they haven't decided yet how much service to cut due to budget problems (the worst case was going to be 8–5 commuter-only).
"Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone" -- Steve Jobs
He could give the "Alex" text to speech voice from OS X a run for its money.
I saw someone do exactly this with a 1541 at a party in the summer of 1990: up, down, up, down. It didn't quite do Apple's special rhythm, naturally, but it was quite a shock the first time I saw it.
While they're at it why even have a search button, remove it altogether! No sarcasm, we don't really need it.

Have some backup for those people where instant doesn't work and they look for a button instead of hitting enter. Maybe mouse movements after typing a search term makes the button appear.
Google Already had a Like Button (and other redundancy)
That's pretty sweet, except that when "they" declare martial law (which this project assumes), why can't "they" bust down your door and take your routers? I mean, if they can come arrest you now for eating too much power with grow lights or bitcoin mining, don't you think it'll be pretty trivial to smash down any door with a wifi signal behind it, when the tanks are out in the streets?
I great site to compare what different browsers support is http://caniuse.com . For example, you can see that IE9 and Firefox 3.5 are quite closely matched here: http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=firefox+3.5

As a web developer (and Firefox user), I believe that IE9 is miles better that any previous version of IE but I still think Microsoft have a lot of catching up to do. Hopefully IE10 will lessen the gap even more.
The funny thing about parts of rural america is that if the utility is a local (local phone company) and not Qwest, you can often get some seriously fast internet. Some town in ND have fibre to the home with pretty damn nice speed.
Adobe Flash now provide it as an option too.
You should have tried rural areas in Ontario. Wireless providers are making a killing signing people up for 60 or 70 dollars per month, not counting hardware purchases and installation.
Suggestion: Have the option to switch the embedded YouTube player to an embedded Grooveshark widget for higher-quality audio.
I don't think he meant monetary value, he just meant value.

The gold in the plating on my headphone jack has intrinsic value to me, measured nebulously in its quality and reliability. It has value to me, but it has no value to the market. My demand for gold-plated headphone jacks is currently zero and my headphones will never be a part of market supply. Supply/demand cancel out, so the market ignores me, and I ignore the market. But the value is still there.

Intrinsic value can indirectly affect the market by increasing demand. Obviously, at some point in the past, I had demand for a gold-plated headphone jack, and the market supplied it at a specific rate of exchange.

The question is, how does the value of intrinsic properties of gold, such as its ability to conduct electricity, compare to the value derived entirely from social factors, like its history as a medium of exchange and its current status as a trading commodity?

Social value is not intrinsic value, but it's still real value. The fact that everyone agrees something has value means I can trade it. We're getting extremely close to monetary value but not quite there yet. In theory, the socially-determined value of a currency could be measured in the same abstract life-enhancement unit as real intrinsically-determined value, and this unit still doesn't have to be money.

Monetary value isn't necessary until you actually participate in the market. And so I guess there is a couple of questions:

(a) If you could come up with a unit to measure all value, how does the intrinsic value of gold compare to the social value of gold?

(b) How does the intrinsic value of gold's effect on its market value compare to the social value of gold's effect on market value.
Cheers jedberg. For the fish and all that.
Another ubiquitous break is the `Apache' break:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ
Apart from the display latency this looks great.

What would be sweet but would never happen because most consumers don't need it would be a screen that can switch between normal LCD and a B/W eInk. That or the day of colour eInk arrives.
I'm in the same exact boat as you. Between my three parents, Mom, Dad & Step-Dad. They make over 200K+ and I get crap for student loans from the government. My father helped me get my AAS but I am now working on a BS and I receive no help from my mom or step dad as they believe this is my complete sole responsibility... It's definitely tough out here.
It has fallen for those. Boiling frog.
Golf Ball Headshot 
Ouch, what an idiot!
But the Internet will be the best way to fix those worries.
I was merely pointing out how easy it is to fake, although you are correct a third party site could not do this.

Atwood's point is that checking the "referer" will both be unreliable and, more importantly, lead to false positives; there are better alternatives, namely, double submitting cookies as I have pointed out elsewhere with regard to this article.
Keep in mind that prior to this, Matt lived in San Francisco. So while Indy isn't, say, North Dakota (hope I didn't hit anyone's nerve), it's not exactly in the top ten when people think of bustling tech corridors.
Guess just a difference of perspectives. It's unfortunate that you're willing to impugn this entire sequence of events and everyone involved despite having no real evidence that this was in fact done for PR.

But even if it was an elaborate PR effort, there is nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest. CSR activities of all types by mega-, large and small corporations can all be viewed with such cynicism, but if an article on a website and some more visitors to Snapdeal is what it takes to impact some positive change (water to a village), that sounds like a net positive.
Probably you're talking about http://guifi.net (only in Spain AFAIK). They've got more than 13k operating nodes in a completely 'independent of Internet' wifi network, but they also have gateways and proxies for Internet access.
I don't think it is eink but take a look at Pixel Qi screens http://www.pixelqi.com/
I've seen quite a bit of debate over whether the media is mischaracterizing what happened with the whole "SWAT-like teams" bit. Local law enforcement has said they didn't deploy any SWAT units, and, so far as I've been able to find, while the DoE OIG does own some shotguns[1], they don't have any real tactical teams.

Given the way the rest of this has been reported, it's kind of my suspicion that a bunch of investigators in "POLICE" raid jackets and a few shotguns got turned into a "SWAT team" by reporters.

[1] http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2010/03/18/why-the-dept-of-educ...
I was a computer science student (thankfully), so finding a job wasn't a terribly difficult task. However, I do think a CS student with a MBP is overprivileged. Throughout college I had a single laptop that cost $800 (which I paid for myself). I wrote and graded/proctored exams and problem sets, worked as a web developer for my school, organized presentations for a professor, in addition to doing internships over summers. After paying for rent, food and tuition (which unfortunately rose somewhere around 50% during my stay at Berkeley...), I feel that I deserve something better than a $800 machine, especially since I studied CS.

I can't possibly say the same about someone who did not work for everything else. If you got financial aid, that's for tuition, not for extra playthings. Use that money on tuition, books, and a basic machine, not a top-of-the-line MBP.

I apologize if I sound overly harsh of my peers who got off easy. I understand that some parents who are well-off enough to pay for their children's education should help out a bit, but I think it's unfair to punish a student because of his parents' circumstances.

I hope you can understand.
In my opinion, this article is worthless. Does it mention how much cities or houses don't succeed to get sold? No. Does it mention the percentage? No. Actually, it gives no numbers.

In any country of the world, you'll find cities, houses, building that are not acquired, for a reason or another. China has got more than 1 bn inhabitant, it's not unusual to find whole cities that are not alive yet. But this doesn't mean that there is a crisis or a problem; even a tiny one. A crisis when all the economy is heading toward that direction, and only numbers can prove that.
That wouldn't work for mobile, keeping a button there is best, it works in more usage scenarios.
Hard drive failure is probabalistic. You're just one data point. There are plenty of people who have seen a moderate number of drive failures, and some people who have so many drives fail that you have to check that they aren't tapping them with a magnet for good luck or something.

Not believing in hard drive failure because you haven't had any, despite the rest of the word telling you it's a fact of life... well, it says something interesting about human psychology, is all.
they borrow it
There have always been loads of sub-genres. The stuff you mention there is very commercial.

Looking at some of my vinyl from over 10 years ago, you can compare Jonny L http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qo1aoR96oI with Goldie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8u7MNG-ug8 or PFM feat Conrad (from '94) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxcMPPoZI7s, or Roni Size / Reprazent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwI0gbGEyuI.
His methodology?

"We all know that we are right, as the true value of DNF is around 65-70%. Thus, I’d say the 60-90% group of reviewers are The Good."

Srsly?
I agree it's tough, but it's not that my parents refuse to pay... I just don't think they can afford to pay, given the amount of stress they have from paying their mortgage. There's such a crude measure of "ability to pay" that it doesn't take into account the different circumstances; that a family sitting on a load of debt (1+m), making 150k (together) in the Silicon Valley on an underwater property, is not more well off than a family with no debt, a paid-for property, making 70k a year (with only the dad working), living in Florida.
Actually quite often for me, the instant search fails to load, and I'm glad the search button is still there to let me refresh the results...
He's right. That's a lot of redundancy. Google should integrate +1 with all their services, which I assume was their plan all along. What I'm not so sure of is if they were planning on keeping the other "likes". I sure hope not.

They also need to figure out more ways in which a +1 can be useful to the user. It just makes their search a bit better? I don't think that's enough.

EDIT: The reason I'm saying that is because, I don't think "making search better" should be the main "feature" of +1. Think of it this way. Say I were a regular user of Bing. And last I heard they are using Facebook likes to improve the search results, make them more social and so on.

Now the question is - would I start liking stuff just because I want my search results to be improved or because I want my friends to see what web pages I like on Bing? Probably not.

If anything I'll like a page because:

1) I want to let the publisher know that I like the article/page

2) I want my friends on Facebook to see I liked it

I think people are using +1 now just for the first reason, and it doesn't seem that compelling to me. Pressing the +1 button feels like you're upvoting a comment on Engadget, and it probably mostly gets impulse clicks. But if this is all it does, then I doubt the +1 button will be more used than a Retweet or Like.

Also, I'm not sure what Google's grand social strategy is, but there seems to be one strong correlation between successful social networks (Twitter, Facebook) and revolutions. So Google would need to ask themselves: Can +1/our social strategy be used in a country that wants to do a revolution, and help them achieve that revolution with its help?

Maybe if they integrate it in Youtube, and 10,000 Iranian people +1 one video on it, it would appear at the top of many Iran related Google searches? That might work. Either way, I feel that passing this revolution test will be the difference between a successful social strategy and a bad one, because I think that if a social network can pass this test, it also means it can be useful for a lot of other social things, too.

I also hope they're going to redesign the Profiles page if that's where they intend to let you see all the +1's, and that they streamline the Profiles URL.
Which kind of people? Those receiving financial aid, or those who aren't (like me)?
Having finished the game and gone thru all the extras you see that very little has changed at all since the original conception in '97 apart from the engine changes over time.

Ironically the final boss battle is the most Duke3D like gameplay moment of the entire game.
>Rape and abuse of women as a plot point? Lost me there.

You were never the target market of the series. Duke Nukem 3D's job was to parody 80s and early 90s action movies and it's not meant to be taken seriously in any way; Forever is, obviously, just like it.

Also, Dragon Age and Duke Nukem aren't even remotely similar games and weren't even made to appeal to the same audiences. I don't intend to sound angry or anything, but few people play games for how progressive they are with depicting gender and sexuality. Games exist for one purpose: fun. If someone likes crude humor, then Duke Nukem is probably fun, but I don't think anybody is going to take any life lessons out of it because they're not supposed to.
How much bandwidth does the worlds largest LAN use?
Here's what one of the designers of Instant thinks about the UX (they tested it): http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1416/is-google-instant...
It gives me nausea. Anyway, it's not that helpful, either. I don't want to be distracted by "A", "Ar", "Arc*" etc. results when I search for "Archaeology" , because, supposedly, I know what I'm searching for.
I believe the most popular website is essentially an interface for this collection of hyperlinked documents. Document browsing is still one of the killer features of web.

HTML is not a bad layout engine for GUI apps. It may not have been initially been designed as one, but after 15 years of development it seems to be pretty pleasant to work with as there are people who want to build their desktop apps with HTML.

Obviously, the standard request-response model of HTTP is limiting for interactive apps. Bi-directional communication within request isn't possible and handshaking is a bit too expensive. But hey, this problem is actually solved: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/.
They have, I went to the Gili Islands 2 years ago, no cars and they advertise legal mushroom shakes, also amazing island for diving (not in conjunction however!)

Example
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgoralnick/2625980738/
There's a saying in drug development, that resonates in the context of this article: "the only difference between a drug and a poison... is the dose."

Psilocybin, marijuana, and LSD should be decriminalized and approved for medicinal use across the US. Control, quality, and safety would be much improved over the recreational and black market dealings we are left with today--thus, invalidating much of the "war on drugs" and taking a huge cost off the taxpayer and turning it into much needed revenue. Law enforcement would then be freed of significant resources to focus on the more insidious drugs (crack/heroin/meth).
Good article. Where can I find similar writings that critique the software industry?
My immediate thought was "Why wouldn't I use Google Docs?"
Sounds like a lot of work. Hard to do if you get a high level of saturation. Going door to door to switch off the internet is much harder than flicking a big switch at the big telcos.
4 years is always a huge fraction of your life.
FWIW, I put up a fairly extensive review of Duke Nukem Forever[1]

I, much like burgerbrain and others though the general shenanigans and debauchery (bewbs!) would keep me entertained and while they were certainly highlights, the core shooting mechanics and level design in the game (what makes up the other 90% of your time in there) is SO mediocre and uninspired that the game just feels like a drag at parts.

There are absolutely highlights (relative to the rest of the content), a few fun levels, some solid texture work, 1 or 2 cool bosses... those are all fun, but when you average all together, the whole experience is like a 7-10hr experience that drags on.

Had the core mechanics (something I address in the review) been modified a bit and felt better, the game would have been much more solid.

It is sort of like having a cool movie with a great premise, but the two lead characters are TERRIBLE actors and you can't stand them... no matter how cool the topic is or how awesome the CG is, overall you won't enjoy the movie because you can't stand those actors.

Even if something else had sucked in the game, for example the graphics were worse, but the core mechanics were better, the game would have reviewed better. The problem is just that the glue that holds the whole thing together is weak and unenjoyable.

Rent it, you can grab it from RedBox for $2/day now that they are renting games.

[1] http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/duke-nukem-forever-pc-review/
Neo? - http://neotechnology.com/
He's definitely correct about the false positives and that nonces and/or double submitted cookies are superior, I'm not arguing that, just the 'furthermore, spoofing is extremely easy,' which makes no sense there.