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Just recently, I took a couple of steps to enhance my job searching. First was to post my CV/resume to jobs like monster.com; the second was a very old skool writing-a-letter-on-goddamn-paper-and-mailing-it-out-to-would-be-employers. The first has produced nothing but clueless phone-calls from agents. The second landed me a job with >90% certainty; I have a second interview next week. I am very well-qualified for the companies I wrote to, and I made sure I selected them very carefully (partly because postage costs actual money). This is relevant to the article since I'm not really applying for a job -- the company who want to hire me basically made a position for me.

Anyway, I'm starting to think that current online job searching is profoundly broken. It just seems to lead back to the clueless employment agents who know nothing about IT. Not much different from 20 years ago, it's just they have access to bigger databases and no incentive not to email scatter-gun fashion since there is no cost involved. I have no idea if there is a solution to this, but at least my retro approach eliminated two sets of middle-men: the jobs boards and the agents. It also put me very much in control which was an excellent feeling.
Homomorphic algorithms (currently exploding in research) and caps-based, secure remote storage (like Tahoe-LAFS) are huge steps towards subverting the centralisation and exploitation of personal data, and converting it to individual-centric, remote reliability services that people can be relatively confident are, in fact, safely housed on servers like Amazon's and Google's.
Maybe I'm missing something, but of those companies, several are public at multiples of their total raised funds and only one is out of business. They might not have become Google 2.0 but I'd be hard pressed to call that collection of companies a cautionary tale against raising lots of money.

Note that I'm not disagreeing with the premise that raising money shouldn't be a metric of success, just with the specific examples.
You need to have lists populated. I add people to lists as I friend them so my lists are all set. From the homepage, click "friends" in the left column, then "manage friends" button in the centre. Hover over a friend and you can "Edit lists" to add or remove them from lists (at http://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/).

Once you have friends in lists then you use lists like you would an email list. From the homepage click to write a status and you'll see next to the "share" button an icon (which for me is a padlock) that allows access to the functions to limit sharing. My default is "friends of friends". Choose to "customise" your shared status and you can enter either a friends name or a list name, start typing and it auto fills.

There are other situations when you can use friend lists too around the site, I think pretty much everywhere you can enter a friends name. For example if you do @listname in one of your statuses then everyone in the list will get that status in their news feed. You can activate online chat for only members of a list for example.

HTH.
Yeah, exactly. I've used the mobile apps of both, and Rdio's has 9 confusing icons and requires you to learn a complicated mental model of your music library will work, whereas Spotify just has 'Playlists', 'Search', and 'What's New' - couldn't be simpler.
Ok, so a person who by fate grows up poor in a rural area is dumb, because the government allows farmers and industry to systematically ship in a lower class of labor to exploit?

The US discriminates against poor people. The fully-loaded cost of a US citizen is too high because the do-gooders require all sorts of expensive benefits and mandates. If a farmer pays a US citizen $12/hour to pick tomatoes, he also pays another $8/hr for code-compliant housing, workers compensation and unemployment insurance.

But, simultaneously, the government turns a blind eye if you ship in some Mexicans or Latin Americans and treat them like slaves.

Collectively, we share this psychosis where society wants to provide all of these great benefits and human rights for citizens, while treating this other class of person as something less than human.
Finally, the monopoly is over. Long live competition!
If he was really smart, he'd have the custom jQuery also add random links to him. To make sure that he stays at the top of the ranking.
I know there are a good few meet ups a train ride away for a range of things I'm either interested in or interested in pursuing. I've really considered going to them but the fears I've mentioned creep in.

I do have a few friends with other interests. One of them being into music and photography. That said, however, I observe them and I notice they all have friends with similar interests too.

When I see two passionate people talking about their interests face to face, I always get the feeling I'm missing out on something. Widening my interests is fine and I enjoy doing it but I've not found anything I'm quite as passionate about as this though - I have a strong feeling I never will.

Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate the time spent helping me in my time of need.
What is the quality of the visits like? When you factor in time on site, pages viewed, bounce rate, etc. is stumbleupon still providing better traffic? It might be, but the answer isn't obvious to me without knowing this type of data.
I've used this video chat feature, well, looks like something done in hurry. Quality kind of sucks
I think you just have to be logged into Gmail or another Google account to see it.
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Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a 10 year gap in your IM technology timeline there. AIM straight to Facebook? Was I the only one using ICQ, MSN, Google Chat before Facebook came along?
Thanks for the link. That would have saved me a few hours. However, I'll try that .mobi out and see if I'm able to navigate using the Kindle joystick. Navigation was a bit of pain to add, so it might be worth it to release mine if theirs doesn't have it.
What's keeping the jquery.it people from changing that?
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This comes to mind: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i0r4o/ready_for_a_l...
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Let's just stop predicting things and see what happens. I guess everyone had enough Groupon, Bitcoin and G+ vs FB stories.
Because there's only Mr Zuckerberg running the whole company?

He's been at it a while. If he gets beaten I don't think it will be to do with youth and inexperience. Remember Google failed with their first offering in this space (Wave), was it youth and inexperience then?
That's the thing that seems most attractive to me. Meeting real people and working together to build something cool. I think that's one of the main reasons why I need this really.

As mentioned above, I have a friend who's well into his photography. If I sat down and said "Right let's build a photography-themed web app", he wouldn't be half as interested as I am.
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Try removing (YC W11) from the title and do tell me this still belongs to the HN front page.
Lol. I should know, I am one.
What did you mean?

A punctuation character considered as part of an identifier by way of a parser rule. The ? in respond_to?, in this case.
Web hooks would be nice. Open-sourcing would be GREAT! Especially for those of us who prefer to host their own da(y)ta.

Just downloaded it, and it is something I've been wanting to build for a long time, but just didn't get around to it. I would gladly collaborate, would you decide to open-source it.

Congratulations on a great (and beautiful!) app.
You may have been one of the few using ICQ and MSN after AIM. ICQ was much earlier in the chronology (we used to play with it when we got bored on IRC) and no one used MSN. :-P
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I'm assuming that the people who go to these things won't need to ask things like that but then looking at it from a different angle, it seems unrealistic.
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>Was I the only one using ICQ, MSN, Google Chat before Facebook came along

I don't know, was you the only person on that service and thus have no-one to talk to?
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And GTalk 1-1 video chat and Google+ Hangouts both support Linux perfectly... looks like Google wins this user's eyeballs.
I'd be interested in some pointers on this too, if you got 'em.
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FWIW, this resume got me an offer on my dream job (the contract isn't signed yet, so I don't want to say what/where). I can't say for sure I wouldn't have pulled it off with a boring one, but it sounded like it helped get my foot in the door.

If I wanted to work at, say, a bank, or a military contractor, or a big-whatever consulting douchery, I wouldn't have bothered. Since I want to work with smart, creative, like-minded people, I thought expressing my own personality more honestly than on my old resume might be a good approach.
Isn't there a requirement that the laws be published in the Federal Journal or some such official journal that records what the laws are and are not? This is pretty much a standard practice in common law derived legislatures.

Are you sure their claiming it's a law and not a regulation?
I worked with a guy who spelled poorly, ran spell check and shall we say didn't verify the results. I would get the most amusing emails because you could tell spell check had been run(all the words were spelled correctly) but the output of spell check hadn't been semantically verified. Kind of like mad libs or a crossword puzzle gone awry. I wonder if it would be useful to have a spell checker that displayed definitions and parts of speech next to the suggested spelling. That way you could know with a little more certainty which was the correct spelling. It has gotten me in to the habit of double checking against dictionary.com when ever I use a spelling corrector and have the slightest doubt about the results.
I'm not sure that there is a HN downvote but I upvoted you anyway.
Skype has an internal login with Facebook feature?
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Just make sure to rebaseline your strategic paradigm initiatives first. :-/
IMO it won't be their tech or attitude that will bring an eventual end to their dominance but shear fashion. Trend following. If Google position themselves and look cool and capture the "cool kids" then FB will lose out to them (to some extent). FB is already getting a little taint, it's run a good innings in internet time.

Whichever, G+ or FB, manages to capture the buzz of "hangouts with famous people" will probably take the current round. This to me is the iteration of one of Twitter's big wins; the chance to rub shoulders with "stars".

For me, and I suspect most here, such things don't really matter. I'll stay with FB as long as most of my friends are there and it works reasonably well.
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Dot Con by Cassiday is a good overview. Boo Hoo by by Malstem and all captures the anti lean development of the time.
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1. You do not need a "CTO"; you need a solid web developer. They are not the same thing.

2. While I think many posters here have focused too much on the the job-posting-as-dating-profile approach, the reality is that something like this will send the wrong message to the type of person you want to avoid, and may hurt your credibility with the type of person you want to attract. I don't need to know that you like long walks and are feisty; I do need to know that you have a solid product and a viable business model.

3. The number of experienced developers who will jump at the opportunity to work long hours with a person they don't know in the hopes that their equity in a startup that hasn't been funded will one day be worth something is fairly limited. If you are going to find a person willing to do this, it will probably be somebody you already know, or somebody you meet locally and build a relationship with.
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Bad timing, many may be disillusioned after failing to get an invitation to google+. Still, I signed up because I've been waiting sever years to check out their service.
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Index technology is very well-known and pretty straightforward. You crawl the web. The quality of your search results are a function of your algorithm, and the depth/breadth of your index (created by this crawling). Blekko is attempting to outsource the algorithm part. Rather than play the cat and mouse game with spam sites, why not let power-users define what the best is, and then only return those results to others. Integrating the social graph is actually an incredibly powerful and compelling way to do search.
This actually could be quite useful. Sometimes people need to post a nicely described link with an adequate thumbnail, yet the Facebook bot finds only some random image.
With this little service one can prepare a dummy page for illustrative purposes and then let brokenthings.org handle the bot and the redirection.
I think this discussion made me realize that I want there to be a minimum barrier to contacting me in a way that requires instant feedback. I don't care who has my e-mail address because I can reply to e-mail on my own time and terms, but I'd rather people have to do a little work to contact me via IM, and I want it to be pretty hard for people to casually call me just to chat.
That's a really good idea. I wonder why Delicious never did that. They had your "friends" list and all your friends' bookmarks. I'll implement it in yamemex for sure!
Did you not have your previous work clearly listed on your resume? Why would you expect, say, an engineer who just got FW your resume an hour before the interview to go google you and stalk your twitter feed?
I think a good point to take away from this announcement is that it might be easier for FB to match g+'s features than for g+ to grab FB's massive user base.

Then again, the "g+ integrates with all existing Google services" is a very strong argument.

I'll get the popcorn.
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Weeeeelll, yes and no. But mostly no.

There has been a strand of 20 cent philosophy that has regarded justification as that which together with truth and belief yields knowledge - if you do that, you're individuating justification in terms of a particular epistemic role, and that so it's a theoretical notion. That might be what you're getting at.

But most philosophers nowadays use the notion of 'warrant' for that. So for them, the notion of justification doesn't have that particular theoretical role.

Generally, why be interested in a theoretical notion? The fundamental questions in Epistemology are questions like:

* What is knowledge?
* What is justification?
* Which beliefs are justified?
* What do we know, and how do we know it?
etc etc

Those are the starting points, and they are phrased in English. They use ordinary notions. Given that, no answer to them which first redefines the terms to yield distinct questions is going to suffice as an adequate answer.

Philosophers use a lot of technical jargon, and are interested in technical questions. But generally, those questions have pretty clear connections to our ordinary ways of thinking about the world.
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I used all of those - and ICQ was still largely my favorite, if only because it supported offline messages.

I think its largest drawback was using account numbers, instead of allowing alphanumeric vanity names.
I use Facebook chat to talk to close friends because sometimes it's more convenient than picking up a phone to talk to someone out of the country. Allows for more random conversations. Having the Skype feature is an added bonus, no one's requiring you to use it. Just because FB chat is more buggy, that doesn't mean the convenience doesn't highly outweigh the disadvantages. Logging into a different chat client would be for chat-only, while FB isn't.
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Don't think in terms of sides. I'm not "against" Tichy. He asked for reading recommendations, and I gave him one. I wasn't trying to prove him wrong about anything. I suggested Quine because he often appeals to mathematically minded realists, and I think he's very smart and writes well.

As for the article, try the whole thing before you judge it (it's not very long at all). Quine is not being frivolous, and he takes pains to explain exactly what he means as the piece goes on.
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IDs are not that hard to fake really, once you know how to take them apart without destroying them. What's always amazed me more, though, is how your address is never actually physically verified. Ever.

I can order a copy of my drivers license and change the address to "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC" and they'll ship it to me quick as can be. If you happen to find somebody who looks a lot like you (or you can modify your face to look like them) you can just get their social or drivers license # and order a copy to a different mailing address. The original owner is never notified.

If you want to just make yourself a brand new ID under someone else's identity you can get a new driver's license under someone else's name. Bring two forms of ID (a birth certificate which you can order with a SSN or a faked certificate of US citizenship along with a faked insurance card), a faked telephone or utility bill, and a proof of social security number (a faked payroll statement and a faked insurance or IRS statement with name and SSN). Then make an appointment at the DMV and get a fully valid new government ID with your picture and someone else's name.

That's something a terrorist could do without much trouble once they had someone to target. You don't even need Photoshop to fake those documents; just a Kinkos, MS Word, Paint and some scissors. Just get the guy's name and SSN (which thanks to LulzSec there are plenty of leaked to the internets) and go to town. Should take about a week, maybe two if the fake birth certificate takes a while to ship. You can also do without the birth certificate if you just order a copy of the person's drivers license.

So yeah. The fact that the TSA doesn't check your ID past glancing at it and putting a mark on your ticket isn't that scary to me, since anyone who really wants to can get a valid ID which will pass all checks in a couple weeks.
Personally, I have said that legacy PR based on controlling the message is fundamentally flawed for a while now.
There's a lot of room between the average user's social graph and the entire internet. I think if you got the best 20% of the internet compiled intelligently based on your social graph, you'd be in good shape.
Google can and does include a Javascript interpreter in their crawler: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/new-reality-google-follows-links-i... . They don't need to solve the halting problem in order to run a Javascript interpreter for a certain amount of time(maybe 10-15 seconds) and see how that changes the page content or redirects to a different site.

If you want to make your visitors wait until after the heat death of the universe before you actually redirect them, I'm sure you'll be able to fool Google too.
>but how will the results be better than Google?

You have control of your own social graph, you don't have control over who puts a page up for Google to crawl. You're using the authority someone has as part of your network to filter what comes in to the network - search only on sites that friends-of-friends have recommended and you're unlikely to get spam or sites that are hard to navigate or that won't provide a good service. If I'm looking for new outdoor equipment I could look at the online stores that fellow scouts have used and recommended and so save time weeding out the better stores.

Just my immediate reaction to your question. There are clearly benefits in both types of search. Also this presupposes that FB aren't trying to inject advertised offerings in to your social-graph based search; probably a bad assumption as that there looks like gold to me.
Depends what you're looking for. If you're being paid by CPM, then yeah, they're great visits. If you're looking for conversions, then probably not.
Yea I was surprised they put the "show most chatty friends in chat list" as a product. That seems like a very small feature. Adding people to group chat? I thought you could already do this, but I don't really use Facebook chat too much. Seems very underwhelming to say the least.
Wouldn't Facebook massively improve usability by just including the Lists in the drop down list in the web interface also? It is actually not too hard if they approach this incrementally.
I so wish I could get the discount on Uber that you get with FoundersCard. Cost me $30 last night :(
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Thanks for pointing out a more in-depth interview, oppose to the commonly rushed and promotion heavy Late Night appearances!

To get more insight in his approach as a stand-up comedian, I highly recommend to watch HBOs "Talking Funny".
You're a lucky one I guess, or I'm unlucky. Facebook has constant little issues, whether it's just plain slow, the back button doesn't do anything, clicking a link doesn't do anything, chat is always on the fritz, or some other annoyance.
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Thanks! Interesting. It still isn't working, after uninstalling / reinstalling in Cydia, but I guess I'll give it a day or too. Is the Authorize button in RetinaPad supposed to actually do something?
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I'd like to know how many of these accounts are actively used. Zuck didn't comment on this number, which Facebook must have data on.

Also, I know there are a lot of people with duplicate accounts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670283
All saved music lists in Spotify has clickable Album, Artist and Track links so in effect you can easily make "Album" lists. I have done that for ages.
I think you are mistaking how to integrate the social graph into search. You don't do it by exclusively searching within the social graph, you use the social graph to augment your traditional search. The best way for me to show you what I mean is for you to look at the attempts blekko is making. Create an account, and connect your facebook profile, wait 1 hour, and then do searches with "/likes" appended. You'll still get mostly normal results but the instances where a friend has liked a site will be featured more prominently. Facebook has not been able to "just make a search engine" with the social graph because making a traditional search engine is a non-trivial challenge.
I SERIOUSLY doubt MS was giving them architectural guidance on how to make this work. Probably would have more to do with the architectural experience of the devs.
I just thought: DuckDuckGo should get a shorter domain name because it takes to long to type it. It thought of duck.com so I checked what's there, and to my surprise it redirected to... google! Looks like someone there also thought of this.

Or has "duck" another (search related) meaning in english that I'm not aware of?
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Google is providing a service that gives search results based on keywords you enter.

They try to be helpful by ranking them in some fashion, but at the end of the day it's up to you how you use the results that are returned.
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