skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting element to this is taking the cost away from the employer and moving it to the candidate.

Pro's: Employers will be a lot more keen on dealing with an agent if they no they won't ever have to pay extra for their fees.

Cons: When the market changes (and it's already starting to), jobs will become plentiful and the need to use a professional to find you a new opportunity becomes less of a priority.
It's not so much an obsession with zombies as it is an obsession with post apocalyptic scenarios.
The big difference is that my friends join a group, whereas I add my friends to a circle. They don't need to do anything; they don't even know they're in the circle. The purpose is for me to control who I share things with. With circles, I don't have to worry about someone joining the group that I don't want there or hurting feelings by having to reject requests to join.

At the same time, I'd still like to be able to mutually join groups as well, and it's easy to imagine scenarios where I would add a group to a circle (or where they'd be coincident). The two concepts are complimentary.
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My email is in my profile. Send the CV on and I'll look at it immediately.
I recently purchased a Mac Developer Program subscription. I do not intend to submit something to the App Store short term, but I support some of my (academic) software on OS X, and it is good to see what is coming up.

Anyway, I also bumped into problems using the activation code. I got a (security) message, because my account name was not matching up with my credit card name (one lists my names abbreviated, the other written full).

I e-mailed support, but after a few days nothing happened. Then I called developer support by phone, and everything was arranged in just ten minutes. Developer support by phone was helpful and friendly, and although they are in Ireland for support in Europe, they provide a local number in The Netherlands (and many other European countries).

Conclusion: call them, and you are probably helped quickly. Apple should modify their webpage to recommend people to call support, rather than using e-mail.
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I use several registrars for various reasons but so far NameCheap have been my favorite. They're on the list but wanted to give them a thumbs up here. No nonsense from them and their free "WHOIS guard" is a nice touch.
Funny. Just about a week after I opted out of all of my offer emails. The signal to noise was getting out of hand.
Please blame the messenger. See http://www.ilo.gw.utwente.nl/ilo/index.php?option=com_conten... for the M.Sc. thesis' conclusions.

Notably:

Students read the reading tests EMT and Klepel twice. Once printed in the font Arial and once in the font “Dyslexie”. The order was randomly assigned and in-between the reading tests an auditory task was fulfilled.

Thus, the study measured whether Dyslexie reads better than Arial. Maybe Georgia reads even better.
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Yes, but I feel the same way about Facebook. You don't see everything that your friends post, and they don't see everything you post once you get above a few dozen friends. At least G+ is allowing you to teach it what your friend lists are and use that information to target your posts to relevant interest groups.
In Haskell, mostly. This is probably because most Haskell programmers learned about monads without understanding applicative functors, which are more general and a much better fit for a lot of tasks.
I was very excited about this until I read the words "Facebook credits" and "streaming."

If I'm paying for video, I need to be certain that I'll be able to see the entire thing uninterrupted, even if I'm offline or my connection becomes unreliable. This is where Apple and Amazon get my money, and streams don't.

The Facebook Credits idea is even worse. Here's the experience:

1. Go to the Doctor Who page on Facebook. I can't see the content until I agree to "like" the page. Annoying. What if I just want to see a BBC video? It's a bit presumptuous to assume I like something I haven't seen yet.

2. Once I agree that I "like" the page, a small grid of videos appear. Clicking on any video then redirects me to an app page, telling me that if I still want to watch a video, "liking" wasn't enough. I now have to grant BBC access to my private profile data, and allow them to post messages to my wall.

3. Fine, BBC, I "like" you, and you can come into my house, look at all my stuff, and talk to my friends on my behalf. Now how do I watch a video? Facebook Credits. Each video is 15 Credits. Ok, I'll go get some.

4. I click "watch," and am prompted to go buy some Credits. How do I want to pay, Visa, Western Union, other? I don't know, how much do they cost? How does Facebook know my credit card number? I don't remember entering that, but there it is.

5. Bravely moving on, I click through and see the price of Credits. 50 Credits = $5. So, 15 credits = $1.50 a movie, right? Oops, no. What a funny coincidence, 50 isn't divisible by 15. I'll always have $0.50 that I'm loaning to Facebook until I build up enough Credits to use them all up.

And they wonder why people download videos from "pirate" sites.
I agree. What if we all waited until 2008 for an academic to publish a 30 page paper about Ruby and Python and how they can be useful for building web apps?
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I admit I know little about this area so I'm just throwing this out there for wiser people to comment on. I heard on a reasonably authoritative radio show/podcast (can't remember what, but something like a BBC Radio 4) that the incidence of dyslexia in countries with simpler relationships between letters and phonemes (sounds) had significantly lower reported levels of dyslexia. Italy and Spain, for example. They were trying to make the point that languages with more consistent phonetics are less likely to bring up issues that would identify someone as dyslexic.
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Namespro.ca is good, especially for Canadians. I transferred all my domains there from GoDaddy after the elephant killing.
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Ok I'm feeling slightly stupid now but I couldn't locate dev support phone # anywhere http://developer.apple.com/support/

Also, I don't think it's very clever to make cheaper support channels (email) so bad that the only option is the phone support (which is much more resource intensive and costly). Even when you can afford it...
So it sounds like FB can ramp up to this pretty quickly; they just need to ditch their post-centric UI for a friends-centric UI. Or at least make a friends-centric UI easily available.
Bah, we have been zombie proofing housing in Europe for years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle
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Why would they provide email support then at all? I don't think the customer should have to try a dozen or so means of support before finding a way which works.
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Unfortunately, like most sites HN has its fair share of borderline-psychotic oddballs who like to send angry e-mails to people and attempt to upset them.

I've had a few private e-mails responding to innocuous comments of mine over the years threatening all sorts of stuff. I put it down to the "if you're out there enough, you'll keep encountering that 1% of crazies" rule and assume my reach must be getting better ;-)
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this seems to give an indication.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aplus.google.co...
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Ok turns out the support phone numbers were well hidden http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html
Red should probably be on both ends of the scale, with green in the middle. Also I had to go and convert stuff, but obviously not aimed at Americans.
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Unfortunately I've lost all faith in recruiters, both as a client and as a candidate. They lie too much and they rarely understand IT (which is why it's a shame OP got such a mixed reception here).

As a "for instance", I went for an interview last year where the recruiter had lied to me about the nature of the job, and lied to the client about my skills and expectations. Fortunately, I did (later) get the chance to put them in the picture but it's that kind of behaviour which does no good to anyone. It wasn't my first bad experience like that, but it will be my last because I won't be dealing with agencies any more: I can't take the chance on the "distortion" they introduce.
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Or how about "I'm cool because I'm ahead of the curve when it comes to technology", which, by the way, has become quite trendy lately if you haven't noticed.
Where do you get the font?
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My iOS developer account activation took quite a while due to company permissions and stuff. I was hating on Apple too, just waiting for them. Finally, I picked up the phone and called them.

And it was a great experience. Talking to them solved the problem in minutes.

AND I had to break out the phonetic alphabet (the connection was bad, I was on an iPhone :)), and the support person knew it. Impressive.
When I read code I see the gist, when I write code, I see the details.
Let me guess - it will involve a lot of recruiters not understanding (and in some cases, not wanting to understand) the businesses and needs of the companies they recruit for?

Or in other words - they spend a lot of time recruiting people they don't have any clue of what they are good at, to jobs where they don't understand what the jobs involve.
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Actually, I very much appreciate the fact that he didn't - this way the comparison is more fair - and easier to follow for people new to functional programming (like me).
I think it would resemble Linux personally, each vendor would probably set up their own app store and their own package system but binary compatibility would probably remain. There is just too much at stake for all involved to fracture it as bad as the Unix wars.
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I would suggest that Twitter is a 'short form blog', albeit in a very short form.

Of course, you could certainly use it as not-a-blog, but you could also use tumblr as not-a-blog if you liked.
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That's a great idea for getting the most out of your dev efforts (and hitting the maximum number App Stores ;) - but do you end up with a lot of "conditional code"?

edit: ah, missed the internal link - it's explained in more detail: http://blog.greweb.fr/2011/06/automating-web-app-development...
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At least in German you have lovefilms.com, which was acquired by Netflix some time ago. It's not available in Austria where I currently live.
No -- the figure is the amount of the subsidy. The article does not talk about the cost of insurance (too many plans, too many variables).

There is some serious reading comprehension failure going on here.
Ask HN: Niche app customer acquisition?
I recently launched a new service for monitoring SSL certificates [1], and I'm trying to figure out how to find customers.

I built this service because of a need I had, one that I thought others would have as well.

My service does couple of simple, useful things: lets you know if your certs are going to expire and lets you know if your certs are misconfigured or not working.

I initially saw the value in this type of service as being a simple way for people to set up reminders about when their certificates are going to expire. (No more need to worry about who the CA is emailing)

But now I think there may be more value in the validation piece.

Basically, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to target customers that would find my service useful.

I have a couple of targeted AdWords ads running right now and I have a reddit ad scheduled for later this week.

I've had some thought of writing an app that looks for expired SSL certs on the web and emails the domain owners, but this seems too spammy (maybe even illegal). I also thought about approaching a smaller registrar for a partnership, but I don't think any will go for working with such a new startup.

Does anyone have any tips for acquiring customers for a niche product?

BCC comes to mind, and maybe my type of service is similar in that I'll just have to wait until people with a need start looking for a solution, but I'd love to take a more active approach to customer acquisition, if possible.

[1] https://www.certician.com/
Also the last update was nearly two years ago and the website has expired. What are we supposed to do with this?
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Pretty much spot on. There is a lot more to it than that but what you've just said is the fundamental issue.
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We really, really need to move away from passwords as the primary security mechanism. Let me count the ways:

(1) We cannot make people choose hard passwords. We just can't. As proven by recent leaks in which people still, after a million warnings, have the dumbest passwords.

But the problem is more serious: the goalposts keep moving. The current standard - something like 10 random characters - is nearly impossible for people to remember. I use longish passphrases anywhere this is allowed, but it's blocked in lots of places, because, well, we can't have the network overloaded with the extra 19 bytes of data.

(2) Shoulder-surfing and keyloggers are capable of permanently hijacking passwords.

(3) Password managers do not provide the improvement we need - we can discuss this separately.

Who is with me for making http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_token absolutely ubiquitous? One additional thing I would like, which I think is still not present in any of these devices, is the ability to compute challenge-response internally, without relying on a client program on the computer. Internal computation of challenge-response would make us safer at untrusted terminals.
I think that the answer to your question, as many other, is "it depends", because it is too open. What kind of documentation? For what kind of tool? Is it a web app? Is it a programming language? A library or a framework? Is it a desktop app? Also, who is the target of this documentation? Everyone? Programmers?

Depending on the answer to these questions, the answer to your question could vary from "make a video tutorial" to "write some man pages and a good README file" (with "FAQ page", "wiki", "html and/or pdf complete reference" in between).

If your question is more about the "how" than the "what" then I suggest using a format which you can compile to different othe format such as HTML, PDF and man page (I already worked with DocBook but I didn't like it very much, maybe reStructuredText is a good candidate I'll have to try some day).
Issued patents certainly can add tangible value to a deal, but take years to make their way through USPTO and require a lot of money to file, respond to office actions and the examiner.

However, most startups with time and not too much $ can file a provisional patent for "patent pending" status, which is likely what Punchd has. It's really just a way to extend the patent filing deadline an extra year.

Thus the value of an un-examined, pending patent to a deal is negligible -- especially to Google. Most pending patents are never granted.
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How I deal with recruiters:

If they need understanding of the technology, I will gladly help them with that.

If they need understanding the domain knowledge, I will gladly help them with that.

If they need understanding of interpersonal, organizational, or "soft" issues, I will gladly help them with that.

If they want referrals, I will usually do what I can.

If they don't call back or follow up, I will eliminate them.

If they are ever dishonest in any way, shape, or form, I will eliminate them and tell everyone I know.

For a recruiter, brutal honesty can overcome any perceived weakness and enable others (even us hackers) to be on their side.

Steve, thanks for your brutal honesty here at hn. That's the best we could hope for and should be a model for any other recruiters lurking here. Respect.
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I'm sorry to learn that you're were treated in a rather indecent manner by some; hopefully the immature response of those folks doesn't deter your noble initiative.
It appears to be licensed through http://www.lexima.nl/school-en-behandelaar/categorie/lettert...

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I followed the link given elsethread the original homedsgn.com article, which says that this house was built on the outskirts of Warsaw. Perhaps the owners are concerned that in the future, a large number of working-class Poles will have second thoughts about that whole capitalism thing. Or maybe they travel a lot, and they want to feel assured that nobody will rob or vandalize them while they are away.
Thanks Ed. As for the points you mentioned, you nailed it.
Added to the repos - can you please provide your prefered optimization parameters to GHC ? e.g. a Makefile?
I might be naive about this, but I really don't believe that a large percentage of those 20000 pirates would have paid for the game if there was no cracked version available for free. I think the ugly truth is that most people either cannot afford to or are unwilling to pay for apps, even if they cost less than a cup of coffee.

Hence I suppose that the piracy factor p = (pirated_copies / legit_copies) is bigger than 1 for most apps - and in many cases a whole lot bigger than one, if the perceived value of the app is especially low.
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Ok, is it just me or does reading the text on that page give you the feeling that it's computer-generated?

There are so many odd word and phrasing choices (that don't seem like the kind of mistakes a non-native speaker would make), that it seems like it was run through a content munging algorithm or something.
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Everything in Wikipedia has “a significant cultural effect”, because just about any fool can put down the TV remote long enough to add an item to the “In Popular Culture” section of a Wikipedia article.

The riots were a big deal when they happened, but I don’t think they really explain why zombies are popular twenty years later.
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I have seen a big switch from one social network to another one before: from StudiVZ to Facebook.

StudiVZ is a very competent and very early (launched long before Facebook entered the German market) German Facebook clone, it has some nice features former StudiVZ and current Facebook users are still missing.

Everyone and everyone's friends were on StudiVZ. Now everyone is on Facebook (everyone is also still on StudiVZ but it's not really used). The transition happened gradually but all it took in my social cirlce were some people to try it out and invite everyone else. The action shifted gradually from StudiVZ to Facebook in the following months.

The same hasn't yet happened to Google+, at least in my social circle. (It also took Facebook a few months, I would comsequently not read much into that.) But it might very well. The StudiVZ story leads me to believe that switches from one social network to another aren't as impossible as it seems.

(Replacement is also only one of several scenarios. Co-existance is possible, I think.)
Additional information can be found on the designer's website: http://www.studiostudio.nl/en/project-dyslexie/
It's linked right from the e-mail form that you probably used to contact them:

http://developer.apple.com/contact/

Also, Googling "apple developer call" gives proper entry points as the first and second results.
When writing a document one shouldn't have to worry about this sort of things. This is a rendering problem not an editing/writing problem and should be addressed as such. LaTeX do it pretty good on its own for instance.

There's also several JavaScript libraries which do this hyphenation job automatically. But this is again the wrong approach IMO. The browser should do this at rendering time.

EDIT: How cool! It seems Firefox 6 and nightly webkit finally have this! (Only for english at the moment I guess). If you have those you can try the hyphenation using `-moz-hyphens: auto;` and `-webkit-hyphens: auto;` in CSS.
I'm not sure about the numbers, but I think the 90% pirated and 10% sold applies to pretty much any form of media. I think the only solution against piracy in games might be online multiplayer games. If you could distribute serial numbers via the appstore and then verify them on your own servers, you might be able to reduce piracy.
Seems like an argument that is more emotional than rational. I never had trouble getting signed up though there were steps in the process that delay things. Why does the author say that it's pointless to wait for the financial information to clear? It's not his place and it's obvious why Apple would do that anyhow.
Is it that they don't care, or that they don't even know to do it at all? It seems to me that having an iPhone popup occur occasionally when an OS update is ready with

[Remind later] [Dismiss]

buttons would be a good way to get more users to do it. The first button takes the user to a page with instructions on how to connect, upgrade, sync etc. The Dismiss button would full dismiss it for that OS upgrade. They would see the popup again for the next version.

I guess it's moot with iOS5 coming though.

A good lesson for everyone: users are lazy and apathetic to your changes - sometimes you have to force the changes down their throats for their own good.
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I'm surprised apple hasn't offered ios devs the same technique they use to limit piracy in the mac app store.
Good post. I spent 3 years in the Tech Recruiting industry. Did sales, recruiting for both direct-hire and contract. There are a lot of bad apples out there because it's a low-barrier career. But solid recruiters are a gem and take care of their candidates. Most good recruiters make more money than most developers out there and know their industry well. There are those that are idiots and don't know jack about IT (I'm an IT guy so I did well and understood candidates and clients).

Reason I got out of it was that my passion is in IT so I got back into that world. Now I get to listen to shoddy recruiters calling me and I usually laugh at them... :D

So ignore the bad candidates and focus on the good ones. They are the ones that will put food on your table.
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It's a kind of 'necessity' filtering, I think. It also probably keeps down their call volume by preventing people from calling in with stuff easily solved using other channels.

I'm not saying whether or not it's good practice, but if it leads to the quality of these phone support calls, then I'm all for it.
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