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Oh heavens! An ugly html file? We can't have one of those dirtying up our monstrosity that poorly attempts to turn a document into an application.
Can we not start using that term here?
Also: firefox freezes when I try to open a 2nd tab with a different whiteboard.
ha, his post still has a lot more substance than your pithy dismissal
You're overly focused on iPhone vs. Android without considering all the other kinds of fanboism out there that simply go under other labels, whether it's patriotism, religion, favorite TV show, or brand of camera.

Is it all teenage boys? Well, teenage boys are a lot more passionate and vocal about whatever it is they're interested in than other demographics, but you don't have to look hard to find middle-aged Nikon fanatics, or Protestant nut jobs.
I don't think your holiday visa is H1-B. This deal is for existing H1-B visa holders.
You research appliances online but you get them at HomeDepot.

Expect that to change fast. In fact, a lot of people already do the opposite. They go to stores to look at the thing and then order online because it's cheaper.
I'm not sure how you can download an extension before installing but in Ubuntu after you've installed it you can look at the source under ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ (or in Windows C:\Users\You\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User)
Texting pricing is such a gigantic and well known scam that it's hard to have sympathy for its victims at this point in time. It's like a guy who keeps buying lemons from the same dishonest car salesmen and then asking why the guy is still in business. Um, he stays in business and gets away with this stuff because these people keep giving them money, that's how.
Typo: 10K USD = 700K NRS (Nepali currency), sorry!
Another Golden-Gate-bridge-bgimage startup (not disappointed)
Fedena 2.1 released
Response from most businesses on Twitter is great. I have 668 followers and get lots of help. UPS, Mediacom, McDonald's, Delta, Verizon, EVGA, and more. Even the city I live it is active on Twitter. When I complained about an issue with mobile bus schedules on the city's website, they forwarded my feedback on to the bus system. The number of followers doesn't matter if the company is committed to getting feedback on Twitter.

My only thought is that this type of response doesn't scale well at the top end. Monitoring (and responding) to a Twitter search for a term like Google or Netflix would take a ton of people.
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I realize it's rarely this simple, but get a new job if you care. The labour market is a market, and unless you leave, citing whichever of manager incompetence or lack of money is the problem, it won't get fixed because /it doesn't need to be fixed/.
You could setup a scheme where just X (but no less) out of all Y (partial) secret holders are enough to recover the secret. There are cryptographic schemes for that.
I completely disagree with the conclusion of this article. Consider Apple's App Store. Supposedly, the application and review process makes things safer for end users. Unfortunately we've seen this is not always the case. Additionally, Apple's policies have been harshly criticized by others as being a walled garden that stifles competition.

Can Google really expect to keep an app like this from slipping through their approval process? It's not like the extension runs and crashes Chrome while sending your browsing history to DoubleClick.

I think a better way to approach this issue is to engage the users when they install an app with flexible permission settings, by saying "These are the things this app is allowed to do. If you don't want it to do all of these things, you may uncheck specific permissions. Be aware that restricting this extension may cause it to not work properly".
The difficulty in differentiating between individuals and in determining each person's unique skill set before they are on the job is the reason all soldiers go through the same basic training and then are assigned to their specialties

At least in the US, that's definitely not how it works. Enlisted folk take the ASVAB before even joining. Based on those scores, they select what job they want to do before even signing on the dotted line. Recruiters are infamous for lying to enlistees about what jobs are actually like, or about whether enlistees will be able to change rates after/during bootcamp. In my experience (as an officer), most enlistees feel cheated by the system, but must "suck it up" because it's the military and they've signed away their life.

Officers join either via ROTC/Service Academy or OCS. With OCS, all officers are assigned their specialties before signing on the dotted lines. (Imagine if a doctor had to join without being guaranteed a spot as a doctor!) In ROTC or a Service Acacademy, officers have 4 years of training before they select which community to join. About 1/2 the officer corps joins this way, so about 5% of the overall military.
2. Unemployment is calculated differently today because we factor out "discouraged workers".

You are correct that unemployment is calculated differently, but you are incorrect as to the reason. The BLS only started gathering proper data on unemployment in 1940.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat1.txt

http://www.bls.gov/cps/eetech_methods.pdf

The data before 1940 is based mostly on extrapolation and guesswork - I believe it was Christina Romer who pioneered this field.
Yes I agree with the statement, "Don't wait for the opportunity, make it." Yes I do have a lot of ideas, but sadly, I am not able to find good friends, I mean potential co-founders who could be my partner in startup.
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17 percent is very much in the range of the Great Depression. Especially since the higher unemployment statistics from the 1930s included workers who were actually employed. Scroll down for the details:

http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/very-short-rea...
Big O is often somewhat useless in practice. Yes, if you have an O(2^n) algorithm that's slow -- don't do that unless you can't approximate and your problem is NP-complete. In most other cases (AKA a good developer usually tries to find O(n)/O(nlog n) algorithms for everything possible) you're really talking about problems due to memory and network. These can never be represented accurately by big-O, so usually it's more accurate to ask in the beginning, "How many RPCs am I doing here?" because that's what's really going to kill you in production.
so sorry to disappoint you
Many comments already on two earlier submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898229

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899299

There are more
I'm an self taught programmer from Germany and since leaving school I have been working as a free lancer.

Some time ago I decided that doing the free lance is a little to stressful for me (you know, customer acquisition, taxes, business overhaed) so I talked to some friends of mine who work as "normal" office developers. They all said something like "yeah, any company should be happy to have you working for them" and so I started so send out applications.

Guess what: The HR guys won't even look at my CV without any sort of official paper. Be it a CS diploma or a finished apprenticeship (yes, in Germany we have programmer apprenticeships) - without that not even an interview.

So what I'm thinking now about is doing the 3 year apprenticeships. Only to get a paper that says "yeah, that guy knows how to spell Java and knows what ISO norm 23542 is" (programmer apprenticeships isn't more than that in Germany). Oh happy time - where I will spend the next 3 years and "learn" nonsense I already know or I don't want to know. And my classmates will be ~17 years old.
I should have been more clear. Keith seems to indicate that views from other users don't affect your first_degree.php. I disagree, here was my process:

I built a dummy account in incognito that is friends with with my regularly used profile (A) and a profile owned by a friend of mine (B). All friend requests were made from A & B TO the dummy. I then checked the first_degree.php of the dummy, as expected, me and my friend were first. Perhaps not surprisingly, the next people on the list were the intersection of A & B 's friend lists.

Now I logged back in to A, knowing that B wasn't searching for the dummy, and searched for the dummy a few times a day for a couple days (I learned about first_degree a couple weeks ago).

Checking the dummy's first_degree showed that friends passed A & B had more of A's friends.

My guess is that Keith is right in general. I might not be able to move myself up the ladder of the dummy, but I can change the Facebook Social Graph by changing my viewing behavior. The machine generated list uses that graph to determine first_degree. Even if it's indirect, it means first_degree can be influenced by searches of others. Or I'm wrong!
I think the author makes some good points about why this recession (or whatever you want to call it) is different from the great depression, in particular re: the decline in output and the importance of agriculture.

Nonetheless, I am concerned about a couple issues not mentioned:

a) Lots and lots of unemployed, broke, frustrated young men (for an extended period of time). This is bad on lots of levels, public safety being high on the list.

b) The fallout of state cuts to certain services will likely get much worse. This will literally slow down the economy.

b2) Related, there will be cuts to police, prisons, fire depts, hospitals, etc. The US (esp. in big cities) could become a bit more dangerous with fewer deterrents to those with nothing to lose.

Not to be all doom and gloom, and although we've seen these issues in the past, I'm not sure that we've seen them to the extent that looks likely in the coming years.
Its stuff like this that devalues the Android brand. For that money it cannot be comparable in performance to a galaxy tab or an ipad. Not a net positive for android in the long run against iOS but it will surely not help webOS and windows brands.
I can smell the snowflakes
WTF generally implies an unpleasant surprise. While dealing with IE6 is certainly unpleasant, it hasn't been surprising in years.
Yes, it's a good point when we see it that way, but when looking at the overall environment, as I mentioned above in term of investment, the situation seems to be very awful.
Dozuki will drag service manuals kicking, screaming into 21st century
iFixit, the site famous for its gadget teardowns and repair manuals, is launching a new business to provide manufacturers, how-to sites, or even individuals the ability to build their own library of online service manuals. Called Dozuki, the new effort extends iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens' goal to make do-it-yourself repairs a common practice.
It goes both ways, I think.

I know people who smoke and get completely mashed and disfunctional. I also know people who are successful and produced some of their best work while high.

I think it really depends on the persons attitude. The people who are successful would have been successful anyway while the people who aren't wouldn't be if they didn't smoke weed. I think weed acts as an amplifier, good and bad. Of course, this doesn't account for the people who are successful in what they do, just not while smoking weed, I guess they exist too.

Also, I think there's a danger that the person smoking may not notice when the positive effects start turning negative. One person I know very well used to work really well while smoking, but recently has become more agitated when not smoking and the weed really just brings her to normal performance, rather than above normal performance like it used to. Note that I noticed this after she had been smoking very regularly for maybe five years, so I possibly long term, the negative effects begin to overshadow the positive, though one person is hardly a scientific observation.
You seem to have got your own domain wrong in the submission title...

Also clickable: http://www.athirdplace.com/
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I think the possibility of dynamically changing the speed of the spinner is interesting. If your spinner was representing a file upload, for example, you could conceivably adjust the speed based on the current upload rate.
Yes, agreed, obviously worth a try!
HP to spin off Compaq
Marijuana doesn't make people stupid however people can make stupid decisions as a result of their use, i.e. choosing to smoke instead of revise for an exam or sitting up smoking instead of getting some extra sleep. As with any intoxicant moderate use will do most users little or no harm, it is being able to moderate that use with, what many people see as, a harmless drug.
Routine long hours are sign of a broken process.

Rare spats of long hours due to abnormal events is not an issue
This article has distinct smell of automatic or computer-assisted translation all over it.
I'm curious how efficient most coders are even in an 8 hour work day. I find that I can only log about 4 - 5 hours a day (on average) of solid coding time (or marketing/business work). This is because I limit myself to an 8 hour work day, but of course there are breaks and inevitable down time.
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Japanese quake survivors find and turn in $78 million
I'd imagine every person that is using the phrase "domain-squatting parasite" in this thread has a couple, if not a handful of domains, that they aren't using right now and would charge a premium for if they were asked to sell. hypocritical to say the least.
A few months ago I discovered a similar situation with a very popular extension (300,000+) users. It removed facebook ads, and injected it's own. After a quick search, I found 4-5 others that were doing the same. Took Google over 3 weeks to remove them.

http://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/gpwqc/caution_auto_h...
You basically need 400K to 500K investment and need to be paid at least 60K in NYC. I've spoken with a well known startup immigration lawyer about it.
It says that "the device will be bundled with a data plan" so this is probably a subsidised price, regardless of the quality of the device.
To your point about military specialties, the range of military occupation specialties that an enlistment candidate is qualified for is determined by the enlistee's ASVAB score at the time of enlistment, not their performance during training. It is true that during training, enlistees undergo further testing (DLAB, etc...) to identify candidates for specialized and rare positions like linguists and such. And some lucky, high-scoring enlistees are given their choice of jobs prior to enlisting as an incentive for signing on the dotted line. But the bulk of enlistees are already pre-destined for an assignment, based on the needs of the service -based on body-count, not test scores-, the day they step off the bus for basic training.
Big-O tells you the behavior of your running time as the dataset increases. It does not tell you what parts of your program are actually fast or slow. For example, an O(n^n) algorithm is actually fine if it will never be applied to more than six elements and each operation takes two microseconds, and is vastly better for that case than an O(1) algorithm that takes half a second.
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Also note: An attack taking 2^126.1 operations to break AES-128 is not 2^1.9 times faster than brute force; it's 2^0.9 times faster than brute force. A brute force search on a 128-bit key takes on average 2^127 operations.

I'm confused (though admittedly I haven't read the paper fully and don't have any background in cryptanalysis, so I guess it's not surprising that I'm confused). It looks like 2^126.1 is a worst-case complexity for this attack, so it makes sense to compare that complexity to the worst-case complexity of a brute force attack, doesn't it?
Unfortunately it's not really viable to sent a counter msg for every msg which goes through the system ;) Our stats and logging has to be somewhat delayed.
Then there is the looting and rioting going on in England.
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On being a woman in tech: some of my experiences
Here in Argentina, I pay about US$10 for about 180 text messages per month. I say "about" because I'm on a prepaid plan; additional messages are about US$0.04 each.

Until recently, I could pay about US$4 plus the US$0.04, but they switched the SMS credit to expire after a month instead of after six months, so I have to buy a new SMS card every month.

(This also includes a limited amount of voice calling.)

It seems to me that a competitive market in a country like the US, where very few people have text-only plans, ought to make this service considerably cheaper than in Argentina. The marginal cost of delivering a text message is something like a thousand times lower.
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thanks! that's what not getting enough sleep will do to you...
Google adds Weather Layer to Maps
The irony of ad sponsored apps
Not sure if you're American, but "graduates" typically means "one who graduates from a Bachelor's program", at least in this context.

Most of your selected quotes are (probably) referring to programmers who only have a Bachelor's in CS.
Hey guys, I read the entire frontpage and somehow missed this story: I made Dead Man's Switch, and the beta is the second iteration, hosted on GAE. I certainly didn't expect it to be HNed so early.

These are all valid concerns. This isn't meant to replace wills or lawyers, it's just something to tell your friends to maybe look for you in the mountains if you don't respond in X days.

Some people also had the idea of using it to monitor infirm/elderly people, so I wrote this second version to hopefully have more flexibility to interface with phone/sms/etc.

I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have!
Great news. I think for the H1B category, the biggest improvement is that you can now point at a document and say "According to this document, my application is legal".

The bigger news really is the EB2 for entrepreneurs, but it remains to be seen how many companies qualify to be in the nation's best interest ...
Groupon doesn't ask you to put your personal reputation on the line to endorse a product. You're essentially asking people to be pitchmen (or -women) for a product -- which involves putting whatever reputation they've built up among their social circles on the line for you -- for a measly $2. This has an entirely different vibe to it than the Groupon model of "Hey, I love this restaurant, sign up for this Groupon with me and we'll get half price!" The "endorsement" here is less obviously for hire, not least because there's a third-party service in play.

Overall, what everyone is telling you (here and in the comments on your blog post) is that putting links and/or endorsements on a social networking service is much more than just a fee-for-service proposition; there are other intangible qualities that are important, primary among them what your friends on these social networking services think of you. You want to believe that your friends post links to things because they're good, not because they're getting a discount. In fact I'd argue that one of the main reasons people like social media in the first place is that it's a person-to-person interaction that's not commerical in nature.
well at least there is one logical person here.
This broken process ships a lot of games :(
Is there any good website for measuring IQ?
Is there any good website for measuring IQ? I understand it is very broad and vary depends on many factors. I am looking to measure IQs for a group of people, say employees of a startup on a regular basis for fun and other actions.

Some sites like http://www.iqtest.com/ only have static set of questions. Looking something with decent dynamic questions. Basically looking something like Brainbench for IQ testing.

Thanks.
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I hope this happens 10 years ago. But congratulation to all H-1B hacker news readers. You now can do something amazing without worrying about your visa.
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Sounds like the mother of all bogus statistics. It's highly improbably that either company tracks this figure and even if they did, it would be meaningless unless it was applied against similar job titles (e.g. engineer vs engineer)
Easy enough to avoid, just use Google Voice and voila text messages are free, and unlimited (assuming you have a smartphone).
Agreed. As pg said in "Cities and Ambition:" "The physical world is very high bandwidth, and some of the ways cities send you messages are quite subtle." (http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html)

The same is true of face-to-face meetings. In addition, I suspect that Shankman wasn't just going for the meeting—he was going to communicate how important the meeting was. You don't just spend hours on a plane for something frivolous; he was sending a signal and reaping face-to-face rewards.

A brief story, although it's not on the same scale as Shankman's: I'm a grad student in English Lit at the University of Arizona, which means I teach freshman composition. Students e-mail me all the time. Constantly. Unless there's some compelling reason, I usually answer them in class, and, if what they want or need requires a longish explanation, I tell them to come to office hours (note that if they can't make office hours, I also do office hours by appointment).

This has a three-fold benefit: it cuts down on the amount of e-mail I receive over the course of the semester because students realize I won't answer frivolous e-mails twelve hours after they're sent. If I have follow-up questions, or the student does, those questions are easier to ask face-to-face. Misunderstandings caused by not not being face-to-face are evaded; it's hard to see context from e-mail. I think everyone has had misunderstandings caused by not having enough information. Finally, if they want me to read their papers or other work and show up to office hours, I know they really want me to read their work, and their desire to get feedback isn't just a passing fancy. The back-and-forth that can come from reading work and immediately responding to it can't be easily duplicated, especially among non-professionals, over e-mail or other asynchronous communications.

I meant to list three things, I really did. But the reasons kept popping into my head, and I think they're all valid.
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It's nice that LinkedIn has a great process: regression testing and the like, but what if you work in an environment where you can't afford to test every single little thing, and where business models, let alone requirements change constantly (ie. a startup)? What if a competitor just launched a feature that will put you out of business if you don't implement the same thing in 48 hours? What if there is a mission-critical bug that has to be fixed by the end of the day or else all your customers will bail out?

Secondly, most who work in Wall Street will tell you it's not about the process. It's about the culture. People don't work until 7 or 8 because they're fixing bugs, or because development is so slow. It's because they're expected to and if they get up and leave at 5, it leaves a bad impression on management and their co-workers.