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Ask HN: What do H.R. managers do for a high-tech company?
I've seen many discussions here over the last few years about hiring practices in high-tech companies. As start-up founders dream of building a growing company, and as mid-career hackers look back on their careers (and consider switching to new companies), what can we learn about the role of human resources managers in a growing, innovative high-tech company? How does a human resources specialist work with technical line managers and senior company management to build the company culture? What added value does H.R. bring to the management of a company mostly built around hacking or marketing skill-sets? What would you look for in hiring a first human resources specialist? What would you look for in hiring a human resources manager? How big does a company have to be to need human resources specialists on staff?
Already there is a significant pay-off in researching the laws of the place where you intend to incorporate.
Ask PG: How can I add a partner to my YC Application?
I submitted before the deadline and spoke of a potential partner in my app. I have now made that partnership official and would like to add my partner to the application. Is there any way to do that? Thanks!
How Dropbox Started As A Minimal Viable Product
I remember the early 90's recession as being a much bigger shock psychologically. In those days, there were still plenty of people who had planned on finding a big company and staying there for life and retiring on a pension. These days more or less everyone has figured out not to count on that.
Yes, you're right. I'm not criticizing their decision.

With the cost of a college education skyrocketing, and "open source" education in its infancy, the moves and adaptations of the big players are just interesting to watch, is all I meant.

I believe the next 10 years will birth new forms of socially-acceptable higher education, which is a pretty big deal, since the system we have to day is pretty ancient.

MIT, with it's strict "information should be free" policy. Stanford, with a mixed bag approach. Harvard, with it's extension school. Johns Hopkins, with it's satellite campuses in other countries.. The big schools are all trying out different strategies to offer a variety of bundles for students looking for education.
In August I ended up using 100MB in one day for whatever reason (I imagine Netflix even though I was home) and started to think about having a proxy service to help me cut down on bandwidth use as well as being able to monitor how much each individual app uses.

I don't know if that's at all possible or if that exists but I realized that it'd be hard to make that a paying product since, with AT&T at least, it costs only $10 extra to go to the next bandwidth cap. You'd most likely need to go under these $10 to see any real interest… That would actually allow you to cut Flurry et al off completely.
> If people are working at FoxConn voluntarily (i.e, they choose to go to work there because they believe their lives are better that way), who cares?

Well I care, for one. I think there are probably others who do too.

Why can't it be both? Why can't workers at Foxconn choose work there because it's better than the alternative, AND be treated decently and work in decent conditions?

I think it's good that some people are concerned about the supply chain for our electronic toys. I've decided that I can live with a slightly older Android rather than upgrade to some new Android phone or the new iPhone... and that's partly motivated by these extra costs attached to the toys.
> I look forward to the day when an algorithm tells me my taste buds prefer extra spicy beef panda express, order now and have it air delivered to you in ten minutes.

I'm sorry to be blunt, but that's degenerate, plain and simply. If the day arrives when people give up thinking for themselves, we've truly arrived at an Orwellian society, and your friends are damn right - we're not very far away from this.
One thing that seems to genuinely have changed is that the stock market no longer prints money for everyone. The average adult that saved and invested in the 80s and 90s had their wealth grow enormously. I've been saving and investing since graduation (6 years ago) and it's been a net loss -- and it looks likely to continue to be.

"More revenue solves all known problems", so presumably without a magical market that you can depend upon to increase your money faster than 1% a year, problems may be harder to solve.
Yeah, but if there are more useful satellites in the sky, there's a greater chance of the visible satellites having a wider separation. Even in the 'urban canyon', you still frequently have partial sky visibility in some non-vertical directions. And there will be occasions when a GLONASS satellite will be better placed than a GPS satellite.

To use a reductio ad absurdum argument, imagine a satellite positioning network with a thousand nodes. Wouldn't it have a greater chance of providing a useful fix in this environment: http://g.co/maps/sa8zk ?
Social Security Benefits Rising 3.6%; Workers Face Tax Hike Of Up To $2,341
The artemisinin resistance is very scary. Cambodia is where Chloroquine resistance developed, which has since spread to Africa. If artemisinin resistance were to become widespread too, it would be a disaster. Containing it is a very tough problem, but there are efforts underway to try. One of the members of my lab is traveling to the area soon to test a new screening method.

http://www.who.int/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/arcp/en/index...
http://mango.ctegd.uga.edu/jkissingLab/
Check out Eisner's books on partnerships. Buffett-Munger, Gates-Allen/Ballmer/French-Gates are all in there. Would they have been successes solo? Maybe. But partnership increased the odds, and also made it a bigger success.
The decision also drew reference to the "centrality of the role of hyperlinks in facilitating access to information on the Internet" and that restricting the use of hyperlinks "would have the effect of seriously restricting the flow of information and, as a result, freedom of expression."
*Both the product and the user. But I do agree that there is almost always an initial negative reaction when people figure out that their data is being sold.
I know close to nothing about typography, but is it really so odd for letters to look similar in different fonts? They're the same letters... it seems like they can only differ by so much.

Personally I think the differences, even if they're subtle, make Roboto feel different (I seem to like it more than Helvetica, just from my reactions to it from staring at that picture)
A very interesting article, with references to research I hadn't heard about before. One of my favorite books on reading, which deserves to be read slowly enough to comprehend everything the author is saying, is Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene.

http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm

What any Hacker News participant can do to get a check on appropriate reading speed for one kind of book or article or another is to test comprehension after reading, by having a friend ask questions about what you just read. Here on Hacker News, we sometimes test one another's comprehension as we discuss articles in comment threads. Many HN participants admit frankly that they skip or skim most of what is posted here, but many other HN participants help out a lot of fellow participants by their close reading of submitted articles or the comments of other participants.
Buy-clip-in-extensions
Maybe I'm not representative of my generation, but I feel privileged to have a job at all in this climate, to have a car, to be given the opportunity to represent my organisation, and so on.

It's a far cry from the attitude of a lot of people in the older generations, that the workplace and the economy somehow owes them something, like a job, like a car, like a big house, like a space in the parking lot with their name on it.

There are people of all ages and generations with a chip on their shoulder and false sense of entitlement, and then there are the people who recognise that no one owes them anything, unless they earn it.

(I guess I feel old because I'm twenty-six and about to emigrate to the U.S. and get married. That makes me feel like a big boy!)
Hear, hear!

I, too, am tired of this "binning by birth". It's as if people born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s exhibit no behavioral clustering on any other, more common demographic variable.
This is a good ruling, first because it protects freedom of expression, second because it gets the internet in a way that bodes well for the future, and third because the quoted excerpts are written in such clear English that they're actually easier to understand than the surrounding post.
Even just getting a second or two during startup to connect to external servers and again a second or two at the end would be enough.
Tips to Make money online.
Since you mentioned it, I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans. Sure there's other random groups trying to throw in there two cents, but this is the main quibble.

Is this really that hard to understand?
Well, a lot of those webapps fall in the "feature, not a product category" and were pretty clearly living life on the edge.

I await the day I can anagram via the search bar.
Not sure about ICS, but Gingerbread on the Galaxy S2 is completely stutter-free. It took a while for Android to achieve this: I used 10 Android (company-)devices in the last 12 month, and even the Nexus S with Gingerbread would sometimes show some lag when scrolling through large lists. It was otherwise a very responsive device, and the lag is hardly noticeable unless you directly compare it with an iphone or an Galaxy S2. But there was some lag.

The Galaxy S2 is perfectly smooth. I guess it's the combination of the multithreaded garbage collector that came with 2.3, the dual core processor, and a very fine Android implementation from Samsung that solved the problem.

I also think that Android does benefit a lot from every MB additional RAM, because it gives both the application scheduler and the garbage collector more room to manage app lifecycles.
You are what you learn
I don't get it. Aside from the block capitals, they are pretty distinguishable. Roboto's verticals are generally thicker. The round letters are taller and less round. Roboto has a bit of a curve on the long lines, for example at the bottom of the W. Helvetica's straight lines are actually straight. Roboto has trapezoidal stems on qrpgdb, and the curved lines on those letters get a lot thinner near the vertical. The k has a horizontal bar. The ascenders on lowercase letters are taller than capital letters, but Helvetica keeps them the same height.

Edit: of course this doesn't even account for kerning, punctuation, etc.
If Facebook were simply showing me ads for stuff I mentioned, or something like that, I would have no objection. "Hmm, this guy keeps posting about hats. He must like hats. Let's show him some ads for hats!" No problem. That's basically what I thought would happen when I signed up.

I did not expect that when I visited cnn.com, after having logged into Facebook a week earlier, Facebook would log which articles I read. There was no reason for me to think that clicking "remember me" when I logged into Facebook also implied "and also remember my browsing history on all of your partner sites."

That's the behavior that pisses me off, not the targeted ads that you mentioned.

(I assume it's obvious why logging a subset of my browsing history without my consent pisses me off, but let me know if that seems odd and I'll explain more.)
In Florida, in their state university system, a "certificate" is the replacement for a "minor". This isn't a total replacement, as one can get one's "certificate" issued separately from the diploma (I did this).
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I like the idea of using hashtags to amplify one's grievances with a company on twitter. Is there a good way to research appropriate ones, I wonder?
Please Stay Calm for iOS mixes location-based RPG gaming and zombie-killin’
I bet some of them find alternative ways to get visitors and that a decent number of people use the bookmark feature. Now, how valuable a visitor is to a page like that is another matter.
Good Afrrtnoon America: SignOn.org Beta
VW sucesso com publicidade em redes sociais
Too much undeserved self-praise can lead to depression
I agree. I was going to write something similar, but you said it better.

Because of the many different factors in someone's life (like socio-economic class, race, place of upbringing, parenting, genetics) these "generations" encompass many diverse experiences than can't accurately generalized.
Steve Jobs was working on Apple’s “next product”  on the day before he died
You (and Ola ...) really should take a look at the APL / J / K family. All are 10-100x times more expressive than Ruby/Python, and 100x-1000x times more expressive than C and Java.

They are all quite fast, with K being super-blazing-fast.

I can't do these languages justice in a comment -- but have a look at https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/wiki/Idioms and https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/wiki - you are in for a shock about how unexpressive everything you've used so far is (and you don't have to give up speed to get that)
I wish my grandfathers, who grew up in the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War 2, were alive, so they could write a response to this.

It would probably go something like "Oh, rubbish."
True, it's a 10 euro addon here for 1000 "unlimited" messages, dropping now however because data usage has grown massively, while the texting cash cow dropped (Whatsapp and BBM).

It's still a bad solution for the problem as a whole.
Kelora
I'm "reaching out" to therealdiego. I have a letter from Kelora that you might be interested in. How can I contact you personally?
This app, called onavo, helps you save some bandwith. Not sure about security though.
My wife is a greedy, terrible, pregnant, unionized public servant
Why go through iMessage when you want a direct connection? I think it's just a matter of Apple getting it right and figuring out how to ensure a good experience, yet allowing 3rd party apps to use Siri.
Excellent! I was waiting for them to do a developer's blog post on backwards compatibility, but this is a huge help on getting started.
You can, but you need to need to analyze the phase of the GPS signals at the analog level (not the the code phase)
Malaria is a parasite. Vaccines are not effective against parasites, and there has never been such a thing. Until this one.
I commented here as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3130877, but does it really make sense to compare individual letters of fonts? I'd think that a well designed font would be able to convey a different feel when looking at large bodies of text (larger than single letters, at least) via subtle nuances, even if individual letters look like those in a different font.
Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.
Hi guys!

Our team of HN lurkers been hard at work for what feels like an eternity now and today we're proud to present our first public product: The Walkbase library for Android. You can get it at www.walkbase.com

With Walkbase, app developers can push location-specific room-level context (e.g. in-game content, coupons, mobile ads) to various smartphone apps. The idea is to give you a logical context (e.g Starbucks, SOMA) rather than an approximate GPS position for your users and we hope devs will be able to build a bunch of cool stuff on top of this.

We hope you like it and find it useful. Feedback is of course very welcome!
Not surprising its nearly identical to how you would write it in Io (http://iolanguage.com):

square := method(x, x * x)
1 to(10) map(x, square(x)) sum println

and also the variation:

1 to(10) map(x, x * x) sum println
even though I have no idea what they want aside from some kind of fuzzy vision of a Utopian world that's probably impossible.

Basic infrastructure investment (high speed rail, broadband, healthcare, education) as economic stimulus, paying down deficits by raising the taxes on the wealthiest, a reintroduction of Glass-Steagall and other investment/banking regulations, a scaling back of militarism and empire, a crackdown on corruption and collusion between corporations and government (ie, hiring agribusiness ceo's to head government watchdog agencies), and a broadening of the debate.

I realize that the media has not done a great job of making these demands known. These are not my demands (I'd choose something considerably more sweeping and radical), but I have a hard time considering them utopian or fuzzy. In fact, they're all so immediately doable, some countries have been at it for half a century.

So, I get a little defensive when I hear that the Occupy movement is all pie-in-the-sky. It's actually a movement based almost entirely on low hanging fruit.
I refer you to the Beacon advertising adventure. Where Facebook was "just using the data we make available on their network," and users fought back and won.

You last sentence starts with "If there's no injury," which seems to be the topic of discussion here.
I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans

Ironically, this also happens to be the underlying theme of the Tea Party movement.

Or rather, that's what you get if you ask a sufficiently clever member of either movement to strip down their movement into the most universally-popular motherhood statement they can think of.
Agreed, vast swaths of young men are indeed off-putting.
A different kind of revolution
I guess the problem isn't targeted advertising per se. It's that you don't know what your personal information will be used for in the future. Maybe it will give you better, more targeted advertising. Maybe it will be used to deny you an insurance policy or be sold to a recruiting firm that will reject your job application. I guess Facebooks terms don't allow that, but those terms can change at any time.

Maybe not next year, but what about 30-40 years from now? Facebook or Google might not even exist then, but you can be pretty sure that your data will exist, along with your social graph. That's a tangible asset that can be sold, no matter what happens to these companies. Or seized by some government, for that matter.

Is this just being paranoid and obsessed with privacy? Lets hope so.

A german friend put it this way: Most jews in pre-nazi Germany didn't mind having their religious affiliation listed in their passport. Many were indeed proud to be jews.

Would anyone of them have been able to imagine what this information would be used for just a few years down the line? Wouldn't anyone worrying about this collection of data have been laughed at and called paranoid?
"The day Facebook, or Google, or anyone actually decides to do something evil, it will look ugly. Will they ? Don't know. Don't want to find out."

Yes, they will. And when they do, it won't be evil, it'll just be business. Which is evil.
I don't think this applies for this comment, I mean, the title suggests teaching something to an AI, which in the case of Siri would open a lot of very interesting options, I'm sure I'm not the only one who expected something along those lines and was disappointed. "RTM Siri setup instructions" is a less attractive title though.
I've been having significant jumps with my 4S compared to the 4 too. It seems like a regression in GPS quality so far.
What are the differences between these two certificates?

They seem pretty similar to me.
Ugh, this is dreadful. Going on about "generations" is one of the surest ways to stimulate a useless discussion.
I've seen the word "teach" used to talk about setting up or programming a computer on many occasions before. It's completely appropriate. I can see why you'd be disappointed but that's not a reason to complain.
http://antme.codeplex.com/

Not new, did a similar thing in C# in high school. Definitely a good way to get into programming
Even if Professor Ng says to put it on your resume, it remains to be seen if employers will accept it as any sort of credential.
You happen to like when ads are targeted at you.

Do you think everyone likes these ads, and the ones who are complaining are just whining without really thinking about what great pants they could be buying?

Do you think some other people may not like these ads? Is it odd that those people would try to pressure companies into not showing these ads?

Do you think one side of the other is in the majority here? Can either side speak "for" the masses, who don't talk about/understand ads one way or the other?
App: Share Everything with Everyone
I have to disagree. There's plenty of brush and other mess to clear -- and quite a few trees to plant as well. But the self proclaimed forest rangers will only allow certain kinds or brush around certain kinds of trees to be cleared all the while the paths are covered with fallen trees and the low spots are full of oxygen depleted water and festering pools of mosquito larvae. Attempts to remedy any of these situations are met with deadly force.
Here at Klout, we're seeing a lot of companies respond to mentioners based on their Klout score.
> If you had to work your ass of from age 15 to get anywhere, you're X or later.

You can't be serious. Most of the Xers and (especially) later didn't work their asses off. They worked at the grocery store in high school, not to help support their families, but to pay for gas in vehicles that they didn't really need that their parents bought them. We're two spoiled generations.

> I would argue that "X" hasn't ended. I was born in 1983 and I don't feel much of a generational separation between myself (1983) and people 10 years older. But I think there's a huge separation between people born in 1945 vs. '55, and also '55 vs. '65. This came into the clear at my wedding, when I could sense "generational sameness" in conversations among people of radically different ages (from 3 to 84). I feel like I'm "the same age" as people who are 23 (18's different, but that's because of inexperience) or 38, but age 55 and 65 are (generationally speaking) very different, even now.

That's because you're in the middle of that age range. When you're around 30, someone 10 years older isn't really in a drastically different place in life. They work jobs, they have kids at home, they live in fairly nice houses (they might even still be paying student loans). Day to day there's very little different. Ditto for 23-year-olds. They are out of college and working a job, a few of them are having kids. They're at an earlier level of career development, but not by that much. You were there very recently.

On the other hand, you look at 18-year-olds and they seem stupid, because they are (so were we at that age). And they're just starting college. You can't really relate to that any more. You look at 50-year-olds, and they've got kids in college. And they're managers at work now. And the age gap is large enough that it doesn't disappear into the background. But there is no real generational divide. It's a continuum. Sure, you feel like you can relate to 23-year-olds and 40-year-olds. You could date someone in either of those age buckets and it's not really weird. The 40-year-old probably feels a lot more "generational divide" talking to a 23-year-old than you do. The 40-year-old could be the parent of the 23-year-old.
That's what the Tea Party says, but the things they back as a whole are, oddly enough, pretty much in line for what corporate lobbyists want. Interesting coincidence, that.
Firefox 8 with Twitter Search
I actually find it a bit funny when people put up personal data for the sake of sharing it with others over a public network, then go on complaining about privacy.
Android Design Philosophy (or the lack thereof)
"Separation of church and corporation" is one way I've heard that expressed.