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This meme originates in the tech "hotspots" such as silicon valley, nyc, etc. Outside these insular communities, the job market for developers is not nearly as accomodative.

If you live outside these areas, I am guessing you're comparing the kind of things said in the HN echo chamber to your own experiences outside "The Valley", and finding some dissonance as a result.
They remind me of where the O'Reilly books were in the late 90's: Consistently high quality and all worth reading.
Can anyone find a copy of the paper? I haven't been able to dig one up.
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<p>I'm pretty excited that Youtube has decided to update (and no, this is not another April Fools prank ;). I haven't fully decided how I personally feel about it (the filters do seem more personalized), but it most definitely has a Google+ flavor to it--which again, may or may not be a good thing.<p>

<p>What do "you" think?
"This was back when OS X was fairly new. He was unaware that he could not install OS 9 on it, which he needed for his publishing business."

It was only in January 2003 that Mac OS X only machines began shipping.
Glad it was useful.

If you can teach yourself visual basic then I'd suggest that you teach yourself some programming. You are unlikely to acquire enough to do the heavy lifting on this venture, but every hour you spend learning how to manipulate your chosen technology stack will pay dividends.

After a while will be able to speak the language of potential co-founders, and you will even be able to look at their code and comment intelligently.

If you have any sort of eye for design, then learning (or improving your skills in) html, css and copy n' paste jquery will allow you to do the marketing site, email newsletters and the like whilst your technical co-founder builds the product.

Anyway, if you are out their pitching and getting feedback, then you are going to find someone sooner or later. There is a heap of advice on the web (like going to tech meetups and events) that you should be following if you are not already doing so.

And if you want to know how I do it? I've always just written a stand out job advert that is designed to speak to the 1% of people who might be interested and post it on the startup orientated job boards and Uni temporary work websites. It has worked 100% of the time for me. If you do have connections (i.e. the ex-agency) who are technical you can get them to help you interview if you are worried about not sounding credible - just introduce them as advisers or something.

Finally, on the subject of hiring contractors do build prototypes, my personal view (from experience) is proceed with massive caution in doing this. You might be better to conserve your cash to help tempt a proper co-founder, who if they are half decent will get something built 3-4x faster than hired help. You (almost certainly) aren't going to get funded with a contractor-built prototype that will be, in effect, a black box to you and your potential investors, so all you are really doing is dulling the pain that you should be focusing 100% on.
Yeah, I get they're not for everybody, and it's definitely on the fun and frivolous side. Not sure they have a Kid A or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in them.

But I do admire the unique way they've carved out a business niche for themselves and completely adapted to the new realities. Artists should take note.
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I don't think it's out yet. PNAS publications come out every Tuesday so maybe it'll be out in tomorrow's issue.
Adding units is quite reasonable, but of course the 1_kg == 2.2_lb assertion can fail simply because if you multiply 2.2 by 1 / 2.2, you're not gonna get 1.

And when adding units you certainly should not get numbers. 1_kg should not be a double. It should be a unit<double, mass> or something. And 1_kg * 1_kg should be a unit<double, mul<mass, mass>>? Presumably it's possible to make something like that work in the C++ type system.

You have to be careful about 01011011_b. I'd guess that gets parsed as an octal constant. But if you write 11011010_b, that'll get parsed as a decimal constant.
You really don't see any difference between guessing the value of a lawyer by unrelated extracurriculars and guessing the value of a developer by work on relevant open source projects?
To you and everyone using things != .+@example.com: why? Example.(com|net|org) were specifically created for this purpose and for the purpose of tutorials. I work in client-facing support, and it's very easy to troubleshoot software that /other people/ write when the client says something along the lines of "It says 'connection to example.com:25 failed'" -- I instantly know what the problem is. If you're using things other than example.(com|net|org) for this, you're possibly making the job of a support tech you'll never meet harder.

If your excuse is "I didn't know about example.com!"...well, that's a lame non-excuse. Do the rest of the IT world a favor and fix your tutorials and software -- mail server administrators like me already have enough headaches from the gazillions of spam techniques in use today.
The most interesting aspect of this otherwise-thin article is that it highlights the ongoing internal competition between Chrome as a web OS vs the rich client-side framework offered by Android. I have the feeling that the two teams within Google see this as something of a zero-sum game.
I'm pretty excited that Youtube has decided to update (and no, this is not another April Fools prank ;). I haven't fully decided how I personally feel about it (the filters do seem more personalized), but it most definitely has a Google+ flavor to it--which again, may or may not be a good thing.

What do "you" think?
I'd be willing to bet that in the next 15 years someone is going to go Billy Beane on Bain McK and BCG, pick up the talent that seems to be falling in between the cracks, apply technology to the consulting process, and make a killing.

Actually, I think those firms are pretty good at selecting the type of person they want. Sure, the 90th-percentile Penn State grad is much smarter than the 30th-percentile Harvard graduate. For technology, you'd rather have the PSU grad who can code. On the other hand, for McKinsey, the latter is arguably a "better" hire. Why? Because investment banking and management consulting are about image and the ability to sell oneself; being 15 IQ points smarter doesn't do much. Not all Ivy League students are very bright (some are, some aren't) but what can be said of almost every one of them (with their admission to the most selective universities as strong evidence) is that they're good at selling themselves.
The real question is whether it's a good thing to stop "mind wandering" when it hasn't reached the level of disorder. From the perspective of evolution, it almost certainly has a purpose. Paul Graham pointed out that its probably useful for problem solving:

http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html

I wonder if it would be good to have the ability to better focus one's self when one's mind is wandering into unproductive subjects (e.g. agonizing over an ex) without necessarily getting to the point where your default mode has been changed so much as to prevent insights in the shower (and instead being deeply aware of the hot water).
Sorry, but this seems like a platitude.

If you had actually used the Facebook Comments system as a user outside of your own blog, you would realize that the behavior you're complaining about doesn't exist (except on your site, where a bug is apparently causing it.)

Comments on Techcrunch, for example, which uses this system do not flag any errors.
since the site is dos'd: http://web.archive.org/web/20110707211652/http://bar.com/
> I'm thinking point is that with a death sentence, there is a possibility that something will exonerate the person before they die in prison.

Did you mean "life sentence"? If so, that's nice, but it doesn't happen.

> If the person is sentenced to immediate death, there are no do-overs.

There is no "sentenced to immediate death" in the US. The closest was Timothy McVeigh and his case was extremely special.

Texas, which is among the fastest, is currently executing folks convicted in the mid 90s. CA hasn't executed anyone since 2006.

> we find out that an innocent person was executed, who get the blame? No one.

Like I said, we kill innocents all the time. They die from "prison live", not being executed. They don't get any attention, which pretty much demonstrates that the death penalty is the issue, not innocents dying because of being wrongly convicted.

As I wrote, there's nothing wrong with being against the death penalty, but don't tell us you're against innocents dying because they were wrongly convicted.
I definitely rate the Prag Prog books as some of the best out there - starting with the original 'Pragmatic Programmer' book which always ends up on top ten lists.

I'd recommend the following:

- Release It!

- The Agile Samurai
wtf editor lets a writer get away with using honestly?

Google could get away with an app platform, I think, but if it doesn't beat the mediocre performance of a web-based app you can run in any browser, there is no point in it. But if they can make a native app that runs Chrome OS "native" apps with iOS native performance, then they will really have something, something companies will build on.

Honestly I am already planning to build for Chrome OS. It is little now, but it will take off just like Android has.
A bunch of the people FMRI'd in this study were pulled from the pragmatic dharma movement:
http://thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com/2011/04/pragmatic-dha...
Anyone have any suggestions about how Hunch would scale to eBay levels?

Seems Hunch has gone the 'Mega Machine' route (1 T RAM, 48 Core [1]), from 700k users (80m Total TTHY / 113THAYs [1]), make 250k API users

How do you scale that out to eBay numbers?

[1]http://blog.hunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/110509-HUNC...
Then I don't understand your point. Google, whether they are interested or not, is in the hardware business. It's now their job to be good at it, it's not like Larry and Sergei are going to ignore a major branch of their company and not align it strategically with Googles plans.
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I think it's "elite" as defined by the typical salaries (say, in the first few years on the job).
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example.com is protected by RFC 2606 ("Reserved Top Level DNS Names") for special use (with example.org and example.net - along the same lines as the reservation for 127/24, 192.168/16, etc).

The domain is owned by ICANN and has no MX record. Where the mail goes depends on your site-local MTA configuration. On the public internet it goes (or should go) nowhere and bounce back immediately with an appropriate status code from your provider's MTA.
Zoho has been doing this very successfully in India: scooping up bright high school students that cannot get into a college (typically for financial reasons) and training them internally.

https://blogs.zoho.com/general/how-we-recruit-on-formal-cred...
So who are the designers, and how are they going to do any of this in isolation? Previous attempts have resulted in bloodbaths because the only way anyone can design a society is with large amounts of force. And then the state of the society is better characterized by the bloodbath than by whatever design the bloodbath was intended to create or enforce.

I don't buy the argument that this has to be done by force, or that this necessarily results in a bloodbath. What are governments trying to do when they tweak laws, interests rates and the like but trying to "design" societies?

I'm just suggesting that we take more quantitative and model-based approach to this issue. We can start by simply involving more scientists and engineers in policy decisions, and ask them to use the tools we've developed to analyze complex systems to analyze the socio-economic system that we live in.

To a certain extent, we're already doing this. A hundred years ago, most political decisions were ad hoc based on what "seemed right" to the party in charge. Decisions today are much more data-based and rely on expert input.

Unintended consequences aren't the only reason you can't design society. The main reason is that society insists on designing itself. ...

These are dogmatic statements unsupported by citations. I'm not sure how to respond to them.

Societies are full of people who don't agree with other people's "designs" and won't voluntarily cooperate.

It would have inconceivable five hundred years that "most" people would agree on the following:

(1) large parts of the world would elect their own rulers.
(2) women would have the same rights and privileges as men.
(3) violence as a means of solving problems would be perceived as "wrong".

This perception changed because we see now that these were decisions that benefited society as a whole.
You should add an about page. A meditation self-tracking tool sounds interesting (I've just started sitting zazen), but I'm going to need some details before I hand over my email.
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Your question presumes that the extracurriculars are unrelated and that the open source projects are related. In that particular case I'd agree with you. However, I don't presume that the average programmer can anymore discern what open source projects are relevant, than the average lawyer can discern what extracurriculars are unrelated. I think in the particular case of law pro-bono cases and amicus curiae briefs would be more appropriate to juxtapose with open source contributions.

Similarly, depending on what field of law you want to go into and what types of people you want to work with as a lawyer you'd pick your pro-bono work with similar rigor to open source project selection if the end goal was career advancement.
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One developer probably entered customer@customer.com in a database, and then another guy probably accidentally triggered the "email everybody in the database" script. I can see how that would happen. I've obviously never personally done anything like that but I know a guy who tripped the "Send sales report to CFO" using test data once when I was an intern.
Since it's obvious that Dyson's statement is way too optimistic, I assume that for her it is (was) a good marketing - you bet a lot by investing in Russian startups, why not bet a little bit more to show to your future partners how confident you are?

Here is why the statement is way too optimistic:

- Resources always move to places where they can be used most effectively (econ 101) unless there is a significant friction

- For that type of resource (talented programmers/mathematicians) the friction is very small

- Russia has bad regulation and bad business environment in general

- Specifically, very hard to get investments[1], and investors interests are poorly protected[2]

- Silicon Valley utilizes these resource much more effectively, so that even other places in the US - NYC/Boston/Chicago - could not compete effectively

- Also, managerial talent in Russia is concentrated on more profitable business, like participating in natural resource explorations or working for state-run monopolies - very profitable and risk free if you have the right connections

Disclaimer: I'm Russian living in Silicon Valley. That may have affected my judgement.

[1] I can share the following anecdote: When I was helping some friends to find VC funding in 2008 in Russia, I learnt that most VCs in Russia require kick-backs(!) from startups that they're investing in - presumably as a way to steal from their limited partners (and even provide some advice on how these kick-backs could be recorded in accounting books).

[2] Khodorkovsky's and Chichvarkin's examples are probably the most well-known on the West.
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I will never understand why Apple went with Twitter integration over Facebook. Or, you know, provide an API that lets any application take over social features (Google+, LinkedIn, etc).
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Of course, the very idea of tracking and working on "improving" via meditation goes against the core idea of zen meditation itself.

But I'm interested in your startup anyway. :)

edit: in fairness, there are many types of meditation beyond zen.
Given that Ivy admissions these days is based almost entirely on high-school GPA and standardized test scores, I wouldn't wager that the PSU grad is 15 IQ points smarter than the Harvard grad.
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"snuck" sounds ugly because it implies Google surreptitiously crawled itself into the iPad.

Google implemented a combination of APIs provided by Apple. I don't see something wrong with it, they don't appear to be breaking any rules. I would have done the same.

While sharing the same foundation code is not as valuable as search + ads, Google has a positive outcome, which stems from more scrutiny and active development. In the end, it benefits both Chrome and Safari.

They "sneak in" in the sense that the experience is far better with the App. To me, that makes a huge impact in user perception.
It'd be great if the non-mobile site still had, at very least, the donate link. I've been wanting quick shortcuts to individual settings for a while, I'd love to donate a few bucks from the comfort of my desktop-logged in Paypal account.
And since the affiliate fee on 1¢ is most likely nothing, this submission is most likely to get your amazon referrer cookie set to the thepartim-20's, so they get credit for other, future purchases.
Oh, Sugru can redeem/avenge my father too?!

That is magic stuff! :-)
Is there any way of changing how the ingredients are measured ie pounds to grams?

Also.. perhaps cups is not the best way to measure onions ;)

Nice work though, design looks slick
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This app just feels wrong on the iPad. While the main screens are nicely done, the individual apps are just the mobile or web versions. This makes for a very inconsistent UI and experience.

Personally I don't think this app should exist. Google search is built into the safari UI after all.
I'm a little surprised that Morse code machines didn't get a mention.
They are essentially tiny typewriter keyboards, with surprising utility for having only one key!

(some even look like typewriter keys: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/J38Telegr... )
The last time I played with Java server technologies, I found the edit debug redeploy cycle to be ridiculously long. What is the start of the art nowadays?
Because in 99.9999% of use cases it won't break.

That, and mDNS already being used as a psuedo-standard with things like Avahi.
Yeah, I almost feel compelled to follow any salesperson I see at one of those stores who's helping an affable but uninformed person just so that I can correct all the false statements they're told after the salesperson goes away. It's amazing to me that people hire most of those people to represent their stores and companies. Most big box retail electronics stores are really shoddy shopping experiences.
Exactly! I hate to say this because it makes me sound like a tech elitist, but some people really do need those warnings because they can't tell what website they're on.

See the ReadWriteWeb article that had to put a big "this is not Facebook" notice on it.
I've got to mull this one over a bit. After several decades of study, I'm just starting to really grok money and finance.

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I wouldn't be so dismissive. The people are pretty smart and switched on. Their choices are driven by different priorities though.
Most people I know, have at least one person they met professionally who was a 'dud' at one company and a 'star' at a different company. The difference was how the company utilized their skills and empowered their environment.

I find products have a similar sort of way about them, sometimes a product that is a 'dud' in one company, the same idea is a runaway success in another. Perhaps the most cogent example of this would be the TabletPC vs the iPad. (I could have as easily picked the Palm Pilot and the Newton Messagepad) product concepts, product execution, and the ecosystem into which they are born all have a huge impact on the success or failure of the result.

HP has a vision problem, I know its the 'what if' company but it does. I've got a few hundred of their servers in a data center that need a BIOS update, one of their suggestions? Use the 'Easy update' program on a DVD they would send me. Seriously? Too many products at HP don't know what they want to be (other than successful and cool, which is never something you make, they are side effects of your execution)

At the end of the day WebOS and the Touchpad, were doomed by corporate host they found themselves in. Not a lot of people remember how incensed Microsoft was that people figured out how to hack the Kinect, they threatened to sue people, now they brag about all the cool things people are doing with it. That was an example of something that just barely escaped death at the hands of its acquirer.

I'm sure HP wishes they had their $3.3B back, but I bet they would spend it all again if they could figure out how to re-enable the company to execute on new concepts.
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How much of this stuff will doom you if any of your users are still stuck on IE? (unclosed tags, new more concise doctypes, simpler document structure, utf8 element values and text, other cool HTML5 standard markup)

Is this a preview of the web we might be able to write in fifteen years when Microsoft allows us to catch up?
Quite possibly one of the awesomest infographics of all time. This puts even Tufte to shame. There's an amazing amount of detail, information, nuance, and a little humor in here.

I'd like to know what tools Randall uses to create this and similar graphics (see his radiation plot from earlier this year: http://xkcd.com/radiation/ ).
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If you think that people less prudent than you should be "protected" from Facebook, then your participation may be harmful to them because it's part of what encourages them to participate.
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Nice try on trying to convince us that this REALLY happened, the Iphone was clearly TOO LARGE to fit into a small toilet opening...points for creativity though...
Banking salaries go from about 75k (entry-level) to 125k at the 5th year. Bonuses can be from 20 to 500 percent depending on your political success as well as the performance of the firm. Typical is 40-100% in the junior ranks, for a take-home around $200,000 in the fifth year. Decent, but not worth the suffering (and attrition) involved.

Base salaries in finance and consulting are low, even at senior ranks, compared to the level of the position. Finance makes it up in bonus (if you last a year). Consulting makes it up with introductions to large-company CEOs so that if you hit a ceiling, you have options. Law has mediocre bonuses but more restrained hours and minimal travel.

If you count hours 41 to 60 as time-and-a-half and 61-plus as double-time, these jobs actually fare pretty poorly in terms of compensation. At the peak of the finance compensation bubble, first-year bankers at top firms were averaging $140,000 all-in (75k base, 65k bonus). For an 80-hour workweek adjusted accordingly, that's $24.50 per hour. If you get fired on day 364 (a common day for that to happen) and fail your bonus, it can be half of that.
That's idiotic, sacrificing the majority for the minority.
Yeah, in the long run we'll all be dead.