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It happened to me with a recruiter. They were calling people that were somehow connected to me to try to get my phone number. What I found most upsetting was how they treated the people that they called. The recruiter was very persistent, and pretty rude. It was enough to prompt my coworker and another friend to find all instances of their phone number online and try to get it removed (which is generally a good idea).
I'm a high level developer working in the finance industry, I get a six figure bonus that about equals my salary.
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Funny that http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm should be on the front page at the same time.
"Win because you promise more? That sounds like a government project." Ha, ding ding ding ding ding ding!
If a candidate has applied for such a position then I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that they've tainted their pristine porcelain skin with -gasp- a few run-of-the-mill software projects.
D seems to be targeting C++ more than it does C.
Both vaccine and non-vaccine groups receive appropriate counselling (this part can be double blind even) regarding HIV, risk behaviors, and as a trial vaccine it might no be 100% effective etc etc... You assess the impact of behavior changes via surveys and interviews to see if there has been a significant increase in risk behavior and the control for it.

It would be unethical to give a placebo to someone for this kind of disease.
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I'm trying to create a multiplatform chat app, that works for ios, android, blackberry, and web client, so I read that i need a xmpp server and there are many, so i want to hear some opinions wich one should i pick and why, i dont know anything about xmpp servers or things like that
Wouldn't that only thwart people that don't collect tons of connections? I wonder how many connections a hiring manager would need in order to have a decent chance of having at least one shared connection with a given candidate.
Eight years in the SF Bay Area left me with the impression that the people there are, in generally, exceptionally self-involved. It's no wonder that "social" (i.e. self-promotional) media has taken so strongly there.
I would assume it's the former, but in the case where there's multiple thermostats hooked up to the same shared IP it might show you a list of all unowned devices and then ask you for which one you want to activate, and then telling you to go over to it and confirm. So in the scenario of the apartment complex you wouldn't get everyone's thermostats, just the unowned ones, and even then you're limited to choosing only the ones you have physical access to.
> Or use a language where '-' is allowed in identifiers.

I have been a little obsessed with this question for a long time, and my interest in the LISP family of languages was in part driven by the use of '-'. This should have been a trivial consideration though. A keymap fix seems rather more logical than a change of language.

I agree that being able to type code quickly and conveniently is important. We only have so much time, while we have so much code to write.
Awful. This could destroy a company's hiring pipeline.

The cost of retaliation by a spurned candidate are HUGE. All it takes is a few tweets or blog post about how company X is going to blow your cover during your job hunt, and all the candidates that are currently employed will run to the hills.

Has this guy ever actually done this trick, or did he just have an idea in the shower this morning?
Oh wow, these are helpful comments. I now realize the author is advocating actually stalking down someone's personal acquaintances. Yeah, the professional protocol here is contact the provided references only. Going outside that and engaging in web stalking is a huge no no. If I found out someone had done that to me, I would be extremely reticent to accept a subsequent offer, it's a clear privacy violation. I would definitely be wondering what other lines they would feel no hesitation in crossing.
how true is it that one reason C is increasingly unlikely to be replaced is that cpus these days specifically optimise the performance of C-compiler-generated code?
I'm ok with missing out on the prototype paradigm. To me, it is a wart for JavaScript. There has been a ton of discussion on why libraries like DateJS, which pollute the Date prototype, are bad.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4823682/javascript-namesp...
It's trivially easy to get a credit card under any name you want. Most credit cards will generously offer to give you more cards with your family members names on them. Just make up a name and you get an additional card with that name.

The bill still comes to you, but that's on the credit card company's end.
Why is this on HN?!?
The interviewing process would usually flow along a line of screening out candidates that are potential hires and THEN trolling their LinkedIn profiles to see who you both know in common. I think it would be tiresome to do that for EVERY candidate so that you can ask them during the interview "Mind if I contact Foo.".

As long you apply a little discretion about it I don't see what the big deal is. EG: don't contact someone at the candidates current company unless that contact really IS you BFF and you know they can keep the conversation private.

Also, if you do get any odd reviews you'd probably also want to give the candidate room to explain. I wouldn't have a big issue with someone contacting random ex-coworkers of mine as references. There is one person in particular though that probably wouldn't have good things to say, but digging further on that guy you'd realize he's a complete nutjob. So, you'd just want to make sure you properly tempered all the feedback, but in that scenario you should see overall trends and be able to spot outliers.

I guess I'm also not highly opposed to this because I think most current interview tactics suck as screening methods, and everyone hand-picks their references anyway, so you kind of need to go out of band to get a really reliable reference.

I'll also add that I think it depends somewhat on the level of person you're hiring. I don't know if Halligan still personally interviews everyone coming into HubSpot. If he does, I'm pretty sure he is not the one checking references for a level-1 phone jockey. So, we're talking mostly about the higher-order candidates, key individual contributors and managers that he's doing this for. It just doesn't strike me as such a deplorable practice.
(ashton kutcher) -- have other actors spoken out against sopa yet?
HIV contributes to violence, civil wars, unstable governments, etc. in Africa. It's actually gotten a lot better in the past 10 years, but in the 1980s/1990s, there was a time when countries looked like they might collapse in the sub-Sahara due to high numbers of HIV/AIDS victims, orphans, etc. It was disproportionately affecting 15-35yo workers, and the fatalism caused by "will probably die from AIDS anyway" led to a lot more individual and organized violence.

Dealing with HIV, a general explosion in commodities prices, end of the Cold War, and hands-off Chinese infrastructure investment (tied to commodities, but without trying to influence the government, and thus acceptable) has gone a long way to help Africa. Urbanization, IT/Communications (and access to regional/global markets), and foreign direct investment helps a lot too.
My point is that by your own admission, a 2:1 requires little effort and therefore is not to be considered "doing well".
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Funny you mention that, I once had a company track down and call my mother, who lived in another city. You can bet that the first thing she did was call me afterwards. It doomed my relationship with that company and I told people that story every chance I got, and not a single person wasn't shocked. When I heard the company went bankrupt a year later, probably because it couldn't hire any competent talent, I was relieved.

Contacting your parents and elementary school classmates is fine for an FBI background check as part of getting a top secret clearance. Key elements of that is they tell you in advance they are going to do so, get your permission, and what they find out is held in strict confidence by people trained to keep sensitive information secret. That's not at all the case with random employers calling up people they find you socially linked to.
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When I was in graduate school, I saved all my documents to my dropbox folder, which was sync'd to my school laptop (OSX), my personal laptop (Windows), a lab computer where the stats software lived (Windows), my advisers computer (Windows), and my ipod touch (iOS).

I wasn't anywhere near the only one who had those kind of cross-platform needs. My program was a real mix of Windows and OSX users with a few linux users for flavor.
Yeah, really though.

The indextank repo proper is interesting (and useful) enough, but indextank-service (https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service) made my jaw drop a little. It's a full administrative stack for deploying indextank as a service.
Good question. 'with .gitignore' is not a complex or interesting answer, even if they go on a tangent about alternatives.
I don't know how elite US universities were. In the UK very very few people went and pretty much guaranteed middle or upper class life. One of reasons we boosted universities in the UK was because USA was sending a lot to univeristy. However it ended the guarantee of middle or upper class life.

They were education path of the elite, but we let a few working class smart people in via the grammar schools(Elite state schools) to keep the majority happy. Grammar schools selected at 11. The other way to get in was private schools, if you had the money. My ex-school is now an ex-grammar school because selection was banned for state schools. The people who did not pass selection went on to vocational training at 11.

Note - Working class in the UK is roughly the same as lower middle class US.

The university system in UK is still one of the best, were small country and have many universities in the top 100. However it's gone down.
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>To paraphrase someone's quote: I wouldn't recommend a club that had me as a member.

Well then, hypothetically, no institution you attend would be good enough.
If you needed more proof that Gingrich isn't the foreward-thinking futurist he always claimed to be, it's that he didn't buy newtgingrich.com years ago.
Like I said on Quora, we use the location field that you put into the album when you uploaded it. The album location isn't displayed in the caption for individual photos and isn't displayed that prominently on the album page, so you're probably just not seeing that you set it when it was uploaded in 2009.
"In this cases, the prosecutors may choose to retry the defendant - if you think about it, if the prosecutors decided to try him once, why not twice?"

Prosecuting a defendant is an expensive process. It's not free. And even though one hung jury won't save the defendant, if juries start hanging two or three times every time a crime is prosecuted, the state is going to have to start rethinking its stance on prosecuting that crime from a budget perspective alone.

The same tactic has been offered for contesting every speeding ticket to prevent governments from using it as a revenue stream. If everybody contested every ticket, it would cost more to in trial costs than the state would make in fines.
I think the problem in this case, when you're talking about adding airborne transmission to a virus with a 50%+ mortality rate is that the risk of someone causing a pandemic is MUCH higher than the odds that they will find an effective vaccine/cure in time to prevent it.
On a one-off basis, this doesn't represent any significant change to the system. People won't start evading taxes on the theory that they can argue for jury nullification, because they won't consistently get away with it.

On the other hand, with a tax rate of 90% (to use an extreme example), juries might start consistently acquitting people for not paying their taxes, and that sends a message.

In any case, I don't want to see any measures taken to stop the scenario you describe. It'll work out just fine on its own.
I like how they continued the Apple tradition of 'Designed in <some place you will like>. Built in China'.

And I'm not even being snarky. It at least, shows that they care enough about design to mention where it's done.
Checks and balances considered useful. I always want the option to exist, even though people won't need it in most cases.

And also, every case adds to the case history; it doesn't take many cases to create a pattern. So no, the results don't only apply to that one case. And even if they do, a single instance of well-applied nullification might not mean much to the general public, but it means the world to the defendant.
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Well to be fair, the Nest is really well designed, both internally and externally. I'm not sure how many companies would be comfortable with someone exposing the innards of their products and showing everyone how hacked together it is.
I don't know if there's a name for it, but this is kind of like "security by obscurity". I'm not sure I would just make the assumption that there's no possible way a terrorist group can engineer a virus capable of killing half the world's population and call it good. For example, it's entirely possible that the terrorist organization could kidnap researchers and force them to do it.
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I would like to add my voice to those who have noted that this is in fact poor advice with potential legal consequences. This should not be on the front page.
First, criminal juries aren't randomly chosen.

Second, nullification is itself a check, for the power of the state prosecutor. If you think juries are powerful, remember that the prosecutor is more powerful even than the judge: without a decision by this one state employee, the defendant wouldn't even be a defendant.

From what I've read, something like 98% of criminal cases are pled out before a jury is selected. (Trials are expensive and risky for everyone involved.) So the dominant factor in one's fate, by more than an order-of-magnitude, is what charges the prosecutor decides to file.

Nullification, after all, is just one specific instance of a jury verdict: a way for the citizens to point out that the prosecution is without merit. Our justice system is based on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty", so it's quite deliberate that we err on the side of not convicting.

If there is a 5% chance that a juror would unconditionally acquit for a hate crime he agrees with, and even assuming the prosecutor is dumb enough to randomly select jurors, there's still not a 46% chance of acquittal. A single juror can merely hang a jury. The prosecutor could simply try the case again.

What would it take for me to be acquitted for a hate crime because of a bad jury? As a defendant, I'd have to be one of the 2% that would want to risk a jury trial, despite the evidence against me, over the advice of both my lawyer and the prosecutor, and even though most criminal jury trials result in conviction. Then the prosecutor would have to allow a jury to be selected that consisted of 12 people with the same 1-in-20 prejudice as my crime (or fewer than 12, with the remainder willing to be talked into acquittal). I'm sure it's happened, in certain times and places, but these days it looks like it'd be pretty rare.

Not every jury will return the same verdict for the same crime, but that's inherently not a failure of equal justice. (Jury selection would sure be a lot quicker and easier for everybody if we knew that every jury returned exactly the same verdict!) Sometimes juries will make bad decisions, but I haven't heard any proposed system that can yield justice regardless of the people involved. Better to have the possibility of 12 people who can decide to let me go free, than 1 person who can decide to imprison me.

Finally, IANAL, but I don't think that the legislature can legalize marijuana (short of repealing the Controlled Substances Act, which will never happen). It's a Schedule I drug, as declared by the DEA, an agency led by an appointee. It looks like the ACLU is suing the DEA over this matter. I think my state does want to legalize, and my reading of the Constitution indicates that we should have the right to, so in the mean time, nullification seems like a perfect fit here.
I love this type of debate, as the original author has not been shy for speaking his mind. I am brand new to this website and have a good feeling that I can learn something here perhaps not seen on other websites. Really, I love where it is safe to hold an opinion other than the status qou and still all walk away friends. I am in hopes this is that website.

Today a certain Facebook post told how this Christmas should not be about Santa but rather Jesus and that Jesus was sad of what came of his birthday. Well, I guess we could all jump onto that story, same as we could all believe we are in the dark ages. We are and we are not. Its much like mind-mapping. Reality is flimsy material, but a tool for the mind to feel it is clothed and has a home to go to and some money in the bank, general feelings of familiarity and safety. I choose to live life to the fullest with my cup half full not half empty -- no, still not favorable enough of a perception to me, so let's simplify, "My cup runneth over!"
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Scheme got this right in 1970. There is no excuse to design a new language this way.
Does IndexTank still integrate social inputs?

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Your comment is heavy with comparisons that don't really apply while still not making much of a point. Javascript isn't as low level as other languages but HTML is no more the next step than XML is the next rung down from java.

If you hadn't linked the blog post in your comment I would have thought tl;dr but since you did I tried to wade through all the flowerly language. Your whole post can be summed up as "People who learn javascript first will never learn CS fundamentals" which is unfair and untrue.
There's also the fact that zero science actually happens in a Computer Science department. But since our society worships science, everything has to be science or it's no good! Even stuff that isn't science!
I should disclaim that I am not a lawyer, but there are legal scholars that discuss actually using original intent and courts that cite specifically to intent in their decisions. Though, I agree fully that in attempting to argue intent you must still be able to tie it to what is written.

I also fully concur that many laws may mean different things even to the people involved in passing them, yet some times they can be clear, especially when laid out in clear records of the debate or in an explicit intent section as part of the bill.

The intent, when known, can help inform the way a law will be interpreted by the courts. Prof. Ian Bartrum discusses this in "The Modalities of Constitutional Argument" and Prof. Philip Bobbit goes into more detail in "Constitutional Fate" and "Constitutional Interpretation."

You have a good point that Scalia's 'Original meaning' is different from 'Original intent' and 'Original meaning' is far more objective. But that does not mean intent is not considered. For a modern case where Congressional intent was at the center of an 11th Circ. decision look at Harris v. H&W contracting Company, 102 F. 3d 516 (11th Circ, 1996).

[Edited to remove a redundancy]

Thouh, while I think intent here has relevance, I still think the more salient question is prudential. Regardless of how it came to exist, what should the role of jury nullification be?
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Well I didn't seriously mean that one should switch language to type faster, just that the "problem" does not exist in languages that allow '-' in identifiers and that I feel '-' also looks a lot more natural too. I personally write a lot of C++ and Python code, neither of which allow '-' in identifiers, but I often wish they did (and would happily give up the ability to omit whitespace around operators) and while we're at it, why not allow + ! * and ? too.

Having said that, I'm all for switching languages (if your work allows it - I totally understand that some people won't have that choice) if it speeds up your development in some way.
Personally, I treat the `class` keyword as a useful (and powerful) macro for constructing prototypes.

I imagine if someone thought they were building a 'real' class-based program for too long, they'd be in for a few surprises later on.
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This is awesome news. Massively advances the current state of the art in open source search.

Definitely considering replacing our search backend at TwitchTV with this...
I parted away with CS to major in biochem thinking it wasn't as fascinating (first course was in C++). This is definitely not a bad idea and also already implemented. Stanford has CS101 in entirely Javascript: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs101/
If you're curious why Ashton Kutcher is commenting on this: a couple of years ago he got into tech venture funding. He has a financial interest (and also hopefully and ideological one) in seeing SOPA fail.
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It wasn't mentioned in my non-AP HS physics class, nor in my normal college physics class. :-(
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I think a good start would be filtering out access to all government IPs.