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Sure I was not trying to represent it as your view, just trying to highlight the deceptively simple but flawed reasoning in this hiring practice. People believe that because logic is involved having a trick logic puzzle will filter out bad candidates, but given the nature of development there are other more important qualities of a candidate such as creativity that are not tested and are not displayed in a logic puzzle. So you may filter out a guy that is not real strong on logic but is extremely creative. The creative guy is more important in 90% of the tech jobs out there, and further you only need one person strong on logic in the team because he can be consulted for tough logic, the creative guy cant be leaned on in the same manner to make the non-creative creative. The logic guy can't go to the creative guy and say hey give me a hand with being creative.

I believe Google hiring practices that favor these kind of logic puzzles is one of the reasons they have had such an issue innovating in the market place. An overwhelming focus on hiring the technically smartest guy in the room, by nature filters out the most creative guys in the room (it's a right brain, left brain thing). The trick is finding the guy that is right in the middle of the two.
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I expected to see nothing when typing in "Tokushima, Japan", but was amazed to see a lot of content. This is actually as good as the human written guides available online.
Ask HN: Are you happy with your bookmarking tools?
It seems like bookmarking is focused on the best way to share your bookmarks. But what about actually organizing the information you bookmark so you can access it later when you need it. It seems like most of the tools I've used end up with huge unorganized lists of links. Anyone else have this problem?
"What I don't understand is why so many buildings do not have these optimizations built into their elevators."

I suspect the author has observed more residential towers than corporate towers? Otherwise I would imagine he would find that these practices are usually followed. Except for the door remaining open one, I never see that... maybe a fire code thing?
Great advice. I am hoping to roll out my own service offering (http://www.knowledgebooks.com/) in about a month, and I have been thinking a lot of how to keep hosting costs minimized and put in place sufficient automation that not a lot of my time will need to be spent, except for improving the service itself. This service is something that I need for two projects and hopefully other developers will find it useful also.
Profit was the motive for funding Columbus to cross the Atlantic, by finding a faster or easier trading route to the Oriental sources of spices and silk. Profit was still the motive for later explorers of the Americas, in mining or stealing Aztec gold and silver, then tobacco and cotton and sugar plantations.

It's unclear yet where feasible profit opportunities exist for development in space. (Also, we can _see_ space with telescopes, there isn't a Pacific Ocean on the other side of space that we have to send someone to discover.) If you want to see some real space industry, hope that somebody discovers a gold asteroid.

Finally, remember that from Columbus to Jamestown elapsed over a hundred years. Less than half of that timespan has yet elapsed since Yuri Gagarin. These things take time.
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I'll get off XP as soon as the properly alphabetize the programs under Control Panel.
A good design works with human nature, not against it. If you want people to adjust to the elevator's ideal behavior, you have to subtly guide them to the right direction -- which is possible, but the way you asked it sounds along the lines of telling a whole office to start following arbitrary elevator efficiency rules.

That aside, I think Jandy was referring to a different scenario than what you're envisioning. If you have a skyscraper, and a trendy new bar opens on the 36th floor when the 36th floor use to be occupied by an office, but the elevator was programmed to rest at the 36th floor only at 9AM, lunch hours, and 5PM, telling the bar they have to make their clientele come and leave at those hours for "efficiency" will not go over well. Instead, having an elevator that notices no one's calling from the 36th floor before 8PM anymore doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Well, actually one multi-million company I was working for had chief architect on telecommute basis and it worked really well. I suppose it's more about processes and company DNA. But I have to admit, I saw such case just once :)
And they would have nothing pushing them to be the best birds, so it would be pretty unpleasant.
Yes! I seriously thought it wasn't possible for some unknown FP related issue.
That's not saying much (and it sounds like you are indeed not making an informed judgement). I'm judging it from a rationalist perspective too. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism : "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification")

In fact, if you bother to actually read the guy's books instead of dismissing him based on a wikipedia entry (hardly a rationalist behaviour), you'll see he's very much a rationalist too.

He arrives at conclusions with "spiritual" consequences by starting from the perspective that the only thing we can know directly is our thoughts, and building a model of the world from that, piece by piece, using reason and thinking. I'd argue that compared to Steiner, you and I are mostly irrational.

So, explaining your dismissal of anthroposophism (literally translated as "love of man") as being "from a rationalist point of view" is a completely empty statement.
Why not wrap Clojure on top of SWT? The native look and feel would look better. And if the interactive and incremental nature of Clojure can be weaved in, it would be fantastic for UI development.
I think the fundamental problem is that companies want a "Sr. Software Engineer" with >7 years of development and >4 years of development in their particular language, who also is young enough to think that "Nerf guns" and "xbox's" [sic] are an appealing "Benefit" and that aren't going to ask anywhere near $115k a year. (a totally reasonable salary, by the way, but I think you lose edge in negotiations by putting that up front. What if they think you're worth $125k? They're now going to offer $110k and let you talk them up to $115k.)

Basically, companies want the impossible, and they are driven by a culture that is very out of touch with the market.

For instance, this is also why they're not so keen on telecommuting.

There are exceptions, of course. But when they can't hire according to their plan, they're going to tell reporters "there's a shortage of good engineers!" where "Good" means "recent college graduates with 7 years industry experience 4 years ruby experience who will work for $60k and nerf bullets."

I see posts like yours and think its a damn shame. You're missing out, and at least some of those 50 companies are missing out... its a lose-lose situation.
Show HN: Weekend project in response to findhisporn.com
After seeing the ReadWriteWeb article on findhisporn.com (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/find_his_porn_evil_website_of_the_week.php), my instant reaction was to build something to counter that. I spent the weekend building the app, but had to wait another week to get my payment system set up.

The site is http://www.hideyourporn.net/ (completely safe for work site) as well as a more generic http://www.personallocker.net/ which is what the app is branded at.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated - just keep in mind - HN is obviously not my target audience.
I think half of my facebook friends are people whom I don't know in real life. On twitter it's probably 80%. Many of my replies and retweets are for people whom I've never met. So they won't find out a lot unless they get clever, which could be time consuming.
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This is an interesting idea, but this query implementation seems awfully complex. What are the chances you are developing a sandbox where a user can construct queries through a GUI against real-time data they've collected?

I think this will help people learn the query language more quickly; and as a bonus, they'll ramp-up faster with your product by using simple queries they've constructed from the sandbox which completely avoids that nasty initial knowledge hurdle.

Signed up. :)
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The problem is that companies -- particularly larger companies -- are still in Arrogance Mode and think that the job-seekers need them. They don't

That's a big dish of good old american entitlement.

If you were on the market during the last boom, the demand for engineers was far greater than it was today. Because of that, for every 1 good resume that landed in my inbox I had to wade through about 300 bullshit resumes. Most of them were from Indian spam shops, kids in the midwest who got their MCSE and decided they were senior systems architects, and fratboy ivy-league types who felt the $200k that dad spent on their education meant they should be able to ride their degree onto the next big thing.

Treat your job hunt like it's a full-time job. You can probably coast your way into some me-too start-up, but if you want a good job at a company you're excited about it, you have to prove your worth by selling yourself.
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Just as fitting that much paper was an issue so is trying to fit that much propellant into an improved rocket. The number one limitation on real spaceflight (AKA past the moon) is power. Building an actual fusion reactor on earth would be worth more in therms of actually sending people to the ort cloud than all the private 'space flight' (aka yacht clubs) out there.

PS: I am mostly taking issue with sub orbital flights / amusement parks. If you want to feel weightless for a few minutes a trip on something like the comet comet is affordable for most people and few people bother.
I think that if you're really keen to get a position, it's worth following up. People are busy, you get the wrong email address, there are a dozen reasons why your application may not have got to the person it needs to for the hiring process to begin.

Every job I've applied to directly has had at the very least one email and one call, potentially a follow up if they drag their heels. I've rarely failed to get an interview (though to be fair, I've only applied to 10-20 companies at a time, not the 50 the OP has).

I agree though that with all this 'lack of talent' the companies should be chasing us at the merest whiff of interest. Unfortunately people don't always act rationally in there own self interest, so we sometimes have to take the initiative.
When I was looking for a job I got some of those autoreplies, and IMO, they are worth nothing. I already got confirmation that the form (in some giant enterprisey applicant tracking system) was submitted, sending me an email does nothing for me. If you would let me know when a human sees my resume, that would perhaps be meaningful, but there's no way they'd go for that level of transparency.
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FWIW, I set up a bitcoin mining rig with four 5870s by using liquid cooling. Full story here: http://silasx.blogspot.com/2011/12/exclusive-silass-bitcoin-...
Honestly, without trying the service yet (I'll register this evening), I can't say, but if it works as expected... I'd be more then willing to pay for the service, just to help it in staying up.
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Feynman: I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist. . . . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
Maybe not 8, but yes, they shouldn't. There's also a reason why some pills are labelled "do not drive after taking these". You can get your license taken away (depends on a country) when you're not able to see, react or think correctly anymore. You should avoid driving in heavy rain or at night if possible.

Most of these are a reasonable advice (apart from the age limit) that I thought is common knowledge. Pretty much what was taught on my driving course years ago. Do you disagree with those points?
"There may be different ways to craft a sensible bill, and we’re all for finding the best way, but one thing is clear: the status quo isn’t working. These illicit sites are among the culprits behind the music industry’s more than 50 percent decline in revenues during the last decade, resulting in 15,000 layoffs and fewer resources to invest in new bands."

To my knowledge that statement is completely false, a study was conducted in 2004 which showed that the effect was "Indistinguishable from Zero".[1] I find it disturbing how often people make up claims and don't have any sources or evidence to back them up.

[1]: "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales." http://goo.gl/vkDap (PDF)
Kind of surprised by the amount of people in this comment thread saying "yes it works for him but no one else". Why operate from this as your default? How sad. Examine this for how it can work for you, or someone else. Examine how it can work for a nobody. A small somebody. A first CD release. A "reunited after 10 years" cd release. Put that effort into how it can be done people!
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> a large (20-40%) of embedded developers he surveyed reported using no version control software.

that's obviously bad, but is it higher than developers across disciplines? i'm sure you guys all use version control, but if you surveyed all web devs, how many of them use version control? i'd bet its a similar number
I'd like to see actual evidence that a few bad friends are a good indication of your own credit rating. Frequency of posts, number of new friends/contacts in the last month, grammar/spelling -- all might be better correlations to your paying debts.
My first reaction: "Why would I volunteer that information?"

Followed quickly by: "I don't have to; my less-savvy friends would. And I'm in their graph."

At which point, it's in my interest to disclose my own social graph, so that the bank sees that I'm actually connected to responsible people, too. Which means betraying those individuals' presence in my graph. Gah!
Yes, visual query editor is a good idea, we will try to add it.

We hoped that people will try out examples from the front page to get used to the language. Also writing small tutorial is in plans.
Was this a telephone interview??
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idea: Chat roulette for hackers - maybe a good way to meet founders.
The "native theme" still looks poor and out of place.
Looks like a 4-state postal barcode to me.
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>I earned 220k last year, all remote

Are these short or long term contracts? Or a permanent position?
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If the list is that huge, it's not really curated, it's just a dump. May as well have posted a link to download.com and a CSV file of all the things you could get there.

If your "essentials" list is over a hundred items long, you have a problem with prioritization.
I'm starting my second startup and in it for the long haul. It would be incredibly short sighted of me to do this to early employees.

Of course, you can never be completely sure of the founder's character so trust is always required.
IMO, open sourcing their GPU libraries would be a much bigger deal than only open sourcing the compiler. I would like to see CUBLAS, CUFFT, CUSPARSE, CURAND, etc all get opened up to the community.

The pain is not in compiling GPU code; rather, the pain is in writing good GPU code. The major difference between NVIDIA and AMD (and the major edge NVIDIA has over AMD) is not as much the compiler as it is the libraries.

Of course, I'm biased, because I work at AccelerEyes and we do GPU consulting with our freely available, but not open source, ArrayFire GPU library, which has both CUDA and OpenCL versions.
$10k/month x 12 months/year. Isn't that $120k/year? How did you come up with $60k? This is a serious question, because I assume there's an unspoken assumption in your post.
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The only optimisation this one has (that the article tells us about) is that passengers choose their floor, but not the elevator to get there.
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My understanding is that some people think that Newton meant it as a nasty swipe and others disagree. But if you've read a few biographies of Newton then you know a lot more about this then I do.

Edit: there's a hilarious story about Freud that revolves around the quote. Freud was angry that one of his acolytes - I think it was Wilhelm Stekel - had published a book in which he had presumed to modify one of the master's ideas. Stekel defended himself by saying: A dwarf standing on the head of a giant sees a little further than the giant. Freud replied: A louse on my head sees no further than I do.
People that use facebook don't care. They would rather use facebook than have privacy, thats the bottom line. To them the benefits on facebook outway the problems.

For most people if you told them they would die in 10 years if they continued to use facebook, they would still use facebook. For a lot of websites today and apps, you can't even login or do anything without a facebook profile.

Find me one person that is outraged and dropping their facebook account in light of this information.

On top of all that banks aren't lending money nowadays anyways.
"a serious documentation flaw"

The all-zeroes IV is documented in the official CCCrypt(3cc) man page at:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/System...

this does not exonerate Apple having made a wrong choice of design.
Advertising and marketing fails on all counts. "Truth in advertising" is the biggest lie of all.
I love getting auto-replies because a lot of times the application process is to send an e-mail to jobs@example.com. Getting a reply that your resume arrived intact is always reassuring.
The original logo from the 1940s is 13°, which is why it's not 12° or 14°.

Companies strive for the pure distillation of their brand. Over time, the identity of successful brands become simpler and simpler because the simpler it is, the easier and quicker it is to identify from afar. What's better than the Nike swoosh with the Nike text on top? Just the swoosh by itself because people know what the swoosh is without you telling them. Starbucks also recently simplified their logo. They dropped the text and emphasised the siren. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, the Starbucks logo is nothing but a green circle.

Coca-Cola is a master at this. You don't need the cursive white text to know that a red can is probably Coca-Cola. They effectively own the red can. With the new Diet Coke branding, they're trying to do the same for a silver can.

The experiment is trying to establish something similar for HP. When you redesign something, you have to carry over something from previous designs--otherwise it's not something familiar but completely foreign. The agency that did this redesign decided to focus on the angle of the italicised text hoping that HP can eventually "own" anything that is slanted 13°
Nope, the only thing lousy is not saying it sooner. I am glad he decided that he will not be complicit in such reprehensible behavior from a vendor. Knowingly exposing your customers to harm without disclosure should have stiff penalties.
instead of dismissing him based on a wikipedia entry (hardly a rationalist behaviour)

I see no problem with it if the Wikipedia entry is accurate. Is it?
isnt is somewhat like event tracking and funnel analysis that mixpanel provides.

They do provide a fair bit of flexibility of slicing and dicing of data as well in their UI
Long term contract, I just passed over a perm gig for $140k + benefits and options which would be close to the same in terms of total compensation. I mainly do very large JavaScript apps with Dojo and jQuery, I also do iPhone and Android development. Ruby and ROR are similar in compensation to those technologies.
Why do you think someone with Asperger's shouldn't conduct an interview?

I can see talking in a monotone and fidgeting as an annoyance, but was it show-stopping?

The refusal to answer why your response was (in his opinion) wrong is definitely a problem.

I'm worried about this because I've been unofficially diagnosed with Asperger's (I believe I'm not, but I'm definitely borderline / close) and I intend to run a company. I do fidget and miss some clues, but I'd have answered if someone asked me why I believed an answer is wrong.

Edit: I'm sorry if I came across in such a way to merit a downvote. I was genuinely interested in the answer. I'd also appreciate an explanation of what sounded "wrong" in my post.
Except telecommuting someone you don't know is a HUGE risk. Hiring is an expensive, activity that doesn't reward taking risks.

We have one telecommute worker and he is about 60% as effective as he was onsite. That's somebody we had onsite for six months before he started telecommute. YMMV, but that's why companies don't like telecommuting.

It isn't that we have our heads in our asses, we just know it is a poor substitute for having you onsite and we avoid it if we can.
Not at all. Here's a similar idea, a thermostat with two inputs: too hot and too cold, plus some machine learning tuned for circadian rhythms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153227
Also, OpenCL is not going away, even if someone figured out how to get CUDA code to run well on ATI GPUs. OpenCL is gaining a lot of traction by mobile GPU vendors too (e.g. ARM Mali, Imagination PowerVR, Qualcomm Adreno, etc)
This looks like an excellent class, and fills a very important educational niche. We taught something vaguely similar a couple of years ago geared towards molecular biologists and clinical researchers, and it turned out to be extremely popular. Most of our students had less than zero programming experience, and pretty much all of them were able to put what they learned to practical use. The point of the class was teach them just enough, about enough different things, to get a feel for what sorts of problems could be easily tackled programmatically.

For example, one student realized part-way through the class that she could write a script to automatically process the lengthy and complex output of a particular laboratory instrument instead of doing it by hand, and by the end of the class was able to not only write that script but modify and extend it to deal with a slightly different model of the same instrument. Other students figured out that Python was easier to use than SAS for some types of data reformatting and analysis. Nothing fancy, just the sort of day-to-day hacking that we all take completely for granted- but it's incredibly useful for working scientists to be able to do that sort of thing for themselves, and courses like this one give them a real leg up.

It looks like the UNH course had some really great content- seriously, check it out or send a link to your scientist buddies.
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