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Can one recommend a developer friendly, reliable and simple service which I can use?

(hint: PayPal is a wrong answer!)

I wish Stripe were serving customers outside of US, but this is not the case yet.
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My experience today was not nearly so arduous. But it was a doozy.

A recruiter contacted me. She asked if I had 7 years experience with Windows Server 2008.

I proceeded to tell her about my W2k3 and W2k8 experiences.

"I'm sorry, we're looking for someone with 7 years experience, at the very least, with Windows Server 2008."

She expertly disengaged from the conversation and that was that. I tried to explain...

I'm trying not to think about it. I hope this experience doesn't percolate in the back of my subconscious and end up as an aneurysm.
This is a strange thing to say.
Ballmer already stated he's not leaving until 2017. Unless some kind of corporate catastrophe suddenly occurs, I have no reason not to believe him.
This is useful, novel, and certainly non-obvious stuff.

So you would like to have had eg. any useful non-obvious algorithm or data structure which at some point in history was novel been patented ? Yikes.
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Some financial institutions tried to sell Groupon as a great thing (and they probably taken their profits and ran).
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Then why don't politicians say "Employment rates are at 91%" instead of the depressing "Unemployment rates are at 9%"?
Much earlier ('91, I think), but a better read for those with a technical mindset (but still accessible) is Thaler's The Winner's Curse.
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I think you misunderstand him. He was using PHP to illustrate the efficiency of request handling and the lack of in AppEng. Whether he got it right or wrong technically doesn't deserve a downvote.
Google has their own WebGL demo which isn't anything like this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106658
So, you created the world map based on the underlying location information for the population data? That's pretty cool. It is interesting to see the voids where no data was available.
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I guess at least they told you about the position change. A friend of mine graduated as an engineer, got a job at a top company and on the day he started they told him that there was an organizational shift in the department and he would have to take over for a data entry spot. Same pay but data entry. They said it was temporary (it wasn't) but since he was fresh to the working world he stayed at it for a couple years.
I have found Facebook's xhprof extension to be a a very useful extension for profiling also https://github.com/facebook/xhprof.

Unlike the one above, it doesn't require any code changes (it's a C-based PECL extension), and can easily be set up to be triggered via a parameter on the URL or to profile every nth page load (via a simple auto-prepend) for usage in production environments. It produces a full callgraph (using graphviz), you can drill down into the profile interactively, and you can record and compare profiles over time of the same page. It's also really quick and easy to setup and use.

There are of course other extensions that can do some profiling such as APD and XDebug, but xhprof is my personal favourite. I'm not sure I would ever be keen on confining my profiling to a PHP profiler written in PHP, although you do get some similar functionality from some frameworks such as debug mode in the Symfony framework.
Thats what dspeyer did here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3431687 .

For an algorithms heavy job, I would hope a candidate would be able to derive this equation with a little guidance (ie, reminding them about n choose k and how to write that with factorials)
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Oh, wow! This article got me really excited. Those signals look really promising!

Now, if only 'normal' people would understand the importance of this research... jeez, the possibility of something being out there just puts our tiny little problems in perspective.
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At one point in one of my first hiring experiences I was asked at the last minute to come sit in on interview of a candidate, and handle the technical part of it. This was for low-level driver development work. I hadn't seen his resume before, so I got a pretty bad shock when this candidate said at one point "I'm the maintainer of subsystem X in the Linux kernel". With a a laptop on hand, "cd ~/git/linux-2.6; grep -R candidate_name" revealed easily enough to verify he wasn't joking.

I bailed out of that interview, as I considered it grossly inappropriate to interview someone who was obviously much my senior in the relevant subject matter.

The more senior interviewers informed me afterwards that was a mistake. If the candidate is who he claims he is, it will be immediately obvious during the questions, you apologize profusely and all are happy. If that doesn't happen, you might have saved the company from a major screw-up. And that does happen.

TL;DR easier to apologize to a candidate than to to fire someone
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As a former academic I find this kind of behavior antithetical to the principle's of science. The scientific publishing industry is archaic and a burden on the progress of science. These journals are gatekeepers for both consumers and producers of public research. I've worked on some research projects that took nearly 2 years to get published after the all of the data collection and analysis had been already completed. The peer-review process can always be over-ridden by the editors and it is the editors who get to choose who reviews the research. So instead of having all of science practitioners to bear on work, it's a select group that an editor deems worthy. Despite all of our technology, the politics of control remain the same.
Yeah, exactly. Also interesting to see the dots in the middle of the oceans.
And I'm sure you're not the only one. I want to be able to post technical (public!) stuff, but keep it from showing up in my 'family' circle. Why that's still not possible is beyond me.

Although not correct, posting to both my 'public' and 'techies' circles would be one way of addressing this issue. But alas, according to you this doesn't actually work that way.
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Turns out I greatly exagerated my memories (sic), he was mentionning equivalence relation using c++ concepts then went into constraint/dependant interactive input.

http://stlab.adobe.com/wiki/images/2/20/2008_07_25_google.pd...

page 18, 38

this was hosted at googletechtalks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4moyKUHApq4 (240p)
How does it have negative effect? Consider three cases: 1) an algorithm is designed and patented, and the inventor has the right to use or license it. 2) an algorithm is designed and never published, i.e., held secret for proprietary use of the inventor. 3) an algorithm is designed and put into public domain.

With 3), the inventor never gets a chance to commercialize his invention: as soon as he publishes the algorithm, he will be destroyed (or assimialted) by large players. With 2), we never know how many cool, useful algorithms are rotting away in commercial products. As far as the society is concerned, the algorithm in question does not exist. With 1), the inventor benefits, AND also the society (in the long-term).

IMO, the patent system should be reformed so that having a large portfolio of unused patents becomes a liability. For example, the patent holder would have to periodically (e.g., every 2 years) apply [with fee, of course] for patent renewal. For this, the holder must be able to document that he is actively exploiting the patent (1). There should also probably be a minimum limit for the required income from patent exploitation. Failing to do so, the patent would automatically expire. The patent office should publish an on-line database of expired patents.

There should also be restrictions on what can be patented: for example, work funded by government funds must not be patentable: the inventors' (in this case, mostly researchers at universities) day job is by definition designing things that will benefit society, are paid for that by the society, and therefore have no further rights to patent protection. (This is, IMO, fair since research is [should be] free, so the society has no firm guarantees that the researchers will produce something valuable, or anything at all.)

(1) By exploitation I mean either making a device covered by the patent, or licensing it to somebody who making such device.
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If we're going to believe Wolfram Alpha, why not ask it for the area of all the oceans?

Oops. Looks like you're off by a factor of 1000, since Wolfram is saying the total is 131.6m sq. miles (487k sq. km). [1] But what's three orders of magnitude among friends...

The Antarctic Ross ice shelf is about 188k sq. miles, and up to 750m thick. Again according to Wolfram Alpha, that makes 3.653×10^17 L (liters) of ice. 92% of that is 3.36×10^17 L (liters).

And if you spread that many liters over the (Wolfram Alpha) area of the the oceans, you get nearly a meter sea level rise (0.9856). That's one (albeit large) shelf.

The Greenland ice sheet comes to almost 4.27×10^18 L (liters) of ice (based on numbers from Wikipedia and an average thickness of 2.5km) [2]. We're up another factor of 10 here, with 12.530 meters of rise now.

According to WikiPedia, the Antarctic Ice Sheet contains 30m cubic km of ice, and they claim it's worth 70m of ocean depth. [3]

But let's crunch some numbers. If you assume 92% density you get 2.76×10^7 km^3. Again in Alpha I get 80.96m [4], or 265'. The truth is that, as the sea level rises, the SURFACE AREA will change (because so much land will be flooded), and so even though the combined rise of all ice melting might be 300' at the current area of the oceans, the estimates are that it would only rise about 200', plus or minus.

So how do the numbers not agree with me? THIS is why it's useless to take an engineer's view of something like climate change. Misplace a decimal point (or cube when you really mean 4pi r squared) and suddenly you're making all kinds of crazy assumptions. And yes, I forgot the surface area of a sphere too, but the more serious error is assuming your rusty memory of a math equation can prove that ALL THE EXPERTS are wrong and you're smarter than they are.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=area+of+all+oceans&...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Ice_Sheet
[4] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2830+million+cubic+km+...
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Well, I have to ask: what the hell statistics have you seen?

A baby born in the USA is almost three times more likely to die at or immediately following birth than in Japan. [1]

Your cancer stat is true for prostate and breast cancer, but Japan has the best rates for some other types of cancers [2], and importantly Japanese people actually develop much less cancer[2.1], one reason for which is much better preventative medical care (for average people); the average Japanese person sees a doctor three times more often than the average Americans, and have three times more MRI scans[3].

Speaking of MRI machines, Japan has twice as many of them per capita than does the USA[4], and routinely uses them for preventive care. I've lived in both, and my government health insurance in Japan routinely covers MRI scans for preventive and diagnostic purpose, while my employer-suplied HMO in the states refused all MRI scans until actual debilitation had already occured.

A colleague just had a baby here, and not only is the care better than the USA (more visits, less waiting, better outcomes for typical people), health care for the baby is free until the baby is 15. Another reason that baby will see a health care professional more often.

I used to believe that American health care was the best, too. We hear it all the time growing up. And we spend so much. But then I moved abroad, and it turned out everything I thought I knew was wrong.

It's just like saying "American education is the best in the world!"

Sure it is... at M.I.T. and Stanford, maybe. Across the vast majority of the population in public schools? Not so much.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality#Infant_mortali...

[2]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7510121.stm

[2.1]: http://www.wcrf-uk.org/research/cancer_statistics/world_canc...

[3]: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/09/fac...

[4]: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8962630...

EDITS: fixed my typo that gave USA a worse infant mortality rate than Somalia, and rephrased a couple things more clearly. Added education analogy.
I'm fairly confident that if asked to hash out a solution to this on a whiteboard in an interview situation, the stress of being put on the spot would impede my ability to perform up to par, and I'd probably come across as inept.

There's a mistaken assumption here that because you're a competent programmer you're expected to solve these exercises with ease [1]. If you're interviewing with that expectation, you'll have a huge false negative rate and only hire people with nerves of stainless steel. Even experienced programmers can make very silly mistakes when coding under pressure in front of an audience.

What you're expecting to see is that the person can reason, knows the basic syntax of the language he claims to be familiar with, and doesn't make any mistakes that show a total misunderstanding or unfamiliarity of how it works. (Put differently, have they read a book/website of examples of the language, or have they actually coded in it?)

If you point the experienced programmer that's very nervous a few of his mistakes, you're expecting him to show sheer terror and panic as he realizes what he's done [2]. If the candidate is showing you a blank stare instead, you might have a problem.

If you're only verbally interviewing and asking for code samples, you can get fooled easily. Some candidates think that if they can bullshit their way through the interview, they'll stay hired. And sometimes, they're even right, because most people don't like to fire.

At some point, we were having serious problems filling positions and started de-emphasizing doing bad/mediocre on the coding part of the interview, and focus more on the experience and verbal interview, on the assumption radiated in many posts here that serious coders might not necessarily be able to show their ability in a coding interview. All of those hires turned out to bad.

You'll have a hard time convincing me now that coding interviews aren't effective.

[1] The example here is FizzBuzz. Why is it so trivial that many people can't believe it works? Because even good coders will fuck up more complicated questions in interviews.

[2] Just as an observation and nothing more: experienced coders tend to also not being able to bear the sight of those mistakes and insist on being allowed to correct them even if told it really doesn't matter.
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They are the same guys behind nowjs:

http://nowjs.com/

Presumably their early customers are from there.

I actually know two of them, and I can remember discouraging one when I heard the idea for nowjs and it sounded similar to appjet. (Sorry Sri!) It's crazy how far they have come in fewer than 18 months. Congrats guys!
Yeah, good luck stealing customers from someone else by developing for a third party's arbitrary stack, that they manage and update as they see fit, lacks tons of critical components, often sees unreported downtimes, and isn't flexible when your business needs change.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

Also an interesting reference about anchoring and electric cars from the above Wikipedia article:

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Reminds me of the late 90s, when recruiters were routinely posting jobs that required "8+ years of Java experience".

The worst part was, I'm sure they found plenty of people willing to add that line to their resume without hesitation...some of them probably even got hired. Sigh.
start the interpreter, load the code, start executing

For pedantry's sake, there is of course FastCGI and/or mod_php to keep the interpreter alive, and APC to keep the code around.

Hiphop is of course much faster.
Wow.. that brings back memories of old days, text mode, directly writing into the graphic cards memory... :)
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I don’t think I have to expand on that.
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They're available to non-HBO subscribers on digital platforms 30 minutes after they air.

HBO can get paid for it or not, it's their choice. Looks like they're making the stupid choice.
It hasn't been done before. A single entity working to channel all of the web's traffic through a single cached pipeline and using a special protocol to do so is not SPDY. SPDY is a competitor to HTTP, it doesn't implicitly have to be used for caching or for proxying, and it shows some significant advantages when used on its one independent of those functions, warranting an expansion of its use on high traffic sites.
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> but at least half of the HN main page is normally not directly startup related

I agree with you, as HN is supposed to bring topics of interest for hackers, and there are many things other than startup world that we may be interested in. But for startup related items, the submissions are almost entirely devoted to software, computing and related services. There are very few (no?) posts related to startups in science or hardware (and we are living in times where very exciting things are happening in these areas). In my opinion, a hacker community will benefit from having a wide range of interests (I haven't seen Michael Neilsen posting here for a while).
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Well, how about directly downloading, DDL, rather than peer-to-peer sharing?