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I'm John, and I was one of the six students in the original batch[0] that met over the summer. I've only been out of college a few years (so YMMV if you're more experienced), but for me Hacker School was one of the two or three most important adventures I've had. (And, like most good things, I believe the benefits are ongoing.)

I first met the Hackruiters in June when I got in touch looking for a job. I had moved to NYC two years before to work at a non-profit and was ready for a new challenge. My best friend and I had spent the better part of a year moonlighting on side projects we dreamed might become startups, and--even though they went nowhere--I had realized I wanted to get back into programming.

Dave set up a Skype date and I told him about my background: I'd been a math/science kid who spent his teens coding, but ended up studying art history and architecture (because of varied interests) in school. I had done some technical internships, though, and was curious if I could rebrand myself. What kind of work could I do to make myself a better coder and ultimately become a developer? Dave had some initial suggestions and we agreed to talk again after a while.

I'll never forget sitting in the most boring staff meeting of my life and opening up Gmail to find a short (but warm!) e-mail from Dave asking if I'd like to join a school for hackers. There were to be no teachers, no assignments, and the dates and location were still totally in flux. It sounded perfect. Within the week, I arranged to take a leave of absence from my job. New York is not cheap, but I'd spent two years packing my lunch and avoiding taxis in the hopes that I would be ready when a cool, slightly risky opportunity came along.

I've spent a lot of time talking about my own background for two reasons. First, I hope you can empathize with me and--in doing so--will consider applying. I think there are many people with non-CS backgrounds who would benefit from and be a benefit to Hacker School. The other reason, however, is that Hacker School is exactly what you expect: if you can imagine a month (or three) working on projects that interest you with some of the brightest folks in the most exciting city in the U.S., then you've pictured it precisely.

Many alums will talk about the employment benefits of Hacker School; indeed, I honed my coding skills and talked to 6 NYC-based startups, eventually short-circuiting interviews after falling in love with one where I now work. For me, however, Hacker School was about finding a home with the kindest, most egoless group of smart folks I've met--a group that Dave, Sonali, and Nick are especially skilled at assembling. If this sounds like your thing, you should give it a shot--and I'll buy you a beer/coffee some Saturday when we (students and alums alike) head out in the evening to talk code and socialize.
There will probably be at least 4 stages, with the condition that their intelligence will not be limited, and it will keep growing at least until it's equal to ours:

1) No rights. We can do whatever we want, just like they are our property and we can treat them as pure objects

2) Some rights. Think of it like animal rights, but we still own them

3) "Official" human-like rights. They are free, but there would be "racism" against them at first

4) The exact same rights as a human, officially and unofficially.

Then things might start to change again when they start becoming drastically more intelligent than us. Then it becomes much harder to predict. At first glance, we could say it will be bad for us, but I choose to believe the optimistic side that the smarter they will be the more tolerant they will be, too.
Glad you found it interesting.
Incredibly good article, thank you! The part of sustainable management really struck a chord...
I think this article is a little bit cynical. I have worked with some young developer in my time that are just elated by what they have accomplished and are ecstatic to tell someone about it. As such the exuberance of youth can be misinterpreted as cocky braggadociosness. We should not let the cynicism of age affect our perception and give them the benefit of the doubt.
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And again... just got a reminder from Scott Kelly about the upcoming "Launch Day" event in Durham, at the American Underground. This is probably worth checking out as well:

http://launch-day.com/
Reminded me of this, a WWII/Cold War missile test site in San Diego:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/apr/02/--/
I checked awhile back and most software companies fail the convenience test. It is only allowed if the employee can't get food elsewhere (e.g. on an oil rig).

See
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b/ar02.html

Exact text:
Meals on Your Business Premises

You can exclude the value of meals you furnish to an employee from the employee's wages if they meet the following tests.

They are furnished on your business premises.

They are furnished for your convenience.

This exclusion does not apply if you allow your employee to choose to receive additional pay instead of meals.

Whether you furnish meals for your convenience as an employer depends on all the facts and circumstances. You furnish the meals to your employee for your convenience if you do this for a substantial business reason other than to provide the employee with additional pay. This is true even if a law or an employment contract provides that the meals are furnished as pay. However, a written statement that the meals are furnished for your convenience is not sufficient.

From http://www.irs.gov/publications/p525/ar02.html
Meals and Lodging

You do not include in your income the value of meals and lodging provided to you and your family by your employer at no charge if the following conditions are met.

The meals are:

Furnished on the business premises of your employer, and

Furnished for the convenience of your employer.

Another source:
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2000/Jun/TheHighC...

Meals an employer provides as a means of disguising additional compensation to an employee are not regarded as furnished for the convenience of the employer under section 119. The IRS considers a meal as furnished for the employer’s convenience only if the company provided it for a substantial noncompensatory business reason. An employer furnishes a meal for such a reason when providing it

So the employee is available for emergency calls during his or her meal period.

Because the employee must be restricted to a short meal period and could not be expected to eat elsewhere in such a short time.

Because the employee could not otherwise secure proper meals within a reasonable meal period, such as when there are not sufficient eating facilities nearby.Meals an employer provides as a means of disguising additional compensation to an employee are not regarded as furnished for the convenience of the employer under section 119. The IRS considers a meal as furnished for the employer’s convenience only if the company provided it for a substantial noncompensatory business reason. An employer furnishes a meal for such a reason when providing it

So the employee is available for emergency calls during his or her meal period.

Because the employee must be restricted to a short meal period and could not be expected to eat elsewhere in such a short time.

Because the employee could not otherwise secure proper meals within a reasonable meal period, such as when there are not sufficient eating facilities nearby.

In other words, if a company provides you with a free lunch, it probably is taxable income.
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If anybody read that quote and then went on to do something like Grooveshark, I'd guess it's safe to say they need to adjust their reality compass. It may be OK to push the boundaries in certain areas, grow big and make amends later. But if your concept is to break boundaries, have no model for actual growth apart from ripping other companies off and not even a chance of making amends (apart from maybe changing the law in every country of the world, which won't happen), I guess it's very clear you're doomed to failure.

I don't like what the record industry is doing in general these days, but grooveshark was always very obviously shady if not illegal.
Miscommunications happen. Its a fact of life and its even moreso when you're dealing with a complex legal matter. I'm offering up my time as an unpaid ex-employee to help someone out who seems to be having difficulty. The offer stands to others but not indefinitely because as time passes, I'll know less and less people who work at the company.
> When he invented the telephone, Thomas Edison called Watson, not someone he barely met at the town bar.

I think the author meant Alexander Graham Bell :)

Also, Google Plus added a "Volume Control" feature to control noise. I've got high hopes for it - you can increase or decrease the output from one circle into the main stream.
http://www.simplyzesty.com/google/have-google-cracked-the-bi...
Ask HN: Thread to buy/sell & trade domains?
So almost everyone on here has domains but probably don't ever use them or get around to developing them. I think this would be a good thread to buy / sell or trade domains.

Post domains that you have, price (or if they're up for trading) and any other info.

I'll start off:
Looking to trade this domain for any other domain (if I like the name I'll trade!):

NeerBase.com (was going to create a directory of web engineers / paid service)
Thanks for the tips.

I ended up installing Python 2.7, gedit, and then I had to edit a path field to load Python from the terminal. I've just started Learn Python the Hard Way by Allen B. Downey and I really like the tone he uses, actually. He mentions this, though: "A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OSX or Linux. If the programmer likes fonts and typography, they'll tell you to get a Mac OSX computer. If they like control and have a huge beard, they'll tell you to install Linux. Again, use whatever computer you have right now that works. All you need is gedit, a Terminal, and python." I hope when I do transition over to the Linux version, it's not a steep learning curve. I already use Debian, but I've decided to work on Windows...I hope it doesn't hold me back from any valuable learning experience.

Thanks, again!
I spent about half of last year living at a Buddhist monastery and one of the other people staying for part of that time was a yoga instructor who talked about the same things. I've meditated for some years now and one of the main things he had me pay attention to were the smooth transitions between poses and quality of breath in particular. He seemed to agree with an observation I made about it being much like breath meditation with movement added in. Keeping a steady and concentrated mind with careful movements that flow together with the breath were important to maintain and he only gave me a handful of simple poses to work with, things like just raising and lowering legs and turning my legs to the side. No fancy poses or anything. He talked about the ignorance of many yoga instructors too and how dangerous it can be if not taken slowly and with great care.
But note that the proofs for the 4-Color Theorem and this Sudoku theorem are "merely" computer-assisted. The part of reducing the Sudoku search space, for instance, seems to have been done pencil-and-paper style. What Zeilberger wants is completely automated proving.

Oh, and thanks for introducing me to Conway's Cosmological Theorem. Very interesting!

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LookandSaySequence.html
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More reason to use Tor and .onion domains!

Oh wait. The only thing in onionspace right now are child porn sites and drug dealers. Nevermind.
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This reminds me a lot of Ars Digita's bootcamp (http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/boot-camp, which I attended, back in the day. It's up there amongst the more interesting experiences of my life).

Except that instead of being a recruitment mechanism for the host company, it is an environment to give people skills and match them up with external companies, and in return get a referral fee.

Really a good idea; I wonder if it is scalable. They will have to figure out a way to assess coding ability objectively?
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this is about design, forget the code.. i've originally designed this for one startup from Palo Alto, which's been looking for pure Graphic designer, i couln't image this up on HackerNews.. i can finish college anytime, but offers from Silicon Valley are not coming everyday :)
There are many things a browser can do just fine, but there are also many things that the terminal needs to do that would be difficult to do memory or CPU wise without resorting to plugins. Certain things in the terminal use an embedded browser (e.g., displaying company web pages), but almost no terminal apps are written as web pages. (Products such as BLAW, BGOV, etc. are native web apps)
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yeah, duh, fixed that now. You should be proud that thousands of other people didn't catch that. Or maybe we should be scared thousands of other people didn't catch that :)
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A lot of it has to do with branding, and there are some more minor hardware concerns. The branding aspect comes from seeing an entire trading floor with the branded monitor/keyboard. It is recognizable anywhere you go. The keyboard has special keys which are used by software features for which the user base has acquired muscle memory (they do help you become a faster user). Also things such as embedded speakers in the keyboard so that terminal A/V can be played anywhere because customers computers might not (it is common) have speakers.

Also, wrt to being a web app, there are users and then there are users. Sure, certain customers' usage might be fine for the web (and it can be run remote from anywhere on the web for the obvious reduced performance due to remoting), but receiving 50k+ ticks a second and pumping screen updates to 8 monitors in a trading situation is not something a browser is good at.
yes it was foreign exchange program, but when i look back, this half a year in US was really life-changing.. i'm citizen of Slovakia of course :)
In this case, I can't imagine the Twitter details include much more than email and ip addresses. What I'd be worried about is what happens afterwards, when they order Google and Microsoft to hand over your emails and chat logs.
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They could build a similar service to Grooveshark that didn't give their products away for nothing. People would pay to stream EMI's entire catalogue, so long as the price was right.
"Imagine Twitter without public follower/following counts..."

I suspect it wouldn't work -- due in some part to vanity, and in a large part to the well established social-psychological phenomenon of "social proof." As a species, we like things that are popular. Conversely, we are hesitant to sample things, let alone subscribe to them, until they've been validated by others. Ideally, we seek things that have been validated by others of high social status. But in a pinch, validation by a large number of people will do the trick.

We keep social score. And, even if we don't consciously realize or even accept it, we want others to know our own score.

I tend to agree with most of your points, though. As you very eloquently put it, our natural tendency is to accumulate noise -- even if we claim to want signal clarity. Google+'s circles are a great attempt to let us have our cake (noise) and eat it, too (signal). But over time, I imagine that the act of constant social curation and message-filtering will grow more tiresome than it's worth for many users. That's just a hunch, and it's totally unsubstantiated by any data I have, or could ever hope to get my hands on. At least for now.
The $1/month subscription also enables use of the feature that lets you do full-text search on the articles you saved. It's also needed if you want to use applications that access the Instapaper API like the Paper Mache app on webOS.
Twitter/Facebook need a "refresh" button that would unfollow/unfriend everyone and let you start over.
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We dont need to nuke our Facebook friend list
Ask HN: whats a good work sample for a technology/programming internship?
I'm going to be interviewing for an internship through my school. i am supposed to show work samples to show my skill in c++, java and html. i have until the 19th of January to come up with something. in c++, something involving math, maybe using a file to save data and ascii graphics. for java, something using simple graphics (squares, circles). and for html, a simple webpage to make. an example of a suggestion could be to try to make tic tac toe in java and display the board and make it clickable. any ideas would be helpful, fell free to ask questions if ive been to vague.
the companies that will be interviewing are AIDS Project Worcester, Inc. www.aidsprojectworcester.org Ameridose www.ameridose.com Avatar Computing www.avatar-computing.com Lab Support www.labsupport.com Pyramid Technology Services www.pyramiddec.com Gentex Optics http://www.essilorusa.com/EN/Pages/default.aspx M Corby & Associates, Inc. http://www.rsi-llc.com/ Reliant Health (formerly Fallon) http://www.reliantmedicalgroup.org/ TCG Network Serv. http://www.tcgns.com/ UMass Memorial Med. www.umassmemorial.org YMCA www.ymcaworcester.org
thanks
Are you trolling? What do the words "freedom of speech" mean to you?
Call me crazy, but I don't think the US Government should have access to such private information of foreign citizens, even if it's hosted in US. At the very least, it should be their own national Governments that should be able to request for it, and only if their own laws allow it.

This will only promote anti-Americanism, as people will try to stay away from American services. Who knows how far they will they take this. If I "support" #OccupyWallStreet on Twitter, does that mean that one day they might come after me, too? I really can't be sure either way these days, which means I can't treat things like these too lightly.
this site was originally designed for one startup from Palo Alto.. but since it's here on HN, I'm really opened for everything in Bay Area :).. i've got some first offers already which is awesome :)
As a filter? Yes.

I'm not saying hire anyone that can do a fill-in-the-blank Rails controller action - but how they handle that mechanical task should help you figure out what direction to proceed in (a deeper dive into the fundamentals, a "Thanks, we'll be in touch").

I'd rather test trival mechanical skills rather than puzzles .
As you state on your site, your revenue comes from recruiting programmers for startups. This fact suggests that you are highly incentivized to train startup programmers, not hackers.

"hackers" who don't meet deadlines, and don't manage product scope don't make very good recruits, which would affect your bottom line.
of all the services, Twitter makes it the easiest to unfollow albeit at the individual level. Try severing a LinkedIn connection w someone - astoundingly challenging.
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Yeah that's right. It's a little over-reported. It's also EMI publishing not the label.

The original lawsuit brought by Universal is quite a bit more serious: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57332246-261/grooveshark-e...
This is why I don't give you a job
i had heard, and don't know how credible this is, that early on there was discussion at Twitter about hiding follower/following counts from public view. The notion was they were designing a system w constraints (140 characters) and were willing to buck convention. Would love to hear from Jack or Ev on this one day.
what language? the visitor pattern is for non-functional languages, like java. writing a parser in (e.g.) haskell is very natural with pattern matching.
Agree entirely with your summary - lots of good advice.

The amount of actual content on the priceonomics product pages is super thin. google is not going to be a big fan of throwing out every page of search results into the index - you're pretty much ONLY creating duplicate content at this point. also the taxonomy has a ton of copies of what is actually the same item, depending on how it was written in the listing.
http://priceonomics.com/headphones/sennheiser/hd-595/
http://priceonomics.com/headphones/sennheiser/hd595/
Sorting the taxonomy into distinct products and then adding some sort of content to beef up at least the category pages, which right now are 100% navigation, would be a big step forward. Lots of things you can do going forward, in thinking about this vertical, it's an interesting market space for SEO, lots of challenges and possible strategies.

I'm assuming eventually some sort of comparable product cross-linking will be built into the system?
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Haha me too… After being told there's cleavage, I went back to take a look at it again – and noticed the 2 massive balls (circle) right below it. This is too much!
yes it was like like a wordplay with "silicon" & "valley" that why u see silicon boobs in the header :).. i was thinking about putting Pamela Anderson there sayin' "I know a lot about silicon & I think Filip would definitely fit there" but i didn't have time to put it in, couse I had to start studyin' for exam (which I screwed of course, because I spend most of time between christmas & new years eve working on this :)
I think notepad++ already has all of these features and is free. It's been my editor of choice for years.
Ask HN: App launch check list?
My app is almost ready and should be submitted to the "Mac" Appstore next week. I was wondering if someone has already worked on a pre-launch checklist?

- Website
- Demo Video
- Submit to sites like Macupdate etc..
- ??

Would appreciate your comments.

Thanks
No, but you could, say, have 16 gb of ram, 16gb of flash, and enough battery to sync it if the power goes out.
thanks! i really appreciate it