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Hi Josh, Here are my thoughts as I go through the onboarding process with HiringThing.com.

- Registration and confirmation seem pretty straight forward. However, the screen after setting my password is a lot of information with many different steps to move forward. At this point, you might either want to offer a split walkthrough... an option to introduce the new job listing area with a brief walkthrough on ways it can be personalized or an introduction to creating new job listings.

- Good job on the "University" aspect of the site. Education on proper use of the site will certainly help your improve engagement on your site.

- Creating job listings on the site could be improved. Currently you require all of the information the listing requires upfront without much thought put into the presentation. You may find it easier for your users if they have a step-by-step process which gradually requests the required information. Not only will your users be able to save their progress as they go, but they won't be overwhelmed with the large about of information they'll need to provide for a listing. This is called the progressive reveal...and can be useful anytime you have a lot of steps to cover or a lot of information which needs to be conveyed to the user at once.

- In customizing the look and feel of the listing page, consider a preview of each of the preset color schemes.

- Spend a little bit of time thinking about how you're laying out the elements in your website. At this point, it's just large blocks of text that the user has to swim through to find what they need. It's most noticeable in the welcome screen/dashboard where you suggest to the user some tasks they could take.

- I couldn't go through and post listings and apply to them and see how the rest of the workflow is, but think about the most important and most repeated tasks your users will take and put that front-and-center on the dashboard. It might not be clear to me right now, but when I'm welcomed, there is a lot of suggestions to customize my company page instead of posting listings (maybe more important?).

- You have some nav buttons on the top, a dashboard/create a job tab, and then each view sometimes has a few sub-views beneath that. Tighten up the navigation and layout of the pages. The Dashboard, Create a Listing buttons can be groups with the Saved Applications, Account Details and Logout. Consider which buttons you choose for actions, could these features be organized elsewhere in the site to improve how quickly users find what they're looking for? Maybe have just "Dashboard", "Account Details", and "Logout". Your dashboard can then hold your listings and saved applications. Account details will hold everything specific to the account. Might simplify things greatly.

Hope these thoughts are helpful for you. :)
> There is no such thing, in the american form of government, as "constitutional rights".

That is a really excellent point.
If Oliver wants to understand happiness, I think he should consider why his friend was extremely happy during her PhD. That she was unhappy later when she couldn't find work does not make her a counter example to following one's passion. When your needs aren't met, you can get unhappy. In my experience, happiness comes from your relationship to the present. Follow your passion or work on a "big problem" or work everyday at a job. All can make you happy or unhappy. Being happy lies in how you live your experiences while following your passion or working on a big problem or doing whatever it is that you do. How do you react to trouble? How do you handle success and praise? How do you go about doing what you do? Do you help people? Do you compete? Are you satisfying your basic needs? From what I can tell, barring the effects of illnesses like depression, happiness lies in how you choose to go about your life and how you handle its ups and downs. Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured out the nuances of the above questions and others like them, so I don't know which answers result in happiness, but that's life, I guess. Some random things I've read on the topic: http://goo.gl/xxvkl http://goo.gl/fKYlM
Remember that these are the guys that rated 2008's toxic bonds AAA. Does what they say really matter?
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I don't have any data but I think it's safe to assume that people with gambling addiction problems are prone to play slots/pokies instead of black jack & poker (as in traditional poker while ignoring online poker).

We both accept parents have a responsibility to monitor their children's activities online but in reality, it doesn't always happen.

I can't place the blame solely on parents either when Apple guidelines state these games are suitable for ages 12 and up. You could almost forgive parents for taking Apple guidelines at face value.

The cocaine example isn't that different considering compulsive gamblers also have a disease. My point was that children don't need to experience something personally to learn it's a bad thing.

For you, gambling is about managing risk. For me, it's the occasional flutter for a bit of fun. Winning, fun etc has nothing to do with it for a compulsive gambler.

I don't have kids but when my girlfriend and I start a family, I'll do my best to prevent them from playing games such as this nor will I allow them to use these devices until much older when they won't require 24/7 supervision and some trust is established.

You're right that we don't have enough responsible parents in the world and if they want to gamble, it's their right to make such a decision. What I take issue with is companies such as Caesar's Entertainment taking advantage of this lack of parental supervision to line their coffers.

With Apple facilitating and taking a 30% cut of the earnings, they're complicit in such shenanigans.
It reminds me the Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser case, in which, the IP on GMOs is clearly at odds with the land property rights of the owner.
Edit: I see that the following comment may invalidate mine. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3463292

Minor point:

> Congress is constrained to grant this right only in service of a specific purpose. namely, to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, and only "for limited times".

This is not exactly what I read it. I understood that the congress can grant monopolies to promote Arts and Science. Nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't explicitly forbid the congress to use those monopolies for other purposes. Nor does it say anything about the case where granting monopolies doesn't promote Art and Science at all, by the way.

Now if it can be established that such monopolies hinders other rights described in the constitution, then you are correct: they can only be used to promote Art and Science.
And if we could further establish that those monopolies do not actually promote Art and Science, then it may be unconstitutional to use them at all.
People have been trying to use mycobacteriophages to treat TB since the 90s (at least) with no success: http://tbevidence.org/tbevidence_old_site_files/documents/re...

In contrast, vaccines for TB have made actual progress in animal studies: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v17/n10/full/nm.2420.html
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I agree that "Intellectual Property" isn't property per se.

It's just too easy to re-invent a particular bit of "IP". I mean, I've done some of those on-line "C Programming Interview Test Questions", and come up with something identical to the given answer, except for choice of variable names.

Independent invention just ruins "IP" as property.
It is a browser. It is a poor browser, but it's a browser.

FUD elsewhere.
Try Snaggy (http://snag.gy/), it's exactly just that.
It's fairly obvious what they should do: apologise publicly and to the people who they misrepresented themselves to.

Not in the Anglosphere where the actual people affected will never know of their wrongdoing.

Not throw their hands up in the air and blame human nature, sorry for the inconvenience.

Every act like this where they do not take a principled stand, dilutes the value of that Don't Be Evil motto a little more, until one day it will essentially be meaningless.
also check out http://ge.tt

I met these guys at SeedCamp final round. Looks like a very good file sharing product
I'm amused to see mention of "hits".

Viamall as a whole is currently getting over 9.9 million page views per month. That corresponds to over 72 million "hits", or http requests.

Once upon a time these were the currency of the internet :)

Of course now, even page views is seen as archaic and a little cough exaggeratory. I remember campaigning at my place-of-work (in early 2000) to have this term banished in favour of unique visitors.
Because they spend more time indoors than in warmer weather.
> It doesn't explicitly forbid the congress to use those monopolies for other purposes.

What forbids Congress to use those monopoly grants for other purposes is the doctrine of enumerated powers.
Startup's Facebook page on autopilot. Would you pay for it?
Nonsense. You can't draw an equals sign between two actions just because they sounds similar. One is a completely legal action by an employee in good standing. The other is a crime. They are not the same thing and should not be treated as such.
> The right of free speech, as recognized by the First Amendment, precedes and predates the constitution.

This is the exact interpretation of such rights that one arrives at under John Locke's view of the state of nature which he argued preceded society (and thus government of any kind). One of the big takeaways from his Second Treatise which was incredibly influential to many of the "founding fathers" (I feel like selling out when I say that, but hey, it's succinct. unlike this now-meta parenthetical)

... and somehow I just remembered that random bit from a summer course at Cornell I took during high school, but if you asked me what I learned in GOVT5 my junior year of college, I honestly couldn't tell you anything other than that boris yeltsin died on new years eve, 1999. And that the freshmen were too young to already know that Czechoslovakia was not a god damned soviet republic.
Cool idea. I had a similar idea this week about just creating a version I can run from my actual command line. I worked on it for a few hours and got Facebook and Twitter working. If you're interested you can see the code at https://github.com/mattmccormick/Social-Media-Command/blob/m...

(Although it's really pretty simple and only does status updates at the moment)
Wikipedia considering joining SOPA blackout protest
Did you purchase a database?
The dictionary doesn't seem to have that sense of the word "ordinary". By context in web results it seems to mean "tavern".
I've never overpaid for computer parts, because I'm very familiar with their true price. Conversely, I always feel screwed when I need auto repairs since I know nothing about cars and am at the total mercy of the mechanic who tells me I need a new Widget X. It's no surprise that Four Seasons drastically overpays for web design -- it's not their specialty and the cost of making web design an organizational priority would be far more than $18 million. They've correctly chosen to focus simply on running luxury hotels.

Not to mention, a big portion of the cost of this project is hidden from view -- it's the cost of integrating with legacy systems at each Four Seasons hotel around the world. There might be a reservation system from 1994 at the front desk of the Four Seasons Istanbul which needs extremely delicate internationalization: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/whats-wrong-with-tu...
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Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life
of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific
advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic
production of which he is the author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_...
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I wonder what AOPA's stance is. On the face of it, unmanned aircraft don't seem able to comply with VFR's see-and-avoid.

I'm not saying it isn't possible, just that it seems problematic with current airspace and flight rules and light aircraft in busy space, which is just the sort of environment where police would want to operate these aircraft.

[edit] It seems the FAA issue a TSA on every launch, which AOPA opposes.
I've always thought this is one of the more brilliant quotes concerning intellectual property rights/copyright, in response to those who feel that they "deserve" or are somehow entitled to the protection of IP rights:

"Wise assessment of copyright policy should have nothing to do with how you feel about the person or entity who holds the right at any particular time, because copyright policy is not about identifying wonderful and meritorious people and ensuring—certainly not as an end in itself, anyway—that their income is proportioned to their intrinsic moral desert—or lack thereof. We are all the massive beneficiaries of millennia of accumulated human scientific knowledge and cultural output, and not one of us did anything do deserve a jot of it. We’re all just extremely lucky not to have been born cavemen. The greatest creative genius alive would be hard pressed to create a smiley faced smeared in dung on a tree trunk without that huge and completely undeserved inheritance.

So banish the word “deserve” from your mind when you think about copyright. Nobody “deserves” a goddamn thing. (I say this, for what it’s worth, as someone who makes his living entirely through the production of “intellectual property.”) The only—the only—relevant question is whether a marginal restriction on the general ability to use information incentivizes enough additional information production over the long run to justify denying that marginal use to every other human being on the planet, whether for simple consumption or further creation."

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/03/30/4457/
Heh, the constitution says exactly what those rights are based on. It's a nice point though.

So we have rights, not because of the constitution, but because Jesus said so.

The main problem I see is that while there are a number of God-given rights enumerated in the constitution, you're absolutely correct copyright is not one of them ...

But neither is free speech.
(But I wonder, if you come up with an invention but don't tell anybody, isn't that a natural property right? I mean, to say that you don't' have a right to it, would be to say that others have the right to forcibly take it from you, wouldn't it?)

Irrelevant. If you haven't told anybody, they have to violate your rights to your property (stealing the plans of the invention) or to your liberty (coercing you in some way to tell them your plans) to obtain your invention.

The whole point of copyright and patents¹ is not to protect your right to the invention, but to give you the right to prevent others from using their legally obtained copies of your invention as they see fit.

¹ I don't like the term IP; see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
With the DMCA, the pro-copyright people have to play a game of whack a mole. It allows entire site like online manga readers to exist in the first place.
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I just wanted to add that there is a common ground solution here that doesn't involve removing such apps from the App Store while at the same time will minimise the harm done to children.

In a real casino, children are not allowed to play slots/pokies nor are they allowed in the vicinity of them. The fact parents are not even allowed to bring along their children while they play is an obvious sign that exposure to these machines do children harm whether they actively play or simply watch.

It seems to me it makes common sense for Apple to create an adult section in the App Store that requires a secondary password to access. That would at least prevent some children (who's parents don't monitor what they do) from accessing this type of material. There is little you can do and there are bigger issues at play for the children of parents who are allowed to access adult content after such features are in place but it would assist in protecting the majority IMO.

Of course, common sense approaches rarely work because people on the fringe of either side will either want gambling apps banned for adults as well or think it's the sole responsibility of the parents and therefore no changes should be made.

I don't know anyone that would classify slots as a "card game" and "suitable for ages 12 and up" so why is it acceptable for Apple to do this? The fact you can't win money doesn't change anything; players rarely have an edge in real casino games anyway. It's fucking worse than children playing slots in a real casino as far as I'm concerned.

Why does it always fall to those who stand to make no financial benefit either way to call for these changes to be made while Apple/Playtika/Caesars can take a fuck it approach until they are forced to change by which time large profits have been made and the damage done.
actually there is, because when traditional crops are wholesale abandoned, the seed stock, and unique local climate adapted varieties disappear forever, leaving them dependent on GMO corps to get any kind of return at all.

This problem has already occurred in most western vegetable growing.[1] Locally adapted varieties and varieties with certain commercially undesirable characteristics are lost forever, this has a massive negative impact on biodiversity, and thus food supply security.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_plant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture
Private member access is intentional due to the unique case of LoseThos' purpose. "Mapping the Commodore 64" was a cherished childhood book. It told what everthing did, including all the zero-page variables. Those are obviously private.
I miss the days of 7 search engines. Get penalized in one, and the world wasn't going to be over.
Well I wouldn't say terrible person. The problem is that this is not well explained and so most people just do not understand the problems associated with not completing the antibiotic treatment prescribed by the doctor...

It's good that he asked and now he will know why it's important and will do it.. It's a failure of education if intelligent and educated people are not aware of the consequences.
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None of that is _dangerous_ though because you've got a backup of all your data and your code is all versioned ... unless you're practicing your python on life-support systems or something?
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I think it's more of a matter of disinformation; if US citizens are radically disinformed, that's another barrier to participating in allocating our budgets. The system obviously favors decisionmaking by wealthy elites.

(Affording your own decent healthcare is enough of a feat in the US, that if you're wealthy enough to chip in for some of other people's healthcare too, people think you must be Batman or something.)

As for Bill Gates in particular, apparently one problem is his support for intellectual property, though his foundation. Many consider IP (particularly patents) a major problem for world health; and certainly the US knew better than to respect other countries' intellectual property, while it was developing. (To Charles Dickens' consternation.) (http://keionline.org/microsoft-timeline)
Yes and for many reasons:
1.- Some companies or pension funds, etc. only buy AAA products. Without that precious rating you lose potential buyer.
2.- These countries live on debts. Bad rating => higher costs => taxes increases or spending cuts (which is an easy programm these days in Europe ;) ). Note: France is not the US, investors have not the same trust into them.
3.- GDP, jobless rate, export balance, etc: French are out and German are in which will have hugh impacts on the solidarity fund, political credibility, etc. (And remember French are still sensitive about having a Germany not dominating the Europe.)

The worst part is that Germany has kept its AAA. This means that the downgrade does not punish a "European problem" but a "Country problem", and this will have hugh impacts during this election year and for solving the issues in European.
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> when you're constructing something original, you can't communicate it to someone completely because there are always too many details, even things you haven't resolved yet yourself.

This is what's so hard to explain to people.

It's the necessary, painful part of any project: where you get to the part that you may not know exactly how to solve. A more communal individual would be prone to throw their hands up and call for a meeting. (I hate when people try to make their problems be everyone's problems.) But, they're cheating themselves out of a wonderful experience. Going at it alone in the face of uncertainty is a delicious thrill; you start hacking away at it, hoping for something to give, but ultimately knowing you're just making it up as you go, and it may not work out. Eventually, you learn enough about the problem such that you can talk about it semi-coherently. But until then, talk is useless, no, it is an impediment. Without understanding, there is no use attempting to articulate anything. Intuition begets understanding.

I believe some companies simply cannot accept this level of uncertainty. It's too dangerous to take something on that might fail. They can hire all the cogs they want.
Not for programming per say but a different way of eduction - http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
Thanks! Yeah, this only has status updates working too--mostly I did this as a proof of concept that real applications can be built through Twitter.
How is OnLive Desktop legal?