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It has perhaps been said numerous times before, but you may want to not worry about the negative aspects of something.

You know what I just did? I just wrote down my "To Do List" for my y combinator interview. Book flights, book hotel, design printed handouts....etc. Put it out into the universe that you will get invited out for an interview. Believe that you will get it and you'll be more likely to.

I can't back this up with any sort of scientific or market data but it has often worked for me and other successful people I know.

Maybe even put that to do list under your pillow.
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Ha, I always love seeing a job application that demands a Github profile, with no place for Bitbucket or Google Code (not to mention Sourceforge!).
Can you elaborate about what makes you say that? Surely alcohol loosening you up isn't anything abnormal...is it?

Or are you just talking about the early paragraph and not the real point of the article?
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I think the more accurate term is "reverse sexism." When efforts are made to combat sexism (with good intentions) that don't lead to actually working against or solving the root cause of the original sexism. Though sexism is never mentioned in the article, so we can't say that's the intention behind this initiative at all.
The 45° “bird’s eye” imagery was a feature that Bing had first, but Google has been adding it gradually (including at Cupertino where you linked). If you enable the MapsGL experiment, the Google version also uses 3D buildings to rotate very smoothly compared to Bing.
That doesn't help. Switching workspaces is cumbersome, you can't 'launch' a workspace like you can just open an xcode project, and you can't have more than one open at a time in different windows.
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We know, and that sucks. Let me ask you a question though - developers who can't put their code online, will some of them not engage online otherwise? Say, consume professional content on twitter, post on HN, or answer questions on Stack Overflow?

Our goal is to look at any kind of professional activity online, not only code. What do you think?
Not to mention the importance of cultural fit, too.

People dismiss cultural fit because it seems superficial. In reality, programming ability is part of cultural fit - who wants to work with an incompetent? A good programmer does not exist in isolation, a good programmer exists in context of the people s/he works with.

So if you find that rockstar/ninja advertising attracts the type of people you want - why not? Personally I think it's tacky, and we make fun of it where I work. But there are plenty of places with no such qualms, and it seems dishonest to not embrace that.
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We definitely need to make that clearer. Right now, we're focussing on letting companies make better sense of the candidates they already have. Can you tell me your thoughts on that?
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I agree it would be a fascinating experiment, but I don't think this would be possible, since interviews are an essential part of our process.
An upvote doesn't do this comment justice. I am going to store that quote for later.

The purpose of a corporation is to make money for the shareholders.
It's the conversion that's worrying - Pirate Bay sees millions of impressions a day. To only convert that into 85,000 low-friction video views is pretty bad. Given these numbers, I don't think TPB advertising is very attractive when weighed against other media - I think the main draw is that it's free.
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what kind of tasks/jobs are you talking about? construction type jobs or software ...?
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You made the mistake of staying at an expensive hotel. Expensive hotels generally have the most gouging internet setups, whether it's silly high prices, or MITM ad revenue takeovers like here.
Right. Our current goals is to help employers with their existing candidates. I have a question - would you like to be able to get a profile on skills? If so, what would you do with it?

Thanks!
Yes, it is very much related to the front post.

Right now advertising is interrupt-driven. Could one do the opposite? What you are suggesting seems like a frontal attack and that may not be the best tactic.

What is the goal of advertising anyway?

For the ad-buyer, the goal seems to be increasing sales.

For the consumer, the goal is ... what?
I'm building a tool very similar to what you describe for Android right now. It involves a simplified XML description of the GUI which is sent over a network to an Android device, then "inflated" to actual GUI code.

Could you elaborate about your system a bit?
I would like to make sure that people here understand one thing. The hatchlings guys are doing it wrong.

Who's to blame in this story? The guys who based their business on something they had absolutely no control on, or the company using algorithms to protect its customers (the advertisers)? I am absolutely not defending Google here, but honestly, this has been said a thousand times, ffs, do not base your business on AdSense.

Better, the more people stop using AdSense, the easier it is gonna be for a competitor (your next startup?) to come, and the more chance we have to see a change coming from Google.
Seconded.

Is just as easy to draw the conclusion from the data that people in wealthier countries are less fearful of the future due to their economic situation and therefore more likely to seek to read about it.

Also, from the idea that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, in countries that are economically screwed it might actually improve the chances of future success to be focusing a lot on the past.
Agree 100%. Our approach is "if a candidate has some data online, we'll help you make better sense of it. If they don't, there's nothing we can tell you."
What do you mean, he's not trying to sell us anything, is he?
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This is wrong. I don't know a single Rails developer (with or without a degree) who doesn't have more work than they can handle available to them. Sometimes the jobs are more concentrated in certain areas than others, but I personally get several cold calls from recruiters every week, and I have no degree, and I am no rockstar.
My motivation comes from a very different angle, though I don't know how shared it is. What I love about programming is the feeling of having to control everything. Computers don't forgive, they forget when you least want them to, and fuzziness is impossible. Writing code helps me clarify my own thoughts and ensure that I really know what I am saying. The mental state of a good hacking session is better than meditation for me, and saving time and the joy of creation are nice side benefits. Am I misunderstanding you? Are you using decimal places to indicate forceful intent rather than logical prediction?
I'm not inclined to do any of those things in a serious way, much less in a way that I'd call professional. I post on HN sporadically and solely for my own amusement, and I don't know that any employers would find my history here relevant in any way.

I don't really get into the social media aspect of development even when I'm allowed to contribute to open projects, so I doubt I'd be very visible (or very attractive if I were) via any social media outlets. Whether I'm the norm or not, I don't know.

Edited to add: By the way, I do appreciate that somebody's out there trying to help developers be more easily visible for doing such things, so don't take my comments the wrong way. :)
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If you're commenting on the dangers on no semis I would put money on the fact you haven't given it a real try. Perhaps you tried it, had an issue once, and immediately reverted. Its like critiquing a book you haven't read.
The author claims his company can detect this kind of click fraud (indeed, the whole article is about how they did) through proprietary methods. If you're an advertiser it's likely this behavior is about to become more common.
I just call them "noobgrammers", it's much less gender-biased and so much more self-explanatory.
Wow. That third message, with suggestions for avoiding the bug, reads like a twisted joke. Highlights:

"avoid struct types which contain both integer and pointer fields"

"avoid data structures which form densely interconnected graphs at run-time"

"avoid integer values which may alias at run-time to an address; make sure
most integer values are fairly low (such as: below 10000)"

I understand that this isn't a completely brain-dead garbage collector, but warnings like that really scream "I'm just a toy language". It doesn't seem wise to call such a fragile programming tool production-ready or 1.0; the 32-bit implementation should be tagged as experimental, if only to lessen the damage to Go's reputation.
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Yay! I'm #21 on the angel list. I should get more of my stuff in crunchbase (more than half are missing)
Hey - thanks for your theme.

One thing that strikes me as problematic about this sort of endeavour is that virtually nobody calibrates their displays. With the displays I've owned, things look considerably different pre- and post- calibration.
Really good, but where'd they get all this music? Youtube? Did you make this?
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http://dnsimple.com

It's not free, but it's only like $3/mo. You get 1 month free, and with every referral you get a free month. It's by far the best and easiest dns service out there. It was a side project of an HN'er as well. He did a fantastic job with the service.

Makes DNS easy. When I wanted to set up google account stuff (mail, notes, docs, etc). I just clicked on the domain edit, clicked edit (or something along that verbiage) and chose it from the list. Also used that to set up my A record pointing my personal domain to my username.github.com site.
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I apologize if my response offended you, maybe I can be clearer with some more detail: it just seemed odd, considering Hyde is linked on the post and Styloot is not (and even there, the only way I know that it has anything to do with django is by finding it under technologies used in your resume).

If you want to become a web developer, then sure– django or rails, take your pick (or anything other framework that suits your fancy, though I too would go with django). But that wasn't your point.

>No one hires PhDs for web development skills, but knowing some basics certainly opens up some doors. I wouldn't want to hire a PhD who would couldn't build at least a demo himself.

Some basics would include HTML, CSS, and Hyde as well, no? Especially if the point is to give yourself a proper web presence such as your own site. I was wrong to call it a 'fleeting interest', that was simply my impression from only looking at the post. However, if you're willing to expand on that bit it would probably be beneficial to those who aren't already aware since they're your target anyway.

Aside from all of this, thanks for the Software Carpentry link– this should come in handy the next time I try to help someone dive into programming.
There's non-interrupt driven advertising - product placement in tv/films, advergames, MochiMedia uses the downloading time at the start of Flash games to present ads etc.

When it comes to websites anything that diverts my attention from the page that I came to look at is going to interrupt me so I don't know if that's really a good criteria.
I think that in the end, "we" cannot win this one. This is happening in the US, and the EU is up to the same game. We all know that when business and governments want some thing, they get it. People will be harassed and jailed so that failing businesses can be kept on life support so that they may influence "democracy" on behalf of politicians. Yes, its corrupt and vile, but its is also inevitable.
It holds even more so at small scale because I can pretty confidently move a method up an inheritance chain or rename a class and count on the compiler catching everything. In a bigger codebase I have to be more careful about breaking somebody's excessively dynamic code that might be pointing to those things in a roundabout way.

As an experiment last year I started teaching myself machine learning by implementing the common algorithms in Clojure and Scala simultaneously. I expected Clojure to win out and worked a lot harder in the beginning but after a while I was forced to concede that my Scala code was cleaner, faster, and less buggy, partly because I felt comfortable changing things because I knew the compiler would help me.
I think developing in PHP and compiling to C++/binary probably results in much higher developer productivity than developing in C++/C# directly. Developer salaries are undoubtedly their largest expense, by far, dwarfing those salaries of the people who make PHP performant and 1.5 gig binary updates sane.
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I'm also really intrigued by the "karma" rating for all of their developers.

Can anyone speak to how well that is working? Has it been effective? Any negative side-effects? Is it just for the release process, or for any development effort?
I generally prefer using Wikipedia edits or Linux kernel commits.
No i haven't but ill definitely look into it since it sounds pretty cool ha
> I'm a semi-introvert graduating with my BS in CS and am looking for jobs right now.

BTW, your HN email isn't visible unless you put it in the about section. You might get some more interest if you put it there with a webpage url.
Or it could be a schlep. Everyone could be doing it the wrong way, just like Google showing the best search result in 1999 was initially considered the wrong way.

Take the easy case of a consumer ready to buy something this minute. Say, they want a colorful winter jacket for men, and they are willing to pay anything for it.

Can they find it with advertising? Can they find it with search?

One goal of advertising for the consumer is that it helps them make a decision. Which of these X jackets should I consider?

Now, is being interrupted the best way to make a decision?
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Big Internet is going to have to spend a lot more money if they want to win the war. Big Media & friends are outspending Big Internet when it comes to lobbying. According to Opensecrets[1]: Computers/Internet spent $125.6M in 2011.

OTOH, TV/Movies/Music spent $123.2M and Telecom spent $58.9M. But that’s not all of their allies. If you look at the SOPA supporters list[2], many of them produce brand name goods, like Tiffany. They're worried about counterfeiters. Let’s call this potential group of supporters, Misc Business. In 2011, they spent $491.2M.[3]

It boils down to incentives. For them, there’s limited downside to supporting SOPA-like legislation, and a lot of upside in deterring pirates.

1: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&...

2: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottsopasponsors/home/list-...

3:
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Minor pagination issue: when you click "next" the "prev" link takes its place. I went back and forth between the first page and second page a couple times before noticing.

Very nice work!
Agreeing with people who criticize google, I have to say it is really beautiful to see PG response where he is seeing opportunity in everything. Me too :).
This is the relevant bug: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=909

As the discussion there and in the thread says, the root problem is that Go uses a conservative garbage collector, and on 32-bit a lot more values look like pointers than on 64-bit, so many more things don't get freed in long-running processes. Seems not to be easy to fix.
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This is yet another reason I'm glad that SPDY is manditory TLS encryption. Shenanigans like this get a lot harder.

I'm hoping we see a lot more SPDY (or plain https) rollouts in the near future.

It's enough that I'm going to try now to https-ify all of my web properties, including adding HTTP Strict Transport Security headers where they aren't.
to go back to 32 bit hardware, you will be running very old machines that you can buy off ebay for <200$ and the power cost offset the new hardware cost in several months.
This is in no way condescending to you, but realize that your options will massively open after 2 years of work experience.

I graduated in 2010, I got 3 job offers out of the 3 companies I applied to. However, none were exactly my dream job and the few companies I really wanted to work for didn't even talk to new grads. Today I can absolutely get those jobs.

My girlfriend went through the exact same evolution. It was brutal finding anything in 2010, and she just got her dream job with 2 years of work experience under her belt.

Those 2 years of work experience really open doors.

It's an enormous mistake to hold out for the 'perfect job'.

One of my roommates was a finance/econ/accounting triple major and wanted a Goldman Sachs job (not our cup of tea, but it's instructive). He didn't get that job, but saw the 'regional' banks as below his level, so he didn't take any job and brushed up his resume and applied again. Meanwhile another classmate with a less stellar but similar resume took a job at the regional bank. Two years later he switched into JPMorgan. My roommate who passed has basically been unable to get any job - even the regional bank jobs he once considered beneath him.

So don't let the frustration make you do something stupid and pass on the dumb job offers. You have to get a job right away. You can switch from that job after 6 months or 1 year or whatever, but do not make yourself unemployed. You only become less employable as your graduation date slips because it signals other employers that some have passed on you.
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As far as I can tell, I think the cycle count is intended to model the cost of cycles against your 100KHz budget. I'm not sure I think it's worth the complexity.

Given that Notch seems to want to continuously operate one or more virtual CPUs for every user, if it were me, I'd favor making the execution model as simple and cheap as possible.
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The hotel wifi service provider business is (and has been for 5+ years) a really crummy race to the bottom. Hotels don't want to do it themselves. They can't really; they don't have the talent in-house. It's fairly expensive to do correctly. Most hotels weren't built with cat-5 installed, so you have to pay someone to go do that. Then you have to install a bunch of networking gear which isn't cheap. Then you have to pay someone to monitor it all and come out and fix it when it goes down. You probably also want some 1-800 number your guests can call when they can't get on-line. The costs add up pretty quickly.

So how do you pay for it all? You're in a hotels.com price war with all your competitors, so you can't just raise room rates. Your customers will get pissed off if you tell them they have to pay extra for wifi. So eventually some genius comes along and gives you this brilliant idea that will make wifi pay for itself, and this is what you get.
This "article" is pure speculation, and not even based on a real expression of opinion or data... RIM shouldn't and won't be bailed out, worst case bought out by Microsoft/Nokia/Palm/HP
The PCBs in cell phones are almost exclusively done by machines. You can't hand solder a BGA, a machine applies solder paste as the last step in the PCB manufacturing process and then a pick and place (robotic arm pulling parts off reels) sets the chips before sending the PCB through a reflow machine (an oven).

Even for small batch runs of boards with QFP chips (which you can hand solder) you would machine all this, and I mean like 50 board runs. I've even done this in lab for 10 board proto runs. You make a solder paste stencil out of plastic to apply the paste after you get the boards back from the PCB manufacturer, place the chips and solder them in a reflow oven (or even a frying pan works if you paying attention and have an IR temp sensor).

The only bits you hand solder, even in Asian, are components that are too large or can't withstand the temperatures of machine soldering, be it wave or reflow (think full size RCA connectors on a board with many fine pitch ICs or a wall wart). This is normally a post processing step after everything else has been reflowed. Connectors of this type don't really exist in cell phones, they are all surface mount with some minimal unsoldered through hole supports.

The manual assembly that comes into play with a modern cell phone involves connecting the various PCBs with their interconnects and placing them in the proper location within the packaging and of course all the post electronics stuff.
Why is a justification needed?
If you have to regulate, don't regulate behavior, regulate results. So, rather than saying "you must do X because !X causes problem Y for the world around you", say "you must not cause problem Y" (usually in the form "you incur all liability for any damage you cause by problem Y", since regulations imply an associated threat). You then make it possible for someone to come up with a more creative solution to not causing problem Y.