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If you compare some of Reagan's speeches with what he did and you can find plenty of cases of 'short hand'. Politicians need to communicate so stupid people like what they are saying, taken out of context they don't say anything embarrassing, AND still convey nuanced ideas to other politicians out there.

Consider back when Clinton wanted to change healthcare many Republicans advocated for 'ObamaCare' which directly copied a host of republican ideas. Republicans did not actually mean what they where saying, they just wanted to shift the debate without saying we like the current system. Which is why you can find so many old speeches that are at great odds with what the party is saying today.
I'm curious why you think Amazon is a C organization. They make fantastic products. Their main store, AWS, and the kindle are all pretty great and well ahead of their competition.

I've heard bad things about working for them, but as a consumer, I love Amazon.
I am surprised how many people completely ignore this. I see tons of people blog on and on about the bright eyed, bushy tailed genius programmer out there who needs to be acquired. I see very few about companies actually trying to make an effort to look into their organizations and seeing how they can, if not try to bring their "C" players to par, at least bring their "B" players to "A" level[1]. Although I don't have any experience training other people (apart from improving myself), I am not especially convinced that software engineering and programming skills are hard enough or impossible that relatively smart people can't be with proper coaching be helped to excel at it [2].

Caveats:

[1] Implicit assumption that the person is actually interested in becoming better.

[2] I understand that this takes a "toll" in productivity because you could be out there building stuff instead of helping these people improve. However, once a company reaches a certain size, I should think there is enough "boring" work for the company to staff "B" players to handle those, while simultaneously making them spend another chunk of their time working on becoming better.
> I am not convinced you need the information you are asking me to fill out

This.

I hate overly intrusive sites. If I'm buying something from you, you need to know who I am, fine. If you won't let me download the binary distribution of a GPLed software package without entering my name, email address and date of birth, then you get fake information.

I'll go to the point of using a throwaway email address if I have to.

Back 10+ years ago Amazon was one of the first sites that allowed you to shop and do everything without even registering right up until the point where you placed the order and made payment. At the time, most sites wouldn't even give you a working shopping cart without registering.

Amazon figured this out in the 90s. I don't know why sites persist in increasing the friction of attracting new users. I can only imagine it comes down to:

1. Being easier, from a development point of view; and

2. Misguided marketing wonks.

Either way, cut that shit out. Seriously.

And the same goes for only supporting Facebook/Twitter login.
Google are building various tools which allow users to contribute data (especially to maps). However they don't provide an easy way for users to choose to release their own contributions under an open license. I asked Marissa Mayer this question at SXSW 2011 and she said they would change it, however I haven't seen this happen. I would very much like to see Google change their policy so that by default any user generated contributions are released under a license which permits reuse without further permission from Google.

My question is at 28:30
http://audio.sxsw.com/2011/podcasts/GoogleMarrisaMayer.mp3
How to hire A players: Offer way above current market value.

How to hire B players: Offer market value.

How to hire C players: Offer below market value.

You do two things when you offer more money.

1) You are more careful about who you hire.
2) You actually attract good people who would make a move for that kind of money.

I would love to hear an inverse argument against this.
I wondered, too, so I ran the benchmark on a clojure repl on the JVM on my desktop, it timed at 1028ms.
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I hear Yahoo is getting pretty evil these days. Maybe they'd do the dirty deeds for us.
Why Madeira? Are you from the Madeira? What's 'wooden' about your app :P?
I have a ba in computer science from cornell and it hasn't been a problem. Initially wanted to be a philosophy major.
If anyone's curious about an example, Mall of America is one of the locations mapped with this feature, here's the Google blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-frontier-for-goog...

It's a pretty interesting development for me to watch as the app I'm currently working on named Mashupforge (http://mashupforge.com) lets people easily create interactive maps out of image floorplans.
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The article gives no indication of why one would implement all this complicated CSS just to duplicate the effect of the "title" attribute. After all, tooltips are already a built-in function of every browser, and users are familiar with how they work. How is this any better than those annoying sites that re-implement scrollbars or the back button in awkward, unfamiliar ways?
Your answers make sense in the context of servers for websites with low security needs, where privacy is of higher concern than security.

They do not make sense for servers with high security needs.
I hope wayland will deliver a smoother experience than X and work better with hardware accelerated drivers etc.

Mac OS and Windows also have remote access solutions available which seem to be perfectly serviceable for people that need it.

It seems silly to architect the entire graphics server around network transparency when it's not a hugely used feature compared to compositing etc.
A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness
I don't know what GCHQ pays for programmers or mathematicians. I imagine that Cliff Cocks (invented public key crypto before RSA) didn't get the many millions of dollars that RSA did.

So; offer an environment where people want to work. Give them interesting work. Add a dollop of patriotism.
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The real question is if the OP's blog was hacked by terrible designers. What a hard-to-read site.
"Crappy IPOs" is the top point for me. This Act only further encourages unprofitable companies with no real plan-to-profitablity to dress up and hit the public with over-hyped IPO roadshows. It all becomes about hype vs. substance. We've seen it all before and it's rediculous that such activity has now been codified.
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because very few people have bitcoins. His entire point is that $5 via Paypal is low and easy, acquiring and managing bitcoins isn't.
I've been using the Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite2 for a few months now, and I can't imagine going back to anything else. Its small size and intelligent, minimalist layout just works for me.

It's well worth the $70 I paid for it.
I'm really interested in this topic, and unfortunately it seems to be, as you say, a lack of interest there. As far as I know, the last effort to go towards a standard in semantic markup is http://schema.org/ Apparently, the major search engines are supporting this standard by now (read http://googleblog.blogspot.com.ar/ ). According to what I read in your reply to keefe, I think this is what you may be looking for. Example for movie: http://schema.org/Movie Wish it helps, I'm not always fully satisfied with how this ends up classifying the reality, but that is where we are by now.
I don't care if you even have a degree. Your interview may not even involve schoolwork, unless you bring up a project.

We're hiring at our startup, Sococo. Check it out, now or when you graduate.
China Telecom does this routinely.
Who would then do what?

I'll start: given my credit card transaction log, thieves could show up at my apartment and steal my Amazon packages before one of my neighbors brings them inside.
My first hackathon; or, gender, status, code, and sitting at the table
What game from a couple of days ago?
The cost to Google of this effort is far greater than $0.
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What makes you think their approach is spray and pray?
Ever wondered what sites Justin Bieber checks out/uses?
Companies with Poor Security Policies
I was recently on the phone with my domain registrar to confirm the cancellation of a package. This is their cancellation process: you log into their website, provide your login credentials, select a package to cancel, and then are provided with a page that looks essentially like this:

> For security reasons, your termination must be confirmed by our service team.

> For this purpose, call our service team at [...] and please have your Customer ID and password ready.

Wait...what? The customer number I understand, but surely the latter part of that message was a mistake. I gave them a call, fully expecting the purpose of the call to drill me on why I wish to cancel the product. Fortunately, that was not the case (which I must give them a lot of credit for). Unfortunately, after asking for my customer id and asking with whom they were speaking, I was indeed asked for my account password! So after making clear my stance on this terrible security policy, I proceeded to utter my rather sizable random string of characters.

This left me with a sour taste in my mouth for a number of reasons, most notably being:

1. I must now change my password. Firstly, I was told by an automated system that "this call will be monitored". Secondly, how do I know that I can trust this individual? Thirdly, who knows who is listening to that call? Phone conversations are hardly a secure means of communication.

2. It makes me terribly uncomfortable when my password can be retrieved by any party, even if it is the company with which I do business. Even if the password is encrypted (for all I know, it may not be), what if an attacker were able to decrypt it, or trick the system into e-mailing them the password? As it turns out, when I used the forgotten password link, I was sent my password in a plain text e-mail! Many people share passwords with multiple sites, so this is a terribly dangerous practice. I do not care how well my password is encrypted. Hash it with a salt, then encrypt it.

I'm leaving the company name out of this (not that it's at all difficult to figure out who someone's registrar is), but who else has experience with companies with terrible security practices? Do you still do business with them? This is a very large company, so surely I'm not the only person who has complained to them about their security policies (I'm also addressing this issue in a separate e-mail to them). I take great care in protecting my personal information, so it upsets me when anyone I provide that information to does not do the same.
It is very easy to pay some dude 1 BTC. It is laughably easy to setup a bitcoin account at one of those wallet site. It can be very fast to acquire bitcoin if you're willing to pay the premium.

But nobody have bitcoin, yet.
Especially if it gets dead-code elimination like the closure compiler gives ClojureScript for the Clojure->JS target.
I'm curious about the YourPane login method. Is it open source?
I can't get the site to give me the free issue. Anyone else have success?
Why not take texture samples from the locational photos already provided. Even if that was the only human interactive stage where the "designer" literally only marks sections of images for the textures.

Ceiling heights can likely be extrapolated simply from photographs with the right programming. Find a photo with 5 people in it and approximate the building height from the peoples photographs.

I personally can approximate the height and width of a house simply by counting bricks and shingles, because I work in construction I need to know if my scaffolding poles or ladders will reach and you're lucky if you get a tape measure to extend past 7ft without it buckling. (a sheet of shingles is 2ft wide, so every 3 shingle tabs is 2 ft. A brick and mortar roughly make 4", so 3 courses of brick make roughly 1ft. vinyl siding is normally double 4.5", double 5" or double 6" per sheet in height, one sheet is 12' long. Concrete board is generally 3ft by 8" high. Aluminum is always 8" high, generally 12' or 12.5' wide; If I can do this without a pencil and paper inside 30 seconds, it shouldn't be difficult to make an algorithm to work this out.)

Extrapolating the interior of a building would likely be much harder, however pictures of these often come with scale references (IE people), but as with outside everything has to meet building codes and everything is made out of standardized parts. However, one great clue is handrails. First floor railings have to be a minimum of 36" high, second floor railings have to be a minimum of 42" high (standard is 42" by code for commercial spaces, regardless of height). Maximum 4" gap between vertical members, (generally made 4" on centre as a precaution), and no horizontal members between 4" in height and 35" in height as to make a railing climbable by a small child.

Turning a rendering of an entire mall level in a game into simply picking colour swatches would be huge. Yes a pro studio is going to invest more time in polish, but for the guy making an iPhone app and is never going to see a huge return on the time he invests. Then accepting a bit of 'cookie cutter' genericness in level design won't be a huge compromise if it's in a great game.

The national building codes of countries would give you all the information you need to extrapolate the size of rooms and buildings.
I tried what might be called polyphasic sleeping twice. When both of my kids were born. It sucked. Babies do it, and their parents are forced to join them for the first few months of life. It's a damned good thing we teach kids the normal way of sleeping, when it's night.
After having tried many keyboards in the past, now I only go for those that have the following features in order of priority:

1. mandatory: no built-in numpad, i.e. tenkeyless. This reduces the right hand mouse sweep and reduces strain on teres major, rotator cuff and right wrist.

2. mandatory: adjustable forward-back tilt, must be able to flatten to horizontal. Reduces wrist strain strain and makes it more comfortable to tuck elbows backwards and into your sides - the optimal position.

3. mandatory: wired and USB connectivity. Wireless/Bluetooth optional. Not a fan of worrying about input lag or driver support across varied hardware or OS.

4. optional: mechanical keys - tactical not clicky and equal to or lower than 45g actuation, i.e. Cherry MX Brown not the fancy clicky Blue (also has "bonus" of annoying coworkers), heavy Red, very heavy Black or quiet and heavy Clear. Topre switches are ok but hard to find and expensive. If normal rubber dome keys, then it better be a very good keyboard otherwise!

5. optional: full split with 40cm+ separation capability. I would rather have a Happy Hacking or normal tenkeyless keyboard than a full split keybard with less than 40cm+ separation.

Given all of the above, I use a Kinesis Freestyle Solo with Kinesis Low-Force Numeric Keypad.

Also, oddly enough some of the best keyboards are "gaming" keyboards due to how robust and well-spaced the keys are. But good luck finding one that is tenkeyless.
This comes up on HN about once a year. Here's my blog where I wrote about trying it: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/category/polyphasic/

tl;dr version:
- the first 5-7 days are just awful but after that you're not tired
- deviating from the schedule (say, staying awake 7 hours one time instead of 4) is devastating
- you do feel different and perceive time differently. Kind of like San Diego weather instead of Boston.

Interesting experience, worth a try, I'd do it again in a heartbeat if my home and work schedule accommodated it.
Most of the design elements that are different we changed between October and December or between December and now.

You can't copy code and tweak some stuff and call it your own.
The sailors that cross oceans single-handed use some variant of this. The reports I've read is that the first two days are quite hard to handle but once in the quite issolated routine it works for certain folks.
updated the job post accordingly, asking for 2 years.
That's quite a different claim from the rights based argument advanced previously.

When it comes to Google, this isn't civil disobedience.

It's simply taking advantage of the fact that the copyrights it is interested in ignoring are mostly held by many different people unlikely to have the resources to enforce them vigorously.

BTW, it's Ice Cream Sandwiches Google wants everyone to carry.
Ask HN: Would YC alumni be interested in a get-together with new entrepreneurs? 
Just to gauge interest (at the moment)...<p>Would any of you YC alumni or successful start up founders be interested in a meet up with future entrepreneurs? I was thinking a casual social event at a bar or something with the YC crowd would be great for everyone.
I met Dave when I was interviewed as part of his "Shadow Dave McClure" contest last summer (http://www.internmatch.com/dave-mcclure-job-shadow). Getting to sit down and talk to him for 15 minutes and see how 500Startups operates was ...enlightening.

Dave definitely sees the world a little differently. I sincerely hope this business model works out well for him. On the one hand, it is a "diversify and capture the broad market" approach, but he has also done well in creating a brand for himself and 500Startups, making it an "exclusive" club to join (remember, you can't apply!), which means he ideally only gets incredibly qualified leads from his "mentors."

If markets are fairly efficient, in the long run he shouldn't make any extra money over just investing in a broad market index. But if they aren't efficient (and there is no reason to believe in the Angel space they are), creating a huge diversified portfolio of incredibly well qualified leads that he can incubate and nurture is a great portfolio strategy.

My worry is only the exit strategy and how he can prevent himself from getting diluted in the Series A; being only a minority share-holder, there is nothing that stops him from finding great companies, seeding them, and ultimately not being able to turn as great a profit as he would like because he can't liquidate and gets diluted.
Yes, user-specific salt does raise the cost but given the usual length and complexity of passwords in-use IRL, raise is not massive enough for high security servers.

Besides, the point of my original comment was the problem of placing everything in the same basket which includes the code used to hash passwords and files. How would you protect them?
I created a privilege-less IAM user and that seemed to do the trick.
Open Street Map doesn't have it, but here's the link for comparison anyway

http://osm.org/go/TZHqgKAqa--
Alternatively check out marksdailyapple.com as well. The food is the same basically. The philosophy differs a little. I'm going to go primal within today & a week ;o Pretty excited about it :D
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I'm talking about the quality of the products and the management. The Store does great because they have good customer service-- I don't fault them there-- but it is still chicken wire and duck tape from an engineering viewpoint.

AWS has gotten a lot of hype, as has the kindle, but I don't think either of them are ahead of their competition. My point though, was internally.

Amazon is full of B and C players who think they are A players, and that goes all the way to the top. (There are some A players there too, of course, but they often leave within a year or two.)
I agree that before monkeypatching, a team should weigh their options. But for many projects, "fixing the socket libraries" could be a lot of work, or not an option at all.

In the example I gave, you'd have to rewrite whatever database drivers you're using, or at least hack them to work in a non-blocking fashion. That could have just as much development cost as monkeypatching.

zodiac is an attempt to address the problems that make monkeypatching such a risky, unpredictable option, by making patches smaller and therefore using more system code. Hopefully, for situations where monkeypatching is necessary, I can make it cleaner and more maintainable.
It's true that network transparency will be possible with Wayland, but it will be some sort of VNC-like pixel scraping approach, which has never worked as well as native X forwarding.

OTOH, the Sun Labs SLIM project (that became Sun Ray) found that pixel-scraping was comparable or faster than X11. http://labs.oracle.com/features/tenyears/volcd/papers/Nrthcu... (Of course NX is much better than vanilla X11, but there has also been research in screen compression since SLIM.)
Where is this or these phantom crowdsourcing websites? Kickstarter is a good business model.
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That's just adding another step. Every step in a transaction lowers the chance of success. Bitcoin is moot in this discussion, and moot in general.
Ahh, I can't find it. I just remember that it was looked like a normal HN story but you couldn't comment on it, and that it didn't ever actually mention the company name.
Seconded. I went from 200+ to 178 about 10 years ago using that book. It really helps you understand how to think of your body as a system, and weight loss as an optimization problem.
Under the CII (critical infrastructure information) Act, to prevent terrorists exploiting it for planning attacks: http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1193091627563.shtm
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Unless I'm doing my math hugely wrong, $50/hour is a little over $100k/year. That doesn't seem particularly low, at least not in my area.
This is awesome, but what gives me pause is the part where you have to write a foreign function interface for every single Carbon API call. Also, I would assume that Cocoa is completely unavailable when going to C. Is that correct?

I'm very happy to see the multi-platform vision of Clojure becoming closer to reality. I'm not in the "write once, run everywhere" camp. That goal is a bit ridiculous, but the choice of VM and the choice of language should be independent decisions. I like Erlang's VM a lot, but the language itself is not very nice. When writing iPhone code, I don't want to be forced to use Objective C.
Unfortunately that doesn't tell us a lot, unless you also do each of the other timings.
Why not name and shame them?

Jeff Atwood covered this topic with typical readability almost 5 years ago.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/youre-probably-stor...
There are pockets of asian communities, but spanish is ubiquitous.

But you may be right about me not being there. Latin-americans may be more willing to speak spanish around non-spanish speakers. The numbers just work out that way.