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Facebook Engineer, Explains Why It Matters There Aren't More Girl Geeks
the combination of a pertinent observation (that facebook's "800 million active users" userbase was perhaps less relevant than one might think, or why spam mailing lists with a link to a facebook poll), and the over-the-top comedic writing style used to point it out. i laughed pretty hard at it too.
What's more likely - that you go to a resume builder website when your mate recommends, or download an app? What would you recommend - a cool app, or a website?

Apps are physical and cool. CVs should be fun to do. That's the future. Assuming that the desktop is a primary device for people in 2012 is just wrong. Also, CVs don't need to contain huge amounts of text; better keep it simple.
I like it, I've used a few python frameworks, and I enjoy working with Web2py. It has quite a large community, though not as big as Django or rails. 3700+ members of the group on groups.google.com. Massimo (the guy who invented it, and teaches it) responds to a lot of the requests for support, and normally his answers are one-liners to solve whatever problem you are having (which 99% of the time are all documented features). I've been experimenting with it for a few weeks, and I'm finding myself able to answer most people's questions about it. The whole philosophy behind it is to have sane defaults, and default to being secure.

As far as freelancing is concerned, it will help to know Rails if you are planning on fixing rails apps or adding features, but if you are going to be building things from scratch, I'd say choose whatever framework you know best.

I like Web2py because it doesn't force me to make classes for my database items, database items are simply datasets. Also, I write my code once and it works on pretty much any database backend (including GAE) without changes.

People criticize it because it does things differently than every other framework, but I like that it does things differently - it makes coding a web-app pretty effortless.

So, if you are interested in Web2Py, use it. I think you'll like it.
Tangentially, has anyone seen the actual hard data produced by recaptcha? It's hard to say whether it's effective or not, without looking at actual numbers (i.e. ratio of correct results, average results per image etc etc).
wow... where do I begin?

I was the founding CTO and VP of engineering of one of the most successful "networking in your hotel room" startups.

You get many details about the hospitality space dead wrong.

First, in direct réponse to "GMs are responsible for contracting their own networking services"...

GMs are managed across several MBOs, including occupancy and REVPAR (revenue per available room).

There are 3 major players in the hotel space:

1) People who own hotels, 2) People who manage hotels, and
People who brand hotels. Two or even three of these may be a single party. From this you quickly learn that "Hilton" is a brand, and that, while Hilton owns some of the hotels with it's brand on top, it also owns hotels without a Hilton brand, and manages hotels on behalf of 'ownership groups' with a mixed set of brands.

At the end of the day, it is the owner, not the GM, who decides which vendor gets a particular contract. Sometimes the owner will defer to the management team (which may, remember, be a separate entity).

Yes, WiFi (with Internet access) is the single-most requested amenity. I come from the bad old days, before the dot.com bust, when hotels were full, and the GM would look at me and explain, "My hotel is full, you should pay me to install this, and give a split of the revenue to me."

Ad injection is bullshit, pure and simple. It's XSS by another name.
We've been surprised at the variety of professions coming in. There haven't been any real trends yet - we've had everything from CFOs to college students to marketers to folks in the legal field. We originally thought we'd see mostly careers that had an appreciation for design but where the job seeker wasn't necessarily a designer (like photographers or people in the music industry) as well as marketers. I guess that goes to show you don't always know your customer until you start selling
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Yes, we can live without indoor maps, but we're suffering through a lot of inefficiencies just because we don't know yet that there's a better option.

I want indoor maps because they can help reduce healthcare costs. It costs us all money when people get lost in hospitals. While environmental signage helps, it's often not sufficient. Visitors end up interrupting doctors and nurses to ask for directions. This directly costs the hospital money (leads to higher personnel costs), and leads to a poor customer experience (affects the recovery process for patients and families). It is surprising how many people get lost in hospitals: http://twitter.com/lostinabuilding

In addition to navigation, there are uses for facilities management, inventory management, real estate sales, and analytics on how people use buildings. I'm a big fan of using data to improve human efficiency, and these can help save time/energy/money.

For retail environments, indoor maps present targeted advertising opportunities, which can lead to more efficient advertising spending for brands and retailers, and time savings for consumers. This is part of why Google is so interested in indoor maps.
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Henryl is incorrect in places (places that matter).

Marriott owns hotels, but they don't own every hotel with a Marriott brand on top.

Hotel "brands" can NOT dictate providers AT ALL. To do so runs afoul of anti-trust law. They CAN issue a "brand standard" that you have to have WiFi, and it has to be at least "this good" (insert specification).

Now, where the hotels are OWNED (by any party) the OWNER can dictate whatever the hell she wants.

And Marriott most certainly does own a large percentage of the hotels that sport their brand.
Did you mean something like core.sync.barrier?
I read that post on Raganwald's blog the other day. I think there's a difference in having a "professional" resume format in standard Word document black and white and having a resume that's been designed by an artist. My guess is that in that story, Ernestine would at least give a Loft Resume a good look - sometimes that little bit is enough - you've stood out and gotten noticed. That can be half the battle if an employer is looking through hundreds of resumes.
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That's something I remember about having an infant, how the experience of waking up was literally painful. Sometimes, I would stay up later than was wise, just because I was dreading the experience of dawn. Obviously, that's not a smart strategy.
Indoor mapping will be incredibly useful for those who are disabled. Knowing where to find ramps and elevators is great for mobility and for safety, but I think that for a blind person the possibilities are even greater. Being able to navigate a building independently using an application on one's phone, for instance. Maybe Google's indoor maps won't be the end-all solution, but will hopefully get institutions thinking about the possibilities.
Interestingy filtering results like that is the complete opposite of what the recent "I don't hire unlucky people." post suggested (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804134).

This is also the stuff that gives job seekers nightmares. The whole process is already a black box and knowing that some (or all?) employers penalize resumes that are trying too hard just adds more noise to the many conflicting pieces of information candidates have to consider.
Think it's called "Bayesian truth serum" usually: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5695/462.abstract
transparent proxy?

no, they just need to intercept all the port 80 traffic.
That's correct. The researcher doesn't know the outcome of any particular coin toss but knows the outcome, in expectation, for a large number of coin tosses.
Check out nowjs[1]. It's not quite what you want, but I think it's in the same spirit. I haven't used it personally, but I've heard only good things about it.

[1]: http://nowjs.com/

I'm not sure that it lets you share code between sever and client entirely seamlessly (it might--I honestly don't know), but it has another advantage: it lets you share objects between different clients seamlessly.
Every second or third serious Lisp hacker will roll his
own implementation of lazy evaluation, functional purity, arrows,
pattern matching, type inferencing, and the rest.

Seems to describe clojure pretty well, tho I don't know about arrows, i haven't gotten that far into categ theory vs. real world implementations
funny, back in 1999 I predicted that "for pay" hotel wifi would be the new equivalent of pay toilets.
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I saw nothing suspicious. It has a bunch of sample screencaps, and a YouTube video.

Here's a direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZlCWLbwC-0
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The resumes are very attractive. However, in my experience looking at resumes I put 0-1% of the weight on attractiveness. Maybe it's more useful for other fields, however.
in-room movie providers are also suffering.

Why watch expensive in-room pr0n from Lodgenet (and have to explain the charge on your bill) when a browser will serve up similar at a lower cost?
I'm not surprised you aren't seeing design types. A prebuilt template for that kind of position would be and instant red flag. Not to mention a merely "pretty" resume template would look bland amongst bespoke, polished portfolios and resumes.
Thanks for the further explanation. I love it when HN throws up gems like this.
This is a short review of 4 touchscreen PCs (Samsung Series 7 Slate, Lenovo X220 Tablet Convertible, Sony Vaio L Series all-in-one, HP Touchsmart 610) running Windows 8. The included photos are merely art and have no coordination with the article.
If you want to take a look at some software that uses Web2Py, here's a good search:
http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:web2py
Probably the website since it's more useful for the task. Plus apps aren't cool or physical (unless you mean the touching your phone part). I could see the word-of-mouth factor being higher for an app, but the app would have to work very well for the task and I don't think that's something that would be easy to achieve with the form factor and the fact that most devices deny you a physical keyboard. So maybe something that only requires light editing and pulls most of the data from outside sources?
Perhaps we have a different interpretation. I meant to say I find his use-cases
rather obscure because e.g. X11-forwarding a Firefox is not exactly my idea of a sane answer to the question "how do I forward audio to remote speakers?".

Bringing these examples up as scenarios that must be considered in the design of the future linux display system seems... well, contrived to me.
To be fair, beds are what the hotel sells. ("Heads on beds" in hotel parlance.)
Of course they are. Isn't there a revolving door between the RIAA/MPAA and the DOJ?
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I was curious about this. As a student who will be applying for an engineering job one day, I'm not sure what the rules are when it comes to resumes, but I had a feeling that flashy was not the way to go.

That said, some of these look really good. My favorites are the Stars and the Shearling Point options, both of which are just subtle enough for my tastes. Best of luck to Mr. Caldwell in his future endeavors.
I'd be interested in a teaser or trailer when you guys manage to get one out, any chance you've got some kind of press release feed or mailing list?
I think as intelligent men (I'm assuming most people on this forum are intelligent men) we struggle with the issue of participating in society and thus being exposed some opportunity to meet women, and avoiding society and pursuing our academic interests.

I know on a deep level, Facebook is a part of this dilemma in my experience. I would personally rather avoid it, but I know it connects me to society and society connects me to women... so I tolerate it.
there was a website called yousendit when i was in high school that does exact this. But it was shut down like many others due to copyright infrig etc.
My social networking service:
* multiple sets of friends(limited) with whom i frequently interact.
* which is peer to peer.
* can use from mobile.
* broadcasting messages,status,pictures and songs.

Facebook is not.
Appreciate the link. I'm going to read up. I had an inclination this would be the case but definitely interesting to see it in actual research.
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Sure our hypervisor management is OnApp. We have our own hardware in a datacenter here in San Francisco. Are you here in the valley?
You should mention his on your homepage. I assumed that the $99 got me a fill-in-the-blank Word template. Having a designer do the heavy lifting and polish sounds much more appealing. You could also easily upsell to editing and review too.
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I think schools and libraries are exempted, but individuals are not. Individuals can jailbreak their iphones, though...
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I don't have any serious concerns about privacy because of Facebook, but I do want to point out an aspect where Facebook's privacy controls don't apply.

If someone takes a photo of you, they can upload it to Facebook. If they tag you, you can remove the tag. The photo will be there regardless of whether you accept/remove any tagging, and it will be outside the jurisdiction of your privacy controls. The uploader controls the privacy level of a photo, regardless of who the subject of the photo is.
To resummarize my position above:

A 'violation of freedom' requires the use of force by an authority. A parent forcing a child to go somewhere in spite of their preferences is a 'violation of freedom'. A government forcing a citizen to go somewhere in spite of their preferences is a 'violation of freedom'. Neither the first case nor the second case are necessarily the same proportionality or equally 'heinous'. 'heinous violations of freedom' implies massive and egregious use of force by authority. The institutionalized system of heinous violations of freedom is known as Authoritarianism.

A company voluntarily offering a free service that users have the option of using if it fulfills their preferences has not committed a 'violation of freedom'. It is not capable of committing a 'violation of freedom' unless it first asserts the right to use force and becomes an authority. Accusing it of violations of freedom that are heinous is to accuse it of Authoritarianism.

Have I "owned up" to my position by repeating it with sufficient clarity? Could you be kind enough to point out the logical fallacies in my position, which I have offered for public critique solely so that others may help me clarify it, before accusing me of trolling?

I do not believe this matter has been previously settled by Sartre without the use of metaphysics, I generally side with Wittgenstein that clarity of definition is needed to resolve philosophical conflict.
Scoble was mistaken - there are no lenses in the photos, take a look at the hi-res version at http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/4/6/2929927/google-project-g...

It does seem like that lens/prism/screen is doing something clever though, as it appears to be too close to the eye to focus on - but who knows?
At Uber, we got a resume.txt from an engineering candidate once and thought it was pretty awesome. It's the only resume that still sticks in my mind.
So you want to try switching to Ubuntu?
I see your technical point of view, but the average user market shows something else. People couldn't imagine doing stuff they do on a phone before iPhone. Now they do all sorts of mass content creation and they prefer it.

UI is just a matter of how much energy you put into it. It's not easy, but can be done. See iMovie, mobile bitmap editors, Garage Band... Difficult and unbelievable 5 years ago, but clearly doable.

If not phones, then at least tablets.

I do admit that I am a post-pc era freak though.
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My thoughts about Project Glass.
To understand user scenarios, I _have_ to.
very well stated. it's the facebook stories that make headlines and paint a picture that is not even close to a fair representation of reality
i think the difference here is between the two different experiments (one with three rolls of the dice and one with a single roll) and not a difference between the groups. You could choose to use the exact same group of participants for both experiments.
I hadn't seen OnApp before - I'll check it out. Glad to see you went with your own hardware rather than locking your architecture in to AWS - I hope that'll be a big advantage for you long term.

DM me on twitter if you're interested in meeting up sometime to talk platforms! @justinsantab
Congrats on the launch. I remember you telling me about this over pizza a few months ago (november? january? can't remember!) Great job on execution!
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GPL 3 is more of a parasite than even facebook imo.
You're right about apps being popular and continually growing in importance.

However, you're talking about a task (creating/updating a CV) that takes a lot of manual work and editing. It could certainly be automated to a large extent by grabbing existing information from LinkedIn or Facebook or wherever. But when you get down to the details, there's a lot to write. That will never be fun to do in an app.

I can't imagine people caring how "fun" a CV app/website is so long as it helps them get the resume updated and get a new job.
You're disgusted? Really? I'm a little stunned that an organization is actually being criticized for encouraging diversity in an area where it's badly, badly needed. I think that if this encourages more women to become involved with technology it would be a fantastic thing. God knows, we need it. And yes, if they gave scholarships to poor black kids or to native kids, I'd say that was a good thing too, even if it "discriminated" against rich white guys.
Given that your eyes move around Google would need some very advanced eye-tracking to pull this off... seems unlikely.
I wonder if these subreddit as a business ventures have any legs. They've got a market verification, but are they viable?
- I can really see this type of service blowing up, once you find the right product/market/fit.

- The slider above-the-fold on the 'shop' tab distracts me from the rest of the page. It wasn't intuitive to me that I could scroll down to begin shopping.

- A simple filter would be a great addition to the 'shop' page. It'd be nice to filter by type (e.g business, creative, etc.), price or design (rustic, elegant)

- I wonder if you would see more sales if you tried a/b testing your pricing model a bit. Is there a reason why you charge the extra $5.00 for edits? If the shopper pays $99 to own the theme, shouldn't he be entitled to edit it as much as he pleases?

- You're looking for resume writers. Have you connected with Hagan Blount? I believe he designs Infographic resumes. (http://haganblount.com/resume). Some of your designs require users to highlight a quote, etc., and I wonder if they could use help writing out these areas.
Thanks Michael. I remember that conversation and getting your feedback. Great to hear from you!
Ernestine works in Ontario. Or she would, if she were real.
Here's another source of data.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/05/149997097/what-ame...

This shows that people spend more on each of transportation, housing, and food than they do on health care.
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If camping is a metaphor for social interaction, then wouldn't picking up the phone, or writing a letter, or sending an email, or a text, or driving over to your friends' houses and saying, "Hey, let's go to a coffee shop" be the real camping you're looking for?

You're setting up a zero sum analogy, assuming that everyone is so busy on Facebook that they no longer interact or share photos/jokes/memes in other ways. Not sure that's really the case.
It's invite only, so if you're a musician and want it, friend me on fb (http://www.facebook.com/ronhornbaker) and I'll hook you up. It's pretty sweet.
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Facebook isn't a free service based on GNU software. I don't even see why there is any discussion at all about this. I like Stallman despite his quirks. And I respect his views. But he won't influence my decision to use Facebook or other non-GNU software. My approach, which I wish Stallman would support but he never will, is to use whatever is free that is a good service, even if it isn't truly GNU free and open-source. That is because I'm not only cheap, but I respect that often people that do good work are inspired by money. One day, after the end of the human world, the chosen few will be surrounded with those that want to do what is best for each other, not themselves. And that is the day Richard looks forward to, and he is an activist to that effect, and I think that is wonderful. However, I think he thinks he can make this happen on his own by denying capitalism. That is the wrong tact. Free can be embraced by ignoring money altogether instead of fighting it.
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Just because it's wrong one way doesn't make it wrong the other way. It's wrong for Etsy to give male programmers money because women are already underrepresented and, in many ways, disadvantaged in a male dominated hacker culture. It would also not be wrong to give poor black kids a chance (even though it would be wrong to "discriminate" against white kids).
Got a video of the glove in action? It's hard to understand how it works (though I can guess).
Thanks for the advice.

- Any suggestions on how to make it intuitive to scroll down?

- We've thought about filtering but we've honestly seen no trends in which professions pick which designs - it's been all over the board.

- The shopper doesn't own the theme. Due to the copyright agreements that we have with the designers who created the resumes and the font foundries who created the typefaces, we aren't able to release the source files to be edited. Also, most folks don't have or can't use inDesign, which is what we use to typeset the resumes. We've tried to keep the price of edits low at $5 as a service to our customers because in early testing, we came across this as an objection. People need to revise their resumes or have different versions. We wanted to reduce friction there. We obviously don't make money on this but we just think it makes good business sense and is good customer service.

- We don't want to get into writing resumes. Instead, we'd rather partner with resume writers. They have a captive audience that's shown they're willing to pay for resume services. We'd rather get referrals from them than compete with them.
There are a few "weird" kids who cannot understand how people could possibly like Facebook, so they make it a personal crusade to make it known all the time.

"I don't have a Facebook account" is the new "I don't even own a TV".
Everyone in my research group works remotely on computers that are either across campus or across the country. There are some simple visualization programs that work great over X11 and allow for us to view our data easier than having to copy files locally to run a visualization program.
Note that the Consad study you cite was from the recent Bush administration which was notorious for abusing science for political ends. Here's rebuttal of some of their findings http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2010/11/26/how-the-consad-repor...