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CISPA (aka SOPA reincarnated)now in congress
"Cornstarch in water" was my first thought when reading this title, thanks to 7th grade science class.
The blood, sweat, and tears of living the startup life.
Can you teach code in a day to those who don't know their CSS from their elbow?
Unlikely to be true A/B testing. More likely that it would be a series of focus groups where they basically get the opinions of a group of people on them. This doesn't measure the actual impact of sales from the title so I'm not sure it's true A/B testing.
Do your homework on minimum income levels and pay yourself just enough to qualify for federal & state benefits. That's childcare if needed, food stamps, health insurance, as well as possibly cooling improvements to your residence...it will depend on where you live however I believe that's a good overlay.

...Yes, it's down and dirty money management but you do what you must.
I'm not sure what you mean by cramped, but I think that the interpolation style is, on the contrary, much easier to read when you have multiple fields:

puts "#{num} #{vessels} of #{liquid} on the #{where}, you #{verb1} one #{adverb1}, #{verb2} it #{adverb2}, #{num - 1} #{vessels} of #{liquid} on the #{where}"
puts "%d %s of %s on the %s, you %s one %s, %s it %s, %i %s of %s on the %s", [ num, vessels, liquid, where, verb1, adverb1, verb2, adverb2, num - 1 ]

It's an extreme example, but you just read the first, while you have to think about the second.
It's much cheaper to manufacture copies of software than it is to manufacture copies of oreos. It might make more sense comparing the individual who painstakingly crafts each line of code to the individual who painstakingly crafts each line of the recipe, the fabrication process, the machines that cook the oreos, and so on.
cannot move anything in chrome. said loading 100%. nothing changes.
JOBS Act: Things to look forward to (and to dread)
Good puzzle, as opposed to a bad one, is an excellent attention getter for good programmers. They can judge you and your intellect by your puzzle and be attracted to work with you. Ie. your input makes the recruitment a two-way street.
You could make the client run other player's CPUs, perhaps ones from accounts on a different server. If it's not someone you know or are playing with, then there's less incentive to cheat. You could even pass the same work to multiple clients and flag those that are tampering with the results.

Not sure how that would affect the lag, though.
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I've been exclusively using 64 bit computers and operating systems, both Windows and Linux, for about 7 years now, never had the reported driver problems, well, never had any issue, really.

For me at least, 32 bit is only important for ARM. On the other hand the issue is very much blown out of proportion, most people haven't seen it, even if they run 32 bit servers. Most usual servers written in Go, like web servers, use very little memory. I process 4k requests per second using 7MB of resident memory. There are many memory intensive applications, but you usually don't run those on 32 bit.
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They were trying to hire me right before the news hit. They have a lot of nerve. I am dumbfounded. Good thing retaliatory managers have left me without references and I would bomb out of the process for that reason, rather than for a lack of technical ability.

In other news, I have made a string of bad decisions as far as who to work "for." I should do something about that. Perhaps I should let someone (more capable) decide what I do next.

Sometimes its good to have no choice but to follow your dream, all else and all other's (face saving, arrogant) bullshit aside.
That sure is an impressive-looking device. The copper wires go very well with the green glow.

It is interesting to think about how devices that exist in very few instances also have very specific usages. Devices that are mass-produced tend to cater to a lot of different usages. When you come to the devices manufactured in hundreds of millions of units, they generally can be useful in a wide range of situations.

According to the image description, this device is "used to study the nitrogen vacancies in diamonds." I can't imagine it being mass-produced, since there are not a lot of different situations where this would come handy.

It doesn't even seem to have a name, or it would have been stated. A device not having a name is a sure sign that it only exist in a few instances. As soon as it is mass-produced, it will be named.

I'm thinking of you, Geiger-Müller-meter. Which can be handy in a lot of different situations, like in a science lab or if you are ever volunteering to help cleaning up after japanese natural disasters. Which is probably why it is mass-produced. Still, if it were manufactured in the hundreds of millions, it would probably get multi-functional AND have a name that is easier to pronounce and spell.

My 2c.
Intercept HTTP requests that the target site tries to redirect to HTTPS. Then proxy the HTTPS connection. If the user doesn't notice that the lock icon is missing from the URL bar, then they're being effectively MITM'd (and anyone on the WiFi can see all their traffic).

e.g.:

1. Alice enters "paypal.com" into her browser.
2. Alice's browser issues a request to http://paypal.com/
3. Mallory intercepts this request, and replays it.
4. http://paypal.com redirects to https://www.paypal.com/
5. Mallory's proxy fetches the Paypal content and returns it to Alice
6. Alice sees "http://www.paypal.com/... in her URL bar without the green lock, but doesn't notice.
7. Alice enters her password.
8. Mallory steals all her money.

A response to this attack is the "HTTP Strict Transport Security" extension implemented by modern browsers, which, for sites that enable it, prevents the browser from ever even attempting a non-encrypted connection to the site, and also prohibits bypassing the SSL certificate warning page if an unknown/invalid certificate is presented by a MITM attacker.
As a relatively "old" guy (Its hard to write that as I don't feel old at 35) doing his first startup, I appreciate reading these articles. Although, the OP is on his 3rd startup and appears to have had some successes (especially if he had stock options from working at Apple).

I'd be curious to hear from people who left corporate world and went into the startup world later in life and how the adjustment was.

I touched on this from my perspective in a recent blog post:
http://dannydo.es/a-startup-despite-these-7-reasons/
Functional Programming requires right brain thinking?
Our left brain solves problem by sequencing things/step one after another and is the more active part of our brain where as our right brain solves problem by finding relationships/patterns between various facts that our brain knows and then trying different permutation/combination of these facts by composing these facts to come up with solution and hence takes much more time to come up with solutions, which is more like we solve problems in FP way, by composing primitives and building up new stuff and so on. Also the fact that FP requires more thinking and less code seems to indicate that FP required right brain thinking. Another fact is that it is not easy to learn and do FP properly and takes lots of effort because our thinking is mostly dominated by left brain and learning FP require you to activate and use your right brain.

What do you guys think?
Don't forget the use of Lisp REPL, to actually solve it. I think it's pretty cool.

Also the part in which they launched a probe with it's software still incomplete, and they uploaded it mid-flight.

And in the end(54:50), he lays out some interesting points, about how NASA, sometimes disappoint us.
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He probably does live in the middle of nowhere. I live near DC now (and lived in Germany for 3 years) and run into the same types of places you mention - ethnic stores and restaurants of all persuasions. However, I grew up in Arkansas and you'd be surprised how homogenous it was. In some of the bigger towns (I'm talking >10k) you might start to find ethnic restaurants, for example, but I rarely saw anything else you could call ethnic.

So while your experience is common for the larger cities and urbanized areas of the US, I would wager for vast swathes of the rural areas of the country the experience is more like my time in Arkansas.
The competition has less than 5000 installs. It's super hard to make money on Android with paid apps.
The HUGE peer-reviewed professional literature on industrial and organizational psychology has many articles devoted to business hiring practices. There are many kinds of hiring screens, such as resume reviews for job experience, telephone interviews, in-person interviews, checks for academic credentials, and so on. There is much published study research on how job applicants perform after they are hired in a wide variety of occupations.

The overall summary of the industrial psychology research in reliable secondary sources is that two kinds of job screening procedures work reasonably well (but still below the .50 level, standing alone). One is a work-sample test, where the applicant does an actual task or group of tasks like what the applicant will do on the job if hired. Another is a general cognitive ability test (an IQ-like test, such as the Wonderlic personnel screening test). Each of these kinds of tests has about the same validity in screening applicants for jobs. Neither is perfect (both operate at about .4x level in validation studies), but both are better than anything else that has been tested in rigorous research, across a wide variety of occupations. So if you are hiring for your company, it's a good idea to think about how to build a work-sample test into all of your hiring processes.

For legal reasons in the United States (the same consideration does not apply in other countries), it is difficult to give job applicants a straight-up IQ test (as was commonplace in my parents' generation) as a routine part of a hiring process. The Griggs v. Duke Power, 401 U.S. 424 (1971) case in the United States Supreme Court

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196...

held that cognitive ability tests used in hiring that could have a "disparate impact" on applicants of some protected classes must "bear a demonstrable relationship to successful performance of the jobs for which it was used." In other words, a company that wants to use a test like the Wonderlic, or like the SAT, or like the current WAIS or Stanford-Binet IQ tests, in a hiring process had best conduct a specific validation study of the test related to performance on the job in question. Some companies do the validation study, and use IQ-like tests in hiring. Other companies use IQ-like tests in hiring and hope that no one sues (which is not what I would advise any company). Companies outside the United States are regulated by different laws.
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This looks like a bad design. It means either (a) the semantics of 'ret' inside a lambda function can change depending on the call site (whether it's used inside a for loop or not); (b) that a lambda function passed in from elsewhere can cause your function to return early; or (c) that lambda functions have different syntax rules depending on where they're being defined. All of which seem equally bad!

I hope there's something I've missed. I've been quite impressed by the rest of the language so far & it would be a shame if they got this wrong.
No mention of Boston Dynamics in the article?
Ask HN: Service exists, but not in my location
So, I had an idea for a start-up today, and in doing some research there's nothing that already exists in my geographic location (the UK) however there is a similar service based in the US.

Looking through the US site, they state they're only for US businesses - would it be better to talk to the US site and see if they'd be interested in expanding to the market I'm in, or execute the idea myself? Personally, I'd rather execute the idea in my own way, and as far as I can tell the idea doesn't involve anything patentable (and no, I wouldn't be looking to expand into the US market)
Wasn't the "startups are for/mostly created by young people" myth already debunked?
"I think companies need to do a better job of listing what technologies they use without making it sound like it's required to have mastered all of them."

A good way to do this is a humans.txt, whose purpose is not just to credit the developers but also the technologies in use. It's funny that a lot of companies are crazy about hiring right now, but haven't taken 30 minutes to add this simple file to their web server.
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Thanks, camiller :-) This just got interesting for me to dig deeper.

Probably all stories about these negative bills should carry photos and profiles of who's who in the league. If it's about transparency enforcement then the sword should sweep in both the directions.

That's fair to ask, I believe, especially from chairs that are funded from taxpayers money.
Would this still happen if the US didn't invade Japan?
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Make sure you also set the Strict-Transport-Security header to prevent attacks against the HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect.
Discovering drag and drop with JWt and JRuby
Does anyone else hate how every job advert says they need

- excellent communication skills blablabla
- 'team player'
- able to work in a fast-paced environment
- bunch of other generic 'skills'

Of course those things are important to varying degrees in different jobs, but having on the ad is pointless since every other ad asks for the exact same thing. I find it off-putting straight away because it suggests the company is happy to stick to idiotic norms.
Ok so the cynic in me is sitting here thinking that in order for something like this to catch on, there needs to be some celebrity or event that turns this into something "cool". It's just too techie and geeky for mainstream until something comes along to make it socially acceptable.

If I were Google I'd try like hell to partner with a company that already knows how to make glasses cool and trendy. There's one company in particular that has done really well making those 50's style hipster glasses popular--their name escapes me, as I am not a hipster--who might be a good pick.

Basically Google sucks at marketing anything, but if they can find a partner with that skill set they may have more luck.
Firefox has a name for it, it's called the AwesomeBar!
"Hollywood vs. Big Internet" is a false and simplistic dichotomy, and perpetuation of it does us no favors. The reality of the situation is far more complex.

Some of the primary sponsors of SOPA were big ISPs, like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc. These companies -- especially Comcast, which owns NBC-Universal -- have vested interests in maintaining and growing their control over the internet.

The movie industry represents a significant, but non-majority piece of the puzzle here. I'm not going so far as to call it a red herring, but I would say that a laserlike focus on the MPAA, and the MPAA alone, is dangerously incomplete.

Case in point: you rally to the side of Comcast, not realizing that it's a SOPA/PIPA supporter. Similarly, I've read quite a few blog posts calling on movie buyers to switch their time and dollars to the video game industry (whose lobby, the ESA, is also a SOPA/PIPA supporter, and is standing united with the RIAA and MPAA).

It's time to draw a more holistic and accurate picture of the battle lines here. There's blood on plenty more hands than we're giving credit for. And continued ignorance of the bigger picture would have us withdrawing support from one SOPA-supporting industry, simply in favor of another.
Should I learn Python, Perl or Ruby?
People say don't use Ruby because of the small community outside of the web and others say don't use Perl because it's "old." I don't really like the syntax or Python that much(I know I know). Which would be the best choice for simple scripts, and to eventually move on to bigger projects.
How to send Video Message in Facebook?
Do you want a critique of that? I'm mainly interested because I'd be interested in a critique of my critique... We use Fizzbuzz as our lowest bar question and I'm curious to know what people consider significant points and what are not.
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I'll add to that by saying being alone for long stretches of time is fertile ground for negativity. The mind craves narratives and drama, especially when grinding away on what can seem like monotonous work.

My advice: cut yourself some slack Andrew. Understand that your mind is just creating stories (again) and dismiss them. Sometimes I will even smile at how infantile my thoughts can be.

But yes, I get cabin fever bigtime (I work alone a lot) and sometimes I have to get out, even if there are a thousand excuses not to.

Take care.
For those working at a startup, how did you get your job? What do you do?
No, there isn't. From Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/a/4760170/):

"No. Why stop the user from copy-pasting their own password?

Whenever you're looking at a security protection like this, it's important to ask yourself: Exactly what kind of attacks are am I trying to protect against? In this case, even if you prevent copy-paste, the user can just retype it if they really want to, after all. And if you're worried about Evil Spyware, that stuff can just install a browser extension and look at the password in the DOM directly, or install a keylogger and capture it as it's being typed.

Indeed, this can even reduce security. Consider if the user's using a password management program that can either put the password into the clipboard, or display it for retyping. If you prevent paste, that means the user must display the password on screen for any shoulder surfers to see."
Very impresively done site, regardless of content. (Atheist here) They implement the parallax effect a lot better than I've seen others try to do.
The first one looks like some kind of sensor/processing issue given how good the bands look on it. The second one...... I've got to agree with my sibling poster, wait wtf?
Ruby on Rails---------(then Python,-------- then Perl)

Ruby is easier to pick up with a much more active community. It really depends what you want to build:

Python- If you need to build a site quickly that is mostly information based such as a blog or some kind of editorial site. I'd choose python with django. The automatic admin section is great for this type of task.

Ruby- If you need to build something with a lot of popular features (twitter, mash ups, simple shopping carts, etc..) and don't have time to really learn every little detail. Ruby using Rails might be a good solution as there are thousands of demo and live applications out there to borrow from. Should reduce your development time.

I throw out an line of demarkation....For example comparing the ways that Python and Ruby address Meta-programming, I think, will illuminate which for you is more interesting (which fits your brain better)

I use Ruby on Rails the most.

In the end...learn them all.
"we hadn’t really planned for so many good applicants so we were very slow to respond to everyone"

So they weeded out the really bad applicants and as a result were left with so many good applicants that they're now in the same situation as the original article.

The key takeaway for me is not how people filter their applicants on real criteria, it's what they do when they have a large amount of seemingly equally skilled applicants. The original article demonstrated the 'unlucky' solution, I'm not sure what this article demonstrates since they still got too many applicants and they're spending time responding to all of them.
I'd go into management before I'd work in Java or C++ full-time.

I suspect that statement is more absolute than you intend it to be. Would you not work on a new language if the compiler for that language generated C++, which meant that the language's runtime was implemented in C++? Which, of course, implies that you will have to write a decent amount of C++ code.

If you would work on such a project, then I suspect you mean "If the problem and solution itself are not novel, then I have no interest in using Java and C++."
Your first comment should say "until its equal to h" not z
The one thing that kills me is having a service that invites you to sign up with Twitter of Facebook, but then afterwards also requires you to fill out a huge form with all of your other info. The whole point of signing up with Twitter of Facebook is that it's supposed to be quick and simple. Forms like that defeat the purpose.
This is interesting - do you have a good academic reference for that summarizes this literature? Maybe like a handbook chapter?
So, we should hire people who are so good they have spelling mistakes in their holiest-of-holy document, don't fit in with your core company culture (ninja or not), and hold back on research because it might bias your delicate sensibilities.

This is garbage.

Really. I can't imagine a quicker way to fill a room with B-players.
You're talking about: http://www.ray-ban.com/

:)
> "I don't see exactly how the masses are going to enbrace this tech"

PR and Eye Candy would be my guess? Steve really didn't have either of those going for him. Never underestimate the power of good marketing. And never underestimate what the "unwashed masses" will be willing to buy.
I have also always been curious about this. Look forward to all the answers.
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For what it is worth, you can also read the text of the bill there. Having done so (it is only 11 pages), I'm not convinced this is a "negative" bill.
Well, that just goes to show how lazy I am. Its funny. I read the article, honest, and I with out reading it again, I don't remember that at all. Some thing is wrong...

In fairness to me, I was more thinking that pathetic physicality of it, which I think is kinda different. But, I suppose I'm too lazy to argue it. So, I take the gentle slap :)
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Yes, this is a bit annoying. First he relates a not entirely interesting story about his HR problem, then says he solved it by including an interesting puzzle. OK, cool story bro, NOW WHERE'S MY PUZZLE?!?!? I'm not looking for a job, or looking to hire, but like most Hacker News readers I like puzzles. Now I'm angry and have to find a puzzle somewhere else.
I'd be interested in hearing about what stack-specific measures website owners should take (outside of just pass phrases or using bcrypt) to secure their systems.

I run several sites, and I'm not a security expert. It'd be great to have some sort of checklist of things I should and shouldn't do.
> Sure, a well designed form is better than a badly designed form. Whats even better? No form at all

When it comes to /true/ UX, I think this is pretty much it. Forms aren't necessary in a hell of a lot of times and often forms are reduced to reduce friction (with the goal seemingly to increase conversions) then ask for all true information later; I don't see the point.

As for the article, as you mentioned these are UX focused improvements. Just because forms have been designed with these improvements in mind, it doesn't mean these are actual factors the user is considering. I'm not saying this isn't true, but articles like these bother me a bit because they inferences and not fact as implied.
The author's point, however, is wider than what you discussed. Filtering is one thing, which it sounds like the literature you mentioned covers. But filtering makes the assumption that the candidates have already decided to apply. The author of this piece found that he got significantly more applications when he added a test. So it's not just filtering, but also advertising.
And perhaps tedious.
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