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So with all the how to hire threads lately, may I make a suggestion:

Focus on how good your company is on running an engineering department. Especially if you're a startup.

Do you have a VP of engineering who knows what the hell they're doing? Do you insulate the devs from sales people making ridiculous promises? Is your code base in good shape so someone can come in and make a difference without having to learn the complete spaghetti stack? Do you have a well designed deployment procedure that has dev, test, and production environments?

How do you approach scheduling? I'd say this is the number one issue that leads to bad experiences for developers, so tell us up front that you have this under control. Do I ever have to hear a business guy say "I don't see why that would take more than a few minutes..."

In other words, prove that every problem isn't solved with "developers work more hours."

Say something that at least implies you know that these issues exist. They are much more important than ping pong tables and calling each other ninjas. I bet you'll find plenty of pro developers who are sick of their current employer if you do.

Imagine if developers actually learned something about running a software company just from your job ad itself. That would be amazing. I would point to JoelOnSoftware as proof it would work.
Cool thanks.
Quick fix... "stalking up" -> "stocking up".
What did you find weird about array manipulation in D?
Julian looks athletic in the final pictures, like a distance runner or triathlete. As a distance runner I have a similar body type too.

At the gym you'll see a wide array of body types. Lean and mean, all the way up to muscular and bulky, and all things in-between. Body builders are HUGE compared to me and can lift far more than I can, but I can absolutely "destroy" them on a treadmill. You tend to discover the thing you like doing, specialize in it, and dominate it. What you choose to do partially dictates what you'll end up looking like.
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What Does It Take To Work At A Startup?
Hi guys I just launched this application recently and I am eager to get feedback from HN. Any advice/comments will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659735
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The US is cloning fine British startups and its coming right from the top
Larger projects: for each, does the code available or the language features make it a substantially smaller project than it would be otherwise? Also, what gives the lowest difficulty to maintain?
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Golang or Go programming works fine. If searching for Google Go produces meaningful results, by all means, use it. I was merely complaining about referring to the project as such.

There's also this: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search
Hmmm .. in imperative you start from one step and keep on thinking of next step and so on until you reach solution. This is more like left brain. In FP you break down the whole problem into parts but at the same time you also look at the overall problem and the you think about various composition to solve specific parts and how this evolve in complete solution, which for me seems like more of a right brain thing to come up with correct composable parts and how to glue them together to find the solution
Retail stores are optimized to make you spend the most on each visit. That's why necessities are in the back and far apart from each other.

A floor plan goes against the self interest of the store.
But the vast majority of us simply don’t work as well if we drive ourselves too hard.

And the vast majority of startups fail.

I agree with the premise that you can never be too old. Even if you have a family and a mortgage, you're really just dealing with numbers.

If you're doing a startup and you're 20 years old and you need $1000/mo to live, then some amount of time every week is going to be devoted to making $250. Find a job that pays you $10/hr and work 25 hours a week, and work on your startup 40 hours a week. A 65 hour week in pursuit of your passion is a good place to be in life.

Similarly, a 30 year old doing consulting that has a family and a mortgage (or 2) may need $6000/mo to survive. Well, it's the same calculation - you need $1500/wk. So get your skills to the point that you can charge $100/hr. Consult for 15 hrs a week and work on your startup for 50. 65 hours a week in pursuit of your passion - and still another 60 or so waking hours to spend with your family.

Like everything in life, it's just positioning yourself to get the math to work for you.
I am still pleasantly surprised by country pulldowns that list the U.S. first. It's like, wow, the author actually tried filling this thing in once or twice.
FCGI problems were very customer-visible. Prior to Zed coming along, the issue wasn't being discussed much anywhere, making it unclear if it was your code, ruby issue, framework issue, or appserver. Now it is your problem to fix!
First of all, you come off as condescending when you say "it's a silly idea" and say that the work factors you mentioned are "real" ones, thereby implying that adding more combinations is not a real work factor.

Second, the actual usefulness of any work factor has to be proven first. Do we know that the iterative approaches offer "real" work factors? What if subsequent iterations are easier to compute by exploiting the structure of the input (i.e. password + result of previous iteration). We have to prove that this is not the case. The same argument holds for peppering, which is also based on computing hashes with a certain structure.

I'd like to hear your arguments as to why certain work factors are more "real" than others, especially peppering.
I've just done a 12-week body transformation course here with personal trainers (5 days a week) and its amazing what results you can get. Through diet coaching, weights and cardio tailored for me I have loads more energy and look great. The key now is not to slip back into old ways so they are doing another programme about maintaining everything and are moving more into yoga.

One thing - on your video the guy says $10/month but you are charging £10/month.
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Well written, thanks for sharing. Here's my viewpoint, from the situation of the people asking things of you: http://peterdowns.com/posts/ask-for-help.html
Show HN: zodiac, a new approach to monkey patching in python
Got it! Thanks. :)
'golang' seems to be what people are using.
Taking bets on the odds of this being disallowed for places where it would be actually useful (for example: airports; municipal buildings; skyscrapers).
It sounds like this gives the government the power to monitor the internet connections of anyone in order to see if they are doing things like infringing copyright.
I attempted the Uberman sleep cycle about a year ago. I managed to get by with 20 minutes sleep every 4 hours. I lasted 2 weeks before bad things started happening (hallucinating, extreme weakness, and major cognitive deterioration). It was a fun experience but something I am convinced is fabricated and doesn't work despite some peoples anecdotal evidence.

Eventually I ran into this blog and when I read it I immediately quit the cycle
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm

If anyone has any questions about it/are thinking of trying a sleep cycle I would be glad to answer!
Another example of a non-newtonian fluid (Except, in this case, shear-thinning instead of shear-thickening) would be ketchup.
It's much simpler than that, it's called a conservative collector, It looks at every bit of data, at just pretends it is a pointer, if anything points to a valid allocated address, that address is retained. Otherwise, just like every collection when there are no references, the object is collected.
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Great Firewall of America.
It's not currently shut down by the US government.

EDIT:

Also, it looks really smooth, and does direct email-to-email transfers, as opposed to the MegaUpload/Mediafire/Putlocker method
I don't think kevlar protects against blades either
I wrote a paper in highschool so take this with a grain of salt basically the idea is have truly parallel programming instead of having concurrent ones the ability of the qubit to solve for multiple states means they can solve for multiple problems at the same time while conventional computing seems parallel whats really happening is that calculation are switching states so fast they feel parallel. If I am wrong someone correct me.
Too much happiness may make you less successful
My problem with Java is the language. Scala and Clojure are great.

The platform is excellent technology. The language is mind-numbingly boring.

When Scala and Clojure projects go "straight to Java", it's generally for specialized purposes (where those languages don't have native maturity) or in already-discovered bottlenecks. I think some degree of that's inevitable. Like database tuning, it's just something you have to do when you get to a certain point where (a) your problem is well-defined, and (b) shaving 20% off latency is worth doing. I consider these good problems to have. If I have to rewrite a class in Java for performance reasons, fine. I'd never start a multi-thousand-line project in Java, though.

Also, I really don't think anyone mature minds writing code in underpowered or difficult languages. C++, I find, is actually a lot of fun to write. It's reading other peoples' code, in large amounts, that becomes intolerable in these languages. If I have to spend a day to answer a simple question like "how do I initialize this object?", that's bad.

Interesting fact: Closures were cut from the 1.0 release for time. Gosling wanted them in, but Java's original purpose was to run in machines like automatic coffee pots and TV "set top boxes", so they were far from essential for that domain. The folk history (which I once believed) of Java being deliberately underpowered so that teams of hundreds of mediocre programmers could be stapled together in it is false. It was, however, co-opted by the "let's commoditize developers" crowd in the late '90s, and we've had to deal with FactoryVisitorDelegates ever since.
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A rather quick answer from a not-totally-grasping person: the qubit stores all the possible resultant states of an interaction with it, and then collapses to one of those values when you measure it.

So you can do processing really quick because you can do explore a buckload of possibilities at once.

The physical reality of the phenomenon is hard to grasp, and I'm still not totally sure I get/buy it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
A good starting point: Liam Rosen's "Beginners' Health & Fitness Guide": http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

If you want to understand what's what in fat loss, Alwyn Cosgrove's "Hierarchy of Fat Loss": http://alwyncosgrove.com/2010/01/hierarchy-of-fat-loss/

TL;DR: fat loss is about diet. Yes, diet. Strength training builds/retains muscle, so do it. HIIT cardio helps some, steady state cardio a bit as well. But really, it's mostly diet.

If you want to understand more about this, you could look into starvation literature. On a reduced-calorie-only approach, about 25% of your weight loss comes not from fat but muscle. Which is among the key reasons diet-only approaches fail. Among exercises, it's strength training which builds muscle, not cardio, which is why a running-only exercise approach won't get you ripped either.

This is also a major reason why I find the emphasis on "weight" loss in both mainstream and medical literature immensely frustrating. What really matters is the relationship between two tissue types, subcutaneous fat and skeletal muscle. They're gained and lost through very different mechanisms, and play very different roles in body function. Confounding both as "weight" is an immense disservice.

For a plan putting this together, there's The New Rules of Lifting, or for the gals, The New Rules of Lifting for Women. Exercise plan, diet, lifting, cardio, a ton of info on what goes into fitness. http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Lifting-Maximum-Muscle/dp/15... and http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Lifting-Women-Goddess/dp/158...

If you want a simpler, and IMO more effective beginner's program, Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength: http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...

That's based on a classic 5x5 lifting program. It's simple. It's effective. After the first few weeks, it's pretty brutal. But for a novice trainee there's hardly anything more effective.
Ask HN: Getting users to check app without signing up, good or bad UX?
I created a small blogging engine at http://substancehq.com/ , One thing I did, which I think is clever, is allowing users to create a blog without signing up. I submitted it to HN and reddit and people created 30 sites on it. I am happy with that number, however, 95% people did not finish the next step of entering their email and finishing the signup. Is it a good idea to keep it this way? I definitely want to be able to contact the users for their feedback but without an email I cannot do that. Any suggestions on improving this?
I saw an article that debunks a lot written by a doctor, that might be biased but it's still worth a read: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm

Don't get me wrong, I've tried it, and failed like many others before me. I'd tried the uberman method for about 2 weeks before falling, and I didn't feel very productive during that time at all (although there were times that I felt more awake than I ever have done, and time seemed to merge, days didn't exist... it's a weird feeling)

I've now adapted the old version of polyphasic sleep, take a nap in the afternoon and sleep for about 6 hours on a night and it seems to be doing me well :)

But! I am tempted to give the uberman method another try, and I will write about it if anyone would be interested?
I think that comes across as a bit smug.
I don't think that helps the original story. Supposedly Jobs is telling his employees that he "wants a glass screen", yet reviews months before this supposed conversation occurred state that the iPhone is already using a glass screen. Weather or not this was the anti-scratch surface or not is hard to say, but it does cast some doubt on the story as relayed in the NYT article.
I would have thought that slower hashing speed would be a good thing, but the faster the candidate algorithm the better it appears.

This is due to the confusion about the general purpose of a hash function versus the specific purpose of a "password hash"/PBKDF, which Jeff's article helps contribute to with it's loose terminology.

A general hash function should be fast as it needs to be invoked often.
Do you always blog and submit posts in the third person? Just kidding - congrats on what looks like a good idea. Look out, Tony Horton.
Do a bit of everything (support/sales/marketing/eng) at Mixpanel
Hi HN,

Mixpanel is a web analytics startup based in San Francisco. We're still small - currently 11 people - and we've built some very interesting technology. To put it succinctly, our platform is the most powerful & flexible analytics service available for mobile and the web.

It's an exciting time. Things are moving quickly, we're landing lots of new customers each week, and everyone in the company gets to have a large individual impact.

I'm looking for someone who can help keep our rapidly growing customer base happy. This is a great role for someone who is pretty technical and is interested in technology but doesn't want to write code all day.

As a Solutions Architect at Mixpanel, you will:

* Help customers figure out integration
* Answer support tickets
* Visit customers on-site
* Conduct webinars
* Make sales calls
* Debug customer coding problems
* Develop marketing strategies

This is a role where you truly wear many hats. It's a lot of fun. We have two people doing this already, but we need more.

The ideal candidate for this role has worked as a developer before but wants to do something customer-facing. Our customers are highly technical and working with them is a treat.

If you think you'd be a good fit, please get in touch. You can email me directly - tim@mixpanel.com - or apply via http://mixpanel.com/jobs

Thanks for your attention.

Tim Trefren

---------

More about Mixpanel:

- We mostly write Python, Javascript, and C.

- We have over 200 servers.

- We handle thousands of requests per second. This is up from 10-15 requests per second during YC.

- We wrote our own database in-house that can process 300M events in real-time. Ultimately, we found that nothing fit our needs and we're glad to have built this. We have just started to build products on top of it - things that push the fold of analytics.

- Our front-end team is top notch. We're building a framework to make building products much faster. It's not an easy problem to solve.

- We care a lot about design. Not every piece of enterprise software has to be ugly.

- The market leaders (Omniture, Unica, Webtrends, and Coremetrics) are stagnating under the people that bought them late last year. We are really taking their business.

- We're in San Francisco (2nd & Howard)

- We have a beautiful office: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4426180253_21043a8ab9_b....

- We pay for relocation

- We can transfer H1Bs

- We do benefits

- We pay market

- We offer meaningful equity

- We're not looking to get acquired. It's go big or go home.

- We're funded by Max Levchin, Sequoia Capital, Michael Birch, and Keith Rabois
go lang <thing-I'm-after> works quite well for me
I wonder when people stop searching for holy grail of simple, quick, universal and always effective hiring method. Even probation doesn't provide you with 100% accuracy of performance prediction. And everything else you'll use will be less effective. The real challenge is to make a proper, conscious choice of the tool taking into account the job itself (and its context) as well as balance between accuracy and resources spent. The discussions like this remind me discussions about which programming language is the best. Is there answer for such question? :)
the more crazy the Americans pour on

Pray tell, which sane politicians are you blessed to have reign over you? I'd like to live in your glorious nation!
For a specific niche market, I would no bother with the US startup and stay independent.
This could well have the same unintended effect that automated checkout had with stores. Stores want you to wander around being lost, so they have more time to keep you awash in marketing. In the end, though, it will be more of the same nonsense as "sticky" portals in the dot.com days. People know the utility of information, and dislike it when you keep information from them so you can market to them.
A fair point, but it's only true in isolation. If they're in competition with another equally-well-stocked chain that has floorplans, then customers might prefer to shop at the niftier, more modern place with the fun maps. Note that big department stores have always had maps available at the entrance, it's not like they're inherently opposed to the practice.
Why the "or" specifically? In my opinion, it's probably best to learn them all.
Yep. But you need that area for battery and electronics and as a frame to cover the whole field of vision with a screen.

I wonder what one is seeing and able to do with the Google glasses. My guess is: not much. The science-fiction concept video is not helping in that.
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How specific to the job does the validation of IQ test to job have to be to pass the legal test?

Could someone do an (awesome) academic study which shows that all programmers benefit from g, or at least that all developers in x language do? Or add some specific problem where g is hugely useful (algorithm design?) and then make that problem a requirement for many programming positions?

There would be a huge benefit to technology hiring if we could start using a cheap, standard test result vs. relying on proxies like school admittance (where they can screen for IQ), or expensive work-sample tests (which burn more of the applicant's time, selecting against busy/good candidates).

I'd rather advantage poor, possibly non-US, high-IQ, busy applicants over either graduates of elite schools (correlated with rich) or people willing to spend the time to take a 4-40 hour unpaid assignment.
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Because it is fast, ubiquitous, and you can't produce a collision by accident. That means it's perfectly fine to use where no malicious behavior is possible. In fact, it should be used in those instances due to the speed and availability on all platforms. Where security is a concern, use SHA-256 or SHA-512.
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There are so many applications that could benefit from hardware interfacing to a smart phone that it's hard to make a list. Apple makes doing this very cumbersome and expensive. Just to be able to talk to the serial port you have to be approved for MFi membership and comply with a million requirements that only add expense to a product. That's why you don't see a simple serial cable available for open use. You can't legally buy the connectors and you have to also buy a decryption chip even to use the simplest functions.

That's why you have people resorting to the ridiculous (but it works) extreme of using the headphone jack to build such things as credit card scanners and the like. They don't regulate the use of the headphone jack and seem to be approving apps that use it. Headphone jacks were being used way back when (Commodore 64 and TRS80 days) to talk to cassette-tape based storage. It's literally going back 30+ years in technology.

While, on the surface, open peripheral port access might seem like a geek feature I think that this is far from reality. If peripheral port access on the iPhone was open for all to use you'd see all kinds of very interesting things happening with hardware for the iDevices that you simply aren't going to see given the current framework.

Also, this is the reason why there are no inexpensive iDevice compatible hardware products. Developing them is very expensive due to the nature of the process.

If MS was open about their I/O and they achieved reasonable penetration there's a whole layer of the product world that would open up to their tech.

I think that when you come from behind and have the financial resources you just can't afford to ignore any market, no matter how insignificant it might look from your current vantage point. You never know where the next killer app might come from.
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Unfortunately, I think LESS money into military research -> LESS money into research altogether. DARPA research is also fairly broad in that its applications tend to span way beyond military-related functionalities.
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you dont support IE? fuck you
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Wow, thanks a lot freddy. I had never heard of Zaarly or Task Rabbit before you mentioned them. These are great.
That's not that bad of an idea, from the perspective of the rest of the world... At least the US would stop fucking around with the global network!

And, foreign costumers (e.g. from the EU) could enjoy better privacy protections if sites like Facebook become inaccessible.
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