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> If I don't want Initech Inc. to be associated with file sharing, fire arms, or even the Irish, that's entirely within my rights. I'd be far more aghast if companies were forced to take any comers.

I'm rather aghast that any companies think this way. You might as well say that it is well within Google's right to shut down my Google Docs account because they don't want to be associated with the bad poetry I write using it.

One problem with this attitude is that it doesn't lead to a smoothly functioning economy. If I have to worry that any online service might chose to shut down my access for any arbitrary reason, then I am strongly disincentived from using online services. The strength of any economy is in no small part due to the ease and fluidity with which trusted transactions can take place. Remove the forces that allow us to trust the transactions, and the economy will falter.

The only reason that people are mostly willing to overlook this issue is because service providers exercise their putative right to deny service for arbitrary reasons rarely. But if you as a service provider exercise this putative right more liberally, then you are damaging the entire economic system (albeit only to some small degree for an isolated provider).

The only silver lining in all this free market rhetoric is that hopefully the free market will step in and put you out of business. Unfortunately, however, this often takes a lot longer than it should once network effects have engaged.

P.S. What's with this trend of downvoting people just because someone doesn't happen to agree with what someone else has to say. This is rather rude, if you ask me.
Wikipedia says this bill is awaiting committee review. I'm curious, and I'm not familiar with US Congress stuff, but how long do these things usually take?
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>However, I also needed a recruiter who was smart enough not to poach a founder.

Could someone elaborate?
Sounds like brogrammers would feel at home at Facebook.

The Judgebook app sounds creepy.
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Hurricane Electric offers cheap bandwidth. I hear nasty things about their cut-rate data centers in california, but they peer up here in Portland at the local carrier hotel. I rent a rack from the facility itself, then just get a $200/mo 100mbit line from HE directly. This way, I have redundant power, real racks etc, but cheap bandwidth. I'd balk at the non multi-homed line, but they do have two redundant fiber feeds in the building....
It's another step forward in their strategy of starting up-market at low volumes and progressively lowering prices and increasing volumes.
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So every participant would have to read information accumulated in previous steps? That's your overhead right there.

If so many users access your information - how do you know who leaked your sensitive data?

Outsourcing such small pieces could make sense only to the web site itself (which is fast, cheap, secure and reliable) - not to external human players.

Traditionally humans tend to manage computers, not the other way around.
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Normally, mod_security parses incoming traffic and blocks suspicious activity based on third-party rules [1]. Since you're using Squid, you can monitor outgoing traffic instead. Malicious traffic would get dropped instead of being proxied. Since you control the source servers, you could tarpit and/or ban the user.

Snort + Snortsam [2] or fwsnort [3] would do the same thing for non-HTTP traffic.

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>>Is anyone using the likes of Sublime for enterprise Java?

There is no reason why you must subject yourself to that sort of a torture.

The IDEs are designed to make your life easy for that kind of verbosity and boiler plate.
also, know emacs a little if you're an OS X user -- the emacs bindings provided in OS X text fields are amazing.
Anecdotally, that seems correct. Wages for competent software engineers have noticeably risen in the last year due largely to supply shortfalls. It is a really good time to be a software engineer if you have some skills.

A caveat is that part of the perceived average pay increase is that the minimum talent level required has also been increasing. Demand for generic, average skill has not been where the growth is. I think we are in the early stages of a bimodal job market.
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Lately I have been having this thought that Apple ought to do the right thing and compensate app publishers when it chooses to, effectively, take them out with their own version of their apps. From an ethical standpoint I really don't like the idea of them watching, learning, observing and then damaging those who put lots of time and effort into understanding a problem and developing solutions for them. They've done this with e-books and other areas and now podcasts.

I am not saying that they should not publish their own versions of these apps. All I am suggesting is that the right thing for them to do is to financially recognize those who paved the road ahead of them.

To be clear, I am not and have not been affected by any of these Apple-released apps. I do fear the potential to come-up with something popular only to be taken out by the mother-ship.
He called Sebastian Marshall "a prolix douchebag" in a comment, got hellbanned for it and promptly left when he realized it. That's pretty much the story. Evidently the hellban was lifted a little later (albeit not the ban on voting?), but he'd already gone by that point.
As the author got the 1 job he wanted out of 30+ applications, I feel this point is appropriate.

The college I went to had a pub with the policy that a rejection letter (for a job, post graduate position, etc) could be traded for one free beer. It was a brilliant policy for encouraging people to try. From one perspective 30+ letters of rejection to get what you want is depressing. From my perspective that would have been getting the thing you wanted along with thirty free drinks.
There's an understandably human tendency to highlight our accomplishments and bury our failures, which can give inexperienced outsiders/novices in some field a warped perception of what's "normal," exacerbating their self-doubt. I think it's admirable that he posted the letters and was honest about how they made him feel.
It's really odd that doesn't transfer over. I also find the way to get to the per-podcast settings was very unintuitive, it took me a couple of tries to find it.

The thing I find really odd is the recommended podcasts in the catalog.

So many of them don't have pictures, and many that do have pictures that aren't descriptive at all (just a person's face, no way to know it's a knitting podcast). And the picture is all you have to go by, there is no text unless you press the little info button.

I'd expect podcasts will start adding pictures now that they have another reason to, but I'm surprised Apple didn't filter out such podcasts from the top lists. It seemed very un-Apple-ly to go to a category and see up to 50% of the entries in some categories are just placeholder images. There is also no way to tell which don't have images and which are currently pulling the image over the network.
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Listen people, here's how HN works.

If you disagree with somebody, you reply.

You don't downvote just because you disagree, and you definitely don't downvote without a reply just because you disagree.

Downvotes are for trolls/rude people.

Explain to this person why you disagree, I want to know.
The title is wrong. These are not Fresnel lenses, they are zone plates, which were also invented by Fresnel.

As a side note, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_plate makes for very interesting reading for those (such as myself) who are unfamiliar with the physics of the wave nature of light.
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It would be nice if more startups did this. Just a nice letter saying "While your qualifications are outstanding, we regret to inform you that your expertise-in-X is not what we are looking for at this time." If someone takes the time to fill out a five page web-based form and goes through your online fizzbuzz tests, a customized letter is only appropriate.
I was really excited to give this a try, but I have to say that the sign up process and the upgrade to premium were both a rather trying experience. First, I ended up with a confusing situation where I had two accounts - not that big a deal, but a minor pain.

The real issue came when signing up for premium. First, requiring me to have a PayPal account is bad form - please provide some alternative to this. But, I decided to go ahead anyway, I got the subscription set up through PayPal, and was redirected to cloud 9 where I was supposed to have access to these awesome paid features, right? Nope. It has now been two hours and I'm still getting a "we're waiting for confirmation from the payment provider". Paying for something and not getting instant access is really poor UX - I hope you guys will see this and take it as constructive criticism.

Looking forward to finally giving it a try.
I don't know that people disagree. I didn't downvote him, but I can imagine that people might have because his comment is a no more than an uninteresting summary of the blog post. It's not really adding much to the conversation.
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> I'm rather aghast that any companies think this way. You might as well say that it is well within Google's right to shut down my Google Docs account because they don't want to be associated with the bad poetry I write using it.

What he is saying is that he believes it is Google's right to do that and it is irrelevant to the fact it is stupid.

> One problem with this attitude is that it doesn't lead to a smoothly functioning economy.

Sure if people just put up with it but I don't think anyone is suggesting we just accept dropbox's position and pretend it never happened.
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You bring up some very interesting facts. Certainly being indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions should probably be keeping big time bureaucrats awake at night, but I sincerely doubt it. There are all sorts of psychological mechanisms that people employ to defend against this sort of cognitive dissonance... and unfortunately it is an easy and (sadly) natural part of being human. In the same way that Americans can eat meat while being blissfully ignorant of the environmental impact (let's not even talk about animal rights), Americans can also ignore what is occurring in dark rooms within foreign countries. It's the proverbial tree falling in the forest. My hope is that better data collection and live streaming will make global situations more 'real' to people. (ie: Abu Ghraib)
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>>> "Don't obsess over your tools. They are not the goal"

Actually, someone from design background once told me "Good tools produce great work".
Not really a problem. I've wasted my time on at least one interview for a non-existent job. If you are a candidate worth it's salt, then you do some research into the company. If it's a recruitment company, then I'd not go for job :-)

I'd have a "flag for false data" link.

Also, if you did this in Australia, then you could have an ABN number field that is mandatory to be filled in.
The EU is not democratic. It goes to great lengths to avoid referendums by its subjects on whether they wish to be part of the EU or not.

If they do have a referendum and the result is not what the EU wants, another is held.
If you're hiring a senior engineer that claims he spent last 5 years coding Big Table at Google, you have to take his word for it.

I find this assertion to be virtually nonsensical. I've never met a programmer who hasn't written some code that they could show you, if for no other reason than programmers who are passionate about what they do, usually write at least little programs just for fun. And if I were interviewing a programmer, I'd think twice about hiring one who has so little passion for programming that they'd never written anything just for the pleasure of it.

But let's assume for the moment that there are tons of great programmers who've never taken a class for which they could show their code, nor written any code just to write it: Where I work we have a small programming exercise that we ask applicants to submit for code review before we interview them. This process is much more natural than having people code on a whiteboard, because they can do it at their own rate and with their own tools, without having the stress of having someone look over their shoulder. They can also pay proper attention to issues of style and maintainability of their code. The assignments are also something kind of like the work that one might do in the real world.
he probably meant assessing and not accessing in the phone screening part - would he have passed his own interview?
> 0MQ ~15k LOC RabbitMQ ~107k

Might want to try this comparison again when 0MQ (or is it xroads?) supports clustering, high availability, durability, web management, federation, & STOMP.
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Isolation levels are used to specify semantics only. DBMS is free to implement them in different ways.
Take a look at this VLDB 2012 paper about optimistic concurrent control in main memory databases, like MemSQL, which also describes implementation of isolation levels:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.0228v1.pdf
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rdl would be the person to ask about this. He was involved with HavenCo. I'm sure he'll be stopping by soon.
Eh... because the United States often is at fault?
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Wow, maybe someone saw my post from HN b/c it is working now! Or maybe getting a comment on my post gave me a few more karma and that is what did it? (I had 1 before and now have 3).
> cause to eliminate the EU means, technically, throwing out the Treaty of Maastricht (1992), the Treaty of Rome (1958) and the Amsterdam Treaty (1997) which together define most of the framework, institutions, conventions and law enabling European freedom of movement and trade.

So your telling me that they cannot possibly abandon the EU without abandoning these treaties? That and what stops them from simply re-writing and re-signing them?
That pub has a brilliant idea!
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I mean its for the average joe.. non technical people.

I am changing it now anyway.
Did you really not get that the OP is a parody? The point is that this is obviously NOT the way to hire writers. The implication then being that it is also not the way to hire programmers, even though, sadly, hiring programers is typically done just that way these days.
Ouch, being rejected from University of Arizona AND Arizona State University?
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None of these letters served any purpose- all were simply form letters that offered no information or relevant feedback to the applicant.
I just signed up with my github acct and it does not let me clone even a single private repository (username: aeon).
So I think you have to look at why external recruiters are successful:

(The following refers to most, but certainly not all)

They're generally loathed by developers for a multitude of reasons, they charge ridiculous rates, they come back and poach their placements, and commit a plenty of other sins. Yet they're still out there, plugging away and jamming my LinkedIn feed...

The only reason they still manage success is because the alternatives have to be even worse. Despite the ridiculous environment we're in right now, there are still folks out there who are interested in leaving their current jobs for greener pastures. But Dice.com isn't getting it done for these folks, and even if it is their resumes are getting buried beneath piles of unqualified candidates and/or getting filtered out by terribly built filtering software or, even worse, HR folks who mistake Java for Javascript.

I think the way you disrupt the recruiting industry is by significantly improving the alternatives. That or providing a completely new alternative that's wildly better.

Word of mouth has always been the better alternative. It works like a charm until networks are exhausted. Maybe that's the place to start.
I haven't heard of any organization with ~100k+ people without rules like these.
In-house. very very much in-house.
Haven't read the post, but I assume it just says "unplug it, then plug it back in".
I think its wrong that you are espousing password security, when you have not taken the required steps to secure your own accounts across "a ton of forums"?

Security in the real world is hard. I worked as a penetration tester, so I have some authority to say so.

For most startups getting users is a priority and everyone is prone to taking shortcuts (clearly including YOU - sharing passwords across forums); incidents like this are common place in the business world and the fact that Envato had the balls to own up is kudos to them.
> posting completely vague job descriptions

My favorite is sth like "Your responsibility will include writing software according to the provided technical spec."
No poaching agreements are not bullshit - you are giving them privileged information (who your best people are) and in exchange you're expecting them to use that information only for the purpose directed.

It's similar to an NDA. Nothing bullshit about it.
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"Lesson 1: Recruiters rely exclusively upon LinkedIn". You might be thinking, “Really? This is obvious!”

Uh... No, I wasn't thinking that, since there's a ton of places for recruiters to find candidates and LinkedIn is only one of them. Is this some kind of viral marketing piece for LinkedIn or something?

I have gotten maybe 6 recruiting messages on LinkedIn in my life. I finally deleted my account after the password debacle, it was so useless. Like a business contact sheet for people I already had contacts for. On the other hand, Monster.com is where most of the recruiters seem to come at me from. I get on average 8 positions sent to me a week when i'm not looking for work. My google voice gets less recruiter spam, but I had to set a separate GV line up just to catch all the recruitemarketer calls.
Indexing all of the worlds information isn't something for our best hackers?

Setting up a global communications network where I can easily share photos videos with friends and families (helping millions and millions stay in touch) isn't worthy of some great hackers?
Modern x64s have 128-bit CAS instruction, but the problem is that those two pointers can be far apart in memory, in two different elements of the list.
If he can't prove it (since you can't prove a negative) he shouldn't be claiming that he knows that it hasn't happened and everyone is faking it; worse, he claims to know it happened only twice in history; and worse that his master was the second one other than Buddha himself. He's the one making wild positive claims here, the burden of proof is upon him to support them with evidence. That's why I don't have to prove anything; I've made no claims at all, why would I have to prove anything?

Don't throw your lot in with anyone making claims they can't back up; but make sure your paying attentions to who's making the claims and whether they're proper non negative claims.
That you can, does not mean you should.

And who pays for your failures?
What's creating this shortfall?

Too many openings?

Too many engineers working for themselves?

Too many engineers retiring?

Too many engineers going abroad?

Too many engineers interested in the same small number of niches that leaves everyone else with too few applicants?

...?
15 hours a week?
Jesus... I spend half of that in meetings.
I really need to reconfigure my schedule!

I'll warn you though that the type of arrangement you suggest does exist, it's called: 'a consulting house' as opposed to: 'a software bouse' and it is the worst kind of scam.

First off, your 'market rate' ...that you can forget. The Firm sees to its own needs and those needs are fat salaries and bonuses to (non technical I might add) management. You'll get a salary and a fancier title than 'contractor' something like... Say... 'consultant' yes! Consultant! That's gonna bump up the hourly rate... But not YOUR hourly rate of course, that of the Firm my friend.

I guess my bitterness in this regard is quite obvious but here in South Africa, this type of thing is utterly rife.
You have a few managers who have swept in over time on the winds of apathy and who for some I fathomable reason have good, big contracts and a slew of underpaid 'consultants' who run around doing their bidding.

You seem to believe that this relationship will play out the other way round where you are earning that 'market rate' and for a small percentage of that you'll have in your employ not only someone who'll ensure you're always employed but who is also a personal assistant that runs
your admin?

That's called: 'a boss.'

Please correct me if I'm wrong here but it seems you have
the world (as I know it) bass ackwards and programmers are not Hollywood stars, not where I come from.
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The letter from Yale is excruciatingly short and (to my eyes, anyway) kind of ghetto looking.
This is very similar to what I ended up doing. I bought a server, and hosted it at he.net.
Actually what the comment does is simultaneously satirizes the blog post author as a person of a highly privileged status feeling sorry for himself because of the "emotional trauma" of his highly successful job search AND thusly questions the relevance of the post at all. I guess I should have spelled it out more clearly.
One of the reasons I posted the letters was because I'd not seen a big set of rejection letters anywhere before. In fact, I hadn't actually looked at the mass of them together before myself.

You are right. I didn't outline the reasons why I posted this very explicitly. I hoped that people would form their own opinions about these things, honestly. One reason, for myself, was that I found myself reflecting on failure, persistence, bad job application strategies, etc., and just marveling at the mass of it all there in one spot, all looking rather similar.

The feeling of rejection is one that we all share, and I thought I could connect with people by posting these letters.

Anyways, normal rates, yes. Special post? Guess not. I felt it was worth sharing.
If you envy our level of spam, change the address on your LinkedIn profile and/or make a new honeypot one. Like the original article, you can actually find out empirically!

Then write a blog post about it.
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No.

The exchanges had similar circuit breakers in place during the flash crash. They even cancelled some orders after the fact.

But the flash crash still caused real investors (not professionals) to lose real money for the reasons outlined.