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The problem is the idea that more science is good.

People interpret the word science as a Star Trek future with flying cars.

But what the professors think that science (of the PhD kind) is, is citations for conference papers full of greek squiggles.

I believe that the professors care not at all about the relevance of research beyond lip service, and that whatever advances we make towards the flying cars are despite academic "science", not because of it.
You're well within your rights to send tweets to a folder but never read them :)

Things do happen! Unfortunately most of what we do is technical, and our (perceived) target market doesn't really care about that side of things. I'm sure we can find one thing a week to say though.
Not meant to be comforting but to put things in perspective.
You might have missed the second half of the post:

> This is a better test, because the signup screen offers both options with equal weight and we have over 70,000 organic signups.
The same is historically (and notoriously) true of Microsoft. I think the point is more that with this kind of screen there is just an inherently high false negative rate. That's a problem only if it's actually preventing you from hiring successfully.
This statement can hardly be made with the numbers that participated in this.

In addition the article isn't very good and the No - Spam option speaks more to users being wary of the application than facebook.

This doesn't seem like the typical quality of article usually voted up on HN - I'd guess people just voted it up from the link title without reading (since people love to hate facebook).
Mostly agree with his conclusions, but for one. I didn't think Batman was all that great.
If it's a high salary, it benefits. In my experience, the ranges people in our industry get paid are sufficiently broad that not sharing your salary can result in serious offers that are, well, not so good.
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Unfortunately, I can't imagine any other model sustaining something like this. Right now the costs are negligible so there won't be ads any time soon :)
The point of the article was that it Wasn't, in fact it was a drag on the business model.
Yeah, but the language helps a lot on that. And so, it is related to the language.

Comparing the readability of python vs perl/c-like languages show it clearly. In python the readability come as a natural idiom, it is part of their zen!.

I found that when I develop in python/delphi/pascal the code is readable by default, but in ANY c-derived language could become messy fast. Something as simply as how align a IF clause. In C-like language I could go wild (and I see a LOT of code that look different, from person to person) and in contrast I read almost any python code as if I was write by myself.
I couldn't get it to work initially, it just would not recognize my app at all and I couldn't add it.

I sent an email and got sent to this new link (not sure if it's launched) which I believe covers the entire Cedar stack rather than anything particular to NodeJS, it pings a provided URL.

http://manager.hirefireapp.com/
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I speculate an ugly not-too-distant future: Mike crosses US border from Canada to US. Fancy government computers "lookup" Mike and flag his name because of suspicious posts on "hacker" news. Fun ensues, when agents discover hidden/encrypted partitions on computer. Computer impounded for further investigation. Mike has a bad day.
Notice 'parseLogLoudly'. You could not implement that using your set of functions: you are not allowing for other code besides 'resume' inside the 'handle' blocks.

Also, I don't believe the mass duplication of code necessary for your approach is acceptable, even within a library.
Compassion is a great one, a trait I feel like we don't spend enough time talking about as an element of success. I've worked with many extremely talented, genuinely bright people whose business skills suffered because of a lack of compassion and empathy: for their users, coworkers, or people they generally (and probably correctly) considered less intelligent than themselves. Making a conscious and genuine effort to understand someone else's position and needs will get you MUCH further than dogmatic self-righteousness - even if you really are right. ;)
For a "real" benchmark, I'd like to see the query repeated until the response-time distribution stabilizes. Then take the response time at the 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles, and also the mean. Actually, I'd like to see the CDF plot for the whole distribution.
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> I'm familiar with the idea that there are two kinds of ideas, big ones that change the world, and little ones that merely make money.

I have a better dichotomy: striving to make a difference, vs striving to make money. Those who strive to make money often end up making a difference, but the consequences are often not pretty.

By the way, didn't you say yourself that the purpose of a startup should be to improve people's lives? That's good, even if the improvement you seek is small. From there, one "just" needs to know what one goals are, what one should do to achieve them, then do that.
This goes back to the old adage by Tom Preston-Werner on making Gravatar (I think); paraphrasing, but if you don't design for revenue generating parts into a site, you're gonna have a bad time trying to make money off of advertisements.
The fact that you have to install some driver is irrelevant. I'd rather install drivers for Linux than be unable to use the hardware at all.
Wait for the copycats to start releasing 4" smartphones.. but you will know that Apple did it first and they will get sued for using the same size!
Also, you're allowing yourself to become exclusively dependent on another company's platform.
When we used window.open(), we ran into issues with Chrome's popup blocker. I think it's because we create the popup in an ajax callback. We'll take another look; there might be a workaround for us.

I just noticed that chrome.tabs.create doesn't require the 'tabs' permission, so that might be another option. Thanks for the help. We'll try to remove the permission in the next release. :)
It's not like purely visual questions are the only ones you'll encounter. And the Internet has plenty to offer for your question too, you just have to involve some actual people.
I think people feel comfortable in settings where they draw on a concrete body of knowledge (like most normal job interviews). With programming though, everything is logic, being able to dynamically model rules and patterns in your head is everything. You build these models in your head, using your programming talent, but they are like volatile memory, and you always need to reconstruct them. So when you go into an interview, you have little concrete knowledge to lean on, so off the bat you lack confidence and get worked up because you don't realise why this should be.
First two I tried led to different loops:

1. Elephant (Mammal ... Human)

2. Big Bang (Fact ... Truth)
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Why is that an inconvienient truth, exactly? I don't understand why the excellent access to food of the American poor has anything to do with whether the free market can feed everyone.
That's how lojack works. You probably have it installed in your bios now.
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The inspiration for the survey came from the numbers we were seeing on our site (across 10's of thousands of signups). There was a clear preference for signing up with email vs facebook.

The in person survey is too small to provide meaningful numbers, but it was useful to hear real people's feedback and sentiment.

I agree that it seems weird that people would rather give their email than facebook because they "don't want spam". But that's really what they said, so that's not speculation about their reasons. And again, the survey was asking people about their experience and feelings about sites they've signed up for, not just about our site.
I hope they aren't infringing on any patents this time!
Geek.com rewrite of an engadget.com rewrite about a YouTube video review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYlnhDfvlo

The submitter looks less than legitimate as well.
Super annoying, I had to read it in Instapaper just to cope.
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Unfortunately some companies are in bed with Facebook and it seems it gives them more than the additional users.

For example Spotify - still allows only Facebook signups. The first quote on signup page is of course <<"Spotify is so good" - Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook>>. I'm definitely one who spent additional time to look for an alternative.

Edit: As parbo noticed, they actually do allow email+password signups again. I completely missed the link when checking.
People also hate having to create a new username/password combination for every single web service they want to try.
This is also not entirely accurate. I got my offer a good 5 months before I even knew which teams I had a chance to speak with before the allocation process, let alone before I knew which team I would be placed on.
Its not really a hack to run rMBP's at > 1920x1200, just a cli tool. Apple doesn't expose it in the UI anymore, thats basically it.
Samsung should be mocked publicly and shamed for taking such a loser's approach in ripping things off. If I wrote a story about a boy wizard called "Henry Porter", and had similar books like "Magicians Rock" and "Captive of Azitan", I'd be widely panned as just ripping off JK Rowling. But, it wouldn't be illegal.

So, a lot of folks feel like Samsung should be humiliated, that they shouldn't just ripoff designs, etc. But we also acknowledge that it should not be illegal, that if they want to make me-too products, that's fine. It's not like they were actually tricking people into thinking "yes, this is an Apple iPhone, and not a Samsung phone".

A part of me wants Samsung to get fines, just because I'm so personally pissed off with how bad they made Android look (e.g. the keyboard, the crappy backgrounds on icons), but overall, for society, we're worse off if we allow them to be punished for having poor taste.
Thanks for the response! I agree, the last thing we want is for it to become "vaporware". We will do everything we can to support it... however it is a side-project so we don't want to make any promises :)

There are certainly others like it but we've implemented a few features differently which we hope users will appreciate. With regard to communities, that is the main reason we have not implemented any "commenting" or "following" system - its usage is open for adoption by any network.
It's still okay.
Excellent work, guys! As an amateur sax player, I can see myself using your app to produce some funky beats on-the-fly. I wish you all the best and I hope I can buy your app in the near future. :)
Personally, I'd favor the language you're most comfortable with and has the best tools, frameworks, preexisting code, etc. for getting your project done. It's a trade off in both respects, but you can usually find a happy medium.
that's weird, because my experience is exactly the opposite! I've spent about 4 months on my team so far, which has very little to do with my background, and after I realized just how bad the fit was, I started a conversation with my tech lead, his supervisors, and some HR people about moving to a team that would be a better fit (which had openings at the time).

3 weeks of conversations later, I was told that the 18 month rule was "fair" in everyone's opinion, and that if I'm really concerned about working on projects that are interesting to me, I should just find one to spend my 20% time on (easier said than done).
IMO, an interpreter is the best way to interface between two systems, to which you feed a string or a file of your "language". This is the most flexible, and can even be separated into different versions, without ever breaking existing clients, so long as specifying the version is possible in your "language".

Thus, I think what makes API's so difficult is that they roughly approximate an interpreter, and in a particularly inflexible way.
> If nobody is interested in Windows 8, I expect the next best option is Windows 7 for the next 10 years - the new XP.

Funny, I'm getting ready to upgrade my gaming PC from XP to Win 7 soon.
BTW your Python example app is broken and has been for months. Someone opened an issue on Github (with code to fix) but it's been ignored for months now. https://github.com/heroku/facebook-template-python/issues/7
That's a chicken and egg problem though, especially in a place as driven by fashion as the technology startup scene in Silicon Valley. Training a decent developer to be effective with Perl is fairly easy (use my free book on the subject!).

Getting attention because you didn't use Node or Clojure or Erlang or Ruby or Python or Java is trickier.

(I've been at this long enough to remember hearing from VCs "Your product has a Perl backend and a Python frontend? Oh... would you consider rewriting it all in Java? Java has more buzz.")
>My father once said (whilst slaving over PDS7.1 writing yet another payroll system in the late 80s): "I feel guilty sitting here taking money from people for this. It genuinely doesn't improve their lives."

Your father did not see the big picture and your notions are wrong. If it did not improve someone's life (even if only by a small amount) - then they would not justify paying your father to write it.

Most of the time innovation is an evolutionary process. The software that your father worked on probably added some features that are still in use today. Each generation of software improves on the last (iteratively). Eventually things evolve and do change the human experience.

Let me give you an example. I am self employed and have several employees. I use payroll software but I am not an accountant or book keeper by any means. Without the advancements and features in this software, I would have to pay someone to do this for me. This may not seem like a big deal to do, but if payroll software did not have the features and automation level that it does today, I would have to pay MUCH more to have it done by an accountant. I work on a narrow margin and this may put me out of business altogether. So I certainly think that payroll software evolving over the decades has changed this humans experience and MAY even enable a leap in innovation that comes out of my business - partly thanks to your father.

Why does every startup have to be something innovative? I say that even if it is a copycat - it will probably have some new ideas to throw into the pool. Things that have not been thought of before. Lessons will be learned from their successes and mistakes. Lessons that those who follow them can build on. Even if the business fails, the ideas it contributed will live on and help with the evolution.

It is not conceivable that more than 5% or people will have a groundbreaking innovative idea. This has been the same throughout time. That does not mean that we should not try though.

BTW - I find that people with attitudes like the author and you are usually the ones who sit around and do nothing. Nothing that is but criticize and find fault with others ideas and efforts. Do you know where the human race would be if everyone was like you and not like those you are criticizing?

We would be living in caves still...
The U.S. patent office is allowed to keep all fees it collects for its own budget, so it has an incentive to grant as many patents as possible, no matter how silly they are.
I think your observation about thinking in black and white is a good observation. However, you still haven't answered the OP's original question. And adding your observation to the list, these sorts of things are still required at large organizations.
I'm glad that any citizen gets to be on a jury rather than some elite set of experts

Expert testimony is used in trial all the time and is given great weight by jurors. Experts parse out highly technical details and draw conclusions to help the jury. Now, I'm not disagreeing with your initial assertion, but am pointing out that our justice system depends mightily on technical and professional elites.

The problem with this case is that a set of very complex and technical questions (did one or more patent infringements occur?) are being decided by non-experts. Having a lay jury decide these questions is as absurd as having the jury determine the caliber of gun used in a murder. Technical questions require expert/elite knowledge to untangle.
Or the Dutch East-India Company, which had it's own army and navy...
Don't let him get you down. I enjoyed your article, as did all the other people who voted for it.
unfortunately, it certainly doesn't seem like the company does this all the time. i got placed onto a team which has no bearing on my background experience whatsoever, and after approaching my tech lead and some HR people to continue the conversation, everyone else decided to agree that the 18 months guideline was "fair" and that the 20% projects were there to satisfy my need for interesting problems.

i had potential teams lined up (one of which I would've been allocated to initially, had they not hit their new grad hire cap), so it was certainly a very frustrating experience. perhaps they care more about established engineers than recent graduates?
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Thanks for your feedback. Always good to have an extra set of eyes!

To check if the numbers make sense, I dumped the raw data used to compute these stats and compared elli_stats with the same functions in R and they match up.
so you can see why choice of venue is so important. if this were tried outside of "the valley" you would not get people like this on the jury.

your comment about anchoring is spot on.
Much of the issues with this former Googler is that he may have had some good/interesting ideas but he failed at garnering support.

I had widespread engineering support, actually. The problem was that (a) the people managing that product didn't understand the importance of quality in content, and (b) they were under obscene deadlines (which almost certainly wasn;'t their fault).

What really kicked me in the shins was when an executive, pissed off that people on his team agreed with what I was saying being the right way to go, threatened to damage my Perf ratings. My manager promised to protect me (he promised to "peg" me to 3.3-3.4, which is decent) and didn't deliver. After that, I started looking for transfer opportunities, because I'd caught my manager in a few lies but that was a big one, and I just couldn't trust my manager after that.

It turned out to be easier to get a job outside of the company, so I did.
There are likely "nice" people out there with irrational aversions to Western medicine as well.
Firstly you are quire right and I removed my 'team' comment very soon after I had posted it, it was irrelevant to the conversation.

I agree that the definition of a jury varies widely around the world, however this point was (in reference to your comparison) specific to the US trial.

With the decisions, why does it not cross your mind that they had actually plenty of time to make up their minds during the trial? Everybody seems to believe they should have been utterly impartial up to and including the point they were instructed by the judge, but these are human beings, jurors, and right or wrong they had plenty to time to come to conclusions, especially with the damning emails/documents from Samsung. Everybody is expecting a jury to have behaved like a well versed and highly trained expert lawyer.

So yes, even if they did show incorrect understanding this is completely irrelevant, they are not supposed to be the experts you think they should have been.
But thanks to full disk encryption, his data is still safe from agents snooping through his cat photo collection!
The twin adoption studies disprove this. Adult twins resemble each other more than anyone else, and resemble their adoptive families no more than they resemble families selected at random.

I have not read Flynn's book yet, but he will have to do something amazing to explain away the twin adoption studies.
You're strawmaning. I didn't say ancestry had no meaning. I said it wasn't determined genetically, which is 100% true. There's no blood test for "black", and I encourage you to cite one if you're aware of it. If you have a big population, you can do things like look at frequencies of specific gene variants and come up with a guess at where that population came from. But for one person there's just no way to do it. So: can a person, in isolation, be part of a genetic "race"? No.
excellent work. I can think of a similar app called LaDiDa which came out some time back and has been doing incredibly well.

One of the things which you can learn from LaDiDa is how they have used Youtube to market their app. In fact they claim that their growth is solely powered by YouTube and they do not have any other marketing going.

You should checkout the course on Udemy about youtube marketing by 500 startups where Prerna Gupta talks about how she went about marketing LaDiDa.

At the least you can copy her tactics.
> The idea of classifying people like that doesn't work genetically. [...] Basically, "race" is a cultural distinction.

No, it's not, and classifying people "like that" makes sense.

> In one of the most extensive of these studies to date, considering 1,056 individuals from 52 human populations, with each individual genotyped for 377 autosomal microsatellite markers, we found that individuals could be partitioned into six main genetic clusters, five of which corresponded to Africa, Europe and the part of Asia south and west of the Himalayas, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

These guys http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/5/815.long even have a picture http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/5/815/F2.large.jpg
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That's a bold statement for something that achieves the same as "closing gmail".

I know people get sensitive about the negativity on here, but this warrants a little fair game critisicm in my book.