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This is what I expected, to be able to determine what type of news I would be reading based on the highlighting color. I was a bit disappointed.
Thanks for the advice.

I mean, it's not my primary motivation in making comments, for other people to "educate me" in a broad sense.

I meant something more like, "If I happen to have misunderstood some particular concrete thing, people can provide a citation that shows the opposite."

Which, indeed, didn't happen this time. Instead, as you said, there was just a bunch of very high-level disagreement without any "meeting of the minds" on some important lower-level details.

Anyway, my real motivation for posting on the Chomsky stuff was because I feel compelled to call out truly evil pseudo-intellectuals, as I see them, when I see them. Chomsky advocates "anarcho-syndicalism," which is just low-level rule by gangs. He wants to dismantle civilization, which he preaches hatred for. To me, he is in the same moral standard as the intellectuals that came before and enabled the likes of Stalin and Hitler.
You can already do this with Mac OS X...

http://www.cultofmac.com/127459/sign-your-pdfs-in-preview-os...
In my opinion, the best thing this guy shows is competent business writing skills, which is a strong predictor of the ability to learn whatever field an intern will be joining.
The process only has to look objective and quantifiable. Everyone doesn't get the same treatment, but it's not actionable if the differences are all deniable and have rationalizations like 'culture fit'. People can and do still hire who they want for whatever reason, they just claim some objective reason for it.
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Cut out the hysterics. She's a political appointee. She serves at the pleasure of the president. And the public is asking for her removal.

Remember when Bush sacked a bunch of US Attorneys for insufficient ideological purity? If not, this might joggle your memory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_con...
I've been in their system since they first broke in September. I've received 4 offers. 2 were very early stage compaines with <$100k offers. I've also received a $110k offer from a well-known company and $165k from another early stage.

The $110k was at a company I'd consider working for if I didn't have to work from their NYC office. (I'm in SF now.)
This analogy is backwards... Hiring a programmer is an exchange of company money (or equity, benefits, etc) for a service (programming skills). Renting a car is an exchange of one's own money for a service (use of the car).

In this case, the person renting the car would be "interviewing" the car rental company to determine if their service is worth their money.
This is great. IIRC, previously you could only get their stuff by buying turnkey hardware.
It seemed to be pretty clearly satirical to me as well. I'm actually surprised that others are arguing your point, I didn't realize people interepereted it otherwise.

Fyi, reading the first linked reference in Wikipedia brought me to a page talking about "the satiric straddling" in regards to the speech, which makes me think it also considers it satiric.
This may be the best, nay, the only way I learn, long term. Hence why I'm a big fan of books with problems/exercises, and typing out code, even if an electronic copy already exists.

I'm fairly certain neuroscience (or a related field) has studied this and come to similar conclusions. Of course, since I don't practice neuroscience, I can't remember where I learned this. Perhaps someone who has researched this can elighten us?
Appreciate it, I'm glad you liked it.
This tells me that your real product is not free. You are selling a product, technology for making custom diagramming applications, that happens to have an offshoot that you can make freely available without compromising your core business model, and making it freely available has a better cost-benefit for you than trying to sell it as a cheap app, or for that matter not releasing it at all (releasing it gives you positive PR if nothing else). (Btw, is there a similar business model and explanation for hellosign? I assume there is. If not, the link you gave is not really relevant to this discussion.)

None of the above is communicated when you say "it's free!" on your front page with no other explanation, or when you ask "how long does it need to be provided for free before you trust that it will stay that way?". The critical factor is not how long you've been providing it for free; it's that the free "product" is not really the product, it's just a side effect of your real product.

If you really want to change people's attitudes about the issues involved here, find a catchy word that differentiates your business model from "free".
Developer Auction was a great opportunity. I was able to get introduced to companies previously not on my radar, and startups I may have never heard of. I received offers from companies across the country in LA, SF, NYC, Chicago, and more.

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Maybe applicants need insurance. If they don't work out, their insurance company refunds the employer their salary and the opportunity cost of their bad commits. This way, applicants get muscled out of the job market gradually by high insurance rates, rather than with a brick wall filter.
I am in the process of hiring engineers and the last candidate that caught my eye, listed some pretty cool side projects outside of his core area of expertise.

Learning of this made me consider: breadth of knowledge, interdisciplinary team structures, and understanding other aspects to design and review, overall - an interesting nerd/geek.

Going to movies, exercising, travel - those should be left off of resumes coming to me. Building electric cars, embedded firmware design, realtime control - those hobbies get me to notice you - especially when they are outside your discipline.
Thanks for responding!

I would think so. I mean, I'd want to use it throughout the entire iterative process, so that means I'm waiting at least a week for everyone's feedback, implementing it and getting it back up there and then having them look at it again. Toss in another project to ensure that it will be easy to navigate the site and I think that could easily take a month, but definitely more than two weeks.
I suspect that a large chunk of HN's lurkers are thwarted engineers, who got recruited out of college by IBs and are trapped in the world of finance by their bloated compensation packages, now living the carefree life of the programmer vicariously by hanging around here.
Fair question. Superdb does what I want: interactive state examination without breakpoints. I hadn't got very far with mine at all, and it was intimately bound up with the design of my app so wouldn't have been reusable even in my own future projects. Then there is the chance that I'll be able to contribute to superdb, something which appeals to my sense of community far more than writing some for-my-eyes-only, debug code for a closed-source app.

Mainly, though, I hate reinventing wheels. I'm not a very good programmer and it would take me far too long. I'll always look for a friendly giant to stand on before I try and build my own ladder.
HelloFax is one of my favorite products -- takes something I hate but still need rarely (fax) and makes it painless. I also love Earth Class Mail for doing the same thing to receiving postal mail.

I have used the other signers so far (as a customer of comcast, etc.), and was looking at setting up service with them for my company (to let people sign various contracts), but it was super complex (still worth it vs. nothing). Seriously looking at HelloSign.
makes me wonder, would you (or feministing) stop supporting aaron if he was on the other side of the fence
Always amazes me how HN is full of incredibly intelligent people yet some are so spectacularly void of common sense. Only on HN would the discussion turn to whether or not the kid would be annoyed at an email that's forwarded without someone asking him. Course he wouldn't - they are all lauding him. His email has achieved exactly what it set out to do - it's got him a gig at an investment bank.
Petitions aren't democracy... they're the definition of special interest.
hehe, yeah, I've been through this several times.

I think it's funny when the recruiters try and lie at the beginning by saying a later interviewer may or may not be out sick and there is the possibility for some interviews to be cancelled and the day cut short. We all know they want to send you home if you screw up in the beginning. It's not a secret.
How is this 'nice' UI? It is a box with drag to upload written on it. As seen on: every other file hosting site at the moment. The only twist is that to download stuff you have to connect to facebook.

This is literally people charging for the software to do the horrible practice of requiring I advertise your brand in order to get free stuff.

'Like Gating' as they call it is scummy and already widespread enough as it is and they are trying to sell it as a service!
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This.

Managing multiple remote teams across multiple timezones on disparate and unrelated projects (and for multiple companies, no less) is hardly trivial.

This second-hand article is purporting that not only is it trivial, but it in fact requires so little time that it doesn't even bear mention in the so-called "daily schedule".
I would definitely be interested in the science behind this. Unfortunately, I can't say my observations are scientific, but only from my experience.
OK, interesting. I know my home state of NH also has an "assault weapons ban" that just bans certain magazines, although we probably have other laws too that one bugged me.
very nice.
is there a sdk from Polar? How do you go about writing such apps that talk to HRM?

Thanks
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Signing with digital certs is an awesome idea but the technical infrastructure to make it work is pretty heavyweight -- it's more work for the first agreement than printing something out, signing it, scanning it back in. It's great once you have huge volumes of documents shared among the same people, but a very large up-front cost. For a lot of uses, someone is signing a single document to get signed up on your service, which is exactly when you don't want to add friction.

The other benefit of the "fake handwritten signature" systems is they are a drop-in replacement for scanned forms in lots of workflows, and have legal standing (thank you fax machine).
My own personal, small sample size experience has shown that if I start questioning things early on in the interview, I can predict fairly well whether or not the company will be a good fit or not. I try not to jump to conclusions but even initial emails and phone calls can make for pretty strong clues.

If I sense during an interview that things aren't going to be a good fit, I still try and finish the interview graciously. There is no use burning any bridge, even if it's one you're 100% certain you'll never use. One trick I do to keep myself from seeming aloof or displeased is to start asking questions about the industry. At this point, I know I don't want the job and probably don't care about the culture, but learning something about an industry you may not know much about could be useful down the line.
It's been fixed as of 40 minutes ago:
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/484#update-1502
Using the same stack :)
We don't support materialized views at the moment, though I can't think of a reason why we couldn't support them if needed. A big strength for our OLAP performance is simply having CPU and memory resources that scale with storage and a query planner that is smart enough to take advantage of those resources.
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I didn't see a lot about websocket routing.

I'm in a situation where I want to use secure websockets to lots of backend VMs. In fact, I want each user to get a fresh VM running a websockets server.

Can I reverse-proxy the secure websocket, terminating the SSL, and dynamically forward it along to various backends (VMs)? I would like to multiplex the secure websockets without putting the SSL cert inside each VM.
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Well, it's a fair point even if not serious. If someone at my children's school had told them before they saw Empire I'd have been devastated.
If you can put this on AWS, you can sell it as a self installable thing, which I've been hassling Clustrix sales people about forever.

I hope that's next. :)
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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn SQL
I'm currently working at a YC start-up and have limited programming and SQL experience. I want to learn SQL much better than I know it now so I can make the custom queries necessary to get the information I need. I have a basic understanding of SQL, but I don’t use it enough to really learn it. I want to have a structured method of learning it that will force me to get better at it. I (happily) work long days, so a book or online manual won’t work. It’s just too easy to “push it back” another hour to get something else done and by the time I’m done for the day I’m too tired to tackle the self-learning. I would prefer an online class (that I have to attend, no skipping) or am open to taking a physical class that is less than 7 hours a week (Weekends OK). We’re located in Berkeley, so if UC-Berkeley or a close by university/college has a class I’d be down. The company is very open to helping me pay if necessary, or take time during the day (~1-1.5 hours) for a class. Any help or suggestions would be great.

The only real requirement is that the class is accessible either online or close enough to Berkeley to make sense, and that it does a good job at teaching SQL.

What do you suggest and/or have done that works.

Thanks,
Being fairly new to this, and doing a large amount of experimenting, I enjoy being able to quickly mockup a (sort of) working prototype, without having to type too much code. During the learning process, you just want an interface, and not much else.

I guess it comes down to workflow, and that's always a personal thing.
The poor interview process is one thing, but what irks me most is that almost nobody offers you a chance to meet the team, even when they make you an offer. That's been my general experience so far anyway. It sucks, because your only exposure to anyone was the hiring manager, and maybe a lead, and all they did was ask questions about what you memorized about whatever language(s).
Similar pressure? In what world are they even comparable?

We are talking about firing someone, not even a weekend in prison. Give me a break.
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"Btw, is there a similar business model and explanation for hellosign? I assume there is. If not, the link you gave is not really relevant to this discussion."

Threads in topics often vary in subject. My posting would not be suitable as a reply to the OP, following from the top of this thread, I would say my replies are perfectly reasonable relative to the parent post.
On the other hand you made an example that was accidentally valid. The axis of good/bad code exists independent of language. But there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey.

Get to work strongly implying that C is the actual cause of all these things with no externalities, and then you get toward the fallacy.
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Agreed! I've been on the receiving end of cover letters like this and while I appreciated the honesty, it wasn't exactly intriguing.
That struck me too. Are they saying no company will offer remote or visa assistance?
I'm getting an error page whenever I try to log in with my google apps email. Would really like to try the product :/
As a guess (because I am not qualified to speak on behalf of all of HN): Because what the prosecution did was so beyond the pale that blaming it on "mental illness" amounts to prejudice. Kind of like blaming women, blacks, etc. for their problems and thereby sweeping serious systemic issues under the rug in the process.

I haven't read too much about this specific case, but you can be depressed for years and not attempt suicide. You can also be mentally stable but still get pressured into abnormal behavior by sufficient duress. I think we can more clearly establish that this case pushed him over the edge than we can establish that "he would have committed suicide anyway, even if life had been smooth sailing, because of his wonky brain chemistry".
Thanks, exactly what I thought when I read the article.
I was with you until the extracirricular comment. I can see how some extracirriculars are irrelevant for an engineering job, but I think that it's important to remember that you're hiring a person, not a machine. For many people, extracirricular activities are one of the best windows into their personality that you're likely to get in the typical job application materials. At their best, they can give you an impression of what makes that candidate tick - what have they prioritized with their time and attention outside of the traditional work/school arenas of life (which often are a lot more prescribed)? What have they done/built of their own volition rather than for an assignment? (perhaps outside of the field of this job)

Extracirriculars certainly aren't everything, but to say that they are either only neutral or negative seems to me to be willfully ignoring one of the most important human characteristics of a candidate - and in some cases might prioritize candidates who have followed a lot of directions but rarely become truly passionate about something independently over someone who has devoted significant time and energy to something else.
Well I certainly misjudged the articles title, this makes a lot more sense now. I guess the Phish crowd hasn't gone all business savvy after-all.
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Worked for an employer who used it. FAAANTASTIC. I met with the entire Executive team out in SFO on Friday, great company. I have never seen anyone take such care in doing massive QA (including month+ long regression testing on every generations of their platform)
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What precisely do you mean by "interested"? As in, interested in the culture (news and blog posts and so forth)? Interested in working at one? Founding one?

Your observation is, of course, incredibly anecdotal and depends on myriad factors. For instance, if you are going to a college outside of a major startup hub but near a big tech sector (such as NC or Atlanta) you'll find people aren't necessarily as interested in startups because of their lack of presence and the security of knowing there's a blue chip job awaiting them. Meanwhile if you find yourself in the Valley, there's certainly plenty of young people who are interested in startups, whether working at one or founding their own.

For what it is worth, I go to school near NYC and lots of my peers are interested in startups to the point where my small-ish school is considering entrepreneurship tutorials and hosting tech fairs that are focused on small businesses and startups.

Personally, I just turned 22 and am interning for a startup right now and am looking to work for one in the city when I graduate in May.
He meant his stated rationale. I'm sure his actual rationale is to try and help the interviewer achieve enlightenment by turning his own pointless methods back on him.
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If Aaron had not randomized his MAC, would his access have been authorized?
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I tried creating a profile, and accidently linked the wrong Github account (work vs personal) and there doesn't seem to be a way to unlink it.
Quite true, but I believe what we were discussing was individual's recordings of what they were seeing, rather than systematic surveillance.
I actually didn't realize (or mean to imply) Paul was a direct investor. I just knew you guys were YC and knew Paul was a general partner in YC, so there was a real but indirect and not huge financial connection. Obviously the case for disclosure is stronger knowing that Paul is more directly invested (and it's good you're disclosing it).

On the flipside, having Paul as an investor might actually be something worth bragging about -- you could be pretty bold with your disclosure if you phrase it right.
It's also possible hackers tend to be more depressed. That would not surprise me considering the stereotypical hacker's isolated lifestyle. Aaron certainly had a history of depression and doesn't really strike me as stereotypical or average in any way, though.
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What are you referring to by "this"?
Does your virality coefficient really need to be above 1?
Car analogies are usually bad. This one is worse.

The underling problem is very true though.
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I love free apps. Free is better than nothing.
Did you find a job via DA? If so, what is your level of experience as a developer? I have 5 years of QA experience but am looking to move into a developer role. Not sure if DA is geared toward someone like me, or only for more experienced developers?
One of the points of having your militia "well-regulated" is that it can now and then refrain from killing people.
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Been struggling for a while with finding a decent implementation of an Enum design pattern in ruby. Did this small writeup including an implementation suggestion - comment away!
Note I said presentation logic, not application logic. Deciding when a button should grey out etc. is presentation logic. Its the kind of thing you fiddle with after you have your basic system done. I don't believe these minor look and feel stuff should be in the same boat as real application logic.
>there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey.

I disagree -- just as someone writing C can do it well or poorly, someone drinking whiskey can behave well or poorly.

The spectrum of drunken behavior is a big one, and does include moral and immoral activity...
I don't think universities can demand anything. I believe it is up to prosecutors to proceed with or support plea agreements. Why was MIT asked at all if the punishment was acceptable?
You'll need more than pretty graphics to convince people to try yet another sodoku app.

Yes, those pretty graphics are important, and people getting their first sodoku game on the phone may switch to your game because of them. But almost everybody that likes sodoku already has one installed, and they still have to find you at their search results.
Looks promising, sorely needed.

However, installation did not work for me. I presume that you are under a heavy load, put I'll throw this info here in any case if it's any help for you guys. On the first try, installing proceeded to GMail verification and threw an error after that (Error page on HelloSign.com). On the second try, it got stuck after GMail verification and I finally got No Data Received (Error 324 ...)
Ah I see. Ok, thats's perfectly normal, it is a reflection of people agreeing/disagreeing with what you wrote or how well they think you've contributed to the discussion.

If I can give you two tips for continued survival on HN: ignore the points and do your homework.

The standard of conduct and comment on average is a lot higher here than on other fora. The last couple of days have been pretty rough and are not representative of the longer term.