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Saying that NEP was a success is like saying replacing daily savage beatings with moderate floggings on weekends only is a success. Of course, the latter is better, but you're still beaten pretty bad. NEP was better than what preceded and followed it, but was very far from the "right thing" - and was never intended as anything but temporary measure to allow the economy to recover a bit after the savage years of the war and "war communism", and the centrally planned economy always was and remained the ultimate goal of socialism. What Stalin did was inevitable.
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That's like 50 pages. An hour or so. (I skipped to other tabs too, I admit it.)
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I found this post really really good. I've been hiring for a few months and obviously want to treat candidates well. A lot of the points you made are things I had realized by myself, some were new and interesting, but there are a few things I disagreed with.

> If your contact is jobs@foo.bar...

I'm unclear what you'd prefer. I man the jobs@circleci.com mailing list, and while I agree it's impersonal, I don't think there's a better alternative. Should I use paul@circleci.com? What if someone else needs to take over for a few days? What about when we've grown too big for me to personally respond to every applicant, and we have dozens of HN posts (or other places with similar content) pointing to an email which is no longer useful.

I think jobs@circleci.com is the best approach, but welcome better suggestions. It also has the advantage that everyone in the company gets it, so we can all look them over if needs be.

> If I respond to your post 3 days after the posting date. [...] I obviously know the job is still available, I'm looking for a 2-line reply so I know you actually give a damn.

Don't do this. Put yourself in my shoes. Do you think I know you're looking to see if I give a damn? Which I don't, because I get dozens of job emails a day, and most of them don't come across as stupid (which that does).

> Acknowledge my application.

Totally agree. I respond to all applicants, even if that response is a polite rejection. The only things I ignore (actually, I mark them as spam) are recruiters and outsourcers.

> If you have "We get sooooo many applications, we'll only contact those we're interested in" I go "Bullshit!".

I think you'd be surprised. Dozens a day. And I have another job - actually running a company.

> Optional: This might not be for everyone, but I personally think it is a good approach. Whenever you send a rejection, state why you're rejecting the candidate

Warning for others: DO NOT DO THIS. I did this for the first 3 people who ever applied. It took me 30 minutes to compose those emails, and I went into considerable detail. Oh, and it was really harrowing to write negative things about another human being, especially one who hadn't asked for it.

One replied, and was very thankful for the feedback and promised to work on it. He replied a few months later thanking me again. Two didn't reply, which means my hour was not only wasted, but I actually sent feedback that they didn't want or appreciate (which means they now think I'm an asshole).

Now, I send feedback to anyone who asks for it, and sometimes will have a back-and-forth about it.

> Instead, put in as much effort as I do.

In this, and the other things which others have described as "a sense of entitlement", you're committing the same crime as the employers: only caring about and seeing your side of the story. I've been on both sides in recent history, and both sides (and both "Dear HN" pieces) suffer from not looking at the other person's position (something which is useful in nearly all walks of business, as well as life).
> Why is PBS fighting this? They are subsidized from the government

You answered your question right there.
I've been waiting for YUI team to fit the YUI App Framework(the equivalent of BackBone) into Mojito. But seems like you've beaten them to it. :)

Great job!
I didn't claim that, so that's an irrelevant question. I claimed that prosperity is not a foregone conclusion after having rich people. That is trivially provable by observing certain countries.
I read that you spend 0 time on marketing, but how do people find your service in the first place? Is it all organic searching or did you slowly gain traction since 2007 and spread by word of mouth?

I've got an online SaaS I just launched (a month ago) and am struggling to figure out how to get people to even sign up for a free trial.
So far I see absolutely zero effects of these fundamental changes. In fact, even finding a way to get bitcoins - without trusting one of those "exchanges" that constantly are getting hacked - looks non-trivial at best, and looks next to impossible to do it anonymously. As for using it for some common activity except selling/buying controlled substances and such - forget about it. When I am able to pay with Bitcoins on Amazon - then we'd be talking.
I didn't ask for more information. What you decide to tell me in your cover letter is way more interesting than your exhaustive list of every piece of software you've ever used.

I'm not a recruiter who throws resumes at a text processor and sends through useless people to the employer because of some random keyword. I'm the employer who's looking for quality people who are interesting.

In judging that, your resume is fairly useless compared to a cover letter.

I've applied for about two dozen jobs in my life. I have about a 33% success rate getting an interview and have got the job at every interview but one. Having now been a hiring manager for the past five years, I believe that's down to the fact that I don't just pump out bland useless resumes to people. (And I avoid recruiters!)

TL;DR; Here's my advice: If you're applying to a large corporation or via a recruiter, the cover letter is probably useless. But if you're applying directly (or to a HN post!) then spend a few minutes explaining yourself.
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Well, the argument here is pretty specific: the plaintiffs (some farmers) argue that the law is unconstitutional because it seizes their property in a procedure that doesn't comply with the 5th amendment. Only the farmers would have standing to raise that particular argument.

A consumer arguing the law was unconstitutional would have to come up with a different reason, at least.
Boots stamping on faces forever, also it'll be really goddamn hot. Next.
As a prolific tomato grower (only because they're damn expensive in the uk if you want non gas ripened crap ones and theyre like a crack addiction), you don't need to fiddle around with all of that rubbish.

Plants of all kinds are pretty good at growing on their own with not much help from us if you know what their natural conditions would be. Granted you might get 10% less yield if you don't treat them nicely but its just not worth the 200% more effort.

Stick them in cheap compost indoors and keep moist with an atomiser spray until they germinate. Wait until they are about 3 inches high, then cut out with a spoon and wham in any old plant pot. When they are 15cm tall, feed 'em with cheap tomato food. When they are 25cm tall, yank them out of the pot, poke a 6' bamboo stick 12" into the ground and throw the plant in a hole at the front. Water daily. Tie to pole every so often. Tomatoes done.

Only consideration is don't grow them in the same place every year or they'll get diseased (technically rotate your crops) and make sure its in a very sunny bit.

Make your own compost as well for planting out. I just throw all my veg waste in a black bin and leave it for a year. Anything goes in except for tea bags and meats and plastics.

I spend about 3 hours a year on tomatoes and get literally 30-40kg using this method (street value here for same quality is around £480).

Get your seeds here (the last respectable seed shop): http://www.realseeds.co.uk/
Since Julia is within a factor of 2 of C on some common micro-benchmarks (http://julialang.org/), and since it has a decent IO library (libuv, borrowed from node.js), it wouldn't surprise me if performance is on par with the JVM.
The point pg is trying to make is that seeking relative material wealth with respect to others is akin to seeking pure status/power without having to do the work required to get it. It is all too easy to move to Costa Rica or wherever and live like a king for $10 a day.
“The photos during take-off and landing are all computer models and totally rendered because I would never use an electronic device during times when the FAA prohibits them.”

Lulz.
Some of it may be explained by early editions of the HTML5 Boilerplate "best practices".

See: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/ed906cfb1b429...
And Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/21822029
Nor do I buy 54, the idea that rich people create more wealth for society from by-products, like Henry Ford gifting us with the automobile. I don't think it's correlated.

You said, "Wealth for society isn't correlated with rich people." If that were true, then it should be possible to have a wealthy country without letting people become rich. It's not.

Maybe we're talking past each other. You're saying you don't like powerful rich people. I'm saying you have to let people become rich, or your country will be poor. Maybe the countries you're thinking of have rich people, but don't let people become rich except through inheritance. That would result in a poor country.

(Incidentally, PG's essay explores that point, too, which is why it's a bad idea to tear apart his essays into a gigantic numbered list.)
I dont think I'm doing it wrong. I do what you say, a quick note. Maybe two sentences. That's not a cover letter though, like GP is requiring.

You and I may disagree on this point then; I consider what you describe to be a cover letter.

In my experience, their internal recruiters monitoring inbounds are usually ringing me before my finger is even off the send button.

Honestly, I think you include more than you're letting on. Whether it's a short sentence in your application email, something tailored in your CV, or a short cover letter - basically, stuff you think is unimportant because it takes you 30 seconds to do, for maybe a grand total of a few minutes per application, and so you assume that other people are also doing this.

I think that the sheer number of people who make zero effort means that even small stuff like including the person's name, if listed, at the top of the email really does make a difference.
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Absolutely - in fact, I saw them last Friday. Depending on your airline / how late it is the captain may put an announcement out about it.

If you're on an east bound transatlantic red-eye you want to be on the left hand side of the plane, but I think you also have a chance of seeing them on domestic Canadian / Alaskan flights that go far enough north.
Your reply remind me of the situation I was in little over a year ago. Based on my own experiences going through trying to learn to code, a few comments:

"In the end, I really want to learn how to code"

No, in the end you want to learn how to solve problems.

If you start with a problem and try to learn the minimal of whatever coding/ language/ package/ software is required to solve the problem, you will be much further ahead. At this stage, don't worry about being efficient or writing the best code. Now, I laugh at the SQL queries that I wrote a year ago but they did solve the problem. Over time, I learnt to write much better queries.

"I always stopped short of achieving my goal"

This is because it was your goal and on not achieving the goal you gave yourself a pass. You will be better off solving a problem for someone else for whom you care and you will be embarrassed if you didn't solve the problem, like for your spouse, kids, parents, siblings, friends, coworkers, boss, neighbor. Also, achieving small victories are important for continued interest.

Little over a year ago I was jumping around between Ruby, Java, Python, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, R never finished learning or using any of them until my wife asked me to automate a manual process for her. I started out with solving her problem and learning enough of the languages that will quickly solve the parts of the problem.

In the end, I learnt enough of mySQL, PHP, and Bootstrap to deliver a complete solution to her problem. There was enough fear of failure and being embarrassed that I delivered a complete solution, however rough, to her. Since then I have modified and extended the solution and now it is being used by another 1,000 users, still it is an ugly piece of work. But I am much more satisfied and encouraged to continue learning and improving.
Can anyone comment on the difficulty of porting Matlab code to Julia? It appears extremely straightforward, but I'm guessing that many toolbox functions aren't implemented in Julia yet?

In academia, there's tremendous momentum behind Matlab, but Julia would solve many problems with licensing, building more complex systems, etc.
> Anything goes in except for tea bags and meats and plastics.

You can put the plastics in, if you are prepared to fish them out afterwards. (Unless you are worried about chemicals in the plastics.)

What's wrong with teabags?
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Growing tomatoes or anything really, is the perfect counter balance to working on a computer. I've solved many issues while removing suckers from tomatoes or spraying neem to ward off mold and pests.
Originally I did spend some time trying to share knowledge about my service. Haven't done so in 3-4 years.

When I did I was doing the usual crappy stuff, sharing on forums, as a signature on posts, comments on reviews of other free survey solutions, and the like. (As I mentioned I'm bad at marketing - so I'm not the best person to answer your question)

If you read the firt part:
http://obsurvey.blogspot.dk/2013/03/how-i-was-forced-to-crea...

You'll see that the growth is mostly word of mouth.
I didn't say I don't like rich people. You are being intellectually dishonest now.
Looks nice! Looks a lot like Youtify though, which is open source and welcoming contributors.

http://www.youtify.com/
As Moldbug wrote: "In any economy, there exists no less than one commodity or security of inelastic volume which is overvalued due to reservation demand. Ie: one scarce good which is money." Bitcoin's increasing price is a sign that it's further along in its passage to monetization. Gold, too, experiences the same phenomena of being "overvalued". I.e., being far above the price warranted by its use value. In the same way gold is also partially monetized (in particular it has large reservation demand from central banks)

Buying bitcoin is essentially a bet on the probability it will be monetized. This probability will wax and wane in the minds of the population participating in the bitcoin market, who in turn will be influenced by media perceptions, the actions of the state etc. So the price will no doubt be quite volatile. But the increase in price, based on an increase in reservation demand, is self-reinforcing. It increases the desire of merchants to accept bitcoin in payment (since there are now a greater pool of holders who have greater savings looking for an outlet to spend those savings). And as new merchants begin accepting bitcoin in payment, the reservation demand increases. These two causalities are linked together and reinforce each other. At some point they become entrenched enough that the whole thing "lifts off", so to speak, and the commodity becomes money. Interestingly, the same thing happens with gold, except that one of the two causalities is short-circuited by the state: the reservation demand for gold does not spur merchants to accept gold in payment, because that is made illegal by the state. Thankfully bitcoin is so well engineered that the problem of the state banning use in transactions is essentially moot (no offense "Chuck" Schumer).﻿
Don't get me wrong, like I said, there's plenty of jobs@domain.com that actually read and reply to applications, but it's a black hole a lot of the times, and I tend to avoid it.

I would suggest you use something like Name@domain.com. Perhaps you could do a separate e-mail just for hiring. Say your email is john.smith@domain.com, do a jsmith@domain.com just for hiring. That way, you can just auto-forward to someone else when you need him to take over. Here's a reason why I think this would also benefit your hiring a bit. I usually address my emails with the name of the person, so I'd open with "Hi John", "Hey John", "Dear John", or some variation of that. I can't do that at jobs@domain.com, because there may be multiple people reading that, so I'd have to do something more generic. What that means for you, the employer, is that I actually read your post and wrote the e-mail, and not just bcc'd you together with another hundred guys.

I'd never think sending feedback would be a bad choice. Of course, don't send something offensive like "you're the worst programmer ever". I don't think anyone would be offended by "we're looking for someone with more experience in X", which is what I suggested.

As for the way I phrase some of my emails: I've only send the "is the job still available" kind only a couple of times, but perhaps surprisingly I got some of the best contacts this way. Perhaps because the guy on the other end was open to going past that. In fact, the best hiring process I've had with someone I had emailed with "I've attached my resume" when in fact I hadn't. Few jokes later, I had a job offer.
Generally you can't have the window open when people are sleeping at night time in the plane. Anyone's guess how he manage to do that?
How and what was the hardware setup?
> “Not fuzzy-headed,” he says, “but crisp. A crisp softness to it.” Soon he was experiencing a level of concentration he’d never imagined. “My senses sort of shifted to the visual, and my auditory sense went down. Sounds didn’t even register. It was like walking around on a winter day when it just snowed. It was very easy to stay visually focused.”

Placebo effect? I understand that drugs have slightly different effects on each person, but I have never felt any of that stuff.

I experimented with 100mg tablets of Modafinil for a few years because I can't concentrate. It did nothing for my concentration, nothing I could discern, at any rate. Modafinil did help to get rid of my sleepiness: if the task/meetings/lectures dragged a bit, I'd actually nod off. Modafinil fixed that.

Write-ups such as this one on nymag make Modafinil sound like something to trip on. Very misleading.

> At the very least, doctors have warned that modafinil can bring about sleep deprivation

I call BS.
> If a word ends in a vowel, you must use a dash.

Feeling prescriptive these days?
Where does one draw the line? How is one guaranteed on the ROI of drafting a good response.. I used to go the extra mile, spend time writing a good cover letter, personalizing my resume for the job and most of the time I did not even get a response.
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I was pretty impressed with the 12 hours of non-stop youtube readings. Dedication.
some of the breeds that LAF offers are not even vaguely hardy. the more mainstream breeds we've gone with from other folks have a much easier time.
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Don't worry. To me, it sounds like the author was tripping on his own silly mind.
Ask HN: How to use $10,000 for max 1 yr ROI?
Decent: >15% ROI, <40% risk. (??)

Just a random thought that I was curious to see what people would do. Also the numbers were off the top of my head and I have no idea how viable they are for the situation. The risk was added to mitigate obvious hi-risk hi-return options (e.g.- gambling)
When drugs are used illegally, reporting on their adverse effects is generally shoddier than for on-label prescription usage, for a variety of reasons. In my personal experience, Provigil is an extremely effective and powerful tool, and like any power tool, should be treated with the proper respect or you're likely to get hurt. See my other comment a few threads below for more information and context, but I wanted to reply quickly to this (admittedly excellent) resource because it didn't seem to have a whole lot to say about the potential dangers, and as I've personally experienced them (and still find Modafanil to be a drug worth taking on occasion) I thought I'd try and make sure that others like me can learn from my mistakes without the need for their permanent consequences. The long and short - If you choose to use Modafanil, drink plenty of water, try not to use it as a sleep replacement (48-72 hours without sleep) more than once or twice a month, and fortify and replenish your body with quality food before, during, and after. If you are reckless, the lack of sleep combined with a histamine agonist can have effects that are roughly the opposite of benadryl, including an increased propensity for immune response (including allergies), that depending on your misfortune may become a permanent part of your life.
"a pill that can have some serious side-effects"

Such as?
Yup. I agree that for those that want the benefits, modafinil does fall into the free lunch category if you follow the one rule I posted about not taking it within 12 hours of your intended sleep time. ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5478020
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While I dont take issue with your optimism and logic, I think it is flawed and naive, even if only due to the following:

Go to a grocery store; Safeway or whole foods. Note the prices for items based on their qty/weight/etc.

Now go to a restaurant wholesale style place (not a costco, which is an illusion of savings).

A place like "cash and carry" (there is one in oakland) where the small scale restaurateurs purchase goods for sale and markup to Joe Consumer.

Look at the price difference and what you, even as a non-wholesale-licensed-individual can purchase.

Now, the price you are paying in a place like cash and carry is still a profitable amount for both cash and carry AND the upstream providers to them (distributors, farmers, whomever) - but the prices are far less than a Safeway...

So, while I think that the statement you made is true, to a point, I think that we need a revolution in what industries gouge and which don't.

Food prices are being designed to kill. (I'd love to go into detail but it just hit midnight and I have a GOT episode to rewatch)
I know someone who is an extreme example of this. My wife will go to bed at 11 on a Friday night, wake up around 8, go out to the living room, then fall right back to sleep. I thought it might be that I was snoring but she claims she is sleeping through the whole night. On top of that, she's not a particularly long sleeper in the week (7.5 or so hours). I don't get it to be honest.

In any case, just want to reaffirm that the test proposed in the top comment is way off target.
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