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I believe this is the same thinking the author of the article is rallying against.

So a candidate is more qualified because they ran a (potentially) meaningless gauntlet of bureaucracy, debt, and busywork?

I know that's not quite what you're saying. As I stated below - the issue is the gatekeepers. Large companies are ignoring incredibly talented individuals - simply because their HR departments are inept - or their hiring prerequisites don't allow anyone without a degree.

That said - startups can use this to their advantage. Review code samples, ask REAL questions, get to know your hires.

I love finding the savant coder, the incredibly motivated sales rep, etc - and using them to build our company - and looking at their past projects, samples, experience to make a hiring decision.
How do I make this job post relevant to developers?
I think that is something that has changed. More trucks, and more truck drivers who drive like they're driving a car.
How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects?
It's kind of surprising given how much Microsoft seems to otherwise encourage their employees to post work stuff on the Internet.
Also the ability to exchange coins, similar to gift cards.
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given their history with paying developers that are the app of the day on their store[1], I can see them finding a loophole to avoid paying devs who collect payments with coins.

[1] http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rott...
They are still exchanging at $156.5 USD to 1 BC at the moment. Not sure how many orders are going to be canceled by the sellers.
>So I think Four Square is breaking new ground. Yes, that's always risky. But I am guessing they understand this space better than the hn equivalent of a few "armchair politicians" looking on from the outside.

Very true, I still think they are on the verge of something (whether they are it or not is another question left up to the internet). I think it would be pretty cool if they worked with the stores to create an personalized interactive experience for the user. Checkins would be the first step, but after that, they could try to gamify the space/store/shop that took very little effort from the stores part, but also give reasons for users to go to stores beyond "you can buy this".
I did! Thank you very much for linking me to it.
This isn't a crypto-currency, only a virtual currency with a single vendor.

Not quite a BTC competitor in any sense yet.
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Or not..... comments about "legitimate rape" come to mind.
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Thank you for this, I really enjoy learning about the inner working of other industries. Thank you for correcting my ignorance.
It's really one of the few things in the modern economy still clearly fitting the old Marxist narrative. It really is capital crushing labor.
Yup.

And conversion of customer behaviour... they could offer Amazon coins as rewards for Marketplace sales knowing that they'll move some customers to future digital offers (I'm thinking the 2nd hand CD, books and DVD markets, but there are others I'm sure).
If you think hummingbird is strange, check out the notation system my former engineering prof came up with http://www.pianotheoryman.com - based on real-time systems engineering experience!

I'm a classically trained pianist and an engineer, and I get why tech-minded people are frequently tempted to hack western notation, but notation is that way for a reason, and it isn't what prevents people from becoming skilled musicians. It's talent.
No, they really did demonstrate these vulnerabilities on real cars, it's not a theoretical analysis. Here's a link to their full research talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfOziIwXic

I've been to both the UW and UCSD security labs and have seen their videos. It's real.

This is ongoing work and honestly I cited the first article I could find.
If you're looking to learn it for any actual, practical application, e.g. any kind of development that will be deployed on the web

My first Python program was automating .csv creation based off of a bunch of arbitrary files in a folder. I did it as a marketing intern, after spending an hour convincing my boss that I could save the company literally tens of hours of time a month. I did it on a Windows XP box.

A few months later, I changed my major to CS.

If we want more people programming -- and being good at it -- saying 'hey use Linux lol' is not the way to go about it. Especially in a corporate environment.
There is a grace period of (I think) 14 days if your visa expires. There is no legally defined grace period if you are fired before your visa expires.
I've submitted this to point you to the more interesting (but related) submission of mine that didn't get much exposure. It unfortunately involves reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531743
It lets you put money into their ecosystem without being able to take it back out.

It's a series of infinite gift cards, without the inconvenience of having to print physical gift cards.
Yep, that's an important and maybe non-obvious behavior of the shell:

"directly adjacent strings which are double quoted, "'single quoted or even'\ unquoted\ and\ possibly\ full\ of\ escape\ sequences\ 'get concatenated and count as a single parameter.'

Running touch on the above will create one file with very long name.
Borowitz is just not funny.
Maybe, and why not? Let's face it, Amazon would coins make a lot more sense for most people than Bitcoin would. There's also the possibility that they're moving to undermine Paypal; Amazon and eBay have been at odds on Capital hill over sales tax policy.
Apparently, there is a process to qualify for a grace period (if the loss of employment can be anticipated in advance) but if a H1B worker is terminated, they face immediate deportation under the law.
[citation needed] - highly doubtful.
This looks like a product that is trying to do/show too much.

The 1 API for 12 OAuth providers, by itself sounds like a killer feature, and a product all by itself.
A different perspective http://cdpn.io/pAqgc
The installers don't stop the user from learning how to manage their packages. Other than Anaconda, the installers still emphasis using easy_install or pip. But what these do that many people don't understand is that when you do hit a compiling problem, it's often easier to find a pre-compiled package and simply install. So for you other examples, lxml is another notoriously difficult to get running on Windows. So you are stuck with a less efficient BeautifulSoup or not able to use PyQuery. So an installer for young python users is a godsend. As they dig deeper into python, the items you highlight are naturally developed.

(Don't get me wrong, by the way, props for helping out the often less technical Windows crowd.)
If you liked this, you should really read the Wikipedia article on one-way functions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_way_function

Some tidbits:

* "The existence of such one-way functions is still an open conjecture. In fact, their existence would prove that the complexity classes P and NP are not equal"

* "It is not sufficient to make a function 'lossy' (not one-to-one) to have a one-way function."

* "The existence of a one-way function implies the existence of many other useful concepts, including: [PRNGs, MACs, etc.]"
The problem with people like you is you're just as bad as the people you're complaining about. The world isn't black and white and such mechanisms can both be sought out based on greed and yet still have positive consequences. Indeed I agree with you on some level, the greater good is about everybody, not just the people living in your local vicinity, but are you sure that's what this is?

You really think you're doing the greater good by stealing the best and brightest from countries that probably need them quite a bit more than your own, while ignoring the locals who just want a fair shake at a decent life? All of this in order that some have so much money that it has long become meaningless? That sounds a lot more like keeping the other countries down while lowering your own standard of living, which seems to match the ever growing rich / poor divide.

I can't say I have a lot of experience working with H1B visas, but I have a wealth of experience working with immigrants in Britian from similar counties, and those people are almost exclusively middle class+ in order to have recieved the type of education that is desirable within the US. This may not offer quite the same quality of life that it does in the west, but they're hardly from a poverty stricken background.

I don't know how to make the world a better place, but I doubt helping the likes of multi-billionaires become ever richer while they sit on that money until the end of time is really the way forward. The schemes are almost certainly abused to hire cheaper workers. The ridiculously unfulfillable adverts have been proving this for years.
It's not even the first time that somebody has gotten themselves into high-profile trouble for insulting a place where a customer lives on Twitter, either.

>Much has been made of Ketchum vp James Andrews, who became an international embarrassment to Ketchum when he used his Twitter account to insult Memphis, the hometown of client Fedex, the morning before he was to meet with them there. The tweet was copied to Fedex's marketing management, and a predictable round of corporate apologizing followed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42740256/worst-twitte...
Think back to trips to Disneyland or Disneyworld as a kid. Remember Disney Dollars? Not only were they fun and kid-friendly, creating a distance between real currency and purchases within the park...but they were also redeemable only at Disney parks.

This is the concept behind all loyalty programs, in a nutshell. It's about giving ostensible rewards to loyal customers in an attempt to create what economists call "switching costs," i.e., the degree of hassle involved in moving from one service provider/vendor/business to another. If you've got enough points built up with one provider (e.g., American Airlines), you'll be reluctant to spend money on other providers (Delta, for instance).

Side benefits include increasing customer basket size, increasing purchase frequency, converting customers across categories, and increasing share of wallet per customer.

As loyalty programs go, Amazon Prime has been stellar. It's very costly for the company, and it had Wall Street in a frenzy when it first launched. But it works (and it's also very beneficial to consumers who use it).

I can't say I see the value in this program as much as I do with Amazon Prime, but the logic makes sense.
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Rational miners would indeed stop mining, but fanboys would continue mining at low difficulty. (Keep in mind that some people are using "free" electricity, so their marginal cost is basically zero.) Then someone might do a 51% attack just for the lulz.
> the current situation is creating a class of employees who are one step above indentured servitude.

Hear, hear.

Because permanent status is years away (or not attainable) your home and your health are in the hands of the employer. The step above is, above, but not by much.
Why bother? you're still wrong.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1c4e1o/as_a...
I recommend having accounts not linked with your real identity, where you can say what you actually think. It can be a pain because you have to be careful, but as noted philosopher Dexter Holland said, keep 'em separated.
Two reasons are float (they get your money before you use the coins) and breakage (they keep lost and/or forgotten coins).
I think children are a significant use case. Think of a parent handing off a Kindle Fire to their kid with a set balance of coins. They can buy apps and make in app purchases on their own, without having to worry about the kid going hog wild with a linked credit card or something. Just a guess though.
> I was told very clearly to never write anything I wouldn't want to see published on the front page of the New York Times.

This is what I recommend to everyone. We can't trust Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc. to keep our secrets for us. I mark everything "public", as a reminder to myself to carefully consider what I write there. I have anonymous ids to say things I can't be held legally accountable for having said.
Bitcoin isn't just a currency, it's also a major and reliable international transaction network.
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Or better , fire a virtual machine with linux. I used to develop python and php on windows only to get loads of problems as soon as i had to deploy my script on a linux server. Having a dev and test environment that is close to the production server will save you a lot of time. Working on linux is a great experience, and makes a difference when looking for a job.

Whatever os you choose you just cant get wrong learning python , it is so awesome.
" people who can't or won't move beyond that just are not likely to get much utility out of Python."

You are absolutely wrong about this. Being able to use Python & Django/Flask/PyQT/wxPython/numpy/matplotlib etc in a corporate environment is a huge win. I have deployed multiple Python applications (both Django & wxPython gui apps) on Windows platforms with great success. (I work in a large Canadian hospital FWIW).

Would I prefer to deploy on Linux? Absolutely. Am I delighted that I can still use Python at my Windows only day job? You bet.
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The difficulty with being perfectly honest is that you might find out that you're honestly wrong. When technology amplifies our voices to the whole world, those private revelations become public spectacles.
What Happened to the Rails 4 Queue API?
http://www.quora.com/Foursquare/How-does-foursquare-make-mon...

Hasn't generated much though.
this comment reinforces the theory that comments on HN are not sorted only by their score in the current thread, but more significantly by the commenters' average or total karma.

at time of posting, the parent's user had 3.74 avg karma, but the comment was already graying-out relative to comments that were lower down the thread.
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Lets see, mathematics[1], language[2], writing[3], the printing press[4], scientific method[5]. Each of these innovations are absolutely required for the innovation that pharma companies produce, and none originated in the US.

Your 100 year cut-off point is entirely arbitrary and chosen only because it supports your arguments.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method
There's a difference between expressing opinions and insulting customers. That's what got him in trouble.
Also, the earlier they can get money the more it is worth.
It's in the early 7000's.
Will be fixed, too.
It's a fail from me, that the pagination is also shown, if there are zero results.

Thanks!
How can a 'new virtual currency' be US residents only?

This is more akin to Disney Dollars, than it is to an actual currency which has controls, an exchange rate, international trade etc.
I.e. it's a lock in trick? One should avoid such things.
For your early stage, 3 people startup? (Just asking, not choosing sides here)
The L1 works the way it's supposed to and part of the reason there are restrictions on spouses/children working has to do with how the L1 is issued. For example I've got a client that brings L1s (blanket L1) in at a rate of 5-10 a month. These workers are here from anywhere between 10 days and several years. The US government doesn't want to issue an EAD card to the spouse of someone that's not going to be here for very long.

The biggest problem with the immigration system that I have has to do with students going into the H1-B pool after graduation. We should either hand anyone that graduates with a STEM degree from a US university permanent residence upon graduation or make a new class of H visa that doesn't count against the cap. I see companies cheating but following the letter of the law all the time when they have an F1 student intern that is about to graduate and they want to keep on so they sponsor an H1 for them. This has nothing to do with wages, just the technicalities and paper work. We should be trying desperately to keep these people in the US, not making it luck of the draw if they get an H1.

Any wage depression issues could be resolved if H1-B workers had to work for their employers directly and not as consultants for other employers.

edit: removed bit about L1 and permanent residence, the L1 is dual intent.
Interesting stuff. Personally I'm from the camp of people who don't put a lot of stock in credentials. I wouldn't go so far as to say they carry no weight, but I certainly don't weight them particularly heavily, especially if I have anything else whatsoever to go on.

And to the extent that I do care about, say, a college degree, I definitely am not of the mindset that "You have to have gone to an Ivy League school, or you're obviously a dolt who will never accomplish anything". In fact, I think recruiting at less prestigious schools could be a source of competitive advantage, especially for cash starved early-stage startups. Why try to compete with Google and IBM and Cisco and Microsoft, etc. for grads from Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, MIT, etc., etc? Forget that, we will probably recruit at schools like North Carolina Central[1], Shaw[2], St. Augustines[3], Peace[4], Meredith[5], Wake Tech[6], Durham Tech[7], UNC-Pembroke[8], Fayetteville State University[9], NC A&T[10], Winston-Salem State[11], etc. There's talent to be had everywhere, and I doubt we'll be finding a lot of Google recruiters on those campuses.

[1]: http://www.nccu.edu/

[2]: http://www.shawu.edu/

[3]: http://www.st-aug.edu/

[4]: http://www.peace.edu/

[5]: http://www.meredith.edu/

[6]: http://www.waketech.edu

[7]: http://www.durhamtech.edu

[8]: http://www.uncp.edu/

[9]: http://www.uncfsu.edu/

[10]: http://www.ncat.edu/

[11]: http://www.wssu.edu/
In a similar vein.

GED recipients have been less successful than originally anticipated. Social scientists were surprised because these are people who are intelligent enough to pass the curriculum but they weren't achieving greater success than other dropouts. In trying to understand the gap, what they focused in on is that life success isn't just intelligence, its soft skills like stick-to-it-iveness, willpower, concentration, etc. The GED recipients were talented but unfocused. And the same habits that kept people on track to graduate were the habits that led to life success.

How is that relevant? It's relevant in that college signals more than conformity. It signals soft skills that matter. A willingness to slog through sometime tedious, un-exciting work. Which is what companies need sometimes.

So while I'm kind sympathetic to the argument, its a bit too black/white IMO.
This is nice. Are you using a framework for this tour or is that custom?
Had it on my To-Do but checked it as done to fast. Wasn't done, yet. But it's fixed now!
It's a solution to that problem, but not the best solution (ignoring separate benefits mentioned by other commenters) - the simplest way to avoid kids spending too much is simply to let parents/owners pre-authorise by making a payment and leaving that balance on the account ready to spend, but still in normal currency.
Predicted TSA response: ban airplanes.
I don't even know what TSA does.
Same here.

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The criminal in the above situation would have to provide the same proof of relationship and any criminal record is going to be an issue.
I am going to check this. Is on my to-do!
I know what his point was. I was just pointing out that when you retire, for most people, does have something to do with your age and with the government, because the government offers tax shelters that are tied to your age, and these are what most people use to fund their retirement.

Of course if you're rich enough, you can just pay the taxes and still be rich enough. But that's a circular argument. The point is, the bar for "rich enough to retire" is much higher the younger you are--and not just because you have more years of life ahead of you, but also because of the taxes.
I personally enjoyed the demo/example, but I know others will probably be more motivated by a singular focused call to action (eg, a landing page that is less busy).

Good Luck.
Fundamentally credentials make sense to me. If we were designing an employment system from scratch, some form of independent standards and certification would be difficult to pass up. It would aid accurately sorting skilled/trained people into appropriate areas of work.

I say this with no credentials whatsoever, so I'm not just trying to be part of the 'credentialist conspiracy'.

In practice our existing system just isn't fulfilling that purpose enough to justify the enormous amount of money being spent. Accurate signalling on knowledge/skill level has been lost in the noise of wealth/conformity signalling.
If someone meets the qualifications, is excited about the position, can handle the startup life, and isn't destructive, I don't see why not
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And that's cool. Your story is a good one and you bring up a lot of good points. The area where I firmly disagree is how absolute you are.

Are you being overly narcissistic? Probably, but that's fine - it's an opinion and he should hear it. But saying so concretely that it's always bad and will always do X and ruin X is really a poor way to convey information, especially to a younger fellow looking for answers.

However, the main thing it sounds like we disagree on is the future of education. You are correct that there are lots of problems with the college system, but all I can see is it growing. College just brings you to the table, like a high school degree did 40 years ago. Now it's grad school that sets you apart, education wise. I can only see that continuing to evolve into the future. Hopefully what is taught becomes more practical, but higher-learning is not leaving.

You're main point about getting knowledge elsewhere is true. However. 1) it's very difficult to convey to the outside world that you have that info without a degree, and 2) very few people are motivated enough to actually do that. Bill Gates is a rare example, we can all agree on that. I'm sure this kid will be able to read a dozen econ and marketing books and come out ahead, and so your advice could make sense to him. However, very few people are going to have the initiative, and so college will continue to thrive.

If you are selling all your college stock, I'm buying it, and feeling pretty good.
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I know my employment agree is to be kept private according to the document.
Dont know why you got downvoted , you are telling the truth. Virtualization is so cheap and easy today, you can even set up a virtual server on a windows machine and serve content on a local network , no need to buy another machine running just linux : cost = 0.