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Show HN: 'Job Tips For Geeks: The Job Search' ebook release
Over the past year the Job Tips For Geeks blog has had some success with the HN crowd - readers may have seen Why You Make Less Money or Why You Didn't Get the Interview. I have just released my first ebook "Job Tips For Geeks - The Job Search", which is a step-by-step guide to a job search written specifically for software engineers and tech pros. It is now available for download on several reading platforms on the expected major book sites.

The book is set chronologically and starts on moves to make before you start looking, and evaluates the pros/cons of each search strategy (and introduces a strategy that I think is the future for much startup tech hiring, and involves jobs that don't exist). Next is the during the search portion (building and submitting resumes, phone screen and interview techniques, how/when to follow-up), and eventually gets to how/when/why to negotiate, resignations, acceptance, counteroffers, and maximizing the time you spent searching.

It's written from a recruiter's perspective, and I know HN loves recruiters. My writing is typically critical of the profession, and this book includes several of the tricks and techniques recruiters use and how to avoid falling victim to some of them. I provide the recruiter's 'script' on counteroffers, and the measures taken to prevent them, as well as inside info on lots of recruiter tactics.

More info can be found on the Job Tips For Geeks blog and specifically on http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/book
How is their network performance in your experience? I think that's the only place I've found them deficient compared to EC2 or others.
Some experiments have been performed, and the results are not pretty:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/when-congress-voted...

The House killed Watt's amendment [the literal text of the Fourth Amendment] by nearly a 3-1 margin.
No. I think it's a really important story. Yes, it falls outside the normal sphere of what a startup is interested in. On the other hand it deals with issues that will have a very long term and deep impact on the future of us all.
I lose connectivity all the time. Tried to contact their support, they could not do anything. One solution for me is just to use cron job and reboot the VM once the problem is detected.
So it's better to pay less for an unreliable solution that sucks, than pay more for a guaranteed place at the top of the front page?

And if your content "isn't at all desirable" then how is SEO going to help? "We have stuff nobody wants, if only we could get on the front page they'd buy it!" doesn't seem like much of a business plan..
I moved everything I had at Linode over to DigitalOcean as well and performance has been excellent. I loved Linode's stability but their response to the recent security incident really pissed me off. On DigitalOcean, I have seen briefly the network issues mentioned by others, but things have been more stable the last month or so.

That said, one production server I work with on RackSpace was completely unavailable yesterday for nearly 5 hours, so paying more money doesn't necessarily give you better uptime. Just that one outage put DigitalOcean ahead in availability for my systems over the last 6 months.

Is there any reasonably simple framework for replicating across cloud providers?
I've switched all my stuff from Linode and previous other hosting providers all to DIgitalOcean about 6 months ago and haven't been happier. Great group of guys there too.
The specific vulnerability mentioned in this article is only exploited when a comment containing dynamic snippets is posted. Most WP blogs use comment moderation of some sort to prevent spam and that prevents this attack from being widely exploited, in my opinion.
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Another classic example, SELinux.[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux#Overvie...
Having a photo and name of someone isn't the same as knowing who they are.
An impartial and independent team of observers is a good idea. It's hard to find impartial and independent observers. Another good choice is a large consortium of advocates for stakeholders.

If only we had a body of hundreds of people, chosen by citizens across the country charged with representing their interests and empowered to set the rules and budget for any such program. We could supplement that body with oversight from learned scholars; we can give them lifetime tenure in hopes that they'll remain impartial and give them the ability to find rules and actions inconsistent with fundamental principles.

We get the government for which we vote.
> How is the iOS7 redesign different to that of Android
> and Windows Phone redesigns?

Which specific redesigns are you talking about?
As for iOS 7 redesign, it is interesting, because it goes deep. Apple changes the way it thinks (and iOS devs should think) about the UI and the application contents. Content now receives the most prominent position and UI chrome goes into background. Apple also promotes the "depth" (anyone calling iOS redesign "flat" has no idea that they is talking about and is not worth listening). With the concept of depth interaction and navigation patterns will also change.
Make no mistake, this redesign is not superficial and it will bring a lot of interesting things in the future.
My ability to copy and paste is embarrassing.

Thanks for the catch -- edited the original post :)
From what I understand, he rented the house. The rhino is likely not his.
Who are all of these people that you are referring to who think that Apple creates everything out of a vacuum? I hear people whine about this on Internet forums all the time, but I've never actually met or even seen postings by any of these poor confused souls that you are so concerned about. If you can find a single person in SV who is not aware of the Xerox connection, you get a cookie. For that matter, every single other thing you mentioned.

Everyone is influenced by everyone. This is not news to anyone. Now, being influenced by something is not the same as "copying", but acknowledging that would require some semblance of nuance or analysis. By the same logic, Linux is a "copy" of Unix, and Windows is a "copy" of Mac OS which is a "copy" of the Xerox GUI. Doesn't that piss you off? Doesn't that make want to go threadcrap in the Ubuntu forums about how they're all sheep for not understanding that this stuff is just a "copy" of SVR4? I have a feeling that you do not. The web browser you're using to post this is a "copy" of Mosaic, but something tells me that that doesn't bother you either, because you can't use it to justify a preexisting hatred.
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Nothing really new about Edward Snowden's disclosure about the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance and yet Snowden's warnings ring true on one point: the threat of technological efficiency in the analysis of human electronic communications using big data tools
I can't agree more. My family has one of each: I write code and am the technical weenie where my wife is a do-gooder trying to change laws to treat kids differently than adults.

I'm absolutely in awe of what her tiny four person organization is able to accomplish: they do research, talk to legislators, write reports, testify in the state senate, organize with other groups. They do all this while watching and analyzing local news to calculate its impact on the voting probabilities in the state congress. All of this while making 20-25% of what they'd be paid in private practice.

That's all fine and dandy, but the real kicker is how successful they are: their last effort passed 154-0 in the house: unanimous.

So you can sit around and turn your Facebook avatar any color you want and pretend it matters. I take great solace in the fact that there are people out there actually changing the world.
What on earth is a "Christmas hamper?"
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I want to like DigitalOcean but it seems their attitude to security is rather lax, see e.g. http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea... which they said they'd look at in February but haven't addressed.
Please show me an example of something which is entirely, undebatably original and has no relation to any previous design or technology. I'm very curious.
Yes I am.
Not because I am not interested in the problem but simply because we are overwhelmed by articles saying the same thing.
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Eight versions targeting different audiences? Sounds almost like something patio11 might suggest...
Reinhart-roghoff was not submitted to a peer reviewed journal.
I don't know if our behavior can really be predicted on such a fine grained level.

Sure, you could generate a dashboard based on most viewed information. This wouldn't rocket science and could be done today.

OTOH, pulling up google maps a few days before fathers day? That could be for any number of purposes unless it knows that you always go shopping for gifts precisely 3 days beforehand.
He committed a fraud. Not against the government. Against his own shareholders. He sold equity in Qwest at prices he knew were not reflective of the underlying value of the stock, based on actual actionable secret information available to him as a company insider. That's a crime, as it should be.

NSA shouldn't pressure people to comply with gag orders, but that doesn't excuse Nacchio from choosing to harm his own shareholders simply to make additional tens of millions of dollars over what he already had. You can come up with 1,000 different ways to rephrase what you said; it will never convince me that multimultimultimillionaires should be excused for defrauding their own shareholders to increase their own bank balances.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+the+NSA+Could+Get+So+Smart+So+Fast#
I'll contribute to your research for a gravity generator. Or to your research into what different amounts of gravity in each body part does. Or in stabilizing a huge and cost-effective rotating structure. (But I really want the gravitiy generator..)
The US has contributed some nice failures as well. For example, caBIG ($300M+):

https://www.google.com/search?q=cabig+failure
Not everybody does. I'm relatively partial to Java, for example, although I despise PHP.

That said, there are fair criticisms of both Java and PHP, and hackers can sometimes run towards being obsessive over details and over analytical. So the extent to which Java is verbose because of the required boilerplate for, say, getters and setters, offends the aesthetic sense a lot of people have. Likewise, Java is seen as "less powerful" because it lacks some features (multiple inheritance, etc.)

My take on Java is this: I don't like the language per-se as much as I like, say, C++. But in pragmatic terms I can get a shit-ton more usable work done in Java, because it had binary compatibility for libraries from day 1, which meant that creating and distributing libraries in Java is dead simple, which led to an ecosystem where Java has libraries for damn near everything. And the JVM is nearly ubiquitous, running on almost every platform known to man. And since I learned Java back when it was still fairly new, it just happens that I already know it, it does most everything I need, and has libraries for everything under the sun and then some. Pragmatically speaking, it's a great choice, at least for the kinds of problems I tend to find myself working on.

Of course, the great thing is, no one is limited to just one language. I can fall back to C, C++ or Python if needed... and I actually do most of my coding in Groovy these days - but I consider Groovy to just be "a better Java". All of that said, I have an ambition to dive deeper into a number of other languages (Erlang, Haskell, Go, Scala, Clojure, R among others) but just rarely have time to go off and spend time with that stuff. That's the downside to having a dayjob and a startup I guess... time to do purely exploratory, "fun" stuff is a little limited.

why do hackers seem to hate the most popular languages?

I'd argue that most don't, and that you're hearing from a vocal minority. The people who find Java, PHP, COBOL, whatever perfectly usable, don't have a reason to voice it to the world. They just quietly sit back and do what they're doing. But the people with an axe to grind are the ones writing blog posts, posting long rants on forums, etc., etc.
I'm generally opposed to patents, but I think this decision is crazy. For starters, the patentability of a gene now depends on whether or not there's an intron in that gene? The isolated sequence doesn't exist as a molecule in nature, and the patent was a patent on that molecule. Should have been a straightforward "gene patents (the way they were done by myriad) are allowed". Keeping in mind, there are a ton of very facile ways of breaking such a gene patent.

EDIT: Actually I'm completely opposed to patents.

EDIT2: Here is a more detailed analysis - I didn't post it earlier since dreamhost was down. http://www.indysci.org/mission/onpatenting.html
Really? http://chris.millr.org/ios-7-looks-familiar-cant-quite-put-m...
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Network performance is fine, network reliability is the one you need to watch out for. I'm still working on getting some automated script to detect longer than expected timeouts through HAProxy and then issue a VM reboot through DO's API. It happens often enough that if I experience intermittent downtime, I turn to HAProxy's stats before looking at my munin graphs. But these things will resolve and ease in time. Bleeding edge is well named.
not if it decays by default (TOTP). I don't think ISP-s can be mandated to periodically refresh the hash.
A good hacker is wasted in public service.

Why bother working for an environmental non-profit when you can make many orders of magnitude more difference by founding Tesla Motors or Nanosolar? Who has more impact on education, a good elementary teacher or Sal Khan? Why campaign for privacy when you can write PGP or Tor, why work as a fundraiser when you could build Kiva or Watsi?

The hacker skillset is a lever big enough to move the world. Working for a nonprofit is no better than working for a bank, you're still frittering away your greatest opportunity to improve the world.
I know for music they have a button like that. I go through my recommended albums every so often looking for new deals and they have two buttons: 'I already own this' and 'Not interested', which means those items get hidden and it updates its recommendations.

It's actually pretty neat and I think its definitely made the recommendations more useful. I think it can be done for videos as well, but I guess they don't have it for general retail.
If you want to argue that the USG should be more aggressively enforcing insider trading laws so as not to make extremely egregious violations look like selective enforcement, I'm right there with you. Otherwise, spare me the sob story that's attempting to rehabilitate the image of outrageously wealthy people who have committed fraud.
Agreed. I was interested, but after that message I don't really want to deal with them. If this is how they deal with prospective customers, I don't really trust them.
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A co-worker in my lab pointed out that Myriad's stock is actually rising[1] after the decision.The best guess is that Myriad's competitive advantage is shifting to the enormous amounts of BRCA sequences they have obtained -- this would increase the cancer-vs-normal mutation prediction power considerably.

[1] - http://www.google.com/finance?cid=658315
Well the Windows Phone redesign (Windows Phone 7 & 8) was equally significant, if not more so, as a design direction change for Microsoft. And there are certainly similarities between WP7/8 and iOS7.

Android perhaps less significant as that has been a set of gradual changes, but the actual design language in the latest version of Android is starkly different to the first release.
People who are repeatedly exposed to CS tend to rapidly build up a tolerance. Anecdotally, this has been observable both in myself and many other people.

A large part of the effectiveness is also psychological. When people first experience CS they tend to overreact and experience secondary symptoms not created by the CS. After a couple exposures, you know what to expect and CS becomes more of a nuisance than something to fear. You don't intentionally walk into a cloud of CS but you can kind of shrug it off if you do.
It is probably more accurate to say that cDNA represents a snapshot in time of a particular mRNA "species". Any particular mRNA could lead different lives, depending on what kind of post-translational modifications are made to it (e.g. different proteins editing the mRNA differently before it is eventually transcribed).

So any particular mRNA might actually have several different products, or may just get chopped up into shRNA or microRNA.
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You would trade 40% of your company for this?
That's spec work.
If you want to see a really bold redesign, look at the transition from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/8/4408756/microsoft-metro-des...

The Apple homescreen still looks like this from more than 20 years ago, but now with garish and fluorescent colored icons.

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/encyclopedia_images/_PRG...

>marveling at the vision, drive, and sheer determination to pull it off.

I think this statement and the whole article better applied to WP7 rather than iOS7.

I think there is some major RDF at play here.

http://disinfo.com/2011/06/apple-products-trigger-the-same-p...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20064577-71.html
The BBC is, today, very good at archiving programming material. All output is kept for at least five years, and the overwhelming majority is kept permanently (exceptions are things like long-running quiz shows, where samples of material are kept post five years, although any disposed material is offered to the BFI and other third parties before being junked).

Doctor Who wasn't scrapped in the name of saving space, it was scrapped because nobody thought it was worth keeping. The shows couldn't be repeated (because at the time, Equity had negotiated limits on repeat rights), and quad tape was very expensive and easily re-used.

More importantly, nobody really thought that Quad was an appropriate archiving format. Programs would be tele-recorded onto 16mm for overseas sale and archive. This is not, in of itself, a crazy idea - try finding a quad tape player today vs a 16mm projector. The problem at the time was there was no mandate for archival, so the engineering department were junking the tapes, and the commercial department (who were selling Doctor Who on to other broadcasters) weren't retaining the 16mm reels.

Even in the 1970s, many people were still not convinced of the value of archiving TV output. It's not totally dissimilar to the early days of the web - it was seen as ephemeral. This was happening at pretty much every broadcaster around the world - Wikipedia has a pretty big list of lost TV programs, most of which were wiped for space.
Yeah, I'm not buying that the NSA has some crazy advanced technology that is kept secret.

There are highly skilled and better financed tech companies with huge R&D teams. Why would the NSA be able to outperform them?

It's more likely their power is their access to the latest zero-day exploits via sourcing information - something they are extremely good at.
First they used the massive, militarized police force peacefully and I didn't complain because no one was injured. Then they used the massive, militarized police force to hurt people and I didn't complain because no one was killed. Then the massive, militarized police force started killing people, and it was too late to complain.

Something doesn't have to be as bad as Nazi Germany to have lessons learned from Nazi Germany usefully applied to it. No one said "OMG Kim Dotcom is exactly like Anne Frank!". The police raid was clear overkill and many people are, rightfully, bothered by the militarization of police forces. It is important to object, even in defense of a fairly shady character like Dotcom because eventually that apparatus will be turned on others and it will be too late to stop it. Really, we should have been complaining a long time ago when the police (at least in the US) started treating the inner city like a war zone.
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> since they copied the Xerox interface

Licensed. And it was pretty primitive at that time, Apple has done a ton of work on GUI before the first release, basically developing a concept into full-blown and working GUI.
I believe NSA has a dual mandate. We are hearing a lot lately about their efforts to discover and use intelligence via electronic means, but I believe they are also responsible for providing guidance on how the U.S. can secure its own electronic communications--this is where efforts like SELinux and the guide to securing OS X come from.
Also I think in the next few releases FF is going to improve their tools a lot!
Now, chrome seems to be pushing development of very marketable features (For the better or worst) like speed while leaving aside privacy or other focus...
I hope FF can regain traction in the long run or any similar projects...
yeah, but no one uses cDNA synthesis to do genotyping anymore. They use genechips or direct sequencincg. Direct sequencing is NOT covered by the myriad patent; and genechips use such short DNA sequences that the 'intron' exception doesn't hold.
I think Firefox has stumbled in the past few years but will experience a resurgence for two reasons: 1) privacy issues and a growing, healthy distrust for the behemoth that is Google and 2) the Chrome browser is slow, less responsive and more resource hungry on the popular Windows 8 OS.

Also, Firefox is a great browser!
It just looked like the default Django login - http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/_images/login.png
Im not convinced meteoric is the best term for growth.

Meteors usually fall down (relative to Earth)
The new look of Microsoft mobile OS (whatever they do call that UI now) received a lot of attention too.
Re: #3; can you seriously imagine that they can't take control of an MS-Windows PC, with or without MS's knowledge?

And you forgot a point: can they get an SSL root certificate signed for them, in order to perform MitM attacks on seemingly secured connections? Here again it's a foregone conclusion, several less technically-savvy countries have been caught doing that.
At one point I heard that some farmers, who were unaware that their crops contained patented genetic modifications as a result of uncontrolled natural reproduction with other GM crops, were being sued by patent holders. Does this ruling weigh in on this scenario?

It seems that inventions which copy themselves and masquerade in difficult/expensive to detect ways (see plant reproduction, airborne pollen) wasn't something foreseen by those who wrote our patent laws.
What could we do about it if 1. were true? Not much.

For 2. I think it's safe to assume that they know a few tricks that we don't. Probably enough to hasten breaking encryption, but probably not enough to make encryption useless.

For 3. Yes, isn't that obvious?

Here's a recent discovery regarding FPGA's, maybe not the NSA, but it didn't get there by accident. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/sec_news.html

I suspect that some bugs like this one in Intel networking chips may not be bugs http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html

If it is technically feasible, then it is almost certainly being done.