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Eh, I'd say you aren't being fair, no. Not that any interview process is really fair. I once worked with a guy who told me stories about waking up at work at his desk, not remembering how he got there. He never did anything remotely like that working with me. For 3 years he was sharp, punctual, and competent.

And frankly, the reason and manner in which someone left their last job is a piss-poor reason for not hiring someone. What if there was sexual harassment? Stuff like that you can't know from a google search or even an interview.
This is not appropriate for general consumers. They need a right-click "Show" option.
Some shops implement their own restriction code, so that you can't paste either! (Reliant Energy) This disables people using password vault programs, which is idiotic. Those users use longer, randomly created, unique passwords.
Not to mention the mute / go to toilet / boil the kettle / talk to the family discount.
But is safety still high on their priority list though ?!
Anything casual will crumble under pressure...

This is true, but it misses the point. Keeping your online identities separate isn't a security measure. (And when it is -- when you're a political dissident facing imprisonment or torture -- it's very very risky.)

You maintain separate identities because it sends a social signal. The signal is "I recognize the distinction between professional and casual behavior; between public and private behavior; between an artistic pose and heartfelt sincerity. I understand basic social and literary conventions and I know how to use them."

A classic example: Fake Steve Jobs, who I think is a pretty good model of proper literary behavior. Daniel Lyons wanted to have some fun, so he concocted a persona and started a blog under that persona's name. The persona's voice is distinct from that of Daniel Lyons, the journalist (which is why so many people say things like "man, he was so good as Fake Steve; why are his Newsweek articles so uninspiring?"), which in turn is almost certainly distinct from Mr. Lyons the person, Mr. Lyons the family member, and Mr. Lyons the party animal. But Lyons obeys the conventions. He doesn't just type everything that comes into his head into one blog.

Obviously you should expect your prospective employers to Google you and read your public writing, particularly that which might pertain to your field. (I told my new employer all about my writing on HN, for example.) But just as it is your responsibility to observe proper social and literary convention, it is also your employer's responsibility: Just because it's easy to riffle through Facebook and MySpace (the online equivalent of following your prospective employee around at night, peeking into his or her windows) doesn't mean that employers are ethical when they do so.

But Google makes window-peering so easy that it's sometimes hard to avoid. So: Pseudonyms, my friend, pseudonyms. Not to mention Pepys' brilliant invention: the posthumous diary. (I sometimes wonder if I should start a web service for writing posthumously-published blog posts. But it's kind of the anti-viable online business: It has negative word of mouth (your customers would prefer that their friends and family don't know about it), and the writers have pretty poor interaction with the audience, and nobody will ever have enough faith in your privacy policy or performance warranty.)
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I agree that this is the right way to think about it: I upvote comments I think others should read (for benefit, enjoyment, or a well-reasoned counter-argument to my view). Sometimes, however, due to the discussion at hand I simply use the vote to indicate "me, too" -- especially when it's a discussion that seems to be coming to (or trying to) come to a consensus. I certainly don't want to submit an "I agree" comment; I just up-vote. It often seems like I'm up-voting agreement more than the well-reasonedness or interest of the comment, often due to the nature of the topic.

For example, on a "rate my web site" thread where somebody makes a suggestion, and I simply agree, I'll up-vote without adding to the thread.
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Is it acceptable for an employer to query previous employers/coworkers as to how effective they were in related jobs?

Of course. This is called "checking references" and is standard practice that nobody disagrees with. The key words here are "employers/coworkers" and "related jobs", which are distinct from "high school friends" and "church socials".
Pfff. Show password technology is here today: type password, select all, cut, type username, tab, paste, enter. But I want the option to mask the password.

I prefer the OSX wifi password dialog, with a checkbox to show the password that's off by default.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index

Pretty much contradicts everything said by the page on glycemic index on www.drmcdougall.com and also addresses the points you raised above. I guess the question now is: Who do you trust? WikiPedia or a guy peddling DVDs and books?
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From the footer: Data based on information by ELFAA "Variations in Airport Charges", Jan Skeels - Secretary General, Aviation Industry Group - 2nd Annual Managing Airline Operating Costs Conference, Dublin 7 December 2005

Also see http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/260325.ICTS_06_vidovic.pdf , which uses the same source (among others) and goes into greater detail than the image.

Also note that "Cheaper airports / landing fees" was calculated in the image to amount to 6% of the savings of LFAs. Only covering certain high traffic routes is a good point, and doesn't seem to be mentioned.
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Matthias Felleisen is a brilliant professor at Northeastern University (in case anybody was curious).

He's a bit scary though.
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"You can tell I'm a mac user can't you"

I'm not sure there's a correlation. I'm a Mac user, but always travel the lowest-cost airline I can. I'm easily willing to pay an extra thousand USD for a better user experience over ~4000 hours, but until I make a LOT more money, I'm not willing to pay an extra hundred for a better user experience over ~2 hours. That is, per-hour, the expensive airlines are two orders of magnitude more expensive than Apple. It's the difference between quality pricing and luxury pricing. :)
I wholeheartedly agree with this solution with the additional possibility that you cookie the user's choice. Solutions like firefox plugins are fine for you and me, but not for the remedial computer users who mistype their passwords in the first place. On my sites, the vast majority of customer service calls/emails are people who can't log in, simply because they can't figure out how to type in their passwords correctly (we don't even have a attempts limit - they can try as many times as they like).
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Yes, lost cost carriers are regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority and in the case of Ryanair the Irish equivalent.
Can the company really change the due date just like that? Sounds fscking evil! Or is that U.S. specific?

In Europe I would expect a 1-2 month notification period, or renegotiation of the credit card terms which implies the need to sign some papers to recognize the new due date (or failing/refusing that, alternatively have the card terminated).
I was always disappointed with daliclock,I remember a distinct image in my mind the first time I'd read the name of an old fashioned pocket watch that draped over any particular window on the desktop, like in a Dali painting. Hmm, project.
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Awhile back, raganwald created a thread with the sole purpose of discussing what the community is hacking on. Not start-ups and/or business, but just hacking on for fun in our spare time. I really enjoyed that conversation and would like to have more like it.

With that goal in mind, I suggest we use Saturdays to highlight our open-source and/or side projects that we're working on. Saturday seems like a logical fit since it is generally a slow news day, and what better time to talk about our "weekend projects" than the weekend?

So, to get the proverbial ball rolling, I submit to you my most recent side project which I released earlier this week, the WordPress Console.

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/introducing-the-wordpress-console/

If you've developed in Rails then you know the joy of script/console. I have been writing a lot of WordPress plugins for clients lately, and wanted a way to interact with the development environment similar to how I can when writing a Rails app. This desire resulted in the WordPress Console, which is a plugin that creates an in-browser shell where you can execute arbitrary PHP code with the full WordPress env loaded.

It isn't a huge technical achievement or even all that challenging to create, but it is kinda cool, imo. The project is also still wet behind the ears, but usable.

What do you think? Worth developing further? Have ideas to make it more awesome? Anybody want to join in and hack on it with me?
This thread, now with clickable links!

official plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-console/

announcement blog post (w/ screencast): http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/introducing-the-wordpress...

source code on GitHub: http://github.com/sant0sk1/wordpress-console/
Upvote if you want the comment to appear higher up in the page of comments; Downvote if you want the comment to appear lower down in the page of comments and be a lighter shade of grey.

With the added warning that your actions will have an effect on the voting and commenting behaviours of other hacker news readers in the long term, but this will mostly align well with the above affects.

Edit: I should add that most people upvote differently on Hacker News than they do on Reddit, because of the second effect whereby they might not necessarily think a comment is rude, but if it doesn't add anything to discussion they will downvote in the hope that the comments in the long run will be more helpful.
Dr. McDougall offers for free all the information necessary to follow his program. It is linked from the front page. Direct link: http://drmcdougall.com/free.html

> Pretty much contradicts everything said by the page on glycemic index on www.drmcdougall.com and also addresses the points you raised above.

Care to enumerate any contradictions? You haven't given a single example.
Someone pointed out.. in FF 3.0.11 at least:

Edit > Preferences > Security > Saved Passwords > Show Passwords > Yes

Lists all my saved passwords in cleartext.
The two extremes are:

1) everyone upvotes to agree (and only to agree), and downvotes to disagree (and only to disagree). Then the score on a contribution measures its proximity to the average opinion.

2) everyone upvotes signal and downvotes noise. Then the score on a contribution measures its relevance to HN readers.

Since I don't care about average opinions but much about relevance, I upvote and downvote by rule 2).
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Specially when you are self-employed you should open up the barrier. This brings interchange of ideas. It is not only you who gives knowledge away, you also receive insights and ideas from people _inside_ your target industries. How else do you want to stay up to date in your race against an ever faster changing worldwide knowledge base?
In case you also wondered what the "station costs" are, it means "costs associated with providing ground staff, check-in staff, equipment, business lounges, office space and related facilities at each of the airports served by an airline". From http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415346150
If you are interested in learning more about Ryanair, check out the book Michael O'Leary - A Life in Full Flight. One fun story from that book is when Ryanair started competing with the "official" airline Aer Lingus, who basically thought all airport equipment belonged to them and were annoyed by the new upstart, to settle their differences they had a soccer match between the employees! However since they weren't really familiar yet with all of Ryanair's employees, Ryanair imported some pro outside players and won the match and thus their approval to share some of the equipment.
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That was hard for me to follow at times, but man, that writing style was pretty cool.
I must admit I find that style of describing things way too confusing. I have a much easier time understanding things if they are presented directly (one paragraph problem description, one paragraph solution). For example I understand the wikipedia description much better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator

Problem: how to write a recursive function if the function doesn't have a name I could reference it by.

Solution: since the result of the Y combinator applied to a function is the same as the function applied to the Y combinator applied to a function, we can use that instead (in brief Yg = g(Yg)).

However, it is interesting to me that maybe some people have an easier time with "dumb" explanations. On the other hand, maybe many people think they are bad at maths because all they ever got were dumb explanations.

The problem with the dumb explanation: it is far too long. All the stuff that is only decoration needs to be loaded in the brain and distracts from understanding the real issue.

Also, why explain Y combinator and recursion in one go? Would be easier to explain them separately, two smaller chunks, easier to load into the brain and easier to digest.

Sorry that I can't be more enthusiastic about that paper. It is certainly praiseworthy if someone at least tries to make such things understandable.

I have the same gripe with "Goedel-Escher-Bach" - it took thousands of pages (or something) just to explain Goedel's incompletenes theorem, which can actually be described in two pages. The unsuspecting reader might not even realize that GEB is about that theorem. (I simplify - it has been decades since I read it, but I think really Goedel's theorem was the gist of it). It was an entertaining read, but still.
I've actually started flagging comments like that, since they're actually against the guidelines.
I don't know about the others, but Ryanair has the youngest aircraft fleet in the world. I'm guessing the others will have fairly new planes too because they are cheaper to run.
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I'm a sports fan in general, and a cricket fan in particular. I've been working on a structured data repository for cricket matches to facilitate sabermetric-type analyses.

Repository: http://data.againstthespin.com
The difference is that shares are a portion of the company that you're giving away along with the rights of partial ownership and such. Selling bonds is essentially like getting loans. You find that a bank will lend you the money you want at 7% interest and that investors will buy your 6% interest bonds. So, you sell the bonds to the investors and your costs are lower.

With stock, they get a share of your company and if it does better than expected, they get more. With bonds, it's fixed. Should your company go under, they're entitled to be paid before your shareholders are. And if you own the company, that means that the bondholders will get their money back before you get to see anything from the failed business.

While bonds are by no means no-risk items, they're very different from stocks and more akin to the loans that a bank would make.
Yes, but which abstraction layer in the WebOS is unnecessary? I think I disagree with JWZ on this one. Is it really better to have for instance all the formating capabilities of CSS built into the Desktop-OS' native widget set? Than you would have to coordinate your OS development with the development of the CSS specifications.
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I see it less as agreeing or disagreeing, and more as is it a new idea, new perspective, new spin, something worth thinking about. I would not learn anything from a comment about liberal arts education being crap. If there was an interesting reasoning behind the comment, it might be another matter.

Sometimes I vote up things I disagree with, because I am interested in the opinion of the HN community on the issue.
I think you took the wrong direction of reasoning. He says we can tell he's a Mac user because he is willing to pay more even for the two hours of a flight. Therefore, next to the flight expense, the Mac sounds like a cheap box.
I want to make a site called: ratemysyllabi.com where users can submit, into a categorized database, course syllabuses for any topic. Other users will comment and rank them. The purpose would be to provide learning guidelines for everyone in one central place, rather then their current scattering across various university wensites, and to take a step toward an open-source university.

The data structure would be rigid, not just document uploads, but field-by-field entry in order to maintain consistent structure, searchability, and to quickly move miscategorized data.

I am becoming a skeptic of the utility and value of a four year degree. In particular the way the tax-exempt "public" money is spent and allocated. I think Wick Sloane makes a pretty strong case for the antiquity and corruption in the modern university system in this Thomas Paine style essay:

http://www.insidehighered.com/content/download/229351/290798...
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Yes, which fails to add up to the difference. They get a 43% "total advantage", but the low cost ticket prices seem around 30% of the high cost tickets...
Any good books or resources you recommend on that?
As I commented when the link to pg writing his essay, that this story cites as an example, was submitted to Reddit:

I think it [is] rather encouraging to would-be writers to see that someone that is [..] succesful rewrites his sentences many times. It can be quite disheartening to find it necessary to rewrite the same bit over and over again, if you suffer from the illusion that good writers pen down everything in one go.
Indeed. Whooosh. :)
Although it seems fun, there are real laws against doing that...
I have never used the so-called low cost airlines. However I have problems fitting my knees even in high cost economy class. I would imagine there is a business opportunity for airlines which are willing to cut costs in every way other than safety and passenger space (i.e. we don't need those lounges).
I'll mod something up if it's on-topic, well thought-out, and I agree with it. I'll only mod something down if it's blatantly off topic and rude/trollish. If I simply don't agree with what they said, but they said it in useful way, I'll just leave it be.

I'm all about modding the people who post goatse links down into negative oblivion, but I think it kind of stifles discussion if you downmod simply because you don't happen to agree. Instead of dog-piling someone for a dissenting opinion, take the extra 30 seconds to write a response. It'll enrich the discussion.

Discussed before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=147098
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> I think the LCC hacked the public in to thinking travelling like cattle is good

Your comment appears light-hearted so I don't want to come down too strongly, but I must say I detect more than a whiff of elitism in this sentence. The public didn't need any "hacking" or manipulation; they don't fly these airlines because they "like travelling like cattle" (again, I detect a whiff of disdain for the "cattle-like" public), they fly these airlines in spite of that fact, because they're much cheaper.

> When they travel like cattle on the London Underground they all complain!

Again, light-hearted, but in juxtaposing these two sentences you're implying that the public is inconsistent in its criticism of the London Underground (although one wonders if the LCCs are so successful at "hacking" the public, why can't the LU tear a page out of their machiavellian book?). But there is indeed no inconsistency; the two examples are simply not comparable. A single fare on the LU costs around £5, this for a median travel distance of perhaps a few klicks. The scenario is, shall we say, somewhat different for LCCs! In addition, people use the LU to get to work; and being subjected to "cattle-like" circumstances on a daily basis is, again, a different kettle of fish from having to endure a 2 hours of mild discomfort in order to enjoy a couple of weeks in the sun once a year.

> You can tell I'm a mac user can't you ;)

You might want to consider whether it is you who's been "hacked" into paying a substantial premium for an equivalent product ;)
I just got really interested in making a Domino's Boxee ordering/status app, but I need to teach myself Python and figure out how to work it into their API.
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I found "The Definitive Book of Body Language" very helpful.
(http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/05538...)
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When I gave a talk as a "Role Model" for 3 classes of 12yo girls at a careers-in-tech camp, my final advice boiled down to - if boys get more opportunities, it's because they act like they deserve them. Stand up straight, look people in the eye, act confident, and trust that even if you don't know, you can find out.

This advice is probably millenia old. Still good.

If you want to learn more, you might want to start with something like How to Win Friends & Influence People. It's old and cheesy but 100% accurate nonetheless (good history lesson too). It's always about the other person's experience, and not about you.

A great modern book is "The Hard Truth about Soft Skills."

There are several books on body language itself, but they typically don't have more information than the OP article, and then are filled with excessively speculative/suspiciously detailed interpretations of other things.

Perhaps the most important thing for hacker-types to learn is that your body language, attitude, behavior isn't about other people judging you - but you showing how you judge them by the effort you put into your appearance and attitude for them. You put effort into it == you respect them. It's just that simple.

The second most important thing to know is that there is no true way to detect if somebody is lying or insincere, and lots of those body language books argue that there is. Gut instincts are real, and when people lie they often believe what they are saying anyway, so you gotta listen to your gut and not try to analyze if their eyes looked up and to the left or their eyebrows quirked, or if they covered their mouth with their hand. While you're trying to micro-analyze this crap, you won't be paying attention.
You can't tell people how/when to upvote/downvote/do nothing. It will not work and people will try to game the system. People will vote based on instinct.

For example I upvote what I like/agree with. I downvote stupid or wrong stuff.

That being said, I think the HN community has regulated itself remarkably well so that truth/content gets sufficient votes and falsehood/noise gets downvoted, and heavily so if needed.
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