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hey it works, before bing I used to go to yahoo as my 2nd search engine, now I go to bing.

It hasn't found any better results than Google yet, but the interface etc, makes it much more useful than Yahoo.

I don't see any search engine replacing Google for me though, its just too ingrained in me. And then there is the firefox aspect, where my first search pretty much goes to Google by default
i tested it on my computer, it didn't seem to occur, yay!
If I'm looking through 100 emailed resumes, your cover letter (which should be in the body of the email) is an advertisement for you. It should give me a reason to bother opening your resume.
I just focus on phone screening really heavily. Anyone with relevant experience on their resume gets called. Any of those that seem really good are asked to come in. The best person is made an offer, if they decline, the second best is made an offer. Very few "bad" candidates make it passed the phone screen, so little time is wasted.

Works great.
Different, interesting, a little fun but way too busy and cluttered to be functional in my honest and critical opinion.
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Where are those numbers from?
This is really neat. I've been wondering about how to see everything in the app store. What a fantastic use of that data - how were you able to harvest it? And what is a "Supafan"?
Reasons why I'm currently looking for a new job:

1) I'm looking to change locations, half way across the USA

2) I've been in my current position for nearly five years, and am ready for a change:

2a) In my chosen trade (being a unix sysadmin) you often get tremendous latitude in selecting tech, tools, and tasks, but cross pollinating with the technology stack at other companies gives you answers to questions you didn't even know you had and makes you a better employee for it.

2b) I'm a disbeliever in the "you've got to get out by the time you're forty" age discrimination stuff. I have, however, seen a lot of people, both young and old, that have spent long enough in one industry that they were not hireable for a position in mine because they'd spent so long in a single frame of mind that they fell flat on their face after several attempts to coax them through design/architecture questions.

Think about it this way: if you're already an employee of the company and someone applies who doesn't really want to work there, and HR lets them through, would you want to work with them? I wouldn't.

Sure, if someone actively doesn't want the position they applied for they should have told the recruiter "thanks but no thanks", but, frankly, if I find a job I'm interested in, the interview is mutual: while you're determining if I can reboot routers with style and grace, I'm determining if you're a sweat shop, if my potential teammates are idiots, and if my future boss is a jerk. In my opinion it's the employer's job to sell me on why I want to work in that industry, rather than the other way around.
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Agree 100%. If your idea involves making big $$ on ads, it's time to go back to the drawing board. Find a way to sell something.
You have 100 resumes to read and you're reading the long-form bodies of emails? Why? I've always had the benefit of a HR department to do that screening but I'd think I'd read the resumes first and then go back and follow up and read the emails they sent.
Tedious, but interesting
You will fail because VC money is a myth. It's like winning the lottery. Sure, it happens, just not to you

Build your idea without it. You're building a website, not a nuclear power plant. You don't need a couple million in funding. Get serious.
They've been around for awhile

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=> true
>> [1,2,3].each
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My experience:

"What the...? Flash? Why the hell would a search engine need to be use flash for an input?"

"Ohhh...OK, interesting. Wait, what? Why do I start near the bottom of the page? Ahhh, I can't scroll to the top! It keeps adding crap!"

"OK, fine, I'll explore...errr...wow, a lot of this stuff is nowhere near what I wanted." [close tab]

I searched for git, and got a lot of random stuff, like this Very Special tweet: "This Jamaican bitch next to me has no idea what her accent is doin to me rite now......She can git it doggy and froggy style."

I was really disoriented browsing through it. The scroll bars kept changing size the whole time, and starting at the bottom-right is weird for me. Eventually the content was all filled though.

Also, I couldn't copy text from the page. I tried to copy that tweet directly from the search page, but it would just display a box saying it came from twitter and giving me a button that just said "twitter.com."

It then took me to that guy's main page (not even the specific page for that tweet), where I then had to hunt for the specific tweet to copy. I should note that double-clicking doesn't appear to bring you to the link either -- you have to hit the button that displays only the domain name.

If I'm looking mainly for tweets and images, this might be an interesting tool to use, but honestly it's just doesn't fit the way I like to search.
I should have said "mild deflation":

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v21n3/cpr-21n3.html
A third party has now identified the company in question.

Presumably, if reporting the company name would have been enough to burn the source, the source is now burnt.

Can't TC now update the story in place with the missing details, to correct the misimpressions given by the initial reporting?
I could be completely wrong, but it doesn't seem like you'd be much better off owning a corporation which is a front for child pornography (which is how it would be portrayed).
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Uh.. audience matters. Like, a lot. If you think all impressions are equal, then you will only be able to attract lowest common denominator advertisers who will only pay you commodity prices. Why do you think washingtonpost.com has ads for asbestos lawyers?

If your site is for luxury yachts owners, or people looking to buy Enterprise CRM systems, or is specially tailored to Fortune 1000 CEOs, you can charge CPMs that most sites only dream of. With a dedicated ad sales staff You could probably clear a million with a few hundred thousand page views a month.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/SortingResumes.html
For certain types of advertising, I think Facebook's ability to target by demographic must make it significantly more cost-effective (and hence popular) than keyword searches -- products for a particular age range, or relationship status come to mind -- despite the lack of intentionality (i.e., a keyword search is somebody looking for something, but a Facebook user is not).
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Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand
it's an interesting article because it suggests it might be possible for smart enough software running on a general purpose parallel cpu to compete with a GPU when rendering graphics, using the same amount of silicon.

...so GPUs are just a temporary hack, waiting for smart enough software (and some tweaking of the CPU instruction set) to catch up.
How about, if-and-only-if someone needs to communicate something important to you, and they can't reach you, they send you a text message saying what they wanted? Tell your friends/family to do this, and you've given a social problem (not wanting to disturb people with the light/sound/attention of the phone) a social solution: never check for calls, but always check for texts. It does rely on the assumption, however, that a stranger calling (who obviously won't know the rule) is never urgent.
Is the freshmeat redesign recent as well? I was on yesterday and, while I hadn't been on in awhile, noticed that I could no longer (in any obvious way) browse by license, which I used to do.
Mild deflation is better than runaway deflation just as mild inflation is better than runaway inflation. But it seems that mild inflation is actually better than mild deflation.

I'm not impressed by think tanks: they come up with the conclusion first and the reasoning second.
I'm actually glad Keith Thompson rose from the depths of comp.lang.c to clear it all up. Assuming that is the real Keith Thompson of course.
I think you can do in-depth and be interesting. Its just quite hard. You're never going to please everyone, but you can inform a wide audience without being factually incorrect. This takes an enormous amount of work, though, and so its hard to pull off.
This is a very interesting article.
If you run a Tor middle server, you don't risk anything and you are still helping.
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Thanks for the advice, I'll take it!
I think most people tend to hire other people with similar characteristics as them. So a person who went to an top 10 school is likely to look for that on a resume, just as an entrepreneur will look positively on a candidate with an entrepreneurship spirit
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It's like winning a lottery if you're raising for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time, or in the wrong market.

Wrong reasons- Not for growth but to "build a prototype"

Wrong time- Not seeing growth or the opportunity where the money could clearly make you a leader

Wrong market- Very few markets warrant VC money. Think again- Can what I'm building have a potential 9 figure exit or 10x money in. That requires a very very big market. "Oh it's a 6 billion dollar market." rule of thumb ill occasionally use with no specific scientific backing: is your TAD (total addressable market) smaller than Google's recent quarterly revenues?
I love it when TechCrunch plays the journalism card. When they want to run a one-sided story with no attribution, they're Woodward and Bernstein. When they're getting called on conflicts of interest, they're Arrington's blog.
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It's not an argument: it's why I don't use Python. No argument here, and nothing anyone says will convince me that the Python way is the right way at all.

And yes, I can easily argue for non-indented code for certain circumstances (print-debugging outdented so that it's more obvious to the eye when you're cleaning up the binary search prints that are surrounding your bug). Python doesn't allow those circumstances; it also doesn't easily allow for nicely embedded Python in templates.

There are definitely cases where indentation as syntax is the wrong choice, and my use cases tend to hit those. Thus, I don't use Python. If someone else find this misfeature to be a security blanket? More power to them. But not me.
You don't need a host. You can run it in your home computer and throttle it so it doesn't suck your connection. Every bit helps.
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It's an interesting idea, but the town has only 9,000 people. I wonder how this operation would work in a larger setting, or perhaps more importantly, how it is safeguarded from abuse.

Also curious if there is an app for that...

Edit: on second thought, abuse might really be a non-issue, since the limit for abuse isn't worse than what they had to deal with originally and text message can be tracked with some ease.
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"This idea never went very far."

Well, not to burst your bubble but there are many sites that use this exact business model.

One of the sites that comes to mind is homestarrunner.com - who have been doing this since they started.

Granted, it doesn't work for every business, but the fact is that if you create a service that your users genuinely care about, they will purchase your merchandise, because for those users, this enhances their overall experience.

It's a classic model that's taken straight from hollywood. Merchandising revenue is a HUGE factor in lots of productions.
Remember that the complexity to brute force AES-128 is 2^64 due to the birthday paradox. The complexity to break AES-256 is 2^119 and thus it is still harder to break than AES-128.
This is the material he presented at GDC.

I miss the classic Abrash where he begins with some personal anecdote out of nowhere:

http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap68.shtml

Hey, I was going to post a link to the PDF chapters of his Black Book, the massive anthology of his 90's PC game programming articles, but all I can find are broken links and a mirror on gamedev.net with no links to it. So here you go, for all you people living in 1997:

http://abrashblackbook.infogami.com/
Why not use motion sensors? I'm sure I've walked somewhere with them used for streetlights.
Article needs to be run through an editor at least twice. Flagged.
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I liked the engine.
A couple of thoughs:

I think that this engine it's not suited to every query out there. Perharps it must target a niche; image, geographic, people, companies & institutions come to my mind.

If the result set to return is too large, an eye fish view might help to put more info in the same space.

good work!
What happens when I visit a city using this system?
Entrepreneurs are not unusually risk tolerant; rather, they are overconfident.
Hardware is always a temporary hack.
There's always a back and forth going on between specialized hardware and general purpose cpu. In the end though, software always (slightly) outpaces the hardware.

When all is said and done though, We'll be moving to realtime raytracing/radiosity for 3d rendering.
I heard opposite advice: e.g., spend more time talking about the product and less on the size of the market. And while yes, "Investors don't want you learning on their nickel", I do think they're more forgiving of very early-stage ventures (the right funds, of course).
Given that it was not clear that the activity was illegal, and the conviction was obtained at a trial that was conducted in a way that was questionable to say the least, and the illegal activity was one that many people think should attract civil rather than criminal actions (and many people think should not be illegal at all), and many people have voted in recent elections for a single issue party that wants to make the activity legal, what is more ridiculous - the sale of the company or the conviction of its owners?
Ask HN: What should I do with UberGoose?
UberGoose is a 'social catalog' that provides a forum for people to rate and discuss things. I think of it as Wikipedia meets Digg with a bit of Facebook and Amazon thrown in. Items can be goosed, which improves their popularity within a category – more popular items get more exposure. Additionally, goosing things adds them to your profile, so other friends and other users can see what you like. The goal is to become the go-to destination for user based ratings, reviews and discussion forums on the internet.

The site is currently stuck in private alpha. Really, it's a prototype, as it only hints at the site I imagine. It has several critical flaws due to its incompleteness, but is still kind of fun (but obfuscatory) to play with. The alpha test site was useful as far as putting together a development roadmap, but at this point I've exhausted my development funds. The current site was built in rails.

I've taken this about as far as I can for the time being and so I am looking for help moving forward. Ideally I would like a talented rails programmer and/or business guru to partner up with, but I don't know how to go about finding someone who fits the bill who would also be interested in working on the project for equity.

Any advice is appreciated, but I'm much more concerned with how to move forward than how to improve the current site.

Thanks!

http://www.ubergoose.com
Twitter Increases API Limit
This reminds me of a similar setup that I learned about during pilot training: a lot of small untowered airports use a pilot-controlled runway lighting setup that is controlled by pilots clicking their radios on a certain frequency to turn on the runway lighting at night, adjust brightness, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_Controlled_Lighting
So perhaps it's a prototype, or somehow due to api limits, but why can't they add all tweets to their results? Number of followers provides a natural ranking mechanism.
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Are you looking for the best canvas prints? When you surf the internet for the best canvas printing company to get best quality canvas prints, you will get hundreds of companies listed. Invariably all the companies will claim to be the best and how do you know that they really make the best canvas prints and how do you know that what you receive is the best canvas print?
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Is simply mentioning Hacker News in the post title enough to get upvotes?
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Fine.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=683814
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That's what the setting is for in which you flag the maximum urgency a caller is permitted.
Oh wow.

It's so nice to see news from years ago making it back as 'new' headlines. Whatever.

Feedback for such schemes has been the following-

a: that people felt incredibly unsafe (especially women) and stopped going out out night, regardless of being able to turn the lights on.

b: non locals, travelers, elderly people, disabled and so on can't use it easily. period.

c: most street lights are high power sodium lights, which are (According to wikipedia and other sources) one of, if not the most, efficient form of distributing energy in the form of light. They also happen to have a fairly significant startup time, so motion sensors wouldn't be very efficient. It's not obvious that replacing with more efficient startup lamps and motion sensors would help.

d: would you want to drive where your eyes would constantly have to re-dilate as the lights come on?

e: i've seen some pilot programs that have photovoltaic collection plates on top of street light stands, which collect energy during the day to activate the light at night. Feels more like the future we've been looking for.

I'd much rather see policies which force office lights, computers and so on be turned off at night (or face fines, etc) than street lights that work less efficiently.
I think the moral here is pretty simple, if you want points here just write about current hot button topics.

If you could make a tutorial for programming an iPhone app that searches for Tweets about Michael Jackson you'd get 100 points easy.
I think you put a little too much weight in follower count. There are a lot of methods to drive up your follower count (following big names, finding accounts that auto follow back, etc). If your followers aren't people that actually chose to follow you because you provide some value, what good is your number in determining importance?
Journalism Rules Are Bent in News Coverage From Iran
This seems oversimplified to me. When I think "database" I think of ACID properties. You can have SQL without ACID, and you can have ACID properties without SQL.
It is quite amazing how sf.net has managed to get worse with every redesign, even more amazing having in mind how awful the original design was.
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A more balanced reading list?
As an avid user of reddit and hn, I read a good amount of technical blogs. This stuff is great, but I realize now that its ALL I read. While I enjoy the posts, (and I learn a lot) I feel like I'm becoming disconnected with the average user.

Do you know any good blogs etc by people who don't make websites for a living?
A lot of the charts are just totally unnecessary, like this one: http://danzarrella.com/ling/syl.jpg

I wonder if they were included to bolster the impression that there are some important statistics involved here. Maybe there are, but silly charts make me suspicious.
If it's that simple there's no need for javascript. Just code to the latest supported standards and use conditional comments to include a secondary stylesheet for IE.
I only say that because on the login screen you have to choose a "Mike" or a "Meg" with their corresponding bunny.
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This is at least the third time this article has been posted. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664635 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656979.
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Should the goal in mind be to get upvotes or to help provide a community of like minded folks with quality content?
wow... he must have made a killing... again. He's following libertarian/austrian school economic predictions, so I suppose now he's betting on the collapse of the dollar.
I'm actually hoping that this doesn't get many upvotes; I'd much rather have quality content. I'm curious, however, if the HN community can be gamed by such obvious tactics. If pg is watching, I'd be happy to have any effect of this submission on my karma nullified, as it really isn't suitable for HN (regardless of where it ends up).
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>No more multi-device API limitations getting in your way.

I'm guessing api limitations are exactly why it doesn't exist
I've been seeing more large, interstitial display ads on Forbes.com et all recently, and I think they are more promising than these formats.

I don't mind ads, but I don't like it when they're injected into the content so awkwardly that they detract from the experience. For example, I don't mind Hulu's full-screen ads, but YouTube's smaller overlays drive me crazy.
But if you only have one central service hitting the Twitter API your account can max out the API limit but still update multiple devices.
$10/month. Negotiable. :)
Sorry to be so brutally frank about the design - obviously take everything with a grain of salt.

I like the look and feel of the logo (although I would hand draw the type instead of using a font), and I would recommend that you do more to give the rest of the site a similar vibe. For instance, on the landing page i would:
1. eliminate all the extraneous boxes around everything
2. maybe try giving the whole page a light blue/pink background instead of just the boxes? Just trying to simplify it more.
3. reduce the size of the footer type
4. keep your font colors consistent (i see a few different shades of blue) and unless theres a good reason, keep your links all the same color.

On the next page,
1. I'm not a fan of the happy face indicator for the default image. Maybe try, i donno... a bunny?
2. the link buttons on the top right are really ignorable because of the generic icons. I would continue with the handwritten theme for the primary nav items and hand draw the icons
3. the recent members box takes up a lot of room... its most of your content. In fact, my home page asks what is going on? and answers: nothing is going on. Why not switch the locations and importance of the recent members and the whats going on thing?

Basically, removing boxes and revamping the nav to incorporate the logo theme would go a LONG way.
Performance is always a trade-off; wou rarely get something for nothing. These object stores are great when all your doing it storing objects, but that's a pretty simplistic use-case. If you need to do more with your data than simply read it back in object-sized chunks, you're going to find that a relational database probably provides better performance. For web sites especially, retrieving and constructing objects is a fairly expensive operation if you're just generating list pages.

I wonder if we just have a generation of programmers who can't think in SQL. They're used to using ORMs (which are useful abstractions) but can't work at a lower level. Sending a query over the line to get exactly the results you want, and no more, and have it optimized and run entirely on server is pretty damn efficient.
Twitter has applied with the USPTO for dibs on the word "tweet."