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Long story but can anyone use Google Search with Firefox 52 (last one which works on Windows XP)? I'm stuck at the reCaptcha (https://www.google.com/sorry/index) where it spins the…

This is a discussion I hope can lead to some answers among the developer community about what's going on these days. I previously wrote about how various shopping sites are being v…

Hi, It's been a while HN. Amazon is going to win heavily aren't they? Or to put it another way, 3 out of maybe 10 of my computers can checkout at the newly updated Walmart.com. For…

Can you expand on what you believe is the best way to show your abilities? How do you get pass the gatekeepers? How do you make sure your getting leveled at the right level during …

Your a newly arrived immigrant from Europe. You wanted to make your fortune in the Americas. During your journey, your portfolio sank with your ship. You have no contacts in the Ne…

How about the pigeonhole effect of linking titles with compensation? Also, in many places, having the "Junior Dog Walker" outshine the "Lead Dog Walker" can end up being a severe c…

I asked this questions a while back "Ask HN: Why is it easier to make money by being evil?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609433). I gave an two examples. One of internet c…

I was reading some history on immigrants from Europe to America and how their entire future existence depended on keeping a portfolio book safe. If they lost that then, well, they …

Tesla, Turing, Oppenheimer.. great men, great scientists, great intellects - all harmed and some destroyed by the people they helped protect. I've been reading the biographies of s…

One of the biggest mantra in the open source world that more eyeballs looking at the problem = better software. There's another area in life where there is a lot of eyeballs lookin…

I never want to wear a name badge for work again. Which companies have no or optional name badges?

Crowdsourcing, democracy, large conversations. Thousands to millions of brains looking at a problem trying to figure out the answer. And when they fail spectacularly, they fail spe…

Has anyone tried it before?

I'm curious. You know all those super smart people you didn't want to be apart of your team because they had personalities which was horrible to work with. What would happen if you…

A large group interview usually consists of you having 7 or so individual interviews, a lunch interview with another 3 people, an afternoon interview with a manager - all with no o…

Did it? If so, how?

This is what I mean by a long lecture :( "Jargon increases the accuracy and efficiency of communication between specialists." I think this statement is too broad. This really depen…

Here's one. "What is polymorphism?" Things go downhill after that. I know I'm going to be listening to a long lecture.

I like looking at things tick from the inside. I like keeping up to date about the field. I like making things work. I still get stumped by the technical interview. I usually fail …

I don't consider using Adblock unethical. What I consider unethical is sites which track you across hundreds of internet sites while trying to figure out your previous URL history …

"I guess the point I am getting at with all of this, is that perhaps we should all try a bit harder to try to understand what's really going on when we use those libraries and abst…