skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would probably have landed you an interview at my last round of hiring. A CV rarely lands you a job - it just gets you in the door.

While finding someone who's curious, smart, and capable at a young age is what I've looked for when hiring junior technical people - (I want the real hackers, not the paper graduates who can't think for themselves) - the trick is in weeding out those who think they already know it all and are above everyone else, making them difficult to work with, and potentially dangerous to a team in the long run.

Some of what is in your CV belongs in a cover letter tailored to the job you are applying for - stick to clear skills and experience and keep it short. Put the details and adjectives, if you feel it's really necessary, in the cover letter - and keep that short too - save the rest for the interview... because that's where, at least in smaller shops, the real test is - whether you are going to fit into the team or not.
Or, getting taken in a picture was so rare than people dressed well for it.
One of our primary tasks as engineers is integrating other libraries. I'd suggest picking a task like mysql integration, reading json (http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson maybe? I'm java not python) or whatever. This teaches a key concept : code modularity.
If you have not yet read Stewart Brand's "How Buildings Learn", I highly recommend it. The basic premise is how the building is built determines how adaptable it is to change.
Looks like they've got spam already (Backupify), and the Gmail method sounds out of date (download quota?) despite the site apparently being new on May 2, 2010 (via the blog).

Personally, nothing. I duplicate everything important, often in multiple locations, though I should probably TrueCrypt my backups for paranoia's sake. Given my password store, in multiple locations, I can change all my site's passwords in minutes if someone gets one.

I'm thinking of putting my ssh keys into Tarsnap, as they're single-location-only right now. Any Tarsnap users have an opinion of it?
All the pictures from the Musée Albert Kahn are actually autochromes. I found the way of making those technically very interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome
Bandwidth exceeded in google doc viewer. I'd like to read this over and give you some feedback, but currently can't. Consider uploading it to scribd or something similar?
In the UK CV === resume. We don't tend to keep lengthy overviews of our work/achievements in the way (I observed) Americans do.
I'm curious if you've heard of Jeff Koons. A wildly successful modern artist. He produces outrageous crass art and sells copies for tens of thousands. I don't like him and I thought about him when you mentioned not getting Jackson Pollack.
I don't think you can have a hashtable in closure. From what I understand, none of their collections are array based, where as this is.

Clojure uses trees whereas java uses maps primarily.
Wikipedia is at the same time full of articles on all sorts of human depravity which presumably you don't want a young child reading about.

I would suggest that maybe what parents deem acceptable for their kids to consume unsupervised isn't such a great standard for what's worth studying and cataloging.

On a related note, age-appropriate forks of Wikipedia might not be a bad idea considering students are, as you point out, such a large portion of its user base. Just leave the original one alone.
J-1 visas with minimum residency requirements have something like "Two year rule does apply" written in the passport. People who come sponsored by program like Muskie have that limitation
Actually, "market impact" does not mean "sales" either. It means more or less "relevance". At that, NeXT failed miserably to influence Unix workstation and personal computer makers.
Ask HN: Easiest way to get web charts into Powerpoint
Hi, I am working on a new feature for my web app. Essentially my client would like to be able to copy charts from my web app and paste them into Powerpoint. To my knowledge, using most off the shelf chart API/libraries will result in either Flash or images that if pasted into Powerpoint, the result wouldn't be very flexible.

Does anyone know of a better solution? How else would I go about accomplishing this goal?

Thanks
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It's convoluted but...

1. click the link here

2. go to your Google docs home

3. select the document, click share and email it to yourself

That's how I've got it :)
The "who would help" part is relevant here.
Google python class starts with really easy stuff, and it's pretty well written. http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/
Thanks. I hadn't heard of you before, and knew little of the origins of Facebook, etc. I just read your book. It was a fascinating read.
I generally agree that it doesn't matter a lot, but I've found one case where having well-arranged cables is useful: if you want to move the equipment a short distance temporarily (for example, moving a tower case out from between/inside furniture, or turning a monitor around to show it to someone else). Having the cables to the device arranged so they all have sufficient slack, and are not tangled with each other, means you can do this without having to unplug anything (and possibly shut down/lose use of the equipment).
Product management. You must think a lot, programming experience is a huge plus, but this kind of work does not tie you to a computer - you should be out more and talk to prospects/customers.
Never heard of her. I guess people can have fame without being recognized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netochka_Nezvanova
"Bloggitus" isn't right; it would be something like "having blogged" or "being blogged about". Also, that double g is very un-Latin. I'd think something like "Blogamus" or "Blogimus" depending on how you want the verb to conjugate; the former feels more natural to me.

If you want something a bit more Cartesian, you could make the verb "blogito" rather than "blogo", in which case you need "blogitamus" instead of "blogamus". I'm not convinced it's sufficiently nearer to Descartes to justify such a barbarous coinage :-).

The rest is fine; "ergo sumus" is indeed the right pluralization of Descartes's "ergo sum".
Isn't this why Firefox has extensions? Just write an extension to add H.264 support.
As opposed to your garden of pure hyperbole.
> At the end of the day, Wikipedia isn't about providing a commons for people to store all the world's information. It is to build and maintain the world's best encyclopedia.

That's actually part of the debate. Wikimedia Commons, as opposed to Wikipedia the encyclopedia, has expanded somewhat from "just the image host for Wikipedia" to being a free-content project in its own right, whose mission is to collect PD and freely licensed photography, art, scans, etc. Some of that still interacts with Wikipedia articles, e.g. for a big gallery full of Renoir paintings (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir), even though it's much more than could actually fit in the Wikipedia article, you can still think of it as sort of a supplementary appendix to the article. But many people would like to see Commons be more than that, and expand to be something like a "Getty Images of free content", which will serve as the world's repository for freely licensed media about everything. Other people think it should stick to being just the Wikipedia image host.
This is about catching mistakes. No manual will help you there. Documentation doesn't even come into the mix.
The lack of much forking or repackaging of Wikipedia is one thing that's been different than anticipated. It's possibly due to its large size and high edit rate, so you'd need a large community to make a significantly different fork, and then keep it up to date. But ideally the purpose of having a free-content license is precisely to enable people to do other things with it besides just read it on wikipedia.org--- if that's the only way people are reading it, the free-content license isn't doing much.
We're looking for bright penetration testers, reverse engineers and malware researchers at http://www.mandalorian.com.

We're based in Reading, UK about half an hour from London. We've got a good team in the centre of town. Applicants would need to go through UK government clearance so British nationals only I'm afraid. Drop me an email if you're interested.
Bits like this: have had some colorful experiences with computers; Came up with the name after learning shuck is another word for bragging or boasting. Get the idea?; Undoubtedly more set in the back of my head.; Darn. Jobless.

Horrible fluff, too informal style for the rest of the document, like you're trying to befriend the reader of a fiction story.

"After talking, I began working a located many more security problems that needed to take precaution."

It's nonsense, how did that get past your proof read... oh.

It looks like you have some good points to make, but I'd never have found them if I wasn't hunting for things to comment on. Good bits:

Pornhub - keep the job in; finding a vulnerability, reporting it and turning it into a job, that's a great thing to have in there. Maybe describe it as a site with however many users/hits/revenue and more details available.

PHP, Javascript, jQuery experience. Knowledge of XSS/SQLi/salted password hashes.

Security flaw finding - if you did any for money then put that as work, if you did any for free put that as some kind of personal development / evidence of interest.

MyTrueColor, Shuckit, Neverblue - draw more attention to these as examples of motivation and interest (if they are valid - mytruecolor and shuck.it don't seem to load).

Github similar site - Yes keep this (what did you do, specifically?)

What competitions did you win?

Rewrite it into a page or so and keep the focus on what you did / can do in technical terms, what you have done, and what you want to do for {prospective employer}.
Juggling three balls requires less co-ordination than walking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T16_BVIFFPQ is a good place to start.

I find it a pretty good way to clear my mind.
Besides wikipedia he's one of the best things to come out of the internet from an educational point of view. Simply amazing.
Mysuperspacestation.info - The Wheels of life
Yishan Wong (early Facebook employee) gave an excellent answer to this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-potential-obstacles-to-Dia.... (Quora is still in private beta, but I'd imagine many HNers have accounts.)
Interesting article, if a little heavy in possible-subtext, and I loved the video from the very first time I saw it.

Favorite quote by the creator:

As for The Sims, I enjoyed that too, although sims usually turn insane and die horribly under my hands after a few minutes.

Dx xD
There are a lot of parallels between Netochka & _why.

In the beginning I thought it might be the same group.
Ah, well to be fair, I did qualify my statement with "the US." I wasn't aware that the commenter was a foreign national.
Did he explicitly write on this? Linkage?
I confess that I cheated. I play piano, am right-handed, but haven't mastered juggling. Yet.
These jobs exist. Corporate executives are obvious ones. Finance, particularly hedge funds and venture capital. Management consulting. Politicians. Tenured professors. Creative solitary professions like writers, comedians, and composers.

The problem is that almost everyone would rather think than do, so you've got a massive supply & demand imbalance. Everybody wants to be the one deciding what should be done; very few people want to be the ones actually doing it.

In practice, most professions deal with this by instituting barriers to entry. In rigid hierarchical organizations like the corporate world, this is done through a "pay your dues" culture. The people who become corporate executives get there through performing well at grunt work on an individual contributor level - well enough to attract the attention of an outgoing senior executive. The most likely path to becoming a venture capitalist is to found a successful startup yourself. Anyone can start a hedge fund, but convincing people to give you money usually requires a solid track record as an analyst or trader at an established firm. Associates at management consulting firms do things like count products on store shelves and make PowerPoint presentations before they get to call the strategy shots themselves.

In more fluid professions like novelists, the barrier to entry is simply that you have to be so good that they can't ignore you. There are millions of aspiring writers that want to get published; only a few thousand manage to do so, and only a few dozen become bestsellers. If you want to be one of them, you need to be willing to practice and revise enough that your work is better than all the other folks.
Interesting that informal karma bartering has struck up of its own accord. Probably a lot more goes on behind the scenes.
>Facebook profiles I know tend to become echo chambers at a rate far higher than that of blogs and personal sites

I rarely if ever update my Facebook profile, but I still think it's a fantastic site for networking, finding events, and looking up email addresses. I completely disagree with the article that blogs\personal sites and facebook accounts are substitutable goods in competition with each other. For many users, they are in entirely different product categories.
I don't, but I'm interested in reading now that you've mentioned.
LuaJIT is written in large portions of Lua.
Doubt it, RIM already has their own operating system, although it may be that D is RIM.
Haha, XOR'd pointers to compress a doubly-linked-list to use a single pointer for both previous and next references.

Brilliant and deadly. Gotta love it.
Become a blogger? ;-) Of course, it's only a "job" if you become a pretty high-profile blogger.

The "doesn't tie me to a computer" part leaves me unclear whether you want a job that's still thinking about computers but just isn't actually on them all the time, or whether you want a change of careers to a thinking-centric occupation that may not involve computers at all.

If the latter, there's all the traditional areas like philosophy, but they tend to be hard to find jobs in. Law has thinking-centric jobs, especially if you're a researcher for a larger firm that has someone else doing the in-courtroom advocacy, or a clerk for a judge, or a judge yourself, or a legal analyst at a think-tank or in academia. But you'd need to get a JD.

Long-form analytical journalism is also thinking-centric, but it's hard to make a living at (there are a handful of coveted jobs doing it full-time, and then a larger number of freelancers writing such pieces and trying to shop them around).
Excellent section xD I've used Carpe carpio for years, and used to have a phrase for "squeeze the carp"...
> "Nothing" and shame will always go hand in hand.

I dispute that. You wouldn't expect a monk, a hunter-gatherer tribesman, or a lion to be ashamed of doing "nothing great", would you?
"many programmers seem to think there is something 'magical' about the ability to program, as if there is some kind of essential element that differentiates those that can program from those that can not."

You should read this, and maybe the linked academic paper, too: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programm...
Can anyone explain to those who've never played Sim City before what exactly it is that is so remarkable about the video?
Definition of "play piano" and "juggle", please. How competently and/or frequently should one do these things before answering yes?

(In the absence of an answer to this, those variables are going to get confounded with arrogance, self-confidence, etc.)
Great advice on this thread.

Insider's tip: if you know somebody who is politically active, see if they can ask a US Senator or House Member to make a call for you. As with anything government-related, those guys can make a call and it clears up a lot of red tape and suddenly there are options you didn't have before.
Computer Science--as opposed to software engineering, or day-to-day programming in general--is nothing but an odd flavor of applied abstract math. Chances are, you know more CS than most people with CS degrees, since most undergraduate "computer science" programs are actually a mish-mash of software engineering and dumbed-down bits of CS.
http://hurl.it/hurls/bb737d04e3ad86789b0942baf41819f0edb3b63...
Don’t Listen to Your Market
You are attacking a straw man. Does an article on STDs need a hardcore porn picture? Of course not. That's not what we're talking about here, you are attacking a straw man.

From the article:

"Sanger sent a letter to the FBI earlier this month outlining his concerns and identifying two specific Wikimedia Commons categories he believes violate federal obscenity law."

"The first category, entitled “Pedophilia,” contains 25-30 explicit and detailed drawings of children performing sexual acts. The category was created three years ago. "

"The second, “Lolicon,” provides cartoons similar in detail and depiction. One of the more egregious cartoons shows a rendering of a young child about to perform oral sex on a much older man."

It's hard to defend that, or make it sound like it is "mundane".
Darn, I was too late! I'm glad you liked it though.

Oh, I completely agree with you on the "paper graduates". I find myself to be very social, I don't let my ego go over my head, after all there is no reason to.

I did get pretty carried away with what I was going for. I was going brain dead from trying to think of what and how to write it, so I came to ask for HN's help. :)
I think the dividing line is that he said "don't play the piano (regularly?)" instead of "can't play the piano".

Maybe you can sit down with a beginner level piano book - but do you?
Or, the porn partisans can create a porn-friendly fork, and leave the original alone.

The question is, is the encyclopedic value of graphic sexual imagery worth the cost, which is reduced accessibility of the whole project. Wales' answer, which I agree with, is "no".

At the heart of every debate about Wikipedia policy, I see the same notion: that because Wikipedia is on the Internet, and because it's open to everyone to edit, and because it's powered mostly by editors unaffiliated with the project, it "belongs" to everyone. But it doesn't. It's not a democracy! It has an agenda: building the world's greatest encyclopedia. It's rational and consistent for the project to trade openness for accessibility and quality.

There's a whole rest of the Internet for the stuff that doesn't make the project's cut.
Roger Linn Design - New Musical Instrument Prototype
Chats are stored in an (almost complete) RFC822 compliant format on their servers. In plain HTML mode, you can click on a chat and do the "View plain message" trick to find what you need as email attachments:

1. A HTML copy of the chat
2. An XML log (XMPP) of the chat

So you can, in theory (and I have done it), crawl your GMail account (via the Plain HTML view) and grab your chats. But doing so is against their ToS and I got my account locked down for about 4 hours once. [Hint: rate limit your requests to sneak past..]

It was fun though. :)
He basically found a way to build a more populous city (presumably) than anyone else, ever. He also found a pattern that seems to keep the city crime-free and educated with full employment and no apparent pollution. This would take quite an investment of time without using any cheats.

Obviously the video is pure melodrama though.
http://startuply.com.

Guess who funded them?
I'm thinking about joining Facebook so that I can delete my account in protest
As usual, Dvorak's point is crude and overstated.

But in general I think he's more right than wrong.
I don't think what I'm doing is a standard practice, I've heard of certain stress and 'baoding' balls being used to strengthen muscles (video: http://www.baodingballs.com/baoding_ball_techniques.html ), but I think that's about it. Normally, pianists just practise playing études and doing run-ups with scales.

That said, I have noticed a difference in my fretting hand as a result of trying to become ambidextrous, so it hasn't all been for naught. :) As for what I do with my left hand: anything that I can do with it -- I brush my teeth with my left hand, hold my cup of tea with my left hand, and in easier, non-technical classes, I copy down notes with my left hand. I have been doing this for about 2 years now.
Woah, thanks for the feedback. Out of everyone, I've got the most from you and it really is going to help me out when I get back to making it a final draft.

So...concise but informative. Got it!

Are you an employer? :)
From that viewpoint I agree, it makes it much more clear. I'll have to keep a note on my forehead to not tell people my age since it's irrelevant.
'Votes' of sub-cellular variables control cell fate
Thanks, looks like a very useful API. In addition to synthesizing audio it also has the ability to do spectrum analysis:
http://vimeo.com/8525101
Another reason not to do it is that in the modern era, computed pointers tend to stall pipelines.
And I just noticed you are Colin Percival ... yay for paying attention, off course you'd know about the ELF projects for FreeBSD :P.

BTW, your slideshow on the encryption stuff, very cool! Enjoyed it tremendously.
OT, perhaps, but I didn't like the subliminal messaging/subliminal effects in the video, which were totally unnecessary.

Did anyone else notice them?
Israel bars academic Chomsky entry to West Bank
Ask HN: Best options for transcription?
I am looking to finally start getting into transcription. ( processing user webcam recorded .flv 's and getting text back of what they say)

Needless to say, its hard to navigate the sea of available options. I see adwords dominated by companies that offer 1$ a minute but that seems crazy high for what I am doing. Is there some software I can run on my own server (with less accuracy of course) that would cut costs significantly? Ideally, I would love to get below 25 cents a minute and also not have to rely on people as well.
Well I agree, I personally love YC but would probably never run any future startup I might create through YC - even though I live right here in San Francisco.

The issue of geography doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that this whole community is set up to support, promote and evangelize YC and it's portfolio so I'm not surprised /jobs remains YC only.
Seward's Success
Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding
If you want any more advice or a proof read later on then send me an email. Always happy to help.

I interview for the company I work at (there's no formal structure but I guess you would call me second in command). We're UK based though and only a small portion of our work is in the kind of field your into.

What you should do is hit up tptacek[1] here on HN. I think he's much more into that arena, US based and almost constantly looking for new blood :) At the very least he might be able to point you at suitable employers.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
There's a whole rest of the Internet for the stuff that doesn't make the project's cut.

Excellent point. What distinguishes Wikipedia from any random webpage is Wikipedia's brand. As a reader of webpages, I find that the Wikipedia domain has heuristic value in helping me decide how useful the webpage will be for my research--and, yes, the research my children do at home when I'm not looking over their shoulders.
1. Get a PhD.

2. Become a professor/researcher.

3. Grad students program for you.
Of note, I did see http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_... which looks like it could be a feasible option (though still above my target price) , but that was almost 2 years ago so I am hoping a completely computer automated solution is available by now.
Cool writeup. I am enthusiastic about node.js and I have Heroku node.js beta access - now all I need is more free time.

Javascript and node.js have a nice development story and I am trying to spin up a bit on Emacs support for Javascript.