skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opinions are like...

Well, here's mine, on qualities of a good resume:

- consistent style
- no complete sentences (too verbose especially w/ consistency)
- everything relevant listed
- good organization, most relevant things first
- LaTeX or markdown for consistent formatting in your output
- no typos
- nice resume paper (a nice touch)

Anything marginally but decidedly helpful that goes past the first page is likely to be ignored, but maybe keep it anyways, especially if you've been in the workforce for more than 10 years. Less than 10 years, probably keep it to one page.
Not necessarily in my world. My theory...

Programmers grok pandas
Statisticians grok R
Bitcoin Swings and Tax Glitches
It's more fun to sell metered services to people than "plans". You can get the best of both worlds by having a per unit price, and then giving people discounts for committing to certain usage levels.

Plans are kind of a pain because you have to have a sales process to get people to change. Mailchimp automatically upgrades/downgrades people between plans, which is a decent workaround, but still a little weird to customers.
More generally, following a couple easy, basic rules like:

1) emphasize the most important verb by putting it first, and favor more-active and more-specific verbs over very general or passive ones, as in putting "increased" ahead of "utilized" and "leveraged", and

2) favor simple language ("leverage" or "utilize" can often just be "use", for example) because, counterintuitively for middling or poor writers, simpler language usually comes off as more forceful, confident, and authoritative than fancier fluff.[1] It's also easier to read, and you're less likely to make small blunders that will bother some readers.

improves most writing significantly.

[1] Incidentally, I think high school and university paper length requirements that reward such flabby writing without without sufficiently punishing weak style choices are part of why people write that way, especially when they're trying to write "formally".
I can't comment on the protocol itself, but including an interactive quiz directing the user to a documentation page is a brilliant idea.
What Doctors Should Ignore
How is talking about this going to kill people? Does this guy get to decide how to set the traffic cameras? He is just expressing his opinion.

+ he wasn't trying to commit a crime, he was trying to have a discussion with the state about their scummy practices.
the "is/is not engineer" was just a pretext to tell him to STFU.
Personally I don't think that being an engineer changes anything he said/did. If random Joe want to challenge the timing of the yellow light sure go ahead. If this guy who has worked in another country as an engineer does this... whoooaaaa... put the brakes on.
HN discussions for the lazy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790251

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14797364

search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=blog.keras.io
ROCm and MIOpen are AMD's equivalent offerings. They've developed their own ports for some of the popular DL frameworks.

https://rocm.github.io/dl.html
Coming from The Netherlands to live in the US for a while, I found the same. It seems like just everything contains more high-fructose corm syrup, and tastes sweeter. Even all breads.
Dan should do a Wes McKinney vs Hadley Wickham type article about the future of data science instead. (hint: very bright)

I use pandas more than any other tool, but every time I look at R, I go through a period of re-evaluating all my life decisions.
Finish every sentence by saying “over” ;)
see also https://swolchok.github.io/objcperf/
I only quickly skimmed the article, but it seemed to mainly be about understanding and engaging seriously with ideas (even if you disagree), thinking critically, being open to new ways of looking at things, and so on. That seems like a very reasonable message to me, and something that politically active younger adults could definitely benefit from.

We all need to wrestle with and face the limits of our own understanding at some point, if we wish to grow.
"I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter."[1] - Blaise Pascal

The contemporary interpretation/translation of this quote is usually "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

[1] - "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
That's an interesting analysis. Isn't that same as burning down one's house to get insurance payout? In this case, burn down a 3rd party's house or entice the 3rd party to burn down their own house.
> probably

Show and focus a window when the user locks their machine.
How Startups Actually Grow
Some texts considered private, even after they've been sent: Supreme Court
It's possible, but a couple of points to consider:

1) Wildcards may have a net negative effect on total issuance if subscribers who were getting many non-wildcard certificates before replace them with a single wildcard. I'm not sure this will be the case, but it could be. I expect wildcards will help move many more sites to HTTPS - perhaps just with fewer actual certs.

2) Wildcard validation from Let's Encrypt will be restricted to DNS validation, and many people don't have the ability to automate modifications to their DNS records. That being the case, it will be a bit more difficult to validate for wildcard certificates than for non-wildcards.
Elements of Style is very good. It can be a little prescriptive, but it's only 50-odd pages long and surprisingly fun to read.
I re-read (re-listen-to) this book every 3 or so months. Every time I do, I find myself thinking "why did it take me so long to go through this book again?"

It's an incredible help, especially in a profession that's stereotypically short on interpersonal skills. It's too easy for me to convince myself that those skills matter less. This book always reminds me how important it is to not always be blunt. Honest is great, blunt is not always helpful.
1) GP admitted no wrongdoing, accusation is not proof.

2) Traffic cameras are used to issue more than just red light tickets, speed cameras being another example.

3) TFA is about flaws in those devices that can lead to incorrect accusations on the part of the state employing them.
Not all people feel the same way or get the same primal brain screams. Who decides who's right?
There are definitely some that at least have tact and respect for the skills that developers have. I won't talk to any that don't come across in this way immediately. If they are all about buzzwords and clearly haven't taken anytime to understand what software development is about they deserve to be blackballed
Good question. To start with we only wanted "full" dumps (ones that had been closed) rather than having to deal with the operation of a dump as well. There are numerous landfill sites that have been covered with dirt and now have to be looked after.

Also there's a higher level of valuable waste in the old dumps, though that wasn't a major factor.
My only concern for karma is as a way to gain insight regarding the opinions of the community and how broken it is.

The parent comment being flagged to death is enlightening on both counts. I also appreciate your telling me you'd comment and vote on a thread about a Django release even though you've never used it and aren't a developer. That's simply fascinating!
Webflow CTO here. Check out webflow.com. Lots of tutorial content as well to help you lay out pages: https://university.webflow.com/lesson/intro-to-flexbox-layou...

For a quick preview of what it's like to design in webflow, check out https://flexboxgame.com
I am an engineer. I am not a "registered professional traffic engineer". I am a software engineer. If I wrote a paper on traffic signaling (which is also huge in software) I should be able to call myself an engineer - yes I won't call myself a "registered professional traffic engineer".
it's awesome. everyone I know has a good job, without really searching
> The libertarian position on wealth inequality is that as long as the distribution of wealth was determined voluntarily (without state privilege, in particular), then there is no problem. Bitcoin is such a system: all participation in Bitcoin has been voluntary. Early adopters took a big risk on a fledgling technology, and some have been rewarded with handsome returns.

I could never really make sense of that position. Voluntarily by whom? Why would you ever voluntarily agree to a high-inequality society where you are at the lower end?

I don't think bitcoin is a valid example because it's something that (right now) you can choose to ignore completely without any negative consequences for you. Therefore, high inequality is not necessarily a problem.

The moment bitcoin would become the single dominating currency, the situation would be completely different.
This is really cool. I end up doing a lot of this kind of stuff at work, so I plan on using the bejesus out of this.
Doesn't the USPTO basically rubber stamp every patent claim that is written properly?
Why is it so hard to make friends after college?
Most Software Dev Jobs Are Bullshit Jobs
Show HN: Your cryptocurrency is destroying the environment. Offset it
It's not all breads, just most of them, especially the shelf bread from big outside bakeries.

In most stores there will be a few choices in the bakery section that don't have added sugar.
> Tell me, in simple English, what you have to offer and why I should hire you.

What does this look like, exactly?

Edit: Surely it looks different if I were to hand it to a hiring manager vs a machine reading resumes, yes? What are examples of both?
$40 Trillion Crypto and BlockChain Market Collapse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system

Applicant Tracking Systems have arguably been a disaster for humans seeking positions in larger organizations. Taleo etc are laughably basic and typically miss valuable candidates because they work on 90's era keyword loading...I know this having hired for lots of positions in a couple of large companies. You can copy all the keywords in a job application, stuff your resume with them and the ATS will pick up the resume as 'valuable'

I can't say anything positive about the vast majority of HR organizations, who are mostly just sitting in the management meetings waiting for instructions to fire or hire and have virtually no influence outside that...
Allow me to be cynical for a moment. A big reason why people only answer the first question is they want to skip the harder ones that follow and hope the conversation will go off on a tangent instead.

Yeah, that really depends on the content of the conversation, but I have seen that tactic used in so many situations (including non-email) that I assume it as the default reason. So I limit myself to one question per email.
The ticket was cited using PACING and the officer did not have a recently calibrated odometer which gave us an upperhand but that would not be enough to dismiss the case.

For future reference, that would have been enough to get the ticket dismissed. Tickets must be based on calibrated range speedometers, not the officer's odometer.

Also, the DA generally doesn't negotiate traffic tickets. It's not worth their time. Simply contest the ticket, since the worst case scenario is you get the same punishment you would have gotten if you hadn't fought the ticket.
San Francisco to robots: Don’t crowd our sidewalks
ProtonMail Bridge, Email Encryption for Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail
Good point, thanks. We just pushed a fix for that language, should show up live shortly.
tl;dr - Most of the article tries to justify why it's important to Learn to sell.

Actionable guidance:

"cold calling, sending tons of emails, doing prospect/company research and developing cold leads into warm ones"

and get a job in sales ("role", "experience", "career").

My personal project is a Chinese learning page.

https://pingtype.github.io

I tried sending hundreds of emails, researching all the Chinese language centres in Taiwan to find contact email addresses for the department, and sometimes even the direct email addresses for the tutors. I wrote a short email explaining what my program does, and how it's helping me learn.

Nobody replied.

I made a YouTube video as an example of what it can do. I posted on Facebook, where my 3900 friends (who I all met face to face) mostly ignored it (29 likes).

I submitted it as a Show HN. Nobody up-voted it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907618

Can anybody give more helpful instructions?

I'm using Pingtype to read the Bible and song lyrics all the time, and my Chinese is improving - after failing with 9 other methods before.

https://pingtype.github.io/docs/blog.html#failing

I really get discouraged by the lack of interest though, and the "trial by fire" of being ignored by the world is really depressing. For me there's no "uncertainty being on a quota compensation plan" - I would certainly be broke.
Research suggests a link between homicide and inequality
Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies
On the employer side: Pretty tight, hard to find talent.
On the employee side: It's good. Salary are OK considering the decent cost of living. The AI boom is helping bringing more options for smart and qualified people.

Feel free to email me if you have more questions, know some companies that are looking ;)
In the age of big data optimizing for the right value will be our greatest challenge.
Show HN: A website to keep your promises
This is so true for me as well. I actually use more SQL, Bash, and even MS Access DBs and Excel pivots connecting to text files to get the data in the right, aggregated shape first. Then I load into R or Python as you say so I can work with the data in memory.
> You are unlikely to ever achieve a position in industry that has the same freedom of investigation and time that you experienced as a graduate student, let alone the holy grail of a self-funded post-doc or the like. On the other hand, you won't achieve that as faculty either.

which explains my advisor's "enjoy it while you still can!" attitude whenever we talk of such things :)
Is it obvious that you are currently not living locally?

Many places shy away with dealing with non-local applicants for various, often silly, reasons:

They don't want to offer/negotiate relocation expenses, don't want to deal with long distance interviews, don't have the setup/infra to give good long distance interviews, not willing to pay for travel for an in person interview, not willing to conduct only phone/video interviews, not willing to feel responsible for having an applicant pay their own expenses to travel for an interview.

Many places are not willing to consider/interview someone with those moving parts because if they don't hire them, or things don't work out after hiring them then the company/manager will feel responsible and the applicant might bad mouth the employer. Granted bad mouthing an employer after a bad hire experience can and does happen, it doesn't often have as much weight and drama as when someone "moved across the country".

It's easier for an applicant to shout "I flew across the country to interview and this company is/was a joke... they didn't hire me, and I had to pay to travel to the interview!" or "I was hired by this company and I 'moved across the country' for it and then they canned me for [stupid] reasons a, b, c, they are a joke! They 'ruined my life' Avoid them!".

Unfortunately you need to move then look for a [local] job or conceal that you are not currently a local applicant at least until to are at an in person interview.
This behavior makes me a selfish driver, too. Doing 20 under what I’m doing when you hit the end of the ramp? Well, I’m sure as hell not letting you in front of me. If you can’t be bothered to do it right, I can’t be bothered, either.

Which doesn’t help traffic one iota.
Huge Total Addressable Market, killer product, so why can't I sell
> Television and Radio have had massive amounts of censorship in US history.

And at every step there has been aggressive active resistance to that by the audience. Even just recently, book publishers floated an idea a few years ago to put recommended age ratings on books aimed at the childhood and adolescent markets. Readers, authors, and all fans of literature exploded. They launched boycotts (and unlike gamers they're not lying when they say they'll boycott something), they got loud. Publishers quickly backed down. Gamers would never think of resisting age prohibition rankings. In the movie industry, we had the Hayes Code for awhile and movie fans opposed it unceasingly until it was eventually repealed.

And with games we face higher censorship than in any other medium. In movies, for instance, if the movie features animated characters rather than real people (as all videogames do), you can get away with essentially anything at all. Just look at the South Park creators and their movies. And you can get an unrated movie and pop it into your player and watch away. With videogame consoles the console makers have all declared they will never permit an unrated title to be licensed, nor will they ever permit any title given a rating that restricts it to an audience of 18+ gamers. And thanks to the DMCA section 1201, that edict of the publishers gives the ratings handed down by the ESRB the full force of federal law.

And you have to consider the 'Chilling Effect' as well. You can't even propose beginning a project in the gaming industry that has a significant risk of being black-balled with an AO rating. Most gamers look at M-rated games, which are equivalent to PG-13 blockbuster action movies at their most 'extreme', and think its equivalent to an R rated film. They would never think of standing up and saying 'content on a screen is not harmful. Ratings are restricting what we have access to in significant ways and need to be stopped.'

We don't have ratings on books. When you go to a bookstore, there is a 'childrens section'. That is sufficient, and no more is needed. No prevention of kids from grabbing books intended for an older audience, no group of 'concerned parents' declaring the appropriate age range of readers, no ratings agency charging tens of thousands of dollars to grant a rating which is used to determine whether a reading device will permit it to operate. Gamers are downright scared of such a system for games, though. And for no legitimate reason.
> he libertarian position on wealth inequality is that as long as the distribution of wealth was determined voluntarily (without state privilege, in particular), then there is no problem.

I'd like to remind the world there are such things as consequentialist Libertarians who view the value of their policy preferences based on their outcomes rather than the NAP.
OK, you're sort of shining a spotlight on my ignorance here, but a few thoughts:

1. Maybe "fully nationalized" isn't technically true, but my understanding was that the UK was widely regarded to have a nationalized healthcare system. Not really interested in whether that's technically true at the margins unless there's some major policy impact.

2. "Cost-effective" is an interesting term, because it assumes we agree on what "effective" means. I want choice, innovation, better health outcomes, more convenience, shorter wait times, etc., and I'm willing to pay some premium (but not 4x or something) for them. For these reasons, I don't want want the NHS system here (nor do I think it'd work here), despite it being better for some values of "cost-effectiveness".

3. If by "cost-effectiveness", you just mean per-capita spending on healthcare, are you sure the NHS is the most cost-effective of any developed country? Doesn't seem to be the case here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... -- maybe you're using some more complicated measure of spending per health outcomes?
Recruiting, filtering, and screening have become a perpetuum mobile industry keeping everyone’s out. I’m getting rejection emails from junior people with clearly kimited knowledge about the technology (at least they are polite enough to send it though). I swear one more time I’ll hear about talent or IT workforce shortage.
Yeah, really looking forward to some of their results.
Not exactly true - in CO you can get a speed trap van to mail you a ticket from Arizona - they can't add points to your record but they can take you to court if you don't pay.
Is it a waste to have a webserver running all day, sitting idle for most of the day?
> I’m not going to reject your resume because it was too long if I can easily grep the data I’m looking for.

I think this is a key point. Layout and presentation are really important. Even 1 page of dense, undifferentiated text is a lot. But 3 pages of well presented, sectioned content is pretty easy to read.
Rendering AJAX-crawling pages
1. Tell why you aren't a fit.

2. Tell why you are an exceptional fit.

3. Tell where you can see your work.

I have not spent five years working with Docker tooling. I do have experience with ___, ___ and ___ and if you've used ____, _____ and _____ (in this case on Android) you've used my work.

80% interview rate.
They speak truth :)
With the market cap of Bitcoin at $250 billion, we are already 1/4 of the way there. So if your numbers are right, you won't make more than 4x by buying BTC at the current price.
A Freudian choice, perhaps. As we are busy thinking about things we cannot/should not say, that hidden watchdog finds a way to influence our visible behaviors and choices.
But most people don't get access to that work, because their phones don't get updated.
Leave out the bottom 10 years and leave out your degree years -- if you have one. My software development career began at age 28 (I'm now 45). My CV begins in 2001 and makes no mention of what I was doing from 1990-2001, and makes me appear about 35-37.

When I turn up for interviews, nobody bats an eye, and all interview questions that touch on previous jobs talk about what I've been doing in the past 3 years.
To which, of course, the correct answer is "Unless you have good reason to believe the data is normally distributed, you should be using Mann-Whitney", then explain that :-)
Perl6 & Smalltalk also have them (conditions&restarts).

And i've seen modules to add condition systems to perl5, Ruby & Clojure. But these are kinda of hacks so the more languages that have it baked-in the better!
The Way of the Wolf by Jordan Belfort (the wolf of wall street).

Jordan has a lot youtube clips with his live seminars of upto 10 episodes - 90 minutes each.

Disclaimer: Not in sales, but have great sense of appreciation for rain-makers.
That choice of terms was my frustration leaking through. Those drivers wasted 4 hours of my day yesterday, and several whole days this last month.
I built a rather extensive application for a client over the last 18 months using Rails API and Angular, using a number of these sorts of principles. While it is entirely possible to use what the article suggested, I argue it's a premature optimization and may be a detriment to the entire project. We're now actively removing the Angular portion of the project and going back to the good old way.

I wouldn't say this decision was made without careful thought nor without weighing many options. But when it comes down to it, many line of business applications (which is what I see a lot of in the market) don't need the level of sophistication the instructions in this article gives. Most applications need to be reasonably fast, reasonably responsive, and extremely easy to maintain and extend. Does working with all of these modern front end tools that change so quickly and given at least one order of magnitude increase in complexity also give the application a equal increase in speed, responsiveness, maintainability, and extensibility? I don't think so.

I'm not the first person to say this. Take a look at this presentation by Sam Stephenson, it will be worth your while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA
Blocked tool to see the legal websites censored by unreliable ISP filters