skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting catch-22 I've experienced regarding a recommendation the article makes - if you remove things like graduation dates, previous positions / etc. once you reach a certain age (35+ per the article), potential employers now don't have that information.

The catch-22 is, if you're not careful, now employers may think you are NOT senior and so you may be able to get a job, however, it might not be appropriate for your skill level. It can be frustrating for an experienced person.

Although, I've found that, once you have a job, generally typical employers don't really care what you've done before and forget your past experience (which is a shame for them!). Depending on the employer, most of them care, "Can you do what I want from you when I ask it of you?" and that's about it.

I've also heard the advice that says, if you have the experience, and you want a job, your resume should be explicitly tailored to no more and no less than what a job posting requests. I think the advice of obscuring your information to make yourself difficult to gage from an age perspective is an interesting approach, but it probably fits into the same category of advice.

I know this article is likely just a promotional piece for the author's business, but, I have to admit, a number of points felt pretty accurate based on my personal anecdotes.
An API into a closed service is no more FOSSy than a graphical user interface into a closed desktop app. I don't really understand the comparison, what do you think motivates it?

Facebook has open-sourced a few internal projects, but none of them had much to do with our personal data.

In fact, it's difficult to blame the API when the problem was that the data was collected in the first place. Surely Zuckerberg has some political opinions of his own, if CA hadn't triggered this media storm what would have stopped him from supporting his own favorite candidate internally? In fact, what's stopping him from doing that right now? Would it even be illegal?
Are they?

>What prevents a general examination to be designed and formulated for software programming work?

There's plenty of non safety-critical software programming work to be done in this world.
This finding certainly weakens the case for MOND. The authors write that in the conclusion of their paper, as quoted in this article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/galaxy-seems-to-lack...

MOND can not explain a galaxy without dark matter as it is a proposal for the modification of the laws of gravity at large distances, and can explain the already-observed galaxies that behave as if they have dark matter (or, as MOND posits, the laws of gravity are different than what we have observed on earth.)
This. The take-away is that job descriptions are a poor indicator of the skills required by the company. This is why networking and referrals are so valuable, since they let you understand what the work _actually_ is.

Do not treat the years of experience as a barrier to entry.
Is it possible to create an app that can easily remove personal info, and delete all posted content that is, say older than n days old? If so, is there a new demand for this kind of app?
You're absolutely right! You should never lie, especially when random company HR wants 10 years of NodeJs and its been around for 2 years.

Perhaps lying to get past the know-nothings in HR is acceptable. Probably not a good idea to lie to tech people you would work with.
Ben Thompson talks about this towards the end

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-brand/
For me they didn't work until I clicked in the page. Chrome 60 and Firefox 58 on Linux.
To my knowledge, you're not able to reveal just your first name, or just a proof that you're a FB verified user. And once you grant access, it's forever. We may be at a global maximum for user permissions, but I doubt it.

The problem is we can't try anything new - since it's all stored in FB's servers, we have to wait for them to build new granular capabilities.
Also all worked for me in Chrome 65 on Windows.
What makes bar exams work is an industry-wide agreement that they won't allow you to do the work if you haven't passed the bar exam.

It seems that it's not (and will not be) in the best interests of most employers to disqualify people who haven't passed such an exam but otherwise seem able to do the work. Thus an effective "bar exam" can not arise voluntarily, since the required factor - motivation by a critical mass of most employers - is not there.

The other alternative is a legal requirement imposed from above, but again, there seem to be no powerful forces lobbying to forbid every non-certified person from programming a computer, neither employers nor programmers themselves nor the general public seem to want that very much.
Cryptocurrency projects.
To be fair, I think even the senior levels aren't exactly well paid.

According to https://taketheexit.de/ 55% of developers feel heavily underpaid and that's something I can believe easily.
Huh? Times New Roman is at least acceptable; it's legible and was designed by a real type designer. Plex is a complete joke.
They have a type tester on the page. May I suggest plugging in the following characters. Wasn't a fan of how they are represented.

lwQ{}vxz

Edit:
Correction, it's just Mono Italic Bold. Looks better in other formats.
Those 5s make me uncomfortable.
1) Yes. Any job with entry level requirements will get 20-100 applications on craigslist in seattle (my experience). More or less applications on more or less popular platforms

2) Yes. Half or more of the applications I've reviewed are totally unqualified. Either they ignored the requirements or fudge it and flop on the interview.

3) Tech has even more noise than my personal experience due to higher pay scales and increased interest in "working in tech" (without any personal interest / passion in technology)
That's not how supply and demand works.

I'm on the supply side of the labor supply-and-demand curve. I set the price that I'm willing to sell my time at. Nobody else sets my price, and I don't set anybody else's price. On the demand side, there are a bunch of employers who each have their own price for what they're willing to pay for a certain set of skills. Each sets their own price. Nobody else sets it for them. In particular, nobody on the supply side can possibly set the price the demand side is willing to pay.

Now, all of what I just said presumes a functioning supply-and-demand market. It breaks down if there's collusion between employers, or in a single-employer situation. Unions may well be needed in such situations. But in a working labor market, demanding more than market price for labor will result in lower demand for labor.
Including ethics at the individual contributor level of licensing is utterly detrimental to software individual contributors. It gives cover to business management who almost always can override technical individual contributors and technical managers even on decisions with ethical import. Ethics at the individual contributor level is NOT our civilization's problem, it is at the leadership levels, even more so the closer that leadership gets to levels where they have enough wealth and power to peddle influence upon judiciaries and legislators.
Definitely seems directed at Snips if you read the parent and then the comment from Snips rep.
I've found social media (Twitter and FB) just so incredibly valuable both personally and financially I usually don't even bother arguing about it.

Random examples: Sold some website classification tech after a SM conversation, got company funded after being introduced on SM, met customers and partners on SM etc.

I'd strongly, strongly dispute the tag of social media marketer though. I just post what I want and interact with whoever I want. If something great comes of it then great, but otherwise I feel better after complaining about random issues in Javascript libraries or some crazy thing I did wrong in a Kaggle competition.

I'm very aware of the trade-off of social media. But they are trade-offs.
http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
Hey guys, I'm the author of this post! (And also happen to be TalentWorks CEO.) A friend sent me this link, I'm happy to answer any Qs.

Also, we're hiring. :) If you're sick of spending all your hard-earned education and experience to help Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. increase ad CTR by 0.001%, we're working on some pretty cool technical problems. Just email me at kushal@talent.works.
Agreed. And did you see how he died his hair and changed his look to be more edgy when he got all this media attention? It's like he is playing some role and maximizing his media exposure. This is the behavior of a sociopath.

It really is looking more and more like the real story here is about a guy that tried to usurp his puppet masters with a technique that was likely oversold and probably couldn't really deliver what he claimed it could do, based on his limited understanding of machine learning and statistics.

The next best thing in his twisted mind is to become a "national hero", probably taking a card from Julian Assange and various other whistleblowers. I do think that most whistleblowers have positive intentions and what they do, they are doing for public good, not for notoriety or personal celebrity. However, I don't really feel that to be the case with Christopher Wylie. In his interviews he definitely gives me a strange gut feeling and I'm glad to see I'm not alone in this sentiment. I'm sure we will find out more facts about him as this whole thing continues to unfold, but I'm not holding my breath as to his intentions.

The silver lining in all of this is that Facebook and others will be forced to treat privacy seriously for a change, and its always good to have this conversation front and center for a change.
To his credit, though, he apparently has his limits — in particular, once he saw damage being done to democracy. That’s more than one can say for others involved.
Australia here.

Tech crowd started on ICQ. Masses started to arrive and use MSN.

Honestly, I wouldn't even be able to tell you what AIM was...
That makes me feel even more weird about going Slashdot, HN, sometimes-Reddit-but-mostly-HN.

but I'm a bit weird with account creation. A service generally has to really prove its worth before I bother to create an account. I spent a couple years on HN before before bothering with an account and commenting, and it took way longer after that until I finally found some Reddit communities that made me want to create an account (and even now, I comment sparingly), even though I looked at it occassionally.
The theory is as precise as we can observe it, the match is quite good compared to the alternatives:

https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/52374/FinalRep...
You are quoting stats on the Armed Offender squads, which are analogous to US SWAT teams.

Kim Dotcom was taken by the anti-terrorism Special Tactics Group, which is definitely not the Armed Offender Squad. They train with SAS, and are explicitly designed to take on high risk terrorist assaults. I'm asking how often they are deployed, and of course implicitly, whether serving warrants for copyright infringement is in their usual bailiwick.
The original cylons looked pretty daft. The updated non-human versions were a lot less shiny, though.
@rmcpherson I am not defending MOND or attacking dark matter. I am stating based on what they have said, it doesnt make sense unless they provide some basis on why its problematic for MOND
I'm not sure about that. The thing about doctors is that people don't decide not to get sick. With programming, if regulation of the industry dampens innovation, it might reduce the demand for software, and consequently, depress wages.
The University of Waterloo advertises it as a feature of their co-op program.

Four month work terms alternate with four month school terms. Do six of them before you graduate and you have two years of work experience.
It's legal because they license the rights to use the name from the Token Estate.
Wow, shift+space is great. I wish I knew about this years ago.
To answer your question on alternate sources, my favorites:

https://www.theguardian.com

https://theintercept.com

http://therealnews.com

https://www.democracynow.org
I'm suprised to see NordVPN is leaking.

I see commercials everywhere all the time and its #1 or #2 on most VPN reviews websites.

I was very tempted to switch, especially when they routers' Firmware is available for the newest/coolest routers out there; but kind of got used to ExpressVPN over the years, so went with them and their firmware for NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000 is very easy to use. Glad to see ExpressVPN is not leaking and I continue not to find any bad news about them (versus HideMyAss for example LOL)
Traditional universities have "summer vacation". :)
I did an internship every summer during college, but only my last 2 internships were software related. A couple of internship barely qualifies you. In retrospect, I should have asked my intern employers to extend the internship part time into the school year. Then, I think i'd be qualified for entry level. I got lucky on my last internship, tho and they hired me. At most I would count 4 summer internships as 1 year of experience.
Sorry for nitpicking, but a cow to represent Mars should be 10m away, and the length of a typical cow is about 2m (1m~=1yd=3ft). So I expects a 4% correction, because the main part of gravity goes like 1/d^2 and the first correction like 1/d^4 (with some constants that mix theoretical numbers with the details of the shape of the cow).

So if the cow is 5 cows away, you can get something like a get a 4% correction, that perhaps is measurable if you can measure the pull form the cow.

The cow representing Regulus is 4000 cows away, so the correction is less than 1/1000000 and it's safe to take it as a spherical cow.

[Side question: Can LIGO "hear" a nearby cow? It has filters to try to see the chirp of the merge of two black holes, and another filter to only consider the signals that appear in both detectors, so you probably need to train two synchronized dancing cows to fool LIGO. But, do they have enough precision?]
Teaching ethics won't help, but providing financial and social support for dissidents would. So would requiring members to adhere to an ethics pledge that can get their membership revoked if they fail to comply.

The numerous repeated calls for ethics pledges taken by individuals I see on this site betrays a misunderstanding of how power works. Individuals can't fight the system alone, it takes a collective.
> Lowering the activation energy required

This is exactly the reason why I like working out at home instead of dressing up and taking the time to travel to the nearest gym. And well, coming back from it too. In the process, I've even worked on improving my form while only been using my body-weight and a stress rope, instead of ego lifting at the gym.
Zsh has a built in like this called `take` that which quite nifty
You're using "open" in different contexts, one applying to a platform (e.g. blockchain or facebook app api) and another in regards to access control.

As platforms, blockchain is more open than facebook and for access control it's less open. GP was referring to security being at odds with openness in the sense of access control.
To clarify, no one's taking MOND nearly as seriously as WIMPs in terms of funding for experiments to test it. That said, the lack of evidence has lead to increased interest in alternative theories that could explain the phenomenon. Some of these are alternative dark matter particle candidates though, just not WIMPs.
It's called a PE (Professional Engineer) License. They introduced one for Software a few years ago. Most engineering disciplines have this and you can take the test 5 years after passing your FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) with work experience. However they are not typically needed unless you work (and sign off) on something that could be dangerous to the public. Civil engineers almost require them to work, other fields not so much. As an Electrical Engineer with an FE, I have never really seen it as being worth pursuing and maintaining, and for the software side of things even less so...

https://ncees.org/ncees-introduces-pe-exam-for-software-engi...
Tetris for gameboy is probably one of the worst versions imo. Tetris Plus for GB is considerably better.
I think it's fair to take that into account as well, but it's a different measure. One can be interested in accuracy independent of payoff (which of course would be important in investing). A key piece that's missing is the number of failures. People pay attention to the successes.
> Even so, what Facebook has that MySpace didn't is enough money to buy up its competitors to stay relevant

Echoing that, I'd add that FB/Zuckerberg knows when to do one of the following with an upcoming competitor
a) snatch it up
b) throw company's resources at duplicating it
People tend to forget that pledging away 99% of your wealth makes you much more attractive to getting investments now. It is all a marketing gimmick.
But what have they been indicted on? Tell me exactly the charges.
I swear there is some kind of downvote bot on HN - reasonable posts are often down-voted grey within the first few minutes (like this one's parent), and then eventually climb up to a reasonable place, when, what feels like, the humans have had time to see it - has this been noticed or discussed before? I'd be curious to know if some accounts are serial downvoters, especially as soon as comments go up - does HN look for that kind of stuff?

Of course part of the answer is that new comments have no votes so a quick downvote will make them grey, but there are frequent strange cases.

One thing for sure is that a lot of people downvote based on disagreement rather than a comment's quality - which in my opinion is not right (and I think against the intent of a downvote), but that's a different issue.
>open to all

That's in direct opposition to security. When you grant people you don't even know much less trust access to your system, all bets are off. There's just no way to predict what is going to happen. You've lost the fundamental protection afforded by trust.

Today, computers are expected to be able to talk to and serve hundreds of thousands of random users. What if one of them has access to a 0day? They could own the machine. The world would be a lot more secure if servers dropped all incoming packets by default and talked to trusted users only.

Bitcoin is open to everyone and that's great, but it doesn't change the fact people managed to sneak a bunch of illegal pictures into its blockchain.
Oh wow, I was not expecting that!
Do you really know why you do what you do?[video]
I've similarly always struggled to make sense of these kinds of claims, because in my life so far I was offered a job every time I applied, so I'm wondering if I'm either living in an area where the job market is much less competitive or if I'm aiming too low. It's out of the question that I'm some kind of hotshot, on the contrary my CV is a mess and I dropped out ouf college.
I did use a modified version of my short test program to actually test modifying the page tables to read a chosen physical address, which worked just fine. The bug is real.
I see the paper says:

>"[MOND predicts] the expected velocity dispersion
of NGC1052–DF2 is ... 20 km s−1, a factor of two higher than the 90% upper limit on the observed dispersion."
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_...

So they chose to use a 90% CI along with assuming the error is normally distributed, etc. Looking at figure 3b it seems that if they instead arbitrarily chose to use a 95% CI that 20 km/s would be within the interval.

Ie, these results appear to be moderately unlikely if MOND were correct but extremely unlikely if "dark matter" is correct. Thus, according to Bayes' rule, the probability that MOND is correct has increased.
The only somewhat reasonable hypothesis I've ever heard about how astrology might work (if it did) is the clock hypothesis. The idea is that the stars have nothing to do with it in a causal sense. Ancient people just noticed certain patterns and correlated them with the stars because stars were what they used to keep time. The real causal mechanism could be some kind of biological cycle or something else.
+ France MSN messenger only
Archaeologists Discover 29 Human Footprints from the Last Ice Age
Definitely not just a promotion. We're a mission-driven company and a we've explicitly chosen as a company to share our learnings with folks (even if it reduces our competitive edge a tiny bit) because we believe it's important to good. Not quite open source, but maybe open knowledge?

And while it's nowhere near peer-reviewed academic paper quality (we won't be submitting to Nature or NIPS anytime soon), my personal background is ML — everything we write is backed by cold, hard internal data and we try to stick to the facts.

All of that said, yes, people really like our data-driven insights and it does drive traffic. :)
Hopefully fast implementations won't be proprietary like EVE is.
There are a few open source projects which also have it and compile on macOS. There was a Texmaster build too, but no one seems to have an archive.
It's not possible to target by specific user id, sure, but that's not the story and in no way makes the whole thing fraudulent. It's also not what CA was doing or how they operated.
I don't know if this qualifies, but I started building distrosheet.com, I paused, and suddenly I've got some users. I guess my presale has been a blog post and maybe a few comments on HN talking about the software stack.

To clarify, started building then paused means I did it one Saturday afternoon and never touched the code since then. :)

I used to schedule some of my tweets automatically in a spreadsheet, my wife really wanted it for herself, another friend of hers wanted it, and so I made it slightly more generic: you sign up with google, create a spreadsheet, and connect your twitter account.

Of course it was too primitive, so my wife and her friend aren't using it.

However, from nothing, 1, then 2, then 3 twitter accounts started using it, and they are using it daily, mostly to send out quotes.

So to the original point - I guess blogging about your idea like if you have the tool available to yourself, plus sharing it here & there may help getting some initial interest.
Software that could kill is a small subset of overall software being written, but software that can arguably ruin or at least cause moderate havoc on people's lives (via PII) encompasses maybe a majority of jobs in the software industry [citation needed].

I don't know that having a "bar exam" is the best way to approach that problem, either. I think laws need to be written that cripple companies that don't follow best security practices and the rest will largely follow.

Maybe that eventually results in a sort of "bar exam" that companies endorse in order to cover their asses, but what are the chances that it will end up being a positive thing for programmers and not a bureaucratic nightmare test that everybody knows is bs?
Is your point that there are no charges or that the charges are irrelevant? Something else? Rather than argue for the sake of argument, if you know something, put it on the table and move the ball forward.
They deserve it, for:

1) having mission critical systems on the internet and

2) not patching mission critical systems for vulnerabilities that have been (extremely) public for nearly a year now
Tesla is a battery company that also makes cars.
counting random posts on bitcointalk that got money? im sure he discovered internet recently
I love how there is a plurality of solutions which seem to address everything but your use case...
Disagree that there is any necessity at all -- the supposed cure will be worse than the disease.
Very funny, I viewed the page on my iPhone and the experience was a joy. Perhaps they overfit the experience for mobile?