skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not certain that her issue is age related rather than geography. I find it hard to believe that nowhere in the world in the past 4 years is there a job opening she could fill with a MIS and 20 years of experience in audit.

767 jobs on Monster for: audit "masters degree" "information systems"

2 of those jobs are within 20 miles of Seattle, WA (Vashon is an island where you catch a ferry and make it to your job in an hour or so in town).

We live in a global labor pool now and people have a hard time accepting that. You may need to go to the work rather than having the option of choosing from a number of jobs right by where you choose to live.
IMHO, there is a difference between 'release' something and 'upload on github'. When you releasing stuff, yeah, it should be briefly documented at least, but when you just upload some new thing to hack on it, it's not the same at all.
Microblogging Wars Escalate: Posterous Claims Tumblr Blocks Its Autopost Feature
Some people might do it just for fun. They don't care about putting it into CV or using it in real life. Other people might take it as a challenge. Some may think that if they are the one to make Parrot viable, mature platform they get fame and fortune (which might be very well true).
Well, I'm part of a one-man company. I just call myself the 'principal' there.

I've been the newest part of a four-man company for the past three years. I chose "computer programmer" for my job title. It seems that whatever your job title is in the tech industry, any appearance of actively working directly with the tech carries more prestige than sounding like you have some kind of managerial role.
Why does he say "57 fps" for the Flash version when the counter above says "37 frames"?
RightJS 2.0.0 is finally out
It happened to me but I was given a chance to prove my worth to them. It was a small company (basically a start up) , To cut the whole thing short I ended up with a job and worked with them for 2 years.
http://threddie.com
So what is a good plan to store a large in memory list of

class Amount {
String currencySymbol;
int amount;
}

?
only for paid google apps users currently :(
Same experience, although the blades I use are $10/4 and I change them every week. I don't think much about shaving, and I get a close shave without razor burn. $10 is less than 10 minutes of my time, so it seems like a good deal to me.

Though I am tempted to order a safety razor from Amazon to see what I'm missing...
'Twas ever thus.

I can't think of a single society where kids from rich families (or families of privileged status, like Communist Party members in old USSR/China) did not have unfair advantages over poor kids.

What you need to allow, at the very least, is a chance for poor kids to rise. Unfortunately the British comprehensive system has done its level best to prevent this for the past 40 years.
What better place to ask: there is always room for introspection.

I can personally answer the OP: the opportunity to ROCK it, make huge differences in society, touch the lives of more people than you will ever meet in person, do what you love. Just the rush of conceiving an idea, and have it set your mind aflame in those few seconds you're running towards pen and paper is WORTH IT.
Posts like this are part of the problem (you wouldn't call Peter Norvig an under-achiever, would you?). There are plenty of great jobs at huge firms and there are shit jobs at startups.

Most of the enterprise people I know would hate it if they had to do some of the sysadmin/dba/support stuff most startup people have to do (look at Zed Shaw, he explicitly singled out the sysadmin aspects of his startup job as to why he left dropbox). It's a luxury to be able to have dedicated staff around for that stuff.

I get to write code all day and it keeps me pretty happy. Oh, and I get to leave at 5:00pm and not feel guilty about it. :)
In most places that can grow corn farmers can also grow (and usually do - just in smaller quantities) soybeans, grain, rice, and hops. Also, if corn wasn't subsidized so much we would probably see farmers make more room for cattle and other animals in the fields so they could eat grass and replenish the nutrients in the field rather than shoved in a barn somewhere.
I'd love to know what doctor told him it's better to sleep 4 or 5 hours and wake up on an alarm than to sleep 8 or 9 hours and wake up whenever. Sounds like something out of a Rodney Dangerfield joke.
How do you deal with people who ask you to fix their computer?
The flip side of this is a job I interviewed for (and actually did take) several years ago. I brought printed copies of some code I'd recently worked on (not sure why I didn't just bring a laptop!).

Towards the end of the interview I brought it out and asked if the interviewer would like to review some of it with me. I was told "No". "Why not?" I asked. "Not everyone has the ability to bring code, and it would be unfair to look at yours if we can't look at everyone's."

I was slightly flabbergasted, thought the logic was 100% wrong, but was offered the job and took it despite that. I was there about 2 years, and the first 18 months or so were generally enjoyable, but nothing lasts forever. :/
This is by no means a slandering or questioning of your masculinity, but, if you can manage to go for a whole year on just 10 blades then maybe it is so that your particular stubble is playing into the equation? Some men have velvet skin and "peach fuzz" beard, and some men have leather skin and steel wool growing out of their chin.
sure there are...but do you think a company would want to interview someone from 500 miles away? How much must they suck...that they have to be desperate enough to seek a job that far away?
Why is the employment short-term? Isn't the UK like most of Western Europe in that it's quite hard to fire someone (and then you have to give months and months of severance if you do)?
Thanks, that makes sense. I don't use GitHub, but I suppose I'll have to start, now, just to get your reviews. Just think: you're the killer app.
I certainly did read the whole thing, hoping to find some acknowledgement of MUNI. (He finally gets to it in the separate comments page.)

He doesn't detail his living experience for SF, but for DC, it's one summer. As I noted, you can be a bay area resident for years and easily overlook SF MUNI, if you're not in the city proper and mostly ride BART.
You know, if she wants to postpone homelessness, she could also sell her "breathtaking piece of property overlooking the sound" with a "lighthouse garret atop the house" and move into a studio apt near a bigger city.
I'd be willing to bet the same is true for adults.
Learned Optimism.

Seriously. Seligman wrote a great book on the subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/0...
Cortisol eh? So Buddhist monks must be topping "100 sexiest men alive" list.
All code kind of sucks anyway...
We live in a world thats becoming more self-centric every day. We are told everyone is special and everyone can achieve. Just to be clear, I agree half-way with your points of view. Not everyone can be an achiever, not every startup is a good one. The fact is - a 90k job doesn't cover all of our costs anymore. The price of housing has tripled over the last 40 years but salaries have gone done on average (inflation adjusted). We have a great unbalance in our system - yes its flawed.

Each and every day you're becoming less significant. Literally. As world population increase, an individuals worth, his identity, his very core will become less and less visible. We stride to stand out, to achieve - to be visible, appreciated, spoken of. Entrepreneurship is a channel through which we can break out of our shell. As for the models, gaining muscle and eating better... what's wrong with eating better?
Ask HN: Sole proprietorship vs. LLC?
I have a number of side project business ideas I'd like to get off the ground in addition to my freelance work. Is it better to get started as a sole proprietorship or a LLC corporation? Can I run multiple side project businesses under a single sole proprietorship name? Pros? Cons? Anyone have a related experience?
Hit up eBay, DP, etc for the 4 letters domains if you want. But beware of scammers, plentiful around in these forums, likewise bargain are also plentiful. There are still plenty of 5/6/7 letters domains in the market if you are wondering.
This is most likely it. Some of my friends can shave in the shower without having to use anything but water. I and others must use conditioner while in the shower plus cream or shaving soap (I've tried many) and its still an uphill battle.

And yet I can't help but wonder if at least some of it is my technique. I was thinking of going to the barber for a shave, just to see how well he'd do.
Only 41 hours a week? Where do they work and are they hiring?
In my experience, a Gilette shaves cleanly (no cuts and inflamed follicles or ingrown hairs) for the first couple of times (when it's very sharp), then causes a few cuts unless you're very careful for the next 5 shavings or so, and from then on becomes so dull that it becomes quite hard to cut yourself unless you try to or move the blade along its length. A single Gilette blade lasts me several weeks to 2 months. It's only during the 'transitory' period that you need to be careful, and not apply too much pressure. When the skin becomes very red and irritated, it's time to ditch the blade.

Like someone mentioned above, for me the trick is to shave first along the grain, then lather up again, and then against the grain. That prevents redness, cuts and inflammations much more than using a fresh blade.
You have short-term (max 6 month) contracts. You don't need to fire someone when their contract ends.
Firefly is not coming back :(
Google’s Brand New Priority Inbox is a great feature for Gmail addicts
Google recently launched the 'New priority inbox' a new feature added to Gmail, to improve the user experience. A beta version, company is rolling out the new feature on a trial basis to see the user response. The main objective is reduce email overload and to present the mails in such a format that the most important mail would be displayed on top based on user priority and behavior so as to save time and help user get rid of unwanted mails.
The idea and demo videos are cool!
Had to google to find out the use cases, and target audience..

http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/07/stackvm-makes-virtual-m...
This is an open source project..
Shall be keeping an eye on stackvm's progress!
>Why the hype?

From 1980-2005, nearly all net job creation in the United States occurred in firms less than five years old. Your job security wouldn't exist without startups. The risk-takers are the exploratory outliers changing economic paradigms and promoting growth. If their business model bet succeeds, they have both predicted the future as well as created the future.

We pay them attention even\especially when they say bread-crumb concepts because humans have always been interested in the idea of prophets.
The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure
A lot of it is about more than the money, but even just considering the money issue entrepreneurship is often better. Let's face it -- if you're intelligent, then selling your time for money (salary) just isn't a very efficient way of making money. Sure, there is an element of risk, but there's risk in almost everything you do in life. Driving a car is "risky", but that doesn't mean YOU have to be a risky driver. Same for entrepreneurship.

To me, working the same job for 40 years hoping I'll save enough money to be able to retire in spite of unknown but probably increasing inflation is what is risky.
Every man (or woman) wants a chance to go back in time and fix something, its human nature. Tell a high-schooler what your mistakes were and not to make them, he'll make sure to repeat them. Part of being a teenager is knowing everything.
Most recent commit date? Such things really speak for themselves.
It is harder to fire someone in Europe than in the US.

However, in the UK severance pay is tax free but the legal minimum that is required by your employer is quite low, some employment contracts may specify better redundancy terms but employers don't have to be that generous.
Immutability would allow you to re-use Amount instances; this is what the Integer class does for "common" int values (I believe -127 thru 128).
It's probably better to blast something out there so everyone can see it and possibly offer some advice. I've had plenty of things that were in the experimental phase and left at that. If someone really wants to see what I'm up to or what I'm interested in than it's far better to have said something than to remain quiet and invisible.

I've met far too many programmers who are reluctant to share because they are ashamed of their code but quick to point out someone else's public flaws. It's just easier to criticize than be constructive. If someone isn't releasing memory properly ,in a public repo, then a 2-minute email will straighten that out.
That's interesting. Which country/networks, and is it the sender or the recipient who can prioritise?
Anecdotes are not data, but then you proceed to use it as one?
Nit: the lock-in is that other razors don't fit (like apple usb).

Sure, plug-compatibility is trivial, but Gillette had sufficient market power at that point to cut off any retailer stocking them.
Hey, if there is a practical incentive for judges to incarcerate less people in this psychotic, off-the-deep-end "justice" system where almost nobody who is incarcerated long-term should be, I'm all for it. Whatever it takes.

On the other hand, I am intensely wary of formulations like this: "The imprisonment of X will cost taxpayers $YYY,YYY over his lifetime." That sounds awfully similar to posters for the Nazi Aktion T4 euthanasia program, e.g. "This mental invalid costs the Reich 60,000 marks over his lifetime. Do the merciful thing... it's your money." There has got to be a more delicate way to put that.
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Out of interest, should descriptions in fiction be straightforward?

I can understand why non-fiction should be straight forward but surely one of the joys of fiction is that you fill in the gaps and ambiguities yourself.

Incidentally, I'm not defending the sentence in question which is messy, and "it's terrific blast" may be straightforward but it's also a slightly odd choice of adjective.
If you have a legal business entity, you can do as many different kinds of business under that name as you want, but they all share the risk. Meaning, if someone falls and breaks their leg on your rental property, if one business owns all your rentals and your web business besides, it is all at risk in a lawsuit. Only when you need to isolate risk is it worth it to have multiple business entities in my opinion.

The usual advice has been in the past to start as a sole proprietorship and then incorporate later. This advice is changing, as it is really super easy (and cheap) to start an LLC these days. I started as an LLC. Usually it costs about a hundred bucks and doing some paperwork once a year, and that's it. And from the IRS' point of view, an LLC can be treated as almost anything else, so a single-member LLC can just be a passthrough entity where everything ends up on your own tax return just as a sole proprietorship would.
Thanks for posting, enjoy, watching him enjoy telling it.Wish i have a little of his ability
There is No Copyright in Headlines (Australian Federal Court)
I've recently been contemplating two separate problems we have in this country, and I think I've come up with a partial solution to both.

Problem 1: Illegal immigrants.

Problem 2: Americans who can't find a job.

This seems like a matching problem. I propose that DHS crack down hard on employers of illegal immigrants. To solve problem 2, they must coordinate with local unemployment agencies. DHS will arrest and deport illegal immigrants. For each illegal thus deported, the unemployment benefits of an American (maybe whoever has been on unemployment the longest) will be terminated and they will be ordered to report to work at the former employer of the illegal. Employing a formerly unemployed American will be part of the penalty for the employer of the illegal immigrant.

To induce cooperation among employers, we could create an amnesty program. Employers can report their illegal workers to DHS and avoid paying fines. Maybe DHS/Unemployment Office will even give extra help to minimize disruption to your business (i.e., no deportation until the day replacements are available).

[edit: to those downmodding, just curious. Is there an obvious flaw in my plan that I'm missing?]
A related article about NewsTilt's failure was on HN , cant find the link though.
Would be great if there was a more descriptive title for your submission!
I always try to stay time and materials as opposed to fixed bid. If I do fixed bid and detailed documentation does not exist (AKA I have to document it). I always have an out clause that a. I get paid time and material for the documentation work and b. I retain the option of voiding the contract once documentation is complete and I have a more accurate picture. This way I can give them the price they are looking for but yet not commit to a situation that I am going to eat a bunch of free work to pull the project out, you also have to be very diligent about scope creep with a fixed price contract.

Until you are comfortable,you should stick to time and materials over fixed bid, they latter can really bite you in the ass if you are not careful. You should always look at fixed bid like the client saying:

"I want you to build this software that is going to provide me with unlimited upside profit, but I want to limit you upside profit for building it, but want you to take all the risk of failure."

You should price a fixed bid accordingly, as you should be compensated for the client shifting the risk onto you. A lot of new (to freelancing) developers will basically take their hourly rate, estimate what it will take to build the project, add some buffer and that is the price they charge. This is a very bad way of arriving at the price, as it does not take into account the types of risk involved.

For example things like dependency on client personnel, gaps in schedule and deadline have to be factored in. Just doubling you rate or worse yet just charging you rate + buffer without doing proper risk analysis can put you in a really tight spot.

Start small with fixed bids and work you way up; build a repeatable process that scales and produces accurate estimate results. Track your (detailed) estimates and actual times and hone the process until you can get fairly accurate results. Estimates will never be a precision instrument, but you can generally get them close enough that you don't get you ass in a sling.
I think it's important to remember who runs this website. There's probably other websites out there for the 90k-salaried .NET developers.
If you want to know what's wrong with a government/big company job, go and try one. You could be suprised, just like I was, and start to aim for a high variance career.
Depends on the value of "large". But two main points would be:

1. Intern the strings.

2. Store only indexes and operate on a "main list" of currencySymbols[i] and amount[i]. (to reduce the overhead of boxed ints)

Of course this is not always possible... Every scenario has its own solution, I guess.
People say do what you love, I say do what pains you.

I find it painful to see an opportunity and not take it. I have always sold stuff. When I was 14, there was a civil war where I lived and the prices of everything shot up several hundred percent. The government intervened and subsidized food and gasoline. At the time, I was an A-student: I had the second highest grade in the state and was featured on both radio and television. A good kid by every measure .. BUT! I found a contact at a cigarette factory who would sell me cigarettes at 80% discount. He just meant to sell me a pack, because I was a "rich kid". I flipped him over to work for me.

At 14, I ran a cigarette cartel out of my grandmother's house supplying tens of shops and street vendors.

I didn't need the money. My father and all my older brothers and sisters were in America. I didn't do it for the money. I just did it because it was an opportunity.

With some of the money I made I bought a bicycle and decorated it at a carpet shop .. for some reason. I got that idea that, perhaps, draping the bicycle frame in velvet cloth would look more appealing than the bare metal. I took it to the carpet and curtains guy and told him what I wanted done. He was confused, but money is money, so he pimped out my bike in purple velvet; a pair of wheels befitting a dealer.

Every kid in town wanted my bike.

My second venture was bicycle upholstery. A cottage industry unheard of up to that point. I didn't make as much as I did in cigarettes, but to this day, you can go to my old hometown and see kids ride bikes draped in cloth.

You're just born with the bug, I guess.
Right, however, I find it vanishingly small in terms of probabilities that the combination of (liver metabolism mutation concerning this drug) and (snake still able to reproduce) exists.
I suppose you also need to sleep, so that's 8 hours left of which you spend some preparing/eating food, maybe some sports every once in a while, shopping, socializing etc.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure there are people who, while having a passion for software development, feel like doing something else for a change after 8 hours in front of a computer.
Anywhere? I've never had a job that required more than 40 hours a week.
It's not quite obvious what the point here is. Many of the cities listed (at least Amsterdam, Munich and Paris) have lightrail lines which can be used seamlessly from the subway. In the case of Amsterdam, the lightrail lines are what you'd actually use to move within the city.

On the larger scale, you get Paris' RER lines or Hamburg's S-Bahn and, for most European cities also a comprehensive train network that makes it possible to commute from larger cities that are as far away as 100km (e.g., from Maastricht, Den Haag or other Dutch cities to Amsterdam) - probably also for the (relatively large) Cologne/Düsseldorf area, which comprises as many people as Berlin, but has many local governments instead of one.

Not sure how to visualize this, though. (Ideally, you'd provide maps based on (i) actual scale, (ii) commute time, and (iii) commute cost.
Using OSSEC to parse auditd logs
Well, out of two days i've visited London i had the pleasure to walk one station (and because of the elevator being overrun by people, i took the stairs.. the thing i've learned was that the London underground can be quite deep in the ground, it felt like kilometers :P ).
This is where I originally found it http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm
Why Automate Your Appointments?
Just wait till all those incompetently written advertisements, video players, etc. are all written using HTML 5 standards. Pretty soon we'll all have an extension in our browsers called "Canvas block".
I had the same idea while perusing this thread, would be a great idea.
I have no issue with corporate fun, so long as it's opt-in.

I've seen very few things companies do for "fun" to be universally hated and similarly few are universally loved - most fall somewhere in the middle.

Make it opt-in and it's all fine, enforce it and you're likely to do more harm than good.
I worked in that field thru the 1990 downturn. Before 1990 draftsman/designer job postings would ask for a lettering sample. I was laid off from an ink on vellum design shop but luckily had a buddy who was still at college and had access to a machine with AutoCad ($5000 in hardware and software in 1990). I visited him for a weekend and worked thru a teach yourself book and was then able to pass simple interview tests.

I was lucky to have access to a machine to train myself and young enough that I was still looking for an entry level position.
This just in, confidant men more attractive to women. In other news the pope is catholic and water is still wet.