skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was an engineering recruiter, 10 seconds hit the nose.

If anybody wants to writeup a ruleset that mirrors the (definitely fallable) process I used to use, here's the rules:

1. Candidate probably local? {check address, if listed, else check location of previous roles} (required by our clients)

2. Candidate doesn't need sponsorship, probably? {check address, if listed, else check location of previous roles to ensure >5 years working in US, compare against university location} (required by our clients, and saturated market anyway. didn't like this one but that was the job)

3. Candidate has proper job title? {check last job title, ensure it's not >1 year ago, check previous job titles, ensure has had job title for some required amount of time}

4. Candidate has clean work history? {check for gaps between roles, or length of each individual role, look for big gaps or many short jobs} (not necessarily a disqualifier, but will be asked about)

5. Candidate has specific keywords required by position? {scan each job in earliest->oldest chronological order, ensuring recent and decent time spent on {{TECHNOLOGY}}}

If I've gotten to bullet point 5 I'm probably already tapping their phone number into my phone, and doing a final scan for

6. Red flag? {look for political opinions on the resume, opinions of their previous bosses, proudly listed membership of organizations like the KKK (it's happened), too many spelling errors, rants about the job hunting process, odd demands surrounding salary or compensation or work style, or just general signs of weirdness/assholeness/difficult-to-deal-with-ness}
Haskell for OCaml programmers
It's very hard to read these not-HTML and not-quite-PDF sites on mobile, especially with all the popups. Author might have something interesting to say but I can't tell.
I bet Lyft gives the drivers only the information that's profitable for Lyft and not the big picture. It's very one-sided.
So just ship you preprocessor with your application/library. Look at cvstrac, for example.
My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy
This is scary, but it is important we recognize that we can be controlled and have our behaviour modified by altering our environment - and that is can be a good things.

Who hasn't delete Steam from their computer for a few weeks, thrown out junk food or set up a good workspace in order to promote a behavior in ourselves we want to cultivate, to be more like the person we want to be?

The important thing is that in those situations our environment remained under our control and conscious, and we need to ensure our personal and digital environment remain under our control, and its goals are transparent - and I am not sure companies like Google do or will always agree.
> I'm OK with Apple not reporting these kinds of numbers if it allows the company to focus on quality of product instead of satiating the salivating stockholders

There's no possibility of any kind that not reporting these numbers will do anything to the quality of the product.

They still are doing all the exact same amount of work to actually gather the numbers, since they internally need to know. They are only skipping the last step of putting that number in the report they give to investors. Nothing changes about how Apple is operating by not reporting that number.

That doesn't automatically mean it was a bad number, either, it could have just been a shift to avoid providing more information than necessary similar to the rest of their industry. But it's not going to do squat for anyone's day job at Apple, either. The people that would actually worry about that number still have that number.
Video or it didn't happen.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of insurance. It doesn't require shifting income from low risk to high risk areas. Rather paying for the risk in each area is spread out over time. It's completely possible to provide sustainable fire insurance by charging customers in each area based on actual risk, and then using reinsurance to spread the risk pool out among multiple insurers.

Of course some customers might not like having to pay market rates for fire insurance.
I worked in government affairs division of a major pharmaceutical company. I usually create documentation and economic models that justify value of high price medicines. Anyways one day a jurisdiction came back to us saying they have noticed off label use and that they won't be funding them anymore. I worked tirelessly over two weeks to build out a medical review and economic model which showed it was better then the alternative. We came to an agreement on a discounted price and all parties were happy. However, I soon realized the company would provide compassionate use as they don't want to alter prescribing behaviour, I just took xx millions from a struggling public system... I did get a raise but quit shortly after.
Tho if you switch between tabs, you'll see a full load of the tabbed page. I suspect it doesn't actually have "tabs" (i.e. running in the background like basically every other browser tab), just "saved URLs".
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/priorities-for-research-to...
Huh, looks clear on the keywords for me. I wonder if it's mad because you don't list hot button things like Javascript or React or whatever.

This is a great format, by the way. Very clear, yet still fairly non-traditional. Good use of horizontal space!
As planes use most of their energy to not crash into the ground, I could see the most practical use of this technology for propulsion where crashing isn't a major concern.

Airships (dirigibles/blimps), and to a lesser extent, sea and land vehicles.
Wait, I don't get it, why?
I took the dive and let them hack away at my LI. No telling what kind of spam I'm going to get now. That said, wow! This is terrible.

The first thing that they say I should improve on is: Must-Have-Words. Here is their list of those words: Deployment Security API Scalability OOP Continuous Integration (CI) Availability Docker SOLID NoSQL Configuration Management (CM) Robust Tuning Algorithm Web services Networking Design Patterns Unit testing Open Source AWS Hadoop Continuous Deployment (CD) REST Big Data Agile TDD Machine Learning Microservices Artificial Intelligence GitHub.

They also say that after I pay for the service I'll get access to the other fields of things I am missing. Those include: Niche IT Skills, Numbers, Online Presence, Technological Proficiency, Typos, Soft Skills, Your Old Projects, URLs.

They do say that I have a good amount of 'Action Verbs'. But that I need more of them and give the examples of: Devised Debugged Utilized Upgraded Assembled Overhauled Redesigned Coded Rebuilt Maintained Initiated Solved Investigated Developed Architected Trained.

Again, once I pay, I'll unlock a few more categories, which are listed here: Resume Size, Accomplishments, Your Most Recent Roles, Abbreviations, Outdated Tech, File Format, Summary/Objective, Employment History, Short-Term Jobs, Marital Status, Religion, Broken Links, References, Teams

In case you haven't really read through that list I'll highlight the 2 most INSANE items there that should make any HR department dive for the pepto-bismol: Marital Status, Religion. Now, I don't know if they are warning AGAINST including those fields or encouraging including them. However, that they are items that are there at all speaks to the 'demographic' that they are targeting: complete numbskulls. Not a single person that can fog a mirror would ever include those 2 fields in a CV in the English speaking world.
I guess in this case ions ARE the moving parts :)
Out of FANG, it seems like Apple is only one that really cares! See https://www.fastcompany.com/90236195/forget-the-new-iphones-...
I don't know why you were down voted... Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are exactly this
does google use static server addresses to break our privacy? could I blacklist those addresses at the OS/router level?
My experience has been the opposite- I haven't had a job via a cold application since I started in tech (2009). Maybe because I'm not an engineer.
This article is about capital costs, not labor costs.

>One point construction experts are making, however, is that taxpayers are paying premiums for these public projects since they aren’t being done open shop. The Empire Center report calculated that the government ends up paying 25 percent more for public projects in New York City because of the high prevailing wages.
This is the cost no one wants to talk about.

Good! Living in NYC costs more than living just about anywhere in the USA. Well over 25% more than where I live, a top 50 metro.
Eh... as someone who has done a _lot_ of interviews, I think you're making two mistakes: 1. assuming all resumes are created equal in terms of providing useful information, and 2. assuming recruiters can properly assess "necessary background experience" from those same resumes.

If you're not getting hits from a recruiter, I'd bet several dollars that it's not a background or human ability mismatch, but a plain ol' resume keyword mismatch.

"Know your audience" as they say. The gate keepers aren't technical. They've got a bunch of keywords against which they 'judge your background'. If you wanna maximize your chances of getting through the first non-technical stage, taking time to tailor your resume is time well spent.
this is really cool, I need cheap x86s as my CI builders.
The CDC doesn’t study gun violence anymore as that has been prevented by the Dickey Amendment, championed by the NRA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment
It looks like it has something to do with being a _seller_ on Amazon. Had the email been sent by someone with a clue, it would have been explicit. Instead everyone is just speculating (including me).
The laws exist to stop corruption where people "in the know" get to make loads of money from privileged information - the rich get richer etc. This example of housing is a similar issue but, of course, the question is whether it is illegal, which it seems is unlikely.
Looking through the paper, even the half that replicated generally seem to have done so with greatly diminished magnitude.
There's been now and then reasonable TC articles that produced good conversations here on HN though. They also make mention of a reasonable number of startups which is obviously something that sparks interest to many here on HN.
In my most recent job search, I told exactly one company to (politely) fuck off and never contact me again. It was Goldman Sachs. I think what I actually told them was something to the effect of “GS represents everything that’s wrong with the economy today and should have gone out of business in 2008.” I don’t regret it.
Vim command execution vulnerability
The "progress" defined here is complete control over all actions of individuals in society by an AI god.

Umm, no, the "progress" is machines that I don't have to micro-manage anymore. Imagine an oven in your house that you had to constantly adjust to keep it at the desired temperature. No, that would be stupid, we've solved that problem decades ago. Now imagine a car that you had to control by hand with the necessary micro adjustments needed to keep it between the lines. No, that would be...well, it will be stupid, and a solved problem, one of these days.

"Hey, oven, make your interior 425F so I can bake a pizza."

"Hey, car, drive me to Dusty Strings in Fremont. Oh, why am I talking to you? You see it on my calendar, and you've been warmed up and ready waiting for me."

I don't know what dystopian future you're imagining, but I don't see the AI gods whisking me off to places I don't want to go. I see machines that finally, FINALLY, do what I want without me having to speak baby talk to them.
Stuff like this seems like standard practice in the real estate industry (I am not an expert)

For instance, I know one strategy called "land entitlement"[1]:

Step 1) Find an area that has demand for a type of building or business that it is not zoned for.

Step 2) Buy an option on a plot of land in that area.

Step 3) Lobby the government to rezone that area / approve your project

Step 4) Execute option and acquire land and a fraction of its new valuation

This isn't directly analogous to the what happened in this instance, but essentially this is just a way for people with influence in local government to make money. Imagine if someone with connections to the FDA bought an option on a biotech stock and then convinced his friend, the commissioner, to help get their drug through the approval process. I'm pretty sure that would be illegal (or at least a gray area) -- but it's fair game in real estate.

[1] https://cashflowconnections.com/land-entitlement-with-chris-...
The most valuable startup based in each of the 50 United States
Precisely.

What everyone forgets is that one of the biggest debacles with adtech was their inability to even guarantee that no malware was being fed with the ads. That's how bad it had gotten. It will take a long, long time before I have any sympathy for digital advertising.
Microwave transformer maybe? Or does that not supply enough?
whoops. Try https://web.archive.org/web/20170212064533/https://www.nyboo...

These letters potentially cast the standard history of the German bomb in a very different light, suggesting that Heisenberg and his colleagues found a silent way to make a moral decision, not that they were spared one.5

In the thirty years that remained to him, whenever Heisenberg was asked to explain the German “failure” to build a bomb, his answer was what he had written to Elisabeth in letters before, during, and just after the war—that he had stayed in Germany because it needed him, and he had been spared the difficult moral decision of whether to build a bomb by the impossible immensity of the task—exactly what you might expect to hear from a man who didn’t want to do it, and found a way to say no.
Perhaps, but it sounds like a rare win for actual users of facebook.
The same sort of thing could have been said (and was) when the telephone and printing press were invented, to pick just two examples.
Most people who don't make 10s of 1000s on property purchases just because they have inside information and have to work for a living?
> My guess is that a 500$ base model that doesn't suck, would be quite popular.

You mean like the iPhone 7, which retails for $449?
It says 2 employees bought a condo....in a neighborhood with probably the most amount of construction in NYC. How is this scandalous? People do buy real estate on their own...
The profit from before this hit and after for a single condo could increase in value at least 100K easily. I still don't think that's an SEC worthy thing.
Does Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?
From my experience of teaching at a community college for 18 years it will not be a giant welfare program for the upper middle class. It will benefit the upper middle class but the ones who really suffer from student loan debt are the poor students going to college who have no realistic chance of ever getting a degree. They get saddled with unforgivable debt and it becomes a lifelong burden to them.

We need a new system. College should be free or nearly so for those who are qualified to go.
This is different because it involves risk. You might lobby the government and they might reject your proposal. That doesn't make this illegal though - but there is a difference.
Chinese sellers have been very pleasant to deal with IME, including obviously hand-written niceties, handwritten thank you notes (maybe not in the best English but the sentiment is there) for a bunch of stuff. Occasionally small 'gift' items, have gotten Chinese fun-size snacks too.

There are US sellers that have resulted in 27+ emails _within one day of purchase_, one seller has managed to sign my ebay_a10f9@ alias up for five separate companies reselling third party warranties / affiliate spam for the above. What the fuck?
Out of every time one is used against a person. That is a huge distinction. Guns are used tremendously beyond that.
cash is a pretty terrible gift for people who give each other presents on a regular basis, unless the relationship is not reciprocal. if you and your friend just give each other $50 on Christmas, it's sort of pointless. if you give your friend a $50 gift card, now they have to go get themselves something nice that they wouldn't have purchased otherwise.
What’s with this obsession with “gaps”? What are you trying to screen for? Is everyone supposed to be working non stop from their first job until they retire or die?

I can sort of understand if it’s been years since the last position and the individual is applying for your company after being away from the market. But a gap in the middle of the job history? Why do you care ?
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Well this particular plane runs off a battery...
I wonder if that would be considered graft? "reverse" graft?
A house. I'm literally building a new house (high level supervision I'm not part of the actual labor of course). It is far more exciting than any software I've ever built in the past. Especially when you've been coding since forever.

I know this message is a little out of context here but I'd highly encourage any devs to build something completely unrelated to software at least once in your life. It brings new perspective and expends your reach. While building that house I come with at least one new software idea every week. Best way to understand real life problems that can be solved with automation and software. That was my 2 cents :/
How many people contribute to open source, wikipedia and debate stuff online?

A lot of it produces ZERO economic returns. But the fallacy is that we need top-down institutions to move things forward. I would argue that we are better off abolishing intellectual property laws as well and allowing everyone to contribute to open source drugs the way they do in other sciences.

Watch these two videos:

Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us

Clay Shirky: Institutions vs Collaboration

We need more collaboration and less capitalistic competition.

I know firsthand the righteous indignation that anarcho capitalist libertarians have at “violence” being used to redistribute wealth.

But these same libertarians ignore all the coersion used on the other side. They seem to want people to be FORCED to work out of fear of losing food and housing. Some freedom for the masses - the freedom to work or starve.

And of course Property is a coercive institution just like government. It has to be enforced. So Disneyworld charges visitors entry fees and vendors rent and pays people to dress up like Mickeys and it’s top down and Libertarians are ok with that. Next door is a city that’s run democratically and what if they want to charge taxes and redistribute basic income, how is that any worse than Mickeys?
Why don't they just make a cheaper phone that can compete with cheaper android phones, which make up the majority of phones in the (larger, fastest growing) 3rd world market? And only sell them in those markets so they don't dilute their profits in premium markets? How would they capture any revenue from a "used market?" Force people to sell their used phones through Apple, kind of like what they're doing to customer options to have their devices repaired?
Yep, that's why I second to try GuixSD but for now GuixSD is really raw&limited compared to NixOS... And nix itself while in some case it's not much clear for most usage is clear enough...
I recommend uMatrix. At first it will take a few minutes to understand how it works, though.

You can turn on and off images, css, scripts, XHR, etc, for individual sites or globally.

I use it in that manner, with scripting off by default. If I am visiting a new site that needs javascript, I gradually whitelist specific bits until it works and then "save" those settings for that domain.
Wasn't the main scandal here the idea that local government was effectively paying money to one of the richest companies in the world? I wonder how many people lobbied their representatives to say that they didn't want their money spent on enticing a rich business into the area even if it might bring jobs.
None of the classics.
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So it’s worse than having a policy that is neutral on flipping: our tax system actually encourages it.

We shoud tax short term capital gains on property at 100 percent. Nobody should be able to profit by driving up the cost of housing.
LibreOffice Online also uses a warmed-up-process that forks child processes to execute requests
Not going to lie, this was genuinely thought-provoking. I'm curious about a few things though:

1. The second part of your comment makes it sound like you're homeless by choice, but the beginning makes it sound like you've just fallen on some very rough times. I'd like to hear more about your story and how you came to be where you are.

2. The middle part of your comment about Trump and what comes next really does concern me. I think we're at a crossroads right now, but I'm a lot less convinced than you that we're going to go down the wrong road. If I look back at points in America's history like the Civil War, Great Depression, World War II, Vietnam, etc, this doesn't seem like we're at our most dysfunctional. We managed to pass through those eras without societal collapse. Doesn't mean we will this time, but what makes you so sure we won't?

3. The final couple paragraphs of your comment remind me of what I've read of stoicism. I commend you for realizing how little of our modern creature comforts are truly necessary, and being willing to honestly weigh them against their costs, both to you and to broader society. But you seem convinced that those who currently live a more "normal" existence will be paralyzed and helpless in the event of societal collapse. Why can't they adapt if you have?
> Utilized

lol

One of the only people I've ever interviewed where I cut it short was a guy who admitted he lied and put "MongoDB" on his resume to get it past any robots that were screening.

Anyway, that massive list of must-have-words reminds me of the old days on the internet where web pages would have a block of content near the bottom that contained many keywords written in the same color as the background. Now I am wondering if that's the direction resumes go for some short period of time.
Does it matter.
It's not entirely clear from the article, and I can't find the Nature publication yet... but I think you're wrong.

It does carry it's own power supply and battery:
"Finally Barrett used a computer model to get the most out of every design element in the aircraft, from the thruster and electrical system designs to the wires that ran through the plane. “The power converter, the battery, the caps and fuselage—everything was optimized,” Barrett says. “The simulations failed all the time. We had to make hundreds of changes.” In the end, they had the triumphant Version 2."

Here's the researchers earlier publication (2015) on the physics behind it:
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/471/2175/2014...

Edit: found some more material. No video of the actual plane yet. But the professor has a website here.

http://electricaircraft.mit.edu/research/
Full-size Space Shuttle replica destroyed after theme park closure
It's a tossup though. LIC's (relatively recent) zoning means the HQ2 announcement might lead to a wave of new construction in the area, which could cause rents to drop.
"theft" of assets in the commons that the victim was trying to earn, such as dealing the killing blow for XP after another player did most of the work.

Just give everyone the XP. (This is an example of why XP is silly.) There are already MMOs that have done this.

Without PvP in player-governed game worlds, you can't even really enforce simple jail time.

What if you teleported those player's characters into room with no doors? (Or a swimming pool with no ladder.)