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Ask HN: What should a student's résumé look like?
As many other CS students I've been applying for internships for several months now. Unfortunately I haven't had much luck in getting any interviews despite having what I feel is a pretty decent résumé. It currently contains a previous internship at a well-known tech company, several years of full-time and part time work as a developer, a profitable side project, and two popular open-source projects used by thousands of people.

I'm having a hard time deciding on how to improve my chances of getting interviews. What are tech companies looking for in an internship application?
Perhaps, but I believe this leads into the issue of the waste inherent in the current American standard of living. The waste (big house, meat every day, giant cars, plastic everywhere, etc.) is, as you know, due to the low cost of extracting fossil fuels. I am optimistic that a lot of this waste can be eliminated without changing our quality of life significantly. The structure of our lives may change, but that's the exact thing I'm arguing for, anyway.

Bring on the fully automated luxury communism!
They're only upfront about it because chargebacks are expensive...
Given the available ppb information, I have a hard time telling if Flint had a lead crisis at all. Virginia Tech found that in 10% of homes they hit 25ppb instead of 15ppb standard. And one home had 13,200ppb (which is either testing error, or something special about the house).

Outside of the one house, this isn't enough lead exposure to see effects from.

EDIT: See thread below. Apparently it was not "Virginia Tech" that is the source for these measurements, as reported by the media, but a group calling themselves "The Virginia Tech Research Team". They maintain http://flintwaterstudy.org/ and you can evaluate them for yourself.
>1) Accessibility

This doesn't get mentioned as often as it should. I have read almost no critical analysis of the fact that cheap smartphones coupled with relatively cheap mobile Internet have brought the political discourse to lots and lots of more people, who otherwise most certainly would have switched the TV channel when the politics were on or who didn't read the politics section in the newspapers (if they used to read newspapers at all).

In other words, Facebook and Twitter by themselves would have meant nothing without the cheap Android phones.
Pretty sure he did mean the statue given the context. Jacques-Louis David is a well-known French painter and there are works of his in the Louvre. (Some of which are monumental in size; I forget what all by him is in the Louvre.) But the average Louvre visitor probably has never heard of him--especially if they aren't French--and I doubt he's a big draw in general.
Nearly all surprises are of how much faster than predicted events are happening. IPCC have consistently under-estimated:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-ipcc-unde...

They are, after all, an intergovernmental UN body, which includes representatives from the oil states and countries that are "unconvinced" by climate heating. Yet IPCC reports require unanimity. Thus what gets published is the least contentious, least offensive spin possible - the version that even the oil states and coal exporters can agree.

Saudi has tried to significantly tone down reports to protect their oil interests:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/m...
Please don't make up nonsense about the GDPR. There's enough of it flying around, particularly in this forum.
>I would guess the "stunt" here is that everyone knows that drinking one glass of Flint water won't really hurt you. It's the long-time exposure from childhood that is the problem.

The general public doesn't really know that. People think that lead is this magical chemical that manically makes people stupid if they so much as lay eyes upon it. I guess that's better than thinking it's harmless but it's certainly non-optimal from a societal decision making standpoint. I would be very surprised if the reporter knew that the lead content of the water was mostly irrelevant to an middle aged man drinking one glass.
Ah? I have a vivid memory of seeing it in the Louvre but you are right, it seems to have never been there. The tricks of memory some time...
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The concepts never made sense, they simply had far less good alternatives in the past.
Are they paying young devs too much or OP too little?
For one thing, this page should have just linked to the original rather than replicating it in full. HN doesn't replicate work done by others, and is superior to "Greater Wrong" in that respect.
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In short:

> The [metal floats because they use] bursts of lasers to "etch" the surfaces of metals with intricate micro- and nanoscale patterns that trap air and make the surfaces superhydrophobic, or water repellent.

Neat!
Again, naïve. The executive suite takes huge bonuses, while there's been no raise for the rank-and-file for a decade. Bonuses even when there's little profit. All rationality has left the equation.

Lets stop living in the 1960's. Don't take our impression of American business from history. Today its very, very different and very, very predatory.
Pay, and benefits. Culture is pretty important too.
> There will come a time when mysticism and science will be one and the same

Mysticism stop being mysticism when it becomes science. Magnets were magic until we figured out how they work, &c.

> Clairvoyance, Telekinesis, Mind Reading, Telepathy etc;

I'm as open as can be but as long as there is literally nothing that back that up I won't buy it. There is no difference between a psychic and a 8 years old kid trying to throw energy balls out of his hands by concentrating very hard after watching one too many dragon balls episode.
Saw that one when we were in louvre. It is so good you have to sit there and just look at it for a while.
"Some 80 percent of visitors, according to the Louvre’s research, are here for the Mona Lisa — and most of them leave unhappy."

Well, screw them? The Louvre museum is a pure marvel content-wise with 40k objects showing what is Culture from prehistory to today, right in the center of Paris, over 70k square meters.

If people go only there to see Mona Lisa instead of checking the Sculpture department too after having read about it online, they kinda deserve to take a shitty selfie and complain about the size of the La Gioconda instead of getting the pleasure of visiting a gigantic place offering pieces of art made over many millennia.
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I have a book from the 1920's that describes what additives to put into water to prevent it from eroding the lead pipes. Of course back they were only concerned about the pipes and didn't know about (or at least didn't admit) the health problems. Lead used to be very common, up until the 1980s lead was used for nearly all pipes in some way (generally only in solder though so not much - though I don't know how harmful that amount is. Pipes in the ground are generally expected to last for a long time (last I heard Boston still had wood pipes from before the revolution in use), so it is safe to say all towns have lead in their water system somewhere.

Thus all water supplies should be managing to reduce the ability of their water supply to reduce lead. I would also suggest that you should go to your town board and say your number one issue is getting rid of all the lead - and you are fine with reverting major roads to gravel to pay for it. (and seriously consider what other services are can be eliminated to find more money)
Seems more like reusing common terms. I work with both publically and privately deployed cloud systems Both work well and have their own specific purposes,advantages,and short comings. "a dark cloud lomming over" is a very old saying
And the Statue of Liberty is French.
well, the complain was about calling Arabs the people from Saudi Arabia.
>like the movie characters and plots are fake. If you're adult you're expected to know that. It makes it very different from astrology, where people actually believe in it. They're selling people advices as actual educated truths

Okay, so what about religion then? Would it not be fraudulent using this criteria you've laid out? Or maybe it's less fraudulent since many religions operate under a tithing "donation" scheme instead?
The Rodin Museum. BTW, anyone here who lives in the Bay Area should go to see the Rodins at Stanford. That museum is arguably the equal of the one in Paris.
i feel the same way about therapists too..
Reading people's emotions, face, body language, and getting them to give you money for it...its a sales job like any other. I'm sure car salesmen would make decent astrologers if they threw on some shawls and golden bracelets.
Or you should read a little bit about Da Vinci's life and how the painting ended up in France in the first place.
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It hasn't been until recently. We are currently locking down all internal systems based on the minimum necessary accesses for various systems. We should have done this a lot sooner.
Jump of logic for us. Not for people in the past. This is called a "vertical" (or magic) world view where things with similar properties are believed to be connected. Examples:

1. The moon is influencing the ocean? -> It will also influence humans

2. Those berries are red? Blood is red, too -> Those berries are good for your blood.

3. This planet is moving fast (Mercure)? -> Mercure is connected to things moving/changing fast (mercury, travellers,...)

(Example 2 is still practiced in traditional Chinese medicine today)
Still punishing after-the-fact is no substitution. If the reward is greater than the punishment then it renders the policy moot.

If i publish my crypto wallet private keys and enact a policy that anyone who tries to take the wallet contents will be beaten to death, and get everyone to agree to this policy, then it would be rendered moot when the person who steals the wallet uses it to hire personal body guards.
While I personally don't get the appeal of wrestling, I accept that some people get enjoyment out of it. However beyond losing them some money (tickets, merchandise) the harm in this case is minimal.

For psychics and religion? not so much. People who blindly take what they are told as the truth may make life defining decisions based on the "advice" given. In some cases the outcome may be benign or even positive, but in most cases a real persons action are influenced by statements not grounded in reality. So overall it is valid to call out these "services" as fraudulent IMO.
If we had to remove all bullshit businesses in the world - not just astrologers - 99% of stuff we buy and sell could be removed of as well. Astrology already has a bad rap, but how many beliefs and legit businesses out there are just scamming people too? I would say many...
In the UK. I don't know how much not being registered to vote hurts, only that CRA pretty websites highlight it as a significant negative, and advised me to register. Which I already had, years prior, they just got it wrong until I complained. Which took 10 minutes with Experian and several weeks with Equifax.

I'll described what I had to do to fix the BT nonsense, in case it's useful for your AT&T problem.

To fix the BT nonsense (after I'd done tedious detective work to figure out which company it was, as it was under a company name I didn't recognise), I was lucky to get a good BT customer service agent, who explained that they could see it was BT, that it happened to other people as well, and the BT Equifax-handling department would fix it as soon as they looked at it, but that department wouldn't fix it on my request. To fix it I needed to complain to Equifax myself as a data correction. Equifax could not change data, since it merely aggregates data supplied by other companies and is not responsible for the data, but it would contact the BT Equifax-handling department, who would make the correction and submit it back to Equifax. In the end getting Equifax to process a data correction complaint was excessively difficult, slow and intrusive (requiring various documents I didn't care to send them), and I found a third company who magically made Equifax process the complaint in days rather than months; it went all the way along the chain to BT and back, and was magically fixed.
> This past summer, amid 100-degree-plus heat, the Louvre undertook a renovation of the Mona Lisa’s gallery

From the article.
The fact that he's been "drinking" (actually barely sipping) water all over Flint for cameras turns it into a cheap media stunt, but I actually was referring to this fake-as-hell "Can I have some water":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjugN-nUHh8
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That looks like amazing work.

But I'm at an age and temperament, where I no longer want to idolize the rich and powerful. Its just a shame that such talent went to aggrandize rich white folk with life-and-death power over millions, because of an accident of birth.

Here's a powerful painting, worth a long look:

https://www.topofart.com/artists/Bouguereau/art-reproduction...
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The town where I went to primary school in somewhat rural South Africa had, for quite a few years, a stand/shack smack in the middle of the town and on the side of the main road (if it can be called that). The shack had a big sign: "ANASTROLOGER HEALER". [1]

I am not sure whether the anastrologer healer misjudged the space on the sign or what, but kudos to them for remembering the a/an rule for English.

[1] It could also have been "ANASTROGIST HEALER" but I forget now.
That's evidence for a concave utility function wrt income, not logarithmic per se.

But your first link does cite evidence that _if_ utility is CRRA, we are not far from the case where utility is logarithmic
Exactly, in the past the only way to change the leader was to kill him, and sometimes that meant sons having to kill their fathers, or their brothers, having to start civil war, etc.

Democracy is a way better alternative to that that allows a leader to be removed without having to kill him or her (which is generally good for both said leader and his rivals).

Putin was smart that he announced he would retire ahead of time, so that people and his rivals could tolerate his assassinations and vote stealing just a little more instead of taking him head-on. I wonder if Xi will do something similar or he actually intends to die on his new Chinese throne. He seemed to take the whole "permanent president" thing pretty seriously.
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Its not a revelation to say insulting people's intelligence with skeptical incredulity is a bad strategy to win them over. Same with climate for instance, shaming people isn't likely to convince them of climate science.
The Paris Agreement is a joke. Most countries just signed it then did what they wanted any way. Yes it would be better PR if US signed it and ignored it, but it wouldn't make any difference. https://www.nature.com/news/prove-paris-was-more-than-paper-...
I think that was just what tipped the scale, looks like she could not handle selling psychic powers she did not have. You may not see it like it, but this fits many definition of a fraud.

The fact that her clients were delusional does not make it much more ethical.

If I made a business selling cheap plastic Shenzhen baubles as potent magic pendants, would it be a legitimate business just because I find people willing to pay?
While those techniques are tricks that diminish sickness, they result in an experience that doesn't live up to a traditional gaming experience, but now VR and immersive.

For example, Doom VFR only has teleportation movement and it results in an experience that doesn't feel very Doomlike. Instead of blitzing around like a rabbit with a gun, now Doomguy is a magical genie with a gun.
I like example 2, because it's also an example of my point. Why good? Even if you accept that it's related to blood, it could be bad for blood. There's no way to convert analogical reasoning into specific ideas about what is good or bad without making stuff up.
> although I've never heard Teller talk about it [har har] they seem to be in agreement

He does actually talk in interviews and they are definitely in agreement. He also has a rather soothing radio voice, in a way its a pity he doesn't talk more, although I do feel his performances are stronger because of his silence.
Memory safety defects tend to manifest themselves in obvious ways. A few unit tests, and some work in memory sanitizes will find them.
Sure, other museums are crowded. (And some deal with this by having timed admissions.) However, I'm not sure I could point to another example of a single piece in another museum that attracts the outsized crowds that the Mona Lisa does.

I don't think anyone is saying it should be closed. But it's not an unreasonable argument to say that it could be exhibited better. (Someone told me there was some recent rearrangement of galleries so I'm not sure what the current layout is exactly.)
Dark cloud in IT terms would be a "cloud" hidden from the clearnet, hence the dark part of the name. It would be a cloud in cypherspace not clearnet/surface web.
No I ignore reviews on Amazon etc. because why trust random BOTs and paid reviewers on the internet.
The Prado in Madrid has a copy of the Mona Lisa, probably painted in the same studio at the same time, that is nicely restored and vibrant. Hardly anyone was looking at it when I was there.
>Are you suggesting we should allow less people to graduate in order to fix the problem?

Yes of course. As per "The Mythical Man-Month"[1] adding more people to a project doesn't speed id up - quite the opposite, slows it down.

Right now we have huge overhead in training and communication. Low s/n ratio follows. You can fix that gatekeeping science a bit better - pick more talented, better educated, harder working candidates, and train & finance & supply them better.

--

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
That does sound reasonable. People game the current system to the maximum. How would you expect people to game a system of taxing the obvious assets, and what could be done about it?
Magic is used to swindle. (Three card monte, I saw the cups and balls on the streets of Paris taking bets). I find that different than paying for a magic show.

When I was a kid we weren’t sure the wrestling was scripted. When people wanted to bet on it. Regulators made it known. People still enjoy it, much like scripted movies and tv.
Everything in the universe is connected, really? How am I connected to a random hydrogen atom in a nebula far beyond our sight, and moving away faster than light?
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Ex-prof here. The whole publish or perish mentality is a big problem. How many good papers can a researcher produce a year? Way less than they are expected to in the academic world.
There's almost certainly quite a bit of lead in the buildings too.
A good magician won't pretend to have supernatural abilities and instead treat it like any other performance art.
An activity based on intuition or heuristics is going to get fuzzy on the edges. The saving grace of entrepreneurship is that truly good ideas will succeed in a market and the ones based on faulty logic will not. There isn't a similar market function for peoples' internal psychology.
They care insofar as political controversy is concerned. Topically, they are not concerned. This is the distinction I feel does exist.
>Why is anyone entitled to own a chip fab?

If I make a coffee why should I be entitled to drink it? Well it's obvious. I bought the ingredients, heated water, etc... I consumed my own resources to make the coffee. If I don't own the end result then by making coffee I am just harming myself.

>while anyone else would have to work their whole lives, and convince hundreds of others to work with them, to create a chip fab, if they wanted to own one.

So would the rich daughter. A chip fab requires external funding. This means the rich daughter has to obtain credit from a bank. In an ideal world the bank is itself funded by the depositors which have agreed to let their bank lend the money out. (in reality the central bank offers low % credit to encourage this)
I have seen the Mona Lisa in paris and .. it's really nothing special.

And recently I have seen the "other" Mona Lisa at Madrid's Prado; I like it a lot better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(Prado%27s_version)
Nassim Taleb believes dictatorships are better than democracies because "Lots of small sadnesses are always better than one or two big ones"?
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There seems to be a large contingent who would say yes to that and then complain they can't go anywhere abroad on vacation and wonder why they have massive unemployment.

That sort of complete lack of self awareness and hypocrisy is distressing and unfortunately repeatably precedented.
It's the piracy fallacy again. It doesn't cost Netflix anywhere near $1.5B to deliver content to those extra viewers. And if they lost access to the shared password only a fraction of them would pay for their own account. (To be clear I'm not advocating violating Netflix terms of service, just pointing out that the number is wrong.)
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Instead of taxing individual wealth, far easier and constitutionally sound to impose a corporate tax as a percentage of total stock value.

Let the markets determine the value of the stock, then calculating the tax is a few minutes' work.

Most people who get really rich do so by owning stock or shares in a corporation, partnership or LLC.
We can still produce less carbon emissions without being in the agreement.

The US is only 20% of total C02 output. Even if it were 0, China and India are still ruining the climate and the Paris accords didn't stop this.

Per-capita doesn't matter. Reality doesn't care about fairness.
Freud would say that people enjoy having their problems. A dysfunctional replacement for therapy or a reasonable world-view would let you have the twin enjoyments of pouring endless effort into a perceived solution (astrological charts, tarot readings) while doing effectively nothing to resolve the actual cause.
It's much easier to tax the poor, but you don't get anything. Marginal/progressive tax systems exist for a reason. The problem is rich people can afford to lobby (buy) politicians to make their taxes go away, which is why the IRS is continuously starved for budget. The IRS admits it cannot afford to audit wealthy people because it requires a lot of people and effort, so auditing poor and middle class people is the best they can do. Seems like the first thing would be to beef up the IRS budget.