skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Straightjackets the candidate's work experience into "technology used" instead of "accomplishments earned".

More broadly, I feel like "technology used" is a pretty weak indicator of how well they'll do. An applicant may have used C for 20 years and be a "C expert," but have poor application/system design sense.

Many hiring managers (and their technical staff) I've talked to lately have been only superficially interested in the technologies (languages, frameworks, etc.) I've used, and much more curious about how I go about solving problems and designing overall solutions. Several have flat-out said they're hiring smart, motivated, creative people, and are happy to train new hires on parts of their technology stack with which they're unfamiliar.

So I agree that an accomplishments-based approach might make more sense. I think it's useful to still indicate what technologies you've used, as it can show things like technical breadth, and a willingness and desire to learn new things. But, "I'm a C expert of 20 years, and I can fill in function bodies based on other people's designs like a pro," is much less impressive than, "I just started learning Ruby 3 months ago, but I designed and built Complex System from scratch with it." Sure, there's a lot of room in between those two extremes, but focusing on "technologies used" doesn't really give you much information.
Yup... added support for ignore files to my CLI util (written in node.js) for managing dotfiles using git: https://github.com/mcantelon/node-deja
right hand meet left hand.
Interesting notes on Google disks and file systems
A lot of people don't understand this. I'm an English grad student, and one of my more, uh, politically-minded professors said in a seminar that the U.S. doesn't manufacture anything anymore. I sent him this e-mail:

When I mentioned the bit about the U.S. continuing to manufacture a lot of stuff, I wasn't just trying to be a pain, as it's actually true; see Dept. of Labor Data on the subject here: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/MANEMP.txt or a post on the subject here: http://blog.american.com/?p=8593 ("Amazingly, if the U.S. manufacturing sector were a separate country, it would be tied with Germany as the world’s third-largest economy."). CNN even points out that "China's manufacturing sector is on the brink of passing that of the United States, according to a report released Monday," (http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/21/news/economy/china_us_manufa...) but that it hasn't yet.

What has happened is that the U.S. manufacturing sector represents a much smaller part of the overall U.S. economy—mostly because the rest of the economy has gotten so big.

When you stop believing in polemics and conventional wisdom and start trying to look at what really is, you'll find a lot of unusual stuff.
This will blend perfectly into an upcoming Django project of mine.

Glad to see more event'ed server implementations are coming up, not just from the JS persuasion.
Why not? Were I work we use Drupal almost exclusively and use Git for everything.
I'm not sure, but I think that saying stuff like that can be interpreted as indirectly encouraging users to click on ads.

Interesting article and discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049105
I'm not naturally a sports fan, but I always find it good for social purposes to stay at least marginally aware of them (at least the major events). So, hacking in front of the TV for a change.

That said, football brings to mind a great PG quote: "Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world."
Did you miss the part where I said: "Depending on how you define the thickness" ?

The milky way does not have a clear cut end, so you need some kind of definition on where to stop, and there are many ways to do so.

And you should stop estimating thickness by looking at photos. Brightness often masquerades as thickness in photos.
Totally! Hacking away since 24h on my project: http://www.virtualrockstars.com

My wife across the room is also hacking on something for SXSWi. Love being married to another coder!
Got dynamic class loading working for my Faux framework yesterday. I guess I really ought to write a blog post about it tonight, but for now this sketchy overview will have to do:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/02/...
Seven-year-old nearly buys a fighter aircraft
Isn't the content stored in a database rather than static pages? Do you do regular commits of your database files?
I use Fabric with mercurial to achieve a similar effect typing "fab prod deploy" - see Steve Losh's blog posts or bitbucket.org/kevinburke/goodmorningcmc
I guess the inferential distance between us is too great. A world in which we colonize the stars is a world where we've fixed some of the problems today (aging, death, existential risks from various technologies). I assume humanity will change substrates to something that lasts a little longer than our current bodies.

where's the profit motive in building a fleet of von Neumann probes to 'eat' every solar system in the galaxy? Who is going to pay for this effort, and what returns do they expect?

You only have to build one Von Neumann probe, and there's a massive benefit to taking over your light cone: You make sure nobody else does.

Even if million-year life spans are out of our reach, why does one have to live to see the full fruits of one's effort? The world doesn't cease to exist when you die.
that's what we do in conjunction with http://drupal.org/project/features, bugs aside it works well

but what you want in code and what you want in the DB will vary from page to page and feature to feature so often just manually redo stuff (in dev env and then again in production) because deploying changes by code is more effort then its worth.
20 - At least that what it says when not logged in.
I wish I could vote this up more than one point. I don't believe I have any insight I can add in a short comment that would do anything but distract from the authors point.
You will not be able to provide links to anything on /b/, all conversations are removed from it in a matter of minutes or hours.
I'm watching Murder! by Hitchcock as homework for my film studies class. First time in years that I haven't watched the game.
Please tell me we are not going to do the "sports are stupid" or the "popular things are stupid" thing?

I wish I could watch it, but I have no TV, lousy connectivity, and I can't get to a sports bar.
Python Locks, RLocks, Semaphores, Conditions, Events and Queues
> Perl is still very active and especially in the activity of providing API or pipe to other technologies/libraries.

If Parrot comes to full fruition, CPAN should be available to (at least) both Ruby and Python about as easily as it's available to Perl.

If Parrot comes to full fruition.
The whole thing is basically an elaborate rationalization of racism through the cliche of social darwinism. As much as I dislike stupid people, I hate social conservatives even more.

I don't detect endorsement of social darwinism.
Motorola XOOM priced at $800
It is surprising that motorola priced xoom at $800 when iPads are starting at $499. 3G iPad version starts at $630. What do you think?
Google's Android Market web store opens new malware threat
I'm working on an AM/PM taskmanager circle-clock.
http://breefield.com/lab/days/
Japanese characters are via Google translate, probably horribly wrong, but mostly for aesthetic.
Why is this interesting enough to have gotten 22 points?
Nothing personal. It was meant to be merely "flippant", and not so much "snarky".
I've been working on Datkey.com for a white and it's way more fun than superbowl...that's just me though
Accountant's Responsibility As an Expert
Oh crap, was that today?
Would you mind giving me a quick, thousand-foot view of your thoughts on the various options, relative to each other, then? I must admit to knowing little more about Azure than the simple fact of its existence (in part by having seen your book on the shelf at Barnes & Noble), and I am afflicted by idle curiosity.
To elaborate on dolinsky and the article, if your web server is doing a "git pull", it means it has ssh access into your workstation. If someone breaks into your web server, this means that they have ssh access into your workstation as well by simply using the keys on your web server. This is bad, very bad.

If you push to your web server, only your public key is exposed if your web server is compromised.
Watch a few dozen guys play with balls for a few hours or work on an unbelievably cool project...I'll stick with the latter :)
I agree. I have no doubt that I am a few σ from the norm:

http://i.imgur.com/yIfoY.jpg

Dual screen, tv tuner, espresso, coors light, and an audio book.
This is basically how I run my publishing engine (you can read more about it at the "Colophon" part of this article: http://nearthespeedoflight.com/article/about_the_redesign ).

I wanted to teach myself Ruby and I figured this was a great way to maintain a site, as I'm terrible with both SQL and security. Git solves security and DataMapper solves the SQL, and my Ruby lubricates the rest.
I was playing music from Borodin's Prince Igor at an orchestra concert this afternoon; does that count?

(We had a good audience, too -- I have a feeling that the set of people who attend classical music concerts doesn't overlap very much with the set of people who watch football.)
A lot are. But how many are surfing HN while out for a run?

TV watching is a place u have internet access.
Managing the codebase is straightforward -- that's what git's designed for. My question was more about the actual site contents, which will reside in the database. Can you use git for tracking changes to the contents?
Nearly everything internal is still Perforce. The Android group (and maybe bits of Chrome? not sure) is nearly the only user of git.
While it is true that North America still manufactures great quantities of luxury and high tech stuff, that isn't what is pissing off the populists. They couldn't care less if our manufacturing doubled in terms of dollars of output. What they really want is a return to the highly paid, unionized, tradesperson.

To them robots making Chevy trucks matters just as much to their lives as nerds writing software. As productivity increases continue, demand for noncerebral labor declines as a ratio for demand of cerebral labor. Even if the average tradesperson is better of today than 40 years ago (they have cars with AC, for example) they want their relative standing to increase. They used to be paid, say, half of what the engineer made, now its a fifth. That really, really pisses them off, so they take it out on China.

Combine that with the fact that 40 years ago "mom" stayed home, converting (tax free) raw ingredients into delicious food, as well as watched the children and mended the clothes. Now they buy less healthy instant food and need to find a way to pay for daycare, as well as a second car to get to work, and if they are American, substantially inflated healthcare costs.

I'm not envious of their position.
I don't know, to me it looks like the bit about Americans of Scandinavian stock is just a throwaway line that has nothing to do with the point they're actually making, which is that the observed correlations are mainly just a product of the fact that there are a few countries with low levels of inequality that also happen to be exemplars of things like high life expectancy or women's rights.

I don't think they're actually making any racial arguments in this article. When they do mention race later on, it's to make the point that the correlations of social problems with inequality don't have any more inherent explanatory value than the correlations with race.
Too true - I've been leanring Ruby on Rails 3 + Koala + omniauth today. Lots of fun...
Yep! Working on my startup: www.interstateapp.com :)
A few reasons:

Their stuff is hackable - the previous 2 channel oscilloscope they made got incrementally more features in it's firmware revisions, and they published the code- see here: http://code.google.com/p/dsonano/

They're a startup, based in Hong Kong (last I checked).

Seeedstudio makes neat stuff, and they're part of the whole electronic hobbyist renaissance (along with sparkfun, Make magazine, etc.) They offer neat stuff, at good prices.
Gee I remember when it seemed the US's manufacturing output was orders of magnitude beyond China (and Japan seemed like it was where China is today). Good for China for bootstrapping their economy so effectively, but no one would claim that the US trade deficit was irrelevant to the process either.

Even if you believe that China's output is now approaching parity with the US (46 percent is nearly equal on the long term graph), is it not reasonable to ask at what point they're going to start buying some of our stuff in return?

Or if they're not going to spend their dollars with us, the least they could do is let their own currency valuation happen in open markets.
It's not necessarily good though. A multi-billion $ weapons system built in America for the US taxpayer, even if it is never deployed or even abandoned, counts as a $Bn manufacturing output.

As a famous economist said - from a GDP point of view the ideal person is someone undergoing cancer treatment during an expensive divorce
Except .. why would anyone use code.google.com instead of github?
I've been taking a break from working on http://101in365.com to watch the commercials sometimes, but yeah... hacking on a project is way more fun! Managed to get a lot done today too! Good that my friends have all be pre-occupied by the game so I can concentrate!
You only have to build one Von Neumann probe, and there's a massive benefit to taking over your light cone: You make sure nobody else does.

So this hypothetical civilization has conquered aging, death, and the drive for rapid gratification, but fails at elementary game theory?
This story was a little too dramatic.
I am working. I am the CTO for Alliance Acquisitions (http://www.alliance-acquisitions.com) Much left to get done.
I'm doing both, since neither team is my team I'm only half paying attention to it.

I also think it's hilarious how so many techies love to brag about not caring about football. I'd have thought that hackers would enjoy the complexity of the game (most of the programmers I know love football, and meeting up for beers on football Sundays is a ritual for us).
Yup! Hacking happily away on http://social-igniter.com couldn't care less about the Super Bowl- I don't even know who's playing.
I'm doing a bit of both ;) Hacking a WordPress theme for http://beyondthefocus.com while watching bits of the game & commercials.
Monsanto wins again: 1/2 the US sugar crop to be gene-modified
Oscilloscopes are notoriously expensive: http://www.google.com/search?q=oscilloscope&tbs=shop,sho...
Not realy hacking, bug I'm bugfixing as webOS app =)
Public/private keypairs could help here, actually. A space in the profile to post your public key, as well as a short line of text, and then the same line encrypted with your private key.

Of course, I guess a fake account could generate their own keypair, and it would be hard to prove to the internet at large whose keypair truly belongs to you.
Wow, I didn't even think of it, but yes, I am hacking on a new rails project instead of watching the superbowl.
Can't I do both? :) I'm on my laptop hacking while sitting in front of the TV.

Also I'm watching my website traffic do this:

http://www.reddit.com/tb/fgjid
You need an option for "started to watch but got bored in between commercials and found iPod in pocket."
Show HN: Get customer feedback - poplytics
I built a website survey tool. It works like kissinsights without the huge pricing and annoying pop-up. It is more user friendly survey for your website. It is free for now, still in beta. Access key is: samxbeta.

Give me feedback pls.
What is the "Super Bowl"?
It was 200 when it lauched a couple of years ago, not any more.
She's incredibly melodramatic:

It made my heart bleed.

A month passed. Facebook hadn't responded. I stopped sleeping. I couldn't follow conversations. Words swam.

Reading the profile was like plunging into an icy pond from such a high distance it felt as if I'd slammed into a wall. And then the sensation of drowning.

I can't help but think there are people out there dealing with real, serious problems who bear them with much more dignity.
People think that sports and programming are mutually exclusive for some reason. As if you can't be a good programmer unless you hate sports.

Personally, I like to hack and I hold football season tickets.
I agree... Until there is another follow-up post then it's very ambiguous.
Nearly all engineering instrumentation is expensive. Why? Is it disruptable?
However that raises the larger question of whether these inflation-adjustments are accurate.

See: http://www.shadowstats.com/article/primers_intro
I've played with this - in the end I ended up using custom scripts and/or Capistrano scripts (along with git of course) to handle actual deployments. It provided more control and more features, while still letting me leverage git.
Harvard Launches Fund to Seed MBA Startups
Sure, nothing against groupon.
I was reading about how the US now considers McDonalds hamburgers to be part of US manufacturing output, whereas in the past that was credited as service since it was a restaurant.

So we must ask. Does the claim made by boston.com include hamburgers?
The complexity is actually one of the reason's I'm less attracted to American football than, say, soccer. In my experience programmers like simplicity and elegance, of which the NFL, with its large collection of seemingly arbitrary rules, has neither.

That's not to say I don't enjoy watching it (especially being a Wisconsinite...).
My friend who worked at a travel agent in london was asked on a regular basis by US "college educated" kids on their post-college world tour if they could please buy a bus to Ireland.
> I'm at a complete loss as to why this artice is on the front page - to say that I didn't learn much from it is an understatement of some magnitude.

I don't learn much --and often discover plain bad information-- in 50% of the articles of the top page or more. Should I be at a loss too?
The speech and listening training sounds very similar to what I went through with my hearing aids, called auditory-verbal therapy. I've got severe/profound loss in both ears, but I never really learned ASL since I was diagnosed ~2 and started early. Thanks for sharing your story!
I think it's the case the manufacturing output has increased while manufacturing employment has actually decreased
Indeed- browsing at 1024x600 is often a frustrating experience.
I'm chipping away at rewriting my uni's timetabling system. I am very full of caffeine.
if this was possible and useful drupal wouldn't have Features. the whole point is whats in the database can't be versioned easily.
They record all of my calls by starting off the call saying "this may be monitored for quality assurance". I'm thinking of having all my outbound calls start with the same message, and recording them all. If someone doesn't want to be monitored, they can choose to deal with me only in writing then.
I have to admit that things are a bit different in San Francisco than they were in Texas. I almost wasn't aware that the Super Bowl was today. And not a single person has asked me what team I'm rooting for. In Texas when I told people that I really am not a football fan, people would look at me like I'm an alien who was speaking some bizarre language they didn't understand.

And I'm surprised there isn't an "I'm watching it for the commercials" option. :-)
Well, it needs a unixy environment, not necessarily an entire OS.

I've personally managed to get the redo test suite to pass on Win32, running inside a port of BusyBox: https://github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32

Yes, it's an extra download, but a 500kb standalone executable is much nicer than the hundreds of megabytes required by Cygwin or MSYS.
She writes thriller novels...
The missing photo COLON a journalist in a phone box COMMA reading to a copy taker.
So would a lot of large content publishers. Apparently advertising revenue isn't satisfying their needs yet.

I believe you are referring to indirect ways of generating revenue, but recently, publishers seem to be heading more towards direct monetization models. Some examples: News Corp. is giving it a shot with The Daily, the television networks are working with Hulu Plus and the music labels have been selling through iTunes for a while.

Hope I've interpreted your comment correctly, but as far as I know, outside of direct advertisements and collecting data on users that can be sold, there is currently no proven/successful model for monetizing free content.

To speculate, some sort of Gillette model could have potential, but I think it's currently difficult to understand a consumers intent and the types of "add-ons" they would be willing to pay for. Perhaps hard copies of the content that contain something original &/or personalized would have value.
> I'm thinking of having all my outbound calls start with the same message

Good luck with that.
This seems pretty crazy, as the comparable iPad (16GB WiFi+3G) retails for $630. It will also be difficult to build up a large install base without a cheaper, wifi-only model. And while at the moment the Xoom has some features the iPad does not (cameras, for example) the inevitable release of a new iPad in a couple months will no doubt erase that advantage, at the same (or lower, per GB) price.

I can't imagine what Motorola/Verizon were thinking. They're not going to sell more than a few of these without lowering the price drastically.

Edit: Oops, I misread the ad as saying it had 16GB storage. The more reasonable price comparison is then the 32GB iPad, which is $730. More reasonable, but still too much (especially given that you must sign up for a very expensive data plan to even use WiFi).
Now if we can just find a cure for websites that require passwords to be inherently insecure (e.g. "8 character limit", "can't use most special symbols", or almost any kind of "security questions").
I'm drawing sketches for next ver of Flipboard while watching superbowl on twitter on flight to SFO. Does that count?
How LaunchRock is rocking our launch
How can you tell whether someone is smarter than you?
Oh America are playing their version of rugby today? I did wonder why my twitter timeline suddenly filled up with tweets about commercials :P
The article provides the authors reasoning for the title..
I am especially bothered by the Verizon details here. First off, how can they prohibit WiFi use? Second, it seems like the Xoom is unavailable in Canada, if it really is Verizon-locked. Ouch and ouch.
Doing project work (not my own though) but definitely not watching the super bowl. Had a nice dinner with my wife, now back to hacking.
> Your actor may block on its message queue (and an infinite computation would mean you'd never consult the queue again), but during a message wait it doesn't necessarily block a thread. That's sort of the point of a good Actor model implementation.

A thread can block on a syscall or a "while(true);", but won't necessarily idle one of your CPU cores. That's likewise the point of a good task scheduler.

Actors are threads, just they tend to be implemented in userland rather than as OS threads.

> Perhaps you don't know this, but every lock&block system has an equivalently performant Actor-based system, and vice-versa.

Knowing that they're equivalent (up to "frictionless surface" assumptions for performance, ignoring what primitives the hardware provides) is a significant part of why I don't take claims of the actor model's magicalness seriously.

> P.S., Just because you haven't heard of these languages doesn't mean they are not widely used. What does your personal experience have to do with the viability of a technique?

I have heard of them, always in terms of "this is awesome, what's wrong with people that almost nobody actually uses it?".