skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can. Employment is a negotiation like any other. If you're irreplaceable you can demand to be paid in Swiss Francs, blue M&Ms, or organic saffron if you so desire. However, if you're not that unique of a snowflake your employer will see no reason to jump through hoops and incur the extra costs of meeting your demands.
I've done a lot of work with plaintiff's attorneys and one thing I've never seen is them encouraging people to publicly express their whoa. You don't want the other side to know what you are going to drop.
Dude. How is any of that "simple"?

Thinking that just better advertising will solve gender imbalances in technical roles is overly simple.
This article, as far as I can tell, does not contain any new information about the EJ saga. I am quite confident that, had the subject matter of the submission not been AirBnB (and thus killing it might give rise to accusations of censorship on part of YC), this submission would have been killed as a dupe, and rightly so.

What is the point of submitting the same story over and over again, albeit from different news sources? The fact that it has 98 points at the moment is proof that the angry mob PG was talking about¹ is a reality. It's sad to see this kind of behavior on HN.

¹ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822860
Surely that would have implications for search engine spiders.
> What is he going to do now? Hire thugs to intimidate her?

Wow, that is some crazy talk.
Instead, how about you explain why duplicate posts are good?
You wouldn't expect a carpenter to say "I can both screw and unscrew screws from wood".

Given that a huge number of professional programmers can't do the programming equivelant of screwing and unscrewing screws, that actually does make a difference.
Apologies. I thought I detected a note of disapproval.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I think the only thing easier than FizzBuzz is Hello World. I wouldn't advise anyone to mention they can write one in their resume.
Currency itself is an abstract concept. There are many reasons currencies are associated with nations (instead of just cities or other smaller economic regions). The most important reason is that currencies are under the control of some sort of central bank (the FED in the US the ECB in the eurozone). Because the fed controls the supply of money and the fed is a national institutions it makes sense that the fed would be attempting to do what it thinks is best for the nation (and therefore the people living in that nation). One of the major reasons currencies fluctuate between different nations is due to changes in the money supply (which is obviously related to economic production and the intervention of the fed). So having currencies associated with sovereign states makes a lot of sense.
He typically says X is faster than Y with a visual workflow. It'd be interesting to test that with GazeHawk.
Wow. This is a fascinating article. Thank you so much!
EJ's incident happened a month ago. The other incident (referenced in GP) happened 2 months ago. So EJ's can not be the "first of its kind". If the quoted comment is true, then AirBnB is lying.
You could simply invest your US income in the currency exchange market (FX or Forex).
I took it as a lighthearted, joking statement.

Besides, just the fact that someone knows about FizzBuzz is a good sign in my book (also the fact that they know about HN, but I digress).
Wakemate, Dropbox and AirBnB have made poor business decisions. It's a PR problem when you explain a good decision poorly.
Can Homomorphic Encryption be Practical?
Repeating the advice of others to move, if only in the hope that the repetition will alude to the validation of said advice.

I usually don't have a good word to say about recruiters but in cases like yours it might be worth contacting a few who work in one of the hubs you could move to, and have them look at your resume. They'll help you brush it up if needed but more importantly help you validate that there are employers looking for your skill set (because if they don't think they can place you, they won't spend any time with you).

Have them set up 3 or 4 interviews and scrape together the fare to come here and you might not need the return ticket. Just don't indicate to them that you are desperate but white-lie and tell them that you just want to relocate to SF/NY/etc.

BTW I moved to SF from a different country (UK) 5 years ago because it is where I needed to be for my career - it was hard but I did it and it is one of the best decisions I made. The winters are better here too! :)
"5 years C# experience,"

/\ Try bending the truth.

Firstly you'll need different CVs depending on the job you are going for. So take the one saying "Did python for 5 years at XYZ corp" and change it to "Did python and C# for 5 years at XYZ corp" - This should get you past the HR gatekeepers and in the meantime you just have to skill up on c#. When you reach the interview with technical people they will be more reasonable - providing you are actually comfortable with c#.
I've always been doubtful of OSX's crypto. At least with the past versions I was always worrying about side channel attacks.

Merely using encryption on your home folder is obviously going to leak information to unencrypted portions of the disk (not to mention spotlight indexing); but more insidious is default safe sleep (which will write out your encryption key to disk) and DMA enabled ports.
True though that may be, I don't think the OP's intention is to convince us that he's less than utterly incompetent...
The concept of nations is a relic though. We're not under threat of roaming Hun tribes or whatnot. The exclusive modern purpose of a nation seems to be to have a currency, and the purpose of the nationally administered currency seems to be to maintain the nation... Seems terribly circular to me.

If we admit that geographically defined nations are silly then I don't see any reason why we can't just let people, businesses, or perhaps even entire cities, choose which currency they wish to subscribe to.
What about situations where a client wants you to "take a look at the code"? In my very very limited experience I've told them I'll spend an hour or two on spec going over the source to evaluate before giving an estimate. Is this too little, in your opinion?
Heh, I think the fact that they know HN is more of a testament to ability than FizzBuzz indeed :p
Have you tried looking through some of the more recent "Who's Hiring" threads here on HN?

Here's the most recent one from June, looking for freelancers (I'm not sure if a July one was posted):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607058

And here's a list of some more recent threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

I imagine you're pretty stressed out, but hang in there, and good luck.

(Woops – looks like jcr beat me to it. His/her comment has even more recent information.)
I too was an enthusiastic Quora user early on, but hardly visit the site any more. It suffers from the same problem most sites that follow the social model (of followers/following) - "celebrity" authors get substantially more upvotes for even mediocre or poor answers - undermining the mission of the site. It perpetuates the fallacy that the most "popular" answer is somehow the right answer - which it seldom is.
I agree with some people that a move might be your best bet, though from your post its not obvious if there is anything (such as family) keeping you from moving. I think its a shame that oDesk did not work out for you - maybe try another service such as eLance where I personally feel (as someone who employs via these services) that a better quality of person is found on there. Yes there is the chance of competing against lower waged people in other countries, however I personally employ based on skills and communication and these days the costs are not as wide as they once were.

I am curious as to why you have not found something locally. Surely there are groups you can join, either on or offline, which would help you.

I hope that some of the comments on here will help you or spur you into some action
> Policemen, charged with high office but often born of a commoner
> strain, struggle with sloppy mismatches, calling a suspect
> "the individual," in utter subconscious terror of being labeled
> the sort of guy who uses the word "man."

Or combine that with incorrect terminology such as "the suspect was travelling at a high rate of speed" when they really mean "the suspect was travelling fast". Speed is technically a rate of distance. Rate of speed would be acceleration.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to utilize the commode.
11.6-inch MacBook Air review: Petite powerhouse
Thanks Fred.

I'm sure that is the case for all your companies.

I've just had nightmare experiences with some companies such as, at the worst extreme, one company who had a marketing person actually email me in response to several emails I sent begging to opt out of their frequent marketing emails to say they refused to offer me any way out of continuing to receive marketing emails, and prompting me to have to engage with upper management to the point where their management ended up profusely apologizing for the belligerence of their marketing person and ensuring me that the marketing person was being dealt with appropriately.
I enjoyed this article although I suspect its factual veracity (oops, err, truth).

For one thing LEOs don't say "individual" because they're romance language kowtowers but rather because it's an instance of the largest valid superclass of man/child/woman/girl/boy/teenager/infant/...

Similarly, it's not "Sir, please get out of the Porsche 911" but "Sir, please get out of the vehicle". "Vehicle" is factually correct whatever the beliefs of the other party ("this is not just a car!").

Perhaps I'm not smart enough to catch all of the nuances in the article. For example the very first sentence's "grandmother" is splendidly etymologically ambiguous (grossmutter/grandmere), is this intentional?

Similarly "smart" (allegedly dumb German word) is derived via German smerzan, Latin mordere, Greek smerdnos (according to my dictionary).
This only works if you can tolerate loss of some log items.
I noticed a gender dynamic in the crossed communication here as well (and also in HN's mass response to it, but that's another story). But speaking generally, this kind of thing cuts both ways. A lot of the time "people not working in the tech or science industry" (if that's the euphemism we're using) perceive genuinely well-intentioned remarks as malicious too (e.g. cold, calculating, robotic). Why? Because very little is coming through their primary channel. Each party is relying on a different primary channel and feels like they're not being heard.
Ha ha. From the bottom of his post:

"Oh hi there, Hacker News. Someone apparently submitted this and it's doing pretty well. Some sort of HN or reddit flare-up happens with more of my posts than not, and it always has me wanting to find a way to capitalize on it and become some professional writer-philosopher. One with muscles and a serious artist face. Hey, a boy has got to dream. Anyways, I can write stuff. I'm a little bit smart. You should totally hire me or something. kenmyers@gmail.com. Or what if I wrote a book? Would that work? If I've got, like, 140 RSS subscribers, but 50,000 hits a month through sites like HN and reddit, do you think that's enough of a following to get me somewhere? Talk to me."

That's how you capitalize on success.
It is a lot harder to evaluate accurately an argument that uses certain rhetorical techniques, so I stopped reading before the end.

If Quora is the next Google, there will be more posts on it.
On this point remember that "5 years C experience" != "5 years commercial C experience".

If you were doing commercial-grade programming in Uni (or before) or any open source then consider that valid experience.

Finally, just because a job says 5 years experience, and you don't have it, doesn't mean that they won't consider your resume if you submit it. Better to hear the hiring manager say "no" then not submit your resume at all. Case in point, I don't have a college degree but I think every job I've ever held in my 12 years in this industry has asked for one on the requirements. I don't have one but I can do the job so I just applied anyway otherwise I'd never work!
I'd agree. Yammer followed pretty much the same path: our main app is still a Rails app and we ship more Rails code every week.

We've migrated some key parts out to HTTP services written in Scala, Java, or node.js.
Submissions don't get downvotes (unless they occur at a threshold beyond my karma score), instead they are flagged which - like downvotes do for comments - moves them down the list ranking.
I, too, visit less now that the novelty is gone, and that I've seen some of the celebrity/inner-circle machinations.

But, when I ask a question, I get good answers. When I occasionally find myself there from other links, it's good content.

So maybe it doesn't have to be an everyday social experience... just a constantly-improving, generally well-tended collection of reliable information.
Very true. If you can, then it's a great way to log things.
I used to have trouble getting numpy and scipy installed - until I started using homebrew. It blows MacPorts out of the water. Just make sure your architecture is set correctly as Jesse outlines in this blog post, otherwise you'll run into problems building the various C components with gcc.
Wow. Nice tone, man.

> Ah yes, it's so easy to move when you can't afford $100 to start a company. Great advice.

Many, many companies would gladly pay to relocate a good developer right now.

> Looks like you're wrong, in this instance at least.

He's talking about places that aren't in BFE, and he's right.
Erm... that's the public part of a public-key pair. It's as secure as any other modern public-key crypto out there (plus or minus a few digits). Any transactions are signed.
If they pay you $5000 you can't pay them $4900. There are quite some taxes that you also have to pay.
Maybe being blunt, but if you're seriously about to be out of house and home because you can't find a job, you need to lower your fence. Aspiring to be a programmer/hacker/startup guy is great, but even a job stacking shelves in a shop would give you enough money to survive on while you continue looking for a job you'd enjoy (Or working on your own projects). Put it this way, living on the street gives you hardly any chance of getting somewhere you want to be. Having a house and a crappy job for a few years while you get back on your feet is a much better choice.
Phew, -5 points already? Some people are edgy around here.

Genuine question: what does this article add that top HN posts haven't covered yet? Is it the simple fact that USAToday-Travel talked about it?
It also says he reads blogs like coding horror. I believe it refers to http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev... (made popular by http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer... )

Fun thing to say on HN... maybe not so good for a conversation with random person trying to hire you ;)
Cool to see this finally get implemented. Thanks Instawallet!
Just moved from Grand Rapids, and can say there is a very small but growing startup scene in Grand Rapids.

Although I didn't get to check it out, there is a great Python User Group that meets regularly (I believe every other Monday) at various locations in GR, usually at Calvin College. Join the group and they'll send out regular updates. Ben Rousch is the contact there, he also runs the local Web Dev User group. I've exchanged emails with him before, he is a great guy and very helpful. It might not hurt to get in touch with him.

More importantly, just recently someone put up a job posting on the group looking for a python/django programmer. I suggest you check it out. http://www.fiveq.com/blog/employment/fiveq-employment-opport...

It might not hurt to drop into Atomic Object, they're growing and usually hiring as well: http://www.atomicobject.com/pages/Working+at+Atomic+Object

If I can be any help to you, perhaps putting you in contact with other people then let me know. My email is listed on my profile page.

Best of luck.
Post author here.

You're right about "smart." There are other minor inaccuracies that other people pointed out. The origin of "fuck" isn't clear. Were the anglo-saxons actually enslaved? (I'd say yes. Serfdom/slavery, what's the differece?) I didn't write this thing like a researcher. I wrote it like a daytime applied linguist with a secret passion for his crazy-ass blog. I'll do a rigorous one if people actually want that.
If the 'supercoin' is only held by the government, and only used to free up enough of its debt to itself to continue on the same fiscal path as a debt-ceiling-change would allow, then it won't be any more hyperinflationary than a debt-ceiling-change.

Now, if instead they gave the $5 trillion coin to Goldman Sachs... :)
I feel like I was in a similar position. My advice is gonna suck, but you should really try to start working at a grocery store/shitty party time jobs/borrow or something to save up about $2000 and flat out move. That will be enough to get you to the bay area, find a job, and live for about a month, maybe even get a room.

If you come to SF, you'll be able to find a job doing something somewhere to get off the ground. I promise you this.
> she chose to do so apparently because AirBNB refused to move on terms that are acceptable to her

There you go again Jacques with your wording that is designed to raise suspicion on the crime victim and her motivations. You pass her personal identity to an investor with a billion dollar reason to silence her, you say she should show proof she was really robbed in the form of photographs on the internet of her personal private home that was already violated, and now you are implying that she went public because she is greedy and is leveraging negative publicity in a negotiation of settlement terms. Yes, you will respond to this that you are not implying any of that and, but that is bullshit. You know exactly what you are doing Jacques, it's quite clear. Jacques, I want an answer for you, what are your financial and professional relationships with YCombinator. That's two questions there.

Putting her on trial and stalking her is disgusting. Your claiming you are not doing it as you are doing it is not fooling anyone. You are a psychopath. Stop what you are doing right now.

You want to know why she went public? BECAUSE AIRBNB DID NOT KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ALLOWED TO ROB HER HOUSE. That is legal negligence on their part, but it also created a situation where she is not safe. Not that she "feels unsafe". This has nothing to do with feelings. She IS unsafe because the people who robbed her apartment stalked her by email, manipulated her, and were still out there at large a month after the crime was discovered. Their stalking was almost but not quite as malicious as you are being right here right now with your public insinuations.
tl;dr Quora will become the next google search because you will have human curation, the query can be more naturally structured, and discovery of related topics all within the same site.

(I do recommend reading the article though, I probably didn't get all the points across properly)
The author is totally unconvincing. Creating tags splits the problem of asking or answering into 2 parts. First, search the space of tags to find the one you need. Second, search the space of questions with that tag. Obviously, its an easier problem if you already know which tags to use but in an extensive taxonomy that won't be true 99% of the time.
How are you going to monetize?

Any chance it goes open source? :)

Good job btw
A collision is a collision. If you are uncomfortable relying on the sender address you should be just as uncomfortable about an attacker taking over your own wallet.
Fake references services already exist. One example: http://www.thereferencestore.com/

It's dishonest, but it is also an example of the market adapting to what is happening. People who need work badly enough may not be too worried about the ethical concerns of using such services.
I don't have any reason to believe he put it on his resume.

As for complexity, FizzBuzz is nothing like Hello World. Hello World only shows that one knows how to make a program compile/interpret and display fixed output. FizzBuzz demonstrates the above, plus an understanding of looping, basic arithmetic operations, and how to create program flow from that. Like it or not, that covers most of the actual coding requirements of probably 90% of jobs out there. It shouldn't be a deciding factor in getting hired, but it's an excellent first step in weeding out those who shouldn't be considered.
Yes, I have sued a client in small claims court. I recommend it because of my experience. I wouldn't have if it hadn't been a case where I was obviously owed the money.

All through the period of trying to collect, I would just wrap myself up in knots over the nonpayment and feel like a rube.

Finally, decided to file the claim which cost me about $60 including having the papers served. Two days later, there was a court date set for mediation.

From then until the night before the court date, I didn't get worked up about it. We spent about three hours in mediation and I wound up getting paid - of course I told the mediator that they could stick their sixty cents on the dollar offer up their ass and I was ready to go to court two and a half hours into it - and I was.

Again, once I filed, I was greatly relieved.

Now, I generally have better contracts and require a retainer which is applied against the final invoice for clients with whom I do not have a long standing relationship or about whom I have concerns over payment.

Good luck.
You seem to be reciting a bunch of talking points from "your side", some of which are clearly false and others of which you couldn't possibly know are true. You have jumped to conclusions beyond that suggested by the data.

When you say you "did research in the past" what you appear to mean is that you googled up a couple of pages from places like SourceWatch and ExxonSecrets and read what the propagandists on your side say about the propagandists on the other side. That's not research. You have to look at both sides to reach valid conclusions.

For instance, you say "There is literally nothing to the entire worldwide "global warming skeptic" movement that is not completely based on and funded by these well-funded and completely unscientific propaganda campaigns."

That is pretty obviously not true. The skeptics who post at, say, http://climateaudit.org are not funded by companies like Exxon or getting any conclusions from them. Steve McIntyre's work (Or Craig Loehle, or...) isn't "completely based on" or at all based on the work of Exxon-Mobile, Mellon/Scaife or, heck, the Illuminati / Trilateral Commission / Church of England. Meanwhile, some of the sources on your side of the issue - advocating climate alarmism - are actually funded by energy interests. For instance, CRU was funded by British Petroleum. ( source: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/about/history/ )

"I found out the people running these propaganda mills, who are by the way total morons"

If you want to say something like that, you need to be specific. What organizations are you calling propaganda mills, who are "the people" you claim are "running them", and what is your evidence that these people are "total morons"? Absent any of that info, you're just making an unfocused and uninformative rant that should be downvoted in favor of comments in which people say things that are actually, well, things. You're accusing several vast vaguely-defined groups of people of having been "COMPLETELY DUPED" - not partly, but completely - by several other vaguely-defined groups of people who are controlled by other vaguely-defined groups of people. And going on to make specific nasty assertions about all these entirely undefined groups. This isn't even information. It's just incoherent rambling.
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