skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
see http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/ - It has the capability to include or exclude sections based on what type of job you are applying for.

It's really a cool library; at one point I was going to build a job site to help people build xml-based resumes using this library.
If your startup sinks or swims dependent on an appearance on the HN front page, I think your problem is more fundamental. HN is a tiny, tiny fraction of the internet; and I know more than one professional developer who's unaware of it.
I am always reminded of a very talented consultant friend whose client had a strong relationship with him. They had a short term (6mo) project and felt it was safer to pay him over 100$ an hour to learn the language than try to find someone off the street with ideal background. Turns out he finished two weeks early.
> so the drawing will actually have happened in both territories?

Or neither, depending on your viewpoint.
If someone commits a crime in the embassy, they should be tried according to the laws of the nation of the embassy. Also, an attack on an embassy is technically an invasion of the land of that nation.
I get what you're saying about recruiters and hiring managers having too narrow a view of what they really need in a candidate.

But let me tell you first hand (I'm trying to hire a PHP developer now), you get lots of truly and objectively bad candidates. People who want to telecommute even though the job clearly says you must be on-site. Or people who submit a resume that does not demonstrate the required skills and do not include a cover letter.

I've found that some University job boards make it way too easy for a student to check off a whole bunch of jobs (or perhaps all the jobs) and apply to them en masse.
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I disagree, I think it/it's is completely comparable. Sure, there's a long history to it, but it has evolved, and there are two reasons why it is comparable.

First, we weren't alive back when "it's" was used this way. Nobody currently alive was. There's no argument of "they're doing it the old way", because it's not even in living memory. As of the current standards, and those of the past 200 years, they are simply doing it the wrong way.

Second, it can't even be argued that they are confused because of the old way. Nobody accidentally writes her's, their's or your's. The reason people write it's is nothing to do with the possesive apostrophe, it's purely because of confusion with the "it is" contraction.
If you haven't read this, please check out Cory Doctorow's story on exactly this point.

First link I could come up with:
http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/pester-power...
<3 it. Reminds me of all the good reads on the multitudes of logical fallacies out on the net:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+logical+fallacies
Micek all but admits that his company has completely stopped writing software. His vague alusions to "improvements" financed by settlement monies already collected not withstanding, he speaks of virtually nothing but IP acquisition and the revenues from it. It's said "From the heart, the mouth speaks," and here it's implications are obvious. Micek's heart is in IP as a revenue model, and thus it will be his primary business plan moving forward, regardless of his assertions to the contrary.

If ever there was a more clear case of the patent system encouraging not increases in innovation, but rather ceasing it, I've not heard it.
I never was comfortable using pushd/popd.

But a few months ago found this.

https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/wiki
There is a lot of discussions about this on Hacker News and generally people who work standing are happy about it.

See eg
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828948

For more http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=sta...
Not really. If Google can't have someone in HR who can at least send back in under 2 weeks a template mail that goes "Thanks, but no thanks", or "Thanks, we're interested, we'll get back to you real soon now", I'd be very disappointed.
I think he's referring to your spelling. ('Tu' vis. 'To')
Indeed, that's the thought that got me to rationalize my disgust for tasting insects when I was living in Thailand.
If I had no problem trying the spicy salad with live shrimps why should I think twice about eating the grilled grasshopers ?

You can even extend this reasoning to most delicacies of the sea, clams and oysters don't look any better.
Yeah, I hate to say it, but as an android user half those symptoms are typical, especially in heavily congested areas, and the other half could be explained with a half-cooked update, which is also typical.
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I tried to do it exclusively at one place. Did not work out as well, but once I got a stool could vary the amount I did, that worked out well.
Thanks for a good point.

Establishing correlation without causation is a minefield, IMO, although each of us may come to different conclusions. Filtering people on the basis of correlation and not the primary attribute is discrimination. I doubt filtering a forum is illegal discrimination, but I’m uneasy about where that might lead me personally if it were my forum.

Giving a ridiculous example, at a certain time in history, correlation might have established that 90% of the people who used AOL to get onto the Internet posted idiotic things. Should all AOL users have been banned from forums? I suspect that many forums would have had a net positive benefit from such a policy, however the 10% false negatives disturb me greatly.

I would morally prefer other mechanisms for filtering the 90% out, preferably mechanisms that directly test user’s propensity to the “post idiotic things.” This is a personal view, and I can accept that others may not agree.

p.s. And then there’s the question of gathering actual data and not anecdotes. The worst way to proceed would be to claim that since we seem to remember that 90% of all idiotic comments contained grammar mistakes, there’s a 90% chance that a comment containing a grammar mistake is idiotic.
No, because time is a consideration. If SBUX jumped on the bandwagon to sponsor it after it became a big hit. Because he could be telling the truth as at the point of the card's creation, it was just a hobby project of his and SBUX knew nothing about it.

The main question is whether he is affiliated with SBUX in any capacity, because that's a statement he made from the start and it's provably true or false.

My guess is that the truth is somewhere in between. That it was a hobby project. But that as Starbucks is a client, he figured getting some goodwill from them through it would be frosting on the cake. He didn't intend to make money directly, but obviously, if it was a success, SBUX's benefits and so does Stark's company, indirectly.

This is his website's traffic on the day of the HN mention:
https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanstark/status/1005925637146624...

The card had been active for more than two weeks previous. My guess is that a project that is intended to be a mass-viral ad would not wait for someone to randomly submit it to HN.
The depressing thing is I can imagine people genuinely making the exact suggestion you made, with no humour at all. Sorry!
To Ray Ozzie: What surprised you the most? 
Ozzie: "How difficult the go-to-market challenges are. I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me, but in both the cases of Notes and Groove, building a market in something that's new can be as, if not more, challenging, than building the technology. We were building some very complex technology, and I thought, since we were developing to what seemed to be a fairly straightforward customer value proposition, going to market would be a lot easier."

from Founders at Work, in the interview with Ray Ozzie (I'm reading the Kindle version, so I don't know that actual "page").
Thank you, I tell everyone how disgusting shrimp and lobster are (they're essentially sea cockroaches!) but they don't seem to mind.
"When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different."

- Bill Austin
True. There's usually a correlation between annoying HR processes and annoying corporate cultures. But not always. Sometimes there's a really cool company that just happens to have a bad entry gate here and there. Usually this is the case at companies that have grown hot more quickly than they can scale up their initial HR systems.

To that point, oftentimes bad HR is really just a scale issue. A company starts getting more resumes than its people can deal with, and so it hires HR drones just to help with the workload. And this continues. Eventually, the managers are so far removed from the day-to-day HR filter that they don't really notice how bad it's become.
kindle user here. started out by downloading a handful of books from torrent. after seeing how poorly formatted some were, i started buying books from the kindle store. after the third or fourth book i bought, i realized amazon doesn't do any better a job than the pirates do.

as long as you download single books and not packs of .doc files, the formatting is probably better on pirated books in my experience.
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I think it's not about depending on HN for your startup's success, I think it's about creating a greater avenue of exposure for those who have invested months (sometimes longer) of their time into building a product ...
If he didn't apply for any jobs he would be mostly completely out of the loop as far as the world of working for someone else goes. If he had or wanted to get a job at some point, the knowledge of current practices would help a lot compared to never having interviewed in years.
Ah. Thanks. I thought I was losing my mind!
> Black Hat Independent security consultant Stefan Esser...

Is it correct to be calling him "black hat"?
Hi HN, we're unfunded, unpaid, and just getting started. This was the first thing we built, so we're looking to get feedback. Here's the exec. summary: we created an Arduino derivative with a couple unique features: Bluetooth, IrDA, SD Card, servo ports, custom case, and we pulled all the other pins out to standard telco RJ jacks so you can quickly plug in a variety of sensors / controls.

We built software that allows you to FOTA the device via Bluetooth using an Android device or using desktop software (Win/Mac/Linux). Finally, we built an App Store that can house pre-built firmwares and user interface widgets, so you can download the firmware, FOTA it onto the device, and interact with it via the UI on your phone or computer.

It is all open hardware/software. We'd love to get your feedback.
This sounds awesome! Review my startup type posts are often the most interesting on HN.
Can you wear tenis shoes all the time? I know part of the issue with my old desk was it was required I look nice for some meetings (and wore "nice" shoes with wooden heels) or sandals because the room had a stupid cooling system (and the dev area was almost 80F).

Both of those cut down on the time I could handle standing.
Pointless article about user error.
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I'm generally willing to give someone a pass for repeatedly emphasizing that their statements/projects/opinions are not in any way affiliated with their employer. I don't often make statements tangentially related to my work, but when I do I try to be as clear as possible that I am just a dude and not a spokesman, and beg people not to blow my statements out of proportion and get me fired.

On the other hand, this man appears to be a marketer, so I assume that he has plenty of opportunities to try out his marketing ideas at work, and doesn't do them as a side project. I think the biggest question I have isn't "did he do this on his own time, or during his 9-to-5?", but "were 'real' people putting money on the card, or did the Starbucks marketing department just refill it when necessary?" As long as it was real people putting the money in and taking the money out, it's still an interesting social experiment, even if it was crafted as a marketing campaign.
English as a second language is not an explanation for the "your/you're" errors which are generally sheer ignorance.

Ignorance and IQ are certainly different. But IQ is generally measuring "problem solving ability", and when to use a contraction is a problem. If one is very clever, one tends to have that particular problem solved. But, whether the misuse is from inability to solve the problem, or a choice to not solve the problem ("can't be bothered"), either of those is a reasonable predictor of job performance, health, and various other life outcomes.

On "Einstein was notorious as a poor speller" – after moving to the US, Einstein became completely bilingual but could never recall how to spell words correctly in both German and English. This is not the same issue as when to use a contraction, and isn't the same as "not bothering".

The ESL student learns, understands the theory of, and tends to be careful with contractions. ESL errors look and sound quite different than most of these errors encountered online.

The illiterate "I'm too cool for your TL;DR grammar-nazi wall-of-text" types have failed to prime they're Baysian neural networks by reading or doing homework, and generally have no idea their "doing it wrong".
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I'm sorry, but I do believe that the size of your top 3 is in fact... 4 :)

(I really rate SOTC, but never really got on with Ico. Not the same game at all!)
Some software developers are much too smart for that cage only.

A large percentage of the population here falls in that category, but we aren't representative of the industry as a whole. What do you think a Blub programmer actually is?
Except the people who create those captchas will, by Murphy's Law or similar, be precisely the people most opposed to split infinitives, ending sentences with prepositions, and other matters of usage that are objectively correct grammatically but are historically declasse (and is leaving out the acute accents in that word a misspelling in English?).
Thanks for the correction. I should've caught that..

You just triggered an image of my first english teacher. 'To be plus adjective, adjective plus noun, verb plus adverb' was her favorite. ;)
I get what you're saying, but I really don't think it's fair to ask people to do work on their own time -- for free -- in order to be considered for a job.

Most recently I asked a candidate to work a few hours on a real project for a fair hourly rate. I think this is much better for all involved. As a bonus, you get to see how they perform on a real project, rather than a contrived puzzle and they get to see what sort of work they might be doing if hired.
I am a non-native speaker, and to me it looks like the second captcha is wrong.

According to what they've taught me, it should be "Do you know _____ are we going?" instead of the proposed "Do you know _____ we are going?", shouldn't it (notice the "we are/are we" swapping)?
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Depends on the book! A lot of my Chuck Palahniuk pirated books were so poorly formatted that I just decided to buy the damned thing after viewing how good the sample was.
Get an HDTV antenna. Fox and CBS broadcast most of the NFL games and they do so in HD, OTA for free. ABC buys you college football.

March Madness was streamed online this last go. Add CBS from above.

Get an internet provider that grants you ESPN 360 and you get most college football and half the NBA playoffs. I'm sure TNT will come around at some point for the other half. There is always a night out with friends.
It's a Facebook note. Only his friends can leave comments.
Map of London showing deprivation index and where riots took place
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Thanks very much - I didn't know that banks did that (I'm pretty sure the ones I'm with in the UK don't), but that does sound pretty useful - I'll look into it.
As I keep telling people, 'Safe Haskell' is not as generally useful as they think it is. Mueval (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mueval) has to do a lot more than just be careful with its imports before it can safely run arbitrary untrusted code.
"Show HN:" is exactly for this purpose.

If people care or show interest, they will interact with your post, if they don't... :)

ps: we are all in the same boat
In the middle-class riots, I mean students, May Day, etc, the idea of rioting as a pastime was established, you could smash in a McDonalds, say it was "political" and pretty much get away Scot free. Those people, who were only really doing for the lulz, hated being kettled, so they had the practice banned. But was OK to smash up the centre of town then retire to the safety of gentrified Stoke Newington.

Now those same middle class people are crying out for the police to protect them - and the one police tactic that's effective in quelling a riot they can't use! That's irony.
Not to nitpick, but anyone in the iOS developer program can do just that - compile and run their own binaries.

Alternately, jailbreak.

It's not like it's impossible (or even expensive).
I'm a German and I wonder if the word "right-wing" is understood in the same way by US Americans as it is understood by us. Because of our past, we treat everything coming from the "right" as being totally wrong and stupid (which might be good or not). But I think in other countries, with another historical background, right-wing might mean just conservative, not skinhead racist. As far as I know, right-wing in China is even the cool new thing, that young people follow (because it is against the depressing government, which many young Chinese don't like at all). Tell me about how you understand "right-wing" in non-German countries, please!
Anchor's blog is worth subscribing to if you're a sysadmin. The technical content is good, and they can be merciless yet amusing when writing about software that fail to meet their standards of good taste (see http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/tag/fail/).
>Do you have any thoughts on using Crystal Light to make water taste less terrible?

I suggest tea. Herbal for when you don't want caffeine.
Don't you think it's ironic then that you misspelled "suitable"?
Er, HN already does limit access via arbitrarily-chosen tests of user quality. They just chose different tests. :)

I don't think it'd be a 100% bad idea to implement some sort of knowledge-based testing, wire it up to varying levels of initial access/privs on a site, and see what happens, as an experiment. User privs could then evolve once the user had actually posted or commented or rated things.
You raise an interesting point. Would an applicant with "zero" commercial experience (which i take as "not being previously employed in a similar role") but open source projects in Python under his belt qualify as suitable for this role?
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From the comments:

I am a human resources manager, and I like to call people in for interview.

We do not have any openings but I just like to call them, give them 1-2 tests, make them sweat, then never call them again.

It is more fun than going at the interview, you should give it a shot. :)
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He's a professional race "victim", without stirring up racial tension, he loses his soapbox and his income.

If you look at the footage and photos of the rioters, they come in all shades.
It's suitable, not suitible - normally I wouldn't be so pedantic, but in a thread around the idea of people having to prove they know meanings/spellings/etc, it seems apropriate.
Ask HN: Is there a "SaaS-as"? Heroku for SaaS?
I like writing apps but the overhead of setting up all the parts to support them is a pain. (ex. landing page, newsletter sign up, recurring payments, blog, knowledge base, etc). It would be nice to have a hosted platform for getting a company up and going.

So it'd be: Unbounce + Themeforest + Wordpress + Recurly + WooForms + Zen Desk + ???

Anything like this exist? Ideally it would use API from these services and have bundled deals in place. Skinnable so you can use your own branding.

If not, would anyone use such a service?
I pick OSX over Linux because why can't my dev box also be my everyday box? I have access to all the GNU/open source dev tools I need on OSX, so why give up Photoshop, Office, iTunes, etc just to say I'm using Linux? I have a dedicated Windows machine and at the end of the day, I'm still using Windows in Parallels over a dedicated Windows box.
> Probably because there is no money in salsa

The guy behind SalsaCrazy makes seven figures. And he (according to my sources) is not a good social dancer.

The economics of Salsa are driven by the race to the bottom when someone starts giving away classes for free. Most salsa dancers don't drink that much so expecting the bar or club to earn significant revenue from dancers is not that possible (but it depends on whether you are attracting the girls' night out crowd or the serious dancers).

The real money is made in the wedding dance preparation market. It really plays to the competitive landscape of showing off and SYTYCD. The recession has hurt the market some but most upwardly mobile couples will drop $2k for a package of twenty private lessons aimed to get them to the very important first dance as a married couple with style, confidence, and choreographed moves.

That is the secret of dance studios. Wedding couples are their fat cow.

To make money off a salsa conference is an impressive accomplishment.
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I'm disappointed - I think your idea is brilliant (although I wouldn't go with those examples)
Pretty ironic, yeah. Though I'm generally terrible with misspellings, because once I've thought of what to write my mind drifts off, I usually gaze out of the window, and my hands often follow their muscle memories rather than what I want to type. So in fact, I actually often type their/there wrong, although any time I do I catch it as soon as I've done it.
true, but wouldn't it be great to have a tab for those entries ? :)
As is often the case with these "I'm so smart and other people aren't" posts, the author makes what I bet is an unintended mistake. I assume they want each option to have only one solution. The last example ("It is poor form to ____ you temper in a discussion group"), either option (lose or loose) works. The verb form of 'loose' means 'to set free', and temper has come to mean an agitated state of mind. So you can say, "It is poor form to lose (be deprived of) your temper (calm state of mind) in a discussion group."

But you can also say, "It is poor form to loose (let free from restraint) your temper (agitated state of mind) in a discussion group."
Maybe we'll have to figure out a standard tag to use for review?
A part of this phenomenon, is that those of middle age or greater miss the days when there was good quality control over widely published text.

The Internet has democratized widely published writing. There is no quality control over comments, except through communities. At the same time, there are large populations who place are undereducated and place little value on education, while they do prize the ability to get a rise out of others.

An unfortunate consequence of this: reading more used to make me feel smarter and I'd sound more literate. Nowadays, through reading reading I tend to absorb things like "loose" for "lose" and other atrocious sounding quirks.

There is a clear market for quality text, and there is power in being the provider of it.
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Also ironic that the grandparent used a hyphen instead of the proper em dash. (- vs. —)