skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do lie on my resume. I write that I have a master in engineering which is also true except for never doing the thesis. At the interview I tell the interviewer straight up as the first thing that I lied and don't have a formal degree but it was a necessity to get the interview in the first place. I then tell them that I completely understand if they want to turn me away and I apologize.

I have never been turned away. No one have ever really questioned why. I am very skilled at what I do and the rest of my resume reflects that. I am far better than most people I met who program with or without a degree in my field.

Never having finish my degree makes this a necessary evil for me - I wish I could go back (life at this point does not allow me to).

However I feel no remorse for lying and frankly it's the loss of the company if they assess my entire character based on this.
"I think most people understand that shares in tech startup IPOs are a fairly high risk business."

That's not clear ...

Forget about the multitude of analysts who were way off the mark (Lou Kerner, for example, called for $200B Facebook) for a moment. Representative Fattah, congressman from PA, did an interview with CNBC and clearly didn't recognize the risks of Facebook.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000090703&play=1
You actually need some one to convince you to pay what you owe? Terrible. I wouldn't want to employ some one like you.
You're right. Or actually we're both wrong. Coal is not renewable either, so replacing nuclear with coal megawatt-per-megawatt is going to keep the number at present levels.

However, greenhouse gases and other nasty emissions will go up if you start burning coal instead of splitting atoms. I will not open the can of worms about nuclear waste vs. greenhouse gases.
Because we don't understand to use CO2 as fertilizer. We could easily make our deserts green,we could easily have more fish in our oceans, but then we had more conflicts about the resources.

And psshht, coal plants release much more nuclear material than nuclear plants ..
If knowing how to type "yum install ruby-devel" qualifies as "deep Ruby knowledge", I must be some kind of god.
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If you have set your character around being okay with lying, that's not cool to me.

Obligatory Dilbert cartoon: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...
I agree. In fact I held off for a long time just b/c the pricing is so...stupid.

They have three different plans combining web, smartphone, and tablets. All priced by the week, charged by the month.

Then a totally standalone Kindle plan. I don't even know what the plans are for Nook, Sony Reader, or Kobo Reader (all mentioned on their digital subscription page without pricing).

Ugh. If I think about this any more I'll be forced to cancel my Kindle subscription.
It looks to me like it's still crumbled and creased from being packed up tightly.
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if your personal cook doesn't want to cook how you tell him to, he can leave.

Great retention strategy there, Chief.

Try telling professional, well-established cook how to hold a pairing knife -- when you can barely make scrambled eggs yourself -- and see what happens.
Plugging sensors and actuators into the Raspberry Pi and using them from a Python script in its Linux distribution is potentially easier and way cheaper than on any standard PC I know about. It has I2C and SPI ports that are easy to reach. It still needs some work though, but mostly software.
https://github.com/lesjames/Breakpoint
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Those "pension funds and other last-sucker-in-line investors" are to blame for not doing good diligence.

FB, Zinga, etc. cannot be accused of not leaving money on the table.

Updated: The OP did not accuse anyone, it's just my feeling toward those IPO. Big funds, with high management fees are to blame!
I've interviewed (either on-site or phone-screen) ~110 new grads over the past 6 years, for a company that theoretically gets the best of the best (though in practice, it turns out more like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXRi28W-ENY).

I'd agree with the BS part. The best BS students can write programs that accomplish the goal they want to accomplish, but aren't "good" at it.

The MS students are hit and miss,in the sense that most (let's say 70%?) are not significantly better than the BS programmers at programming, though they are often have better at algorithm understanding.

However, there are some MS students who are really good at programming. I don't know why there is such a stark difference from the BS folks, who are uniformly bad, but it does exist.
That's you. Lots of people pumped Facebook and got in expecting an IPO pop. For example, even the bearish analysts believed in the pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Twxv1V50s

Short conversation on the matter: http://cl.ly/image/0K2D072E1T0w182K0L0o
Most of the mainstream tech companies that the other students are going after don't ask for GPA. The only company who did go out of their way to ask for it is Google. I don't list my GPA on my resume at all, and it's worked out pretty well (as long as you can fill the space with side projects or other experiences). I tend to apply solely to those companies and startups, so I definitely can't say anything about the whole field.

Just one anecdotal data point for you.
I've played Anno 2070. It's been removed from my list.
But you have to grow that biomass first. After you did that, you can let is decompose (bad) or burn it (less bad), but you could just skip growing it entirely.
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> I was hoping Google would adopt Mozilla's Opus codec for audio,

Is Opus Mozilla's codec? I didn't know that. I thought it was Xiph's with an effort to create an IETF draft for it.

Isn't it closer now to "Microsoft's codec" since it uses SILK (Skype's codec) for speech mode. Last time I looked at it I thought it was Xiph's codec with an effort do create an IETF standard...
Because, amazingly enough, a BS, MS and PhD Comp Sci degree isn't to teach you how to program.
The average programmer is a bad programmer, so that doesn't really say much.
How come this doesn't have more points / comments?, this is super awesome...
Agreed - I'd be pretty upset.

Alternately, they could take (free) signups for beta slots. Once your number comes up (i.e. when they provision enough machines to support the next batch of users), you hand over cash and get access.
According to the CIA World Factbook, Germany consumed 545 billion kWh of electrical energy in 2008. 67.9 billion kWh is only 12.5% of that. I suppose they import a lot of their electrical energy? Also, electrical energy consumption is only a small fraction of total energy consumption (about 4 trillion kWh for Germany in 2007 according to Wikipedia.).
> some $40 billion has been extracted from pension funds and other last-sucker-in-line investors

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would only be true if everyone in all the companies had sold all their shares.

I don't know what percentage of shares in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon became publicly availably post-IPO, but does Zuckerberg's continued stake in Facebook make him a "last-sucker-in-line" as well? I doubt it.
Each of these are different / unique cases. Perhaps only Facebook actually fits the 37 Signals narrative (that of a company overvalued because people were too optimistic about potential). Zynga and Groupon both had great revenues and from that perspective were deserving of their valuations. However Zynga is losing customers because they didn't innovate in their space and Groupon's financials were misleading in the first place.
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We had recruiters do this to us. We clearly told those recruiters that if we catch them at it again, we'll stop using them.

They stopped.

It's not 'no risk' for them, but only if they company calls them on it. If more companies put their foot down, this problem would largely disappear.
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...or quote more money for putting up with his childishness.

Basically, yeah, that's usually how I end up handling these situations when quitting seems less than convenient.
You're right. Nuclear fuel is most definitely not renewable.
Just throwing in some personal anecdote here. (Disclaimer: I've only had four or five experiences with the subject.)

I've always wanted to test if dropping acid affects my problem-solving abilities in any way but I still haven't done so. As soon as the effect begins, I stop being fascinated by computers at all. Living things and music are so much more interesting to watch and interact with.

Perhaps this doesn't hold true for abstract or deep problems. I remember feeling aversion to Django, jQuery and the ugly (as in 'practical') mix of technologies that the modern web stack is.

I think this has to do with a more sensitive perception of beauty and 'purity'. Perhaps thinking of solving more abstract problems using higher-order techniques in LISP, Clojure or Haskell would've been a more pleasurable and rewarding experience. I'm normally turned on by sexy UI and not so much by algorithms, but at least I learned firsthand you don't want to work on your webapp under acid, it's just not fun.

I also had a somewhat negative experience with using GUI. It was very painful to use YouTube because it is packed with things you don't want to see. Normally, your eye ignores anything but what you focus on, but LSD seems to remove this filter so you actually have to experience everything: ads, unpleasant people in related videos. Google Suggest is especially maddening because it gives you ten things you don't want, and you can't just ignore it.

I also recall it being very difficult to make money transactions (i.e. buy some tea at the shop). Money and numbers seem very arbitrary and it's hard to focus on them.
Germany's not a great place for solar energy in terms of annual sunlight. It's just putting a lot more resources into it than countries that are better situated, and has set up a working system of feed-in tariffs to incentivize small private installations.

Here's a map of solar energy potential in Europe: http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis/cmaps/eu_opt/pvgis_Europe-s...

If Europe had a more integrated economy and power grid, the more efficient thing to do would be to take those same PV panels and put them somewhere further south. But that would take significant changes, so for now, the resources get put into the geography that happens to be at hand.
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Its quite difficult for anyone who is newish to linux to do an RVM installation using the provided instructions: https://rvm.io/rvm/install/ - the instructions are not very clear. They also recommend reading the installation script, which is long and scary:
"I recommend you read the installation script yourself. This will give you a chance to understand what it is doing before installing, and allow you to feel more comfortable running it if you do so." ...
https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/blob/master/binscripts/r...
RIM owned mobile, Apple was derided when arriving late into a non-sequitur field, and Google - how did an ad-targeting search engine become a major OS competitor?

We've seen amazing churn in tech of late. If MS has been paying attention, they could pull it off. (Then again, there's Zune and Kin.)
Yes, I did also hear about overly-generous power buy-back policies, but that was mostly for Canada.
My school has a one page policy document in acceptable ways to format the significant figures (up to 4) and rounding (down only). Violations can lead to excommunication from career services office.
Yup! Of course! Used a smaller one for reduced complexity right now.
The concept is called High Penetration Solar and there are many challenges. Check out the group of links at the bottom of this page:

https://solarhighpen.energy.gov/topics
Hydroelectric power is not very environmentally friendly either. Like the giant dams of China that destroy the whole ecosystem near the power plant.
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ASCIIPoint: PowerPoint-style presentations for the terminal
Oh, there are plenty of other options on the table, my friend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitdown_strike
Germany's solar insolation is actually not good at all.. See maps here: http://www.soda-is.com/eng/map/maps_for_free.html

They actually get about the same amount of sun as northern Canada. Which makes their commitment to solar and other renewable energy even more impressive. If solar can work in Germany, it can work anywhere.

Here is a pretty good article from earlier this year: http://greenmien.knowledgemosaic.com/2012/01/11/germany-puts...
Nope, you're still wrong. What will go up is emissions, as nuclear is replaced with coal. However the percentage of renewables will continue to rise, as new wind and solar is installed. It's just a bit curious that for a while, at least, emissions and renewables percentage will both be rising simultaneously.
> WebRTC is likely to increase Skype's business (assuming the do a WebRTC implementation),

How so? Are their servers for sale and somehow they can license them so web clients can conference via them. Otherwise I don't get. Or are you assuming they will buckle and would be forced to implement the WebRTC protocol.
Why No One Will Watch Your Crappy Corporate "Viral" Video, And How To Fix It
What is the best way to get a affordable explanatory video?
We have launched our startup website http://www.guchex.com and we are not getting a good conversion rate, since we do not have a video, so i understand that most of people don`t even know how our site will work, than i`m looking to produce an explanatory video. But our budget is limited and companys like Epipheo are very expensive.
Isn't Germany like a good country for solar?

Looking at this map, is does not appear so: http://www.alternative-energy-resources.net/solarenergydisad...
Doesn't work for me in either IE or Chrome, and I have AssCreed II, AssBro, AssRev, and Forgotten Sands all installed. There is also no uPlay plugin to be found in either browser. I suspect this only applies to certain versions of uPlay; whether newer or older than the version I have installed, I have no idea.
I never felt like you were shoving it in my face. But, good to know you've still got the paid version.

Small bug report - When I connected my Google Reader account, the progress wheel in the popup window kept spinning indefinitely. If it didn't look so funky, I would have got bored sooner. Anyway, it imported my feeds fine when I reloaded the site, but I thought I should let you know about the glitch.
Gotcha, thanks. Yeah, I've heard a lot about a 7" iPad. Just didn't think it had been confirmed enough to be so concretely stated.
Not having a migration planned for the near future is reckless.

I'd argue that doing both a Rails 2 -> 3 upgrade at the same time as a Ruby 1.8.7 -> 1.9 upgrade is more reckless. I do agree that it would need to happen damn soon, though, but not concurrently.
The obvious problem with this is that the user has to trust passwd.io. Even upon auditing the website's code, it could change the next time the page is accessed. Not only does the user have to trust passwd.io, they have to trust that passwd.io doesn't get hacked. This is a fundamental problem with a web-based solution.
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A little background: I'd been throwing this idea around in my head for a while, and finally had some free time between two quarters of school, and decided to make the site. I spent several days over the break laying out the backend for the site, and starting coding, and then the next few weekends finishing it up (and I've been making small changes since then).

Where I got the idea: I originally got the idea when trying to look up coupons for some pizza places, and having a lot of trouble finding any that worked at my store since they were all regional, or weekly codes, so I just manually tried codes until one worked.

The site is a bit limited at this point in time, as it only contains one site, but I made the backend flexible enough that adding more sites shouldn't be too difficult.

How it works: I have a python script running on my server that watches a database, looking for new coupons that need to be added, and updates codes every day. It stores which codes work at which stores in a database that is used by the site to display working codes for each store.

I know that this site may not be the most interesting thing ever to everyone here, but I learned a ton about php, mysql, and web crawling with Python in the process of making it, and would love to hear your thoughts on the site.

Link: http://abiteofpizza.com
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First off congrats to the Newsblur guys. I am a big fan. One thing that I would really like to see is some sort of sharing feature akin to Google Reader's old "shared items".
Convenience: The third essential of a customer-centric business
To most people "free" = I don't have to pay anything.

Nothing is at zero cost really ... if you have to click a link to download something that "costs" you your time, which is inherently worth something.

I think in this context "free" isn't deceptive at all.
Why not be honest and have your resume say you did masters coursework? That worked for me.
The intended lesson is restated at the end, in case you missed it:

Or we could...start valuing stocks based on fundamentals.

Valuing stocks on putative future profits based on users, or on comparative values based on other inflated stocks, or based on the price someone paid for some fraction of their shares last week, is not really a solid way to try to calculate value for investors. It's a difficult problem and no-one can claim to have a definitive solution, but the methods used to value Instagram, FaceBook, Groupon, etc do not stand up to a lot of scrutiny.

Of course you could argue that it's too soon after an IPO to judge the possible profits of FaceBook (for example) and the right price for them, but given the current valuation of FaceBook ($44B?) and their current revenue and profits vs users, I'd say they have farther to fall, esp. when employees start to sell shares soon.
Kickstarter project Brydge, new hinge design
Curious to know what others think if this radical new design. Personally I don't like it, the jingle 'wave' was very much of the appeal of the original design I backed.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-usflag.html

"Armstrong and Aldrin reported few problems with the deployment. They had trouble extending the horizontal telescoping rod and could not pull it all the way out. This gave the flag a bit of a "ripple effect," and later crews intentionally left the rod partially retracted."
There is no circular reasoning as your entire premise is flawed. Schedule 1 substances are defined as having no currently accepted medical use, but this does not preclude the ability to test for medical use going forward.
Let's think about this for a minute. Most students earning their BS are around 20-22. Were very good at programming when you were ~21 with little to no experience? This is why entry level positions need to really be entry level. You're going to have to find the ones that are really motivated and bring them into an environment that promotes mentoring. If you're lucky, then in 2-3 years you have someone that can program your socks off.
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In terms of production, Norway has over 99%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway
You bet, that's what we just launched. Here's my blurblog: http://samuel.newsblur.com. You can share directly from a blurblog or in the Feed view on NewsBlur. We're working to make that more visible in some new designs we have coming soon.
How long does it take super-trader John Paulson to earn your annual income?
I built a scrolling text display that shows me the latest tweets from the @verge account, live using WiFi.

Completely wireless and uses a Heroku backend to get the tweets from the Twitter API. Built on the Arduino platform and parts from Sparkfun.

I have open-sourced all the code for the Arduino as well as the Node.js application on the link in the video info.

Let me know what you think!
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Maybe 20% have been sold, also not all that "pension funds and other last-sucker-in-line" will have bought on the all time high. The real number is arguably way lower

But forgive DHH, it is hard to get the numbers right when you are in rage mode about Twitters IPO.
Agreed and there is plenty of blame to go around and anyone who buys an IPO has to assume a certain risk. Unfortunately for us the fact remains that when the top of the eco-system starts to look shaky it can have reverberations all the way down the line. We should not under-estimate the impact of this.
Yes, that's true. I've thought about that a lot. Maybe the solution is something like a third party monitoring the client side code or something.
I was working on a (now-shuttered) startup in this space. Almost universally people's favorite feature was seeing the live website. I had also built in a reading queue into the application, the idea being that you could do inbox-zero with your feeds if you could process them extremely fast.

I talked to a bunch of largely non-technical RSS power users and discovered that the people who really use RSS readers are subscribed to 1500+ feeds and barely scratch the surface of reading everything in them.

It was really disheartening to discover my fundamental premise was wrong, and at the same time my now-cofounder contacted me with a great idea with a clearly underserved market so I abandoned the solo effort for that.

I think there's a ton of room for innovation in the media reader space, so I wish NewsBlur luck!
This is a typical anti-finance rant, with no substence. The only thing that would have made it worse would be a blantently political statement any of the parties.

So between just these three, some $40 billion has been extracted from pension funds and other last-sucker-in-line investors. While, in the process, soured many on the idea of the public markets and enriched investment bankers hawking the toxic stocks. Hey, at least someone got out while the going was good.

Net out what VCs got which also goes to pension funds before calculating the $40B. Don't mention investment bankers while not also mentioning founders who sold shares and took a far greater percentage of the IPO cash.
The app is iOS 5.1 only right now, a new version which supports 4.2 was submitted last week to apple
But a couple of us felt he exaggerated aspects of his resume by sprinkling in a couple of bullet points he knew we were interested in (from the posting) but didn't understand well...and ironically much easier to catch

Right. If you exaggerate on a skill the company is interested in, the chances of being caught out are nearly 100%.

If anything, catching such a mistake says something about that candidates intelligence :-)
for a more minimal approach, I prefer Openbox (I use it with Crunchbang on my laptop)
Such a distinction does not exist in my country. If it did I'm not sure recruiters would know the difference anyway - but I will try it out.

How do you phrase it?
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