skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way it's worded, no public school can be a top-tier school, and since he says the value of "top tier" is the (four or more years ago) application process, there's a certain logic to that. A HS student in Texas will have a much easier time getting into UT than Stanford.

However, my experience (as a holder of a degree from a further-down-the-list university) has been that after the first job (and then even moreso after the second), the name of your undergrad university matters much less. Having real, productive work experience is itself a powerful signal—so hopefully those first jobs let you do interesting or varied enough stuff to have something good for the resume. So I don't have the network (yet!) that a Stanford or MIT grad would, but I'm not landing on discard piles either.
Thanks, that's a good way of looking at it. Nowadays, I have so much pent-up anger and rage at these types of people after coming to terms with all the years of being manipulated by them. They must sense it, because they tend to shut up when I glare at them.
> I'm not defending his disapproval of PG's response.

Whenever you see a sentence like this on an online forum, you know the conversation has gone off the rails.
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we are focused on mobility, field force solutions. for this you need offline capable apps. always online is still a pipe dream and will be for quite some time.
I agree: a good graduate school can offer a good undergraduate education if you want it to. The ambition to get a good education when it's available (but not necessary) is highly desirable, no?
great! you actually solved a problem which others did not and you're a winner.
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I'm not sure that stating an observation that a certain tendency "seems to be" more common among a particular subgroup really counts as discrimination.
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The ARM Chromebook costs less than x86 Chromebooks while offering more-or-less the same user experience and it's much more popular in sales, according to Amazon.

So, Intel is/was a part of the problem at least for Chromebooks. (I don't know anything about Google TV)
I don't know if building cheap housing really solves any problems however. C.f., the famous housing "projects" in Chicago. You can replace those with any low-income housing project anywhere in the world and see the same effects. You might put roofs over people's heads but you create a new set of problems by throwing all of those marginally functional people together. I imagine increasing population density would just amplify those problems.

This building is supposed to have a mix of low and high income housing (how does that work?) as well as schools and other social services. Given that space in China is not at a premium I don't think you can call this anything but a social experiment. Maybe if it works they can export it to HK where it might actually be useful. (Though it does conjure images of a sort of neo-Walled City.)

Given that this type of construction produces boring, utilitarian space I don't understand why they're not using it for offices. I imagine this would be much more tolerable as office space and the footprint / usable space ratio would make sense for commercial districts.
If you take another look at my original post, my point was that I still can't articulate why this is such a huge pain. If it helps to put it in perspective, I abandoned a Nanoengineering phd doing promising work in medical diagnostics because our rating system solves an incredibly painful problem for me and I'm convinced it's a more important contribution to the world.

To make a (hopefully apt) comparison, what pain point did twitter initially solve? Sharing what you had for lunch?
Hmm, it's virtually identical to http://google.com/trends/explore#q=myspace. Winner take all?
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Not exactly what you are describing, but not too far off and probably can be used for the purposes you describe: Open Invention Network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network
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...please? it just makes zero sense downloading these files one by one, such is the state of the internet. whoever is benefiting from this, please allow me to just send you a few bucks for not going through this awfulness...
No idea why this would be downvoted except for the fact that Patrick Can Do No Wrong. He's wildly opinionated, questionably successful before his sudden consultancy (he wrote a mildly successful Bingo card program in Java), and self-satisfied beyond measure.
This comment gave me a slight giggle, which is good as I'm just about to start my day.

It has largely gone off topic, which is also, largely my fault and it's a shame that the original topic has been overshadowed by this instead of actual useful responses for the original poster which wasn't in any way my intention.
And so much at Yahoo has actually changed since Ms. Marissa took the reins.

Oh, wait.
I call B.S. on this
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Thanks Patrick for this piece. Very helpful. A question. What do you suggest if I visit some online site/system, find some weakness or area of improvements and contact the owner and tell how it can be improved? Will it work?
I'm hoping one day to find an explanation of what music really is; why do certain patterns of sounds appeal to us; why do we share a sense of melody, harmony, rhythm.

Ideally, this explanation would ignore centuries of historical cruft, starting instead from the physical and physiological basics, and making full use of the infinitely malleable sound generators we all own.
If you try to assume something like that is trivial when I accidentaly spawn over 400,000 or more python processes by accidentaly in a spawning loop (guess why I couldn't count them?), you are gonna get a big shock.
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The cost of switching from Google Search to Bing Search (or whatever) is typing in a different address in the address bar[1]. The cost of replacing your multi-million dollar CRM solution is, obviously, millions of dollars.

[1] ok, not really, but you get the idea.
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The resume review process isn't intended to find the single best candidate. It's intended to whittle a big pile of resumes down to one that can be reasonably covered by the next stage of the process. Coming from public listings, the pile of resumes is enormous, and most of them are utter garbage. There may be thousands of resumes where the goal is to find a couple dozen candidates. At some point, the only way to do this is to apply really broad filters: "Went to Stanford, MIT, CMU...", "Worked at MS, Google, FB, Apple...", "Proficient in Scala, MongoDB".

I didn't really appreciate this until I was on the other side of the massive pile-o-resumes, but it's really the only option.

I hate saying this, because I generally believe that "problems solved" are far more indicative of success than any specific school, company, or technology. I have at times used a resume that doesn't do the whole buzzword-bingo game with very limited success - It basically never got pulled from a big pile-of-resumes unless I had a friend on the inside, or was applying to a job on my school's job board (where clearly everyone passed this "filter").
Of course you do, otherwise I wouldn't be frustrated. =P
Because it's mean spirited and adds nothing of value to the conversation. Your comment is similar; your dislike of Patrick is based entirely on who he is and doesn't bother to engage with the content of the essay at all.
He gave an answer when he was under no obligation to do so.

Anybody that is monitoring the effect of their submissions and is asking what went wrong is asking about potentially dangerous information. HN is a pretty fine balancing act, it would not take much to wreck it and the secret sauce serves us all well.
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Thanks for listening. I debated using the TE example beforehand, I am ashamed to say that I gave that speech knowing he wasn't the real inventor. I needed to connect to my audience, this was in another country and TE is one of the few inventors on their knowing.
OK, I can understand never including a leap of an augmented fourth in a single voice. That's just cruel to your singers. But an augmented second? As in a minor third? As in the first two notes of Greensleeves? or Misty? Whyever not?
I don't think Yahoo is going anywhere.

No amount of celebrity CEO newspaper pieces will change the fact that Yahoo's has:
- no valuable proprietary technology
- no network effects with users
- no supply chain or scale/cost advantages; and
- a brand which is of waning value.

I'm still not sure why they sold their stake in Alibaba Group. In addition to Alibaba itself, the company has some great Chinese e-commerce assets in the form of Taobao and Tmall, and Yahoo could have been a great partner for a westward expansion. Maybe I'm being too ambitious here but I think that was probably the clearest shot they had at doing something which was sustainably profitable. Probably already out of Marissa's hands by the time she took over though.
So the Daemon has started its darknet. However unlike the book version, this one wants to enslave instead of setting us free.
The more impressive headline will be "World's tallest skyscraper constructed in just 90 days." The Burj Khalifa took five and a half years to complete. Even completing this new building in twice the predicted time will be remarkable.
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I think some of the things that could help are:

* A very straightforward exit strategy: make it easy for users to at least extract their mail from your service, if they host it on your servers, and want to have an offline backup.

* Offer an option to license for self-hosting: hosting their own email could take away their fear of uncontrollable downtime.
> At least you found the line for cant see when someone's being facetious

You are a fucking asshole.

Ha, ha. Just kidding. You just don't get my flippant sense of humor.

Sorry. This doesn't work for me. Being facetious is different from being a jerk.
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None of us are under any obligation to give a response or answer a question put to us on this site, but the fact of the matter is that we choose to.

The key point I've taken away from this is that everyone says that the websites monitoring software is secret and details can't be given, etc. but in this case it is people who are not privy to this knowledge in the same way that PG is.

Simply put, he saw the post, he responded, yet other people have had to give the tangible and useful responses when it could have easily been subverted by PG spending a little more time to explain his comment.

If he had the time to come on HN, look at the graph presented to him, come to a conclusion and comment upon it, he must have understood much more than he gave away and an expansion upon his first statement would have been useful, for instance: "Your submission set off the voting ring detector, it believed that ... and this caused it to trigger and lower your submissions ranking on the site." would have been an order of magnitude more effective. Even if it was only one short paragraph, it would have been better.
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That's not a building, that's an arcology.
I'm 27 and consider the movie well-known.
This thread is interesting because I was in a similar (or worse of) situation as you. I was sort of clueless about what sort of company I wanted to join, I loved living in Austin but Austin has a distinct lack of interesting (to me anyway) C.S. jobs. I finally bit the bullet and decided to move to the bay.

The truth of the matter is that there is no easy way of finding an ideal job: Although we are in Hacker News, I am not going to tell you to join a start up because I feel that the nature of the way start ups operate requires hands on personnel. On the other hand, you might get lucky and get into a start up which lets you do remote. There are some big companies (e.g Mozilla) that have a culture of being OK with remote folks but Mozilla is a big company. On the other hand, I have a sneaking sympathy for the idea that investing 2-3 years in a Megacorp learning best practices for large systems is a useful tool before one goes out and wreaks havoc for some startup (This is an idea which I personally haven't implemented yet).

However, part of finding an ideal job is making yourself an attractive candidate. In that regard, having a bunch of open source projects on github, a social media profile etc can help. I know there were a bunch of tech meet ups happening at UT, try to go to as many as possible and meet people whom you might potentially want to work for or might know interesting people. Free coffee/beer will help :)
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You're right, convincing others is a whole different ball game. Since I clearly suck at it, I've done my best to suck a little less each time I try.

Here's hoping pg writes that essay next.
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At least he licensed them CC visibly - Here's the first section merged:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1002031/Music%20Theory%20Fundamental...
It's easy to go buy a domain and hosting on GoDaddy.

Running at EC2 scale, managing your own nameservers, etc is hard.

I still don't see the difference. People think that since they can do the first, the latter should be automatically easy, or they're entitled to it because the ramp up was easy. Pretty much how the Git conversation plays out.
Looks like a crap piling job to me... I must say my first reaction to the OP story was "how long will the foundations take?"
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This is an interesting discussion along these lines >

http://blogs.adobe.com/brandexperience/2012/05/16/the-cs6-de...
Can you explain, in one sentence, what it is that you're building that's different from existing movie ratings sites?

Try this template: "it's like Rotten Tomatoes, except ..."

It's like Rotten Tomatoes, except you rate on 3 axes instead of just 1.

It's like Rotten Tomatoes, except you rate the movie by answering questions about what parts you liked.

It's like Rotten Tomatoes, except your ratings are automatically posted to Facebook.

What are you building? If you can't say in one sentence, I would suggest the problem is with your pitch rather than with the listeners.
Working on an app a while back, I watched people constructing a building outside of my office window. Watching hundreds of people working together, they got that thing up in around six months.

I looked at how far we had gotten on the software we were working on in the same time period. It was, frankly, disheartening.
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Thanks, will to get a hold of it.
Surprisingly, I have the opposite trouble: how do I stop recruiters trying to recruit me? I have about 15-20 recruiters contacting me per week however what I put it down to is:

1. Location. Since I moved to SF the job offers have increased substantially.

2. Skill set. Fortunately I'm skilled in some "popular" languages.

3. Years of experience. I'm in the "hot spot" - not too old, and not too young (sorry - it does seem to be a factor...)

What I find however that recruiters don't necessarily look for anything BUT the above things. I've been approached for the weirdest jobs (considering my experience) from what I believe as a simple keyword search. When it comes to interviewing, the recruiters typically have no idea what they're talking about. This means that they're more interested in forwarding the resume from a brief "do you know this, have you had experience in this" as opposed to really understanding the position. Fortunately, I have had enough experience to interview the recruiters as opposed to them interviewing me.

My advice for developers struggling to get jobs (from how I hire...):

1. Have experience - whether professional or hobby. If it is a hobby: open source it.

2. Show initiative. You need to show you have the ability to actually think.

3. You don't need to know the answers. It's all about the approach to the problem.

4. Try to stand out amongst the resumes. I feel bad to say this: but unfortunately it's true. Given 100 resumes, you're probably only going to really look at 10.

5. Show charisma

I'd recommend other's to add to this: it's just a list I made from what is off the top of my head. But in regards to the article I disagree with:

1. Startup experience. It depends on what type of job you're going for - some will admire the drive, some will fear it (will you leave after a year)

2. School. I don't give a flying f* if they're from MIT or the University of Waikato. However I would give SOME preference to them studying at a school which includes algorithms and memory management (but that is me). Believe me: that (unfortunately) isn't a given...

I'm sure I'll probably get down votes for this; but please comment if you do disagree :) I'm only speaking from my experience as both a student (always) and as an employer.
I promise it wasn't meant as elitism. If someone were to think that knowing DNS makes them elite... well, that's unfortunate.

My point was much simpler, know when to outsource it to a third party or someone you hire, if you don't know the details of what you're getting into. Especially when it's something as fundamental as the ONLY entrance point people have to your business's online presence.
Be careful of what you wish for. This was the strategy of Intellectual Ventures setup by microsoft in ~2000. This was during microsoft's "we must use patents to protects ourselves from other patent holders" phase.

Now they are one of the world's largest patent trolls.
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It seems plausible that with the steadily increasing population density the overall loudness or chances of being near a source of loudness is actually increasing.

Also, "more immoral" is a claim going back thousands of years, which is in large part what makes it unlikely. The claim that the internet generation is louder is only making a claim about a trend in the last 20 years or so.
Totally. Sorry, when I said assumed something about you I meant the OP, I wrote that wrong
>Using this fabrication method on a smaller/safer scale would be great for the Australian construction industry.

Agreed (though why smaller?). Do you know people who might be interested in looking into this?
Twitter was obviously a great idea, but it wasn't an obviously great idea.

Just because no one (including the Twitter guys) could see the direction it would grow in doesn't mean that it wasn't a great place to start. In retrospect, clearly it was.
His comment is relevant to this use case. Admittedly, if you're building an airplane flight control dashboard or an app to schedule and coordinate circus acts, introduction of a new UX paradigm is worth it.

But a new UX paradigm for messaging window, registration form, map view, person view with Call and Message actions and settings view? This is the designer making themselves employable into the future, not great user experience.
They already had the blueprints. I'm sure it took them a lot longer than 6 months of work for the building to be finished.
All that you listed relates to _interaction_ rather than _appearance_, and they saw wide adoption, because they are well thought out, innovative and inherently consistent with the iOS experience.

Gradiented button set in allcaps Proxima Nova is not. It's exactly what you said - a skin, and skinning a single app is a sure way to make it stick out as a sore thumb.
Thank you so much. I would love the rest too, if you feel like making another pdf.
Ah but in buildings you adding plumbing is just a matter of putting in pipes, in software adding plumbing involves known unknowns and unknown unknowns :-) On the flip side though it is possible to write really bad software really really quickly.
I've been on the hiring side many times and I never look at a resume's education section. I suppose if I were hiring someone fresh out of school that'd count a little more, but experience is much more important than what school they went to or what they studied.

But maybe I'm biased because I have a grad degree in music, so I just assume other degrees are equally worthless ;)
The generally held view is that software patents should be abolished, not that patents in general should be abolished. As such, the reason you don't see arguments that address the changes outside the software world is because most people are't arguing that there should be changes outside the software world.
My perception is that this is zero sum game. For big companies like Apple their capitalization makret is driven mostly by institutional and megafunds money. Those guys are very inertial in their invetsment strategies, and their ammount of funds is stable.
Decrease in Apple demand should mean that those guys realocated their funding to other IT companies, or moved money to another industry (this is less probable and takes more time).
Good luck finding someone to 'give' you even $1 an hour.
I liked Matt Cuts way to find a problem and solve it. Worth reading

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/business-ideas/
Actually not BS, see the Broad Group's web site and their timelapse of the 'demo' project [1]. They don't count the time to put in the foundation and drive the pilings, just the erection part. That part consists entirely of lifting pre-fabricated sections in place, connecting pipes and wires, welding to the rest of the building and moving on to the next one.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY&noredirect=1
Although if OP is specifically looking for something "better" than delicious, I'm not sure Pinboard would be a good fit. I use and love Pinboard, but as far as I'm aware it shares pretty close to 1:1 feature parity with the old del.icio.us service.
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Upvoted for University of Waikato reference. Hamilton is a wonderful city, but I opted for Victoria and Wellington instead..
Articles like this tell me there is a strong need for improvement in tech recruiting. If a candidate truly is "a great coder, easy to work with, and knows data structures and algorithms backwards and forwards" then he/she should have no problem landing a job regardless of his/her background.

I only hope there are firms that see through this elitism and realize that there are undervalued tech wizards out there waiting to be given an opportunity.
Capt. Sullenberger has quite an interest in applying the lessons learnt as a fighter pilot, squadron safety officer, and legendary airline pilot.. to healthcare. This was part of his consulting business, before US Airways 1549 made him famous.

In healthcare, checklists improve safety, but so do other procedural changes. If a pilot has a mishap, the FAA/NTSB always investigates. Hospitals rarely investigate patient mishaps (deaths, malpractice etc.) unless there is a lawsuit filed, and state medical boards rarely investigate either.
It would be if it did, but it doesn't. Both technologies are pretty neat, but if you go check out each of them you will notice that they are very different. Canvas is an image-centric social website, which also does a significant amount to replace desktop editing tools for desktop. While moot is Disqus with websockets.

Edit: Oh, and a forum component. Also, I think Moot.it are trying to sell a product, while Poole seems to be building another community.
I did the same one, but the graph I got was flat, as expected.