skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AngelList Debuts Customer Counts And Job References
I've been continually impressed by folks from each of these companies so I can't wait to see what the future holds now that they've joined forces.
'2. A commonplace misguided belief that economics is a zero-sum game may also explain some xenophobia. This colloquially takes the flavor of, "they are taking our jobs."'

I know, right? Like did you see that one episode of South Park? They took our jobs!

Enlightened folks like us know that immigration increases GDP. That those GDP gains accrue to the immigrants themselves and to capital rather than to American workers is immaterial. Anyone fearful of immigrants "taking our jobs" is an ignorant redneck who we can safely look down on.
What amazes me is that in a couple of generations the accents of all the regions change (including England itself with the hard r, apparently). In the case of the US I'm curious if accents stay the same once geographically stable. Once we became more mobile in the early-mid 20th century, are accents changing faster with the influx of diversity as folks move around?
Well, using both the links above (though I botched the first link to ad preferences) you can opt-out of the the remarketing/display cookie and the search cookie.

For those that get to the Ad Preferences page the stats are pretty interesting.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/clarifying-valleywag-comments/

The general public when presented with this doesn't seem to have such a drastic reaction.
I think you're just not using modern terminology:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=rock+star&l=
Good point. dmor wrote about this yesterday http://refer.ly/is_twitter_s_vine_launch_a_response_to_popul...
If you are referring to TV and movies, those were adopted 'TransAtlantic' accents. It was never an organic accent, rather a made up one which would seem acceptable to everyone for TV, Movies, reportage, etc. It was cultivated via the Ivy league and such. In other words, that accent wasn't representative of any particular locale. It was adopted by the speaker.

If you watch really old interviews of ball players from the early part of the 20th C. They pretty much sound like today's vernacular English (ball players being from lower strate would not be exposed to the accent in boarding schools/college/uni). They don't sund like Gore Vidal or Cary Grant.

It was seen as 'cultured' as well.
I loved this post. The fear management 101 can really be applied to all fears and not just entrepreneurial related.
This is a chart of searches for jobs, not listings of available jobs, right? And it's at the top around 2008-2009 which was just around the time of the latest financial crisis?

Wouldn't this be more a sign of just the opposite, then? People have jobs and aren't searching for new ones?
But Google does that already, without needing to type !maps...
That assumes you know about the vulnerability, though. If you aren't subscribed to an email group, you might not find out for some period of time. The majority of Rails programmers, or beginners even, aren't a part of these email groups, so they might leave vulnerable code up on their servers indefinitely -- not good.

It might be better to have a cronjob that nightly runs the bundle update command, then restart the server. But again, this depends on you being smart enough to realize this, which since we are talking about sane defaults, isn't something we might want to assume.
Please do! I'd be especially interested in some of the ones you mentioned: Geordie and Brummie. Also, some of the harder-to-understand ones. I can understand Yorkshire pretty well, but maybe some others would give me trouble.
Yeah, that guy who dealt marihuana on rollerblades in NYC could get tracked in a sting operation which would also catch most of his customers. All they'd have to do is to "tail" him with such a device over a month.

Right now, it would be way too expensive to devote such a system to catch one dealer, but the scary thing is that systems like this could surveil and process entire regions/neighborhoods as a batch, and the expense of doing so is driven by the cost of communications and processing power. However, we know those costs are going to go down. From this, we should be able to estimate the time when large metropolitan police departments will be able to afford such capabilities.

That gives a concrete deadline for interested parties who wish to act.

EDIT: To clarify -- that would be a deadline for when it will be too late not a deadline for when to safely act by!
This is related to YAML loading (I believe) so it is somewhat related to the major bug from a couple of weeks ago. My guess is someone went through the Rails code combing for any interaction with YAML that wasn't caught last time.
Gamification of feedback makes your team go faster
I'm lost - where in the post is the discrimination for being short, and not just having the proper credentials?
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Unknown (tons of attributions)

While some things are just random chance -- who your parents are, where you're born, etc -- but most things in life don't come from luck, much as we like to ascribe things to it. Most of the time it comes from hard work and -- probably more importantly -- tenacity. I've been "lucky" in a lot of ways, namely who has seen my work and decided to write about it, who's decided to hire me because of it, etc, but at the end of the day there were a dozen failures for every success. If I hadn't stuck at it, I never would've "gotten lucky".
Really good idea, I think a lot of organizations will benefice of this !

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A Few Notes on Learning Rails
Afrikaans is basically 17-century Dutch, though.
SO Question: Crashing with UITableViewCellAnimation
That's only valid in the US though. Sports does not give you a direct way to a good university in Europe (at least, mainland Europe).
Sites that don't have human-readable URL's make me sad.

Also, I'm not entirely sure that having a picture makes that much of a difference.

And from an employer's standpoint, a resume with a picture can cause trouble with equal-opportunity laws because it makes them aware of your age, race, and gender.
"imagine the chaos it would cause if a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on a train in the tube.[..] That would have devastating effects on the economy (both locally and nationally)"

A bomb of the sort that would fit into a backpack would probably disable the car the bomber was riding it, kill people immediately near the bomber, injure folks farther away in the car, and do pretty much minimal-to-no damage to the tracks or tunnel. In the worst case, the affected tunnel would be out of commission for a few days/couple of weeks while the tracks were cleared and everything would get back to normal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings#Tra... (keep in mind that US trains have higher crashworthiness standards the European trains, meaning they are structurally stronger)
Ohhh. I see, thanks.
"3. It's quite frankly inhumane in many cases to send these students packing. Even in the relative squalor that they endure living, for example in Los Angeles on mere hundreds of dollars a month, they still want to live here and create a family here."

And what of the billions of people in the world who are even worse off?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
Agree, the author has confused us and not disclosed his complete background.
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But why is it taking so long? Given how profitable they are, and how much demand there is, and how much could be gained from scale-related cuts in unit production costs, why haven't they been able to raise enough money to produce at a closer rate to the bigger car makers?
I have seen a lot of freelancers on Twitter tweeting that they have availability. So, another potentially interesting data point.
Keeping secrets secret
This is an awesome idea. Please execute on it =). Sage just runs as a web app; given something in the form-factor of a large phone with hardware keyboard and a touch screen, you could have an awesomely useful calculator.

Maybe packaging it up as a tablet app would be a good first step in this direction?
The chart is based on relative percentage, not absolute counts. So it's useless - if more gardeners look for jobs on Indeed.com then the engineer/developer/etc lines in this chart drop off. The chart doesn't mean anything in isolation.
You would really want to do

gem 'rails', '~>3.2.0`

otherwise you could get upgraded to '3.3' or '3.4' which is more likely to break something.
Doesn't appear to affect 3.1.x or 3.2.x
Given we are still seeing more security issues with Rails, shouldn't the developers down tools for 5 mins to stop with the shiny-shiny, and maybe rewalk the codebase, the dependencies they set, and review things?

Yes, they are quick to band-aid the overall problem, and push out yet another version bump, but, no one other there seems to really grasp the nettle and admit too much auto, too much magic, too much opinionated design has meant a framework with more holes than swiss cheese. We have only just started to see the trickle of reported issues, before the flood.

Ironically, we had a call this morning from a customer that there rails app server has been compromised, despite diligently patching and updating.

I would rather see one better update to Rails for the release versions, arising from a proper audit, proactively closing the windows left from before, rather than shutting one each time it is reported.
It isn't good. Similar projects with a similar user base, like Django, don't have vulnerabilities of this severity with this frequency.

This points to a seriously broken process.
this chart does not empirically prove this. It only proves that less people are trafficking in these jobs through Indeed. These kinds of jobs are increasingly being found through other channels.
That video is quite interesting.

Unrelated: At first I thought: Hey, that's the voice of a physicist in Half Life 1, like "Good morning Mr. Freeman!"

Then the picture of him comes up in the video and he does not only sound like the character, he even looks like him :)
Even with all those tools, your browser is still likely uniquely identifiable: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Yeah, ambiguous wording on my part, sorry. I meant that we don't divide the day in just two halves.
Something like Gemnasium? https://gemnasium.com/
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The difference is that in Russian the division into 4 parts is more formal. In the same sense as in English the 24 hours are divided into am / pm, in Russian it's divided to morning/afternoon/evening/night.
The formal name for 2 a.m. in English is "2 in the morning".
But you just can't say "2 in the morning" in Russian - this wouldn't make any sense. You can only say "2 in the night".
Thanks, I also agree it's pretty universal (applies to skiing, dancing & relationships too)
If anyones looking for a quick open source project, we need to update our project to support the new API update: https://github.com/jdolitsky/AppDotNetPHP
You can also disable various things during runtime. A->B does not imply B->A.
That's an interesting graph, and it seems like a material downturn, in my opinion. I wouldn't call it a crash though.

There could be a variety of reasons: fiscal cliff concerns, startup series A crunch, etc. My guess is that the FB IPO debacle had a huge impact on funding in Silicon Valley, which probably killed a lot of jobs. Whether or not that's a big deal going forward I don't know.
I built a simple site for George in 2008. Nice guy, died last year. I took a video of his co-axial escapement model a couple of years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMWpT-MniFo
I totally agree with the "too young" thing. I'm 15 and been freelancing since I was 12, and this gets in the way all the time. People try to take advantage of you once they realize that you're young(er) than most in the field.
No. They waited too long to make consumer-focused devices and by the time they did - with the Pearl and Storm, I believe - they missed the boat. I read a similar story like this years ago. RIM somehow keeps on kicking, but a full-on comeback just isn't in the cards.
At an ASP of $75k (probably pretty close), that's about $1.5b/yr or about 1/3 their market cap... not bad at all.
The blogpost already addresses everything that above article gets wrong.
Oh joy. We just patch the last bug in 2.3. My manager will not be happy.
It's interesting. Sometimes the argument is that people are more savvy than we give them credit for and then it's that they don't really understand.

I'm not saying you're doing this now (not at all), but I do see people trying to have it both ways when talking about this issue.

The thing is, I'm old so I worked offline before the Internet. The personal information that is accessible offline is ... incredible, even to this day. It's what has powered the direct marketing revolution for decades.

So while I don't think people understand the details of how things work online I think they have an intuitive sense that the same way they get targeted offline is what happens to them online.

Facebook is actually letting people marry the offline and online information which I find super intriguing yet goes relatively unnoticed.

And I'm still shocked that we willingly present ID when we buy something with a credit card since we're not really required to do so.

Going slow wouldn't be a bad thing but I actually think we've been doing that already.
Same here in The Netherlands, I can tell if someone's from one or two towns away by his/her accent. It's subtle, but definately noticeable providing they speak with an accent. A lot of dutchmen learn to speak accentless, or Standardized Dutch but resort to their native accent when in familiar surroundings.
There's a secretary crash too! http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=secretary&l=

But seriously, this is relative to other job postings, so you can't say it is necessarily a crash, it could just be that the diversity of job types is increasing, or other areas of the job market are growing faster than these particular ones.
That could also just mean that more people are going freelance, which if true could also explain the down trend in job postings on indeed if more employers are working with freelancers instead of hiring.
This is a great article.

As a student of mathematics about to finish his studies and looking potentially at a job in software development, this gave me a boost in confidence, reminding me that I should not be afraid too much on competition from people that have the proper academic background (although one might say that I'm not that in a disadvantaged position, I do know a lot less about the technical core stuff of computing).

Everything is still possible!
Everything I see/read says the exact opposite - there are plenty of jobs, it's the talent pool that needs to catch up.
Height is actually a weird one when people get fixated on it. I worked with a guy once who was about 5,5 but was absolutely obsessed with "height discrimination". He filtered everything that happened to him through that lens and it severely warped his view on reality and it kept him from addressing real issues that would have made him a more hireable employee.
multi-master in MySQL?
> Given we are still seeing more security issues with Rails, shouldn't the developers down tools for 5 mins to stop with the shiny-shiny, and maybe rewalk the codebase, the dependencies they set, and review things?

This is what's been happening and why we have seen a ton of releases.
This assumes you don't commit your app's Gemfile.lock into your repository, which you generally should.
It isn't a bad thing necessarily. Just because the vulnerabilities haven't popped up in other frameworks doesn't mean they aren't there.
The smell of late night coffee, having to update Ruby on Fails yet again, or better, the colder more bitter coffee in the morning, when having to offline and rebuild a compromised server due to this framework.

It started with such promise, and now, we are looking to migrate all Rails apps off to alternative frameworks at the first opportunity. It really is a shame.
I have a friend from Hong Kong, and she has an English accent, having being educated in British schools.

For fun, I asked her to talk in an American accent, and what fascinated me, is that she talked with an almost exactly Southern accent. So maybe the Southern accent is a vestigial accent leftover from the transition from British to American accent.
> Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubuntu is going to search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox"

I actually like this feature. I'm often following a tutorial, or using a command on a newer install, and suddenly a command's not found -- it's really nice to be able to see how to get past the obstacle immediately without Googling, guessing, or trying to figure out how to make the "apt-cache search" command tell you what you want to know.

Also, for me the loading time isn't this long and is greatly reduced after the first such search. I'm guessing your system is under RAM pressure and your disk is fragmented.
It was really useful for me. Thanks.
I wasn't able to get one that suited me; it is nice to see that there are still good domain names out there.
I find the door handles deeply unnerving, even though they're also pretty cool.
I receive all the bugs for Mageia. I don't notice bugreports for PulseAudio like what you describe. Seems very aggressive to suggest that someone has a "incredibly shitty attitude" just because someone has a different perception.
I appear to detect a noticeable speed increase in the launching of apps on my 4s. Is that just my imagination?
From the page:
"This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms."

Sounds like they're crawling sites like Monster.com and counting keywords.
This seems like a reasonable explanation, given that "manager", "plumber", and "electrician" all show similar drop-offs. I wonder what is increasing enough to have such a visible effect, though.

You can't see them on the same graph since they're magnitudes are so different, so this isn't easy to see/I may be imagining things.
Yup, I love using firefox for the same reasons. It's just so incredibly customizable, and you can't get that level of customizability/compatibility in any other major web browser.
YAML is a superset of JSON. So this works just fine to parse JSON (with the caveat it parses any YAML and is therefore not secure):

YAML.load(json)
I was hyperbolic, I apologize.

But the zero-sum ideology espoused by many open source advocates is grating. There isn't a war, there's just the computers that people use. People are lazy and don't think much about the implications of the tech they use. Impassioned rants against the current dominant tech don't actually change anything, they're just cathartic preaching to the choir.
250 words and he said nothing.

I'm getting so sick of tripe like this that thinks men and women want the same things in their lives and careers. I would like to know:

- Of the working men and women, how many actually want these executive positions?
Don't forget the http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Ninja&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Guru&l=
Parts of it are, but there's a good portion of loan words from other 'occupying countries' such as Portuguese, but also Malay (from the Dutch slave trade era) and some native African languages such as Khoisan.
Or this: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=rock+star%2C+engineer%2C+p...

Compared to this: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=rock+star%2C+engineer%2C+p...
Cute, but that graph ranges from 0 to 0.04 percent -- it would be just a blip on the other graph, which ranges from 0 to 10 percent.
another take on it from SimplyHired:

http://www.simplyhired.com/a/trends/aoccupation?ocp=Computer...
I know how it feels... I'm 22, 5'4", and look like I'm 17. This post reminds me of the Hacker Manifesto, by The Mentor: we exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias.
Meanwhile many of our locally born students are graduating with unemployable degrees and wondering why they can't find a job. Maybe we can get our acts together and start raising children in this country who aren't under the delusion that everything they do is special, and that a degree in Sumerian with a minor in communications will entitle them to anything other than a pile of student loan debt.
Or, one was a good salesman and the other was not. Or maybe the second one was strapped for cash and really needed the sale.

I'd rather not theorize until we get some more data points.
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"You're reading the data wrong."

I think you may have read my post wrong. According to the link, 1,933,000 people old enough to have a degree work a minimum wage job. Of them, 279,000 have a degree. That is 14.4%.
Turn that tube to the side and you'll see it's anything but flat.
I'm the maintainer of a small but reasonably active project, and the most frequent criticism I hear of the project is that our documentation sucks. And it's true! Several people have offered to write documentation, but I've never received any pull requests. I fix up the documentation here and there, but it'll never get where it needs to be without a focused effort by someone who really cares. (And it's not that I don't, I just have a long code TODO list as well...)

A lot of these technical writers have github accounts, where presumably they contribute to open source projects in the form of documentation. Does anyone have any tips for attracting such people to a project?
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I, too, am short. I'm 5'6". I have always worked on teams with people much older than me (seems like a 15-20 year average). When I was in my early 20s and in sales selling high dollar value equipment I recognized that my age wasn't going to help. It took a few moments to dispel that once I began talking with someone as I just needed to overcome the view that I was inexperienced (As that would be associated with my age). It definitely did not hold me back and I'm fairly sure that if I lost a deal it was because of something other than my height.

We all face challenges and each are unique to us.

I meet a lot of people and I don't know anyone who would actively discriminate against someone short. I read through the article and based on it alone I got the sense that these challenges my stem from within the author rather than something external. I didn't read an examples of a situation that you'd reason resulted due to his height. Just interpretations.

"Ultimately, your greatest competition is yourself." - Guy Kawasaki