skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by the "best" people? Are there not people in the USA that would work for you, who fit your qualifications? If they won't, why not? Think about it, stop trying to fool us with your red herring about wanting the "best". What you really want is the "best" at prices competitive with the "average" American. One might almost think you were getting them for cheap. Hmm
Ok, in a nutshell: There were useful things for me to learn in college. But, for me, it was incredibly inefficient.

In part, due to my own shortcomings. But... as part of a college career and education, I would expect some significant guidance. And, in addition to everything else, that was rather completely lacking, in my own experience.

To use the TL;DR meme: College is the new high school.

(Only, our society can't support four more years of high school. And so the system is now rapidly breaking down.)
You may be on to something. Of the companies in your query, only Microsoft has results on the same scale as the 'engineer' query (6-8% of jobs posting). And, Microsoft has a downturn that is visually similar as the 'engineering' query. So, it could be that another big player or major deal recently landed and increased the job mix. Or, it could be an effect of Microsoft's recent recruiter layoff (I only know about this because a friend was affected -- no idea how widespread, etc.).

I don't know, but your data has a reasonable narrative.
Assessing a site
"The remains of Mr Smith, of 59 Pringleton Crescent, were today identified in the ruins of his house. Mr Smith was killed when an automated anti-terrorist drone fired a missile through his bedroom window. Authorities are refusing to confirm or deny the rumour that his death was caused by an internet prank, as his stamp-collecting site was repeatedly flagged as terrorist material by members of the discussion site 4chan."
So you are saying that VCs are entitled to tech workers at a price that can make them a profit? Am I entitled to affordable housekeeping?
In defense of VMware...I work at VMware and it's been great so far. At least in my division, there is very little "big company BS" to put up with.

I've been here for a year and I've yet to file a single TPS report, attend a team building exercise, and they throw company-wide beer bashes every Friday (usually with pretty good food).

It's a good place to work, in other words. Is it the same as a startup? Not at all. But if you're going to join a big company, you shouldn't be expecting that either.
If these positions are "down" relatively, then I wonder what positions are "up" relatively?
Web developer (Internship)
We are a fast-growing startup in the Silicon Valley area, focused on building an intelligent trip planning application that promises to transform the travel industry. We have an immediate position open for a self-motivated and highly organized individual with a passion for delivering high quality software. This is an exciting opportunity to work on different server-side and client-side technologies and leverage a RESTful web services platform. This is an internship position that may lead to a full-time position.

Responsibilities
Work within an Agile development process.
Carry out server-side (and accompanying client-side) development tasks.
Adhere to strict coding conventions and standards.
Assist with wire-frame designs, documentation and project scoping.
Perform unit and functional testing against developed code.
Work with team members located across geographies and timezones.

Requirements
Minimum 2+ years web development experience.
Thorough understanding of object-oriented development, and ability to apply OO concepts to everything they do.
Proficiency with server-side languages such as PHP5, JSP, etc.
Hands-on experience with a PHP-based framework/CMS, such as Yii, CakePHP, etc.
MySQL database administration and development expertise.
Demonstrated expertise in creating cross-browser user interfaces from wire-frames and specifications using object-oriented JavaScript, AJAX, clean and elegant HTML5 and CSS3, DOM Scripting, and JSON.
Familiarity with JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as jQuery (and ability to write basic JavaScript by hand when necessary).
Experience consuming RESTful web services.
Here's an interesting "up" keyword: "part time" http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=part+time&l=

That's not a good thing.
Thanks for this. INTERROBANGS FOR ALL‽
Also "work from home". I'm guessing something flooded the job boards in the last month with a single term (think something spammy!), combined with a seasonal downturn .
Small companies pay you less, make up the shortfall in stock options, work you longer hours and then go belly up ;)
"Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)"

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
How many of these 900 jobs are developers?

Not that I feel great about anyone losing their jobs, but it's hard to get a sense of what this means for VMWare without knowing their "restructuring plan". Are they HR department consolidations from acquisitions? Sales consolidations? There's a difference.

I assume they're not replacing 900 software developers with virtualized developers who run just above the metal.
Please send resume to jobs@gumoinc.com. Thanks!
Small companies don't have to. They're small and the culture is immediately affected by the owners/founders/executive team directly.
I think this is a double edged sword. Anecdotal I've noticed that people who fit certain attractive ideals do rocket up the ladder faster, but seem to flame out (not burn out) faster.

Rather than attribute this to a "lights that burn twice as bright..." I think it can be attributed to being moved up into positions faster than their own competency is ready for.

Those few that can make it by competency and grit alone seem to be the ones that do last up into the higher ranks.

Ask yourself this, how many male fortune-500 CEOs could be thought of as extremely good looking.

A second anecdote: I used to spend a great deal of time working with the military, and the running joke was that Lt. Colonels and Colonels all seemed to be 6'1", while the Generals above them were all very short.
In big companies good people can end up being laid off because they happen to be in the wrong team/group/project and some clueless bean counter decides that's the business that needs to be eliminated.

As far as large companies go it gets a lot worse than VMware though they seem to have lost direction somewhat.

The problem of largeness is that decision makers are so far removed from the decision they can't possibly make good decisions. It's certainly possible for small companies to make bad decisions as well.
I have wondered about this ever since I played Duck Hunt in the 90s! Feels great to finally have an answer!
I run a couple of boxes that are crawl only for Nuuton right out of my office. I do have a good internet connection. But its a good way to save on infrastructure.
This is like asking when humans stopped being monkeys.
Maybe graph the rate of vulnerabilities discovered vs. LoC/files added?

It's safer to only use vulnerability counts as a metric for how interesting software is to security researchers.
This is one of my main complaints about the iPhone 5 screen: the iPhone 4S has a perfect screen size for my hands, where I can smoothly tap the "back" navigation button with my thumb if I hold it in my right hand. On the iPhone 5, it's near-impossible to do a smooth, single-handed tap on the back button without stretching (and I'm of average height).
That seems a little unfair on PHP if taken at face value. I don't know PHP, but doesn't it come with things like database client libraries and templating? That's not really comparable with the core Python distribution.

Presumably a fairer comparison would compare (Python + Django) with (Ruby + RoR) with PHP?
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineer%2C+programming%2C...
Bonus points if you exfiltrate config/initializers/secret_token.rb.
> It shows you the exact lines, and break down where it happens.

So they support DWARF and backtraces. Just like everyone else.

> What you showed isn't even important.

Yes, exactly.
I have heard that people with formal education are less likely to flake out on jobs. As in just stop showing up. Which is both important and independent of the quality of your work. Granted it's anecdotal evidence, but hiring is far from one dimensional.
Because people are already so good at differentiating crass arguments from just plain ol' trolling right?

Just the mere implication would be enough for some ISPs to pull the plug on certain sites as they really can't be bothered to take on cyberbullying (by people is a cakewalk, it's different when governments do it). So censoring a disagreeable site is the least stressful method for them.

And I wonder how this will work with .onion sites... Oh, right. They'll just jail node ops.
Thank you for the FAQ Jeremy - helpful to this Backbone newb.

I won't ask you directly for the answers to this since it wouldn't be polite for you to answer (or would it?), but I feel like a lot of that FAQ is specifically addressing different frameworks' way of doing things, which is totally fine.

Would someone mind extrapolating a bit and let me know which frameworks / features he's referring to in each point? I assume the 2-way data binding and "nifty demos" piece is about Meteor and Derby, and the "stuffing application logic into your HTML" refers to Knockout, but I'm a bit lost on the others.

Just trying to grow my awareness of the landscape....
While the original article is unfair, I do think that the ratio of good programmers to bad ones is higher in the valley, thus the smugness.

This is more like "valley versus the rest of the world", instead of "US and A versus the rest of the world".
The iPhone5 is smaller than the average Android device, right? I have no problem to reach the upper left corner with my thumb on a Nexus 4 ... and yes, the author is probably right with the proposed distribution of "hard to touch" places on a phone screen.
In West Virginia, they really didn't. If you want to know how high-class Englishmen sounded during the Glorious Revolution of the 1680s, go to backcountry WV.

Varmint is the corruption of the upper-class pronunciation of vermin, as one example.

The so-called mid-atlantic accent of modern Brits is a different phenomenon that is more often discussed, and its downfall can be traced to the collapse of the three broadcast networks. Individuals adopted the accent to come across as more trustworthy, similar to the Baskerville font trustworthiness: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-...
Doesn't google do around 3 billion searches/day? I was under the impression DuckDuckGo was a bigger player.
For what it's worth, security & software guy Steve Gibson uses the Firefox browser.
That still doesn't automate the process, and there is no telling whether 1.0.1 is a small update or a security update. Having said that, I really want a service like this, and I wanted to make one for Python (PIP) at one point, but hopefully someone more competent will do it or has already.

A different version notation is needed to know whether the version delta between your installation and the most recent contains vital security updates.
App.net has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio in my experience, even among the same set of followers. Something about the culture of app.net seems to cause people to put more thought into what they're saying.
Holy cow, I shoulda sold those months while they were still fresh!
Damn, I had high hopes for 2012.
There are only 18 female CEOs within the fortune 500. The number for the Russell 3000, is a bit better, at about 10 percent. Why are there so few women in senior leadership positions?

A deviation from a 50/50 gender split is not by itself evidence of unjustified gender discrimination. For example, there are about as many current NBA players as there are Fortune 500 CEOs. Since virtually every top university has a women's basketball team, approximately half of NCAA Division I-A basketball players are female. Why then are there so few women (none!) in the NBA?

Of course, the lack of women in the NBA is principally due to gender differences in the aptitude and inclination needed to play basketball. Based on these differences, the natural split between between men and women in the NBA isn't 50/50—it's 100/0. In particular, if (say) 10% of NBA players were female, women would be over-represented in the NBA.

It's entirely possible that, based on the aptitude and inclination needed to be a Fortune 500 CEO, the natural gender split is the same as the split in the NBA. In other words, women may very well be over-represented among Fortune 500 CEOs. Indeed, given the current official policy of the United States Government for gender-based (pro-female) affirmative action, this would even appear to be the null hypothesis. One might just as reasonably ask, "Why are there so many women in senior leadership positions?"
Stealing a HDD with illegal downloads is doubly illegal?
I was coding at the coffee shop and wondered whether or not a passerby, opportunistically stealing my computer, would be liable for any illegal downloads on my computer, assuming that the police caught them?
We had a girl at school whos family left for america when she was in the 2nd year at high school, she returned for a visit 2 years later and had a american accent. Two factors I believe that influence accents:

1) Climate - humidity mostly influencial - Manchester having a more nasal accent and also more rain than most parts of the UK being one important factor.

2) What we hear - more so younger age and I would say upto the age of 25 you are still influenced, maybe later or maybe younger for some people. But certianly what you hear when growing up, upto a point has a influence upon you. Call it the memeaccenting if you like, younger you are the more influenced you are.

So even if they all had the same accents, the enviroment would be a factor and over time and influences external (America is not just legacy British people, germanic and others I'm sure above and beyond natives at the start).

So can see over time it more a factor than anything for the changes, but in a World which has reduced travel from years, to months to weeks to days and hours, we have a more blured line ahead of us when it comes to accents in the not too distant future.

Beyond spelling though, how would you define the differences between an American and a British accent as in some parts of America the difference is not that much in comparision to some parts of Britian.

But I'm sure somebody will just say it is all down to dental care and as a British person I too will laugh at that one :).
Davos Man and his defects
How do you know what is or isn't critical? Do you just take it on faith that the vulnerability announcement is correct?
Gandi and OVH both provide VPS instances with an european-based cloud.
Many of these salaries are in Silicon Valley, where the cost of living is sky-high. It takes a six figure salary to live decently in these areas. I've seen a number of posts and comments to the effect of lowering their standard of living my moving to Silicon Valley - even with the higher salary.
Hypnosis Hypnotic Images and Music#
So I'm assuming their adult ad company, Black Label Ads, is going to go under too?
What happened to merit?
You should strongly consider lowering your requirements if you want to consider the position to be an "internship." As they stand, they are quite frankly absurd. Most people with two legitimate years of experience could be earning close to six figures in a full-time role (if not more, depending upon location) with expertise in the technologies you mention.
Down For Everyone Or Just Me - Check if your website is down or up?
Most of the rest of those 382K searches weren't victims of mistaken "gut instinct" but rather officers knowingly searching them without cause. NYPD pressures its street cops to perform these searches using quotas (which they refuse to call quotas).
I don't believe these people are being fired... at least not all of them. Take a look at a report from 2 months ago[1]. 600 people from VMWare are working on Pivotal, if those people don't count on VMWare's books anymore, that would be a reduction in headcount.

Also, the Chicago Tribune[2] article is better than the BizJournals one. One key point in this article is that by the end of 2013, they expect to hire 1000 new employees.

This all sounds like shuffling around of people and trimming a little fat, and has nothing to do with VMWare possibly doing badly.

[1] http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/12/05/vmware-confirms-pivotal-...

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-vmware-resu...
How representative is the typical accent you hear on Doctor Who of the average English accent? And in case I'm conflating a bunch of very different accents, I'll just go with Matt Smith's Doctor[0].

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxKcLId-Ys
VMware to Cut 900 Jobs as Revenue Growth Slows
So we have DDG as a better solution when you're e-mailing links to google searches. That doesn't add up to hours a week.
Grubwithus launches a social dining app for the impatient: GrubTonight
> "Nowhere else in America, save for NJ, IL, and DC, is it unusual for someone walking down the streets to be in possession of a firearm."

Right, so we've established that legal firearm ownership is vastly outnumbered by illegal firearm ownership in the above places, and that seeing a legal firearm on the street is in fact extremely rare.

So... you live in an area where there is a substantial known presence of illegal guns, that isn't balanced by a substantial ownership of legal guns. When you see a gun, how is it not at all suspicious?

I do not see your conclusion as a logical extension of constitutional principles, it seems more informed by your own stance re: gun ownership. The constitution grants the right to search upon reasonable suspicion - I'm unsure how a gun's appearance in a place where there are almost no legal ones fails that bar.

Whether or not NY should have such strict gun laws is an entirely separate debate - as it stands it seems perfectly reasonable for the presence of a gun to be suspicious.
"level of bullshit and outright lies coming out of the UK press" ...

...staggering would imply a degree of shock. They've been doing this since the EU/ECM began.
Using Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2
In small companies good people can end up being laid off because they happen to not be buddy-buddy with their boss, and there's no oversight. Or because they aren't related to the owner.

It cuts both ways, for sure.
Alan Greenspan makes this point in his book. Educational disparity is the THE primary driver of income inequality in the US.

Too few people graduate with the skills for highly technical, quantitative, or scientific careers, and therefore the supply of those skills relative to demand drives a very high premium.
And at small companies, a boss may fire someone they just don't like personally. And not all bosses at small companies necessarily understand what their underlings do for a company.

At big companies, if it is done right, the upper level management may ask for input from 1st line managers as to who they should fire. Also, my last company, all managers had to rank their underlings, and those at the bottom had a chance of being trimmed if there were layoffs.

Many big companies will listen to those first line managers, and almost any upper-level manager is aware of their lack of knowledge about the leaves of the management tree.
Fake answer: because O(log(fib(n))) conveys more information as to how the algorithm works.

Real answer: because I didn't realize that it's equivalent to O(n).
'Market value' does not exclude discrimination if most players in the market are ageist, sexist, or racist

What would stop a company from framing any kind of discrimination as an argument from 'market value'?
Would it be discrimination if they judged that his market rate was less because of his skin color?
How to extract just the text from html page articles
I tried AdBrite once, that was the only time I used them. The traffic they sent was junk and I am almost sure they had no click-fraud detection in place so most of the clicks were fraudulent. Good on them for staying in business this long though, surprised they lasted all this time.
Sometimes I get really frustrated with Google when doing programming-related searches. After spending a minute trying to coerce Google into recognizing an API call exactly and having to exclude popular typos and alternate spellings of what Google thinks is the root word, I end up switching to DDG and getting the answer I was looking for. Google is awesome for general queries, but lately I'm finding more and more that it tries to be too helpful and the search results for my precise, specifically crafted query end up being so broad that it's useless.
HackerNews: like a self help site for autistic, depressed, suicidal brogrammers
Interesting subject. As an avid traveler (from California) I've run into a few Brits and Aussies who (jokingly) looked down their noses at American pronunciation and spelling.

I didn't know much about it at the time. The more I've read however, it turns out that most of these "Americanisms" came from Britain, and are in most cases were dominant before the split. It was (mostly) the British who changed (though some regions still do it the "old" way).

The subject is a lot more complicated, and in a few cases the people I met were wrong. For example:

* -ize (Greek, Oxford), -ise French!

* Rhotic (R) pronunciation (Southwest Br., American, Irish, Scottish English, etc.)

* RP took hold in the 19th century. (see the Shakespeare in OP video link on this page.)
That is a rather silly argument: Are you saying that excellent engineer A who is being paid $100K won't be paid $300K because that will attract the "wrong kind of people". Why not just make sure you have interesting work and have a process that filters in the kind of people you want instead of artificially depressing the market...
I resubscribed him. Clearly he was getting useful emails.
I shorted VMW just before the close today via puts. It was only 2 contracts and the strike price was at $90. I was going to bet more, I usually go in a position with 10 contracts, but I have some financial obligations coming up so I didn't want to risk too much.

I have a few friends that work there. They are happy, but they say that the company lacks any sense of urgency. After Maritz left and more recently Steve Herrod, there seems to be a dearth of really brilliant and inspirational people in the top positions. A lot of great engineers were lost after the 4 year post-IPO options expiration came due last year. As well, there is a lot of middle management, and lots of politics, and apparently lots of fat-cat principal engineers that stick around and do not very much.

All of this spells a recipe for stagnation. The debacle over the last year or so with licensing only cemented the idea that ESX is expensive, and Hyper-V is getting to "good enough" status.