skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry about the late reply - I've been mostly cut off from the internet (mostly due to hotel charging exorbitant rate).

You've touched on one of the most involved and complicated questions in our industry. There are many qualified coders stucks on proverbial other side of the fence for no good reason.

The short answers, for me, is blind ass luck. I did well in high school, stumbled my ass (unintentionally) into what turned out to be a prestige school, stumbled into some interesting internships with well-known companies, and as a result attracted the attention of one of the "A-level" tech employers, whose name on my resume put me on the correct side of the fence (the employer is Amazon, btw).

It's not just the resume effect - being in said companies also puts you in a network of people already in the camp, which opens up networking and job opportunities also.

Being in the right camp is a self-reinforcing phenomenon. You get jobs at a particular level, with a particular type of employer, which in turn attracts more of that sort of employer. Unfortunately, the inverse is also true - if you're outside the camp, you attract the other employers, and your resume begins to look less and less like a resume from within the camp.

None of this particularly helps you, even if it does explain why you can't seem to get into the camp.

Here are some tips - but keep in mind that I've been in the camp from "the beginning" (i.e., right out of school) so I really cannot vouch, first-hand, how well these will work for you.

- Network more. A lot more. Look at technologies being used within the camp (Rails, Node, etc) vs. tech being used outside the camp (VB.NET, JavaBeans, etc), and learn according to where you want to be.

- Go to developer meetups hosted by companies/individuals in the camp. This community maybe small in Philly, but I'm certain it exists. This will reinforce both the learning and networking parts of above.

- Go to events in New York City, which is the closest tech hub available to you. There are events held all the time - hackathons, conferences, etc. Go, learn, make friends, network.

- After you've done this a few times you've probably collected at least a few cards from interesting companies. Hit them up, see if they're hiring, or if they know anyone hiring. Considering the severe, ridiculous high-end tech shortage in NYC, you will get substantial hits.

- Consider also traveling to NYC and crashing an AirBnb for a few days/week. Companies are a lot more receptive if you can talk to them face to face. If you can line up a few interviews beforehand, even better.
Right now is the best time to be a musician ever. Recording tools are cheap, distribution is virtually free.

Being a fan of music has never been as awesome as now. Access to new music is virtually free and instant.

It takes much less effort to find good music now than ever before. I can just hit up TasteKid and listen to new music on Youtube, where I get further recommendations, which I can instantly listen to, too.

There was a short period in the history of recorded music where you could make a lot of money from it because making copies and distributing them was hard. This is not the case anymore, and as a musician and a fan of music I can't be thankful enough for that.
Except the article claims people like Sam Walton / Jobs / Branson / Musk weren't or aren't 'focusers.' I disagree completely with that notion. They were / are exceptionally talented at focusing on what mattered, when it mattered.
I can't see what's the big deal. Those that were using an RSS reader can find another replacement right now. And, as others have said, the replacements are arguably better.

If anything, all this buzz may be bringing new people to RSS.
That patch is only applied if you don't have a license key. You just torrent the software, use your license key and you're done.
"We" do not use those words. "We" are not part of a single interconnected culture. You might use those words, since from what little contact I've had with you you come across as a narcissistic asshole with little concern for others. But I am not you, and I thank my lucky stars for that.
Safari had a button for RSS as well. Not sure why they removed it.

That said every single blog I've ever seen has a prominent RSS button. But that isn't the reason for lack of widespread adoption. It's more to do with the fact that most people aren't dedicated "read this every day" consumers of lots of different blogs. Generally it's a small handful which isn't what RSS caters for.
G+ can't be avoided for too long. Google is using it to tie together Author Rank, which helps for SEO. If you want your content to rank higher post-Panda update you'll leverage G+.
Oh jeeze, I'm embarrassed.

:|
That chart is misleading. Since when is 28% less than one fourth of a circle?
I should probably follow some of the links referenced in the article. The article itself is a little irritating. It seems like the goal is askew: predict who will leave so you can keep them. In every organization I've been in, some people should leave. Perhaps they're at a bad point in their lives; perhaps they're just not a good organizational fit. Whatever the reason, keeping them poisons the team they work with.

The approach is seriously lacking in the factors it looks at for flight-risk. Every organization has a culture: a way of going about getting work done, dealing with petty administrative tasks, behaving, talking, etc. These factors are extremely difficult to convey when hiring someone. Unfortunately, some individuals aren't always a good fit for a culture.

Over time, I've found out from experience that I don't like large organizations. Large organizations have a certain bureaucracy and formality that I find irritating. I left one particular organization just for that reason. My current employer is still too large for my tastes. They treat me well, the pay is fine, the benefits are unheard of nowadays. I just don't like the bureaucracy and formality.

One more point is that the reasons for leaving may be different in our current era of entrepreneurship. People may simply leave to follow their own ideas about a business.
...and submit things you think ought to be on HN too!
Like ? I use Reeder on iOS and OSX (very popular client apps) with hundreds of starred articles.

By all means enlighten me as to a suitable replacement. I think people forget that Google Reader was an API as well as a client.
So I could do a Kickstarter to fund a long European vacation?
Thanks everyone!

I've tried doing it(amidst my school exams) but I think it doesn't quite drill into me best practices.

I don't want to explore go and hack up something; I want to learn it once and learn it right. Any recommendation for this? (:
Amused to see you going through the same process with other people as you did with me: ie you post silly statements in sloppy language, act all hurt when people point out your mistakes, and finally accuse them of being trolls (using yet another word you don't understand).

I really don't think you are properly equipped to debate things on HN. You should go back to Digg. It's your natural home.
When Fox news present the data....

http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-charts-tricks-data-2...
Apologies, I should have said only browser I used (Linux & Windows user)
Personally I don't care about credit, I do it for the learning and opportunity to work together with people from all around the world.

However, I do think there should be a possibility to earn credits or certificates as it is important for some.
72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don't Think Students Deserve Credit from their home institution.

The headline makes it sound like they don't think MOOC students deserve any kind of credit, which is a much stronger statement.
Since the article text itself doesn't mention exactly why the name is so bad - Rego, the name of the product, is slang for ass crack in Portuguese. I can sort of understand why you wouldn't want to put that in the post itself, but it's also a little annoying to have to watch a video to find out why it went viral.
Copied from my comment on an earlier posting of the same story-

From the original article- "However, it's worth noting that more than a quarter of the professors felt that their successful MOOC students do deserve credit. Those respondents include faculty members at Penn, Princeton, Duke, and Stanford. Most of them led courses that were oriented to math, science, and engineering."
Which makes sense, those are subjects which are probably best suited to this kind of approach.

I've taken a number of MOOCs, from EDx, Coursera, and Udacity. I'm an addict, always in at least one and plan to pretty much permanently keep doing them as long as it's possible to do so.

The 6.002x from EDx was probably the most rigorous of the ones I've done, and I felt a solid sense of accomplishment when it was over. But I don't think I should be awarded MIT credit for it, mostly due to the limited substitutions for lab work.

In fact, I don't think college credit would be appropriate for any of the classes I've done. However, the certificates for most of them do have meaning, and should be taken by employers as a sign that someone is likely to have some competency in the area.

Yes, cheating is possible, so it's not automatic, but you should always be evaluating someone's actual skills that matter to you anyway. An A in a class on their college transcript also doesn't guarantee mastery in any way whatsoever. It's just an indicator that the person may have such.
Association or Causation?
To me, the permanent archive of all RSS feeds is far more important than the Google Reader front end. Critical comments that blog owners deleted on their site are still found in the Google RSS archive. In some cases it exposes true malfeasance, when blog admins change the comments of others. I can download whole RSS histories myself, but without a link to an independent archive my own copy is worthless as evidence, since I could have edited it myself.
I think there's utility in weeding out posers. That's why fizzbuzz is even talked about in the first place.

But I think there should also be a real test, with Internet access available.
I remember where I was when Curiosity landed on the moon--I was glued to two monitors, one with a live stream of the control room, and one with a realtime simulation of the landing. Visionaries had the foresight to provide those to me.

If anyone hasn't seen the Curiosity pictures, or they're otherwise not inspired, that's not the fault of the visionaries--nor does it lessen their status as such. A group of really smart people got together and pulled off something incredible just because they could; just because we want to know what's out there.

Oh, and here you go, travel Mars: http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar...
Upvote, beacuse I see myself as a descent programmer and my github account has been idle for ages.

Not to mention that holding a full time job and my wanting to spend time with my wife and kid leave very little time to maintain a blog (which I don't) or contribute to OSS (as much as I can, but next to nothing compared to other readers of this site).
I suppose if you can keep the device from falling on a corner then you're good. That seems to be the worst-case scenario. It'll probably be a couple years before we see this in any of their devices.
The ground freezing technique is 150 years old: http://www.burnsmcd.com/BenchMark/Article/Ground-Freezing

I knew it was at least 30 years old since it was used in subway construction in Moscow around the time I was born but didn't realize it was quite that old.
The #API #client that nobody has, nobody can describe, but everybody wants
I think you left out some context there.

Grace Hopper, one of the most accomplished computer scientists not just of her day but ever. Rose to dizzying heights in the US military because they needed her so much. A towering giant of the field. So when the picture of her comes up on screen, does the speaker say any of this? Does he acknowledge her greatness? No. He says she's wearing a cute hat. All her accomplishments and ability reduced to how she looks in a hat.

The problem here has absolutely nothing to do with the hat.
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Thank you. I agree, it's annoying to have to rely on sound, I'm in a public place without headphones with me. The article itself said almost nothing. Glad I saw your comment; without that I would've assumed it was just about what Google Translate told me it meant in Portuguese (trench, gutter).
I wonder what impact that has on her life. Of course it's amazing (and somewhat lucky), but making this much money on such age... If she makes anything else in the next decade and it's not going to exceed everything previously, she might consider it a failure. Not exceeding what you did at 9 years old is pretty depressing I imagine.
Facebook Isn’t Holding Back Their Growth: MessageMe Raises $1.9M
Yes, and i should trust in that source? haha, of course!
The point is that the whole conglomerate of companies is enough power to prevent competition and innovation (from the outside), to dictate prices, to dominate a whole market with whatever fits your companies strategy best. This constellation has never been good for the consumer. Nobody guarantees you that they're holding back with the fees until they can establish h.265 as the new defacto standard and then start raising fees, because eventually we'll have the same situation again as nowadays (hard decoders only support h264/265, etc etc). Again, there will be no competition, in a few years every video conference will be h264/5, every web video wil be h264, every Bluray, virtually every video.. If you have that kind of dominance you can do whatever the fuck you like. Like raising the fees and leeching the money out of companies because there is no choice. Atleast that's what i would do ;)
She did tweet and make it a public issue, but we don’t know that she didn’t also complain to her employer. There was a lot of space in between the time she tweeted their pic (3/17) and the time she got fired (3/20).

I agree that overhearing a dick pun probably wouldn’t be enough to establish a hostile working environment, but you can’t fire someone for making even a baseless complaint. I don’t think serious harm really factors in when it comes to sexual harassment. Let’s say there was some horrible stuff going on and she went on CNN, then the company’s stock tanked. Could they turn around and go, “Well, you really damaged the company. Clean out your desk.”?
I enjoyed watching the video since if I had read your comment, it would have spoiled the entire reason why this post is pretty hilarious..... Finding out the context of a "joke" before the joke being told is kind of a spoiler.

Anyway, watch the video if you can, it's worth the minute.
I hope someone can invent an SQL diff engine, e.g. input two files of creat table sql and output the alter table sql.
Even if you don't get "real" MIT credit, a certificate of completion from some of the courses is worth more than credit people get at some universities.
I agree with this. I was a bit indignant at first, but, when I realized what they meant, I thought it makes sense.
She was not scientific on her speech and since she often lies it is not something to take very seriously.
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What Richard said is why I didn't mention the meaning in the title; it'd be a spoiler! Anyway, Gizmodo in Brazil covered the app in an article entitled, "This is not a HANDS-ON review!" which got thousands of RTs and Facebook likes. We then responded with that video, and they followed up with a second article -- glad to see we were taking the news in good humor!
It's really not insanity. They truly believe that more government spending in the form of tax-cuts and funding (remember that the 2009 stimulus included a good portion of tax cuts) will produce more jobs, which will grow the economy, and thus increase the revenues from taxes. That is, short term spending for long term gain.

It may be a difference of opinion, but it's a justified opinion and thus not outright insanity. The conversation is never going to move until both sides try to understand each other in reasonable and non-extreme terms.
I never understood why Google didn't profit RSS well by doing a product polish as Flipboard or Zite. They could have done something powerful as those and they didn't. Instead of that, they did a crap app wich it doesn't even get close. I would have been a happy customer of Reader wich such nice interface.
You shouldn't need a reason. But if it's a close choice between you and someone who's really good at faking enthusiasm, who do you think they're going with? We're only human, and people like being told their company is awesome. It validates their life choices.
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This violates kickstarter guidelines against "fund my life" campaigns (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines). I've used the Report button to bring this to their attention.

Yes, I know it's a feel-good story, but encouraging this will bring a flood of me-too campaigns. That's what guidelines are for; Mom can pay for camp the way the rest of us do.
As an interviewer I'd far prefer a candidate who said 'I'm still not sure I do want the job - it looked interesting, but I still need to get a sense of your team and how you work' than someone who said 'actually I just need a job'. 'Actually I just need a job' is one of the worst answers to that question.
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Where does the extend come in? Not that I ever used reader but the article doesn't seem to mention any extensions to RSS other than a thing called "bundles" which I have never heard of. Did reader have a lot of specific extensions that make it hard to build a competing product?
I'm taking the UC Berkeley class in AI through edx.com and I can see why you wouldn't want to offer credit. It would be way to easy to cheat without having some paid testing company giving tests like they do for certification exams. But it is a great resource for surveying a discipline and seeing how its taught in a major university.

I don't see any reason why they couldn't make it work for the kind of massive introductory courses freshman take. How is it worse than 500 students taught by a grad student in a state university lecture hall?

I think at least some of the opposition is by professors worried about protecting their jobs and not wanting to lose the comfortable path they have trod so many years. But they will likely have no choice. I'm not sure how it will end up, but academia can no more avoid the massive changes in our world brought on by the internet than bookstores or newspapers could. If higher education was a free market and not so massively subsidized, the changes would have already happened. Given a choice would anyone want to pay the $200,000 full price for a four year university degree in say something like English lit if it were coming out of their own pocket?
Agreed - and don't let one project become an excuse to neglect another one.

Working on multiple projects makes you feel like you don't have time to waste, and so there is a tendency to make better use of time worked on each. There is also a need to properly prioritize across projects - which might be a considered a way of sneaking "focus" back into the picture after all.
MOOCs have been a blessing to me. However, I understand that credits are not possible until they solve the issue of cheating. But lets not be naive and think cheating doesn't happen at plenty of standard university's around the world.
The article he's talking about is still worth reading, but this is a good summary if you don't have the time/interest to read the whole thing.
Apple has 170 billion in liquid assets and annual revenues of 100+ billion.

Given that licensing isn't broken out or even mentioned in their market conference calls gives you a pretty good indication that it is a pretty insignificant amount.
I don't know about being smart, because I can't compare myself to others. But it sure feels good to be ever curious, learning and experimenting.
Meh. Apple has gone from underdog to overdog, hipsters upset.
Compiling LLJS to asm.js gives near C speed w. JS subset using typed arrays
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What does that prove? You really think a 60th percentile-level household in 1970 was better off than a 40th percentile-level household today? I'd spot you a whole quintile.

And even without accounting for the difficulty in comparing like-to-like over 40 years of CPI indexing, or the change in the demographics of U.S. households, that median line still looks pretty good when you realize you're looking at a linear scale.
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This is a weak argument full of murky assumptions. Apple was an "edgy brand" until Jobs died, and now that they sent an email blast about the fact that an independent agency with a fair amount of credibility thinks they make the best phone, they're in trouble?

You can't be the underdog forever. Once you win, it doesn't make sense to focus only on belittling your competition. Apple's brand is, and has been, about trying to make the best stuff.
I fear its more than that. They seem content to sit on their laurels, that's what I get from reading the articles.
From that list Apple, Microsoft and Sony are licensors.

Hence are very much key members of MPEG-LA.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx
Judging the direction Apple is heading toward from that ad looks a bit exaggerated to me. The author forgot that Apple were not in the same position at the time of the "I'm a Mac" campaign as they are today with the iPhone.

Today, they have a product every other manufacturer wants to beat, and so their strategy is reasonable, showing that they have not been beaten yet, so this kind of ads. At the time, they were trying people to adopt an ecosystem (the Mac) that was anecdotal in comparison to the PC, totally different exercise..
If you look in the past, Apple has always had this strategy. They iterate their products very slowly, with always one or two additions with each generation to keep the customer/user interested in buying the new iPhone, but not enough so he buys also the next one. That is how they play the game.
Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?
Maybe a Coinbase engineer can anonymously tell us what's going on over there, because nobody trying to trade with Coinbase can get a public answer.

Money is going missing. Transactions have been delayed for days and, in some cases, over a week. Even amounts already in BTC aren't leaving the system.

Coinbase claimed the other day this was all due to a database migration[1], but they're offline once again.

[1]: http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1051063-pending-transactions
This doesn't seem to apply - she is creating a game and the rewards include copies of that game. There are plenty of other games that are funded on Kickstarter. The method of producing the game (going to a camp) seems irrelevant, and clearly not what the guidelines are supposed to prevent.
Keep in mind that MPEG (which defines codecs) and MPEG-LA (which gives you one-stop shopping for some of the patent licnses) are completely separate entities.

MPEG-LA even arranges patent licensing for some codecs not developed by MPEG, such as SMPTE VC-1.

They may have a vested interest in the royalty-bearing license regime but not necessarily in supporting any given codec family.