skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A meritocratic society is a lot of meritocracies chained together, themselves needing to merit success. Each one can only work with their own inputs, and so rely on the outputs of the other organizations. If these organizations do not extend deeply and broadly enough back, then at some point the inputs of an organization won't be the ones that should be there. This needs to go back to families at some point. In a meritocracy, mothers and fathers have an obligation to ensure that the potential of their children is developed and expressed through participation in society. I believe the failure of so many parents to do this is responsible for the ineffectiveness of our supposedly meritous systems, organizations and industries.
Totally. Your scraper/emailer for Who's Hiring should at least include a sentence like, "I particularly like the part about [random string from posting]". I mean, come on, that's not much harder than fizzbuzz ...
Check out the histogram at: https://angel.co/salaries
One possible scenario: GitHub may have been young, foolish, and naive, and originally registered their domain with GoDaddy.

Then they woke up and realized what a STEAMING PILE GoDaddy is as a company, and corrected the error of their ways for their other domains. :)

Just my random $.02 :)
Perhaps you should reread your comment then read mine to help you grok. I could say the same about your comment. What does the authors comfort have to do with anything? You simply ignored their source refuting that these services are optional and attacked the author.

At least I'm actually talking about the subject and you continue to offer nothing but passive aggressive Ad hominem attacks. I'm not at all surprised and I anticipate another comment from you along the same lines.
Smart people who can learn new things are the rockstars. (Even though in actuality this term is a joke turned into a marketing term to attract confident developers.)
How can I resist?

http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9200000/Marxism-marx-...
Hagfish slime: The clothing of the future?
"Even substantial number of computer science graduates lack the capability of basic coding"

You misread my statement. A competent mechanical engineer graduate attending college in the past 5 to 10 years has more CS experience and coding ability than most CS graduates. The talent shortage, as it were, comes from restricting your view to the CS and CE fields.

To review, this is what i wrote (emphasis added): "Many people, especially coming from an engineering background, have the requisite programming and computer science experience to do what you need."
Awesome advice.
Yes and no.

For 5 years of experience that seems like in the low end, but if you have only front end skills, then jobs available to you will always be lower paid than somebody that has full-stack/back-end skills. Being good in the back-end means that you have to brush your Computer Science skills. Nobody wants to trust their back-end to people that don't have their CS down, and they are willing to pay more for the people that do, Front end is seen a less mission-critical area for most tech companies. Also the entry bar is lower, which increases competition (lots of new grads, or people that don't have CS skills can apply to those jobs), which decreases salaries. That's how it works.

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Start developing your back-end skills. Python, Ruby, Java, whatever suits you. Also makes sure your Computer Science knowlede is up-to date. Buy Skieana's Algorithms book (it is a great read), and internalize the most common algos. (Not memorize, but internalize). Being full stack will dramatically increase your job opportunities and income over time.

Also, it makes you much more prepared/ready to get a startup/product going, end to end.
Actually, all of the vendors of the state-of-the-art ASIC mining equipment are accepting Bitcoins as payment.

But interesting analysis. What do you think about the Bitcoin Days Destroyed metric [0] as a way to measure the health of the Bitcoin economy?

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed
There is a difference between "low effort" and rude. Not taking 30 seconds to actually comprehend the position and have enough background to actually write a meaningful email basically would rule you out of me hiring you since it says a lot about how you would be to work with.
Wait, this isn't an April Fool's joke?
Good example of a misidentified problem. That engineer identified the problem as the lights need to be on when somebody is in a room and off otherwise, and off when the person lies down.

But the real problem is that turning the lights on and off normally takes too much effort (for a #firstworldproblem at least). You have to walk over and flip a switch, interrupting whatever you doing.

A better solution would be design a system that lets people control the lights with minimal effort - a gesture, or a clap, or a voice command. So you can turn on the lights only when dark and not during the day, or when you want to read in bed, etc.
Computer program that learns to play classic NES games
What, like pay to download a movie instead of torrenting it?
The guess-and-iterate method would still be more efficient than trying to work through a stats textbook if the author is not educated in mathematics, though. Anyway, a lot of people don't enjoy learning math (crazy as that concept may seem to me, and, I guess, you) but guessing-and-iterating on a game you're excited about would always be fun.
There is RAID-Z2 which allows for 2 discs to fail and RAID-Z3 which allows for 3. Problem is rebuild time is still slow. I wouldn't recommend to use RAID-Z1.
Are you insane?

What kind of place do you come from in which jobs are rarer than developers? Aren't you normally paying recruiters through the nose to access me?

(For the record, I'd write a good message if I felt like the job was for A-listers, but the reality is I just read a lot of them and I can tell that most of these places aren't there.)
Good advice. I was actually a back-end engg for the first few years of my career. I ended up transitioning into front-end because I really enjoyed it, though I kind of miss helping out in all aspects of the stack.
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I'm not familiar with that stat but it's perfectly believable. Many people are clearly getting by with a mixture of memorization and trial-and-error rather than understanding.

I think of those who understand algorithmic reasoning (i.e. understand loops, assignment, etc.) they also fall into two categories. Those who can understand more abstract programming concepts (indirect referencing, recursion) and those who can't - you can definitely still be a good programer without understanding those but it will limit the areas you can work in.
Agreed... it is definitely NOT a Hirer's market... there's a serious shortage in good in developers most major cities ( SF / NYC / London ). Low supply / high demand.
I don't understand why Feedly needs browser extensions. As far as I can tell the only reason they need them is to spy on your behavior. Otherwise, as all the other online RSS readers show there's no need for browser extensions.

That leads me to believe they are spying. Because, to repeat myself, why else would they need the extension?
DanBC is right about the comments here on HN, but I was talking about the response from the "tech community" at large in my original comment anyway.
Something relevant to note, is that YC's two biggest successes got into YC at least in part because of personal relationships.

IIRC, Dropbox was recommended by former roommates and friends from MIT (Xobni guys?). Airbnb was recommended by Michael Seibel from Justin.tv, perhaps others.

In both cases it's possible that YC wouldn't have interviewed or perhaps accepted one or both of these companies if not for those recommendations.

Or perhaps wouldn't have accepted Dropbox without the MIT credentials.

Based on the stories the founders tell, YC was very skeptical of both ideas (but it's probably hard for them to judge).

The next question I think of is whether Airbnb would have succeeded without YC. I suspect not. As good as those guys were at staying alive even they had limits, which they seemed in danger of reaching at that point.

Dropbox had a better chance probably, since it was already very well received, but maybe they would have fumbled it without the YC help. Certainly they wouldn't have done quite as well.

If personal connections was the thing that pushed some of YC's big successes over the application/interview acceptance hurdle it's fair to conclude that they've probably missed out on some others that didn't have those connections.
"Ebooks with DRM ... due to intentional sabotage by Apple".

Nope. It's up to the publisher. For example, all of the Orson Scott Card books on the iBookstore advertise that they are DRM-free in the description.
Oh, that's easy: I think you should feel a little uncomfortable telling someone else you think they're being misleading, because it's another way of saying they're being deliberately deceptive, which is not something you'd say to their face.

I'm sure it's something I've said too, and if I was called out on it, I'd like to think I'd agree and amend my comment.

It is a little strange to call that point out as "ad hominem", for whatever it's worth.
yes, it was just a joke (depending on your definition of "joke"). but it was never funny. people who still say that are obviously stuck in the past -- in terms of their maturity, argumentative skills, critical thinking abilities, senses of humor, and general cultural awareness.

people who say "Micro$oft" are idiots. the existence of people who are humorless and lame enough to say it in the year 2013 -- that's what's offensive. it's not that people give a shit about microsoft or whatever
Timely update. Currently am exploring cloud storage options for ALL my files. Anyone has experience with Bitcasa? How do Dropbox/Cloud Drive/Google Drive line up?
You mention positive reviews, successful products and no bonuses. One key question would be whether or not you have received any increases since you've been there (are they making an effort to keep you, and do they value you more today than they did when you started?). You don't say how long you have been at the company. I have recruited on the east coast for 15 years so not as familiar with SF, but in Philadelphia you'd be on the high end for that level of experience. I would have assumed for SF your salary would be at the bottom end of market rate, but I'm no expert on SF.
I also interviewed many Maths and Engineering graduates and didn't find their abilities to be substantially higher. Also from my experience talking to students at careers fairs most Engineering graduates (other than Elec. Engineers) aren't interested in pursuing software development as a career path.
Incidentally, here's Dropbox's YC application: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html
I think you should turn up the contrast on your blog a little.
This isn't very readable: http://goput.it/kag.png
Edit: It's fixed, thank you.
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Princeton mom: Women have a 'shelf life'
I have no clue how people who don't understand Marxian political economy can understand things like the huge dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, and then the crash. Or the (sub-prime) real estate bubble. Or how the finance sector is growing, in GDP percentage wise and in power, relative to the economy which produces real commodities.

Then again, according to polls (and my experience), the majority of Americans believe "every word of the Bible is literally accurate", and that "the Virgin birth, the angelic proclamation to the shepherds, the Star of Bethlehem, and the Wise Men from the East" are "historically accurate". Over 70% believe in "God, Heaven, the resurrection of Christ, survival of the soul after death, miracles, the virgin birth, the devil and hell". If blindness to the way the world really works is so overwhelming with these fantasies, expecting people to understand how wealthy people discretely work the economic system is way, way beyond most people.
I started working for a company late last year involved with providing an online radio experience.

We tackle the same problem of providing a seamless music listening experiencing.

http://www.earbits.com
I like using seeds as an example, because they make a nice toy model. They last a long time, and more of them can be produced through capital goods (that is, other seeds) and labor alone.

In this model, seeds have no inherent depreciation, and our hero would have bought them from a seller, e.g. a storefront. In a deflationary environment, the nominal value of capital goods decreases, so anyone holding seeds, whether as inventory (the seed store) or investment (planted in the ground), would take a loss.

You are correct that, given deflationary expectations, fewer people would plant seeds. That is exactly what this scenario is meant to illustrate. Fewer people doing work is called unemployment!

And to your last question, let us say that seeds can be used as food. As seed suppliers drop out of the market, this inescapable demand for food will indeed drive their price up. Deflationary spirals do not terminate in starvation: equilibrium is reached, because of basic necessities. But the equilibrium is at a lower output level, and with higher unemployment.
That sort of email only doesn't work if the resume is bad, or like you say, if they have their profile settings wrong. If it's a good resume, a brief email is preferable.
or pranks. Pranks are okay too.
Too bad you're located in London otherwise I would love to show you how good I am at reading a man and then implement the function :-)
Having some suspicions of what Stallman's wider goals are, I wouldn't assume that these "injustices" are the reason for his objection in isolation. I see from a quick stalk (sorry, I wanted to see if there was some common ground to build on) that just the other day, you wrote a comment about Google Reader that seemed to suggest (my interpretation; by all means object if this is mischaracterized) that controlling your own tools is a more far-sighted and responsible choice than locking yourself into a proprietary system out of your control.

Sorry to pick on you (and thank you for responding), but I really am genuinely curious if others who are aware of RMS and still make the choices that you and I have, are really on the same page as far as understanding his overarching philosophy.
Salaries flatten out pretty quickly starting around 5 years of experience. For significantly more money you could either go independent or to management. I'm sure there are some that make a lot more but I think you're in the ballpark.
I don't know if this will apply for your case, but I have a big website for an specific fandom (similar to videogame, it is a little nerdie), which lead to a bigger Twitter account (almost 200.000 followers).

Try to monetize it with content which will get attention from your visitor. Run teespring campaigns, contact shops who sells merchandising, and that kind of stuff.

You can also create a blog and ask shops and manufacturer for products to write reviews. You will receive them, and after the review, you can sell them.
Taking you literally, I'd say that a wall is clunkier than a headset. But being reasonable, I'd say that those approaches are pretty different and neither is obviously better. Why do you favor projections?
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Show HN: Our iphone app landing page has playable demo in HTML/CSS
Simple: If you can land a better paying (don't forget stock grants and options) and/or more fun job elsewhere, then yes.

Interview at other places you'd actually consider working and get offer letters. Compare.

As an employer, I knew my employees were doing this - It's my job to keep them, not their job to forego better opportunities and pay in the name of loyalty.

That said, if you do get better offers, talk to your current employer before jumping ship. They're best positioned to know exactly how valuable you are and might work very hard to keep you.
We're building Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com) to solve the exact problem you're having: "How can I make sure that I'm not missing out on better opportunities?".

We call it 'Passive Opportunity Awareness' and it's the core of our value proposition.

We're currently in private beta, but you sound like someone who could benefit from our service in it's current form. Feel free to write me at the address in my profile if you have private questions.

ps. We're releasing a new home page within the next day or so. The current one looks a little... startuppy :)
Good point. We considered proceed but went with progress because it seemed more positive!
Even as a non-lawyer, to my knowledge a judge can not determine something to be fair-use if the defendant don't raise such claim. If the defendant is claiming to be a neutral intermediate between the end-user and the broadcaster, the court has to decide a direct answer to such claim. Everything else is out of scope.

If "public performance" should have an effect in distinguishing a distributor from an neutral intermediate could had be an interesting question, but I suspect the answer would be less so. Without a change in the law, "public performance" is either going to be a very dated phrase and thus non-inclusing, or something that means everything that a third-party might see (such as any packet sent over the public network called the Internet).
> if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong.

Oh so true.
Hi grannyg00se! I don't see an email in your profile, so:

1. Rob
2. SupplyBetter.com

1 @ 2 is my email. Let's talk.
I agree, I suspect the best way to be caught is for the malicious team member to tell someone who turns them in. Most likely it doesn't ever go noticed. Also, it's fortunate that the information received by the security teams typically has a relatively small window of opportunity to perform the exploit.
Right, with similar failure modes. For example: people firing copypasta emails to reduce the writing cost per-application / per-message.

When I have an OKC account, my strategy is just to write the first half-funny sentence or two that come to mind, shoot off the message, and move on.

Even when I apply for jobs and write a cover letter, what do I do? A dating site message with a funny accent.

Dear Companyboss,

I write in reply to your advertisement of <date> in the Foobar Herald.

I am <skills/titles>. While working at <previous employer>
I used <technology/skills>.

I have included my CV and I look forward to your reply.

Yours &c &c

Writing short messages isn't because the writers are lazy. It's a rational strategy that maximises coverage and minimises the emotional cost of being rejected after making a large investment.
did you take the site down? It takes me to some domain provider site. I'm currently learning django and would like to know how you went about learning it.
thanks.
The market is large enough, the transactions are relatively large, too.

In Kenya, M-Pesa is by far, the #1 payments service, with nearly half the country using it. It grew acceptance as a replacement for the other way of remitting money from the cities to villages - busses. Prior to M-Pesa, bus drivers would act, for a fee, as money carriers, bringing income back from the cities to families back home.

The competent hackers were, literally, brute-forcing the old system. Bus drivers are easier to compromise than mobile handsets and infrastructure.
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We're a two-sided marketplace that does matchmaking between professional artisans / craftsmen and buyers. You post your dreams, we find someone to make it real. People come up with some crazy ideas like a custom made quidditch set / proposal ring:
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We're funded by Google Ventures and a ton of others: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/custommade-ventures So paying you well is not an issue.

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We have a great team and a great environment that focuses on customers and product development. I get to collaborate with product / UX / support people day to day to build a product that meets a real business need, and makes everyone happy. But when I just need to bang out some code, people leave me alone.

You're a hacker / startup veteran who has pushed code to production innumerable times, and doesn't cringe at the prospect of collaborating with a team of non-techies daily. You know the modern web stack well, and specialize in at least one part of it.

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I started working for a company late last year involved with providing an online radio experience. We tackle the same problem of providing a seamless music listening experience.

http://www.earbits.com
Actually, ironically, the _particular_ bug that changed how ActiveRecord works... which caused security problems... was actually an unintentional regression in a _security patch_.

There were ALSO unrelated changes (quite many) in the patch release that included the latest security fixes. Which is a mess.

But, the _particular_ problem here, the OP suggests it was the same problem as github reported [here](https://github.com/blog/1440-today-s-email-incident), where they suggest they isolated the introduction of the regression to [this commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f980289fd2c1b9073a94b5...), which in fact has a commit message as the fix to CVE-2013-1854.

So, yes, a security fix unintentionally introduced a regression with _other_ security implications. Yeah, this is kind of ironic, and yeah, it means it's not so simple to say what could have been done to avoid it. (In this case, I'm surprised there wasn't an automated test already that caught the particular regression. It seems like something that should have been tested. But I haven't looked at the test source to see if it was an odd edge case or what have you.)

(But it's STILL bad practice to release security patches only in releases bundled with a bunch of other changes).
Hello,

Got the "oops somethign went wrong" error on my first search.

Searched for "Hoodie Allen", and did not work. When I added underscores in the link, it worked. Searched again from the home page with the same term and it worked..