skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying there aren't companies who do that. But you must realize your company is an exception, right? The majority of companies use a CS degree to filter candidates.

The OP made things more difficult for himself, so it makes little sense to complain about how difficult of a time he had. He could have made it 10x easier by switching majors to CS.
Well, in Canada it's very unusual to call a bachelors a diploma. The piece of paper is a degree. Diplomas are for two year colleges and high schools.

I think the work history requirements might have relaxed in recent years a bit, but not by much. 10 years seems to be the point where most American employers start to seem optimistic about being able to get you an H-1B without a degree. But if it's not employment experience you'll have to work twice as hard to document it, and that can be very difficult. Most of my work history, for example, is tied up in companies that no longer exist or as contracts, as with you.

http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/ca/home.aspx
https://jobs.ea.com/locations/canada/
http://www.google.ca/about/jobs/locations/waterloo/

I also think there was an article here recently about Facebook setting up a Vancouver office just to bring graduates through the subsidiary employment process. It's a one year thing specifically for that purpose.
Really the only reason I see that asm.js should be a halfway point rather than an endpoint is that it's kind of verbose. Even so, gzip makes a lot of that point moot, and it might be possible to make a bytecode with a 1:1 correspondence with asm.js (which could then be parsed using JS in legacy browsers), to make something even more concise.

But including an entire emscripten'd ruby environment on your website just because you don't want to use JS seems insanely inefficient, and no bytecode is going to fix that.
I think that's sort of what the GP meant by "The problem is that if you play that game, you compete with Walmart and lose."
its been a while since I made a Facebook App but I am pretty sure last time I checked you can made an app on a non-SSL domain and it will be iframed into the secure page, which in FF23 will break, so some apps may not work anymore. just saying.
> Disclaimer: I was not affected by either of these companies’ mistakes; this post it just comparing Heroku’s response and Instacart’s response

> Too bad Heroku. You just lost a customer.

So did you/he or did you/he not use Heroku?

It seems like you/he didn't in the start, so how could heroku have lost a customer?
Not really. The possibility of a short lived double spend is a valid state for the system to be in. What is vanishingly unlikely is a long lived double spend. There are currently no long lived double spends in the block chain, and that means no double spend has ever been successful.
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A warning about the ours and theirs commands: when you're rebasing, they will do the exact opposite what most people await them to do (thanks to git rebase's implementation).

From the git rebase man-page, --merge:
Note that a rebase merge works by replaying each commit from the working branch on top of the <upstream> branch. Because of this, when a merge conflict happens, the side reported as ours is the so-far rebased series, starting with <upstream>, and theirs is the working branch. In other words, the sides are swapped.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase....
first class dates says yes it is!
The bag is definitely an infringement, but it gets complicated, because she ripped the background from a website. The t-shirt seems different enough to be legal.
Just to put a needle fine point on it: Wal-Mart has "always low prices"... for your area.

Their data mining lets them know exactly what to price Household Paper Products in your zip code so that they're always lower than the surrounding competition while not leaving money on the table. They're not targeting the lowest possible price system-wide.
Schemaless SQLite3
I would expect most companies serving pages over SSL to already be serving assets over SSL to avoid the mixed content warnings that most browsers currently give when loading non-SSL assets on an SSL page.
Ever try a safety razor, with actual shaving cream instead of pressurized-cream-in-a-can?
Gog.com recently released it for new systems:
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/system_shock_2

Apparently it works well under wine, too.
You're obviously spot-on when you say it's a combination of both timing and appeal to the readers. I clearly have no magic solution since I've similarly struggled to draw any attention to my own project.

That said, for you in particular, I can give you one data point: I never saw any of your previous Show HNs. Items fall off of the "new" page so quickly and all of us only have so much time we're willing to spend on the site.

I've seen previous efforts made by some readers to upvote all Show HN votes in order to encourage our peers, but there's not much consistency in those efforts.

I did click on this one, and then through your username to your previous submissions and ended up at your app. So there are tricks to be played, whether or not we are comfortable calling them tricks.

Nice app, by the way. It's not something I personally would use, but it looks like something you have put great effort into and I really appreciate you making it cross-platform. I'd be happy to give more opinions and/or random passer-by comments if you would find that valuable. But since I am nothing but a random passer-by, I'll refrain from that unless you ask.

Edit: one other thought. Although it's done nothing for me, I like the idea of including my project's URL right in my HN "about" box. Maybe you could do the same?
NPR had a great piece about JC Penney's about a month ago. The reporter, her sources, and the customers she talked with made a very convincing case that in its zeal to attract trendy fashionistas in the coastal cities, it had driven away its long-time customers (mostly middle-aged and older) looking for deals.

Found it: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/01/173203739/sales-ar... (I recommend listening to the audio, which has more detail)
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While I'm not a seasoned HN user, I'd say that it's not a reflection of your project. I personally think that time-of-day and title of post have big impacts on how many people click through to your link. It's quite easy to put your post up and within 30 minutes see it at the bottom.
Why not just provide multiple formats?
Deep in the clearance bin of web technologies (looking at you xhtml) lies like RDF and SPARQL. The only reason governments use it is for job security and because only they have the endless budgets to bother with it.
Copyright infringement is totally fine when you're a massive corporation. These laws only seem to work in one direction.
I started at age 6 or 7 by trying to mimic the command lines printed by my parents' first PC XT's AUTOEXEC.BAT (which lacked "echo off", for which I am eternally grateful), then checking out adventure books from my elementary school library where part of the story required typing in and running BASIC code.

I was also given an Atari 130XE by an uncle that booted to BASIC, explored GORILLAS.BAS when DOS 5.0 came along, etc.
My wild guess is that "Whatsapp" is the anonymous entrepreneur's co Marissa Mayer would have to pay twice than anyone else in today's NYTimes article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5509275
You might be interested to know that there's a voting system for politicians which works similarly, called "Mixed-member proportional representation." 50% of the politicians are directly voted and then 50% are appointed in order to make the party distribution look more like the voters should have expected it to look. In the analogy you're proposing, "parties" become the "bureaus" of the bureaucracy. You can also imagine their "programs" becoming a sort of "party list", I suppose, and you could even do a party-list proportional election in that sense. (Imagine if the 50% was instead 100%.)

The problem is that "fixed seats" are the wrong way to look at this; the fixed quantity is actually the budget money made available by the government. So, the last budget was a $3.54 trillion budget, and we might be able to "chunkify" the budget into $20 billion "awards" and thus "elect" 177 programs in the various departments and agencies to be allocated those awards. The US has 15 executive departments which is about the limit which democratic elections on this sort of scale usually take, so that would probably be the limit. Each department would put several large "programs" in order and you could choose some programs and some departments, or so; we then fund the most popular programs, followed by the top programs in the funded departments, until the department allocation matches the national average.

The problem here is: with political parties, anybody can start one. But the executive branch starts new executive departments and presumably builds those prioritized lists. Suppose the executive branch decides that there is only one department, they could more or less set the entire budget as they pleased.
Show HN shouldn't be primarily about marketing. It should be about showing the community something "interesting to hackers." New features probably won't cut it.

You may be better served by blogging. But as a caveat, write about people and their stories. A press release isn't usually going to get much traction.
Lazare, this is awesome, thanks so much! Let us know if you'd like to look closer into Hoodie, happy to assist
Timing of post probably matters the most. I think I've done 4 Show HN's and only one made it to the front page - and that's because it was an HN Reader for iOS... I've seen some Show HNs be posted multiple times (the guy who made the github for recipes is one that came to mind) with only the last one reaching the home page. For one of my github projects I made a Show HN, got 4 upvotes, no comments and it was gone from /new with the quickness. Then I posted the project, relevantly, as a comment in a thread for something else and it absolutely blew up from there. Got enough stars from that post to trend in Objective-C language that day, then was picked up by random blogs and was trending number 1 on github for the next day.

Show HN is totally hit or miss, but the power of this board is real, so don't discount your project yet or stop trying. Speaking of which, what is it?
Wat?

Entune uses your phone for Pandora & whatnot, but the maps interface is 100% old-skool (non-phone). The audio interface is built-in software. The things that come from your phone are your music, your phone calls, album art, and some data. The whole interface is some 1990s reject touchscreen abomination.

Data (stocks, weather) is provided by XM satellite data, and other data (updating apps) uses your smartphone.

I can't think of a more ridiculous mashup of technologies than Toyota's Entune.

Source: I have a 2013 Prius with premium nav.
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I've wondered about becoming an angel investor in Canada. I guess the ability to invest $10,000 without asking a wife qualifies me.
Which would matter, if businesses cared. I spend 4 days every month compiling a 1.5GB, Excel-based report. 80% of that time is spent with Excel frozen up and me playing on my phone, hoping that when Excel unfreezes it doesn't crash.

I suggested porting the process to Access with an Excel-based front end, which would cut the compilation time down to 4 hours at the most. I was denied due to the fact that whomever supports it after me will more than likely not have Access experience, and told to continue with the 4 days of hours-long freeze ups.

Corporate life for you, I guess.
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I'm not a developer (or user) on iOS, but does it not have a similar design scheme for apps to Android (since ICS at least)? Would an app that looks like bootstrap fit in at all, and indeed would Apple even allow an app that resembles Bootstrap instead of its own design guidelines?
| the FBI also considers abortion clinic
| violence to be acts of domestic terrorism

I was referring to the feeling I get from (generic) law enforcement in the US that "1 animal rights 'terrorism incident' == all animal rights people are terrorists," but "1 abortion clinic bombed == just an isolated incident." I think it stems from the idea that AR activists are "a bunch of dirty hippies" or anarchists, whereas anti-abortion protesters are just fine, upstanding Christians.

Of course, none of this will be in official documents, much in the same way that DWB[1] is not an actual offence, or official department policy.

[1] Driving While Black
Mruby has been compiled with Emscripten. There's a demo of it on the Emscripten wiki, where you can edit and run Ruby client side that way, though obviously with the caveat that bridging from Emscripten generated code to "normal" javascript is far from ideal.
It seems to be a classic retail problem. How does a retailer hold enough sales and issue enough coupons to beat last year's sales, but avoid making their customers addicted to (or fatigued by) coupons and sales?
Excel as a database, comic strip as a vehicle for 400 words of prose. It's amazing how tools can be adapted.
Wanting companies to be humble, of all possible things, seems like insanity to me. Companies are not people; they do not have emotions; they do not participate in psychosocial guilt/submission demonstrations as a way to signal status transfer.

A (B2B) company is a machine you rely on to run your own business--sort of like an office printer. When the printer stops working, do you expect an apology? The best thing the printer can do is to just start working again--to make you money now. Everything that has happened in the past is a sunk cost. Time spent apologizing is time spent not printing. (Imagine how much time Mr. Wiggins has spent giving people apologies instead of making Heroku work better.)

"Peace of mind" is for consumers. When you run a business, the only thing you should think about the B2Bs higher in your supply chain is "wow they're good at what they do." Whether they whimper believably will not help your own business succeed.
Yeah I'm a developer. I don't want to apply to the, but I'm really curious. Or rather, pretty angry at my self that I don't get it haha. Still can't figure it out :( It's not UTF-8, ASCII nor md5/SHA1 or any hex. Am I missing something?
Why an auction based system makes sense for crowd-investing
PayPal terminated my account because I use a VPN
View layers can get complex, but you can at the very least encapsulate complexity and have it interact with other parts of the system in a simple well defined way. Have the separate layers of the application communicate via interfaces that keep the ingress, egress points of data flow well defined. Things like event pub/sub systems can further decouple things, the observer pattern, etc.
Marketing and product design are the same thing.
Sorry, I definitely should have been clearer there. What I meant was that while I was not directly affected by Heroku's problem, their reaction surprised me so much (in a negative way) that I decided to stop using their product.
If you access the app using https-ed Facebook, i.e. via https://apps.facebook.com/appname, it would use https:// for the iframe as well. So, no problems there (at least no new ones that did not already exist).
As I said, they are constrained by the general LAMP architecture. You can't make it more parallel, you can't make objects more independent.

> the result is harder to maintain

This I disagree with.
plex isn't all roses on LG tvs, it's missing a 'watched/not watched' that lg has known about since 2011, but it is pretty damn good.

I've been using plex for some time now, and is one of the reasons I actually chose LG. but they are arsey bastards, integratings ads into their own interface.

http://twitter.com/posty/status/318213380311748608/photo/1

see here for known bugs and missing features:
http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/28419-bugs-and-req...

the lack of an input button is maddening to the extreme, it basically forces you to use the interface.

i thought the magic remote was ok too, until i started using the other one, it actually makes so much more sense to me.
Yes. And Yes. But hey, totally worth it. I'm happy to support anyone trying to make a hoodie.js for other backends. Let's do this
This keeps coming up lately and it really needs to be clarified. Asm.js is not a useful tool for running dynamic languages as a browser-replacement for js. It carves out its own heap and has extremely limited interaction with the DOM.

You probably could establish a bytecode for that purpose, but the problem is that putting it at a higher level (where real interaction with the DOM is possible) gives you an impedance mismatch between object (how messages are dispatched) and execution models (how things like exceptions propagate) that can only be overcome at some degree of a performance loss.

I'm not saying that can't be solved, but I don't think anyone's put any serious effort into doing so in a generalizable way.
I guess the Office team would rather work on the metro ribbon.

Of course they would! They've already achieved their goal with Excel: make it a lock-in product. In this case, they did it by breaking CSV compatibility, thereby forcing everyone to use XLSX.
I have been expecting AWS to announce a product like this for a while.
I second that and pretty much anything else Feynman did. His lectures on quantum electrodynamics for the layman that later got put into his QED book are also excellent.
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What's insane is that your company doesn't allow him to work remotely.
It's kind of funny that once upon a time, in the early days, there was actually a language attribute to the script tag and at least one browser actually supported embeddable languages.

Sure, it was an embrace-and-extend move, but I'm not sure it was a bad idea even so.
I'm sorry, but I think the question won't lead to a sufficient answer. Because what you describe is in fact becoming "services offered" (through (web-)technology). You're asking which field you should put your focus on, but the question is which fields are going to be required in the future. Web 3.0 was proposed by Sir Tim B. Lee and most of his predictions have become true. That's why I think that the question should be formulated as: "How can I benefit humanity as a computer scientist?" or What can I do to realize Web3.0 as a computer scientist.

The answer of the user "mindcrime" is a direct answer to the Web3.0 question, but I thought that you should know the background. As the background knowledge behind the answer is sometimes more helpful than the answer itself.

Building Services is trending right now and building technologies and architectures that are able to scale to the requirements of these services are part of the trend.

Key characteristics are: Low barriers to entry, little or no capital expenditure, massive scalability, multitenancy, device independence, location independence. But it can be reduced to "benefit" only aswell.

Everything as a service (EaaS, XaaS) is a concept of offering Services through technology. It is a subset of cloud computing, but not limited to. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are the most popular form of Service.

The most common and successful example is software as a service (SaaS), but the term as a service has been associated and used with many core components of cloud computing including communication, infrastructure, data and platforms. Humans as a Service (HuaaS) and other creative ways of using technology and architecture to solve problems are exciting forms of these Services.

Tl;Dr:

Learn what you think will make the world (a little) better as a computer scientist. Semantic Web, Web3.0, Online Education and Home Schooling are the horses I would bet on. If you don't trust us, hack Google Trends and "similar services" http://www.google.com/trends/
It's awesome when you read posts on HN about interesting things and realize your friends were involved. Congrats gr2m!
(P.S... +1 for an Angular adapter =))
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Introducing modern.IE
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I mean that when I click on a title Trello assumes I want to edit it. It's that too hard to have a light gray edit icon for that purpose?
I wonder if cheaper health care costs give Canada any kind of advantage business-wise?
"they" being the TNG foleys.
This is somewhat a flawed argument on Paypal's part. If a user chooses to obscure their connection via a VPN for security purposes but has supplied the appropriate identification needs to Paypal, what is the problem here?

Paypal like any other big corporation has lost touch with its customer base. Its been that way for a long time now, someone needs to come in and beat Paypal in its own territory. Payment providers like Square are still the small time, they're not in countries like Australia or New Zealand or any other first world country that needs some Paypal competition.
Oh... Norway 0.0% Do they have a law against IE 6 or what ? :)
Awesome. Thanks for the response. It's nice to hear about your experience and the process. I have thought about mentioning the project as a comment on a related HN submission...but I can never think of a way that seems natural enough. To answer your question the project is here: http://moviepileapp.com
Why switch majors? Drop the education part, build something, show it to companies looking, profit.

Degrees are overrated.
Amicable like they were over simba the white lion?

Disney rip-off left, right and centre. Yes, they aggressively protect their IP, but that doesn't mean they won't trample all over everyone else's. they have a history of this behaviour.
My question: why is outside investing considered the norm around here?

It feels like so many people are worried about "playing the game" if you will, ie getting funding, creating a "startup" and moving to the bay. To what end? To just make a bunch of money? Everything seems backward. Taking VC funding is but one of an infinite number of ways to sustain a business (keyword: sustain). Personally I don't even think about funding, marketing, any of that jazz until I have a badass prototype that is not only fun for me to use, but gets others excited as well. That feels like what should be the norm to me. It all seems funky when people are thinking of business opportunities before thinking of a product, then seeing an opportunity to make money off of it.
I'm not buying it. Both paintings are of Alice from behind with the same pose. That's about it. Are we really copyrighting poses now?
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If they can organize a non-profit org to build out the network and operate it, and get the capital for the equipment, yes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=community+broadband
What's so bad about being based in Texas? Isn't Neiman Marcus also based in Texas?
http://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api/ has public JSON API for all the popular Bitcoin currency markets.

For the other data (non-market transactions etc.) you can run the Bitcoin-qt client on virtually any hardware and then connect to its built in JSON API.
I agree, but a half-baked system doesn't help and just adds complexity to one's life.

I would love to be able to see what's in my fridge and pantry in real-time. But until everything has RFID embedded, it will never take less time than just looking in the cupboard when I need to know.
Shoulda never agreed to the role unless he was gonna be given 5 years of runway. They wanted a turnaround far faster than they had capital for.
Actually, I would still love to have a setup where Excel is the front end with a database it can query and manipulate.
not many encodings have a preference of ending with ==
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