skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a scientist, even mentioning IQ is a good way to lose your career in the US. It's frustrating because the general population are turning to off-label drugs and supplements. 30% of college students are taking some sort of ADHD drugs for performance enhancement and even more when including nootropics.
I've found excellent jobs via the "Career" section of a company's website, via recruiters off LinkedIn, and via a combination of job post online combined with finding the recruiters information at the company and contacting them directly to apply.

My approach was very successful. Less than two months after graduating with my BS in Economics I landed a excellent paid internship ($40,000/yr) in Credit Risk Analysis at a large regional bank. Three months later I was promoted to Credit Risk Analyst and given a raise to $51,000/yr + all the nice bank benefits.

So yes, it can be done. My approach included a healthy dose of determination, precision targeting of applications to recruiters and hiring managers, personalization of my application package to the job post, and being a well-prepared candidate who presents well. Apply for jobs you're actually interested, address what they're looking for in your cover-letter and resume, as much as possible get your application materials to hiring managers or recruiters directly, always dress and behave with class (wear a tailored suit to your interviews, shower, shave, and put your best foot forward), and never give up.

The problem is that most people adopt some of the worst job-hunting techniques imaginable. They write one resume and one cover-letter and then just send the combination out to every job they can think of. They bombard "Career" websites with derivative forgettable applications that may not have any apparent relation to the position advertised. Then should they get an interview, they may or may not show up, and may or may not put the time into presenting themselves in the best possible light. In short: many job seekers these days are super lazy (to put it very bluntly). They act entitled to a good job with a minimum of effort.

When I was interviewing I couldn't believe the other candidates I saw out there. They'd show up in ill-fitting ratty jeans, a wrinkled tie, with a three-week overgrowth of facial hair and grumpy demeanor. Just seeing them in the waiting area I thought there's no way I'd ever hire any of those people no matter what they had on their resume.

And sometimes interviewees wouldn't even show for their scheduled interview. When I worked at the bank, one candidate for a very high-paying position didn't bother to call and didn't bother to show the first time she scheduled an interview. Then she had the gall to call later, offer no reason for her no-show/no-call previously and reschedule another interview...which she also didn't show up for. Unbelievable.

In other words, if you are truly a "professional" and convey it in every way in your job hunt, you will find a "good job" one way or another--traditional hiring system or not. I hope this helps!
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It worked for me once (in 2006). I applied for a full time position at a major (Fortune 500) company directly through their jobs section of the website and it worked. I got a call from their corporate recruiter few days later. However, this job was for a very specific skillset that I had on my Resume and was probably a great match for them.
How does a college student build a $5 app that has 3.5M+ downloads?
Then extract functions until it's small, a.k.a. refactoring.
I am sure the answer is no but does Apple allow for Remote work?
That looks beautiful. So the hash basically says "I trust this source"?

>>The important thing in both cases would be to allow shared caching between sites without forcing everybody to agree on which CDN is the most pleasing. Notice that the cannonical-uri is only a name, it is not supposed to be dereferenced.

Yes, you put it much better than I could have. Thank you!
I disagree with your use of named returned values for something like that.

https://plus.google.com/106356964679457436995/posts/LmnDfgeh...

EDIT: Sorry, let me explain (I'm not an asshole, really!). I disagree with using named returned for things outside of signaling error/ok states (as explained by Andrew). I feel that our signatures should be written concisely for users of our API, not for our convenience.
And if you expand it beyond just house construction to all construction, which is probably a better comparison, it's even less of a commodity. Cost and time overruns are common in multi-million dollar building projects, just like they are in multi-million dollar software projects.
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(School Sys admin here too)... We don't use Ninite, but at my old job I looked at the implementation and liked the fact that you can have a local-central repository (This saves bandwidth and keeps things in our control).
Quote from a buddy of mine:

"Dependency Injection is great. For the 6 to 8 classes you need to wire up! In which case, why would you need a framework?"
Whenever I see it, it takes too long to differentiate it from a bunch of random indentation. Whether this indentation system is needlessly time-consuming or necessary depends a lot on the type of query and the underlying schema.
Here is an interesting anecdote. From the author of the article's wikipedia page.

His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2.

When the Federal Bureau of Investigation started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen
I haven't gotten job offers yet, but I got 3 on site job interviews at 3 big companies using the traditional hiring system.

However, I don't think it's unfair if you make use of your professional network. I'm pretty sure you spend a lot of time building strong professionals relationships at they have to pay off some way or another, so don't feel bad if you get an interview if one of your acquaintances help you to get your resumé noticed.
Is this based on actual data they've released about service use, or just on your own personal viewing habits?
Anecdata, but my current build has been stalled on the availability of the i7-3770T (the 45W TDP part). I'm already using LV-DIMMs and SSDs.

My actual, active goal is to build a quad core machine with 16 gibibytes of RAM that can draw < 100W at full bore.

IOW, you can't assume that those of us who build our machines are all, "Look how big my electric bill is!" wastrels, either.
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>un-jargon/uplevel

what
I wonder how hard it is to mail Yuan to Seattle?
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I'm going to directly contradict you here and say that IQ increases reliably: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect - IQ is a relative measure that is adjusted periodically. I also don't think that IQ is a direct mapping to programming skill.

I also find the suggestion that there aren't enough smart people to be able to do programming highly questionable. There are far more people who are capable but not able to pursue programming than there are people are who are not "fit" mentally.
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Of course, hacking is evidence of a bug: the ability to be hacked.
That's a methodology problem you're describing.

The solution should not be hideous syntax.
tl;dw:

* "Drawing dead fish" refers to using a dynamic medium (the computer) to make static images and unchanging animation.

* Games represent the promise of dynamic media: things on the screen have behaviors.

* Dynamic behaviors are generally defined by code. We should break that association and design tools that allow more direct, visual manipulation of behaviors.

* Code thinking is like algebra. Tools demonstrated define behaviors more like geometric construction.

* Key takeaway: dissatisfaction with Photoshop, After Effects, and other digital art tools that don't take advantage of the media.
> The main problem seems to be that government contracting is not a regular market

I have to wonder if it would be come a more regular market if companies weren't required to drug-test all of their employees in order to do more than $100,000 of Federal contract work [1]. I'm sure their are companies out there that would prefer not to compromise their employees' privacy for the sake of work they might not need.

[1]: http://www.nfib.com/business-resources/business-resources-it...
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voidnull is trying to prove that SDF is NOT a perfect safeguard.
Seems a bit much you all should consistently be unable to "think of where to eat" when the question is asked "several times a week".

Does this pervasive forgetfulness show up everywhere in your lives?

If so, you guys should probably be mulling over doctors, not lunch. If not, you might want to reconsider what I've suggested and why you so consistently "forget" in socially arbitrated situations.
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It's not the worst thing in the world. It's the worst thing in the history of the world. Get it right, gosh.

Seriously, though, hideous syntax is bad. It makes life miserable for everyone who has to work on your code after you. Don't do it, no matter what good reasons you think you have.
4 oz of botulism or some hemorrhagic flu is most CERTAINLY a weapon of mass destruction.

I can only imagine someone with evil enough intent to put a canister like that in one of those Glade "bathroom smelly" devices. In a public restroom, you'd be spreading death.
At $125/hour and $5000 for servers, $10-20k could be spent up in a couple weeks or so. That seems pretty reasonable, and certainly not as absurd as $327 million, which would amount to about 1200 years of FTE effort.
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Installing FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi:

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Android on FreeBSD:

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If patent does apply (and there's been no statement or claims about which ones do definitely apply), then people assume it's US6735595: Data structure and storage and retrieval method supporting ordinality based searching and data retrieval.

The software from HP is under the LGPLv2.1 which says "Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the existence of any free program. We wish to make sure that a company cannot effectively restrict the users of a free program by obtaining a restrictive license from a patent holder. Therefore, we insist that any patent license obtained for a version of the library must be consistent with the full freedom of use specified in this license."

That can imply that there are no additional patent protections should you use the LGPL'ed version of Judy or its derivatives. YMMV. Consult your nearest patent attorney for details.

The patent expires in 7.5 years.
Because people want to be able to pay a set price and then watch anything they want, without having to pay $10 for every movie or TV series. It's kind of like free shipping. It would probably be more economically efficient to pay only for what you use, but there is a mentality in getting things for free, or rather not having to worry about having a thousand separate prices. You can just watch a TV show without having to think how much it costs or if you should save it. At least you don't have to worry about your kids running up the bill or whatever.

Besides people tend to spend a set amount on entertainment every month anyways. If they weren't going to buy it anyways, and it costs nothing to distribute it, you might as well let them watch as much as they want. This wouldn't work for goods that actually cost money to distribute (well some people disagree.)
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Carry on. Nothing to see here. WB owns that content and Netflix as well as other firms like Hulu, TBS, etc buy rights to show it. Just business as usual. Netflix can always buy the rights again or work out some other agreement, which I wouldn't be surprised to see happen.
Isn't Silicon Valled allready hooked on a constant supply of aderall and modafil? Now add Hydergine, Piracetam and Deprenyl into school lunches, and you've got your super children.

Or hack whatever is broken with the educational systems around the world. I'm still in school (technical highschool, programming focus), and none of my friends that is worth his salt in programming is good in school, and that puzzles me because they keep telling us that they're desperate for good coders. D is one of the best js coders I personally know, and he raves about it all the time. He dropped out of the part of the school that I go to (which would lead up to college), and likely won't stay in cs due to that. B is one of the best php coders I know. He's also a D student. A's good too, but had a 2.0 GPA as well.

There's a fair share of good potential programmers around (even though my observation might be somewhat biased), but many of them won't ever get into college. And how do you face HR without a degree? Go to hell kid, we want credentials.

I'm pretty sure you don't need more leads, you need better conversion, or else we're all going into marketing.
I'm just biting my time until someone makes a "Daily WTF" website for monster queries. My worst was this sync that took data from one database, and put it into another one. The thing though is the source database was a CRM system that is on its 3rd iteration. So there's a million random fields from old systems that have accumulated over the years that need to be checked.
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some benefits are hard to quantify and/or equate to $. For example, each person would value commute time differently, but how many people actually compute the cost of a longer commute beyond just gas and time? What about its effect on your health and mental state? Sometimes we neglect/forget to take these things into account, but sometimes it's just hard to factor them in altogether...
The same reason that you should put spaces before and after your logical operators. The same reason you should use consistent spacing on the left and right parenthesis. The same reason you should use caps for the SQL and lower case for all table and field names.

Because it makes your SQL more legible.

In english, commas go after the previous word, not before the next word. The syntax is the same for all programming languages. The fact that most compilers and interpreters don't require it is not an excuse for abusing it.
Isn't the way to get through this is to start running a lot of Tor nodes and hope to trap voidnull? If so, don't we think that those that care about breaking Tor are doing this?
> After 3 years employees can be offered a 'permanent' contract...

Actually, after three years you are REQUIRED to either be let go or get a permanent contract.

My current employer gave me a permanent contract right away (after just a 3 hour chat, is that normal for someone with 1.5 years experience?). Now I don't have to worry about losing my job after 6 or 12 months, and my employer has fewer worries about me looking around.
If Wordpress.com accepts BitCoin, couldn't you just acquire some BitCoins not tied to your personal ID (you can use Moneygram with fake information and route it through mixers, buy them offline, etc.), and utilize Tor/Tor Services to set up the account, and give them fake information?
The gigantic demand for stimulants and nootropics is a good indicator that people are feeling the strain of the information age and reaching for answers.

We need far better answers. The situation is only going to intensify as more low end jobs are automated.
There's more than that. The problem is that the cable operators made two big mistakes (1) they priced their service so high that you always asked yourself if it was worth the price. (2) They had tiered pricing, but at horrible granularity that didn't maximize customer happiness, but rather their profit.

Netflix does neither.

There's almost no advantage to a-la-carte streaming services. Are you going to pay less? I seriously doubt it, unless they do something like charging twenty five cents per hour of streaming of a movie/show. Are you going to get access to more content. Not likely unless they do the $.20/hour thing, since I'm not going to pay monthly fees to 10 different services.

Also Netflix provides DVD service that I still use. Having a unified search experience and ability to manage my queue is useful. As is a unified rating system.

Lastly, Netflix simplifies things greatly for my child. If my child now has to figure out which app to use for each show -- that becomes a nightmare. Shortcuts reduce this, but now the child has to learn a bunch of UIs as each service will likely have a slightly different UI.
Thank you for the heads up. I'll forward that to our site maintenance guy.
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Because of the Patriot Act, don't prepaid credit cards now require Social Security numbers and other identifiable information to activate (I would imagine including your name, which you would provide with the credit card when you buy hosting)?

Sure, you could lie, but you would probably be breaking the law (which the method advocated in the article doesn't do).
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Lower risk. Fail the negotiation with the new .biz and just go to work like usual, keep those paychecks flowing. Fail the negotiation with the current .biz and you could end up out on the street.

The reasoning is negotiating with the current .biz really means re-negotiating the original deal. That obviously means someone screwed up the original negotiations and we don't employ screwups. Therefore intense pressure not to rock the boat, up to and including termination. Even worse a lot of decisions are made by group now at hiring time, so who do you even blame for the original mistake? Easiest to just blame the employee.

If you lose, you have to leave anyway. If you win, they know you're looking and don't trust you anymore, so you have to leave anyway. Never bite the hand that feeds you, never negotiate with your current employer.

Internal promotions are about as bad as salary re-negotiations.
http://oracle-wtf.blogspot.com/

This might have been what you're looking for if it was still updated. Still some funny stuff there though.
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Oh yeah, I remembered another one:

HN runs on FreeBSD! (At least, the old server was FreeBSD. I don't know what the new server is running).
My goodness. This is such baloney. How are you going to get charged with hacking for something like this.

If anything, you can blame the guy for not being moral and telling the casino about their mistake, but he is definitely not required to.

It's the casino's fault, or the game creator, for putting out a buggy game. They should be happy to have discovered the problem and just fix it.

Should I be allowed to sue vending machine owners every time my candy doesn't drop?
The only watchable thing out of all that is Reno 911
OpenBSD's way for system upgrades is so easy: unzip tarballs, run /etc diff, reboot. Its always astonishing how simple and carefree it is to upgrade to the next major.

Contrary to that, most companies would never upgrade a linux system. My feeling is, the most used "upgrade" plan for debian is to not upgrade as long as possible and then do a full reinstall with a new version.
You're assuming that 2 people hitting .200 are equivalent to one hitting .400. This isn't true in baseball, nor in software development.

The competition is because the person hitting .400 is worth at least an order of magnitude more than a person hitting .200. The same discrepancy is not found in salaries, so you obviously prefer to hire from the top.
Not that I disagree with you, but have you looked at a typical architect's salary and job prospects?