skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all great if the system operated in a "pure" manner as it is defined. But it doesn't. The system is corrupt and therefore makes whistleblowers one of the only avenues of defense against further corruption.
Next thing you know, the power goes out and Skynet takes over...
You can self teach CS so you end up with the same knowledge as someone who took a degree.
Companies in smaller cities want seniors so they can get work done and not have to train anyone, but the seniors generally don't want to work in places that aren't SF/NY.

Disagree strongly. In fact, I'm moving to Baltimore (from NYC) for a few years (probably) and really looking forward to it. There are a lot of smart people there-- a lot of different kinds of smart people, unlike in, say, the Valley where there's one kind of smart people and that's programmers-- and DC is only an hour away. I might end up in California eventually, but I'm seeing a lot of interest in the most talented people in getting away from the legacy-laden "star cities". It's not quite an "exodus", but I hear more conversations about Austin than San Francisco around NYC. Six or seven years ago, Austin was barely on the map; even New York was the hinterlands except for Wall Street. Now, the general sense is that the Bay Area is for older people who were able to get in and buy a place at a reasonable price, before it got all fucked up.

Makers like new places and open opportunity, as well as freedom from established hierarchies. That means they'll always be moving around from one generation to the next. To tell the truth, though, macrolocation (California vs. Texas; Northeast vs. South) seems to matter a lot less over time, and microlocation (cities vs. suburbs, proximity of cafes and bike paths) matters more. I think that trend's continuing, thanks to the Internet. 20 years ago, or even 10, being an unusual person (3-sigma intelligence; gay; artistic inclination; minority religion or, in many communities, no religion) in a B city meant social isolation. In 2013, it really doesn't; you can find your tribe even if you are, say, an atheist in the South.

Someone has to budge

I think that the next 15 years of talented young people are going to be more dispersed than the last 15. That means there will be fewer superhubs and that's a good thing. It does, however, fragment the labor market, which means that the volatile culture-- the two-sided itchy trigger finger dynamic-- of promiscuous job hopping and fast firing will have to go. Companies will also be more willing to invest in talent. They'll have to be that way; the extremely liquid talent market of the Bay Area now won't exist (anywhere) in 10 years.
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...which is why the first thing I did when I bought my Nexus was fastboot oem unlock. No worries about a factory reset when I hadn't put anything on it to begin with.
I've never seen this claim before. Do you have any citations of singular them/they/their that you consider predate this prescriptivist effort?
I'll be building 4.3 for the gnexus after it syncs, so we'll see how it is.
Well, it's not "ephemeral". I don't consider it as durable as postgres either, but I am hard-pressed to find a reason why I think that, which is usually an indication of a faith-based, rather than fact-based, opinion.
Reputation is a very important problem worth solving. However, I'm not sure your app tackles the most important part of this problem, which is connections between participants.

For example, let's say I started a business and I need first customers, which I cannot get without the reputation. One cheat is to simply create 100 accounts on your website, each referring to each other and giving points to each other. Even if you manually check each account, which I think you wouldn't be able to do at a certain point, I can game the system and gain fake reputation.

An alternative would be a system based on connections. For instance, if my friend or a friend of my friend gave your account some points, then I can be more sure of the validity of your reputation. The more connections you have to me and the shorter the route, the more reputable you appear to me. On the other hand, if all your points come from your own fake accounts which have no connections to any of my friends, your reputation appears 0 to me, even though you have 100 points.
So I want people to concentrating on what I write, not how the letters look. Am I missing the point though? Every time I've looked at custom fonts I haven't been able to find any that look more "readable" for large amounts of body text than what already ships on everyone's devices. They either look basically the same (so why bother) or they look gimmicky, and as I said, I want people to looking at my writing, not at my writing, if you get my drift.
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And what's the price difference? :P
Puzzled? So do you ascribe the concern among HNers to something else other than genuine concern over privacy and government intrusion and overreach?
Is it true IT wages are stagnating?
What if employers aren't being "picky". What if deterioration in academic standards means most graduates are not competent? A CS graduate being unable to do fizzbuzz is a travesty, and should be grounds for a school losing their accreditation if widely seen.
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can't find people for the wage they're offering. The people they want are doing other things.
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Please find me these jobs because I'm having a hard time deciding what to eat tomorrow.

Will I go with the usual rationed slice of wonderbread or go gourmet with a can of tuna?
I totally agree with the point about technical hiring
On the other hand, nobody in the US is even attempting to train effective programmers, let alone 'star' ones.

There's a lot of room on all sides to improve the quality and availability of good technical workers.

And, in the US at least, the financial industry siphons off a lot of otherwise excellent talent that could be going towards more productive ends than shaving milliseconds off automated trading.
It will be interesting to see if there is still a shortage of "valley-quality graduates" in 3-ish years. The reports I'm hearing from most of the top-15 departments are of record CS enrollments starting from last year, far over even the boom in the dotcom era.

Of course, the growth in graduates may not keep pace with the growth in companies!
Finally, there's a question of openness. If you store your DB of connections and points on your own server, I'd trust it less than if it was stored publicly, like the Bitcoin blockchain.
You mean 'on Wednesday last month'?

I'm not invested in either of these bugs, I don't think I care about them/their result, but I think you failed to parse the month in that tracker?
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Here's one: someone who doesn't yet know how to work in an industry environment, instead of an academic environment.

Another: Someone who both needs hand-holding when starting a task, and lacks confidence in their final output.
I'm skeptical of the Dev Bootcamp phenomenon, if only because it seems like many of them are very expensive. I've heard of five-digit tuitions for three-month programs.

Then again, I guess it's good for us that this is happening because it will drive up the value of high-end programming talent. I've heard that "teaching programming is the new teaching English abroad" and that could be good for us as a group; we'll get better pay and more autonomy in the long run.
Yeah, I feel like on some days I have no ideas and on others I can just churn out a whole bunch of them. Most of them are crap but as long as the average is >1/day then all's good.

Do you find yourself interacting much with people in the co-working space? I don't have much experience with work (period) so I don't really know what the atmosphere's like.
So true. As a senior-level who has zero interest in SV or NYC, my biggest frustration is with companies who demand 5+ years of professional experience in specific skillsets, essentially a drop-in piece for what they think they need right now. This attitude extends hiring, or in this case not hiring, juniors as well, it seems.

Its one of many frustrations driving me back towards electrical engineering, though EE employers are even worse about this one particular point.
If anyone is curious where the mistake is in this article's reasoning, it's in the assumption that people are more or less interchangeable, and that all you have to do is train them to be Xes, and you can have as many Xes as you want.

What about the assertion that companies are struggling to fill these roles because (a) they demand more from potential candidates while (b) offering no more in wages than what we saw 10 years ago (edit: 15 years ago, according to Salzman et al. [1])? For example,

"Or is the hidden truth quite simply that large supplies of guest workers allow many firms to swap out higher-paid, high-skill domestic workers for lower-paid, high-skill guest workers?"

The article spends very little time arguing for the training of Xes and much more time arguing for higher wages for potential Xes. This gets rehashed on HN all the time: offer Xes more, and maybe they won't roll over to finance instead of accepting your offer.

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RESPONSE TO PG'S EDIT: discrediting the source is kind of misguided for two reasons: (1) their wage data comes from the Census Bureau (see pg. 19 of [1]) and (2) the Brookings Institution essentially agrees with the EPI [2]:

"[I]t is likely that the extra supply of foreign-born workers does bring downward pressure on the wages of incumbent workers, as research suggests."

I don't think you could accuse Brookings or the Census Bureau of having a similar agenda.

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FINAL EDIT: PBS quoted Brookings out of context, and I took it at face value. The paper doesn't support the EPI's findings, and the full Brookings quote is below:

From a theoretical standpoint, it is likely that the extra supply of foreign-born workers does bring downward pressure on the wages of incumbent workers, as research suggests.20 Yet, it appears that demand is so strong relative to supply that even the inflow of H-1B workers is not enough to meet the demand of U.S. companies and push wage growth down to normal levels.

Ugh. Apologies to PG and HN for citing this blindly.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...

[2] http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/05/10-h1b-visa...
Absolutely ActionBarCompat is the best addition to 4.3. Thanks for the video link.
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I'm actually desperately searching for confirmation on whether this devices DOES support Miracast (and screen sharing). My guy is saying "no", since it isn't advertised anywhere. I think this device might only be receiving URIs and control commands from other devices.
My Roku runs a real operating system so IMO Google loses out again by trying to push the all Google browser all the time and oh they own all our data.
As always, not available in Australia...
This paper

http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...

seems to say yes:

"Analyzing new data, drawing on a number of our prior analyses, and reviewing other studies of wages and employment in the STEM and IT industries, we find that industry trends are strikingly consistent: ... Wages have remained flat, with real wages hovering around their late 1990s levels."

EDIT: if you're skeptical of EPI, Brookings also agrees:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/05/10-h1b-visa...

DOUBLE EDIT: to echo what I've said in other comments, Brookings disagrees with EPI's findings. PBS selectively quoted them.
Academia has (literally) nothing to do with real-life software engineering. I hope I'm not bursting your bubble, but if you think otherwise you're severely mistaken.
Put a real operating system in it and I might consider dumping my excellent Roku.
The Law of Demeter for Ruby on Rails
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I'm confused about how it works with iOS apps. Does it just act like an AirPlay device? From Safari on iOS, Spotify, etc. there's the AirPlay icon that I can push to switch it to the Apple TV. Or would the apps have to add a different type of button? I didn't realize until now that Chrome is available for iOS. Would you have to switch to that for streaming web videos?
Why is this bill specifically on the phone metadata? There are other things that the Amash ammd. could go after, do we assume that this is the lowest hanging fruit?
All are Affected, but Few of Us are Represented at Upcoming Copyright Hearings
Going by the hits on Amazon I'm seeing I think Roku beats AppleTV easily.
Ask HN: Me(dev) and a marketer want to go 50/50 on a business. Is this fair?
Hey guys, I'd like your advice.

I just met up with a dude that seems to me, has a lot of business and marketing/consulting knowledge. It sounds like he knows what he's talking about but I can't be sure because I know NOTHING about that field.

Our idea was to get a studio together and work on projects 50/50. However he's not a developer at all so I'm trying to gauge the worth of his 50%.

Our immediate goals are a studio and work. He can bring in the work, freelance projects (he claims) that will bring in like $3000 which doesn't sound bad to me. We want to move on and start an agency like Playground Inc eventually. Our goal is to work on freelance projects for the beginning, and invest money in a professional designer down the line and begin our agency.

I'm having a difficult time assessing the situation. I'm offput by the 50% but honestly, I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it if he truly does bring in work and isn't just dicking around all day.
So the hiring practice of every major software company is hopelessly mistaken? I think someone would notice.
I've definitely had that moment before through repetition, in a rather unlikely subject: manually doing Fourier Transform integrals.
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The real issue is obviously lack of control over labor markets. Sure, dissolving support for unions helped, but we still live in a world where people can decide where to work and how much they'd like to be paid, and this has serious repercussions for the long term profitability of corporate persons.
Redis is not an ephemeral database when used in Twilio's configuration. When configured with an AOF with fsync set to 'always', Redis will be as durable if not more durable than postgres and the like.
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There are strict regulations as to how many foriegn players can play on what level and league based on nationality.

Real Madrid puts a lot of effort training Spanish players. As do other teams. This is why they won the World Cup.

And no. There is no draft day but in some countries there are unions.

Just sayin.

Ref: http://www.globalsoccertransfers.com/info/regulate.html
It looks like facebook likes without the rest of facebook, or did I miss something?
> Why can't we keep talking about that rather than point fingers and try to out-PC each other?

Because ultimately I care more about sexism than a social network UI, and people in this field care shockingly little about it compared to most fields.
I don't have much interest in this and was just skimming over the comments but I have to thank you -- your comment got my attention.

My mother (on the complete opposite end of the "techie" spectrum from me) watches soap operas on her iPad every few days while laying in bed. I'm certain she'd much rather watch them on the huge TV across the room instead.

> The Chromecast is a device for your mom; something where she can just take her iPad and press "send to TV" and it appears on her TV.

I was trying to figure out what I'd use this device for and you've answered that question for me. I'm ordering one of these for mom.
>Each time you rep someone, you are rewarded with 2 rep points of your own.

If I randomly rep enough people I will become A GOD.
Sent a few tweets, retweeted tptacek and I get a pissed off message from a friend complaining about me tweeting too much.

Good to know 5 tweets in a row is a noteworthy event but the NSA dragnetting the American public isn't worthy of a peep.
enrollments != graduates != star programmers
I actually know very little about the LLVM, so the article had me almost confused for a second until I confirmed that the LLVM is just a compiler as I thought.

Ignoring the issues with his analysis of google and apple being brought together by the LLVM, which has its own issues, this is a really horrible article.

And the android NDK uses the gcc.
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I can't shake the feeling that for this crowd (to which the authors/researchers belong), the term guest worker has sort of become a code for "those cheap Indians". I'm also guessing the authors (and most people in this crowd) have never associated with a guest worker outside of their field of work.
Exactly. In truth, there is nothing preventing you from playing Crysis (other than a terrible response time and a poor quality video stream) on this with nothing else but this and a wireless keyboard/mouse. This is the true dumb terminal. The developers SDK is probably more about connecting devices or having them communicate with the chromecast rather than being an app repository.

The more I think about it, the more I hope this is where they going with this. To borrow a very damaged phrase, this might as much about the cloud/virtual computing as it is about streaming and music.
Here's the Twilio post-mortem thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093954
This: "Someone asking why we need to hire programmers from other countries might just as well ask why Real Madrid has to hire so many non-Spanish players. Can't they just train more Spanish players to play at the level they need?"

Very well said.
@drivebyacct2: FYI, you seem to have been hell banned about 3 weeks ago.
When the Minimum Viable Product is Not Enough
Oh, yep. Saw Jun, read Jul. Still fairly recent, though.
Sure, but considering that an average salary in SF is 80-90k, seems like an investment worth making if they can deliver what they promise. Especially when compared against the cost of a 4 year CS education.
The finance companies competing for programmers are also American. So even assuming that SV companies could draw star programmers away from Goldman Sachs by paying them more, there would still be exactly the same net shortage of them in the US.
Not twilio, not ephemeral, postgres also has durability issues in the many configurations, your durability is still only as good your kernel's disk controller, tps has very little to do with the decision to use redis or postgres.
It's kind of bogus. There's more reasons than what you're listing - and some help the author's statements. For starters, why throw a résumé away because it doesn't have [Top-Tier CS Program] listed? Make the potential employee pool bigger, and statistics says you'll get better candidates thrown in the mix as well. For companies that emphasize innovation and thinking out of the box, they really want a cookie cutter mold of a person who is insane at implementing a cache with linked lists. Why? There's no wonder why a lot of creativity in SV seems to have stagnated (or gone social really).

I'm just saying take the polarized glasses off and you might see more stars.
>The people who have invented a truly unique idea, are the ones with an icon on your homescreen

Are you being sarcastic?
That's a perfect analogy.

Lots of people also want to play pro ball. They can't, and no matter how much they train, they never will be able to. Their body just isn't built for it.

Similarly, there are people who can study their ass off. They'll probably become pretty good, not great, but pretty good.

Then there are a tiny, razor-thin minority of people who were born as some sort of intellectual freak, who will also study their ass off, and become great.

I've known a few people like that. It's frustrating, because I feel like I'm working just as hard, but not getting as huge of results.
I would never trust a startup with my photos UNLESS they were building an open source platform that could run on my own hardware, similar to openphoto.

The fact is, I'd much rather have everything local and pay a backup provider a small annual fee to keep a client-side encrypted backup for me.

I have plenty of bandwidth to my house for sharing photos and videos with friends. All I'm missing is the low-power plug server to host the app. It doesn't make sense for my photos and videos to live in a data center with low latency disk, Gbit networks and redundant power and cooling -- it's total overkill.

Photo and video storage is a perfect application for user hosted SaaS since there's so little cross-talk between users, and the vast majority of data is almost never looked at.

By the way, just because it's running on my own hardware, doesn't mean I wouldn't pay a monthly fee for the software!
Just let CPAN know how easily your opinions and emotions are set on things you don't understand.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

On the flip side, myspace/aol/etc are still in use.

Things that large don't stop on a dime. I do think facebook is hitting a slowing period, the growth days are long behind them. It's only a matter of time until something new sweeps everyone away. Once that happens it will be the new myspace. Where advertisers don't care to market as much. It won't die but it will become less important, and eventually become irrelevant. FBs push notification campaign shows how they are trying to stay relevant.
Sure, but statistics is on your side too. More enrollments has a higher shot at increasing the number of star programmers than not (all education and teaching ability staying the same).
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The serif font looks real good...it's called Equity Text if anyone's interested.
But it does appear (if I understand correctly) that sometimes you used Redis as if it was the system of record rather than checking the actual one, hence the rebilling?
This is not the same creature, though -- The Wii U gamepad has an infrared transmitter that allows it to act as a universal remote.

AFAIK, the PS3 is the only current generation console to implement CEC.
LOL, as if academics are more qualified to comment on the tech job market than hirers.
FizzBuzz isn't software engineering, it's CS101.
I have an HTC One X on AT&T (came out last year) and HTC will not give bootloader unlock codes from HTC Dev for phones with an AT&T CID. You have to use a root exploit to change the CID that was patched in the last firmware update, but has now been cracked again. Unfortunately, it seems no hardware manufacturer has any consistent policies.
Wow. I'm at break even. Almost.
Having seen hiring practices in a large corporation first hand very recently, I can tell you that most of our positions were filled by very very unskilled people from overseas that could easily have been filled with average graduates from US computer science programs. It would have taken serious work to hire worse engineers, but hey, they're cheap!