skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hasn't yet that you are aware of. I would immediately pass on your resume without a second glance. Four jobs in less than six months very strongly signals a number of negative things to prospective employers.

Perhaps the only companies willing to hire you now are those with high developer turnover who just need a warm body to fill the last vacated seat? And perhaps you are perpetuating that?
Guardian Chief: UK Had Newspaper Disks Destroyed
So in the US you don't have to give explanations? Damn that sucks for the ex-employee. In France you have to write a report in order to fire someone unless they're in their trial period.
Yes. Exactly (I'm the author). I never want to work in a cubicle again. Which is what the whole Full Disclosure thing is, trying to create my own business as to never deal with this or these types of people again.
I got a CV through the other day from a stranger.

The guy had some great experience but the CV was weird.

It was 10 pages long for 4 jobs. He listed every course he'd ever been sent on, including health and safety and diversity training ones, and just mixed his degree in somewhere with them. He listed each version of word he'd used (seemly every version released) with equal prominence as Java and SQL. Each time he'd been hired as a temp contractor he wrote his job title as CEO, because he was getting paid via his company.

My boss laughed at it and told me to bin it.

He needed to know what was wrong, or he'd stay unemployed (which was a shame for a guy with some great skills). I agonized for about a day and finally sent him some tips from my personal email, but I'm sure we could get sued if the strangeness was due to a disability. Something wrong there.
"Actually, in strong patriarchal societies, these sort of behaviours are NOT tolerated, mostly because women are assumed to always "belong" to someone else (be it her dad, husband, tutor... whatever), and when people DO try funny stuff, other men will put a end to it."

This isn't actually true. There will always be women not recognized as "belonging" to a male (prostitutes, menial laborers, travelers, orphans etc.) or whose superintending male figure is not high enough status to enforce his "property rights."

Unless we are going into No True Scotsman territory, "strong patriarchal societies" - however defined - do in fact tolerate these sort of behaviors in a great many contexts.
> Your trifling quibbles don't matter ...

Trifling quibbles? It was "airtight gaps" that brought Challenger down and killed seven astronauts. If you intend to argue using words, at least learn their meanings.
I find my union in Denmark helpful. I think union systems operate quite differently in different countries, for a mixture of cultural, legal, and economic reasons. For me it's exactly as you indicate: HR represents the employer's interest, the union represents my interests, and the two negotiate mutually agreeable working conditions that represent a compromise between each side's wishlist.
Yeah I cant understand why they had such a problem with his look looks perfectly ok for a start up and slightly less hair product and a tie I could see him working for a blue chip.

When I interviewed at a start up I was introduced to our art director and my first thought man your nail varnish is chiped - he was an out tranny.

Sounds like the CEO is one of those people who should not be running a welk stall.

Personally if it was in the UK I would have seriously considered taking the company to a tribunal over this - and have a paid pit bull flay the CEO in public one guy I know in the field is a proper working class Glaswegian and makes Malcolm Tucker look like a little pussy cat.
Well, I did not pick my lawyer, I got it through Argh Grants (archgrants.org). The Embassy is the one approving your visa so if they belong to an Entrepreneur group, that may help making your application more visible.
This reads like the rest of the industry's pitch for automation against the cries of, "but you're automating me out of a job!"

Automation, done right, does replace low-skill labor. In QA (my perspective), automation replaces the need to run regression tests for each build. That means if a person's job is primarily comprised of executing regression tests, they're not likely going to have much to do once regression tests get automated.

Similarly, if the NSA hired systems administrators to primarily do things like deploy servers etc., then those people can be replaced by automation.

However, your "average" systems administrator job is as much about firefighting, troubleshooting, and customer service (internal customers) as it is deploying servers and managing other (automatable) technical problems. Some of NSA systems administrators are possibly working on optimizing and scaling, or implementing what the NSA's developers and architects have designed and written - stuff that can't realistically be automated.

That said, they probably could play games with titles if they really wanted to get this done without losing their ability to function. Rename a bunch of sysadmin positions as "automation engineers", or reclassify their current sysadmins as "developers" or "systems engineers", and continue on their merry way, happy to have satisfied some congressional pressure without having slowed operations.
I was cool with it until here :

"Well it turns out I could [be fired], unless it could be reasonably inferred that I was being fired for being part of a protected class. So had my boss said “The CEO thinks you dress like a faggot” or “The CEO thinks that’s what a nigger would wear”, things would have been different. But as it stands, the fact that my boss told me I was being fired related to appearance at all was definitely a dicey, questionable move."

I've no idea why he feels the need to talk about how "protected classes" can't be fired when he's talking about why he was fired, but it seems as if he's no idea why some people are protected based on their sex, sexuality or color.

Unless the author is gay, then “The CEO thinks you dress like a faggot” is in no way equivalent to "The CEO doesn't feel you have the right look for the company."
Flat design in print?
It is wrong, which is why those clients can go piss up a rope.
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In which case, the waiver may be invalid anyway, since there are rights that you cannot legally waive.
Previous discussions on the presentation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6192777

Edit: Here's what Bruce Schneier says about it: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/the_cryptopoc...
I read a source indicating that that's not quite true. Rather, if you don't answer questions at the time, the fact that you didn't can be introduced as evidence in trial later on. I.e., if the police pick you up and question you about a murder and you don't tell them your alibi, the government is free to mention that in court to imply that your alibi was created after the arrest.
The main problem with .NET is the higher price due to the Microsoft tax. That said, it has advantages over the free stacks.
Node.js incorrectly parses HTTP methods
"You've had your fun. [...]"

That line is particularly infuriating.
You're right, it doesn't even make sense in NYC. I've been away from the East Coast for too long, apparently.
A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. --Mark Twain

Love that one. Just when you think you are soooooo smart something comes around to humble you. Life kinda works that way.
The NSA Searches Ten Times as Much of the Internet as It Said It Does
Using anti-terrorist laws to terrorize. Clever.
According to the article he was offered a lawyer said no. You should basically never turn that down.

Also, if someone tells you that you don't have a right to silence, continue being silent. I know that's easy for me to say from where I'm sitting, but I'm pretty confident it's good advice, even in Heathrow Airport. At least give yourself a chance to beat the system.
Not from US, so I'm not sure I get it. Are you referring to this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning
Time for Answers from the NSA
Of course you can distrust somebody who wears a suit. I didn't say that you couldn't, or that you shouldn't.

You keep forgetting about the context we're discussing here, though: real-world business dealings. When one party has money, and the other party wants some of it, the party with the money generally sets the tone of the business relationship. This may involve certain expectations with respect to how the people they deal with appear and behave.

Yes, maybe startups seeking business relationships with larger, wealthier organizations shouldn't put up with expectations that they feel are unreasonable. But that's not how the real world works, unfortunately. If money is to be made, then some sacrifices of various forms will very likely need to be made. I'm merely pointing out this very real fact of today's business world, and how it's plausible that appearance can play a very significant role in business relationships.
It is a sad statement, made all the more so when you have an experience that bucks the trend.

A year or so ago, I was applying for an internship at a small, local web dev shop that had some pretty cool projects in their portfolio. As the second interview was wrapping up, I had the impression that I wouldn't get the job. My default reaction would have been to simply ride out the rest of the interview, grab a coffee then move on, but for some reason I decided to ask them what their thoughts about me and my suitability for the position were.

And they told me.

They said that they would be completely candid, and asked if I wanted to proceed. I said of course. They then laid out all the areas that I had impressed them, as well as those that were red flags to them. Some of those were technical, and some were more about their general impression of me and my passion for the work.

Ultimately, I didn't get the job. I did, however, get to spend 20 minutes digging into depth on what potential employers viewed as my weaknesses and how I could go about addressing them, and that was perhaps even more valuable. They certainly weren't obliged to offer that advice, and I can't imagine they got much from it. Were we not all straight, white men in our mid 20s, I imagine they could have opened themselves up to a discrimination lawsuit. But, at the end of the day, they went out of their way to help me out and the advice stuck. I'll forever be grateful for that.
So make sure you accidentally fall down on the way out and counter sue for GBH
The way I see it, what you do off the clock is exactly none of your employer's business. Unless you are the CEO of the company, customers don't much care either.
I went the other way, started working at Twitter without knowing Scala and it wasn't hard. We also have great internal Scala classes. Feel free to email me for more info (see profile). We're just looking for smart people, you don't need to have experience with Scala.
Even if that's true, the qualifier "reported in the media" is an important one - are there rapes out there by the wealthy that aren't reported, because no-one would take the word of a poor woman over a wealthy man?
There's a terrible irony in this as the response to a post which explicitly states: "We all need jobs. We need to be employed. But at the cost of what? Our ethics? Our passions? Those that trust us?"
This is explained in the standard British police caution:

> You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
And plenty of people who aren't worth shit have been fired at least once.
Use React and JSX in Python Applications
The simplest method would be to add a short range transmitter to the charging device. You don't have to limit yourself to using the charging technology for that.
Because they aren't part of the game - they're server plugins, and are all available for Bukkit by now (and have been since at least Beta).

Cuboid is part of WorldEdit, there's tons of permissions plugin (PermissionsEX seems to be the most mentioned, though in both positive and negative terms) and there are quite a few MultiWorld plugins for Bukkit nowadays.
That's why you get paid. Plenty of people build cool stuff in their garages and never distribute it to the world. Lots of people worked hard for the money they pay to these companies, too. That's no excuse for incivility though.
Interesting list. Though I didn't see much consideration to Mono on Linux, which is my personal deployment strategy.

It would have been nice if it was compiled in to a larger comparison table so I could see it all on my widescreen display, but an interesting read nonetheless.
"unless you're literally at-will employee, this is grounds for liability."

"At-will" is pretty much the default in the U.S. Unless you're working under a union contract, or some other kind of contract that spells out a specific period of employment, you're probably at-will.
OT but do you have any advice or have you written about your experience managing that kind of consulting? I've been trying to figure out a style of freelancing that works for my personality (fewer hours, more "asynchronous"), but it seems like most companies are looking for folks to fill an employee role.
With the NSA debate, I keep wondering if there is something people in positions in the government and security agencies know that makes them keep doing what they're doing.

I mean some of these people are really smart and understand how this spying can be abused. There must be something they know that makes them build or support these programs.
I understand how the RED owners have a vested interest in promoting the system. They benefit professionally from the regard that others have for the cameras. e.g. they can rent out their cameras, command a higher rate as an operator or DP if they have one in their kit, etc. What I don't understand is the users of reduser.net that don't own or even rent the cameras, but seem to be there to either froth at the mouth in either reverence or hatred for the company. I stopped going there a long time ago because the signal to noise ratio was just too low.
I'll try, but I'm not sure he wants to make a team with me. I think I'm less in charge at this moment, because of this uncomfortable condition.
On switching to Android from Windows Phone
in some way it is the key to understanding the situation - the government people live in another world, and things look differently from their perspective. Like it is not a useful reporting and public debate about government's abuse of power, it is a fun some pests have at the government expense. It is a reality distortion field of Power.
Unless I'm misinterpreting this, those are paraphrases and not quotes. There's no feasible reason to believe a government official is overtly villainous or foolish enough to say something like "You've had your fun."
> While selling ideas isn't a bad skill I think you're underselling his ability to execute, somewhat.

Not my intent; I think SpaceX and Tesla both show Musk can execute in engineering quite well when his energy is behind it (or, equivalently, that he is good at putting his energy in places where he can execute.)

Part of that is the ability to sell ideas to (among others) investors, without which he wouldn't have the ability to execute.

With regard to hyperloop, Musk has been very visibly not putting the kind of intent-to-execute behind it that he has with other endeavors, making his selling ideas skill the most relevant part of his ability to execute, but I certainly did not mean to fail to recognize his ability to execute.

> Personally, I feel that Musk's "list of biggest risks to Tesla" has many items before "CA HSR".

Probably. But tossing out a "I don't plan to build this, but it would be better" diversion is a pretty low-cost way of derailing the threat. It doesn't have to be the biggest or most immediate threat to be worthy of that, from a rational viewpoint.

> By the time it's built Tesla will either be (at least) a countrywide success, or not.

This presumes HSR (including the regional/commuter transit improvements that go with that project, and are some of the earlier investments) has no effect on the market for electric cars until its fully built out. I'd question that assumption.
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Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds
This is where web workers will come in handy. I did a little promo video tutorial on loading data with Flickr using web workers. You can watch that at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDl1UOkp18&feature=c4-overvi...

I can't wait for those to be useful everywhere.
It does sound exactly like the type of goading comment a government official would make to a journalist off the record.
U.K. Government Thought Destroying Guardian Hard Drives Would Stop Stories
That's a misconception I've come across a few times. It creates a negative energy density relative to the ambient energy density, not an absolute negative value. In other words if you consider ambient energy density to be zero the. The casimit effect gives rise to negative energy densities, but if course zero point vacuum energy means the ambient energy density is never zero. The casimir effect cannot lead to 'true' negative energy densities.
"(One could theoretically hope that gender-studies departments at various universities should find it productive to scrutinize the differences in these patriarchal, sexist regimes in order to understand the nature of the cultural differences which engendered these disparate results. Theoretically.)"

Empirically, this is a core part of what gender studies departments in fact do. Just off the top of a quick Google search:

http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-83347

http://wellesley.smartcatalogiq.com/2013-2014/Course-Catalog...

We could debate whether this is doing it well or adequately, but gender studies, if we're discussing it in practice at decent universities and not just theoretically, has a non-zero amount of rigor as a discipline.
Nice catch, reading the nodejs code is really discouraging. But the post points to the relevant specs, so I guess this should be fixed rather sooner than later. Initial response looks good: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6078
I think it's quite important to share the names of the men from Whitehall to the world. I mean we all know names of only the people defending public interest so far: aka Greenwald, Snowden, Miranda and a few others.

We should be told about everyone from the other side too.

Like we learned about Keith Alexander of NSA, you know. It is of utmost importance to make names of public servants well - truly public - because they're the ones using tax-payers money and should have been defending public interest instead.
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Automation, done right, does replace low-skilled labor --- but doing it right involves completely re-engineering the tasks to support it. In system administration, for instance, the scripts to configure (and monitor, and alert about malfunctions on) new servers don't write themselves, and they can be really tricky. So, achieving those benefits in a re-engineered version of an existing system can be a long, hard slog.

That said, if NSA's really doing this to improve security (if only by reducing exposure to malcontents), then doing it right is the only option. So long as there are the same number of hands on the same number of keyboards, doing the same sort of thing, relabeling them does nothing to reduce the risk.
That reminds of a conversation I had with a sysadmin colleague about this very thing. He said, "Yeah, knowing the government, what they're going to do is rename a bunch of sysadmins as 'devops' or something and just carry on as if nothing happened."
However, what he enjoys doing is developing games, not directing them or any sort of management. In that respect, he wouldn't do very good in a purely decision making role, and would probably burn out.
It's not ethnocentrism, it's real. Even from wealthy countries in East Asia where the strict Confucian relationships put huge burdens on women. Obviously, a lot if not most people are inured to those cultures and don't like the Euro/American level of cultural freedom. The ones who moved are the ones who couldn't deal with the oppression.
What infuriates me is that not enough people care for them to demand change.

It goes on the news one day then the next it's gone. Information-overload. That's their card and they'll keep playing it.
>I mean some of these people are really smart and understand how this spying can be abused. There must be something they know that makes them build or support these programs.

just look at the recent 100 years of human history - good and smart people can perpetrate awful things if they suitably organized and informed. "Just doing my job", "just carrying out the orders", etc... In 21st century in the world's most progressive country, government employees and contractors were torturing other people just because some government lawyer wrote a memo saying it is a good thing.
"Sane data updates" series by Adrian Holovaty
It would be unwise for security to physically "haul" you off unless you were being violent, and even if they call the police, they will simply tell you to leave and not come back. Cops won't touch or arrest you in this situation unless you refuse to comply.

You may or may not get the answer you want, but there's not much they can do about you making the attempt.
I don't have the illness, but I do feel depressed sometimes. I do believe there are people who can't help but feel depressed even when they "shouldn't be".
But the NSA CIA etc is not low skill labor and has specialized needs I could see replacing 90% of the contractor Sysadmins bringing the job in house would mean better control.

And in high security environments you want to strictly limit what one person can do this is security 101. The NSA has talked about implementing the two-man rule and presumably making much more use of discretionary access control which increases staff requirements.
Odd error on Safari 6.0.5 here. Where you should have three column layouts in the example page you get a single column list type layout. (Not a designer.)
I've disabled both adblock and clicktoflash plugins.
Any chance you could explain more about how ADHD interfered with you connecting with people?
Exactly. I also do not care for the flat stuff most of the time. The old design was much clearer and more defined. But the entire idea of starting with minimal base that you build up from is by far worth the trade off for me. I don't expect bootstrap to design my site for me anyway.
They build it because they can and they are told to. First, they are payed well to STFU, ethics vs. money. Second, if they do speak up they'll just be replaced. Third, if they are replaced, they are legally bound that they cannot speak about it.

So why bother fighting against the current? Someone somewhere must've determined it's legal... right?

Snowden is pretty chilling. Doing the right thing and bring up a major issue will cost you everything other than your life. I'd like to think I'd do the same but I just don't know.
They know the taste of power.
I wish people would leave page loading to the browser, instead of using half-assed JS that breaks every so often.
Sure, it's the belief that the rulers can create a rational society through technical means, and it's been the dominant idea of the past century. And time after time, their pet theories of the day are undermined by the unintended consequences of meeting reality.
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