skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this to be true as well. If you're coming in through the resume route, yes you'll be judged on GPA. My co-op job had a particular emphasis on GPA since we were a branch of the school, hired loads of co-ops from the school (lots of datapoints), had permanent hires from the school, and had enough people familiar with the courses in each subject to tell what the course was like.

If you're not going for that sort of job, then all you need is the GPA threshold, and no one is going to care afterwards. Get out of the square root club if you're there and pull up your GPA to where your target job wants it. So if their filter cutoff is 3.5, get a 3.51 and call it a day. If your target job cuts off at 3.0 then really that's all you need to get. It could reduce your stress level (not sure how bad UW is), and let you do other things that would help your chances of getting a job more (clubs, leadership positions, volunteering, networking, etc). Some people split up their GPA between "core GPA" and "cumulative GPA", which could help if you're doing bad in your chem classes but passing all your CS classes.
I should have used <sarcasm>
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I have a solution:
Give HR hires a psychometric test that weeds out ones who like psychometric tests
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"Yet. Yet… the top UX myth of all time is, icons enhance usability"

It's a fact that it is easier and faster to comprehend images than words. I think the only situation this isn't true is when you are icons aren't clear. You can't use icons for obscure things or things that don't have an established universal recognition for exactly the reason this article describes. That's why everyone always recognizes a picture of an old school telephone versus a smart phone as an icon in front of something like a phone number.

I think the "Cardinal" UX mistake made here was that, not using an icon over text.
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New Zealand bans software patents
A little disheartening to realize that Leonardo is basically applying for a post in the Sforzan NSA.
> Yet. Yet… the top UX myth of all time is, icons enhance usability

Let's see: Given an icon, how to
I pronounce it, spell it, in case
I don't know what it means
look it up
in a dictionary? I can't.

Long ago I decided that a good user
interface should go light on icons.

In the Web site I'm building,
the screens I'm building have no
icons at all. Instead there are
some push buttons with descriptive
English
words inside them and some links
as words. And each substantive
page has a link "Help" that explains
in detail how to use the page.

Civilization used to have icons,
but then got the Roman
alphabet!

Further, for another "cardinal UX mistake",
a user will never have to run experiments
and explore the user interface (UI)
to discover how to use the Web site.

Further, for another "cardinal UX mistake",
the Web site has no undefined acronyms
or terminology. Each word is used in
its simple dictionary meaning or
otherwise has its special meaning
defined and explained.

E.g., "UX" abbreviates 'user experience'?
> "The biggest culprit of a simple icon turning villain is the elevator at my apartment. You’d think how much more simpler can this get. Up to go up and vice versa, isn’t it?"

I don't understand. Is this not the case?

> "Until you realize that people use this to “bring the elevator up” and to “bring the elevator down”."

I think they're wrong, but now I'm doubting myself!

> "I often go from my top floor to the parking with switches in-between and peeps asking “Going up or down?”"

...everything I thought I knew is a lie.
Top one is to take a 'sphere photo' (360 degrees + up and down all stitched - forget the marketing name right now).
Well, they try.

I don't remember where I got the number, but apparently something like two-thirds of the regular army still end up unwilling/unable to aim properly when a combat situation actually happens. That's from the Great War, though; procedures may have gotten better since.
For android apps, if you do a long press on a button/icon it will show a tooltip. For example, open gmail, long press on Search Icon and the tooltip "Search" appears.
Exactly. I'm building the site, holding a day job and trying to find the next step forward as far as investors go. No investments yet, but the future looks bright ;)
That's why I gave an overview of the behavior starting with him becoming CEO. He got a couple of quarters of flat stock prices, perhaps suggesting investors were giving him a chance to show he was turning it around, and after that it's essentially all downhill.

Look at the last 5 years, you can't really paint it as hopeful right now: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NOK+Interactive#symbol=no...
I am sorry you sort of missed the forest for the trees. I think the book is quite a bit nuanced with respect to Steve Jobs and I came away from it with an entirely different feeling.
It's a funny thing http://schema.org/ syntax is not there anywhere.
I think sites based on dynamic UGC content (especially media oriented) should seriously consider adding semantic markups.

Since adding them our Google webmaster's tool is much "happier".
While there are exceptions, on average a corporation would pay no more for a person than they think that person is worth, at that point it is better to close the business than continue to lose money.

But paychecks are also capped by the price of substitute goods, such as self-cleaning robots, self-checkout and other mechanical help, as well as alternatives like reduced hours or staff.
Microsoft's profits were $26.76 billion last year, up from $21b. Their revenue is close to $80b, meaning these are very healthy profits.

As such, I see no sign of imminent collapse like Palm. Or that they will (or can afford to) fold in the high stakes smartphone game.
Ask HN: Why aren't there different articles for hacker and cracker in Wikipedia?
It just seems like that distinction is made a lot here, yet they're homogeneous on Wikipedia.
A directory for APIs: http://www.apiforthat.com/

It's been getting pretty good traction thanks to decently high Google search rankings for API related queries. A decent amount of large companies have submitted their APIs or requested to claim their page.

I haven't been able to spend a lot of time on it recently to add features but I have a lot of cool stuff in mind.
SkillExchange brings together qualified people and recruiters. Qualified person asks lowest considerable salary for his/her skill(s) while recruiter bids for required skills with highest salary offered (skills are just tags describing core expertise). Skill exchange is divided into sections according to preferred locations and level of expertise. Bidding process is anonymous until ask and bid match and both parties disclose their CV and Job description for a commission paid to the exchange. Suggested recruiting process enables continuous search for better opportunities in the job market and saves time by aligning salary expectations from the very beginning.
Apple I was hardly designed by Steve Jobs.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I : "They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak"

And From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II : "designed primarily by Steve Wozniak"

Steve Jobs isn't even in the picture here. Yes he might have sold them.

But that makes him a good salesman, not the one who started "The revolution".
I need my day job to pay my bills. The site doesn't make enough on its own to do that yet. Once it does I'll be doing it 100%.
Thanks, so that would make it black+spot color base and thermal for variables.
>> I also think that Jobs probably recognized that Woz was well beyond him technically and that he would just get in the way for the most part.

Absolutely. IIRC, this is at least strongly implied if not explicitly stated in Job's biography.
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I was at a punk show last night and there was an all female punk band playing. The lead singer was one of the most jaw dropping gorgeous women I've seen in awhile but as the show went on I spent more time watching the drummer. She was giving it her whole soul just rocking out with hair flying everywhere and a big grin on her face. The singer was dancing kind of seductively in a very planned and calculated manner. I was more attracted to the drummer than the singer. Never judge anyone from a picture because it can't show the flicker of emotion over someone's face, or the electric excitement from doing the things that they are passionate about. Those are the things that make a life partner. Those are qualities that outshine almost anything else.
Wasn't it a slightly less specialized world back then too? The software and hardware were tightly enough linked that you needed someone who could do both. I think Woz is a case of a mad genius being born in the time that suited him.

Nowadays a generalist is someone who can do both the front and back end of a website, let alone assembler or hardware. (That's why I find Jeff Atwood's keyboard work interesting, independent of the caliber http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/08/the-code-keyboard.h...)
What exactly was so belligerent about Woz's response?

It seemed like a straight-forward, facts-only response to me.
This sort of search doesn't bother me all that much. There are only a rare set of circumstances where being close to a particular cell tower is incriminating. Furthermore, since moving from cell tower to cell tower requires moving in public, this information could be gathered just as easily by security cameras/license plate scanners, which seem to me to be more invasive, but legal.
The other two examples are very much worth the time to check out as well (links at the bottom of the page).
Your reading that wrong. Google has 54,000 people working for them and the meadean person working there right now has been with the company just over a year. However, compared to say IBM nobody has been with the company 20+ years and they only had 30,000 people in 2012 so the average is vary influenced by new highers and few long term people to balance it out. Worse there data is stale as people don't keep updating how long they have been with the company.

PS: The real number you want when comparing working conditions is turnover and even that get's influenced by rapid growth.
Well society could also refuse to offer those services, it isn't fair to blame WallMart for not paying their employees so they can afford to buy a good we have decided that they should enjoy.
Leonardo da Vinci's robot
I have a guess - its the overlapping 30 second fade in / fade out. But that's a guess.
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Assuming that's a screenshot from the Google Apps interface, the Funnel one is "Filters": http://i.imgur.com/QsU8sft.png

I find these Google Apps admin buttons to be even more confusing: http://i.imgur.com/SVX34h2.png
Rumsfeld says Obama hasn't made case for striking Syria
Other languages have capitalization rules that are far, far more complicated than English, involving additional characters that either denote capitalization or a semantically different word depending on context.

Personally, I'd aggressively pursue case-insensitivity and treat the problem of "oops the user can't create two files that have nearly the same name" as a much smaller bug than "oops the user can create two files have semantically the exact same name".
hahahahah. this is too awesome of a response. Thank you for making me smile.
Here's a gif of the land reclaimed by Boston over time:

http://wp.streetwise.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/filling_i...

Can you imagine anything of this scale happening today?
Hmm... I always thought it was hanging out with that sixth borough
I like Woz better because he is a better person that Jobs. That's all. The fact that he is a more technical person is just icing on the top.
It's not an opinion. For example, the world is flat, not an opinion.
Larry Page also use to date Marissa Mayer.
Didn't say that at all. I said if you make bad decisions you will get a bad outcome. I did not say everyone who has a bad outcome made bad decisions to get there. Subtle but important difference.
Recruiters, stop acting like it is 2003
I'm guessing the submission dates are hidden because they're incorrect. Here's another one[0] that says it was posted in 2011, but there's an ed mark saying that "at this time" meant "pre-2000."

Edit: It's on the wayback machine since at least August of 2000.[1]

[0]. http://www.woz.org/letters/relationship-steve-jobs

[1]. http://web.archive.org/web/20000817233800/http://www.woz.org...
It's common knowledge in the financial world that returns are expected to be very low in the near future. With that and the recession both financiers and economists (real economists, not random op-ed writers) are aware that the market and macro situation for government projects is ideal.

But it so happens that government projects today are very often financial disasters, particularly when backed by bonds or tax increases. There's no law of the market that says this should happen either, but it seems to be a feature of ossified political systems.
Symfony is somehow able to make PHP programming seem very elegant... I never understood all the hate against PHP while tucked safely inside the framework. The main drawback to Symfony is the endless amount of configuration that is done through YAML files and pure PHP. The configuration files are spread throughout the project dir and can be a bit confusing. To paraphrase a famous quote: "I would rather have one configuration file that configures 100 things than 10 configuration files that configure 10 things". After migrating to Symfony 2.0, one day I wanted to make a simple column change in my database and it took me TWO freakin' days to figure out how to properly configure the ORM! I've since abandoned PHP/Symfony/Javascript for Clojure/Clojurescript and I haven't looked back!
I agree. I think there is a real resentment among people who work hard to master technical details, only to have guys in positions like Jobs's more or less float over that. It's like, you didn't put in the hard work to learn endianness like I did, so you don't know shit.

The kind of knowledge and savoir-faire that Jobs had is not concrete, ineffable. Engineers tend to hate that, they think it's just a bunch of shit.
Anyone knows what band is going to be used for wireless communication? And are there any plans for the certification in EU?
"Whether they should be is a different question"

That's the exactly question we're discussing. The legal term "intellectual property rights" steal gravitas from more important (physical) "property rights", which are natural rights and are essential in a free society.

Your point is that "intellectual property" is a legal term. No one disagrees. The point of the people railing against the phrase "intellectual property" is that the phrase is misleading and that it should be replaced with something more apt. Perhaps you are missing that point?
4% of US Internet user are now on IPV6
Long-press is a terrible imitation of "hover" since long-press also has other actions associated with it, so users have no way of knowing whether long-press means "give me more info" or "do stuff (different from normal click)". Plus, long-press is tediously slow. Some devices it's actually hard to do a long-press well because the touchscreen is oversensitive to small movements of your finger... this problem insn't a killer for rare interactions, but if it's something your doing all the time it will drive you batty.

This is something Windows Phone excels at, actually. Any program that uses icons will put them along the bottom bar. If you open up the three-dot Menu? The bottom bar slides up to reveal

(1) text labels for the icons and

(2) additional less-frequently-used actions that have a full text name instead of an icon.

This is fantastic because it means you have one interaction you use to say "I can't see where click to do X". Either you find the option in (2) or you discover that the action was already staring you in the face in (1).
For truly typed lisp you should also check Shen. Its type system is built in and very advanced and flexible (based on sequent calculus). You can write programs in both type checked and unchecked mode. One of the supported platforms is also Java.

Project is still young and in an early phase, but definitely promising.
It seems like you're calling this out as if it's a negative. MS Access is perfect for a situation like that - available, disposable, and easy for semi-technical people to use. When the community talks about "everyone learning to program," this is what it would look like.

They don't have the authority or budget to set up something permanent just to catch a couple dudes, and frankly they probably don't need something permanent. They just got it done quickly and with the tools on-hand.
Flash can actually export to HTML5/JS for you, so you might try Flash itself.
At the time of his arrival, Nokia was a stagnating dinosaur, with a tiny bit of hope in an innovative operating system that was mismanaged, buggy, and couldn't ship on time. Elop accidentally announced that they were discontinuing support on horrible Symbian, which was at the time the most popular smartphone operating system in the world, and turned Nokia into a desperately sinking ship.

Elop wasn't the worst CEO possible, but he was the worst CEO available.
Absolutely - Google, (like our government) need to protect us from the cold truth of reality or else we might start thinking for ourselves.
54K... I'm guessing that's including temps and contractors, which might also include the 1-year average duration.
Good contrast for text and background color picker
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> How will their marketing handle this? Imagine three entirely incompatible operating systems.

It's not like Nokia didn't have experience in that.

Prior to the Elopcalypse, even prior to Meego they already had three incompatible operating systems: S60 ("symbian") running on their smartphones; S40 (basically a fleet of slightly different J2SE variants) running on their feature phones; and debian-based Maemo running on N900.

Sure, Maemo as a platform started from the original N770 tablet, followed by N800 and N810. As far as I know, Maemo got most of the phone features from certain internal Linux projects, eventually making the N900 phone possible.
Restrutoring your argument:

>I don't want a world where people consider their own income before going on a trip around the world _and_ find that they can't afford to take a trip around the world and not live in poverty, and have to miss out on traveling the world.

Everything, including children, are a cost. Is it not better that people look at the cost before, rather than after, they make a purchase? Especialy with something as important as a childs wellbeing.

Anyway it takes a lot less money to raise a family than you might think it does. My grandparents raised my mother on next to nothing, my parents raised me on very little initially.
"In fact I doubt most "coders" of today could do something simple for an Apple I, even given modern resources (like a ASM compiler)."

It's not a fair comparison.

Coders today don't have to drop to assembly or solder or wire-wrap or burn EPROMS. But it is something that many engineers and hobbyist did back in the day. (Myself included...)(And most commuters today don't have to harness horses up to go to work...)

But given time, I bet Woz or a few of us could teach someone interesting enough assembly to do something useful.
Since when is programing with logic gates easy. Doing it on paper without any kind of visual design tool and simulator is very hard.
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Jobs was extremely smart to brilliant. What he didn't do, and what he said he did, was design the Apple I. There was a front page article a few weks ago linking to a bunch of Jobs videos, and again and again he'd stand in a front of a bunch of people and claim to have designed the Apple I.

I guess none of us really know the score in that regard, but certainly everything in the rest of their careers backs up Steve's story.

Engineers hate lying, not soft skills.
Interesting to note, many economists in no small measure blame the recent financial crisis on the global cpital glut chasing returns. If you create an innovative instruments for financial capital to support physical capital (in this case US housing stock) you too can create a bubble.
Woz's response exactly conforms to Jobs' account on the topic in his biography, "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson. Woz's response is not all belligerent, as somebody here implied.
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Here are a few great Chicago resources. Archive of photos here: http://chicagopast.com/ Video Archives here: http://mediaburn.org/ This is a personal favorite: Chicago Culture "sitting on the front stoop" enjoy! http://mediaburn.org/video/ben-hollis-stoop-talk-1-for-weeke...
You're innocent and lucky. You don't have anything to hide; you also don't have anything to fear. Whistleblowers, equal rights activists, etc are nominally innocent, but the cops sure don't behave that way
Whenever said members/affiliates are former leaders we're really just splitting hairs. I get your point though, I mistook what he had said as there is no link at all between them. Instead he is saying 'The Irish government never commanded the IRA' which I'd largely agree with.
http://www.paulirish.com/2013/webkit-for-developers/
You've been drinking the Google kool-aid. Google has always been the primary financier of web spam on the Internet. They knowingly profit from Adsense on spam sites. If they wanted to, they could end web-spam over night by banning Adsense accounts for spamming.

SEO is just another form of marketing. It is no more/less legitimate than PPC campaigns. In fact, PPC ads are far worse because Google does little to police them. As long as Google makes money, they don't care if you scam users. That's why they paid half a billion dollars in a settlement to the FTC for knowingly selling illegal pharmaceutical ads.
I don't see why you read this as belligerent, unless you think altering and changing designs is inferior to coding and original design. There were a lot of articles after Tim Cook took over that described Jobs' genius as that of a design editor, knowing what to cut and what to keep. Wozniak's comment here seems consistent with that.
Unfortunately, straight forward and concise, when in the web medium, can sound belligerent depending on the perspective of the reader. When I'm reading someone technical like Woz I have to consciously apply a matter of fact tone to the content to avoid thinking it comes off as rude.
This is considered a benchmark and comparison?

Edit: Ok, rather than being an arse, some feedback:
The IOWait tidbit was interesting and worth the click on its own.

Build times and bandwidth should vary based on usage on the shared host. Run the tests every 3 hours for 2-3 days and use those results.

More interesting information would consist of what your plan of attack will be for scaling with more power/storage/etc. If necessity dictates the need for more, will it be as easy as a few clicks (and $$$$) with DO as compared to Azure/Amazon?
Yeah, it's fun to make shit up that but let's not ignore the fact that while Woz was technically employed at Apple until 1987, he did not play any role of significance at Apple after his plane crash in 1981, and was never involved in the Mac project at all. Any importance Woz may have had to Apple effectively ended in 1981.
The source code is quite surprising https://github.com/hraberg/shen.clj/blob/master/shen/src/pro...
How do you deal with multiple languages?
Would disabling the app entirely on Facebook be an acceptable option?
Then caught their suspect. Sounds like a successful solution.
There are degrees of knowing how to code. Did Jobs know enough to write a simple program? Probably. Was it ever his job to write programs? Did he ever contribute code at Apple? Probably not.
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