skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will depend in the company, but in generally for internships/first jobs grades tend to be an important factor as there's little else distinguishing between most candidates.

Some companies might have minimum grade policies which means you'll get automatically filtered out. In some cases you can get around this by going a less conventional route (i.e. speaking to an employee and getting them to let you bypass the filter).

Most of the research in recruitment studies show that early impressions stick, so once they've decided "we (don't) want to interview this person" they'll likely stick with that position regardless of future information.

Hence for companies which don't pre-screen your best chance is making sure they see what makes you stand-out (personal projects, experience, etc.) before they see your grades. So make sure your CV skews in that direction.
Please have a look at,

http://www.bugscore.com/ and let me know your feedback & suggestions.

You can use Bugscore to score a product you have used or seen, a business you have worked at or one that has served you and finally, people you have met or seen. It's a platform for you to express your opinion on almost anything on Earth! Similarly, you can see what others think about products. The same goes for businesses (including schools and colleges).
"Sort it out" - separating bits through an obtuse (is that the right word?) mouse interface.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

Lacks an in-game tutorial, so be sure to wath the video first.

As far as theme was concerned I just used a ten-second level limit, so a bit lame in that sense, but I think the gesture input is somewhat innovative and mastering it is part of the fun.

Made in Processing so I'll probably keep working on it, polish it, and release an Android version as well.
I love it, I'm bookmarking it to use it instead of Rainymood. Just the thing to drown out my noisy kids when coding :-)

Did you create it as a creative outlet? Or is there some plan to generate revenue?
if not for government programs, nobody would work at Walmart...they wouldn't even accept the job if offered...opportunity cost would be too great

Could you explain, ideally by using numbers (either real or example) to illustrate your argument? Something along the lines of:

No government subsidies, no job at walmart: earnings + unearned income = $x

No govt subsidies, job at walmart: earnings + unearned income = $y

etc.
Google exec’s defection to “Apple of China” is entangled with Sergey Brin’s love
Kevin Spacey on the Success of the Netflix Model - The Audience Wants Control
From Hugo Barra's G+: "In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China to help them expand their incredible product portfolio and business globally — as Vice President, Xiaomi Global."

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+HugoBarra/posts/BzZMqRht1xQ

So expansion outside of China seems to be the reason.
Hi I'm the cofounder of wercker. As you say, Heroku doesn't support Docker, but we're looking into deploying docker containers from wercker to any other IaaS with the push of a button. Feel free to email mies[at]wercker[dot]com if you want to beta test our new docker deployment capabilities.
Thanks for the comment. When I first got the domain name, the word "disrupt" was still fashionable. So jobrupt was "jobs for disruption". May I ask, what bad it evoked in your mind?
Kickstarter does not allow product design campaigns that don't have any physical products and also no rewards in mass quantities. Indiegogo is less strict.

From: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines

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Projects cannot offer rewards in bulk quantities (more than 10).
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No product simulations or photorealistic renderings

Technical drawings, CAD designs, sketches, and other parts of the design process are awesome and encouraged. Photorealistic renderings and simulations that could be mistaken for finished products or real events, however, are not allowed.
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Thanks for upvote!
I just finished up configuring one of my apps with their ssh deploy step. The whole process of defining build and deploy on green steps makes their service easy and worthwhile. I'm excited to see what they have in store for the future.

To add, Wercker's customer service is pretty awesome as well. One of their guys forked my app and submitted the necessary changes to get it to properly build when I was unable to do so myself. I think this dedication towards making sure the customers enjoy their service is going to help build their customer base.
Starting from which version? CoreText 1.0.4 is not affected.
False. A person with less than $5k in earnings has consumption of nearly $23k/year.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

Also, the threshold for "find people who can eat enough" is far below $25k (proof: Mexicans eat enough with a GDP/capita of $16k, and Mexico is a fairly rich nation).
"by fraudulently showing a message that looked like it was from you, asking for endorsement"

Citation needed.

I never saw a message like that

What I've seen is "Does Person knows about Technology/Skill" and then you can click to endorse that

Well, today I got one "fake" endorsement, not far from what I do, but not what I had added to my list of skills
Short and sweet. I'm killing the humans next time.
Quite unintuitively, you can't really focus light from the sun to a long distance, since the sun is not a point source.

Basically, you can't exceed the power per steradian of the sun with mirrors. So you would have to fill a large portion of the receiving end's sky to transmit any real power. Which means the mirrors would have to be really close (like they are in heliostats) or if they're far away, they would have to be really huge.

Does not work.
It happens here as well, Chrome on OSX.
Udacity And San Jose State See Improvement In Their Online Education Experiment
Looks pretty neat (don't have an ios device to try it for real). Not sure if is a problem with my browser, but the tour doesn't seem to work (can't click the iphone area down the bottom).

I liked the promo video, although I found the start camera clicking sounds a bit jarring (but could be because I am using earbuds). The music is great. Did you license that? Or is it creative commons? I'm curious to know if there is a good place to find such stuff?
From my experience those slow complicated things are often avoided by developers even if it would allow them to delve further in some obscure interesting programming. The programmer's performance is also measured by their ability to achieve the goals within the defined deadlines and accepting a task just because it's interesting even if it means a big delay is not very common. At least in my working environment which is very deadline driven(as I assume most are).

But I am not dismissing your argument on the delay imposed by the extra layer between the project manager and the developer, specially if they have no programming experience.
Title: Junk Mail's Endless Summer
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-paglia/junk-mails-endless...
Quote: "Our standard postage subsidizes junk mail. "

Title: Why Do We Subsidize Junk Mail?
URL: http://shuthimup.mitzenmacher.net/?p=252
Quote: "So why do we pay 45 cents to mail a first-class letter while direct-mail advertisers pay only 18.5 cents? Can you say “crony capitalism?” Can you say “union busting?” This amounts to nothing more than a very costly subsidy given to the direct-mail industry, at the expense of first-class mailers,"

Title: Snail Mail Spam Subsidies Stuttering Towards A Stop
URL: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/09/08/snail-...
Quote: "the USPS loses billions of dollars each year so that advertisers can send out billions of pieces of spam at below market costs."
> well, you just sit back and watch the money roll in without doing anything

I'll be the last to argue that we live in a meritocracy but in your example the capricious heir is in fact providing capital to the economy, taking on the risk that if that business fails the capital is gone.
http://www.sayafter.me - Interactive pronunciation helper

Why I built it?

My wife was struggling with pronouncing certain words while learning English. So I built a webapp for her to practise pronunciation by herself.

Later on her classmates also started using it, now it has quite a few users.

Let me know if you are trying to learn English as well, I will bump your account so you can use it indefinitely.
Videre: the secretive group on a mission to film human-rights abuses
Do you support Stripe?
Havenco is back
Matt Cutts is an employee of Google and clearly speaks on behalf of Google's search team. Not sure what your point is?
That's simple supply and demand. When supply weakens and the demand stays they same, the price goes up. So the price ends up higher because there are less producers but the same amount of people who want to buy gold. This what you describe creates shortages and shortages produce higher prices.
Concentrators have problems.

If you use them with solar panels, then your panel will heat up and its efficiency will drop. Maybe lifetime as well. If you use a thermoelectric generator, you then have wearing mechanical low efficiency systems on board.

In both cases you need to reject heat, which is hard in space.

They also require precise pointing.

There's also the problem of beaming the power to earth. If you're in low orbit, there would have to be lots of receiving stations and the power would be intermittent unless you had a big constellation. And all the problems with inclination and the spinning earth... If you're in geostationary orbit, your sending and receiving antennas would need to grow huge.

What about beaming between satellites? You'd need a laser for that. Maybe they're becoming quite small and efficient with modern semiconductor technology developed for military uses. Still the receiving end might have low efficiency.
http://www.scrabtionary.com - simple sowpod scrabble word checker and cheat tool

I built it because I was tired of getting in arguments with my family over what words were acceptable. You can use it to check a word or insert wild card characters and tile delimiters to find the best words. I was unimpressed with how unfriendly existing tools were so I built my own in 14 hours. If you like scrabble you should check it out!
I like it, I clicked on US State Capitals and it started a card. My first thought was "I don't know many US State Capitals, how do I see the entire list to get started". So perhaps add a way to present all the info in a set so a learner can quickly be exposed to the "question/answer" pairs before actually being asked to provide answers.

Also, not sure if it was something I did, but after I cancelled a session, I could no longer start a new card set. I'd click them and they'd go into "my decks" but clicking the deck would only launch a context menu thingy to edit the deck properties. How do you run them?
I think most of the problems come from how much money companies spend on HR people's salaries. You can't really expect a good job done when you pay very little for it. It's not that they don't do their best, but they simply can't be better than that.
Try Wine.
I think Heppenheimer's book re-used much of the O'Neill art.
30 Distinguished Brown & Beige Website Designs
It's definitely on the cards. We went with braintree to start off with because they were in more countries, but I was excited to see in recent news that Stripe has started in Germany and is also rolling out a their Beta in Australia.
Here is a bug:

1- Click on "What is Bugscore" link

2- Close the video popup while it is playing

3- Navigate to another page via bugscore search

4- Click back button

5- Video starts playing in the background

Another "bug":

http://www.bugscore.com/profiles.php?profile_id=39606

So this profile belongs to the Founder of modern Turkey. Who died on 1938. But there is a button for sending a "message" to him.
Daycare is insanely expensive and combined with the tax hit a spouse's modest extra income is nearly a wash, at least until the kids are in school. Having your children raised by strangers for a net $100/mo. extra does not seem worth it to me.
This is fantastic.

I've never really used ambient noise before although I've been interested in trying; your site made this painless and immedidate. The design is clear, simple, and effective, and (for me at least) it just works.

For a first major programming project, you've knocked it out of the park. Bravo.
Show HN (German): Automatic login script for KDG free hotspots
Average age of funded entrepreneurs has plummeted over the last 50 years
This sort of thing doesn't really mean very much. Language choices for start-ups (well, B2C social SaaS apps really, because that's what "startup" appears to mean these days) tend to favour real-time non-blocking connections that scale easily. That essentially rules out PHP unless you augment it with something else (a small node.js server, Pusher, etc). It doesn't mean, say, that PHP is a "bad language". It just means it'd be an inappropriate choice in that instance.

If the next intake of YC hugely favoured chat apps, we'd probably see Erlang as a really popular language. That doesn't mean you should write your blog software in it.
Perhaps I was unclear. I don't think that they deliberately bias the tests, I do think that they don't rigorously validate the tests to prove that they are non-discriminatory, perhaps because of laziness, or because they lack the statistical know-how.
This script bypasses the stupid automatic redirection for session start/renewal on Kabel Deutschland WiFi hotspots; it might come in handy if you either live in range of one of these (like me) or are travelling in Germany.
Wal-Mart grocery sells many if not all the same name brands my local grocery stores do; Publix and Kroger for Atlanta metro. They just sell them so much cheaper I only buy at the others when I am lazy or there is a BOGO

Going to any of my local Wal-Marts with grocery and it is the most crowded place of the store. While their clothing sections and miscellaneous house hold goods sections can be dodge the electronics section, automotive, and garden, sell many name brands I see elsewhere.
> using Linux (and a recent Linux) as your main dev system, and in practice this is very rare.

There is the problem right there.

Make it not rare, hire people who work on Linux and prefer it, this is a way for any company to ensure a good hire and not having to find new interview questions or other tricks to weed out the copy-pasters.
Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013–Grid Template Explorations
Totally breaks newsletters, of course.
Such a great article, true Hacker News material. Does not assume much knowledge about the field, yet still allows for a much deeper understanding of mechanics involved.
You've extended a useful, incomplete heuristic into a perfect, useless tautology.

No, I just pointed out that the list of my parent poster is somewhat arbitrary. I'd put Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Dropbox, Evernote, Instagram all in the second category, because they exist only in digital life.

My atom life is complete without Facebook for instance. Whether I use Facebook or not makes not much difference. But booking a place via Airbnb has a direct (and only) result in the atom world: I now have a social acceptable reason to stay at a stranger's place. And furthermore: There's no other way to book that stranger's place except for maybe walking up to random strangers and asking them if they offer me a couch for 50 bucks.

I think the more useful definition of an "atoms company" is one that directly tells you which atoms to move and where to move them.

I mostly agree. But then it also depends if you take action in the atom world based on information you gathered from the electron world or not. And if you go down this route, the whole heuristic is completely nonsense, because people take action based on information gathered from electrons all the time.
From the original article from Time: http://nation.time.com/2013/08/28/nypd-designates-mosques-as...

"NYPD lawyers proposed a new tactic, the TEI, that allowed officers to monitor political or religious speech whenever the “facts or circumstances reasonably indicate” that groups of two or more people were involved in plotting terrorism or other violent crime."
and

"Doing so allowed police, in effect, to treat anyone who attends prayer services as a potential suspect. Sermons, ordinarily protected by the First Amendment, could be monitored and recorded." and also,

"And under the new Handschu guidelines, no one outside the NYPD could question the secret practice."

While I agree that the NYPD explicitly hasn't labeled all mosques, the laws mentioned above allow them to treat all mosques as potential trrorst organizations. And no one can question them.
Previous discussion (2009): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650914
Cost would be absolutely prohibitive.

The one benefit to space-based solar with some form of power beam (likely microwave based, look up Heppenheimer's book it's now online) is reliability. Solar presently only works when the Sun shines -- that's during daylight, and not under cloudy conditions.

Orbital solar would be 24/7/365, with the exception of a couple of brief outages each year at high noon on the equinox when your powersat was eclipsed by the Earth itself. Feed-ins from another location could glide you through this, or a reserve biomass-fed plant, or ... The point being it's an utterly predictable downtime.

The alternative is to build out a (vastly cheaper) ground-based solar infrastructure ... and find some viable way of storing energy for a period of time (possibly up to a couple of weeks). A hard problem, but ultimately less hard, I suspect, than trying to orbit megatons of material.
Sorry, sounding more suspicious these days... But, could that message be posted by Andy or his PR?
I have a mac.

But its really downloading arbitrary code that I don't like.
Letter from Da Vinci to the Duke of Milan applying for a position
Nikon Coolpix L620 has been Released-share it to your friends
I launched http://bootcamper.io 9 months ago. BootCamper is a database for all the technology bootcamps/workshops/schools out there. I myself was trying to get into a bootcamp but realized that there was no single place where I can make my research on them, information was scattered all over the net and Quora didn't cut it. Thus my project was born - it was a perfect opportunity for me to build something that I knew would help others, in addition to being able to show my work to prospective bootcamps. Initially, it was very slow to pick up, but today I am getting some sensible traffic and a lot of praise, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. To this day I am keeping it up-to-date and have future plans to improve it.
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Multiplayer games are so hard to get to work in LD where players arrive sporadically :(

I had a similar silence for attempt a few LDs back:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/30/cage-flight-autops...
I really like your blog post and your ideas.

With new versions of BIND 10 allowing Python scripting, PowerDNS with Lua scripting and Unbound with Python, I think we'll start seeing more corps controlling DNS queries (or attempting to do so) with whitelists/blackslists, but for the time being, things are mostly wide-open.
>The heartbeat used to be an 808 kick drum

The 808 is the electric guitar of the late-20th/21st century.
AMA with Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia
New C++ code should be outlawed. Really, the language was just designed to make everything difficult, problems that just don't exist in modern programming languages. Crazy syntax, use of type information during parsing, convoluted namespaces...there is a reason C++ code is twice as hard to write, let alone trying to write a decent compiler for it. Heck, for the longest time there was only one portable parser that worked available for licensing, and the licensing costs were north of $150K.

C++ has no future by design.
>I could drag a bitmap into Flash to import it, then place it, position it, add filters, animate it, and attach the animations to code all in one tight motion

I want a tool where I can do this but in JavaScript on a canvas.
Thanks, we will look into both the issues.
I'd be interested in the number of legitimate calls he gets to his landline. At some point, it's probably more worthwhile saving the cost of said landline and directing all his contacts to a mobile number / email address.
There is also at least the possibility of demand weakening. Very weak gold demand would be a catastrophe for gold miners.
Might be relevant http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/sergey-brin...
Apparently I can't, you're game does something rather weird to my brain. Fun idea though!
Bankrupt was my first association.

Good concept though.
In a well-monitored environment, it should draw attention and cause them to investigate the internal host making the queries.
Reverse Engineering Marketing For Startups
The British Summer Generates 1.5 MegaWatts Per Roof
Email Address Disclosure Vulnerability in Pinterest
When I explain to people that these type of vulnerabilities still exist in today's modern and complex web applications, they laugh at me because they do not believe it.
On Assignment with the Nokia Lumia 1020
I built http://www.virtsync.com to allow me to backup sparse virtual machine disk images to other servers across the internet.

I've only sold around $1,000 of licenses so far, so maybe this post will help...
Maybe he'll give Xiaomi source code...
Its great. I actually paid 5$ for a babbling brook mp3 from somewhere recently, so if you are thinking of monetising, try recording my settings over an hour and then bundle it as a mp3.

Then again it is just cool. I'm impressed. HTML5 keeps surprising me.

ohh - suggestion - set a low volume, rain/waves mix as the default and get it playing onload(). (maybe AB test the bounce rate). I assumed it would play and had a moment of waiting to see if it was just hanging

Also, I am getting some stuttering. That's not good. How would i debug that ? Let me know, its probably a decrepit machine / browser combo.
Using Abstract Math to Treat Cancer
I think this is brilliant, and if I could charge people £10 a minute for ringing my landline I would. What I don't understand is why the phone agency is recommending that people don't follow his approach ... why exactly?
Got to agree with you here, the keyboard is quite overpriced (IMHO).

I'm with an 87 keys with brown switches at the office and at home I use a Das Keyboard with blue switches.

For me it's either brown or blue, clear switches are too much in between. If you're going non-clicky pick brown or even red, if it's clicky, then it's blue all the way.
Thanks for the debug input. Will look into it.

Music is licensed via http://www.themusicbed.com/

Tip regarding music selection - it takes a lot of time to listen, so it is more efficient to listen only to what can be licensed and skip browsing YouTube for pop songs you'll never be able to get...

Album here: http://romanandalaina.com/?page_id=22
Manual on development of Visual Studio 2005-2012 plugins in C#
I second this. I am hiring for junior and senior developer roles currently. For candidates fresh out of university/college I will have a look at their grades. For anyone that has real work experience, I will focus on that and won't bother with grades or university/college.

Someone once told me that grades do not matter once you get your first job, after that you are only as good as your last job. In my personal experience I think this is rather accurate.
Vortex - A Vagrant Alternative
When this was discussed on WebRTC mailing lists, it turned that basically no video-confercing software uses these encoders as a) they're not tuned for real-time usage, and b) often the software has no access to the hardware anyway.
They have it coming.