skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and you would have picked up your programming skills incidentally through studying your main subject. Quants are not software engineers - the programs they write are simply proxies for themselves as traders, able to react instantly and run 24/7.
How convenient this comic now exists to help me laugh at all these sorts of ridiculous thought processes: http://xkcd.com/605/

Sadly, there are lots of people who probably think exactly like that, and in a serious fashion.
To gain karma.
Eeeee... va?
I love the concept, but...

I dislike the big chart on the top left. It's difficult to read and there's the disorganized star array underneath that gives me a headache. (Not to mention the content, are you applying to grad school?)

(The tag cloud is contrived right? (ie not from any data))

The "Skills" section is by far the most inspiring.
"Would you have hired the basketball player?"

Hiring athletes is a lot like hiring programmers. There are certain positive qualities that athletics can promote, as well as certain beneficial skills and worldviews one can acquire. But this doesn't guarantee that the person in question has any of those. Most don't.

Placing people with these qualities, skills, and worldviews in the right positions can be a huge boon for any organization. But first you need to know which positions are well suited for athletes, and you need to know what things to look for.
well, I got to say that I like your idea. It explores the other possibilities of representing self and own achievements, as well personal attitudes and interests. I am not sure if this is the right form, it is not mine to judge, but you are on to something. The CV/resume needs a significant change and should be rethought of. It needs to be highly personalized, but yet to have a somewhat standardized form.

I see that your interests are in UI and you found out the perfect one that has not been altered in almost a century. All kudos for initiating the focus on this topic. Just remember that people really do not want to figure out your resume. They just want to quickly compare (main purpose of CVs/resumes), and if that quickly isn't there, you might only end up quickly in the trash unfortunately.

However, I am also thinking of how to re-implement the CV/resume so that it reflects the creative capabilities of people on www.aleveo.com. In this case, I want it dynamic and involving ideas and public ratings. Currently I am playing with timelines and weighted image scaling for ideas to reach a functional form.

If you are interested drop in the idea of visual resume on aleveo.com?

Anyway I encourage you to explore it further, finding balance between written and visual form.

Cheers!
That was more or less my thoughts as well, after reading this post. Did you read the actual paper? I would be interested in knowing a little bit more about which method they used to simulate the situation.
The Military Gets Its Own Online Gaming Network
the argument on whether it should support it is directly proportional to the amount it would benefit from having it.

other phones are moving to incorporate flash 10 support, and will be gaining the robust libraries of already created content as well as newly developed apps and games and entertainment media that will be created specifically to target these capable platforms.

if it turns out that market share / developer interest starts to decline, then it proves that it did need it.

i for one think that it does need it, and they will never have it.
They'll have a serious growth problem with the number of 30+ aged folks jumping on the site right now. In 5 years, when the 8 year olds of the world turn 13 and start looking for social networks to join - I have a feeling they aren't going to use the one old mom and dad are using. They better start now focusing on us older folks so we keep spurring growth.
If Edward Tufte were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave. The only thing I learned about the author here is his lack of taste.
Tech is too cheap to meter, It's time to manage for Abundance
Two things:

1. Keep in mind that the article is a response to another article comparing the two communities. The article author did not beg the comparison. Only defended DHH and Rails in a previously made comparison of the two.

2. The article author is the creator of the Lift web framework for Scala, so he's not really part of the Rails community to begin with. It's more of an (admittedly familiar) outsider's perspective than an insider's.
That's exactly what I thought. It took me a while to understand how their information was organized...

I guess they don't take their own advice :)
This is an attitude that I see more out of writers from countries with corrupt governments. Perhaps it's a way of trying to justify your own country's problems, rather than working to fix them?
I'm fairly familiar with NSNotificationCenter, but I haven't been keeping up-to-date with newer alternatives in the Cocoa framework. At least, it's my understanding that Apple is also pushing key-value observing. Do you know if NSNotificationCenter is something that Apple eventually wants to replace with something like KVO? I like NSNotificationCenter for its simplicity (so-much-so that I haven't been bothered to learn the alternatives).
Goldman Sachs trade secret thief claims codes were 'open source'
I don't know. It tells that he has a sense of individualism and confidence. Even if you can't keep him for a long time, an employer might still be able to benefit from such a personality. Also, honesty is a pretty bold statement to make.
How to create DOM elements and prevent memory leaks in IE
> The pyramid is necessary for managing responsibilities and decision making.

It's actually one way of making decisions and managing responsibilities. It's likely the most common because it evolved from the manufacturing-era model (think Henry Ford making cars). Ford's model evolved from looking at the military.

Ford has a famous line - “Why is it every time I ask for a pair of hands, they come with a brain attached?”

It's possible that a pair of hands that took direction would be ideal in Ford's system (though I doubt it - Honda's done much better by actually harnessing the brains connected with the pairs of hands). But that hierarchical model is counterproductive in today's knowledge and networked economy: you want to use the resources and knowledge at all levels of your company, and that way you do that is by decentralizing authority and decision-making power to the edges.

Look at the open-source model of building software; it's pretty damn far from hierarchical, and it's at least as successful at creating value compared with the more hierarchical model most software companies use.
Haskell:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
Creating an iPhone Application - Tutorial 2
Of course the hour of bot's visit is not important, but it could be important to see if it comes every day or not. Not to mention hits to images and other files.
You Don't Need Tools
Finally... Goto in Javascript
Gah...yeah, looks like my analytics package was killing it... It's up for now...hopefully it'll stay that way.
This is a sequel to Experiment Garden's wildly popular beginner's iPhone application programming tutorial.

It explains how to create controls and link them to code methods within the iPhone view controller.
That makes complete sense. Thanks for the clarity. I really do appreciate your candid response to both my comment and the others above & below. Knowing what someone is passionate about, and how they might fit into your company is something that I can definitely understand and value.
Just throwing this out there: is it the first time a calculation based on string theory has been published in Science because the string theory community prefers arXiv?
A later comment clarifies his bias:

"No wacky monkey patching involved, or doubting of who added a method, when and how - which is great for large projects with lots of folks working on the same code over long periods of time."

This may be why he didn't even mention Clojure; too open, not enough B&D for his taste.

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?BondageAndDisciplineLanguage
No, wondered why he was restating the obvious. There are certainly features of both C++ and Smalltalk which would be nice to have in it, but Java is, on the whole, an advancement over them.

In particular, GC and a great standard library for C++, and file-based and more performant (yes, yes, hotspot is based on a smalltalk derived vm, blah blah, the numbers still grossly favor java) and a more conventional interaction with the host system over smalltalk. The last is bizarre as java still absurdly sandboxes away the CRT. Oh well. Less of an advancement on Smalltalk, more of a more palatable branch of evolution, maybe.
I love it and I hate it.

I love it because it allows me to very quickly build stuff but I hate the inconsistencies that make it almost a requirement to visit php.net all the time.

And then there's a bunch of very ugly bits and pieces that now have to be supported forever due to backwards compatibilty. Strpos anyone ?
The wsj column is misleading.

Gladwell did not say "Apple will soon be making more money from iPhone downloads than it does from the iPhone itself."

Here is what he said:
"Apple may soon make more money selling iPhone downloads (ideas) than it does from the iPhone itself (stuff). The company could one day give away the iPhone to boost downloads; it could give away the downloads to boost iPhone sales; or it could continue to do what it does now, and charge for both. Who knows? The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws"

Overall, I agree with one of the key points of Gladwell's review (of the "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" book) - a point that Friedman made a long time ago - There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Here is one extract from his review "Credit Suisse estimates that YouTube will lose close to half a billion dollars this year. If it were a bank, it would be eligible for TARP funds."
And they pay rent in what country?

Built buildings in what country? With materials and contractors sourced from what country?

Have employees from what country?
JScript Memory Leaks
Could also be the very new state of it with lack of good documentation.
HN is my newspaper, I read it everyday to be up-to-date in the tech world.

I like interesting news, but I don't care if:

- gmail is down

- somebody got shot at the apple store

- the iphone burns my cheeks

- yahoo will never recover

- payperpost

- propaganda

- PR submarines

but above all, I hate FUD
Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API
Why? It seems very similar to me...
Change the CSS so that the comments are light colors on black. The black page makes the videos look better by tricking your eye into seeing more contrast.
Customizing the Django Admin - Branding
Creativity: 10

Content: 4

If you could find a way to answer the reader's questions immediately using your presentation, you'd have a great resume.

As it stands, it's not easy to find out what I want to know. But one thing's for sure: you will not be easily forgotten.
...and after a few iterations of reward, the next level of incentive has to come in the form of "promote to higher level in the hierarchy" rather than simply "increase salary", because of the bureaucratic norm that a manager can't be paid less than any of his or her underlings.
Ummm who is left?
Should ISPs be prohibited from making deals with companies like google to colocate CDN servers?

Why shouldn't ISPs be required to make all CDNs open and allow any company to host its assets there to create an even playing field for content? Why should google's pages load faster on someone's computer than my startup's?
Codes? The plural for 'code' is 'code' not 'codes'!

I can't believe Reuters is talking like a warez kid.
(Australian) but shortest is 2 generations (from England). Longest is undefined generations (have an Aboriginal ancestor so assuming at least 40,000 years). The longest I can define is 5 (from England).
superb points!
I thought it was a neat concept. If he were actually sending this to an employer, it would need some refining to properly target the intended job opening.

But dont worry Ajai, just wait a day or two and everyone else will start copying you.

I think you should look into making a program that can generate this type of resume, I'm sure Visual CV or another company would show some interest in acquiring that kind of work.
A netbook for the price of a newspaper.
In my opinion don't learn any LISP, Common LISP or Scheme, it doesn't matter. Why? Fragmentation. It's very hard to write something a bit complex that can run on the various LISP compilers/interpreters without heavy changes. Also, there is a lack of good and up-to-date 3rd party libraries/frameworks which leads to having to write things that most languages already provide by default or than can be easily obtained.

Go with Scala, Clojure or Haskell. The first two run over the JVM and seem to have a very nice community behind them. Haskell is very cool and it will definitely change the way you look at programming.

There is also F# which is very cool and runs over the .NET framework. If you're into Microsoft stuff then it might be worth it.
The skills section is where my focus when immediately but I'm thrown off by the groupings. How are InDesign and Dreamweaver in the same category? How is HTML next too C and Ruby? Why even mention these skills if you look at the right columns and see he has almost no interest in coding?
Syllabuzz: Tactile Design Made Real
I generally agree with the negative feedback here. The idea can potentially work, but not as it is done right now. Also, Java is not an acronym. While those pie-charts are effective at introducing keywords, they say nothing about what you can actually do with these technologies. What does a small sliver for "C" mean? Or even, what does a large sliver for RoR mean?

It's just very messy also. What would you think if someone sent in one of these?
Why should some companies be allowed (by their ability to pay for it) to co-locate CDN servers at ISPs? That creates a highly unequal playing field... and allows Google's assets to load faster than mine since I don't use a CDN.
One interesting detail from the site is that the Codex Sinaiticus is a technological milestone as well as a religious milestone: it's one of the oldest known books that puts such a large number of pages together as a bound volume rather than as a scroll.
I accidentally "disappeared" my first FB account by creating a new account and unwittingly using the same email address as the existing one.

No warning, nothing. But I could no longer sign into the first account.

When I realized what had happened, I went looking for signs of the that first account. I had been the sole admin of a group; now, that group listed no admin at all; I seized admin rights with my new account.

So perhaps that's the best way to deactivate: exploit bad code.
1. Why would Edward Tufte be rolling in his grave? Back up your hypotheses with a little data please.

2. Stepwise refinement is an acceptable development process, even here on hn. What you perceive as "lack of taste", I see as one of the steps.

3. OP is obviously experimenting, seeking feedback, and deploying it. Your feedback adds little. After spending so much time with boring corporate drones, I love posts like this where someone actually has the balls to push the envelope. Cut him a break.

4. If you only learn one thing about anything, I suggest you go back a try to learn something else. Enquiring hackers want to know.
For there to be money in 'inventing stuff' -- at least in the form of an incentive -- potential inventors have to believe there's enough possibility of there being money in 'inventing stuff' that 'inventing stuff' is worthwhile.

It's entirely possible to imagine a patent system that would work against the goals of lowering the cost of living and making progress 'go up'; such a system would be one in which:

- patent infringement carries heavy penalties when successfully prosecuted

- individual patent licenses must be negotiated individually; there's nothing resembling a compulsory licensing scheme

- researching the existing body of patents is difficult, expensive, and often inconclusive (bonus points: in addition to upfront cost of researching, actually having done the research potentially opens you to steeper penalties than would be the case had you not done the research)

- so many patents have been granted that in many fields it is hard to produce a product without using patented technology in some way (either by infringement or by licensing)

- maintaining ownership of a patent carries minimal ongoing expense, carries no obligation to put the patent to use (in licensing or in direct production)

- there's essentially no economically significant 'time-out' or statute of limitations on filing charges for past infringement

I leave as exercise to the reader deriving optimal strategies under such a system for inventors, patent-holding firms, and manufacturers.

Whether the system we have resembles the system sketched above depends greatly upon who you ask, what field with which they happen to have the most experience, their previous professional background, and from whence their current livelihood derives.
"Can anyone point to a company that truly figured out hiring? From what I've seen, it's mostly down to decision makers having good people instincts."

Conjecture for discussion: This is true of almost all aspects of running a successful software development group: Hiring, Project management, Architecture, UI Design...

Nobody seems to have "figured it out" to the point where you can write out an objective, repeatable process. It almost always comes down to having people with good "instincts" (i.e. They make good decisions) in positions where (a) they can make decisions, and (b) the team acts on those decisions without obstructing them or screwing them up.
The problem is, "nonobviousness" only applies to real practitioners. The patent office is a stepping stone out of school into real industry for many.
This is a follow-up to the "Know Who's Calling: Tactile Design" post from last week. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=683342
Perhaps getting rid of indices would help? (map and foldr traverse lists without explicit indices.)
the fifth note is quite telling:

"NOTE: Seriously. Never use this."
i love rules
That would be the same as putting more of their shares on the market. (Assuming they can always plug the short with newly created shares.)
Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
I've got to second The Little Schemer. I ran through it earlier this year, and it was the most fun I've had programming in a long time.
do we also need to do a secret handshake when posting?
I only like some rules.
maybe you'll find what you're looking for in this list:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/loganalyzers.shtml
How to Speed Up Your Rails App
Ruby is a fast language, and a great one in so many ways, but nothing in this world is truly free. It’s very easy to do things that seem inconsequential but that later can bring your application to a grinding halt. In this post, I’ll outline five important ways that you can avoid some of the most common problems Rails apps encounter.
And the lack of existing code to take cues from. I looked at F# earlier in the year, and this was the thing that tripped me up the most. I can wrap my head around functional programming "in the small" pretty easily, but I'm pretty stumped about how to put together a full application.
What if class members had to be typed?
After looking at the desired careers, my first question was 'why is the coding pie chart on the top line, and why are you studying computer science instead of business, which is apparently what you want to do?'. The skills section seemed a bit kitchen sink. I'm rather a generalist myself but many employers are suspicious of that.

I am not a fan of graphical resumes because I resent the time it takes to decode what the person is trying to say, but that's very much a personal bias. It is a good example of its type. The top left graph of how the op is spending college time was very good, and the most informative aspect.
Goto floor(10);
Open window;
Jump();
the trec data is (linked in the README)
http://trec.nist.gov/data/t9_filtering.html
Why even mention these skills if you look at the right columns and see he has almost no interest in coding?

Great point.

In my comment I was suggesting that the idea was inspiring to personally reuse or suggest :)
low competition which means... lots of bad things.

Example: Cell Phone service in the US. Actually, that's not the worst possible, but we are lagging the rest of the world.
DOJ reviewing carrier deals with handset makers
When I saw this, I was hoping for the impossible, and was predictably disappointed. This is not the GOTO you know (at least, it will never match up to C or to CL's TAGBODY), as it cannot jump forward to labels declared textually later in the code.

I've worked through various ways of trying to implement goto in Javascript via preprocessing for the parenscript CL library, and have always come away feeling unsatisfied. You can do it, but as far as I can tell, you have to use a trampoline.

A native goto statement in Javascript would go a long way into making JS an acceptable compilation target.
If [fantastic external condition to allow me to use cliche for which I cannot think of more appropriate alternative], [cliche].
Trade happens when both parties think it benefits them. If one side gets fooled and screwed enough, it should stop. If that one side is the government, it may not, since it is paying with someone else's money.
I think this post eliminates about 99% of all entrepreneur personality types.
Yes, I read the paper. (Not, I confess, every word, but enough to be pretty sure I'm not misrepresenting it.) It's linked right at the end of the article. http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455
A funny hack. He uses "while" loops with "continue" to emulate backward jumps. Not sure how he does forward jumps (is it implemented at all? "break" could help, i suppose..)

Anyway, AFAICS, cross-function gotos are impossible with this implementation, so you can't write real spaghetti code with it. Awww :).

[btw, I suppose it [edit: cross-function gotos and whatnot] should be possible. It would probably take a full-blown continuation passing style transform, though]
From the first paragraph of the article: "Depending on your preferences and type of the website, you might find some or all of these arguments applicable or not. In any case, everyone should be at least aware of differences in order to make a right decision."

Sorry, I'm not in a mood for a flame war...
Scala is to Java as C++ is to C.
Derek, I love your blog and book reviews. Don't usually come across such consistently high quality of content.
It just replaces labels with named while loops, and GOTO gets replaced with continue...
So it can only GOTO things that are nested correctly, and only jump back not forwards.

So not really a Goto in any real sense of the word.
I disagree if the title of the article being linked to contains numbers so should the post title. It is more misleading and awkward to click the link and then do a double take when the article names don't match.

I think this is a bad guideline.
The tag cloud is understandable: one of his interests is "Cloud" after all.