skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Make it clear that your non-citizenship is a non-issue for working over the summer (because it isn't an issue, right?)

2. Make sure there's a link to your github profile. A good place to put it would be under your email/phone number.

3. As long as the resume stays at most one page, add some projects to your resume (prioritize the most impressive ones), below work experience.

4. I don't agree with orasis's advice of saying that you're cheap. It reeks of desperation. Interns are already viewed as cheap labor, so there's no need to explicitly say you're cheap.

5. Do you have any particularly marketable or in-demand skills? I'm talking iOS, Android, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, PHP, advanced JavaScript/HTML/CSS, machine learning, data science. Typically as an engineer you get slotted into a particular category The categories I've seen are: Android, iOS, web front-end (JS/HTML/CSS), web backend (database focused or server focused), machine learning.

6. Most big companies wrap up their intern hiring by February, so you still have several months to get an internship through an established bigcorp intern program. However, startups are insanely flexible and most are willing to pick up interns even in the weeks leading up to the summer. One startup I talked to in September was actually like "we like you but it's too early, we have no idea where we'll be in May!" So focus on the big tech companies and the big startups for now, and keep in mind that many small startups don't have internship programs but might entertain hiring you if you email them in a few months.
So "just" an order of 2 to 128 block samples has to be collected to see that it's generated? Good luck with that.
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> Microsoft Windows provides back doors for the NSA.

FSF FUD again. Can they substantiate their claims?
Airtame wants to mirror any screen to any other screen
Practice with CodeIgniter or Laravel. It won't take long to learn. Once you learn MVC, it's all you will ever use. It helps keep things organized, portable, and efficient.
The flatbread line was priceless.
I don't see the advantage of chording based input, it actually requires more effort to press two or three keys at once. I guess I'm thinking of the use of modifier keys. Anecdotally speaking, it increases tension as well because of the need to maintain more complex finger/hand positions under stress and high repetitions.
"I think of research into virtual currencies as at least as beneficial as GIMPS, SETI, Folding@Home."

LOL. The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one. Also, mining bitcoins or squeezing a few extra cycles out of a VM is not 'research into virtual currencies'. Look people, let's just call a spade a spade here - us nerds are quite happy with our new-found economic powers (not just BC, in general), and we're all too happy to flex it when new tech (like BC) gives us an early mover advantage. Yeah I'm bitter I'm no BC millionaire because I had other things on my hands 2 years ago than running some software, while I did run SETI@HOME on a largish network for a long time a decade ago for no gain at all; but 200 years ago I would have been a peasant, now I was catapulted into upper middle class just because I was born in the right decade and with that twist in my mind that makes me grok computers better than most people. That's just how it is, why do feel we need to make moral justifications about it (or worse, whack job 'I deserve it because I worked harder' delusions like in that article yesterday about the Google dude).
Yup. I recently got a Google recruiter who emailed me at my work email which is not publicly available anywhere.
What about the child though? I guess he/she will just have to deal with any learning disabilities caused by overexposure to electronic stimuli later.
You were perfectly clear. You've made it clear yourself that the opt-in fiction is just that, just as the difference between corporate and government surveillance, such as it is, does not rely on any opt-in mechanism or lack thereof.

Don't give us this crap that there is a difference between the two when your point is so self-defeating.
To the outside world, it looks like "python-requests/1.2.3", sadly. I should change it to "Mac Plus!!!"
That's a perverse analogy. You're still paying for the ride, not for the conversation. An enjoyable conversation as oppose to silence, is icing on the cake.

Consider this: We don't pay for the barber to talk to us but would we go back to a barber if he wasn't socially adept?
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Gmail has a different philosophy of working with data (search instead of sort) and I've noticed more than once that some people refuse to make that mental switch.
Would be good to compare that risk with the risk of passing borders in countries prone to corruption. How could we compute stats about that?
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Well following the Median-Voter theory, it really explains this all. The median US voter seems not to care and so there is not enough political incentive to curb these practices (the same here in Germany: there is not enough incentive for politicians to challenge the US on this).

To me it seems there is only one thing left to do: Inner emigration.

I have given up. I ignore Government. I really do not want my psychological/emotional well-being depended on the next worst thing coming from "The Government (TM)".

My fellow citizens don't care. OK; fine with me. Heading into police state? OK; fine with me. When dictatorial police state finally arrives I am gone. Have fun you citizens who never cared.
What would you use as a pointing device with the Kinesis though?

I've grown quite attached to the RollerMouse classic over the years as the ultimate pointing device but I'm wondering how that would work with the Kinesis.

Hacking a trackpad in the middle also seems like an odd compromise ...
Nope, AES has a 128-bit block size so you "only" need about 2^64 blocks.
I can't be the only one who thinks tablets have the potential to be an extremely positive early-stage developmental and educational aid? Of course, abandoning your child in front of an iPad for hours on end is not good parenting - no one is suggesting it is. Plonking your little one in front of a TV for hours is just as bad for the same reason.

There's no reason at all why focused play on a tablet now and again shouldn't take its place alongside books (those great ones with the thick chewable cardboard pages), dolls, chunky plastic diggers, balls and building blocks - and TV, now and again.

Getting in and playing with computers fairly early did me a world of good, and allowed me to much more effectively develop my interests. I still have an enduring love of dinosaurs thanks to an old DOS program called Burt's Dinosaurs. I played on games that taught me basic arithmetic. I learned how all manner of things worked. It was great! And in a world where technology itself is getting to be so central to everyday life, it is much better to learn how to be familiar and comfortable with it than to run away and pretend that we can insulate our children from it forever.

Tablets are interactive, media-rich, the children that play on them develop amazing coordination, and it's a format that can provide great material wrapped up in a way that makes learning fun for children.

I can only guess that so many are uncomfortable with the idea of this product because it suggests prolonged unsupervised play, rather than problems with tablets themselves?
Maybe because that congressman fears that any bills he proposes will be met with a NSA-powered smear campaign that leak will private information to the press revealing his drug habits, secret lover, moments of indiscretion, offshore bank account, whatever.
Not bad. It's still missing something, but it's close.
Well, the company could certainly be in hot water for selling to a non-accredited investor, but I've yet to see anyone who can point to a penalty that can be levied against the lying investor.
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Side note: I find Lyft to be cheaper on whole in San Francisco. So it's good conversation plus less money for me.
the HANA IDE doesn't require Windows. You can get it for Windows, Linux and Mac. https://hanadeveditionsapicl.hana.ondemand.com/hanadeveditio...
Perhaps, then, you should develop a new argument from that standpoint.

And a public figure is just a person that reporters take an interest in.

There is a difference between a merely famous person (eg Kim Kardashian) and a public figure like an elected official, in whose good behavior the public has an interest (as distinct from being interested in it in the colloquial sense). I mean this in the sense of the word republic which is a contraction of the Latin res publica or 'public matter.' This is why private individuals enjoy a right of publicity to their own likeness and copyright protection for their public performances, but the identity and doings of legislators and government officials (within the scope of their official activities) are in the public domain.
Like most languages in the Pascal family.

Arrays are bounded. You can usually disable bounds checking locally if you really need the extra ms, for cases the compiler is not able to optimize them.

Proper strings instead of char pointers that might be null terminated or not.

Var parameters and unbounded vector parameters to handle arguments that need to be changed.

Oberon family has already proven it is possible to write desktop operating systems in GC enabled systems programming languages.

Now as you say, many of these things are possible in modern C++. The problem is getting everyone on board, specially when dealing with old code bases littered with C like constructs.
I often tell people there is a similar disconnect (yet similar risk) between motorcycle riding and skiing. Break a leg on a bike and you shouldn't have been doing that dangerous thing! Break a leg skiing? Oh man bummer! Hope I see you on the slopes next season!
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You're assuming that NSA data is not yet being used to influence the outcome of our elections.
I built vim3d for myself to use. I used to work for Side Effects Software as a 3D artist using Houdini (sidefx.com), which I then got deeper into programming, and vim was my text editor of choice.

I wanted to create something to enable me to build 3D content using a shell, but also having access to a graphical interface. When you use commands, you store the procedures or instructions for how to build something, so your work is more re-usable and stored as a scene file (plain text), vs. something like maya where you're graphically building and history gets deleted (in fact there is a delete history option in maya) and completely stored in binary or some very hard to read scene description language.

vim3d provides a simplified, very human-readable approach to its scene files that somewhat remind me of bash or assembly. And, as a programmer, you get the keyboard as your weapon of choice, with command history, undo/redo stack, and ability to save 3D scenes as programs that you can read back into the system to read or write later. Oh, here's another analogy: if vim3d is like vim, blender is like sublime text :)

Admittedly, much of vim3d's functionality (although not UI) was deeply inspired by sidefx.com's houdini if you are curious. Houdini is for the "engineers" of 3D designers in some perspective, whereas Maya is for the "non-technical" 3D designers.
I see the collapse in demand for human labor as the key political issue of the 21st century. So many of us are just not required by our economy.
> Well, why should they curb it?

Because ubiquitous surveillance undermines freedoms key to a functioning democracy. For example, freedom of the press: http://www.juancole.com/2013/11/censoring-scrutiny-mccauley....

I also think it undermines freedom of speech. When the Snowden stuff started coming out, I wanted to ask friends in government what they thought. But the only ways I can ask them are at risk from government snooping. Not wanting to put them at risk, there's no way I can ask them.

Basically, all of them took an oath. They should live up to that.
Another way would be to have truecrypt completely encrypt the drive in the laptop and have a colleague set up the password.

Then, when you have arrived, you ask your colleague to send you the password.
That way you have security of the laptop data and you can confidently tell any government agency that you do not know the password should they request it.

I hear some companies do it this way. Should the man request the password of the work laptop you brought along? You can just tell em "Take it up with my superior back home"
Higher input prices are not wholly passed along to consumers, although this is a common misconception. The degree to which prices go up vs producers accepting a smaller profit depends on the elasticity of consumer demand.

Where this relates to the apportionment of a tax burden, it's known as tax incidence, which is probably the best search string to start with.
With YouTube specifically, a game company can opt to take any revenue from ads generated by videos of their games. Notably Nintendo has done this.

You can also choose to split the revenue with the uploader.
A cynic would say that you might as well leave the data on your phone if you go the "cloud route" as the government would already have all your data. ;)
Well, I'm in the gaming industry right now, so at the very least learning how to code could just fill out my skill set. I think there is a difference between pushing something like coding vs teaching or nursing. Yes, in many cases pushing people to enter those fields where there was a deficit at the time will flood them with applicants later on. However, we aren't really building many more schools or hospitals. But more and more companies need people who can code. And more and professions rely on, or at least benefit from knowing how to code. Years ago animation had nothing to do with coding, but now knowing python or action script is almost required.
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Voting is pointless when you can't trust anyone. If we want improved privacy, we have to do it on our own. That means improved, open source tools for encryption, anonymous browsing and messaging.
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Almost everything we know scientifically about early childhood development validates Dr. Linn's statement.

I understand your friend's unenviable position. We (two-parent household) had three children within 4 years. We were just getting the first out of diapers when the last came along. We are intimately aware of how exhausting, stressful, and mind-melting the constant need of little ones can be. I imagine it is as difficult or worse for your friend doing it on her own.

Unfortunately that does not change the fact that we are social beings, and we learn through play and interaction with others (particularly our parents). Combine that with research that suggests that the first months of life establish a framework for how our brain will develop for the rest of our life and you can understand the concern about a carrier like this which seems to be entirely opposite what research has shown to be good for infants. Generally I dismiss "think of the children!" arguments without consideration, but in this case I think it is justified. What is our role as parents if not to nurture our children? We can not ignore the research because it is difficult for our situation.

Now, having said all of that, here is my problem with the so-called "revolt" mentioned in the article:

1. From the article:

However, it’s important to note that the seat can be used normally without an iPad.

2. If people really find it offensive, just don't buy it. If enough other people want to buy it so that the company continues to make money selling it, who are you to say that other people who want to buy it should not be allowed to? Instead of trying to strong-arm this company into withdrawing their product lets create the kind of society where this product is not profitable.

In fact, I would argue that the real problem is not the product, but that there is a market for it. I said at the beginning that I empathize with your friend, and I really do. She is stuck between a rock and a very hard place, and shamefully our society does not really have a good answer for her. Even though I think much of our cultural evolution in the last 50 years has been positive, we have to admit that not everything has gotten better. In particular we seem to have eroded many of the social nets to help people in situations like your friend. We need to make supporting parents a priority and find new, effective ways to help parents make ends meet without neglecting their children. Sane maternity leave and paternity leave are a good starting point. Reasonably priced, safe housing and jobs that pay a living wage for a 40-hour work week are some others. We need to seriously reconsider the kind of education system and teen culture we have created that leaves us with so many single parents (I am not intending to indict your friend: I do not know her situation). In particular we need to review how we and portray fatherhood in our entertainment and culture. We can not afford for so many men to abandon their responsibilities to their partners and children.

All in all we have a lot of work to do and a baby seat seems like a silly place to pick a fight.
We can re-create existing ones from known (small) genomes and make some modifications to ones that we understand well. Even that work is well beyond what a hobbyist can achieve. Creating a novel virus would be a major research project.
I'd define it as places RULED by Hindus (preferably a single central monarch)
I'm a student (and researcher) at Caltech — and very excited to hear about this. I hope Caltech continues to push for open access. I know that many undergraduates would like to have course lectures posted freely online like MIT's open courseware.

I do wonder, how common is such a policy at other institutions? I assume this must be uncommon, since it's apparently newsworthy?
That's what I was thinking. That piece of rock must be very hot as it's flying out into space from a violent explosion. At least, that's how I picture it. It seems odd that the article was concerned about the danger of space itself, but never mentioned the exit from earth.

Science is very fascinating, but this phenomenon of life successfully leaving earth and arriving on other planets has never been demonstrated, so it's more idle speculation than science.
Hi, I'm the creator of vim3d. Let me know how I can help collaborate in anyway shape or form. I just posted on your google plus page.
Not every moment of it's existence, but a vast majority to be sure. Babies can't do anything for themselves. They are completely worthless and prone to self-injury and self-harm.

It doesn't have to be a single person or it's progenitors, but it does need to be someone who genuinely cares for the baby. When I was younger I remember my mother and father would often watch babies for other young mothers who needed time to relax. This seems like a good model, but our culture's irrational distrust of men invalidates half the pool of helpers and our growing disconnection from neighbors and other people jeopardizes the rest.
What does Dubai (a city) have to do with India (a country)? Plus, you're comparing homosexual to heterosexual relations.

Having lived in Dubai, I know of plenty of people who had sexual relationships without being married (not that I approve of that), and they were never arrested. The only cases I have heard of where arrests did happen were in cases where they happened in public.
I'm probably not the only one that'd say: Yes, I'd prefer if the barber doesn't talk. Unless I'm in a particularly outgoing mood I'm probably not really interested in talking to a stranger. I'd pick the barber based on how smooth the transaction and service was. Perhaps I'm in an odd minority.
If people want the tl;dr then I suggest loading the pdf at the article and jumping to page 37, which has a stack graph of automative potential broken out by employment sector. If you have a little more time, I urge reading the whole paper, which is quite elegant.
I added the .obj limitation as an issue, https://github.com/pyramation/vim3d/issues/2

Thanks!
Is Google deliberately trying to kill off Youtube?
When we were revising our Terms of Use recently we wanted to make sure there was a provision about monetising gameplay video being allowed. This is because previously we were getting a fair amount of email users who required us to give written permission so that Twitch would allow it.

We actually got a fair amount of push back from our lawyer who advised us against it.

We did include it it though I feel he added a lot of extra weaseling to the clause that probably wasn't needed.
I think that's a stretch: when I was in Germany earlier this year, support for Snowden was everywhere, lead story on the TV news, politicians discussing granting Snowden asylum, Snowden's face was everywhere... you couldn't avoid the story. Very different to coverage in other countries.

Merkel is a friend of America & she's pragmatic - she won't torch the German-American relationship on a whim. It's perhaps more significant that even a pro-NSA, pro-American Chancellor now finds the actions of the NSA unconscionable & has to speak out.
I used skeleton too for my latest small project. It's nice, but... very minimal
That was a very inspiring project, and read. Always impressive with people doing "all trades": from pure ergnomimcal to mechanical design, to keyboard driver firmware, to PCB design. Awesome!

I was happy to see the author settle for KiCad, having made a micro version of the same journey I've settled for KiCad too, it's pretty nice once you start getting going.

I was surprised to not see any mention of OSH Park when it came to board manufacturing, I thought they were the default for small-scale prototyping, and they're certainly competetive when it comes to price ($5 per square inch, for threee boards). Being in Europe the shipping delay is intensely frustrating, but otherwise OSH Park is like a dream come true.

Keep up the good work!
It's a fair point. I think you'd have to segment labor market a little more, by personality (silent & professional/fun & engaging).

My thought is that Lyft does well with the second type, and Uber is recognizing value in that market.

I don't think it will drive up costs though. Here Uber is not promising them a higher rate - just switching bonuses. Uber has strong incentives not to offer higher rates, changes their whole cost structure. This is just a recruiting expense.

I don't see these services implementing multiple tier payment structures, because that would have to be passed to consumer and then pricing gets complicated when all you want is a ride now.

Now I think you're absolutely right the supply is tight. Lyft has some serious driver shortages as it is, and this is not helping matters.

I wonder when they'll start letting drivers share cars (or even use a third party car such as Zipcar), but that would help open up the SF market to labor that is constrained by not having a car of their own (which, I'd estimate that's quite a few people).
I remember being absolutely devastated when the U.S. Robotics 28.8k modem I purchased was too fast for the 9.6kb/sec speed the 8250 UART on my 386sx. I had to sell it to somebody else and find an expensive internal model with its own UART. I think later they started selling internal modems without UARTS that just used the CPU to do the work, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case here.
Oh, the split key Model M. Very nice.

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Music production quality can be very good but the music itself can still be crap.