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Scheduling is such a hard problem. What other tools do people use for scheduling shift workers?
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I like the site (agree that it looks more Resume aaS versus Cover Letter aaS).

Could you elaborate more on the multiple narratives? If I have a long and sordid job history with multiple industries, am I picking only specific companies/positions that I worked with in my application, or am I picking bullet points within the company? I'm slightly confused why Tom Webb would be an iOS developer, Lead Front end, and Customer Service Manager. Maybe iOS, front end, and something else programming related would better illustrate the example. The example job application doesn't change going between Tom Webb and Tina Zuick to really drive this home.

If I have multiple narratives, do they each have unique URLs?
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Not always an option for startups... When you have a super small team, this role is often filled by only one hard-to-find person.
Would you also write off mining servers as a business expense?
I grew up in New Zealand. The interesting part for me is the social uptake of this law - it was universally accepted and we were always told to wear helmets. I don't think I ever saw anybody there riding a bike without a helmet.
But there will always be overlap between the two. If you disclose secrets of an organization you act against its rules and harm its capabilities. It's merely a difference in what interests you will acknowledge as you act.
Germany has minimum wages, but not for every industry. The government standpoint was up to now that minimum wage needs to be negotiated between employers and employees and it's not the government job to set the level of the minumum wage.

This might change with the current government.
This isn't an issue, despite the article's implication otherwise. Being a president of a college isn't exactly a low-impact position: in addition to being a public emissary to the college, they send the majority of their time on the road, raising money for their endowment. Colleges who offer poor compensation for their presidents will generally receive a commensurate return on their investment (though I'd love to see a normalized graph of presidential salary to yearly fundraising, as a point of comparison.)

(If you're interested in examining bloat and waste in universities, I recommend faculty-to-administrator ratio as a jumping-off point.)
It is highly uncontroversial that there is water on Mars. NASA does press releases for the discoveries they make in general, the "Mars/water" stories are not really given special treatment by NASA above and beyond their other interesting stories.

The difference is the media and general public, who for some bizarre reason have decided to cling to the idea that there is no water on Mars but NASA is desperately trying to find it. Therefore, whenever NASA talks about water and Mars they all go ape-shit, like when a university announces that a drug one of their researchers is working on that is suppose to slow the growth of one particular type of cancer completes one stage of animal testing.

Complain about the people that are actually the problem here.
Let's suppose there is water there and we could somehow take advantage of it. Why would human's be inclined to spend any time on Mars?
There was a brief time when aptitude was smarter than apt-get (it was smart enough to remove auto-installed dependencies when you removed a package, for example). During that time, the advice was to use aptitude instead of apt-get.

Those smarts were later moved to apt itself, but it's still a part of the folklore.
Yeah I think you're right. If anything it's the endless list of deans making $200k that we should be looking at, not the president.
Perhaps I misused the word 'collectively' - but notice that this is a strike by Amazon workers in Germany, as opposed to all warehouse workers in Germany.

Inside the company, management's position is highly collective. Owners expend significant resources to get the best possible deal on what they have to pay their employees - resources that are beyond the reach of an individual employee. For jobs like this, it imposes pay grades across the entire warehouse floor - as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

It only makes sense that employees should organize their own advocacy groups.
If he would have used an altcoin that is limited by CPU like Primecoin he could have earned around 8000$ in 2days. Not sure if my calculation is legit through. It's based on the chains/day from the list at http://anty.info/primecoin-calculator/

Scary. I'm sure a lot of universities and servers will see an influx of hacks for coin-mining.
Yeah... I'll just use LinkedIn.
Your argument seems to make sense, but why does everyone seem to agree that it would still be a felony, then?
right, this is pretty much the attitude with which colonial powers approached new continents. The universe was not built for humans alone - if there is life there - which in its current form is unable to protect itself - it is our duty to protect it and leave it untouched - not kill it in hordes and put the remaining few in reserves and allow them to open casinos as a consolation prize.

EDIT:
On the other hand - if it is life that can protect itself - i.e. - attack human explorers or cause unintentional harm to them - then we also need to be able to understand that in an isolated environment before we just touchdown and put up our IKEA stuff..
There should be a website, like an online exchange, where you can shop around for the best taxation plan for your bike riding habits.
I agree 100% with you, but it would be pretty embarrassing for top NASA scientists to report they have "found life on mars", only to later realize that it was life that the spacecraft brought from earth...

Better to decontaminate the spacecraft, have it take samples/perform measurements, then it can open a can of "life-from-earth" microbes and release them to the Mars surface.
That's a interesting hiring aproach trade-off.

Would a hiring company prefer to receive a personalized aproach by the candidate? It shows that the candidate is particularly interested in working on that company and took some time and effort to apply. But also may signal that the candidate is only saying what he thinks the company wants to hear, faking himself as a cultural match and etc.

Or would a company prefer to receive an honest, idiosyncratic, but standard candidate resume? It shows more about the candidate, his profile, culture, personality. It looks more honest and straight forward. But also may signal that the candidate is sending the same stuff for dozens of other companies, including some that he just don't care if he is not hired. So he may not really want or care enough to work on that company.

I would guess that nowadays recruiters care more about a resume personalized to them, even if it is telling some white lies or half-truths.
> not a law enforcement agency

Naive to think that mass-collection of data is not a tool that will eventually used by law enforcement.
Why terraform, then? Why not mine the hell out of the place right away? Are you really in such a hurry to get off this planet? Isn't it much more important to learn a bit about the world before we start shaping it in our image?
A cheater? What, did he break the rules of the Capitalism Game?

Casting aspersions like this is in very poor taste. You can't even question his actual actions — instead, you just feel like the author is a cheater. This is not reasonable discussion; it's slander, and it is hostile to the purpose of Hacker News.
sorry... did not see that the source code is available for all platforms including iOS.
The alternative is Basic Income. But yes, countries need to decide how distribute work in the future (automatic cars will destroy a lot of low level jobs, taxies, logistics, ...)
Though if we do put martian bacteria in reservations en masse, I call dibs on teaching them how craps works.
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Bicycle helmets have their place, but I think it's clear (from this great research and others) that that the method to achieve to greatest cycling participation and safety is to build separated bike lanes. Helmets don't need to be part of that solution.
Agreed. A relative of mine has done college presidencies and her main job was to visit wealthy alums and sweet talk them into more donations.

There are actually a lot of small, financially distressed colleges out there that pay their presidents about $120K or $160K, and hope they'll raise more money for the school not to mention attract in more students.

The picture is rather grim these days for many small liberal arts schools. I hope they can pull through but it's like everything else--the small newspapers, the mom-and-pop stores, the small publishers and broadcasters are all being squeezed out by mega chains and online options.
You're right, I live my life barricaded in my house, and the threat of falling planes is a constant worry, as is choking to death on lettuce.
Initially I would have agreed with you but having graduated in the dot.com bust of 2001, I don't.

I had a hard time getting a first job, especially as I am not good at the sort of bullshit (for want of a better word) you need to put in job applications.

I treated the task as a full time job handing in many applications per week. The ones that asked for a CV were easy (but generally had a low chance of a reply). Or a CV and cover letter (similar reply rate). Then you had the corporates, who wanted an individually tailored example of when you showed leadership, or solved a difficult problem despite many setbacks. (These were a pain in the arse to fill out, but generally I got a far better response rate from these applications). I hated them. That why I studied computers and science. But for every 9 bad days where I couldn't think up anything to put as a good response top these stupid questions, I had a good day, where the "bullshit" would flow. I would come up with a good answer. Not lying, but "bigging up" what I actually had done, and making it sound good.

Once you have done 3 or 4 of those applications forms, the questions they ask aren't so different. So guess what, you can reuse the answers. OK, the answers will need tweaked, but that's what I did. I had a file where I had 20 of these questions, and looked for the most similar and tweaked it to the job description.

Now. I managed that with a text file from what I remember. Is there really a need for an app to do this?
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Has Microsoft finally admitted Windows 8 was a colossal blunder?
Replace Amazon with Foxconn and tell me you still feel the same way
Depends on the job, but having hired people for startups, I'm the same way. I don't want people who want a job. I want people who want this job. So the more generic the application, the more likely it is that I'll ignore it.

Also, polish beyond a certain level is a negative for me. It's sort of like Calvin and Hobbes and the clear plastic binder: http://stephen-coley.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cal...

Basically, the harder something is marketed to me, the more I assume that the marketing is a necessary cover-up for a flawed product. There's a reason McDonald's spends circa 10% of revenues on advertising. Hint: it's not because there are a lot of people in the US who haven't heard of McDonald's yet.
...this doesn't bother me nearly as much as some people. Certainly not while college football coaches earn far more. The top ten highest paid football coaches are all taking home $3.7 million+, and that's at state universities[1]. Personally, I would value the university president more than the football coach.

[1]:http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1840036-usa-today-reveals...
Only open-source apps on open-source operating systems [..]

...running on Open Source hardware.

Many modern smartphones employ a baseband processor and an application processor with shared memory. While the app processor might be running an open-source compiled Android, the baseband processor is usually on a closed, not externally verified (and very buggy) RTOS provided by the manufacturer (Qualcomm, MediaTek, TI, ...)[0].

Owning the baseband is sufficient to gain access to the raw RAM of the application processor, to read any IM messages and keys, to manipulate data, code and whatever else you like. And all this is completely undetectable by any "antivirus" software running on the app processor.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqv0v14KKY
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> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

For how many years were people dismissed as nutjobs and "conspiracy theorists" when they talked about NSA spying? Now we know it was all true. Would you like to make a bet as to whether or not the US military-industrial complex acts in its own self-interest when comes to the "War on Terror"? When it comes down to it, there is nothing particularly "extraordinary" about these claims.

> You have made these accusations without any evidence.

The evidence is circumstantial and based on past behavior patterns of the US government. Read "Decent Interval" and its follow-up "Irreparable Harm" by Frank Snepp, or "State of War" by James Risen (for something more recent) to get started on this history. Again, there is nothing "extraordinary" about the previous poster's claims.
Interesting tidbit: "Almost $10 million of the new funding will go to development of what NPR calls a “seamless local-national listening platform” that will allow listeners to switch smoothly from, say, a clock radio to a web-enabled car."
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Why would people spend time on this abomination of a technology?

Because people use it, presumably. Federated XMPP: lovely, just fantastic. Next to no users.
The bit that I gleaned from this posting is that you may be able to claim only $400 of "capital gain" in the situation I described above, but not unless you held the capital asset for sufficient time between each purchase and sale to claim that income as a capital gain.

Otherwise, you're claiming $1250 of income and $950 of expenses, and I would guess if you're lucky, you can write off 75% (wild guess) of that $950 so you pay tax on $538, even though your real gain is only $200.

If your tax rate is 33%...

After paying taxes on $538, you profit $22 from the sale and pay $178 in taxes. UNLESS you can structure the timing of the exchanges (hold the asset long enough) to frame the activity as a capital gain with a cost basis of $950, in which case you made out a little better.

This example may be too small to be real, but I think I have it right. If the gain happened while holding the asset over a longer period of time (how long?) then it's capital asset and capital gains tax. You might not pay 33% in taxes and you also might not be able to deduct 75% of your expenses.
Problem with LinkedIn is that you can say you can do or know anything but you can't necessarily demonstrate it. I agree the power of a recommendation/referral network like LinkedIn is useful, but this product seems to let you show how good you are to others.
I will continue to refuse to believe American military personnel choose to strike otherwise-collateral civilian targets.

You're talking about moral humans, here. Our soldiers/airmen/marines/sailors are not soulless automatons, nor are officers that develop strategy and provide direction. Nor would I consider their pay to be either incentive or motivation.
> I find it interesting that correct equational reasoning in this case lead to a correct program, but one with absymal performance.

That's not really an interesting property of Haskell, though. You can always write correct but slow code in any language.

> It'd be interesting to think how one could encode performance characteristics into equations.

I've seen the concept of encoding performance in types played around with, but I can't find actual work (if any) that's been done on it.
My own main fear when I commuted by bike was someone opening a car door in front of me - I always made a point of staying a reasonable distance from parked vehicles but as my commute went through the middle of a city this was sometimes pretty difficult to do.

It would be good if self driving cars could use their sensors to detect cyclists and other road users and warn passengers about opening doors.
Right. As the alum, I don't want my university to skimp on its President or on fundraising. It's a small part of the budget but a major impact on how much money goes into the school. I'm far more interested in controlling bottom line costs (administrators, faculty salaries, construction). It doesn't seem to me that the salaries of university presidents (or the financial managers of the university endowments) are responsible for growing tuition. I feel like having an administrator for every imaginable function and the demolition and replacement of perfectly serviceable academic buildings might be more of a factor...
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Look up the Pentagon Papers and Woodward and Bernstein (and Rathergate, though that criticism was erroneous) for examples of established media sharply and consequentially criticizing the US government.

The media /are/ capable of it, and they /used/ to do it.
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You're arguing that any work is better than welfare or a basic income. I disagree. You are welcome to your opinion as well though.
JavaScript has been around long enough to arguably be called a mature language. It doesn't really need to be "better" (any more than any other language). It's the environment that's crappy - the Browser. But those aren't going anywhere. You're going to be waiting a long time before something supplants it.
Why would you imagine that?

Here in the Netherlands there is no tax on capital gains.
Ask HN: Is there already a good web-based CV/Resumé solution?
I've been considering building a service for academics and folks who want to track their academic and professional endeavors. Obviously a lot of people use LinkedIn for this, but I think there's space for a more document-oriented approach. I haven't seen one yet that looks well done enough to capture a significant userbase.

Does a GREAT service exist for this? I've thought through a few features I would have loved to have had when finishing my degree, like:

- Official request for reference letter through the app
- Integration with University transcript systems to keep track of classes taken, GPA, etc
- Design-oriented features, like easy theme settings
- Academic paper links/references (I know there are large systems already in place for citing, but I think this fills a different space of personal tracking and displaying rather than searching.)
- Printing/courier service to send the resumé to a potential employer without the service's brand (this could be a simple PDF too)

It seems potentially extremely valuable to colleges trying to place students in jobs, which would be my first angle (the two universities I attended).

I know a ton of people that this would be useful for personally (having come from GaTech), and I'm wondering what the HN community would have to say about the idea.
I guess manly it depends on what the recruiter values. I may see this as the equivalent of using a library and not reinventing the wheel. Something I feel is a good attitude to have as a software developer. Another recruiter may feel differently.

(I hate all the people who dogmatically tell you your CV should be this way or that, and you MUST do x in an interview. Interviewers are real people as well. Some people may value technical skills, others may prefer a cultural fit.)
I too, enjoy the position in history I was raised in.

Old enough to remember memorizing phone numbers and having a list in my teenage wallet of all the girls (and friends) I knew.

Remembering how things were before cell phones and facebook is going to be something I will grow old with and enjoy reminiscing about with a few friends.

I do like old technology or watching movies that take a snapshot of a specific place in technology history.

Like the movie Anchorman, it takes place before the rise of cable TV (and the web) when network TV's prominence was at it's highest.

In the late 70's and early 80's, local newsmen were borderline rock stars, everyone knew their name and they were considered an important part of a community.

But, this was only true for a few years. After the introduction of TV's in every home (60's and early 70's), but before cable TV spread and diluted the power of the Network stations.
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What was the size of your N for a given month?

Net Promoter can be highly flawed due to the following:

- It's a composite index and so the margin of error (MoE) for your promoters and seperately for detractors combine to create a NPS MoE which, unless your N was sizable, could be quite large

- Due to the previous point, it's hard to trend NPS; if your MoE is +/- 10 points in two seperate periods of time, unless you had a HUGE swing in your NPS score (which is another problem w/ small N's when calculating NPS) its hard to tell if your NPS score (really) went up or down

- I've seen many cases where the NPS score has "gone up" period over period, but the number of promoters actually decreased; did you look at the data deep enough to make sure that didn't happen?
Thanks! This feedback is super useful for honing our wording. The idea is that you create narratives around each of your key competencies/skills (e.g. programming, design, customer service) - each consisting of cards that outline specific projects, experience or education and then (optionally) back that up with evidence for extra depth. You can then apply to jobs by selecting which of your cards you think are relevant for that particular opportunity and tweak the wording to tailor it to that startup before hitting apply.

We thought it would be cool to be able to showcase yourself, then reuse that with minimal effort later - or just keep around as a way to track your progress as you continue to hone your skills.
There's no reason even with a standard resume to only have one. You tailor either per company or per position type. For example, for a iOS job, you'll emphasize iOS, maybe Android since it's in a similar space, and de-emphasize any other skills you have.

Resumes are marketing documents, not chronological histories of your life. Still, even as a marketing document it shouldn't lie.
With millions of your countrymen without basic health care, shelter and food, you think it's not a problem that someone makes $1 million a year? Wow.
Functions being first class citizens are all JavaScript really has going for it (that and a captive audience), and any new web oriented language could incorporate that as well as improvements over JavaScript's awful everything else.

Not that JavaScript isn't useful - it is, and it does allow you to get things done. But imagine the uncountable number of man years that have been wasted coping with JavaScript when it's clearly obvious that something better would have made our jobs a lot easier.
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This is exactly the point. University presidents are not hired primarily to manage an institutions education, but to fundraise. I recall a specific example in which the regents of the University of Virginia attempted to remove their president for not meeting a $3B fundraising goal. A chief fundraiser asked to bring in that much money should be compensated like those in industry dealing with similar amounts. Otherwise how will systems attract the best for the position.