skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Dalke, firstly thanks for the long comments and feedback.

You make an amazing point and on future job openings we are going to be far more specific in order to be fair to developers who want to apply directly.

However, from experience no mater HOW MUCH detail I give, recruiters will still spin me the same shit:

"A company just when bust in your area and I have some amazing developers looking for work, here's some word docs attached"

Also, that's a really good exception RE someone moving to a new geographic location and might not have any contacts or referrals... I think we can work on this by expanding our own digital footprint internationally over time, but it's a special circumstance I guess recruiters might come in...

However, then I think how hard is it to google? If I lost my job and decided to move to spain, building a database of tech companies in Madrid would take an evening. Sending personal emails to the CEO (assuming small teams) in each case would only take a few days.

So no, other than knowing the local salary market (google that too) I still think I'd find better people by circumventing recruiters

>Also, the posting suggests that they are looking for people willing to work long hours for low wages, and who likely won't be pressuring management for raises to match their market worth.

No it doesn't. Yeah, like all startups we offer a touch below market rate in exchange for options but nowhere do I imply "long hours for low wages"? Maybe the unlimited vacation time was overlooked????
So how do I get the client going? You linked to the release but there is no documentation on building or running the osx client. Am I missing something? Maybe I am too late to the party.
100% yes. It will set your mind on fire.
Except for the part where Python 3 is real, production ready and about to become the default.
This could happen in segments of the industry. We see a similar pattern with new just-out-of-school backend devs being put in testing or QA Developer roles for the first few years. I generally thing this is a bad idea, since testing is often more difficult than writing the code itself and requires lots of experience, but that might not apply here if the work of the "paralegal" dev was properly defined (I have no clue how, since it seems the only way to learn these standards is repeated failure and iteration).
It can't deny that. It is engaged in mass surveillance of US citizens. Members of Congress use Google Mail just like everyone else. To deny that they may have collected information on a Congressperson just sets them up for yet another scandal.

Presented with that question, NSA gave the only answer it could possibly have given, short of (once again) lying directly to Congress. That's not all that interesting of a result.
Australia's on roughly $15/hour. They have LOWER unemployment.

You draw the line when you start getting inflation at about 10-12%. That's when inflation starts to have an effect on economic growth.

It could be raised gradually until that point.
You obviously have never heard a gun being fired. No one would confuse a gunshot with a toy making sounds.
I just checked out Bing with some well known search queries and the results are very close to Google's.

What makes me slightly uncomfortable are

- the name and the branding. It sounds irrational but the name annoys me and I just do not want to type it. Bing doesn't sound sophisticated, smart or anything and the big picture on the landing page is unwanted and makes the product feel unfocussed. Maybe the reason is just that Bing never did something way better than Google and thus, there were no opportunities to load this name with a good reputation with some achievements.

- the speed: Google is (or feels) still way faster here and there (when entering something into the search it instantly switch to the SERP view)
No they don't! [1-6]

The author of this piece, Mike Koczal, is an ideological blogger. You can catch him on Salon, MSNBC, TNR, etc. The main economist mentioned, Arin Dube, is not mainstream. He is actually sympathetic to Soviet central planning[7]. And the UMass Amherst Economics department has a well know for its "offbeat" views (e.g. numerous courses that take Marx seriously), not mainstream, not concensus.

The truth is this is a controversial, basicly idealogical, issue and if any consensus exists it is that the results will be mixed: some better and some worse off (i.e. unemployed).

[1] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/econo...

[2] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/what-economists...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Surveys_of_economi...

[4] http://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/minimum_wage.pdf

[5] http://www.epionline.org/studies/epi_minimumwage_07-2007.pdf

[6] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/econo...

[7] http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/10/a-n...
3) For those who do not lose their jobs, the fact that they didn't lose their jobs is indicative of more major problems...they either don't understand the value of their labor, or they don't know how to negotiate with their employers.

Oh, they understand perfectly well about negotiations. Here's the employer reaction when they try to negotiate: "Well, I guess I'll fire you and hire this unemployed person instead."

The employer reaction when the minimum wage is raised is to say, well, guess I now have to pay those guys more.

So a minimum wage increase helps people perfectly well. You could argue that it would be even better if we as a society decided to eliminate unemployment by making sure that demand for labor was always high enough.
I don't think this is true unless you are truly locked into your own tiny little world. All your search history really does is help Google serve up ads for you. If that's an improvement, so be it.
>> Textbooks generally do have to be updated every so often, though annual revisions are pretty ridiculous, and much of the industry is a fat scam, especially where the professor teaches from his own text.

> Whether a professor teaches from his or her text is largely irrelevant.

If a college professor writes and teaches from a book, he's requiring people to buy it. That often gives him royalties, which is a perverse incentive. I wouldn't call this a fat scam, but it's probably relevant to the idea that the textbook industry has some issues.

It might be worth distinguishing between college and public schools, where the burden of cost is on either the student or the public.
How do you square that with the fact that there are roughly 8 million concealed carry permit holders in America today?

Are they all on power trips?

http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592552.pdf
I would imagine that, at best, a "report" (originated from abroad, mind) would still get you at best something similar to parallel construction: Nothing really useful other than a specific tip to start a real investigation on a specific person, which would require a warrant you can't yet get from FISC due to lack of admissible evidence of probable cause.

Either way it's a very dangerous legal ground to walk on. Whatever else we can say for NSA, they've been listening to their lawyers this time.
"offbeat" views (e.g. numerous courses that take Marx seriously)

Right, how could anybody possibly take one of the most important thinkers in the history of political economy seriously!

Marx has important but inconvenient things to say even today. He may not have been right about everything, but a lot is spot on. It's just that lucid writing about class struggles is rather uncomfortable to those who are winning these class struggles. In any case, those who ignore him do so at their own (intellectual) peril.
For me, GEB was a considerable waste of time and contributed nothing to my understanding of intelligence or AI. The time would have been be better spent elsewhere.

If you want to understand Godel's proofs then I recommend "Godel's Proof" by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman:

http://www.amazon.com/Gödels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475837....

Instead of Hofstadter's GEB, read some of his papers, e.g., "Analogy as the Core of Cognition" http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.h....

But there are others who have focused longer on analogy, e.g., George Lakoff:

"Metaphors we Live by"

http://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/022....

"Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being":

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Come-Embodied-Brings....

"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things"

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Fire-Dangerous-Things-Lakoff/dp/....
"In interviews, coming from a startup is going to be a red flag for larger companies."

I'm a little worried about that, yes...in my case, my startup has permanently burned away any desire to attempt one again...nothing more I want to do now than focus on code and let other people make the big decisions...I'm hoping that comes through...maybe not that fatalistically :P

Thanks for your reply.
> It breaks convention with every other OO language

Lua, Go, and Rust all have explicit self.
I think what google provide has become societal infrastructure, particularly wrt their monopoly position. That someone else would take their place (however badly executed) is evidence of that. We use it for studying, planning journeys, shopping, finding news, converting measures etc etc. In the process it's taken a position of political and economic importance. It makes a difference to us if google suppresses or boosts certain information and can influence our electorate during an election (e.g. many countries ban publication of exit polls); it affects the courts if certain information is made easily available (e.g. can prejudice trials); economic data and editorial affects the financial markets - and so on. If one player dominates this sphere, it is problematic - indeed it's why there are limits on media ownership. That's nothing to do with a demand for mediocrity but a demand for diversity, which is already well established. And yes companies very much need to conform to the countries they want to do business in - that's a good thing for the citizens of those countries.
starfish are all dying.
is there a snopes and an cute xkcd for that as well?
It mostly eats into corporate profits first. Then it starts having an effect on inflation.

If you think corporate profits are too low (fwiw they're at record highs right now), and corporations deserve more profit you shouldn't support a raise in the minimum wage.

If you're interested in what happens to prices if the minimum wage is hiked, read here:

http://164.36.50.178/lowpay/research/pdf/NMW_profits_and_pri...

"Our analysis of retail prices in 3 catering industries (canteens, restaurants and takeaways) does not indicate that prices in these industries were differentially affected according to their exposure to
the minimum wage. Surprisingly, the only evidence of any price effect is found in the canteen industry where prices rose by a modest 1% in April 1999. "
> GHCQ just happens to be spying on Americans and then giving the information to the NSA; the NSA returns the favor with a wink and a nod.

There are about 300 million Americans.

How does GCHQ know which ones to spill the beans on? It can't simply be all the information as NSA would then still need to choose which ones to look at, which would require a separate warrant to "look", even under their surreal logic.

It can't be a specific person directed by NSA, as that makes GCHQ an agent of the U.S. government.
Oh, all the co-founders are in the same boat...everyone knows it's sinking :-)

I've heard contract work takes longer to land than full-time, so I'm leaning towards the latter...any advice on quickly finding contract work?
Out of curiosity; what is the official mail system of the USG?
I guess we can agree that the money is shifted downwards in the income spectrum relative to where it was before. Other things equal, lower-income households have a higher marginal propensity to consume. So shifting money downwards will boost consumption.
I think they are different things. Knowing the sound of a perfect fifth is not perfect pitch, but relative pitch. One could transcribe a piece of music from memory with just very good relative pitch, with the caveat they probably will transcribe it in the incorrect key.
Hey VonGallifrey, also thanks for giving this some decent feedback. While it's mostly criticism, been challenged like this is extremely valuable as it helps me address my own preconceptions and assumptions about the recruitment game!

>The recruiter contacts me and tells me about a company that would be interested in working with me

In over 1,000 recruiter emails I've received over the last few years (of which at least 500 have been in the last few months due to Trak.io spiking in awareness) not once have I ever, ever expressed an interest first. Which means the Word Doc's getting dumped in my inbox are from people who haven't had your experience at all.

So the recruiters who are coming to you (kudos BTW), probably spinning you different shit as they send to employers but equally just as BS.

Think about it - a recruiter earns a commission on your base salary. Not options. Not employment perks. Not company culture. Not product vision. Which opportunities do you think they're going to put in front of you??

Their only job is literally to get the highest salary possible for the developer. They hope you'll pull that salary for 3 months, so that their manager will unlock their full commission.

>This means that a CV would be the only way to show what they have done in those years without breaking their Contracts.

I totally get your point about NDA work, and perhaps finding no time for any out-of-work-projects, but I fail to accept that truly interesting people have NOTHING outside of their job to talk about.

Or maybe there are some people... not seen enough people to truly call definitive judgement on this yet.

A word doc feels so "copy-paste". A personal intro email with a few relevant points, with a follow up Skype call, is going to tell me so much more. Receiving a "pump and dump" CV through a recruiter leaves absolutely no room for this. And I want people who KNOW this.

I want people who know full well that having that first impression of a "pump and dump" kinda developer is not how they want to be perceived.

So I guess my point shouldn't be specifically that they need a Github profile full of fun projects instead of a CV, more that I don't want to get a CV of them via a recruiter as it sending all the wrong signals.
my numbers reflected the fact that you provided no information in your question for making any kind of prediction
I don't know; I won't work with USG IT. I know the DoD has their own system.
BTW sponsoring hackathons IS a good way to get awareness among developers for hiring, worked in the past and plan to do more in 2014 :-)

Experiment, experiment, experiment
I use Chromium (logged in) as my main browser but if I try this queries in Firefox with a clean profile I get the expected results. So no Bing and Google are not equivalent I get much better results with Google. Next semester when I return to school I'll check my queries from the school network to see if Google gives me the expected result from there. Either way I like Google more than Microsoft and I rather switch to Yandex than to Bing if it ever comes to that.
I'm a HTML/CSS guru, with an intermediate understanding of javascript. I work for a massive tech company and I'm the only ones with these skills in my office. I've been doing it for about a year and most of the developers I work with haven't worked with someone like me before but they really enjoy it. The way I have differentiated my skill set is by having a background in visual design and ux. In any decent app or website, there will always be a need for someone to translate the actual visual design into front end code. Backend developers either don't know how to do this or aren't interested in doing it. Therefore, I think there will always be a place for people with my skill set. However, I am working on my javascript skills to make myself more valuable. I do have a good understanding of programming concepts though (eg: loops, mvc, some database stuff, etc...). This allows me to talk to the backend guys, and even though I don't know exactly how something works, I understand enough to get my point across. That is where the real value for the other devs comes from. Someone that understands the principals but specializes in something they can't do or care about.
After studying guitar in high school for several intense years (was a Steve Vai fan as well) I was able to tune a guitar without a reference -- even playing all of the stings simultaneously and tuning each "through the noise".

For me it didn't extend beyond that however.
I find it amusing since Marx is basically a mirror image of Neoclassical economics (the dominant strain in American academia today).

They're both awful at making predictions. They're both highly ideological. They're both highly unscientific (making non-disprovable assertions).

When applied religiously, both lead to horribly broken economic outcomes.

And, ultimately, they both perform similar roles for the dominant power structures of their day. Marxism was taught in the Soviet Union to promote the Soviet State and economic system. Neoclassical is the intellectual justification of our neoliberal system.

Both have interesting parts which it is possible to learn from, but they're basically both the ideological opinion forming apparatus of the state.

It's not wise to point this out in polite company, however. People get upset.
Amazon's return policy is amazing. They give actual refunds instead of store credit, cover return shipping, and there's never any open box/restocking fee. Stores frequently require arguments, pleading, or the threat of a credit card chargeback to properly accept returns. I buy from Amazon specifically because I know what I'm getting.
There's a strange preoccupation with perfect pitch. It's not very useful today since there are inexpensive electronic and mechanical tools to give you absolute pitch. It wasn't even that useful previously.

Classically trained musician without absolute pitch here. I would say yes and no to your comment. My undergrad degree was in flute, and I can assure you that absolute pitch can be quite helpful for wind players especially. My teacher had it, and would be able to tell you if you were out of tune even if you hadn't played with a piano or other reference point.

On the other hand, I once sat between two flutists who both claimed to have absolute pitch but were playing out of tune relative to each other (and each refusing to adjust to the other since... they had absolute pitch). So, it doesn't actually mean you're going to be perfect.

By "inexpensive electronic tools," perhaps you mean these tuners that you can attach to guitars and whatnot? These are certainly helpful for stringed instruments, but are basically irrelevant if you play a wind instrument. Most musicians with relative pitch only need a single reference note and then they're ok. Where relative pitch tends to fail you, however, is over longer periods of time when the pitch tends to drift. You hear this in lots of school orchestras. The pitch will tend to drift upwards (at least in the strings) over a long work. Here, no mechanical/electronic device is going to help you.
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At first I read this as "want a perfect pitch?" and I thought the article would be about This One Crazy Drug That VCs Hate™. I was pleasantly surprised.
Guido was a salaried employee of CWI at the time. he made money for his efforts. in fact, he has always been paid to work on Python, at least part of the time.
Yes: copyright infringement. US law also calls it that and not theft[1].

Also note the disparity: if you pay for software, you don't own it, you license it; but if you get it without paying, some call it theft.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Theft...
"Pretentious" and "outdated" are among the least interesting criticisms that can be made of anything. Indeed, it takes a little effort to read things from an unfamiliar historical context, but it's worthwhile learning to appreciate them.
This is my recommendation as well. I don't use it to wash my hands, but I have found that when I get a small cut or scratch, a drop or two of triclosan soap placed full strength on the cut, and left there for a minute or so before rinsing, seems to reduce infection and speed healing. At the rate I'm using it -- a few drops a month -- one bottle will last many years.

If you do just want to give it away, I'm not sure what to suggest. I wouldn't pour it down the drain or put it in the trash, but taking it to a household toxics center seems overly fussy, considering the amount people are using. Maybe just ask your neighbors to find one who already uses it and give it to them.
All of your links appear to be broken. Looks like they were copy pasted from an auto-truncated source or something.
Arabic Natural Language Processing
Documenting Thoughts With Audio
Augustus died in AD 14 at the age of 75, and Vespasian died in AD 79 at the age of 69, and these were just emperors whose longevity I happened to recall.

Neither were considered to have many (any?) symptoms of lead poisoning either, so I am somewhat skeptical of widespread significant health effects from their use of lead pipes.