skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely understand your plight. I spent a few months hunting for my next job. The process is convoluted and hard even irrespective of whether you go to a prestigious school or not. However, really, please don't think of things like schools as make or break deals. There are folks I know who have done things like HackBright and found a job in your pay scale. Of course, it gets harder and you will have to go through the grueling process of working through an incredibly noisy process of painful rejects before you get better.

A few of these points might be obvious to you. I apologize if they are.

1. Understand and separate (mentally) the process of interviewing at a company and your own self worth as a person working in technology. You not hearing back from a company is a function of so many latent factors that you are going to go crazy if you try figuring those out. Another poster below pointed it out but yes applying to 30 places is not a lot. I still remember one summer when I applied to 150 places and didn't get a single internship offer. Life goes on, though.

2. Understand that interviewing is a skill. If I only read HN, I would think that interviewing was all about tweeting, blogging and github. Sure, those things matter. Having a very well updated linkedin/social media/github profile helps. The right balance has to be struck between putting meaningful things that make sense to an Engineer and keywords for recruiters. More importantly go brush up on the basic stuff: data structures, algorithms etc. Almost every company, irrespective of their cool chops, asks you ritualized questions on graphs or whatever before they let you join their club. Depending on your particular tolerance to their brand BS, you may find one of the following ( pair programming, some absurd project that you are supposed to work on in your spare time, presentations etc) enjoyable or not.

3. Getting your resume infront of a hiring manager at a big company is about networking more than applying through their black hole system. Go network, Sir. That girl that you had a drink with six months back who now works at Apple; talk to her about getting your resume in the system etc.
It's terrible that some taxi drivers are homophobic but it really does not change where uber is accountable.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/uber-and-a-childs-d...
They have an obligation to society to not send out uninsured drivers who are distracted with their phones. This is a very profitable company and they are very capable of doing at least the former. I'm not sure how the latter problem could be solved except perhaps to demand that drivers pull over to receive requests through the app or whatever.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-w...
The CEO unironically had Ayn Rand as his Twitter picture. I don't need more evidence than that to know somebody's a douchebag.
It's Armstrong. Preexisting conditions and denying coverage has nothing whatsoever to do with corporate insurance, which already gives you coverage with preexisting conditions. AOL's insurance plans before Obamacare did not have lifetime caps (source: I worked at Patch).

Most likely the added costs he is complaining about are caused by various low cost, high probability events that Obamacare mandates coverage of. When I worked there I had a cheap high deductible plan, which is the sort of thing Obamacare makes illegal.
Marvel Comics API General Information
Not having Google Play hasn't limited my Kindle Fire experience so far. All the important apps are on the Amazon store, and most of the rest are low quality IAP bait.
This seems to be the modus operandi of both government and corporations nowadays. First a short-sighted idea is implemented then if an uproar ensues, apologize and reverse. Thus it is important to ensure a shit-storm of public opinions in response to crappy policies or bit by bit ones personal (and financial) liberties are eroded.
Why? Isn't that the worrying part? She should have the knowledge and experience to realistically explain why coding matters and how long it takes to learn it.
Ruby Fun and a Simple Olympic Medals API
systemd fairly strongly depends on linux cgroups for process monitoring and management, no? I don't believe there's a suitable analog in any of the BSDs.
It's not uplifting, it is a parable of karma. It is posing the claim that we are all one life, and you should seek to uplift all of humanity, because you will live every life, even the lowest.

Or that you should uplift the best life of humanity, because you will live it.

But generally, work for a distribution that you would prefer.

It is a spin on Bentham(?)/Rawls(?) Philosophy that you should choose a social contact/morality that you'd find acceptable if you didn't know who you would be born as.
Gibbon: Playlists for learning
Yes, but when the real world doesn't care so much about financial debt, things start failing. Witness 2008. This happens with tech debt too, it's just not well understood by the mainstream. I'm pretty sure when Alamo got acquired, it was in part due to their crappy software making them less convenient to visit and uncompetitive. I think it was them. I remember years ago one car rental company's agent terminals were so bad it just took twice as long to get through their line.
"So, I'm wiling to bet this is a high-dollar transaction"

Ha - no I wasn't. I was pretty much spot on. So, high-dollar transactions coming in from Russia. Yeah, you are abusing Square. Get a merchant account.
You're asking the wrong guy, I didn't submit this.
that's what xargs -n x is for
what version control gives you (as a last resort) is a sense of how a change fit into a specific pattern of changes. That's really all you can rely on it for. That's really helpful when trying to track down what broke when, but if it is a routine task, you are in a world of trouble.
If so maybe they should change the hash function, according to this short story billions of collisions have been found.
So can Finns donate to the International Red Cross? Or does every charity in the world have to apply for a permit in Finland?
MtGox is down again
Simple and minimal working clone of just-dice.com
I'm not really sure what "tags" refers to, but I'm pretty sure you can write fairly acceptable Ruby and Lisp without brackets, semicolons, or logic operators. That's not to say you can't use them; just that you don't actually have to.

So what I'm hearing is that she's actually talking about C.
legal way ?
It's bad enough that it's so hard for users to communicate with tech companies like Google and Facebook and PayPal. When a company won't even communicate with their employees and contrives to assert that their employees aren't their employees, thereby denying accountability to their employees and to society, that's unconscionable.
Useful but you could do it with IMAP already.
illegal way ?
> I'm not sure what things are left you
> could do differently?

There are so many thing that are left - one cannot do them in a lifetime! Analyze as much bugs as you can, invent your own language that prevents them from happening, write your own compiler for this language, make it fast, with better memory management, not some stop-the-world GC, but with something, that honors low-latency and so on.

EDIT: As RogerL is saying, useful to me intellectual knowledge is what I want to learn. It's pretty much never the same thing as anyone else in the room wants to learn.
I'm baffled by Tim Armstrong's rise to the top. I think he got there by virtue of having founded Patch, which never did anything before getting (nearly) shut down .... he seems to constantly piss everyone off, while accomplishing nothing, and yet ... CEO of a major brand?! (Other unpleasant CEOs - I can point to what they've accomplished.)

What am I missing? Does he have some other claim to fame and fortune that is not documented? Or is AOL making a technology or market share comeback that I'm unaware of?
Funny thing: the French search engine Qwant currently displays a message with the exact same presentation and almost the same text on their front page. They just changed to text so it says that they have never been condemned for anything by the CNIL because they respect privacy.
Unless you use that million dollars to save way more people. Because, you can. Easy to save thousands with that kind of money.
That's a Universal Argument: if someone names a feature, you have two outs. Either Gmail has it, or it's "specialized".

Here's one feature my email client has: automatic spell-check, such that emails are disallowed from being sent if they have any spelling errors (with an override, of course). Gmail has a manual-trigger spell-check, while the browser has automatic spell-checking, but neither have a personal (jargon-customized) dictionary built up over decades nor an automatic modal dialog if the message to be sent has a mistake.

I guess automatic spellcheck override dialogs are specialized, eh?
> this will be simply an excuse for the education system to ostensibly appear progressive and forward-thinking, but without actually providing decent resources.

This has been my impression of the U.S. education system since NCLB. Most core subjects share this malaise, so it's not like programming is unique. Perhaps your qualm is misdirected?
Possibly there might be obvious technical hurdles I'm missing here, but why wouldn't Google just release a Gmail app for the iPhone?
The coming age of ubiquitous predictive analytics
Speculative fiction, or parable, or fable, or theology.
Wouldn't Google just release a "Gmail" app for the iPhone / Windows Phone?
Can an HN mod change the title? The committee has not voted in favor of systemd (yet).
With some specific FMRI tests, they have shown that your decisions are being made before your are consciousnessly aware of them, therefore what we would call free will is called into question as something that exists at all, and arguing our consciousness is not an artifact of many lower level processes is a hard sell. (to me anyway)

Additionally: I don't see how the ontological argument ever was correct, "god is the most perfect, therefore he exists because an attribute of perfection is existence" is about the most ass backwards way of trying to prove the existence of anything, much less the creator of the universe. I conclude the this story is about as accurate as any other non-evidence based argument for some sort of creator and how they(it/he/she) works.
Vastly more expensive? I think it run well on a 386 with 8MB of RAM, and if you got rid of the Workplace Shell as the original MS OS/2 2.0 SDK betas from 1990 did, it would run well in 4MB.
To talk about it.
Of course nevery charity in the world doesn't need to apply for a permit in Finland. First, the law doesn't regulate receiving donations. It's a restriction on soliciting the public for donations.

And second, Finland of course doesn't have jurisdiction over every charity in the world. But there is actually a Finnish non-profit branch of the WikiMedia foundation, who would fall under that jurisdiction. Their argument is that they have absolutely nothing to do with the fundraising, and it's all handled by the American WikiMedia Foundation.
I am actually upvoting you. Why? because in today's "feel good" society no one wants to address a real world affecting everyone problem: overpopulation. and what to do about it?
I love people like you who think they are smarter and better than anyone who would do things they don't like. Kudos.
Because it's a hassle and it's easier to keep using it so far, and the alternatives aren't as nice in other ways. It's going to be a bigger pain to do it once I'm forced to, but…
One thing I may add is the analytics of ones own health. Consider this...

2024: A person wakes up to a daily health report, an email with a daily breakdown of their health. Through the use of their smartwatches and other wearables, all kinds of analytic data gets streamed and analyzed automatically, blood pressure, heart rate, even analyzing a person's blood, all gets sent through algorithms looking for potential health issues. Those who are more affluent elect to have their data analyzed by a real doctor. Preventative medicine arrives.
It didn't. Neither did micropayments.
I think he got the point. Just that the article is predicated on something incredibly stupid: someone writing a line of code that, to probably most people other than the author, is useless and incomprehensible. I think it's great that the author wrote a detailed explanation in the git commit message, but it's absolutely not enough. That piece of code needs at least a one-line comment there, full stop.

I think the article as a whole is great in that it taught me some things you can do with git that I didn't know before (well, stuff I figured was possible, but didn't know the magical incantations). But it's hard to start reading it and really appreciate all that when the initial premise for explaining all that stuff was... well, someone having a severely bad day when it comes to writing clear code.
latency matters if your users are all spread over the country, at the speed of light it takes at least 47.33 ms, I just went to speed test and my ping was 16 ms for a server 20-30 miles away. so you could use Antarctica for mass data storage or processing. so it would work for archiving
The one bet I'll make in the global protein race is that people will be consuming a lot more insects given how easy they are to farm/grow. I know some energy bars are already using cricket flour as a base and I recently had my first taste of some delicious insects at a street food fair and they tasted great.
They already did, but many people are satisfied with the Apple app and wouldn't appreciate being forced to switch to a different and not-meaningfully-better app.
And then they'll link to their project after talking smack. I call it shark tank syndrome
The correct way to assuage uncertainty about insolvency is to submit to a financial audit from a reputable auditor.
Why every child should learn to code
Let's see, I'm learning about unscented Kalman filters, moving object tracking in computer vision, PCA, and more. I'm learning about the problem domain that I'm working in. I have no interest in learning yet another API unless I absolutely have to, because it isn't really interesting knowledge that I have to call the fibble() function before calling xacxtyor() in this poorly documented API. That's not learning, it's the accumulation of facts.

Of course, sometimes learning new API/languages enables meaningful learning, and I'm all for it. Want to quickly get a handle on Kalman Filters? Probably a lot faster to put something together with numpy (say) and experiment on the REPL than to program it in a performant language like C or C++, even if that is where it will eventually end up running in your project. So, yes, there's a great reason to learn those languages (or Julia, or whatever).

But the endless march of APIs is pretty tiring to me, and I do everything I can to isolate myself from that. I'm pretty happy writing my C++, and Python (2.7, btw), while trying to solve rather hard problems.

Another way to put it - what I value is intellectual work, not memorization/puzzling things out. Learn a new math technique? Awesome! Learn a byzantine set of calls I need to make to make a widget widge on the screen? Not so much.
Upsides: it's ubiquitous, well-provisioned, has very high uptimes (a few outages, those tend to become national or international news), and, for now, good support of IMPAPS or POPS access for standalone email clients (which I use on my phone and desktop).

Downsides: Snooping, NSA honeypot, Chinese government hacker honeypot, etc., etc.
The programmer says, man, they totally screw up tech stories, but I love their politics section.

The Congressional staffer says, wow, their coverage of politics is laughable, but I really enjoy their insightful business analysis.

The businessman says, sheesh, they can't get anything right about the world of business. I sure like their great tech coverage, though.

I'm quite sure you should deeply mistrust all media reporting on everything. I see no reason to think that tech reporting is somehow different in how wrong they get it.
I haven't left because:

(1) I don't have a server where I can run my own mail infrastructure -- I don't think my ISP would be happy with me running a mail server off my cable modem). And

(2) I don't trust Outlook.com not to silently discard mail from randomly selected senders (as I believe Hotmail was known to do). Gmail is reliable.

But otherwise, I'm ready. I've already stopped using the Gmail web interface (retaliation for killing Google Reader). And once I'm no longer tied to Gmail anymore, I can switch to a better IMAP client than Thunderbird.
which has drove away tons of users!
They can have it stolen. They can covert it to USD and spend it on operations.
How we streamed HD video to 1600 people at once without trying
I definitely overlooked the Quantified Self/Health amidst all the excitement.
Darpa hands IBM £3.4m to develop self destructing chips
Well, the case went up to the Minnesota Supreme Court and they affirmed the ruling- so, those lawyers had to pay. A lot of other states follow the MN court's reasoning, and since in the US case precedent heavily influences subsequent rulings, it is much greater than a powerball's chance for other lawyers to face similar consequences.

I agree with you that those disclaimers are 'expensive'. It seems the ABA wants to control the market structure of legal advice, so as to control compensation for attorneys.

The legal establishment has historically been against technological improvements which can more easily disseminate legal knowledge. Even from the popular nationally syndicated radio call-in shows of the 1930s which were eventually shut down, to 'legal form' websites of today, it seemed to provole some powerful interests.
What's your take?
Things Microsoft Still Does Well
Anselm's ontological argument is, however, bollocks. Merely postulating the existence of a greatest possible being is irrelevant as to whether such a being exists, or whether free will is even possible. There's no evidence that it is apart from our feeling and wishing it were so.
He tried to pull a change that suggests that some more staff reductions are in the offing and he tried to use and excuse that doesn't even fly if you hate the ACA. I am constantly amazed that he has a job, but I guess the fiscals will forgive a lot.
What are your ideas on how one can break into one of these materials businesses in an evangelist / sales / management capacity?
Are you referring to James Burke's post-scarcity economy?
Racetrack (paper and pencil game)
Removing these barriers doesn't actually require forking Android, though. For example they could create a Java language projection for WinRT alongside the C++, .net and JavaScript ones. Actually just making the existing JavaScript stuff from Windows 8 available on WP might help a lot.
Thanks for this—I need to read up!
How did MtGox get freshly-minted coins if they can't be transferred?
I gave a shot at it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956528
Industry specific index funds?
I usually just do a whois on the domain and put the admin contact email in. If that's already signed up, then retry using their nameservers' domain.
yeah right.. it was porn, reddit and probably hacker news... and alt tab to switch to sublimetext so his wife would not notice
The ontological argument makes a lot more sense when you start from Augustine's viewpoint that evil is always a privation, a lack, and never a thing itself. In fact, it cannot be understood without Augustine's understanding of evil as a framework.
It wasn't Patch. He built up advertising sales at Google starting in 2000.
I can give a simplified overview of the major difference as I understand it (the difference being the method by which each init system starts its daemons on boot):

sysvinit/bsdinit - Starts daemons in serial (i.e. synchronously). Considered slow and outdated by today's standards.

upstart/launchd - Starts daemons in parallel, based on which daemons depend on each other (If B depends on A, A is started first. If C doesn't depend on anything. C is started at the same time as A. If D depends on C, D is started at the same time as B, and so on).

systemd - Creates all the necessary sockets for each daemon beforehand, and starts nearly all processes in parallel.

Aside from that, they're all configured differently, but if the competition is primarily over speed, systemd wins every time due to its clever design. the newer inits also include a lot of handy tools that aren't part of a traditional init, but that's a different story.
You can use gmail offline in the browser now. I do this most mornings on the subway. It's read/write and very similar to having a desktop app.
Armstrong joined AOL as CEO in 2009 from Google where he was President of Google's Americas operation. AOL were replacing their former CEO Randy Falco following a number of spectacular business blunders.

He's not proven particularly popular. On the other hand, AOL is alive and profitable, which wasn't a sure thing five years ago.
I've never been able to make sense of the article either, and I've tried many times. I think it boils down to its title, which is just the right mix of vague and catchy to be optimal for getting repeated. The article itself is merely the title's host organism.
He did found Patch in 2007, though I don't suspect that was instrumental in his pick as AOL CEO.
the kid can be expected to contribute two or three times that much

Likely rather more than that. Your economic contribution isn't your lifetime earnings, but your lifetime value contribution. That's the productivity-of-labor side of the equation.

Your salary/income is (generally) some small fraction of that.

Look up revenues or profits at a company on a per-employee basis for a proxy of this.
I think- not 100% sure because I can't recall any case law- but if you are referring to Grellas' website, it would qualify as 'general information' and not 'legal advice' because it is not an answer to someone's specific question on a legal issue.

For example, Grellas has info on the best practices for company entity formation, financing, etc. It would be different if Grellas was at a party and he answered a question of "oh your a lawyer... I'm trying to convince my brother-in-law the engineer to work on this medical prototype idea I have on nights and weekends. Is a C-corp, or an LLC the best way to go for tax purposes?"
> your decisions are being made
> before your are consciousnessly aware of them

Yes, I'm aware of these studies.

But they make the mistake of presupposing materialist reductionism a priori, as if it were actually true.

Those who assume materialist reductionism have an entire set of questions they are incapable of answering, such as:

1) How can teleology arise from non-teleology?
2) Whence consciousness?
3) How can something come from nothing?

There is a great deal of evidence that materialism is not the best explanation for Reality. If you want to see some of this evidence, read "Mind and Cosmos" by Thomas Nagel.
I'm a bit confused by one thing in this story: it never mentions the two man rule:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule

The President cannot order the use of nuclear weapons on his own; he can only issue the order jointly with the Secretary of Defense. The article mentions that Nixon's SecDef asked people to "check with him" before carrying out orders from Nixon, which may be a sort of garbled reference to the two man rule, but if so it's very garbled.

Whether this rule actually answers Maj. Hering's question is a separate issue. But I find it disappointing (though unfortunately not surprising--journalists often get things like this wrong) that the article repeatedly talks as though a single person can issue the order, when that's not the case.
Makes me wonder what the missing word or phrase between "employee-first" and "culture" is. "To be cut"? "To be scapegoated"?
Could be the next Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, or Kissenger.

It's all a crapshoot.