skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have noted, having an advanced degree should be a signal that the candidate is capable of deeply investing themselves into a subject area. The typecasting is ridiculous: just because you have no graduate degree but spent the first 3 years of your career working on, say, an online store, does that disqualify you from working in any other area of software engineering?

Github as CV has been debated already. Your employer may place restrictions on your ability to contribute to or publish open source. You may already be working 40+ hours a week and have other interests besides writing more code. If I'm not especially familiar with a project, I have no way to evaluate whether your contributions are valuable; I'm using the project owner's judgement as a proxy for my own. Maybe the project manager is a chump and the project is a mess, so does someone contributing 100 commits to that project count as a positive or a negative?
This brings back memories of learning about TCP
Usually, that is called "business".
I don't actually care.
I'm always curious what the business model is. I don't see any clear call to action on http://ionicframework.com/
What these bundles are telling us---and they're fairly common in US market anime---is that the price of pressing a DVD is so cheap it's better to make one SKU with both. Probably also encourages people to buy a Blu-Ray player as well if they still haven't.
[ASK HN] How to accept International Credit Card payment for an Indian Startup?
My startup is based in India and I have only Indian Bank Account.

I am using Paypal but is looking for better options since paypal looks to be a ticking time bomb.
Snowden SXSW video interview
yah. I usually first build REST API using HTML as main representation of resources. It looks ugly. But fully functional. Then I add user facing rendering that adds CSS, Javascript, and possibly transforming representation. For mobile pages, I rarely add javascript.
That would be a nice addition, but isn't essential.

I've never had a single person I've asked for the extra info from, fail to be able to send it.

It's not a blocker.

But... trying to get them to figure out "cut and paste and send email to help@foo.com" is a blocker. Then we're giving support for the support tools.
Not sure if your friend will be able to work on the same idea depending on the contract he signed, if he signed one and if the contract has a clause in it prohibiting it(most do).

On the other end the idea isn't worth that much, the implementation makes the difference. If he thinks he can do it better then by all means.
I resurrected my old 2009 Macbook Pro that was doing something similar by turning it on and putting it under a blanket for an hour. It generated enough heat to reflow whatever BGA had busted and has worked perfectly since.
Ask HN: How do you protect download links for digital content?
Hello,
I am interested in finding out ways of protecting download links for digital content aside the use of adding a Nonce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce) and a unique URL which expires after first use.

I would like to end up with links that when used once, becomes invalid for next use. This is to prevent users from sharing the links with their friends.

Links and pointers to resources are appreciated.
I think that's actually probably gonna be Java.
Show HN: gitprint.com easily prints GitHub markdown
Awesome news guys, good to see some Midwest companies getting love. Always been a fan of your work and Ionic is a great framework.
> 1) The 10 year developer who has 1 year of experience 10 times over. This is just a junior developer who wants the salary of a senior developer.

How do you tell if you're (hiring) one of these?
Lulz: the CSS file used on the article page is 180kB...
I've seen a startup here on HN that was doing exactly this thing. Would warn you when a client signed up on a competitor site. I think the data was leaked from some kind of analytics app.
VAULT - a irc emulation chat
The irc emulation chat with secrets.
Bradley Kuhn wrote an article to that effect. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/18/perl-cobol.html
> Claims of age discrimination is like claims that there is untapped cheap labor in hiring women in first world countries. If the claims were true anyone could hire up all of the cheap labor and stomp their discriminating competitors.

Who is claiming that first world women are an untapped source of cheap labor? In what field?

> [older people] are less likely to start up their own companies like younger people are because doing so is risky.

Even if true, this is irrelevant. Age discrimination in this context applies to employee hiring.

> They are valuing risk takers

Is "risk taking" a criteria your company applies when looking for talent? None of the startups I've worked with have ever sorted engineering candidates by "risk taking".

> It is the same thing with women. Any sane businessperson would hire people no matter their gender if those people can make them more money, and anyone who is leaving value on the table by being discriminatory despite the lost potential leaves room for their competitors to destroy them.

The crux of your argument is that the market will punish bad behavior. I think this sounds convincing. However, it is a flawed argument. For one thing, the market can't reward new approaches if no-one tries them.

50 years ago you could probably have made the argument that outright discrimination against women and minorities was rewarded by the market. After all, all companies observed similar hiring practices - including the market leaders.

Taking a snapshot of current practices, and claiming they are some sort of epitome "because free market!" is simply a logical fallacy.
Fascinating entry on the Talk page from the brother of the missing pilot.
I'm 39 and write code every day for my employer, but outside the scope of the engineering team. I guess it may fall under exploratory/architectural work for what might be future products, though if they gain any traction they will move into the engineering team, and I move on.

I guess this falls under the "more and more senior as a developer", but I'm outside the direct line of fire of bugs, deadlines, etc.

I can't complain, and I'm often working on newer technologies than the folks in engineering, keeping my relevance.

My plan will probably to migrate into a consultancy.
If you're seriously looking for people from the same college (or even plural colleges), then yes, you'll face a shortage of candidates.

I just won't care about a problem you've created for yourself.
I also agree in doing a black mark against the school however it helps to have a look at (in terms of Masters, PhD) the quality of work within that department / within the graduating year. It's a way to go beyond the marketing fluff in non top-tier schools.
Are we supposed to use the generated Bitcoin address or supply our own? I assumed supply my own, yet when the next step asks to write down the pass-phrase I'm now unsure of it's intent.
Learn(failure); // Failure isn't always a bad thing
Oh I thought that was an abstract clock design
This is the problem with most of my questions on Stack Overflow and similar sites, I provide pretty much all relevant information on a rather obscure problem(since I already did the Google dance beforehand)

As a result, I seldom get any usable answers.

If I had asked a more general question, I might have been served better.
Well, clearly it is.
I went looking for the guide. Couldn't see it linked from the page linked here, so I followed their Gawker link, and couldn't see it there, so I followed the link to occupywallst.org. I couldn't get their embedded PDF viewer to turn pages, so I clicked the raw PDF.

To save others the trouble, the link is here: http://www.docdroid.net/file/view/86lk/walmart-on-ourwalmart...

A "Guide on How to Silence Workers" is not a good characterization of this document. From the post title, I expected something like "Here's how you subtly threaten and intimidate people into doing what you want." I don't see anything like that here. There are 13 slides. Several of them depict links between the UFCW, various anti-WalMart organizations, and one consulting group. A couple are pure propaganda along the lines of "Is OURWalMart/UFCW really here to help you? No!"

One of the organizations listed in the document is the same makingchangeatwalmart.org to which the OP links.

Maybe there are things about WalMart that one should get outraged about, but this doesn't seem like one of them. There's more heat than light here.
Ukrainian computers infected by powerful virus
I wonder if there is any plans to fully support Android. By that, I mean, the UI is iOS specific, and doesn't seem to adopt to the way Android does things. Simply porting an iOS app to Android and reusing the same interface is basically saying that Android is a second class citizen.
Live Snowden Interview
Does Test-Driven Development Really Improve Software Design Quality? (2008)
that is an extremely macro level of culture that does not explain why there are so few women, hispanics, and african-americans in technology. They aren't that different of a culture. Certainly far less of a cultural difference than all of the H1Bs they're hiring.

You're not getting the point. All of you who keep parroting your master's "cultural fit" line are not seeing the lie for what it is worth. It's not about culture.
Are all currencies ponzi games?

Seems to me that the deciding factor is: what percentage of Bitcoin's transactions are actual transactions for actual goods and services vs. what percentage are transactions related to speculation on Bitcoin itself. That is very hard to measure, especially since at least a double-digit percentage of transactions belong to the illicit economy.
I can tell you that sadly accent can have more weight than we all wish it would have. It's a double issue, even if you are interviewing with the most liberal and ethical person who loves you and think you're a great fit but had problem understanding due to heavy accent, it's not in your favor. And even if your accent it's only light, there are sadly still people out there that will even subconsciously prefer the candidate that bad the "better" English.
It's sad, but I think it's more of a reason than your actual skills. I go to GT and can vouch anyone who graduated with your GPA is probably very smart and talented. Don't give up!
Knowing how to interview is a skill by itself, there are many common mistakes people do that are not related to their skill set. My wife had a heavy Russian accent and spent a year working solely on her English, and interview skills (went to a career coach). From dozens of rejections, she now got 2 offers in one month, and she is almost 40 :-)
I'll agree with that, but it's dysfunction both in the hiring process and also in the R&D process. It's the middle management filter in both cases. Corporate culture is a big part of this. I worked for a major airline in the '90s and during that time, we had at least 5 initiatives to build online travel sites. Wasteful? Sure, but the winner of that process is a well-known travel site that's thriving today. That particular company had a highly entrepreneurial and competitive structure internally, which had definite downsides, but on the flip side, caused the company to produce some good innovations from within. I went to work for a competitor a few years later and things were completely different there and acqui-hire was the name of the game for that organization.
You should use your own Bitcoin address (from coinbase, blockchain.info, or Bitcoin client). We generate a default BTC address (using the same passphrase/private-key) for people who don't already have bitcoin addresses.
Yeah I think I used a Pentium 233MMX at first. And single mode, online multilplayer massive maps would probably slow everything down. Gosh I wish I still had these machines to witness the differences before my eyes.
> Ironically enough, I was reading the article on my iPad and I immediately moved the display to an arms-distance to ease the reading of such a futilely big font. Ok, hipster typography.

FWIW, I felt immediate relief of not having to press cmd+plus several times because it's exactly the font size I read HN at.
Battleship on console
Maybe you can "force" people to contribute. If someone signs up to attend a many-to-many gathering then they are agreeing to be more than a passive observer.

One way to facilitate this is to have "go arounds" in which everyone says something, in order to get a sense of people's reactions and the best direction for the conversation. Another option is for the facilitator to know something about everyone and then to call on people (without their raising their hands) to keep the conversation moving.
Pretty much all these objections boil down to "it's new and not many people are using it yet."
Simple and creative! I like it a lot.
Meaningless to the point of absurdity.
TL;DR: Man spends 5 minutes thinking about Bitcoin on a plane and comes to conclusions which may or may not be correct. Shares them with people because he is super duper important.
Being the new guy at a Tech Company | Continuous Replication
In response to cushychicken, The CE software isn't much better. Half the time, I can't figure out why companies pay for the licenses. The other half, I marvel at just how much the software does for you.

But the tools aside, without a low cost foundry and with a low barrier to entry for new developers (i.e. not requiring a lengthy approval process), the open source tools are just a first step. It would be amazing to one day have the resources for a hobbyist to build an ASIC. Once we've reached the limits Moore's law, that may be the only way to keep the IC industry interesting.
Yes, many people don't know about this law. The shops know this and takes advantage of it.
Of course there is also the manufacturer's warranty, which lasts for as long as the manufacturer decides.
What Does Dragons's Den Do To Your Website and Social Media?
"1) The 10 year developer who has 1 year of experience 10 times over. This is just a junior developer who wants the salary of a senior developer."

Like everything else, that depends on the candidate. A person who has had 10 1-year jobs may have tons of applicable experience and be a better developer than the Loyal Schlub who spent two or three 3-4 year stints doing CRUD (or even proprietary trader front-end) app X. Given the rest of your post, I suspect the issue here isn't that you've had trouble finding good candidates with "10/1" resumes; it's that you simply are selecting them out due to bias.

"2) Its harder to find senior developers, regardless of what you pay. As Joel once said the good developers always have jobs, hence his internship program."

This actually supports the sentiment I expressed in response to your first point. It seems you're looking for an extremely specific and narrow type of resume--one that fits a particular format consisting of long-term, stable employment. You have a bias against other kinds of employees.

"3) the hire bar is, umm..., higher for senior developers as they are expected to do more, mentor, design architecture, etc. This means I'm more picky as to who I hire."

I have yet to see any interview capable of determining whether a person at the level you're talking about is actually capable of delivering on what you require. This last point is something that can only be adequately gauged in the context of your company's business by actually having the person work there, or work on a project there for some time. Companies are different. A person's ability to "be senior" in the way you describe at one company may not translate well, or at all, to another company.

I'm not trying to pick on you or be aggressive. I'm just commenting on a larger narrative--hiring practices in technology just aren't very good. It's not due to any deficiency in intelligence or honesty, either (most of the time, at least, I think). It's just that it's a really hard problem for which there isn't any one good answer.
I use the 4000 and have for the last 8-9 years. They break or otherwise fail to wear or spillage but I've had 4 of them and my hands and wrists don't hurt. If Microsoft ever stops making them I fear for my wrists. Every time I get a new job I bring in my own keyboard or have them get me a 4000 for work and leave mine at home. Best keyboard I've used.
It's about three more clicks deep:

> Original Post <http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/2014/01/16/hackers-leak-wal... >

1. (OP) Hackers Leak Walmart’s Guide on How to Silence Workers

> ...in the words of [Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan<http://gawker.com/walmarts-anti-union-training-documents-dem... >].

2. Walmart's Anti-Union Training Documents Demand "Loyalty"

> Occupy Wall Street has posted a set of [internal Walmart documents<http://occupywallst.org/article/point-of-public-information/ >] used...

3. (Finally leading to...) Walmart Organizes Against Workers
This rings true to me because it has echoed a lot what I am going through right now.

Instead of perl, my tool of choice was Drupal. I built many great things in it, but I just reached a point where I could no longer be passionate about it.

I am different though in that I changed my focus to node.js 5 years ago, because it was something I was excited about and interested in.

I think that's made me a more well rounded programmer, and made me a happier person in the long run.

To the OP, I think you should follow your instincts about Rust. Do it because it interests you not because it's profitable. If you have to take a basically uninteresting day job to do so, you should know that you are in no way different to most of the people out there.
Is there a way to get the Namecoin transaction id? I'm curious to watch it's progression.
Ass-Backwards Compatibility
Mac users? :) Sorry!

Runs ok (well, 12fps!) here on firefox on an iMac. Just black on my centOS laptop with intel graphics, I admit, but loads of gl things don't run on that.
New mydumper release offers performance and usability features
They've also got the Ionic framework icons available as a standalone download at http://ionicons.com - I use these frequently.
How to hack a website and get caught
We must be on different HNs.
I worked 70 hours week. I still had time to do open source.
The debate isn't over. You can probably find my Github.
I tried to use this for a recent project but struggled with performance issues on Android. Not recommended at this time for production.
It will probably be both, and maybe eventually php.
> The fuck are you talking about, planes don't have wifi connections.

Yes they do. I'm talking about the connection that is used to provide wifi to passengers on the plane. It's a satellite connection.

If the location is available, how did they lose the plane?
What It's Like Inside The World's Largest Bitcoin Mining Operation
Err... to me it looks like a few guys discussing the idea rather than something widely used and accepted as the future of IRC.
I agree, it's not the paywall that makes it acceptable.
Isn't 80% of world wide used currency all speculation and only 20% used in services and products ?

I'm talking about the trillions of derivatives market ..
Dogfooding Our Own Solution: Cobblers, Pet Food and Jidoka
Livestream of Snowden at SxSW
TinyKeep Announced for Linux
Love this! Just when you think that a genre like tile puzzle games has been completely done, something like this comes along and shows a new way of thinking about it.

The most amazing thing about this game is how it manages to be so creative and different while being so simple.
Here’s Why Tesla’s Massive New Factory Will Change Everything
I can't speak for them, but it seems like their icon set at least supports Android - perhaps the UI is just ultra flat, which you perceive to be an iOS trait?
The problem is that I'm interested in robotics/AI, which (right now) seems to be a high-investment/low-probability-of-success endeavor.
> Clang is much more naggy than GCC. For instance, I frequently switch on boolean variables. Clang doesn't even have a "-Wno-" intrinsic I can push to temporarily disable this.

I don't know how responsive they are, but you might try filing a bug.
I am running inBoundio - http://www.inboundio.com (I call it basecamp of marketing) and is the only guy so I do all the work.

I am really not that worried about slow growth or not making much money, I am enjoying what I am doing, works on average 6 hours a day and can spend rest of my time on learning new things and thinking about life and philosophy.

I started because I felt that market (and so do I) need such simplified software. Most of the options were too complicated and were very costly.

I will soon be touching 100 paying customers so will write a detailed post and share it on hackernews.
Another great twist on the meetup is the http://houseofgenius.org format. One of the challenges to open discussion is the way in which people conform to roles and hierarchies. In House of Genius gatherings, there is a veil of anonymity that helps release participants from these roles. The result is addictive. You find developers, VCs, political leaders, artists, and other successful people sharing and learning in ways they can't find through any other avenues in their lives.
Could you elaborate? It would seem performance issues would be tied to whatever Angular code is being written. Or are there UI issues?
I think you should specialize in programming concepts first and specific languages second. Once you have a deep understanding of lambda calculus, mutable/immutable state, lazy/eager, classes/functions and all that, then first it is easier to approach any language and second you will have a much deeper knowledge of the languages (yes it should really be more than one) you do specialize in.
And that's fine, but the bundle seems to be used to justify higher prices. "Oh, well it would be $10, but you get both a Blu-ray and a DVD, so we have to charge you $20"
[ANN] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta released
Re: NOTE: how do you know how many downvotes has the post generated?
Incorrect, Walmart can raise the wages of its employees without increasing their prices.

http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/A%20Hi...

TLDR: Walmart could give all it's low-wage employees a $5.83 raise in exchange for not doing a stock buyback. Their profits would not even suffer.

The other obvious point is that Walmart could pay its workers more in exchange for less profit. That would also not require any price hikes.
"at least a double-digit percentage of transactions belong to the illicit economy"

Would you mind sharing your source?
But you do need some sort of ID; I'd presume the passport was all he had.
Looks more like "one person suggests IRC 3.3 should adopt json, others are unconvinced"...
I'm just going to make this statement here on Monday, March 10th, 2014, that Bitcoin is going to fail within the next 2.5 years.
That is absolutely not true. Any person can be guilty of breaking insider trading rules. In this case, Ackman, the person who shared the information with Ackman, and any of the hedge funds which acted on that information could all be liable.
Might as well post my comment here as well...

--

It would be great if economists started coming up with genuine criticism regarding Bitcoin, rather than obviously false statements, misunderstandings that have been corrected a million times before, and fallacious reasoning.

I mean, virtually everything he said is explicitly listed on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths – that’s how often these things have been brought up and disproven.
Thanks, Android performance is something we've been working hard on, and have made a good amount of progress with recently (especially on newer devices). Unfortunately, it's still lagging behind recent iOS devices.

Making Android better is one thing this money will go towards :)