skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It won't happen soon in the UK. It's just your and your fellow country folks' nature to think that.

While you do have a point about the temperament of people in the UK. And even leaving out the Daily Mail - I don't go near it and friends don't let friends ... etc.

But. The NHS is changing a lot under the current administration. There is a lot of privatisation. That is fact. There are fairly good reasons to believe that it may be a "protect it or lose it" situation, especially if the Conservative party continues in power after the 2015 elections http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/farewell-to-the-nhs-1948...

And complaining about losing it is a start to protecting it.

TL;DR : it is "Argument from fallacy" to say that "your nature is to think that everything is going to go wrong, therefore this will not go wrong"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
What I would say is rather than trim old stuff indiscriminately, focus on what it is you want to do (or what is relevant to the position you are applying for) and remove stuff you've done but don't want to do again (I've done COBOL programming but I've NEVER put that fact on a resume). Resumes do not need to be exhaustive lists of everything you've ever done.

I would suggest applying for university IT jobs. Their salaries will pale compared to what SV pays, but you will be able to live, the hours are sane, the work environment tends to be decent, the benefits tend to be excellent, and if you are at least moderately competent and ethical you're unlikely to get fired.
The problem with this is you are forced to violate Occam's Razor by introducing unnecessary classes and methods when you need to return two related but distinct results from an operation.

For example a method to calculate the value of an asset portfolio could return the value of the portfolio and the set of assets that are missing prices in a single call rather than having to make two separate ones (and potentially two iterations through a data collection). Cleaner to be able to return a number (or a money class) and a set of assets rather than having to return CalculationResult. As a bonus you also get to dodge the hardest problem in programming, naming things ;)

Most of my issues with Java stem from violations of Occam's Razor of this manner.

Compare with say Python where introducing classes is much less necessary and ends up with cleaner and clearer designs.
Psychosis is rare compared ro other mental health problems.

Major depression is more common than psychosis; mild and moderate depression is much more common than psychosis; anxiety disorders are more common than psychosis; borderline personality disorder is an order of magnitude more common than psychosis.

Stress and anxiety in the workplace, which are serious problems and which need employers to protect their staff but which are not severe enough to require specialist secondary mental health services nor medication (the kind of thing treated in the UK by IAPT style services) affect many many more people than psychotic illness.
Send me an e-mail! thomson@cantab.net
That's a new one to me. Sounds awesome!
Ok so 20g every four hours after a workout for 12 hours?

So best to work out early in the day?

I guess 20g right before a workout too?
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Sorry - hadn't planned on making my comment that long but will definitely keep your feedback in mind next time I reply to a comment.
Unlike Apple, Google does not receive Android App sales commission.
People don't seem to realize this so I thought I'd put it out there.

"Developers will get 70% of the revenue from each purchase; the remaining amount goes to carriers and billing settlement fees—Google does not take a percentage."

-Eric Chu

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-market-now-available-for-users.html
> you tailor your pitch to the company which is hiring.

This specific point is very important. Design your resume to save time for the recruiter. The recruiter has hundreds of resumes to parse. If you make the case you are a great match for the job opening in the first paragraph your chances of being noticed increase enormously. You are not telling who you are - you are selling a solution to a specific problem.

> If you are applying to a PHP job

There is little point in mentioning you wrote key parts of MVS/370 because the recruiter will have no idea what it is. If the company uses Ruby on Rails a demonstration of your expertise with JBOSS will be (correctly) treated as noise.

I think knowing C makes me a better Python programmer, but unless the job asks for it, I wouldn't mention it before the first technical interview with someone who agrees knowing C makes someone a better programmer.

Tip: using a spreadsheet to keep CV parts saves a ton of time.

Tip 2: find out who the recruiter is. If you can understand more about the person and his/her expectations and background, you may fine tune your CV even more perfectly.
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So the author of this post had a restraining order filed against him by his parents. He hired a lawyer. He later accuses the lawyer of colluding with his parent's lawyers, but he hopes that his former lawyer won't take that accusation of professional misconduct too hard, since the author is only making the accusation to further his goal of writing some kind of book, which his former lawyer approved of. http://christfollower.me/topics/legal/130430_declaration.htm...

To sum up, if the author is having a lot of trouble finding work, I think he may want to look at the copious amount of documentation he has posted online, much of it explicitly claiming that he is suffering from profound mental illness.

Quote:

It seemed possible that my attorney John Perrott was colluding with Opposing Counsel Michael Bonetto. It was clear regardless that John wasn't focused on my interests. He'd missed deadlines for filing paperwork and had told me things that weren't true.

Note: No offense towards John is intended here despite the implications. It's my hope John remembers I'm working towards goals that he approves of. I've tried to do what's right from the start. This isn't a claim that most of the people involved in this situation can make.
Finance probably did play a destructive role and it still does mainly because like you said its not the dividend not the big picture that matters. However, going public is one of the prime factors that subject a company to that world. Staying private keeps you "safe" to a certain degree.

Once you are in public domain I think in the long run being subject to all sorts of positive and negative inputs e.g Icahn, Pershing square weed out weak links and bad fruit. Many times good fruit gets thrown out too without realizing the tree will not yield any more produce if done so.

Finance has a very simple function in terms of what it does for companies. If its making money => it works. If it WAS making money and isn't now => it can still make money with change.
Are you saying that in 30 years all experience you have accumulated up to now will be completely irrelevant? It all depends on how continuous and recent your "current" expertise is. Someone 10 years retired suddenly looking for a job will do worse. Someone who had been actively honing their skills for 30-40 years is going to be the rockstar everyone wants and cannot find.

Think about it this way: would you rather have a fresh out of school or a veteran mechanic work on your car?
Who is going to use FP64 in iPads and Android tablets?
Did some research. To answer my own question: DTI is a debt-to-income ratio that is considered during mortgage negotiations. It's desirable to have less than a 36% DTI such that your monthly debts (CC payments, mortgage, car payment, etc.) do not exceed your monthly income.
Take that server and learn OpenStack and/or (preferably and) Docker. Private clouds and containers are the hotness in enterprise computing now.
They get sick of working for some douche and go start their own company. Example: me.
Debbie Harry Predicts End Of The Internet
Why choose such a loaded name?
"In Roman mythology, Laverna was a goddess of thieves, cheats and the underworld."
Seems somewhat like "Waah, I am taking my toys and going home. Internet is mean!"...
My favorite part of the article:

>From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-called Riemann sphere, which is where we take a space shuttle and use it to fly over and drop a cow on top of a biodome, and then have the cow indiscriminately fire laser beams at the grass inside and around the biodome. That's my intuitive understanding of it anyway.

also:

>Our cow isn't staring into infinity. It's looking down at infinity, observing infinity with detached understanding. If our cow were not so enlightened, and also had the facial muscles, it might betray the subtlest of smiles at infinity's infinity face, for infinity's turbid fractal whirlpools and vast lethargic swamps are but swathes of data like any other to this cow.
full-disclosure mailing list is suspended indefinitely
Apple's "goto fail" tells us about Cupertino's software delivery process
Full-Disclosure is a popular mailing list that is ostensibly about discussion of vulnerabilities (particularly new ones), but is often as not the security scene's version of 4chan. It was a sort of successor to Bugtraq.
Why do the carriers get anything?
The resume is good (experience is amazing). It is LaTeX, no?

With older coders I recommend familiarity with github and LinkedIN - check and check.

I might separate out blogs. Create a landing spot just for the resume. The related blog entries are personal and don't tell a story about work and coding.

I think some greater detail on "teaching coding on IRC" would help. Also - things like Hackerrank to get some visibility. Mentoring younger coders adds value...

This guy looks very employable -
The distro is named LACLIN.

LACLIN will be 10 years old, in its current incarnation, on Christmas Eve 2014. I use it for all of my work. But I haven't created a public release yet.

I'd hoped to create a public release this year but I needed to suspend development in 2012 due to unforeseen circumstances. Work will resume if things stabilize.
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FWIW, I've heard multiple recruiters and managers/directors compliment me on my resume style [1]. It's a bit more narrative and a bit less focused on bulleting out skills. This seems to attract more progressive forward thinkers (if you're into those sorts of companies).

At the same time, it does highlight my skills at the top of each area of experience, so some developers reading my resume may skim over the narrative part, focusing on the listed skills. So it works for them too.

It's also quite honest in a few areas that may turn off some people, but to me, it turns off the right people (those I don't want to work for).

[1] Check it out in my profile if you're interested.
I reject the notion that companies have discovered what works for them.

Companies stick with current processes because:

1) they need to demonstrate compliamce with anti-discrimination law

2) they're not brave enough to try any other process.

Current process is chock full of biases and possible discrimination. This could easily be causing employers to hire worse people than other better systems.

This doesn't mean that those worse hires are destroying the company. They're good enough.

I just wish there was a bit more honesty. "This process is good enough at screening out people who will destroy our company, but we make no pretence that the people we hire are the best for the job nor that some of the people we reject were rejected weongly because the system sucks".
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7427865
Why would you follow any mailing lists for security in 2014? The concept of a security mailing list predates Twitter, vulnerability databases, Reddit, and blogs. But we have all those things now, and they are all better than Full-Disclosure on its best days.
It's the order they occur in the encoding: A, C, D, B.

68k has numerical, not named registers, and they're in the same order as the encoding.
Now here's something that could actually work. Not sure why anyone thought people would want a device that looked like one of those casio calculator watches.
Would anyone mind explaining to me as a noob what kind of legal challenges public lists need to defend against these days?

Spam, trolls and politics are not new, but legal threats and DoS attacks I didn't expect to be problems.
If a writer is freelancing and moves somewhere on a temporary visa with the intention of leaving in a year or three, I'd probably call them an expat, sure. Obviously there's no bright line, and different people use the term for different things (even crypto-hate speech, as evidenced by other commenters in this thread!).
Admitting publicly that they've lost customer mail, when they don't really have to, seems pretty honourable. The fact that their mail servers are encrypted is also mildly interesting, although I don't see how it offers anything in terms of real protection for customer privacy.
The ideas here are similar in a sense. I'm not an expert on Angular, but their focus seems to be on templates that update automatically using data bindings. Our framework focuses more on compositionally of reactive data networks, connecting it to the DOM using reactive jQuery methods is just one of the outputs we allow.

The set and get methods are there to go from the JS world to the reactive world and back. Usually you're working with reactive variables (as if they were actual values) directly, in that case you won't use get and set at all.
Interesting that you like metrics. I always consider them B.S. Especially the ones where they say they saved the company X millions of dollars.
Not being able to afford healthcare without a full-time job at a megacorp isn't because markets are too free.

Also, if devs that are older (or women or parents) are undervalued, there is a competitive advantage waiting to be seized by companies that can create business models around that.

In other words, being bigoted is not profitable in a free society. Only companies resting on their laurels (or otherwise abusing people) can afford that sort of nonsense in the long run.
Gradle plugin for generating application properties via data-bags
This, put simply, is likely a marketing and sales problem. Someone can have all the skills in the world and suffer unemployment if they don't know how to package and sell them. Conversely, there are some poor developers who always have a job, because they perform well in interviews, may be popular, and know how to write a résumé.

You have to tailor your message to your audience to some degree. To be frank, some of the problems are likely related to ageism, and there are several ways to minimize the possibility of ageism without lying. We aren't required to list every job in our career, nor are we required to list graduation dates. If they want to confirm a degree they will do it after having met you.

Job search for older engineers becomes challenging on several levels. Topics like energy and effort are a non-issue for most of the industry. Mentioning on a résumé that you were able to live off investments for a period will lead people to think that you might not "want" or need to work, which will also raise eyebrows.

For these engineers, it is all about demonstrating that they can solve your problems. If you can show that, most of the other worries will go away.

OldCoder, I just emailed you to offer some advice on the marketing side of things. I'm a recruiter (in NY, no clients out west) and writer on job search topics. I can't get you a job, but I think I can help improve the packaging if you're interested.
earbuds would have been a better name for this imo.
Been using it for re than a year. Sent more than a million newsletters over SES and SendGrid. Never had a problem.

Website does not seem to have a link to repo though: https://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer
In both cases cheating is a sympthom of a larger issue:
in case 1, requiring your doctor has an A grade to in organic chemistry is BS.
That does sound nice. Did you start your own consulting company or are you employed?
Sounds like an issue of pride.
Good job well done. Always feels better to work without competitors, right Haliburton?
the exact same arguments could be applied to the NSA
Seems pretty clear - burnout. After 12 years of abuse he's had enough.
I think it's a good idea.
What about a validation workflow for the new versions of automatically created endpoints? It should have a moderation system to avoid too many endpoints.
funny, I've no problem with being a paid-up programmer. Programming is something I can do for a living without being too much of a hassle, but I seldom work on side/open-source projects.
On the contrary, I like to play at gigs and could be a professional musician, but I can't bear the working conditions.
Carp Fishing.
Excellent, give them nowhere to hide and long prison sentences. I hope they rot.
It's time to shut down Tor once and for all. I hear Al-Qaeda is using it, too!
Some companies like to practice 'security by obscurity' to the fullest. They sometimes try to keep bugs from being disclosed by researchers using various means of ignore up to legal threats or other non disclosure contracts.

Often when things are at a really bad state its in the public interest to make sure these issues get fixed rather than brushed under the carpet. Hence it gets posted on various sec ML lists to ramp up pressure.
Looks nice, but how is it efficient than screen sharing and watching him code?
http://catb.org/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Pred... - this is a meme Older Than Web, really.
"Laverna is webapp written on JavaScript which means it requires no installation and no registration."

"None of us can get access to your personal data because we are using IndexedDB and localStorage. In fact all your information will be stored only on client side."

So does this mean that clearing cookies in Chrome will delete all your information?
Affinity estimation: what is it?
Yup, mobile was the first thing I looked for. I can barely stand most browser apps anymore.
An advice I have been given is, "don't break expectations". I'm not talking about the content, which can easily have good surprises. I'm talking about the form. There, conformity is probably king. This means things like being a young white male with short hair.

Breaking conventions in your résumé can elicit positive reactions, or catch someone's attention. But it will often elicit such a strong negative reaction that your reader even look at the content. This thread alone contains examples of this.

For instance, saying "I" in the resume is breaking a convention. Nobody will reject you for not writing "I". But some will reject you for being cocky or narcissistic, or whatever. Same for your recommendation citation. It is not expected in the résumé, it is expected in a separate reference. (Edit: that last one may be an obviously good surprise, though.)

Try making a boring, conventional résumé. It should give you a second point of reference, and may help you out of a local maximum.
Hi Tom

I have to disagree, by returning a value and switching on it, not only are you querying state but you risk repeating the query code all over the place.

My approach allows you to write a small adapter for your delivery mechanism and use polymorphism to eliminate conditions and duplication.

Most objects cannot be used on their own as they have collaborators. My design allows me to write a trivial console adapter that can puts the results of my service object / interactor.
Unfortunately the change is inevitable, just as with pensions, because the population is aging and there isn't enough youth left to pay for it. And due to automatization or outsourcing, cheap labor is less and less needed anyway and high unemployment rates will be pretty common.

This reality in fact highlights another reality - our economic models based on scarcity don't work anymore and we need to either transcend it, maybe with technological improvements that drops the price of basic necessities, like food, energy and medical healthcare, or we're fucked.
I could only think of the triforce the whole time.
From a programmer approaching his 40s, thank you for the great advice, and for the inspiring story of your 60-year-old friend.
Ok, let me change 'would' to 'could'. I'm way too frugal (my kids call it cheap) to waste.
I wasn't reacting to what you're allowed to do with it, or what rights I may or may not have. It was the 'implication' part stated earlier. There's no implication when I send a message that I want anything other than the message to be read by the recipient. That's it.
I started a few days ago. It hasn't been a good week for medical issues but things are looking up.

I've been to the Emergency Room twice since Sunday. And I had a fever of 102 degrees just a few hours ago. But I'm feeling O.K. and I'm scheduled to go back in a few hours to nail down what's happening physically.

Due to recent changes in U.S. laws, I might be able to qualify for medical care now. If it works out, this will be a big help.
This is a strategic move by Apple to beat the competition. iPhone 5C 8 GB variant sounds great. Apple slashed the price of iPhone5C & 5S by $100 in US. iPhone5C 8 Gb Variant is not available in US as of now China, Australia and some European country got this 8 GB variant. For detail check out here http://www.dazeinfo.com/2014/03/19/apple-inc-aapl-cuts-iphon...
It's inadvertently brilliant! By being unusual, it draws attention to itself and thus to the project.
Yeah people keep telling me mail is dead, but its still kicking around and is very well alive. Let me edit my initial question to be email neutral though.
In earlier posts he makes mention of being sexually/physically abused by his parents. It seems (and I'm not very sure here - there's too much text), he tried to "expose" them to their neighbors, peers, etc., which ensued the restraining order.

Anyway, the thing is, everyone has family or relationship problems here and there (Github's co-founder's wife story this week?), everyone says pretty screwey shit one time or another (Zuck calling his users dumbfucks for trusting him with their data) -- it's a hard one to deal with. What is one supposed to do when this stuff surfaces? There's really not much that one can do.

Indeed, according to the current version of social code, you're supposed to keep it hidden and distant - or make some effort to keep it hidden. This guy isn't doing that too well. He probably should. Just don't air your dirty laundry. No-one (besides your close friends or whatever) needs to know the minute details of your family problems.
> "I left imap21 up, but with nothing talking to it or trusting it any more."

Poor imap21.
But this is a rad project
You should mention that I won't be able to access the app instantly and will be notified later.
>Nationwide, the United States has a NEGATIVE unemployment rate for computer programmers.

lol....
Liability-proof: A ruby implementation of Merkle approach
Lindy Hop (swing dance) lessons! Great way to meet new people in a very diverse environment which often lacks guys, and also gets you active. Two things I think it's safe to assume most here (me included) miss during our regular routine.
Previous thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6516114
For some good hands-on intuition of the Sierpinski Triangle check out this tutorial on using some open-source (research) software to build a tile-set which will self-assemble the Sierpinski triangle: http://self-assembly.net/wiki/index.php?title=Sierpinski_tri...

Last summer I received an undergraduate research grant to work on ISU TAS (the above linked software). So I'd love to see more people using it outside of the research community!

For more information on algorithmic self-assembly in general http://self-assembly.net