skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies - Chrome was initially giving me an error (I don't recall which type, except that it was suggesting visiting sstatic.net instead) when I was trying to download it.
And that there is an app for most platforms. I'd actually love to see an open source version of OneNote (pen based abilities, search performance and OCR capabilities) more than Evernote.
Assuming offline degrees still have any value. Experience seems to outweigh that from what i have seen.

For instance my degree is completely useless just because i have it from a different country.

Luckily that never prevented me from doing what i like regardless.

I might actually bother to take the time get the same degree in the country i currently live in but that's not because that piece of paper has any value it's just because I always enjoyed learning new things.
He didn't really explain the full problem so maybe I am not fully appreciating the situation here, but this seems like a pretty big overreaction for a stupid request from some a single user.
Are you unfamiliar with the phrase he used, "straw that broke the camel's back"?
...negative timezone offsets allow a date to always be true, but positive ones allow it to be false at UTC midnight.

I haven't had my tea yet, but is this true? ISTM that if a positive offset can be false in the AM, a negative one might be false in the PM.
Tons of people use 'is None' correctly as a sentinel value
I always thought the distinction between immigrant and expat was "desire of citizenship." Immigrants want to become citizens of the new country and expats do not.
The interest is appreciated. However, we have different perspectives.

My 'C' experience dates back to 1976 and is probably still relevant. FWIW I never did much COBOL though my firm did have a COBOL-Lint.

I don't think that your 20 years of Linux experience, or mine, is "meaningless". Not if the experience has been continuous. And, in my case, I've not only used Linux almost daily since before Slackware existed, I've developed my own distro, I maintain copies of nearly 2,000 packages, and many of my copies have patches of my own design.

Regarding the "masters of" issue, I may not have made the "generalist" point in the post clear enough. I'm only a "master of" a few things. But I'm very good at getting back up to speed on the things that I've had "experience with".

This is what a generalist does.

I agree with the "Take off your reasons" point. I'm going to keep most of the rest. The difficulties that I'm facing are partly due to my own foolish mistakes. But they aren't about the fact that I've listed hobbies on my resume or that I have a nick that implies age.

I'm not going to pretend to be a twenty-something specialist. It isn't what I am. I'm a highly experienced generalist. In this context, the decades that you feel that I ought to hide are relevant.
Could you use it BRJS with Meteor?
There's age bias all the time, I'm not sure why people try to say otherwise: given the choice between hiring a twenty-something and a 50-something for a given position, and a similar skillset (especially easy to do in technology since skillsets get out dated so quick), most will hire the younger person. It's human nature to not be influenced like this.

Also, what most people here need to remember, too, is that not everyone's career path is going to put them on a trajectory to becoming CTO. The number of CTO/executive/engineering directors, etc. is quite small compared to the rank and file programmer positions.

I think someone else mentioned this, but sales people have it even rougher than software engineers.
I found this an interesting article on various tax rates, and the US is surprisingly high[1].

Difficult to compare countries, but (unless you've got kids) the tax you pay in the US is pretty average. And if you are a high earner, it seems you'd be better off in Germany or China.

[1]:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26327114

* What's with the tax breaks for having a couple of kids, are the government really keen for Americans to breed?
I'm familiar with this as one of the dependencies of Ghost. It was great to see that it includes sending via SES.
Where are you finding so many offers that you have to turn some away? I've looked at the freelance sites and I just can't compete with the $1 for a new facebook proposals.
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A common misconception here is that we all get to be CTO someday.
So you see how difficult it is to please armchair psychologists: leaving out the first person pronoun from sentences is also considered bad style by some (with the suggested pseudo objectivity). Others conclude even that the person has no self esteem etc etc.

A resume is about the person presenting him/herself, isn't it?
Resume advice in this thread is evidence that recruitment process is totally fucked.

Someone gets an interview because they tweak their resume? Someone gets a job offer because they jump through certain hoops at interview?

It's nonsense. There's zero evidence to support current recruitment practices and lots to show that interviews are a lousy way to select people.

Google and FB and Apple and MS have lots of recruitment happening and lots of smart people to analyse the results, so I'd hope to see improvements there that trickle out over the years. Sadly, it is in their interest not to disclose better methods so their competitors continue using broken methods.

Note: I agree that with the current broken system it is important to learn how to tailor a CV and how to jump through interview hoops. But the system is bafflingly bad.
> In theory, a meritocracy should be a good thing. It basically boils down to a society in which people reap the rewards of their skill and effort. But as countless advocates for women and minorities in the tech world have pointed out, meritocracies are a lot messier in real life.

Soooo these advocates don't understand the meaning of the word and are just making up their own and somehow I'm supposed to be offended on their behalf for their interpretation
Immediately after a flash video is the quote "... strengthens support for Mozilla’s vision of a high performance, plugin-free Web,"

...
Are you sure someone didn't just change your switch settings. This can be set for either mute or rotation lock.
> Many people are at a stage where they're using jQuery to build large apps

Nobody's using jQuery only to build large single page apps,that's not true. Comparing jQuery which a DOM manipulation library to any framework that manage the application lifecycle is dishonest.

It would be like comparing underscore to AngularJS,makes no sense.
Agree with rewording the narrative part but not sure yet of the best way to handle some parts.
Assume best case, that the problem size increase linearly with population. The US has 30 times more population (and probably a similar amount more complexity) than Sweden.

Would you say in a job interview that you think a problem 30 times larger is just 30 times as hard to solve...? (That is a different class of problem.)
Slack: Be less busy
The "my own distro" part is about more than sysadmin.
I'm fairly proud of it and recruiters have sometimes
contacted me specifically because of the project.

Yeah, I agree that this is really impressive. Everybody's advising you to trim older things off of your resume and perhaps that's good advice but starting/maintaining your own distro seems like something to leave on. One question: why not name the distro on your resume so people can check it out and verify and/or be impressed by it?
Looks cool but I prefer the syntax of angular's data binding (no need to use #get() or #set()). Is this pretty much the same as angular's data binding?
> So you turn the font size up... and wonder why you need such a high DPI since you'd just be seeing the same amount of text as before.

Coincidentally, I was thinking about this in a different context today.

One advantage of a larger monitor + big fonts over a smaller monitor with small fonts is that viewing distance is greater in the former. A larger viewing distance is easier on the eyes and optical system, in my layman opinion. The parallax error is less and the focusing muscles in the eye fatigue less.
Software engineers shouldn't undervalue having vertical business domain knowledge.
>If you send a letter to an address of course you are consenting for the postman to read your mail.

It's more like if the person you are sending to hires an assistant to sort and organize their mail for them (which people actually do.) You then go and sue the assistant.
> Currently if the PS4 outputs 1080p it drops the framerate to 30

"On launch games"

Go look at a launch PS2 or launch PS3 game then come back
also (1) children in school may have no choice but to agree, and (2) just because you agree to something in a contract doesn't necessarily mean it's enforceable. For example there are some rights you can't sign away in a contract.
Snippets from the mailing list charter[0] and listinfo[1] which simply say briefly:

About Full-Disclosure

Unlike bugtraq, this list serves no one except the list members themselves
We don't believe in security by obscurity, and as far as we know, full
disclosure is the only way to ensure that everyone, not just the insiders
have access to the information we need to survive.

We will try to operate this list without moderation, as we feel moderation
is an impediment to communication.

Any information pertaining to vulnerabilities is acceptable, for instance
announcement and discussion thereof, exploit techniques and code, related
tools and papers, and other useful information.

and, forebodingly:

Politics should be avoided at all costs.

There's also the original announcement on the SuSE Linux security mailing list[2] and a follow-up by Mr Cartwright with some further rationale[3].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20050306210635/http://lists.nets...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041205194605/http://lists.nets...

[2] http://marc.info/?l=suse-security&m=102639105014466&w=2

[3] http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=102965261426089&w=2
I might be being naive, but I don't agree.

We've decided to enter YC 3 days ago with an new idea. Surely the fact that we have not spent months preparing betas before the YC entry deadline doesn't effect our chances of building a $1B company.

I understand that YC is primarily looking for founders with a good shot at achieving that. I don't think that not having a clear idea of what we want to build yet is as important as our ability to figure that out by talking to customers.

Paul Graham keeps hammering in that a good founding team capable of thinking up good ideas and executing them well is what matters most. So I'm choosing to take that at face value.
> m-m-muh m-master race

> muh gaben
Apps for Education targets Universities.
The corporate component of your expat definition appears to preclude writers and artists from being expats.
I think the only solution is to code if it makes you happy.
> You say that, even though the U.S. is actually composed of 50 largely self-governing states

Each war and crisis has ratcheted up centralized power, typically by way of granting war time powers that never seem to completely fade away.

To help illustrate, money is an important proxy to government power, and the federal government spends roughly twice that of all state governments combined ($3.8T vs $2T).

> Have they tried, and did they fail?

The federal government has welfare programs that can be augmented by the states. California, for example, does this with food stamps (SNAP to CalFresh), health care for the poor (Medicaid to MediCal), and welfare for families (TANF to CalWORKS). To fund these, among other services (e.g., the University of California system), California has the highest state income tax in the nation (topping out at 13.3% for those earning over $1M).

I imagine that some states do not go much beyond the minimal federal programs.

For example, starting in 2014, Medicaid (health care for the poor) was expanded to cover those earning under 138% of the poverty line (a perfect example of the confusing way in which assistance is determined). Many states chose not to expand Medicaid, so they will not receive additional federal funding for the program. States that did, however, will.

On the health care front, some states have attempted to introduce universal health care. California successfully passed a bill, only to be vetoed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Only two successful instances come to mind: Vermont and Massachusetts.

Vermont passed a single-payer universal health care system in 2011. Unfortunately, I am ignorant of details on its implementation.

Massachusetts has "RomneyCare," which has since been augmented to strongly resemble (in my eyes) the Swiss health care scheme. Insurance is mandatory, but coverage cannot be denied. Private insurance is subsidized by government. Health care costs are heavily regulated.
Then that is your company's problem, not Google. And that's not the argument I was making anyways.
Sure, this is the sort of BS people use to post-rationalise the distinction between "immigrant" and "expat".

The (not so hidden) truth is that it is meant to convey a status distinction that many people are too hypocritical to acknowledge, and that has a lot to do with skin color and country of origin.
The product itself looks great but am I missing something with the tagline? Surely it should be either "easy as pie" or "a piece of cake".
He doesn't disclose much information, but it looks a bit like he (sourly) blames the industry and community for something that is very common elsewhere too: to run a public forum or mailing list, you now need not only the users' support and goodwill, but also legal counsel, a thick skin and willingness to challenge legal threats, as well as all sorts of technical means to fend of malicious activities (DoS/spam protection etc.).

What's stopping such communities from going "underground", i.e. to some darknet where anonymity and protection from some of these hassles still exists?
At what stage do you fail? Do you have issues getting interviews?
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Someone did not checked the sources before pasting the same old "All designs are ugly, XXX will do better than all and all others will rush to copy it"
If the units used UV instead, they might avoid that problem.
For reference about real programmers: Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html
Yes it would seem in the vein of the list to out the 'researcher' who is being the final asshole.
Today is a sad day. I wonder what will replace full-disclosure as the de-facto vehicle to announce vulnerabilities.
Superb post! Thanks for sharing.
On the one side, yes; on the other though, it's a shame that the technologies we use or want to use for web applications right now (HTML5, ES6, etc) are just not done, standardized or implemented yet.

JS not good enough? We'll invent new languages; Dart, Typescript, Coffeescript, etc. ES6 not yet done? We'll build a transpiler so we can fiddle with it until it's done - if ever.

I just wish the standardisation processes for web technologies would go faster. We get small revolutions every 2 years or so, but the standards behind them only get updated every decade.
ShowHN: www.reedwith.us
What is reedwith.us?
reedwith.us is a site where you can upload any professional content like a video, a document or a presentation using your LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Gmail user name and password and discuss. To serve the professional community needs, we re-imagined the concept of discussion. Discussion allows users to include mathematical and chemical equations, code snippets and free flow text.

Do you have an example?
For example, if you type "perceptual" in the search bar, Perceptual grouping presentation will be shown as a result. You can look at the presentation. If you scroll down on the page you will see the Topic and Discussion sections. There, you will see code snippets, equations etc. You can start a new topic or participate in the discussion. You can also form groups and discuss privately with members of your team.

What else are you planning for the future?
We are working with conferences to host their videos, presentations and documents. If you visited the conference but missed a particular session or talk, you can watch the presentation you missed at reedwith.us. If you want to learn from an expert who presented at a conference that you could not attend, you can watch the content at reedwith.us. Please encourage conferences, societies and organization to upload their content to reedwith.us. They can also contact us at http://reedwith.us/contact.html. There is __no charge__ for the conference.

It is still a work in progress and I would be very happy to hear from you including bugs, new features etc or if you are interested in the technical aspect of the site, please add comments in HN and I would be happy to discuss.

TL;DR - reedwith.us is a professional site for uploading a video, a document or a presentation and discuss with others publicly or privately. We are planning to organize all conference content in the future.
I used Caplin tools a couple of times years ago - they used the same 'blade' terminology then - looks like they've just open sourced the UI stuff, to make it easier to sell their data distribution tech.
Ruby Gem Configuration Patterns
Removing Broadcasts from imo
I think comparing it to the startups one is a good example of why it could work. There are plenty of places to go to get information about startups. The places you can go to get information about government policies/procedures/etc… is a lot like searching for Q&A sites that were completely backward in their approach.

You could argue there's not a big enough audience… but I think the utility of it is there.
TJ isn't real. You can't be like him.
I don't like it at all; the Http and Base64 imports require three tokens / lines to import, while the existing DI just needed one. RequireJS requires two (array entry, callback parameter).

I'll stick to ES 5 / Angular 1.2 if we're required to write this much boilerplate to achieve the same thing.
I've even created an Application based on Nodemailer: https://github.com/lepture/pigeon which will serve as a HTTP server.
You don't have any rights in a physical letter you send away. There would be no issue with the recipient engaging a service to handle letters that happen to be sent to them, and that service processing those letters however they saw fit, including by recording information about the sender(s).

I guess what I'm saying is... what's your point?

edit:

You appear to be misreading your parent comment. The parallel situation they describe is precisely that the recipient engages a company to process their mail (read the description: "you hire some company to sort and collate your mail (and toss out your junk mail for you), and in exchange they slip in some coupons [for] people who get the kind of mail that you do". All of that applies to receiving mail, not sending it.)

And this is precisely what's happening with Google: if you send mail to my gmail address, I've engaged Google to process it on my behalf. You have no say in the matter, nor can you.
IMHO, that experience from the 70's has a lot of value. How to optimize, how to talk to hardware; all are forgotten skills now days. Not to mention the sheer value of remembering how things were done and why. The explosion of young, inexperienced programmers that refuse to acknowledge the triumphs and failures of the past put the profession into an infinite loop of rediscovering, re-implementing, and re-learning the lessons of the past.

Those 1970's skills map directly to embedded work. They map to kernel and systems level programming. Guess what ? The same problems we had on a PDP-11 we have today. The scale is a bit different, but the fundamentals are not.

Can you pass the fizz buzz test ?

You would be amazed at the number of applicants that can talk "singleton observer model view controller association class" all day, and can't do fizz buzz. Or compile hello world from the command line. Or know the difference between a compiler error and a linker error.

Focus on what you do best. I think you will find there is a demand for those skills.
System.getenv was deprecated (in 1.1?), and then replaced with an implementation that threw UnsupportedOperationException (in 1.2?) because it was considered to be non-portable.

Later they saw sense and re-implemented it and un-deprecated it.
Read this book, it's basically only hacking C code with assembly. http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-The-Art-Exploitation-Edition/d...
It also covers topics such as TCP sockets and the likes. If you ever want to become a real hacker it's your best starting point.

And the world was never the same again.
Nothing -- such underground communities do exist, but then it is no longer a public forum.
> What's stopping such communities from going "underground", i.e. to some darknet where anonymity and protection from some of these hassles still exists?

Principle? The whole point of FD was for these discussions to happen in the open.
Wow, this is sad. Hope we can get more info on what was going on.

Besides Bugtraq what mailing lists security wise do you follow?

EDIT: Or what other general means by Twitter, Websites, Databases, Blogs etc. do you recommend?
It's a fact of life that resumes are crucial and that structure makes a difference. But I've noticed that people often disagree about approaches.

This particular resume is based on a template that people in a channel liked. I've received a number of compliments IRL regarding both the layout and the content.

The only thing that people IRL seem to agree should go is the part about reasons for leaving.

The resume does need a new release. For example, I should start to fill in the years after 2009. But it isn't the resume that's the primary issue here. It's the fact that the market has shifted away from generalists, combined with mistakes that I've made.
I think the main fear here is that a bad VR experience - and one of the fastest ways to do that is not having the hardware and features (ie a screen with low persistence) needed to drive vr - will kill the technology for consumers.
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"You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty? ... They take them out and shoot them."

From Primer, I always thought that was the case
But this is nonsense. The sender doesn't need to consent; the recipient has all the legal power over his mail. If I want to engage a company to keep files on all my paper mail, and all associated metadata, there's nothing you can do to stop me.
I'm the author of Nodemailer. I'm not a native english speaker and I "borrowed" the tagline from a Node.js module by Marak Squires and didn't realize that "easy as cake" is not a widely used expression but something he probably made up himself.
I don't have an off switch either. Working all day is stimulating and stress free for me. Despite all the 'chill the hell out' articles I find it sustainable and I don't really get tired.

The only real thing that works is just stop coding completely. I tend to take very long sabbaticals in between companies.
I saw nodemailer as a dependency of SendGrid. What exactly does SendGrid do in addition to nodemailer's capabilities other than faster sending times and lesser chances of outbound messages to Spam folders?
no, but it the reason that many other people do, and you end with the unique content that will make you wanna come nack
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