skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not clear they continue to be 30% better - just that they started out that way, and got put on a team.

I'm still not convinced these folks aren't just outliers. People in all walks of life give far too much credence to lucky outliers - CEOs are hired that way, ball players, stock portfolios, sports predictors. If you make enough predictions and cherry-pick the best, you can always find a 'miracle man'.
There's always something to tell. Even when under NDA, you can link to the company/product you worked on, can't you?

I did on my 'about' page ( http://nickkusters.com/About ) for stuff that was under NDA and I haven't had any comments.
Anecdote: A guy who wanted one of our open mechanical/embedded positions came in with something he built and programmed. It was super impressive side work and helped him stand out.

Sadly, when you're competing against the world for many positions, you need every possible advantage.
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I have to second that. When you work in a team of >20 on a closed source enterprise software which is also not public facing - there's little to nothing to show. I can't help but think that only a small fraction of programmers are actually lucky enough to work on some open source projects that make a difference and there's something to show.
Ah yes I know the sort of things. I lived in a similar sort of place in Nottingham a few years back. Our front wall had to be replaced with the right kind of stone after a car drove through it. Total pain and very expensive (£19000 for a wall!)

In your case it's the bureaucracy that is broken because "conservation" appears to stump common sense and energy efficiency. I'd argue the latter is so tied to the former that it makes little sense to not modify listed buildings.

I wish you luck in the future with that one - we moved on after much pain to a easy to modify Victorian detached place.
I think it depends if the CV is meant for HR or for the actual person who's going to hire you. HR just use them as a filtering mechanism and will get bothered if you're making their lives more difficult.

In either case the introduction letter is probably the best place to show why you're special and a good fit for the company.
>was given access to a website that listed dozens of carefully worded questions on events of interest to the intelligence community, along with a place for her to enter her numerical estimate of their likelihood.

If you need to know more, try reading the article? It says that they're not yes/no questions.
This is a fantastic book and explains most of the questions currently in the thread about the circumstances where large groups of people produce more effective answers than any one of its members and the cases where they do not. If this article was interesting it is worth reading.

The book also briefly covers the Policy Analysis Market, a program to experiment with using a futures market to help predict terrorist attacks. As this program used real money, and offered the opportunity to make money off of terrorist attacks, some members of Congress were outraged and the program was immediately cancelled (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3106559.stm). This version discussed in this NPR article seems more publicly palatable. In fact, it looks like the similarity was already reported: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/21/nation/la-na-cia-cro...

By the way, can anyone recommend a more rigorous book than Wisdom of Crowds on this subject?
"Its not clear they continue to be 30% better"

Yes, that was my point. The article failed to make it clear. It is worded such that it could go either way.

I agree they may be outliers. However, I can't dismiss out-of-hand the possibility that they are actually better. Outliers are common... but so are systematic/correlated weaknesses within large organizations.
Agreed. My (LaTeX) resume that I spend many hours refining has caught the attention of many hiring managers, and I often get compliments on it. Curse those recruiters who reformat my resume into their shitty Word templates. I've had times where a hiring manager would have the recruiter's version of the resume, and when I handed them my pretty resume they were pleasantly surprised.
As an early adopter, I would want it to have some kind of 'geofencing' logic.

Given that I currently use as my main mobile a Windows Phone and the announcements that they are doing something around this area come (should be detailed at Build), I'd like this.

I live alone, I have a gas and electric bill of £800 pa, often I'm not home, I'll work late, end up in another country that night etc. Having something that lets me switch off remotely the heating would be useful to a point. But I only have the heating on for maybe 5 months a year.

What would be useful, is some software that realised I was heading home, automatically turning it on. That realised there is no way I'd be home within 30 min, so delayed heating going on. Without me interacting with it.

As for control of the temp, well, as mentioned thermostatic valves do a great job of that.

I just want remote On / Off timer functionality. £250 is far beyond what I'd consider reasonable for that.

I'd sooner have an array of Zigbee sensors for the temp, a controller for the solenoid and something to bridge it to TCP/IP land.

This strikes me as not only ugly (you wouldn't notice the current thermostat) but pointlessly over engineered in one aspect, whilst ignoring the most important one. If you have to remember to interact with the app, it won't work. I could save the odd £2 or £3 if I remembered to flick a switch before leaving home on a morning.
http://www.tealsk12.org/

Oh no, this kind of false drivel:

"The U.S. is facing a shortage of CS graduates." I guess if you're going to lie, go for the really big lie.

Also a glance at the website implies they don't teach CS but more IT, how to code. Not that there's anything wrong with that totally different somewhat related topic. But don't bake cookies and call it your chemistry class.

Mixed feelings here. They're doing something that is inherently very good for the kids, but they're misnaming the program and the reasoning is based on outright lies. The good should outweigh the bad on average...
At least from those I've seen in the US with a great interest in this product, it serves much the same function as a Prius; helping those with disposable income feel better about saving the world without having to really make that much of a sacrifice.

That is a broad generalization, I'm aware. So far it has been true.
This was indeed an April fools joke ;). Our idea for the joke came a little too late to get our iOS version reviewed in time. So that one is on its way to Apple as we speak. Thanks for the great comments, it was a pleasure to read them!
For me it's super-slow in Chrome-based Opera, but fast in Chrome and Firefox Nightly on the same machine.

The page's performance might be very dependent on browser's heuristic for conserving memory vs using GPU accelerated layers.
Then suggest one that is both better than GitHub and doesn't cost you any money. Sourceforge, Savannah, Google Code.. They all suck in comparison.
This is what the reversible USB cable looks like
I suspect that there is a wide variance between didn't write the resume in MS Word while still making it respectable and added say animated GIFs/cat video.
I've been renting in London for the last 7 years, and in 7 different flats. Roughly half of those places had thermostats, and they were usually poorly placed. In all but one of the houses, the valves on the radiators had been removed (the handles at least), so it was pretty much impossible to control the temperature room-by-room. Have one flatmate who likes a cold room and another who likes a hot room? Tough luck.
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Using Sass with ZURB Foundation
An ode to jQuery
This is true. However the distiller can --watch a directory and do this step for you in the background.

For more info:
$ moonshine help distil
Neo&Bee boss disappears
It's £179 this week. I bought a new heating programmer and a wireless thermostat last year - together they cost £180. Nest is expensive, but it's not insanely pricey assuming that it leads to a similar energy efficiency as higher end thermostats and heating programmers.

Also: why so much anger about other people and their purchases? You don't have to buy once of these if you don't want to.
I have to disagree with your disagree! Many (most) jobs go through a pre-screen. The project manager is far too busy to filter all the crap, HR does that. HR sees a unfamiliar format, and simply bins that resume.

If they specifically allow other formats, or request a specific format, use it. But, in the case that they don't specify -- go with the most common format in the industry, anything else is nuts.

Additionally, if the primary filter on talent is .docx versus .pdf (or .txt or even .tex) -- it is a place so stupid you probably don't want to work there anyway.
Rand Corp. Their next study showed just 858,000 enrollees out of 7.1M were previously uninsured. Not sure yet what percentage of the difference were entirely voluntary transfer of services, but methinks most were signups due to cancellation of existing policies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594309/President-pl...
During the course of last 7 years I've rented 7 different flats / houses in the UK (all of them in London), 4 of them didn't have a thermostat, 3 had centrally controlled thermostats, only one of them from the 21st century. They were all fairly typical London dwellings. So there you go, anecdotal evidence supported by some data points.
Was SourceSafe maintained on itself?
Spending £250 now to save £100 a year for a decade (the period you suggested you would want savings for) does make sense if you could save that much.

You also have to consider that as well as the cost savings you're getting a nicer 'thermostat experience' for the time you're living in the home, and potentially increasing the value of it should you move. There's a lot of things in favour of improving the building you live in besides minimising your bills.

It all hinges on the 'if' though. If the Nest doesn't save you anything, or if it costs you more in heating, or if it makes the home uncomfortably hot/cold then it's not worthwhile.
What you've said is true, but this is the nature of democracy. A bloc of /any kind/ can vote away everyone else's freedom.

You might not support that, which is reasonable, there's a lot of Libertarians in tech and I do understand where they're coming from. http://i.imgur.com/fV2tHeu.jpg illustrates the point quite nicely.

However: most people don't understand or agree with this, and believe in democracy and its compromises, including shitty things likes rules that may restrict you based on a majority of opponents.
So you'll allow a user to go all the way through the process of registration, create a new password, get temporary access to your site... and then what... not save that password? So a re-login attempt won't work?

I can't see how you can avoid making the experience for the duplicate user exactly the same as a new user.
also, you can sync to a subdirectory in SVN - not git.

1) yeah, although I question the sanity of doing this.
2) is this related to #3?
3) yes, but IMO VCS should be used for source files (mostly). large assets should go in an artifact repo. But you are right - putting giant files in git is a terrible idea, especially if you change them often.
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Exactly. A programmer is a line cook. You want to be thought of as a guy who has potential to be a Chef or is one. I think the whole "impact of your work in numbers" also dovetails into this. That changes you from being an interchangeable cog to someone who can bring value and change the company.
First off, I apologize for my tone. I was tired and cranky last night when I wrote that and should not have posted it. I did not intend to belittle anyone, though it came out that way.

> You're not using the technologies that are in demand, you're not writing detailed work histories, and you're not putting key words into your resume, please tell me you do not wonder why you're not being head hunted.

I'm not sure if you are saying this with or without having looked at my information, so I will write the response assuming you have not.

I use what my employers require me to use, plus whatever else I can get away with that is appropriate for the task at hand. I also experiment with new languages in my free time, though I stopped listing those on my resume and LinkedIn profile on the advice that I should only be listing items I was willing to be tested on. If I find something that is better for a task that needs doing, I use it. As for my work history, I have a detailed history, but I tried to control the amount of detail in each entry to avoid making it too long.

> Everything starts off as a flavor of the week, Ruby on Rails was just a flavor of the week type deal and then it became huge. Same with Node now and with other stacks before that.

Absolutely, though most fade away into relative obscurity at some point. The point I was trying to make there is that I frequently see statements about fundamentals being important and specific technologies not being important because technologies can be learned quickly by a competent developer. Yet the laundry lists of technology requirements seems to grow monthly. I'm going to learn new stacks because they are interesting and potentially useful to me, not to pad my resume.

Overall, maybe it was a good thing I shoved my foot in my mouth above. It drove me to think critically about my overall presentation to the outside world. I usually approach it with too much emotional attachment.
They could use Browserling to access censored sites:

For example:

https://browserling.com/queue?uri=http://censored.com&browse...

This will open httx://censored.com in Firefox/28.0 within your Browser. (We run the browsers on Windows servers and stream the desktop to your browser.)
I'm an idiot. I quit my dream job to become an entrepreneur...
Damn you and your data that doesn't support my outrage :-)
The fact that it leads to things you might not personally approve of does not bother me. I have no issue with polygamy, for example, so long as everyone involved knows what they're getting into and consents to it (and I know a few people who are or have been in poly relationships, and see no reason why they shouldn't be able to formally commit in those relationships if they wish).
The recruiters do that because lots of HR departments are explicit: docx or deleted.

Once you get through the screen, you can show them your fancy resume, but at that point, no one cares about your resume -- you already caught their attention and it is interview / references time.
Wait, so as a joke, they put it up to a vote to migrate SVN over to Git, and it passed? Now, they have to actually do the migration now?
Like all advice on resumes and interviews, this should be read with the understanding it only applies to the particular person writing the article. So, if you are applying to a company where this person is reading the the resume and decided whether to interview you, write the resume using this advice. Otherwise, it will make no difference.
> I think it is fluff.

You may think so, but you've no idea who is ultimately reading your resume.

Granted keep it short, but more than once this has got someone from the "maybe" pile into the "we'll take a look cos he plays bass" pile.
Fair enough. However, there are statistical deviations that are significant enough that it's fair to consider them.

In the US, 90% of men are incarcerated. Sure, maybe it's just because men are suspect more women, therefore are caught with higher likelihood. But, given a random citizen, is the probability that they will commit a crime not significantly higher if they are a men? (Which is of course near 0 anyway, don't get me wrong.)
He said he's in a good financial situation. He did not say he paid himself the lowest possible amount of salary he could live off, and let the business run without any safety buffer of money.

I'm just going to assume that Colin is smart enough that he knows how to price his service. After all, he's the only one with the data to really know tarsnaps financial situation.
You're assuming that the svn running on the source control server is always the top of tree. I would assume that they use the latest stable release, not the latest checkin. And even if they did run into a problem like this, they could always downgrade the version of svn on the server, so long as it doesn't include a breaking repository format change.
Something like Popcorn Time is the future both as a client and moving to a shared backend where people can more easily split hosting fees... Because how many copies of The Big Lebowski need to be duplicated all over the place if there's plenty of bandwidth to serve it? A hosting service like Mega with the security of Tarsnap that could host and de-duplicate torrents would be very interesting. Imagine being able to instantly watch a movie if someone else on the same service happens to have already got it.
BitBucket ?
Cool, i like it :)
Haha. If a company doesn't want to hire me because my resume is not in .docx format, I probably don't want to be working there anyway!
Data suggests that all properties outside London have thermostats, those within the M25 live cold and impoverished lives?
As someone who works on PoS software, I get to watch this ugly bootup process twice. Once for Windows, and once for our software.
In the 1980s and 1990s, it wasn't uncommon for cars to weigh under 2000 pounds.

Now, with regulations like this, closer to 3000 pounds is the norm.

Every pound adds up.

All the safety regulations that have led to this increased weight aren't pointless, but one wonders if it's really worth MANDATING everyone to tote around an additional ONE THOUSAND POUNDS.
As a hiring manager, I actually care about your GPA. There is some self-selection with those that have a 3.9+. It means they cared about the topic, they went to class consistently, and they performed well during tests (under pressure).

I'd much rather have the motivated, driven guy who wants to dot his I's and cross his T's than a programmer who thinks that learning big-O notation isn't worth it, that learning software engineering methodology is a waste of time, and operating systems is dumb because all hiring positions want Java programmers.

High GPAs come with certain attitudes built in. It is not the only indicator of success, but when I see anything less than a 3.5 it makes me question the candidate's grit. Is that how you are going to behave when you are given work you don't like, or do not deem is important? We are paying you "A+" salaries, we want A+ work. Not night-before C- "I turned it in" software.
Hm. Your examples are good, but have one flaw, though: Both the NPD thing and the food bank example are cases in which the controversial act is, thematically, close to the professional role of the person in question. A politician should be scrutinized if he associates with radical political movements, just as a food bank representative can't foul-mouth the activities of the NGO she is heading.

To construct an analogy regarding that Eich guy: It would of course be problematic if he was connected in some way to Microsoft or Oracle. Paid speaking engagements come to mind as an example.
Would tarsnap do well to become a non-profit?

He could still pay himself a fair salary but he'd avoid any tax liability for the business and I guess he could accept donations too?

I don't know much about it, but if your only goal is a fair salary I've always assumed a non profit business structure would make sense? Can someone more knowledgable chime in?
Ask HN: How does your IT group interact with your developers?
I'm curious to know how developers and IT interact within other companies. I'm a CTO of a company that has 18 developers and 2 IT. One of my IT guys has decided to pursue other interests and he is leaving the company. I always take these opportunities to re-think a little bit how the team is setup and whether we should change our mind on who the right person is to fill in the role that is departing. As such I'm looking for feedback on some questions that many of you may be able to share your wisdom.

For the people that either work in a small/medium company, I'm curious to know what type of IT individuals you have. Are they mainly developers? Are they server administrators? A combination of both?

How does the IT group interact with the developers? Do they both work on the architecture together or are the developers responsible for the architecture and the IT group implements it?

Does the IT group report to the development manager or are fully separated from development?

Any insight is appreciated!
No, not offline. Just have the administration of it frozen.

And it's only for recently transferred domains where it's the previous owner disputing the legitimacy of the transfer.

Domains are entries in a table. A "60 day freeze", if it exists, is just a policy.
Remember when Colin Percival announced his Tarsnap logo competition on HN?

There'd be a cash price and everything. I am sure several people worked on logos - some excellent, some less so. I'm frankly surprised to see that this is the result:

http://www.tarsnap.com/header.png

Really? Did some of us just waste our time so that Colin could have his 8 year old nephew whip up a blurry logo? It's ofcourse his right to do so, but it does make me wonder.
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I'm participating in this project, as are at least a couple other HNers (surprising to no one, huh?).

I won't go into details about it because it's not my place to do so at this point (maybe after).

But I will confirm that for every response you give, you're required to enter a percentage estimate of likelihood. For example, you'd enter 90% or 72.212% or whatever on whichever question you're responding to. So there's a potential mechanism for further ranking of participants beyond the binary. The voting mechanism itself is more complicated, but again, I'll leave discussion for when it's over.