skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, being right below the burn limit is where the most fun is, the most growth is, and where I'm most likely to hit a state of 'flow'. Some of the best weeks of my life have been 16 hour days of coding, taking breaks only for food and recovery walks. (all driven internally).

There's an incredible joy that comes out of pushing yourself exactly as hard as you can tolerate and achieving your exact maximum productivity. And there's a lot of joy that comes from looking at the things you build as a result.

I also did this last summer with hiking. In the space of about two months, I worked my way up from 3-5 mile hikes to day long, 40 mile hikes in 95 degree weather. I enjoyed it immensely.

So perhaps there's no law that "you should work exactly enough that you don't burn out", but there's a lot of value in being able to be in that spot.
I see. Seems like a sound approach. If your thought was to get developers on board, then yes, JSON is probably the best way to do it.
I'm not joking. In the right cities, the high cost of living will pull you that amount.
TFA states passengers will have to turn on their phones if they have them. I assume the fear is that you'll have a phone-like bomb with a chemical battery-like component.

Toothpaste remains completely banned.
The article is rehashing the same tired old Y/millenials vs Boomers crap again. There's a lot more individuality amongst all the generations than articles like this give credit for.
Awesome feedback, we already have an issue created for the firstName/lastName dilemma.

Will create issues for your other feedback -> https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-schema
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There's nothing particularly "icky" about XML. That's just a silly hipster meme. XML is just a tool, it makes sense in some places, less so in others. Same deal for JSON.

I mean XML+XSLT has been around for a loooong time and can more than handle exactly what this format sets out to do, and yet a standard XML resume format hasn't taken off.

It's just as likely that the answer is "a standard resume format hasn't taken off" where the serialization format is irrelevant. Maybe not enough people are interested in working with documents and knowledge at that deeper, semantically meaningful level. Maybe sending resumes as PDF or MS Word or ODT and using simple keyword extraction has been "good enough" that nobody has felt the pull to use a better system?

What I mean is, it's entirely possible that this will fail to gain adoption for the exact same reason that the XML based one(s) did, and that the difference between JSON and XML is actually irrelevant. This is, of course, just speculation on my part. In any case, I hope this (or something like it) gains traction, since I'm a strong proponent of publishing semantically meaningful content, whether it's in RDF/XML, JSON-LD, SGML, DAML+OIL, YAML, Texinfo, Markdown, Hytime or hieroglyphics chiseled into stone tablets. :-)
I just had a look at ResumeRDF.

Class: cv:Person

Person - CV subclass of WordNet person

in-range-of:	cv:aboutPerson cv:referenceBy
in-domain-of:	cv:gender cv:birthPlace cv:hasCitizenship cv:hasNationality cv:maritalStatus cv:noOfChildren cv:hasDriversLicense

[back to top]

It's probably a bad idea to encourage people to list protected characteristics on a CV / resume. Employers (except vary rare exceptions) can't use this information so there's no point including it.
Thanks. "Square-footage" is one of those things I always forget when calculating the expense of employees. (Probably one reason I'm an employee and not an employer.)
I apologize. For some reason I thought you were attacking the viability of microservice architecture because you can't do database-level transactions across several backends. You were arguing that services will sometimes need to lock each other, and I agree with that.

In the Ticketmaster example, I would be able to get a Ticket resource assigned to me before paying for it. But the ticket would be "locked" (in the sense that I couldn't print the barcode) until the Payments service marked it as okay, which would indeed be an example of one service locking another's resource.

I thought you were claiming that the action needed to be performed in a single database transaction, but you don't need or want isolation here. You want the world to observe inconsistent state in this case (i.e. no one sees my seat as "available" while I'm fumbling around with my credit card number). In which case it's perfectly practical to implement transactionality at the application layer, between microservices, rather than at the database level. But that point was never in contention. I apologize.

Obvviously there's not a dogmatic preference for inconsistent state, just an acknowledgement that ACID properties are not necessarily needed as often as some people think they are.

Also, obviously, you have to be careful with your failure modes. Charging someone without delivering shouldn't happen often but you don't need to design your entire infrastructure around making it impossible, given that refunds (and simply not capturing the charge you authorized) are both relatively easy to do, even if you want to avoid doing them all the time.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in .ID domain name?
.ID is brand new cc-tld (country code-top level domain) for Indonesia. Since only Indonesian citizen can register the names at the moment, I can help you guys with the administration.

I can think of lots of apps and websites that would benefit from these .ID's

The landrush period ends at August 15, if you are interested in registering, my email is indonesia [dot] tech [at] gmail
My fiance and I live in San Francisco; neither one of us owns a car. On the occasions that we need a car for a couple of hours (e.g., large purchases) we use City Car Share. For trips out of the City, we just rent a car. We save thousands of dollars a year in gas, insurance and maintenance. We also save time and aggravation in not having to worry about things like parking and street cleaning. We can't see ever going back to owning a car.
I don't have the link, but I read somewhere that foreign investors (I think this was data upto last year - things may have changed fast) don't make up THAT much of the market, and only for the 1M+ homes, which is way above median price in the US.
I have been on Reddit for eight years, and only came out with my name today. People should be encouraged to use aliases for any number of reasons. To name a few:

* You should be able to express an idea without that idea being attached to a known identity (partly because people may judge the idea based on the known identity)
* You should be allowed to "start over" (heck, I might want to start over soon)
* In the face of an Orwellian government or an unaccepting society, you should be able to safely express your true opinions
I have to agree. XML can be complicated, or can at least look complicated when using lots of namespaces and what-not, but for most purposes it's dead simple and about as easy to understand as anything else.

Truth be told, I find XML easier to read than JSON in many cases. shrug
I recently migrated from the Bay Area to SoCal (Orange County) - I'm seeing this sentiment more and more in my peer group.

(BTW - I'm hiring engineers down here in SoCal if anyone is interested in the migration - contact in profile)
> I mean surely at some point having aimless fun starts looking a bit like wasted time in someone's life, no?

Why would you think that everything outside of work is dominated by aimless fun? Why not have it dominated by politics, volunteer work, education, etc etc?

Sure, if there are only two possible things to do: work or watch tv, then yeah, you should probably work more than you watch tv. But taking an active part in your community takes time and effort, not to get too corny, but spreading love and happiness takes effort. Very few of us can do that while/through (just) work.
A-ha. Thank you.
For a simple application in finance, consider a portfolio with n stocks. Then finding various statistics around

- expected portfolio mean & variance

- optimizing mean-variance subject to a risk budget (following Markowitz portfolio theory), etc.

would all entail operating on the n×n covariance matrix, which is typically dense. If your universe is the Russell 1000, S&P 500, etc, then n will be significantly larger than 250.
Princeton: Practice has almost no effect on skill level of programmers
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> Lessig has a good track record for achieving change

Examples?
I agree kids don't care about cars right now. They care about getting a job, which it's been harder for many of these Gen-R (recession) kids.
That's an interesting point. And to be honest, I'm not sure what the rationale was for including those terms (I wasn't involved with defining ResumeRDF or anything).

I'm guessing it happened because they "borrowed" a generic notion of "person attributes" from some other, less specific, source, and didn't really consider the legal implications you mention.

I guess it's an open question whether or not there's any actual valid scenario where somebody would want to put that stuff. It seems unlikely to me, but maybe in other countries or something? Hmmm... dunno.
Someone smarter than that would get the car and sell it for way more than it costs to buy a smartphone.
Rent a car? If you divide the cost of car owning by the average number of such drives, you will get a sum that can send you to Antarctica and back several times.
It is not the sixties once again.
I think it's also worth mentioning that the NSA and CIA apparently side-step or white-wash FOIA requests whenever they really don't want to turn over information, for "reasons"? What good is the FOIA in regards to intelligence agencies if requests are either not fulfilled, whitewashed, or involving people long retired/dead? At that point it's all theatre.
So, a double income family, each person earning $250,000 with proceeds from a previous house sale for downpayment, can manage quite easily, no?

Pre tax income: 41666/month

20% Down = $300000
Borrow 1.2M @ 4.0% = $5728.98/mo

This looks quite doable.

Heck, with half that income, you could do it!
You rent a car. It's much cheaper to rent a car occasionally than to own a car.
If something is called "framework", you can safely ignore it - it's clearly a pile of crap. If the thing is useful, it is called a library. As a corollary, if a language/programming paradigm requires frameworks to work, it's a failure right from the start.
The problem is that when you throw away all frameworks, you are not employable any more. And maybe that's the solution: find profession where you won't waste your life fighting next fad (which is different every year).
Insert long comment about the virtues of Bitcoin here.
If you can't find such job, there is a simple hack: work one year, then take a year off.
For $25, you can buy a "I (heart) Potato Salad" hat[1] which appears to infringe on the tightly enforced[2] "I (heart) NY" trademark.

____

[1] http://www.zazzle.com/i_love_potato_salad_mesh_hat-148005376...

[2] http://iheartguts.com/extra-special-guts/ (via http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-87-i-heart-ny-...)
Employed 16 year old here who has intentionally chosen not to buy a car. My job is three miles away, it's healthier to walk, and my other work is all remote. I'm using the money I could have spent buying/maintaining a car to travel Europe with my two best friends next summer.

Employment doesn't require a car, even for teens.
Making it more difficult to transact in the official economy will drive more volume and sophistication to the black market, cryptocurrencies, criminal syndicates, System D.

That means less transparency, less control, less tax revenue, reduced government influence.

Seems counterproductive.
If only there was an extensible markup language you could employ to create a resume standard.

//

Seriously, JSON really sucks at markup (it also kinda sucks as data interchange as well, but let's not worry about that here). This 'standard' is so hand-wavy. Every property is a 'string', so why are you even bothering putting it in? Right, not really 'strings' because a bunch of fields have a JavaScript (so we're not really sticking JSON here, are we!) comments to describe it. Presumably order of object properties matters, or maybe it doesn't, or maybe it matters for some (e.g. root object / address) and not for others (eg. phone numbers). Date format? Who needs that! Which fields are optional? All of them? Some of them? None of them? I like the 'hobby' field. Complete waste of space on a real resume and a complete waste of space here as well (hah: hobby name and hobby keyword). Urgh.

It's a mess. A total mess.
The 10000 hours rule might be bogus, but the examples given are unconvincing. Sid Vicious not being able to play bass well means just that - hes not good at it, probably because he didn't practise. That it didn't matter for him to become successful is a different story.

Slash of G'n R fame practised very hard to get to his level by literally doing nothing else from morning to evening.
No, however while one can debate the pricing models of books in general, AFAIK the cost of an ebook is about equivalent to a regular book (they both have layout costs, and actually printing and even distributing books, is so ridiculously cheap that it's absurd -- you'd think there's a bid difference -- but there isn't). So a better question might be, is $50 for a high-quality, highly-technical, low-volume, narrow-audience book normal -- and I'm afraid (for book buyers, not publishers/authors) the answer to that is: yes, quite.
For anyone who's interested in type theory and programming language foundations and modern development, I've found the talks of these summer schools really interesting and useful. The videos and material are at https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer14/cu... , and you can change "14" in the URL to earlier years to see previous material. It's really a highly valuable set of resources.
Woah woah woah, relax. OK, C++ and client-side tech (HTML/CSS/JS) is enough to go for some time. Common Lisp is a good way to go next, but you'll see most of that return in how it affects your use of other languages. For the rest in your list: they're solving overlapping sets of problems with overlapping sets of techniques.

You have to know very few of them to be quite productive. You also have lots and lots of time. I'd honestly focus on getting better at those that you already know than worry about adding in more. And just start building shit. Nobody cares what technology you use, as long as it's not PHP[2].

The more technologies that you know, the easier the new ones will be. I don't know why, but people keep adding them on their resume like merit badges. They're tools, and you aren't responsible for learning tools, you're responsible for making solutions.

But, if you want to learn a bunch of them, here's how you get started. When you start a new technology, ask yourself a few questions about it:

- What's the problem it's trying to solve? (hint: this applies to programming languages as well)

- What're the constraints imposed by the environment?

- What fundamental techniques is it using?

- What are its predecessors?

Those four questions will explain most of the technology[1], before you even look at the details. Do this a few times, and you can predict much of a new technology just from the answers to these questions.

Example: C++:

A systems language for large programs. Must have as close to minimal runtime overhead and optimal code as possible. It's native-code compiled with the platform ABI, usually with the same compiler backend as the C compiler, and without any runtime interpreter or compiler. Predecessors include C and Simula. Footnote 1 applies here, as it is designed by committee, with a "shove a lot of stuff in the language, and let each user figure out which parts are useful" attitude.

[1] Modulo random experiments, social system issues, laziness, and bad ideas.

[2] The only reason to use PHP is "someone made me."
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I did the same thing. It was basically break even for weekend trips and more profitable to have the car for week long trips. If you like the woods and places off the beaten path car shares aren't going to work.
This is probably what you are looking for :

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
By
Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron

http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
(IANAL) You only have the contract liability protections of a limited liability company if you execute contracts as the company. You know when you've done this, because most vendors are hesitant to sign contracts with an LLC that's only a few months old.
It's a great resource, I just wish there was a version targeting amd64/Linux -- it's such a much more pleasant target to write asm for than x86 (not to mention if you target running code under "regular" OS', it's a more and more relevant target).
Ask HN: Time tracking software with punch in/out feature?
My company has been looking for a time tracking software (web based) that allows the employees to punch in/out as well as track task time. We have found many solutions for just tracking task time, but nothing that also allows for tracking separate punch in/out time. Any suggestions?
No need for status symbols anymore. If you want people to know you are rich, just post it on Facebook.
Maybe for the city-bound.

Also, rentals typically have a per-mile cost, no? So distance is also important, as well as frequency.
.. or exactly what the us gov wants. So it can send its military a certain way. The haven't had any success lately, so they are looking for new scapegoats.
How Real Will Wearable Games Be?
Same here. My resume is a text file in markdown. Bullets, titles and subtitles are all you need for a simple, easy to read resume.
$51B leaves the US in the form of remittance -- imagine all of that being USD->BTC->USD instead. The daily trade volume would be astronomical compared to today's.

Where remittance ends, forex begins.
> each person earning $250,000

Well back to the original question, who are these people earning $250k each? Is this common? Most people in the tech sector I know (ok not in SF) make about half that and I cant' say they are not productive or are stupid. Is that the valley of CEOs and upper management? Foreign investors buying up houses and not living in them just as a way to store their wealth...
You are right, I am still researching how to manage a standard formally hence why the site wasn't meant to go on HN just yet. If you have any good advice or links to advice for writing and managing standards that would be fantastic.

For example, what is an "RFC track"? I was also hoping that Github Issues might be able to replace the mailing list style of managing standards, what do you think?
You're absolutely right. The government, NSA, et al, would definitely not take anyone to court over this. That's the wrong tool for this job.
Major outlier, no? That would be quite a wealthy family. You're basically talking two company CxOs living in the same house. I can see maybe a few households in that situation, but what of the rest of the hundreds of thousands of people who live up and down the Peninsula?
> I'm not a Facebook fan, but tell me how this is worse than standard operating procedure with every other consumer product?

When I see an ad, I know that the company wants me to give them my money. When I see my friend post something on Facebook, they want to communicate or connect in some way ... note that it is not a monetary desire to buy something from a friend, but to connect with them on a human and emotional level. Manipulating the news feed so that there is an appearance of more or less contentment among my friends when that is not what they intended for others to see is manipulative. I've always had "most recent" instead of "top stories" so this wouldn't have affected me, but to imply that it's just like an ad is utter horseshit.
Performance and simplicity would be two factors. Plus I think nanomsg doesn't play well with HTTP. And I'm saying this because I remember ZeroMQ didn't play well with HTTP also. nanomsg is a rewrite of ZeroMQ, so I might be wrong here.
Well, I live within a five-mile radius of Stanford on the SF peninsula in a single-family home I bought a few years ago. I can tell you what I've seen in my own neighborhood.

These $1.5M single family homes (and those would be far lower than the median in many towns around here) tend to be owned by double-income professionals or long-standing owners paying pennies on the dollar in property taxes who have little incentive to sell. On the higher end, I've seen folks with significant liquidity events who no longer rely on income move to Palo Alto or Woodside, or perhaps Los Altos or Portola Valley, but then you're talking $5M+ and over 4,000 ft^2 and possibly a guest house or pool house too.

In my neighborhood there's a CEO at a funded sensor chip startup whose wife works at a large tech company, a physician married to another professional, an investment banker whose spouse doesn't work, some Stanford faculty married to other professionals, a partner at a major Silicon Valley law firm, and some retirees. The retirees are often paying around 1/20th what I do in property taxes -- less than what they'd pay if they were to move to Florida or Nevada, I imagine.

To try to answer your question more directly, if you're buying a $1.5M place and putting 20% down, Zillow says you can afford the resulting mortgage on a $265K/year salary:
http://www.zillow.com/mortgage-calculator/house-affordabilit...

That seems like a stretch to me, but if it's accurate and banks believe it, you could get a mortgage on that $1.5M house if each person is making $140K a year or thereabouts. Hope it doesn't need repairs or remodeling!
I don't get the controversy over this. How is this different than a news website displaying more tragic stories or more upbeat stories on their homepage, and seeing how it affects users? Someone in another thread mentioned supermarkets playing sad music and happy music. Or even Facebook's normal newsfeed algorithm tweaking, where they've very likely done tests similar to this.
The Tesla S model with the 260 mile range is a perfectly reasonable (though pricey) car for getting around the Bay Area.

That's like saying a private jet is a perfectly reasonable (though pricey) airplane for making flights.

I'm sorry my pockets are not gilded like some of the folk around here, but a Tesla is way too goddamn expensive for us normal folk.
IIRC it depends on the company. Zipcar doesn't care about miles, but I think CityCarShare does.
> you could easily find all resumes that know Java

Except that you're going to have people who put "J2EE" or "J2ME" or "JavaFX" or whatever else people like to specialize in instead of plain "Java".