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Not liking "Manhattanization" is fairly common in continental Europe as well, but it mostly works out because we build lots of housing on transit lines, so you don't have to dump everything into huge condo towers right in the city center. As for why? Part of it is that it's not really Manhattan people are worried about turning into (at least that was built over many decades and has varied and interesting architecture), but Miami. Or the Spanish coast. Older buildings built during various eras, with varying architecture/history, and a "human scale" that doesn't block the light/sky, are more popular than tearing it all down and replacing everything with a rash of Miami-style high-rise condo towers. It probably doesn't help that there was a little openness to "modern high-rises" in the 1960s-70s, which led to some really terrible-looking monstrosities that have aged even less well than they first looked, now standing as monuments to "welp, let's never let the developers do that again".

However, you can still fit quite a lot of people into 5-story buildings if you build them densely over a region and connect them well with transit. I don't think the problem with the SF Bay Area is that it has 5-story buildings, but that for the most part it doesn't have 5-story buildings, rather 1-2 story houses with yards. The urbanized part of SF is tiny, effectively a small part of the eastern side of the city around downtown, SoMa, and the Mission. Not even the Sunset or Burlingame are built up with 5-story buildings. And Palo Alto, despite being both a university/research and business hub that has housing demand sufficient to support much denser housing, is instead occupied by things that look like countryside vacation homes, failing to even approach "medium-sized town" level of density, let alone some wild dream of getting near the density of 5-story apartment buildings.
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This. This is it.

I've actually written my resume in markup for a while just so that I could put it on a nice dynamically driven site. Sort of a fun weekend project (no, it's not hosted anywhere).

While I strongly doubt that this will ever be a standard, I think it's nifty, and potentially useful. It opens up easy, pretty resumes, which the world really needs (Note: I'm not being sarcastic. The number of mountains-of-text word document resumes I've gotten in the past few weeks is too high).
Isn't the look of your resume one of your competitive advantages as job-seeker?

Sorry I really don't understand the use-case. Having an API is good for styling (as you say), or doing some soft of programmatic transformation to data. I am having trouble understanding the need to do either for a resume.

Maybe it would help as metadata for a search engine, but in that case I think a plain text search would be just as effective?

I think json schema is a really nice thing to have and I'd like to see more people adopt it, but I'm having trouble coming up with the point for this use.
Cuba has been famous for its sugar for centuries, so yeah, that name makes sense.
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I don't know your wealth situation but one positive thing about our profession is that it provides us with the finances to travel and continue experiencing the things during your semester abroad. In my 20's, looking around, it was difficult finding people who had the vacation and money to travel abroad.

If you can make sure you realize that this is your job and take time to take advantage of your situation I feel it can justify the sadness you experience from our profession.
Assuming this takes off and everyone uses it (you be the judge of those odds), I can see a standard format being really useful for both employers and job board websites.

Let's say you had a bank of resumes -- you could easily find all resumes that know Java and have had at least 2 jobs and an active GitHub repo, and automatically send out a request to their references.

Currently, you have to read an unformatted PDF and extract the info manually -- it's not the end of the world, but it gets tedious if you're dealing with lots of resumes.
"However I do think posts like this feed in ageism"

That was my exact thought after I read this as well. I'm 36 and starting to feel the creeping fear of being seen as "too old" to do what I do. People posting "I did PHP for 15 years and don't get Python and don't want to learn DevOps and AWS is so confusing" sounds like a senile old man complaining about the good old days. If you want to be marked as a crotchety old man then great, don't make the rest of us look that way too.
I generally interpret these scenes as the individual speeding themselves up to an insane level and everything else 'appears' to slow down in comparison.

Maybe this is why everyone in the Matrix is wearing black sunglasses 24/7
I don't think that's generally true though.

Ad companies run experiments on us all the time. When they A/B test across different groups of consumers to see the effectiveness of an ad, they are running a psychological experiment on us without our consent (asking, "how will exposure to this ad affect a person's likelihood of buying our product?").

I think the rules that you're referring to are for federally funded research only. But there's a large body of commercial research that is constantly experimenting on us without our consent.
Url changed from http://runarorama.github.com/blog/2008/12/04/no-such-thing/, which redirects to this.
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> What does this do to people with extra batteries? Do they all have to be charged? Would you have to put them in your phone/laptop to prove it?

What about modern laptops that have multiple discrete batteries (i.e. modern Macs) - I would guess that you could remove 2-3 of the 4-5 packs and still have a "functioning" laptop, albeit with a much shorter uptime.
Same thing bro with musicians, "Amateurs are gear-heads, pro's worry about techniques, and masters tries to listen to the sound"; traders/gamblers, "Amateurs focus on their winning, pro's worry about preserving their capital and masters worry about executing their performance where losing and winning money is only a side effect," and ad infinitum.
I could see validators and other resume-specific checks coming about because of this.

Checking that dates are logical, spell checks, checking for dead links, showing employment gaps and so on.
I am not related to the Gnome team in any way. These are my uninformed thoughts as a casual user:

1. I've found this confusing as well. It is frustrating. For example, when I have two terminal windows open (one root terminal window and a regular terminal window).

2. Not having a minimize probably helps get rid of complexity like where to put the now minimized window. I can understand where they are coming from with this. I've learned to live with this one.

3. Not applicable. Sorry.

4. I don't use multiple desktops unless I need to minimize a window (which then I stow away to the second desktop).

5. I have a 15" lcd display on my laptop... that's about it. Maybe you can make your mouse move faster or make it cover more ground per distance of physical movement? Just a thought...

6. Pull down menus are going away. Multiple hierarchical menus and sub menus are not good design. I know even though I don't know anything about design.

7. Yes, now that you mention it a lot of what we discussed earlier (including 2: minimize windows) comes from the desire to have a united front when it comes to user experience. Just because the implementation sucks doesn't necessarily mean the ideas are bad. With continuity (that should have been a drinking game at wwdc 14), Apple is dipping its toe in the water. There is a massive risk of failure but the dream of one UI to rule them all is too big to give up. Are we going to say "no, gnome doesn't need to run on touch-enabled devices"?

9. Defaults definitely matter. I think in terms of windows as well, for example. Not applications. However, I can understand where they are going with this in light of your number 7.

10. It will be sad if Debian doesn't ship with Gnome. But at the end of the day, I'll probably use whatever comes default. :) Just not a fan of sub sub menus in pull downs. Reminds me of windows 9x start menu.
That website doesn't have the same thread ordering as the homepage on the real thing, or it seems to be delayed... if you pull up both in parallel you'll see it quite obviously...
Random Project Idea - use this as part of an API which scrapes multiple sites (like Linkedin, Github, Monster, what have you) and builds a single, canonical resume from the various sources using this standard.

I don't know that the themes, necessarily, are that useful (I don't like the idea of implicitly connecting presentation with JSON like that - i'll make my own themes thank you) but I do like the idea of a common transport format for resumes.
To answer your question, this is almost impossible to find.

I tried for 12 years in the Bay Area with no real success. I'm a highly skilled software engineer with a solid qualifications. I never had any problem getting full time job offers with huge salaries, even in bust times; but god forbid I ask for Fridays off, I'd be shown to the door real quick.

Finally I started my own company.

Most people work 16-20 hours/week and no one works more than 30 (other than myself sometimes for a crunch.)

Everyone is happy, and I get great value for my money. As a bootstrapped start up, that value per dollar is vital.
Would someone please start a religion that denies the authority of the TSA so we can opt out of this security theater on religious grounds?
Ask HN: What is the best browser for privacy?
This is a dual track question:
What's the best browser both in terms of privacy from corporations like Google, and from the government? I assume for the latter especially there's more than just a browser-like using Tor, etc.
Seems a shame to put people ripping off banks in jail, but not bankers ripping off people.

That said, I attended a couple of the forclosure auctions in San Jose and it would be clear to a elementary school kid that something fishy was going on amongst the bidders. But like it said in the article, there isn't really a whole lot of rule making here as far as I could tell.
You've gotten plenty of replies already, many of which I haven't read. But I have this to say: I'm 31 and I often feel the same, but it's not real. Just read Dijkstra and don't worry about Angular, Ember, or the latest fad.

You'll find out that the real knowledge is relatively stable and how well people know the latest fad frameworks has little to do with their long term relevance or employability.
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Now, if only people will actually use this.
Since the x86 family spans over 3 decades, and is almost completely backwards-compatible, it makes sense to start out at the beginning. The basic concepts don't change, and it's easier to see the rationale for a lot of things that would otherwise seem odd if you know the history behind it.

The latest PCs can still run DOS (often needed for BIOS updates), so the programs will still assemble and run. There is indeed a 640K limit, but even the 64K limit of a basic single-segment .COM file will seem like a huge amount to work with if you're just starting out with Asm; a "Hello World" program is around two dozen bytes. (Learning Asm really changes your perspective on things like efficiency - I've taught it to programmers who have only ever used high-level languages, and they are often surprised at the vast differences in scale. Ditto when showing them some nice 4k/64k productions from the demoscene.)

Then once you learn the basics, it's not so hard to go up to 32, then 64 bits, and Windows/Linux environments.
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I'm going to try to provide an alternative perspective, one which is more optimistic. This is love letter to programming, written in my late 30s.

I've been programming since my parents brought home an Apple II. Even though I sometimes get burnt out for a couple of months, sooner or later I find myself hacking some fun little program together, and I'm obsessed once again.

When I work for somebody full-time, I search out jobs that throw lots of random, interesting problems my way. When I consult, I like medium-sized projects that teach me something new.

In the late 90s, I hacked on Lisp and Dylan compilers. In 2001, I had strong opinions on how generators should work. In 2007, I spent time fooling around with probability monads. Right now, I'm delivering production code in Ember.js, and on the bleeding edge, I'm spending some personal time messing around with Rust.

I want my code to be simple, beautiful, expressive, correct and fast. Every few years, somebody invents a library (or sometimes a language!) that allows me inch a little closer to that goal. I suppose that if I ever felt my tools and my code were truly good enough, I might get frustrated with the rate of change. But if anything, I'm impatient. Our tools could be better. When will I get to play with the good stuff?

Of course, I do get tired of some things. If I never again see another huge Rails 2.3 app with undeclared dependencies on 30 dodgy abandoned gems, I'll be a happy programmer. And I wish that the various JavaScript frameworks would finally settle down enough that I don't have to budget one month per year just to keep production apps up to date. But then again, I didn't much like that sort of foolishness when I was younger, either.

My only real problem is that the day is short, I do have outside interests, and there are so many cool programs left to write.
Not sure what happened there, but nikcub is definitely a legit user, so we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
Israel openly practices racial profiling of passengers[0], something which is not legal in the US (which must instead practice it in secret)[1][2].

I would not want to use Israel's security procedures as a model for the US for a number of reasons - the unabashed racial profiling is one, but a more basic reason is the fact that Israel faces a very real and direct threat, whereas the TSA itself admits that there is no threat of terrorism in the US[3].

[0] From a Jewish publication: "Arab passengers, or non-Jews, for example, are routinely subjected to greater questioning than are Israeli Jews. " http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=218685

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/us/racial-profiling-at-bos...

[2]Officially, this was ended a few months ago in Israel (http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-03-26/israel-ends-bla...) - it remains to be seen whether or not this has truly been ended in practice

[3] http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-...
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Actually, in the line that I usually wait for to be finger printed and photographed, there are signs everywhere telling you to NOT use a cellphone.

Seeing as it can take up to an hour, most people would probably love to do so.
I think this is a great idea. I love the idea of a universal data format for resumes.

However, I'm not at all convinced that JSON is the way to do it. I think the way to do it is with XML and XSLT, although I already can hear the cries of "But XML is yucky and XSLT is hard." But by using JSON, we lose some semantic markup and end up having to parse it to create some semantic markup.

Still, I hope this, or something like it, takes off. This just needs a web-based GUI tool to publish a resume so that non-geeks can make it happen.
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Your arguments are not really responsive.

A big rolling suitcase full of powerful explosives and shrapnel set off in a security line at peak time in a large airport would be way worse.

I gave you an example of a car bomb that killed only 30 people even though it was set off in a crowded market. Have you ever seen a car bomb go off? I have, it's huge. What's your basis for assuming that a suitcase bomb is going to be so much more devastating?

Certainly there is plenty of opportunity, but you're making a chicken-and-egg argument by saying there's very little terrorism, therefore security is a waste of time. I'm saying that that the payoff for the risk involved is not enough for most people.

And if that's not enough, do it again, and again. One security line bombing a month until the end of time would be fairly easy and would cause complete chaos.

I mentioned the northern Irish terrorist problem because I'm from Ireland and later lived in London. One bombing a month does not cause complete chaos, it just pisses people off and creates more public support for stiffer security measures, more intrusive surveillance and so on.

I suggest you step back from your assumptions of what would happen and look at available documentation of what actually does happen in countries with long-running insurgencies or terrorist problems, from the UK to Sri Lanka to Colombia, cases of actual disasters (whether engineered or accidental) at airports and public transit hubs.
Thanks for the feedback winslow!

Firstly, once someone closes the window, they don't see the pop-up for at least another 2 months. We hope this cuts down on the annoyance factor.

We are seeing pretty good engagement and tracking the numbers. Our bounce rate for July 3rd (the day we hit HN front page) was <0.3%. I mention this day specifically for a couple reasons:
1. We had significant traffic and sample size for that day
2. 92+% of our traffic was from new users (the only ones who would see the pop-up)

We've only been using the box for a couple of weeks and will keep monitoring the numbers and the comments.

Thanks for your kind words!
I would much rather post anti-government opinions with my name attached than anonymously. As much as we complain about the NSA, we do in fact still live in a free society with a right to habeas corpus. Should you ever find yourself at trial, where the prosecutors try to turn "anti-government sentiment" against you, would you rather it be written behind an anonymous pseudonym or your real name? If they're going to find it regardless, then at least with your real name attached, you have the credibility of your persona, which you should confidently feel is worth something to a jury.

It's much easier to argue a case for freedom of speech when it doesn't appear you're trying to hide something. After all, who would attach their name to an opinion he didn't want people to know he held?

Furthermore, I'm proud of my opinions. If I'm going to perpetuate them, I'm going to do it with my name attached. God willing, should I ever have to defend those opinions in court, I will proudly and defiantly do so. Hiding behind a pseudonym strikes me as needless cowardice in the face of yet manifest oppression.

This anti-government, anti-NSA, anti-1984 rhetoric is healthy and valuable, but let's keep our emotions in check and avoid overdramaticizing the situation. We don't live in a police state. Yet. If we ever get to that point, I would like to have my trail of opinions to fall back on and use to defend myself.
You do realize this is a loot system for a roguelike, right? Not a story driven CRPG.
Nice. Although I'm not too sure what the social implications of this would be. As it is already I think employers do too much parsing of resumes rather than looking at them with human eyes. PDF resumes are awesome in that you get a blank sheet of paper to do whatever you want with to impress the employer.

There's a lot of reading between the lines that can be done in an resume. Even the fonts say something about the person. If the person is claiming to be a UI designer and their resume has poorly chosen fonts and bad kerning, I'd toss it. If they claim to be a physics researcher and the resume is written in Word, I'd toss it too. With a JSON resume you don't get any of this information.

Also, it's not entirely clear how extensible this "standard" is. Resumes take multiple forms. A computer scientist might want to list a few open source projects. A photographer might want to embed a sample or two of their work.
Need more formal ontological definition of the "skills" field, E.g. If you type "Django" the system should infer that you have fair amount of Python skills already.
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Excellent feedback! We'll take this into consideration.
This is also an excellent (and very long) piece that does the same: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
Some things that I think would be useful to add to the schema, in no particular order:

* It's common for resumes to include a full address, so elements supporting that could be added to the location. There should probably be a way to strip this out before publishing it to a public place though.

* I'd like to see a section for volunteer activities. I do some volunteering which, while not related to my day job, is worth highlighting.

* The references section would usually include contact information for a potential employer. Generally this would be a separate page that would be given during an interview. My main resume says "References available upon request" and I have a separate document with my references in it.

The biggest win, in my mind, is that the schema captures the knowledge of what belongs on a resume. Being able to take that single source and produce multiple versions (e.g., the public one, the private one with full details, a list of references, etc), not to mention everything else that comes with a standard schema, is a huge bonus.
You are 100% correct, but interestingly more and more high rise stock is going residential. These are just a few examples, but check out 520 West 41st street (106 floors of residential) or 45 East 22nd Street (60 floors of residential). That's hundreds and hundreds of apartments going on tiny footprints. The one on 22nd street is replacing a 4 story nondescript building, in almost laughable fashion. The major buildings going up on Park Ave, in Long Island City, and all along the Brooklyn water front are all residential.

There seems to be a glut of office space, so for now this is where the market is going. Much of it is luxury unfortunately, but not all of it.
Thanks! That was fast. I'm definitely interested - most of my apps are translated by users and I've been emailing xml files back and forth. Not fun for anyone.
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I'm doing about 20-25h a week and make roughly 40% of the standard full-time bigco offers I turned down. No benefits either (but I'm 22 and single so I wouldn't be using them anyways).
Your hyperbole is akin to Malcolm Gladwell's style. See how this works?
I would just like to say that I think that this is a great idea(despite agreeing with others here that XML + XSLT would seem like a more logical choice). I hope it gets some traction in the long run.

I've posted an issue on github [0][1] mentioning that "firstName" and "lastName" is probably not a good representation of names. I don't actually know what the solution is, but this article [2] gives some great reasons why we tend to make incorrect assumptions about peoples names, which have the possibility of excluding some people form our tools based on their name alone.

[0] - https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/issues/4
[1] - It seemed like an appropriate place to comment. Please let me know if there is somewhere else you'd prefer such comments.
[2] - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Nice try, LinkedIn.
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And this is why it pisses me off that the TSA (I'm only guessing someone official is controlling the account, even if not Mr. Feinstien)responded to my bitching by saying it's only international.

https://twitter.com/TSAmedia_RossF/status/485964450441072640
I have earlier written a similar json resume conversion gem - http://prat0318.github.io/json_resume I am currently working on i18n and a real time conversion web app. I would love to have something standardized and i hope it gets an active community.