skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considerable link bait.

But their costs aren't just servers and such. They have loads of staff-even to the point of some claiming Twitter is hoarding the smart and talented folk from making competitors and such.

Didn't they also have a big IPO to fall back on while they figure out their new scale?

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Personally, I would never pay $50 a year for something I only add to 3-5 times a month, and view once every other day. Though @steveklabnik would probably have a different valuation of his twitter usage and experience.
I have felt the same from time to time (45 here). However, as software technologists we have one advantage: our work can be completely independent.

In this case I mean if you can conceive a project to better a part of the world, it may be possible to implement with resources you already have at your disposal.

The materials energy researchers need resources beyond the reach of most individuals (and their personal budgets), and in some cases corporate resistance to embedded profit centers.
> I have had an extremely good experience doing a 4 hour per day.

me too.
I want to know who's living in these places.

I work in a fairly senior role in a well known South Bay tech company (you've heard of it). I live in Livermore. (For those of you not familiar with the Bay Area, Livermore is so far away from everything, it might as well be Nevada.) Why do I live in Livermore? Because I can't afford anything within a 20 mile radius of Stanford. All over the Peninsula (and the areas in Santa Clara county you'd want to live) are dotted with $1.5M single family houses and $4,000/mo apartments. Summoning the voice of Jerry Seinfeld, "Who are these people? Really, who are they?" They can't all be stock option multi-millionaires can they? I'm doing pretty well for myself, but I can't afford to live anywhere in basically two counties. What do these people do who can afford to live down there?

The Bay Area is going to eat itself soon. There's just no way this housing situation is sustainable? What is the end game? Is this going to turn into Elysium? How will normal people survive here without affordable housing?
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Another possible section to add: speaking engagements (or public appearances or perhaps the more generic "public events").

You have publications, but that implies written material is produced. And should publications have a place for co-authors? It seems wrong to not acknowledge them.
I've been pretty happy with swapping driving, insurance, parking, maintenance etc. for living right in the middle of the city very close to work and using Lyft for everything else. Actually saves me a ton of time/money. For just the cost of a parking spot in SF (~$300) I can get a good 40 lyft rides a month to most of the locations I need to access.
The main value proposition of an expensive car is to impress people in that expensiveness. So what happens if nobody gives a shit?
For what truth there is to this, I wonder if it's partly a class thing too. For people middle-class and above, myself included, I get the sense that cars are something that was always present in abundance, and therefore no big deal. We're more sensitive to noticing the annoying things about them, like parking, worrying about driving drunk, traffic jams, etc, and perhaps take for granted the freedom in having your own car.

People in lower classes, at least that I have interacted with, tend to see a car as more of a status symbol, since they're not so readily available at their income levels. As in, their family may have one, but they don't just automatically get their kids a car when they turn 16. And so they're more of a status symbol, and people tend to more glamorize the freedom of it while ignoring the headaches as trivial.
Another on the long list of reasons I don't every fly to, from or through the USA even though it sometimes makes my routes longer and more expensive.
> The emphasis on retribution over rehabilitation is a serious problem in modern society.

This is by design. That type of incarceration leads to more recidivism. We have a for-profit prison industry that wields a lot of political clout. When those driving policy have a financial interest increasing the number of prisoners, policies like mandatory minimums, voting suppression, the war on drugs and the traumatizing experience that you observed look less like problems and more like conscious decisions designed to increase profits.
I also think practical self-driving cars as well as EVs are a lot farther off than you seem to.

For heaven's sake: don't get your information about EVs from Top Gear. I love watching those guys, but they really are a bunch of clowns, and the show's just pure entertainment. The Tesla S model with the 260 mile range is a perfectly reasonable (though pricey) car for getting around the Bay Area.

Also, I've heard that if you lease a Fiat 500e, you get some long distance car rentals as part of your lease. (100 mile range is too short, though.)
Just added this as an issue yesterday -> https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/issues/3

Thanks!
Dillo. It has no JavaScript support, but thats one of the reasons, why it is safe. You can combine that with TOR, if you like.

Better fitted solution for real life would be firefox, with noscript, ghostery and adblock. Sure there is holes everywhere in the browser, but JavaScript opens one of the biggest attack surface continually exploited by ad companies and others. You should run only scripts on sites you trust.
Tor of course. But without anonymity, there's also https://www.epicbrowser.com/ I think it has a built-in proxy, but not sure if it ever changes.
I have to admit, I'm having some trouble seeing the value in this... JSON does not strike me as a great format for a document of this nature, although it's certainly possible. Offhand, I'd think XML is a more natural fit for this.

Anyway, more to the point, there has been some existing work done on developing standards for representing resumes. I would highly, highly encourage you guys to look at this and consider making whatever you do compatible with the existing work as much as possible. Consider ResumeRDF[1] for example. Maybe consider doing JSON-LD and using the FOAF and ResumeRDF vocabularies?

[1]: http://rdfs.org/resume-rdf/
Maybe after the first dot-com boom and all those evictions before the bust, their standards got a little lower.
Looks cool, but Queensland is a state, not a region.
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Yea, wait until they get a job and have to figure out how to get to work. Then (assuming they live in 99% of the USA), all of a sudden, having a car is going to be pretty important. I wouldn't draw any conclusions if kids under 20 don't care about cars. Like E-mail, they'll suddenly start using it as soon as they get their first job.
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I love how you've got so many responses, and hope I'm adding signal more than just repeating what everyone has already said.

It's crazy overwhelming to look at all of the technology and opportunity out there and to know that you can't keep up with it all. But you don't need to keep up with everything. You need to know what tools are out there, and what their general purpose is. 15 minutes with Google will inform you enough about any single technology. In one day you can knock out 10 or 20 paradigms.

Once you know what's out there, you learn more about the things that are specifically relevant to what you're working on and what you will be working on in the near future. And you Google around to see what paradigms are being used by people working on similar problems.

Especially if you already have a specific thing you want to accomplish, it'll only be a week or so before you've narrowed your needs down to just a few specific tools. And those are tools that have arisen from decades of refinement, and will be relevant for at least a decade on their own even if they'll only be the "coolest" framework for a few months. You don't need to be at the forefront of every technology, you just need to be good enough.

And knowing that makes staying relevant feel a lot less scary. Most people only know a few things, and they only _really_ know one or two things. And each of those things is good enough to last at least 5 years if they were the most relevant thing when they were learned. Often they'll be good for multiple decades.

So keep your head up, and pay attention to what's cool and hot, but don't feel behind if you've never really understood what AWS does, or how Angular works, or if you don't know the difference between Unsupervised and Supervised machine learning. When you need the tools, you'll be able to learn them in time to remain relevant.
I typically reply within 24 hours, often much sooner.

Spam sucks.
There's also a major definitional problem with the concept of "manipulating people for profit." Using the most broad definition of "manipulation," most people are okay with some forms of manipulation, and upset with others, although to me the distinction is not very clear.

A sign on a freeway incidating that a certain restaurant is 1 mile ahead probably wouldn't upset many people, but an advertisement for a mobile game might. Both are blatant attempts to manipulate people.
I had a conversation recently with a 30-year-old who was worried a career change would be a backward step, and he was too committed to his current life. "I'm not in my 20's anymore, when that kind of thing is acceptable."

I pointed out that his 'working' life was 50 years (~Age 20 to Age 70). He was 10 years / 20% in.

If you sprained your ankle 20% of the way up a mountain, would you keep climbing in pain or return home, rest for a day, and then go again?

If you realised on the first day of a snowboarding holiday that you were a terrible snowboarder, would you spend the second day getting lessons or the rest of the week falling down the mountain and being miserable?

If you are 20% of the way into your working life, and your job makes you miserable for 60+ hours per week, would you stick at it waiting for a promotion until you're 70, or invest some time in making a change?
Not that those things haven't happened, but this sounds overly cynical to me. Yeah, the bad part is that the system tends to be dirty, and sometimes does very dirty things to people who don't have the money or influence to fight it. On the other hand, if you have money for lawyers, or any influence with the media or politicians, then dirty tricks like that tend not to fly.

You'd have to ask a lawyer, probably one who practices federal criminal law, how such a thing would actually work, but I'm going to guess that if your problem is that the BOP keeps transferring you endlessly, then a lawyer could make a case for filing some kind of suit in almost any jurisdiction, and so you can take your pick of judges and courts.
The two things that helped my lower back pain were sleeping on the carpet, and arch supports in the shoes. Both were a night a day difference (literally, the next night my back felt better).

A firm surface gives you more support in the night, and arch supports (if you have low arches) help you absorb shock better.
As you have already seen many times before before, here is the actual statement released by the US Prosecutor's Office.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....

> AARON SWARTZ, 24, was charged in an indictment with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million.

Key Point: According to the actual documented statement released by the federal prosecutor, a statement which is still available on www.justice.gov, Swartz faced 35 years in prison and a one million dollar fine if convicted.

These are well known, easily verifiable, and indisputable facts. When NPR stated that "Swartz faced a maximum penalty 35 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines" they were directly citing actual statements made by the federal prosecutor's office. The federal prosecutor's office stated "SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million." That is what they said. It is not false. It is not an exaggeration. NPR is citing exactly what the prosecutor actually said.
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I don't know the statistics, but car culture is definitely not dead in the younger generation. Just look at the enthusiast forums for any make of car and you'll see thousands of young people talking about modifying, enjoying, driving, and racing cars.

Modern cars aren't as easy to upgrade and modify for the hobbyist, but they're still doing it.
Who are these people? Probably in their 20s, high paying job out of school, don't give a hoot about saving money and just live it up while the going's good. I can't imagine anyone else going for $4000/mo apartments.

Or, multiple people sharing a place.
Well, the non-cutesy response is to cull local IMEI's (with false base station attacks) and spoof random IMEI's that spam local base stations with control channel traffic, and swamp normal signal data with noise. (not quite "jamming", per se, but maybe something close to it)

Someone could likely accomplish this, and enable others to participate in the protest of security theater, by developing and distributing an open-source application that interfaces with a number of readily available software defined radio antennas (preferably those costing less than one hundred dollars).

Although, to do so might be terr'ism.
In many ways cars are also more useful to people who are poor. You're more likely to work in some out of the way place without good transport links rather than an office in the big city and taking taxis can get expensive.

If you look at jobs in construction "must have own transport to get to the job site" is often listed as a requirement, less so for programming jobs.

Poorer people are more likely to holiday by packing their family into the car and driving somewhere rather than getting an international flight. They can also be used to transport stuff around when moving etc.

In short cars provide a great deal of flexibility and utility for the cost.
47% of the population of San Francisco uses something other than a car to get to work. In big cities, a car is not needed to get a well paying job. The really smart kids realize this.
Thanks, doesn't sound too far off from what I thought it would be.
Instead of quoting my own comment, which addresses your argument directly, I'll quote former federal prosecutor Ken White directly from the article I linked to:

People reporting on federal criminal justice — whether journalists or bloggers — routinely report on the statutory maximum sentence that a defendant could hypothetically get, an oft-ridiculous figure calculated by taking all the charged crimes and adding up the maximum punishment for each. This is usually followed by some sort of pronouncement that THIS PERSON CHARGED OF MINOR CRIMES FACES MORE JAIL TIME THAN YOU'D GET IF YOU BEAT A TODDLER TO DEATH WITH AN UNCONSCIOUS NUN WHILE RAPING A BLIND LIBRARIAN, or words to that effect.

The problem is this number — the sum of the maximum sentence for all the crimes charged in a federal case — usually bears almost no relation to the sentence the defendant actually faces.

Responsibility is not a zero-sum game. The Department of Justice, and its constituent U.S. Attorney's Offices, bear responsibility for repeating statutory maximums in their press releases bragging of indictments. Journalists and bloggers bear responsibility for repeating those numbers uncritically, especially if they repeat the "THAT'S MORE THAN YOU'D GET FOR DOUBLE-MURDER" meme.

Read the rest of the article, which explains in detail how sentencing actually works. White's article is written about a whale sushi case, so I provided a link to the applicable sentencing guideline for computer fraud cases.

Later

You edited your comment to make the point that NPR was reporting what the prosecutors actually said. I addressed that in my comment too, but, more importantly: no, that's not what they did. They wrote that Swartz faced a 35 year sentence. Not that prosecutors incorrectly and dishonestly claimed that he faced such a sentence --- or even that the provenance of that number was the prosecutors at all. Any reader could (and probably does) come away from that piece with the idea that Swartz actually faced a 35 year sentence. And of course, that's preposterous.
The general consensus having lived in Reno and seen all of the pushes over the last 30 years for it to become the next hub of various industries is it is close to everywhere else. The other main draw is the lack of taxes.

The potential for the new Tesla battery facility being located here is a good marketing bullet point. If it materializes it will change the local economy at least in the short term during construction and possibly beyond. If it doesn't happen here it will be another failed attempt to lure huge business to the area. Other notable pushes have been for shipping/industrial manufacturing which resulted in a new Wal-Mart mega-warehouse and some upgrades to other facilities and another push for pharmaceutical companies such as Genentech to open facilities in the area that fizzled out.

There have been a lot of marketing pushes over the last couple of years trying to make Reno seem like the great new destination city. I think this article is in that same vein.

There is a decent push locally with events like One Million Cups* going on to promote local companies. Included in that group are things like the Reno Collective and GirlMade among a myriad of other businesses ranging from art retreats to internet of things hardware. Also in that group is Abbi Agency which is the firm behind a lot of the marketing pushes about the area in general.

Personally I see the push for Reno to become the next Silicon Valley, Boulder CO, etc. as a good idea in theory, just one that is not using a clear message. I don't see the messaging as delivering a clear idea about "Why Reno?", instead it is more of a "Reno can be like..." message.

I would say the area has potential as far as people capable of both making and pushing really hard for something to happen to make Reno great, I'm just not sure if the culture is ready for that to come to fruition. Reno is overall a very conservative, old-boy type of place and hasn't been the most accepting of change, at least in my opinion.

*Full disclosure, my industrial automation company, Precise Integration, has been involved in the One Million Cups group locally in Reno.
As he states, the numbers supplied in press releases are based on a calculation which is totally disjoint from the one actually applied during a trial and sentencing.
Sorry to rain on yours, but XML isn't bad. The way people used it is bad.

Just because you were forced to use bad schemas in enterprisey situations doesn't mean XML is bad. SOAP is not XML. Spring MVC is not XML. Those things use XML.

Docbook's pretty easy to follow. That, in my opinion, is a great example of XML+XSLT.

With XML I can do this:

<experience>
<title>Manager</title>
<company>Veridian Dynamics</company>
<description>
Responsible for doing all manner of things.
</description>
</experience>

It describes exactly what we're looking for in the same way as the JSON variant does. My editor will auto-close those tags the same way my editor will auto-close the closing curly braces in the JSON version.

Of course, we could make it suck if we just go ahead and add all sorts of extra rules and hierarchy and turn it into a monstrosity.

But I'd rather not.
Evidence shows that "too firm" can be as bad as "not firm enough".

I'm not giving medical advice but once you've ruled out scary possibilities for lower back pain (rare but serious) the single most effective thing is exercise to strengthen muscles of the lower back.
What if you want to go for a weekend camping in Yosemite, or drive down the coastal highway to LA, or maybe up to Portland and Seattle? I agree owning and keeping a car in the middle of a city is expensive and tough. There are certainly some benefits to having a car though.
"All the young girls you want to impress will be laughing at you, you wasted all your money on WHAT?"

Actually, they DO notice the nice car. Not that it is super helpful, but still...
I've written 7 books with it and those books have been published in print, PDF, epub, and mobi. I think that's non-trivial. But if you're referring to SOAP and WS* and all that stuff from the J2EE days, the I agree. That's a terrible terrible solution.
It used to work ok, but it was recently sold again [1], and a week ago I found that "Discover" doesn't work anymore for some reason (shows 3 old links). There is no support forum too, so I can't even ask why is that.

Tried Diigo, but it looks abandoned, there are some glaring bugs too (recent links tagged "news" are from 2011, for example).

[1]: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/delicious-social-site...
Bravo, go ahead and pat yourself on the back again as you add nothing to the conversation.
50% of the US population lives in big urban areas. In those places it is not all necessary to own a car to get to and from work. Indeed, in places like San Francisco, New York and Boston, owning a car can be more hassle then help.
This attempt to control the flow of money seems like another unwinnable war, like the war on drugs. The money will find other paths, which may well include informal or underground banking services, which are even further away from government oversight.

Many recent immigrants want to send money home - this is non-negotiable, because it's one of the main reasons that they emigrated. So they will find ways to send money.
44/hour might be ok if that's after tax and after expenses (workstation, office space, insurance, backup, internet access...[edit: ant lets not forget: non-billable-hours, like looking for new work!]). Othwerwise, I'd say double that is entry level pay. Especially if you're (by the clients admission) getting a lot of stuff done in little time.

What does the client care how many hours you've worked, if you've delivered a good product on (or ahead?) of schedule? What are they going to do, hire someone to do worse work, at twice the time, for the same money? How is that any better?
I'm probably considered an "old guy" in the software world. But I realized a few years ago that there is little new under the sun. We get new names on stuff all the time; we get old concepts repackaged as "new." Data still must be organized and searched, transmitted and received. Instructions must still be transcribed and turned into something the silicon can use. The only differences are in the syntax. Sometimes, those differences are what we needed to make a breakthrough in comprehension of complex systems. Oftentimes, there's little difference.

I was once worried I'd be left behind. I don't worry about that now. Mainly because I've got the skills to grok the "new" and catch up. But also because "new" is just repackaging that research paper from 1964 into another package for $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE.