skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine Kernighan, Ritchie, or Dijkstra talking to an HR drone. They say, "I see from your resume you have a lot of experience with C and C++, but we're really looking for someone with more recent $MAGIC_KEYWORD experience."

The legend laughs, says "thank you," and then hangs up the phone. Meanwhile, everyone behind the HR firewall that has actually earned a CS degree is blissfully unaware of the sheer magnitude of idiocy that one sentence represents.

The image is hyperbole, but that is a fraction of what you might be doing when you focus on specific experience rather than aptitude and adaptability. What you are looking for is someone who can solve complex problems by reducing them to smaller sub-problems that can be automated. Anyone with a knowledge of how computers operate can use any higher-level language to perform the actual automation. Focusing on candidates who already advertise specific skill keywords will save you, at most, a few days, as the new hire acclimates to new syntax and keywords.

If your business involves spatial positioning, for instance, it is far more useful to learn whether the candidate knows the difference between 4x4 matrices and quaternions, or between geodesic and geodetic coordinates, than it is to know whether they can describe the math in Lisp or C# or Javascript or reverse polish notation.

Your initial bozo filter should undoubtedly be a simple trapdoor function that takes candidates several minutes to solve, but takes you (or a less qualified underling) only seconds to verify. Then, if they pass it, make a more concerted effort to determine whether the developer is a match for your team's development style, without resorting to keyword-based prejudices, or relying upon people with little or no technical capacity to filter your candidates.
My opinion on Apple's use is mixed. In cases like the OS X lock screen, the use is great. It signifies an inability to continue until the device is unlocked while hinting at the content underneath.

Other uses are gratuitous and often the blurring and blending of colors creates weird sensations where what is underneath a window seems more important. I can see something is there, but can't make out the details, make me anxious that I'm missing something happening in the window.
And how exactly RDBMS crap could help with parsing? Mind parsing a C++ source file with your RDBMS?
This has so many potential use cases. Will be interesting to see if its target market and that of HN intersect.
Yes, web is a niche thing. Get over it.
Another cool thing is it appears to scale/move the image to match the desired point, at least in some cases.

Try moving your pointer around to different positions very close to the top right corner. This triggers a picture with a wristwatch and water bottle. The pointing is done by the right hand, which if your pointer is too far right is cut out of the frame, but becomes visible as you move towards the left.
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Actually I'm thinking of testing future candidates with a "dumb" response like this, just to see if the candidate clarifies the situation and is helpful, or if we are dealing with someone who is just rolling their eyes all day, because of all the dumb colleagues. Someone who feels the need to be condescending when someone lacks some knowledge.
You're saying obama is responsible for everything - which is not as everything was there before him - and complain when he publicly asks to fix some of the most important issues... Then complain some more about some cult of personality and compare him as worst than the nazi regime.. Then complain about downvote.

Theres some interesting things to discuss regarding the validity of obamas actions but that doesnt seem to be the best way to start that debate ;)
While this is welcome, I still feel goosey using Firefox given its (I believe still) lack of sandboxing. Privacy and security go hand in hand, and recent Pwn2Own competitions haven't been kind to Firefox.
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If Churchill is the hero, he's a monstrously flawed one: https://www.quora.com/Was-Winston-Churchill-a-racist

That should make the war a bit more believable.

Also, the part where the US wouldn't take Jewish refugees: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007094
I have the same feeling on everything except security, but electrolysis should help with that. http://m.slashdot.org/story/199459
Apple Unveils How to Prevent Hijacking Messages of Ex-Users
"Bird wasn’t the first person to notice the dinosaur tracks, and selling the sauropod and theropod tracks was a cottage industry in the vicinity of Glen Rose. And a few local people carved fake human tracks in the same stone. Bird actually saw a pair of such forgeries at a trading post in Gallup, New Mexico, along with dinosaur tracks removed from the Glen Rose area, shortly before he left to investigate the site himself."

That's completely ridiculous! I'm surprised the Smithsonian is putting it's good name behind this sort of trash. Do you know how far Gallup, NM, is from Glen Rose? It's nearly a thousand miles! Certainly, no trading post dealer is going to travel that sort of distance to tote some rocks around! Not even the most dedicated 12-year-old tourist would do it.

I'm sorry, what was the question?

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What really devastated my generation was the spiritual malaise inherent in Taylorism's perfectly mechanized human labor. But Taylor had never seen a robot or a computer perfect his methods of being human. By the 1980s, we had. In the age of robots we reinvented the idea of being robots ourselves. We wanted to program our minds and bodies and have them obey clocks and routines. In this age of the human robot, of the materialist mind, being efficient took the pre-eminent spot, beyond goodness or power or wisdom or even cruel greed.

Ouch.

We are productive without price. Not because people aren't dying, they surely are, uncounted lives and families are smothered with despair. There is no price because there's no measure to quantify what we are losing.

This makes me wonder how history will look on our mental health issues, as we look back on alcoholism in early 20th century America.

For those sympathetic to the views of the article, I can't recommend enough Matthew Crawford's book Shop Class as Soulcraft for a fuller and prescriptive discussion of the history and philosophy of these issues of work and meaning and mental health.
You should add the licence on the website. It's a nice concept but I'll start using it as soon as someone creates a FOSS clone.
Similar efforts:

1) Angular Material Design

https://material.angularjs.org - Good, light framework, but intended for Angular apps

2) Materialize

http://dogfalo.github.io/materialize - Beta stage, follows Material guidelines closely, incomplete though

3) Leaf Framework

http://getleaf.com - Not as good, front-end framework, strays from Google direction

Use this for maximum Material design feel:

4) Polymer Paper Elements

https://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/paper-elements... - Super awesome, disjoint components, not a framework

5) Google Material Web Starter Kit

http://google.github.io/web-starter-kit/material - Good enough, light framework

6) Google Web Starter Kit

https://developers.google.com/web/starter-kit - Full fledged framework, doesn't fully capture Material though
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Cool, thanks for all your hard work on FF dev tools!

One thing I could really use is something that helps me understand how Firefox treats TCP/TLS/SPDY connections. It would illustrate the benefit of using CDN and maybe, with enough instrumentation, would help me tune asset sharding.

I put some thoughts in the uservoice here: https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-devel...
The grandparent was talking about the serialization and parsing of the data that you'd be storing in flat files, not parsing of C++ files. Work that you avoid by using a DBMS.
Not open source = not at all like WireShark, sorry.

And that's a damn shame. I could see a community growing around this kind of thing and adding all kinds of protocol support to it, if only it was open source.
Please don't do this on HN. We don't need to politicize the issue among technical people; we can simply discuss the pros and cons on their merits. I, personally, don't care about political parties at all (they're a distinction without a difference, IMO).
You are judging this from the criteria of an average person living and spending their money.

Plastic surgery might help someone with a physical deformity, and renting out a hotel might be a necessity for a scientific conference.

You can't judge the value of a dollar based on the assumption that there exists an average person that spends it. For every frivolous act of spending you can conceive of, I can respond with a similar 'well intentioned / ethically sanctioned' act of spending, from a perspective you might not have been aware of, given you likely don't have perfect information about the state of everything in existence.

It depends on who you think you are to judge how another person lives their life. What you consider essential and what you can live without is not the absolute for everyone.
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How did Kickstarter get kickstarted?
I am excited Obama is getting in on this, however, I'm concerned Net Neutrality may become a partisan issue. Ted Cruz has stated that Net Neutrality is like Obamacare for the internet (http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-net-neutrality-is-ob...) which just enrages me. Please get the message out to your conservative friends/family before the right has an opportunity to brain wash them.
Confirmed: menu doesn't work in firefox, so I can only see the first demo (buttons). Clicking "Dialog" or other demos on the left does nothing.
this could be a Mad Libs with Ted Cruz

What Ted Cruz just said should scare anyone who wants rational [proper noun].
I have a somehow good github having contributed to big projects, have dealt with large scale ruby apps, did a lot of projects and development of backend systems in general but can't find my way to get a _very good job_ outside my country. I already make almost as much as I could with a software engineer role in my country. Would your experience in recruiting help me?

I don't mind even to pay you a plus if you get me a good job or have a lunch with you every 6 months to talk with you what's new because for me that's a big endeavor which I can't seen to reach.

Most of recruiters I've seen are only interested in doing the obvious: find candidates inside their home country and there's plenty of recruiters like this. I think that a recruiter that specializes into recruiting people from overseas(and with success) is going to be of value to any company and with a unmatched differential.
I agree they are different and stated that as such.

Yet that regulation cannot exist without this Right.

And the regulation is required to limit the abuse this Right can bestow on users.

This is a tricky one, because the right and the law are both mutually exclusive and mutually inclusive.
Some games have, and remember that purchases of legacy games are negligible to publishers. I think 90% of sales are in the first two weeks or some similar extreme statistic.
1) Have Ubuntu12.04x32 with hacked WINE working as well. Let me know if you need it.
2) No source indeed.
3) Privacy policy is stated in the EULA. I'll repeat it here: "No info is gathered, no connections to outside servers, except for a standard WINE repository".
How much work experience do you have? If it's more then 4-5 years, no-one cares.
I'd say if you want to email John that runs the "something" website, john@something.website is a perfectly fine email address... (as is ftp://something.website if you want to access the the something website via ftp....).

If something.website is actually not a website, then things are different. But we live with something.net not being an ISP, and something.com not actually being a commercial entity -- so I can't accept that the new TLDs are that much worse than the old ones? Not to mention the geographical based TLDs... is really "codewith.us" defined by being based in the USA?

Naming things are famously hard, and you can only have one TLD for a single "thing" (Not counting things like att.com for the commercial entity, and att.net for the ISP etc) -- if what you do is run a website (eg: medium, blogger, mypetproject.website) -- I don't see .website as being a particularly bad TLD.

All that said, I do agree with your last two paragraphs.
I think if you're applying direct to a small startup or company that has a strong culture - they are more likely to want to look at some kind of online profile. It cuts through a lot of the traditional process where everyone describes themselves in a similar way. If you want to work for that kind of company make something useful, make it public & up-to date. Write about it, share it. That shows you are actively building projects again. Reach out to those companies that you want to work for even if they are not actively hiring. Start a conversation.

As for getting past tech recruiters - I don't think they have time to get impressed with specific candidates. They just want to send their quota of best resumes to the hiring manager.

Try and avoid applying through recruiters at all costs. You can usually work out the company it's for by taking the description in the job advert and doing a quick search. Apply direct where possible.

If you have to go through a recruiter then send your resume and call straight after. Ask them if they have received it, if you can tailor it specifically to the role, what stage the job is at - do they have a date set for interviews yet. Ideally you would stay on the phone until they send it across to the manager. Help them to do their job in one phone call.

You have to remember that if a job is with a recruiter it says something about the job or the company. It has probably been advertised internally, on their website and all other kinds of free places before they go with a recruiter. Same goes for jobs in newspapers. It's either a low salary or a very picky hiring manager.

I'm happy to take a look at your resume - my e-mail is above.

However for remote roles a good place to start is with the companies that show up on the monthly hiring posts here.
> Digital locks actually do stop some people from copying.

Do they? Is it a significant proportion? My guess is no. If you've got evidence otherwise, I'd be interested to see it.

Most people get their entertainment from convenient sources. Amazon, Walmart, Comcast, Netflix. They could steal it, but generally it's easy enough to get their stuff from licensed channels that they just pay up.

That's not about digital locks. That's about legal versus illegal distribution channels, and the incentives distributors have in both instances. Those vendors I mention have all done a great job at making it easy, and they can afford to make those investments because the police won't be kicking down their doors for getting popular.
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That seems to be the case indeed. It's off for me as well after a settings reset.
Thanks. I missed that somehow.
Thank you, as someone who develops almost exclusively offline, this was crucial ;)
Critical path performance profiling:

1. Performance timeline which shows major events (e.g. DOMContentLoaded, load event) and the network / scripts which blocked them

2. Initiators for reflow, layout, etc. events. Currently it's really easy to identify a JavaScript hotspot if it's pure JS but it's hard to learn what's triggering hundreds of reflows, particularly in non-obvious cases such as CSS transitions.
I was just about to mention this; the same thing happens in the lower left corner (woman pointing, with two men in the background, one holding a beer can and wearing an 'enjoi' hoodie). The picture gets moved so she's always pointing at the cursor on the y-axis.
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I know we're not historicans here, but I'm German, so I am quite sensitive when it comes to the Stasi: Please be aware of the thousands of people who have been killed, tortured, inprisoned and repressed by the Stasi in the DDR. The Stasi took the freedom of a whole nation. They destroyed so many lives. You can compare the spying techniques but not the wrongdoing (not saying the NSA is free of any wrongdoing). It's another dimension, better, several dimensions.
With the caveat that, in situations of poverty below a certain level requires giving money more consideration.

If you have $100 in the bank on a good day, then your trips to the grocery store play out a lot differently than someone who has even $1,000 in the bank.
Its best to learn first what Algorithms are used were and why. Almost every algorithm has its place, something I wish I knew before I took my first programming class. This may seem like some trivia but employers like to know that you know what solution to use for a problem. Also it will spark your interest for actually programming a solution. Then just try to implement the most mundane Algorithms, like bubble sort, by only reading what it does, not the solution.
I've used ChucK quite a bit: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
Unfortunately, he's saying this at the point he has no chance of getting it through Congress.
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— or just choose Arch Linux.
Maybe instead of saying "optimizing is bad", a better idea is to remember that you can't just "optimize". You always optimize for something: You're trying to bring a certain quality into an extreme, usually by willingly trading it off against other qualities - e.g. free time against a higher income.

Therefore, optimisation isn't bad, but you should always keep in mind what you're optimizing for, as you usually can't optimize everything at the same time.

If you have two qualities that are mutually exclusive but both important to you, you obviously wouldn't want to optimize either of them - you'd try to find a balance between them instead.
I'm not forgiving any past sins of the government. As for Hiroshima, that was during an active-combat war with an actual declaration of war that was against a set of countries and their allies not some conceptual enemy whose definition is completely flexible and often distorted.

The surveillance tools being used today far exceed what was used even in the 60's.
Parsing text files is not a problem at all. Never been a problem. And there are far too many benefits of having flat text streams vs. some inaccessible stupid binary ad hoc formats hidden inside some enterprisey RDBMS guts.
Actually if they detect a server is compromised, they will put your server in a FTP only data recovery mode and usually the only way to get your server back is to do a fresh install of the OS. Luckily OS reloads are fast and provisioning dedicated servers takes minutes.
You make a lot of valid points. I guess in general I don't believe that a government can somehow prevent a certain type of commercial transaction and somehow create value. The obvious counterexample that comes to mind, and that you alluded to, is that of ransom. However, I think that's a bit of a stretch and makes light of actual violence.

One thing that stuck out to me though:

> If it were the case that ISPs were the underdog here, because compelled by legislation to spend their private earnings to build cable that they cannot dictate price on and must lease compulsively, then you would have an argument.

I feel that opinions of issues are heavily influenced by the actors involved. Amazon vs Hachette being a key example. No one likes Comcast, nor do I, but I don't think that choosing sides based on the beneficiaries is the right way to go about things. I don't think you can argue that a person or group (corporation) took a benefit in the past and is now beholden to the person that dispensed that benefit. That's especially true if the decision makers and owners (stockholders) are a dynamic group.

>The downside is you end up with tons of redundant infrastructure investments, and wire itself is mad pricey

I normally discount this argument as it is often used as a justification of centralized control. Besides, one can argue that most commercial activities are redundant; from advertising to the endless variety of consumer goods available to people in the US. I do concede that this likely won't work in a lot of places as the technology currently exists. My hope is that some new technology can come about and change the economics materially. And I think that a light regulatory environment would best help foster this technology and encourage new entrants.

Mesh networks anyone?
http://www.wired.com/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-...
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On the other hand, just think about it: now you have the wedge in, there'll be a massive lobby (Hollywood, recording companies, 'big media' if you will) trying to use that wedge to push stronger legislation in. In fact, the government itself (NSA, FBI) will think 'hey, now that we have this, we might as well use it to Protect Our Children (tm)'.

On the other hand, besides the ACLU and maybe a few people organizing over the internet, there will be no money spent in lobbying to tighten up definitions and improve privacy.

So there, it's a 'pretty massive stretch' but by no means it's an unexpected thing.
> It would be the first time genetic changes have been made in human DNA that would be passed on

> Allowing scientists to tinker with human DNA

Mitochondrial DNA is not human DNA. You can't make a human from it. It is DNA in a human.
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"just $1m." ... I can't wait 'til I can say that with a straight face.

...

Granted, it'll probably be when candy bars are $20@. /Le Sigh/
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I hope you're correct and deep packet inspection is prohibited. The language being used still concerns me though.

> If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it.

This implies that ISPs would be permitted to block illegal content. How can they know traffic is legal without some form of traffic monitoring/inspection?
> Digital locks actually do stop some people from copying.

Do they? Or do they just stop some people from copy from the locked version and encourage them to instead copy from someone else's unlocked copy?
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I feel it's my clue to ask a question I've been wondering lately: how good is OVH's dedicate server service? (Regarding network, uptime, system outages etc).

I used one of their dedicate servers for six months and never had any problem with it, however I plan to buy (rent) dozens of big-data servers for my next project, and while my experience so far have been good, I'd like to hear from someone else.

Despite of that, I had several downtime issues with VPSs hosted at OVH. I guess the difference is you can't oversell dedicated servers.
And it's already getting worse:

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/531834493922189313

"Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
I totally agree with all the other explanations posted, but here's another one: popular history as a retelling of real events gets the same tropes applied to it as fiction does.
It's likely that at some point in your career you will have to interact with clients or present in front of an outside audience. What you wear and how you present yourself reflects on your company.