skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you suggesting that I randomly select people to interview from a pile of resumes? What if I get a marketing person who has no software experience in the pile for a software developer job?

Well, yeah. If you don't have any better metric, the best result comes from filtering out everyone who just blatantly submitted a resume for the wrong job entirely, and then selecting from the remaining pool at random.
SIP always seems much nicer to me; meaning I can actually understand it in close to realtime if necessary.
These are wise words that sum up the colossally unfair system we have of compensation for any occupation in any economy in any industry. My own personal aphorism when talking down someone who is annoyed at their compensation compared to a colleague's, is "you don't get paid what you are worth, you get paid what you can blag".

If you have the barefaced cheek and personality profile to be able to convince someone to give you money for old rope, more power to you. I'm not saying it's fair, nor am I saying it's just, but it's reality across the world.
Had the same experience. These days I tailor my resume for every single job application. I make sure it uses the language the job description uses. If it says Red Hat, my resume says Red Hat. If it says JavaScript, my resume says JavaScript. It takes time, but its been worth it.

Where a skill is required that I don't have, I don't mention it. Where a skill applies to a version I'm not experienced with, I leave the version number out. When the job spec requires experience of say, Red Hat, and I have experience of multiple distributions, I lie and call it Red Hat. The point of the resume is to land the interview, so I make sure my resume doesn't fail me in achieving that objective.
I was burnt by this in the first 48 hours of using Amazon DNS. Very unlucky I guess... I'm amazed they still bill for DDOS traffic, or even traffic from black-listed IPs. It seems many of their competitors don't.
Keyword Analysis in the Post “HTTPS Not Provided” Universe
Am I such an outlier if I use Skype for business, not for leisure? I have clients on three continents and every single one used Skype to communicate about the project. Skype was generally running on every machine as a "watercooler chat"/IRC replacement. Just open groups, give them names and pin them to the sidebar. Done.

So I really expected this to be more secure, more portable and LESS designer-driven. Who is even narcissistic enough to use a sidebar that is a giant, high-res portrait of oneself?!

Maybe a Slack/HipChat/... killer for boutique agencies?
> The solution we came up with was to invite people to work on projects for a weekend at no cost other than their time.

As in working for you for free, and on a WE to boot?

For a student or someone who is unemployed, that might work.

For someone with a job and a family life, I don't think so. Especially if that person can command a $120k+ salary.
For Windows probably will be the Browser extension/addon which according to other comments will be using WebRTC.
I'm not sure that is true, a lot of apps use web technologies on the inside. The more interesting part is that most seem to choose native not because of the development story but because they need to reach some special API or really want to keep the UI very close to examples from the platform manufacturer. It is actually a problem to go native when you have to develop multiple versions of each application which might totally lose any advantages the native coding experience has over html+js.
Commenting to remind myself to add it to thinkingremote.com
Agree - I wonder if Adobe's block mode 3DES was 'industry standard'.

Saying "we use encryption" isn't any good; this isn't 1996. People need to have the details available if they want them (a little "More Information" link going to a page showing their actual security model, list of ciphers and modes of operation, etc. would do).
> We've moved from irc, to ICQ, to Microsoft Messenger, to ..., to Skype, to (what's hot now)

You forgot Hangouts, which works on Android, iOS, and the desktop. It supports text, voice, and video, just like Wire. Its only negative from my personal viewpoint is no Windows Phone support, but that OS is the punchline of many jokes these days.

There's also Slack for businesses, non-profits, and private groups (my local Ingress group uses it), and it offers a ton of extensions.

I don't see where Wire offers anything that we don't have now, though it's nice to see that there is at least an attempt at innovation in this space.
"...we experienced a major volumetric DDoS attack.."

Do you mean big?

<facepalm>
There's a false dichotomy in considering Uber/Lyft and Government as singular units.

One aspect of the government side is securing that drivers and cars are safe and properly insured and making sure that the handicapped and minorities aren't discriminated against. But it's also, in many cities, running a rigidly planned economy, ostensibly for the benefit of drivers, but in reality often more so for medallion holders and unions, and having allow those vested interests to capture the system - and surely against the benefit of consumers.

On the other hand, Uber clearly brings huge benefits to the consumer: better cars that actually show up, politer drivers, better price/choice, easy grievance process etc. But there's also ambiguity about how they threat their drivers, whether insurance is always completely correct (especially in UberPOP) etc. Then of course, there's some questionable ethical dealings.

I'm a big fan of Uber, so obviously biased, but the idea is that benefits and drawbacks exist on a spectrum, and there's no reason we couldn't get the best of both worlds: properly regulated and insured cars, without the planned economy of medallions, and decent labour-protection of drivers without completely screwing over consumers. In London, Ubers are fully regulated under the "Private Hire" scheme which is unlimited in the number of licenses provided, but require commercial insurance and a background check of drivers and I think this strikes the balance very well.
The interesting part is that recruiters seem more in agreement when identifying low performers. When faced with a high performer their scores differ wildly.
Great article about the different kinds of women in dating
Sounds like Las Vegas could use decent train service running between the airport and the city.
But Layer will host it for you: you give them your data. That's more what the open standard http://matrix.org is trying to do: basically learn on what is missing from XMPP to be a better fit to today's communication: no single point of control, synced history, groupd chat as first class citizen... It aims to be pragmatic, with a distributed architecture and end to end encryption. Anyone can build a client or server (and host it) or use the open APIs to connect to the Matrix ecosystem. SAme disclaimer as ara4n: I work with MAtrix, but we're non-profit and just trying to fix this mess...
Thanks for posting this insight! I am in Europe and I am really scared about that the situation between Western World and Russia could escalate even more. Second Cold War is not far away now. I deeply hope that both opponents US/Europe/Ukraine and Russia will find a diplomatic way out of this situation that will allow to carry on.

The world has so many other problems - ecological, economical, viral, terrorists - to care of. I have sympathies for Ukraine, but it really pisses me off that we are on a brink of war and this because in a small part of Ukraina (in proportions to europe/world) there are people who want to separate. It's crazy. Just let them vote and if they want, let them go instead of having them as a burden blocking you in your future adventures. The situation with Scotland and Catalonia is/was similar, but there was no need to such drastic measures. Especially that we Europeans and Russians share the same continent. We should learn to live together.

Sorry, it's my opinion, it's not about technology, but had just to leave my chest.
Nobody hides their complaints, but the majority of people seem to actually support current government.
It is surprising to see a blog post like this published in 2014. Admittedly is refers to a 9 year old book, but the point it makes has been rendered moot by developments since.

A publisher recently contacted me to explore the possibility of me writing a book for them. The terms, which I believe are fairly standard, are you make about $1 for every book sold, or about 5% of the total revenue. A technical author can expect to make about $10'000 if their book sells well. The publishing house makes about $200'000 on this, with the rest going to distribution and book stores.

Now compare to people like Brennan Dunn who have made $100'000 or more from their books, by publishing online and capturing 90%+ of revenue. You don't need a publisher for distribution. You don't need a publisher for typesetting. If you need an editor or proof reader you can hire one for maybe $10K.

In short, publishing houses serve no necessary function in modern technical publishing.
Checkout sshuttle if you want an easy-to-use "VPN" over SSH.

https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
To contact everyone I know I need:

* Skype

* XMPP

* Hangouts

* AIM

* YIM

* SMS

* Facebook

* IRC

* Viber (which I don't use, because yet another client was too much when all these people had other clients anyway).

Another client is just a no go at this stage. I'm still annoyed at Skype blocking both multiple network IM clients I used (imo first, then when they dropped the whole "multiple network" part, IM+).
What? Skype offers the exact same vague promises, and they are even technically true.
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Looking forward,

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I'm travelling frequently to both Russia and Turkey - to avoid having stupid spatial location based limitations I've been using privateinternetaccess.com for more than 6 months now. it's pretty cheap and has gateways all around the world - I recommend it without any hesitation... I especially like having access to streaming video for the shows I watch that is limited to country ip's like the daily show...
It is a magic marker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#....

Both its 16-bit parts have odd values, it is an illegal address (at least on the systems it was introduced for), and it is recognizable in hex dumps. That makes it a good value for uninitialized memory.
This is in the mountains in the south of Spain. The village I live in has 40 people and they kill the streetlights after 11 pm and the nearest 'big' village has 200 people and they kill almost all the lights as well but I cannot see that anyway even if there would be enough light.
I watch lots of independent channels, and I purposefully turn AdBlock off for Youtube. :)
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It does however say "Visually, the researchers have demonstrated the ultrasound patterns by directing the device at a thin layer of oil so that the depressions in the surface can be seen as spots when lit by a lamp."

Although I assume that's not the normal mode of operation.
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"Granted, if a resume has basic formatting, spelling or grammar problems that's a big red flag"

I agree. The same could also be said about a companies job posting. If the job posting is "vague or problematic", it also indicates the company has no idea of what skill set they need.

This has many parallels with a client not properly being able to specify his requirements. Usually if a client cannot properly specify his requirements, he also underestimate the amount of work / cost it will require to develop.

The same with a job posting, if they cant properly specify a job posting, an employer also might think the job is easy or he can pay someone peanuts to do it.
I loved Icarus Deception.
>You forgot Hangouts, which works on Android, iOS, and the desktop. It supports text, voice, and video, just like Wire.

So that would be the "what's hot now".

I didn't mention it because few people I know use it. And I wouldn't touch it a Google + Google+ affilicated messaging solution with a 10-feet pole anyway...
Yeah, I can't believe this crap has become de-facto web design.
Good thing git is decentralized...

Oh. People won't deal with changes from outside GH pull requests? Damn.
What massive security holes?
But a proof assistant for numerical programming would be extremely useful.
Or you can just watch the movie.
Fear based ethnic favoritism is xenophobic by definition. Abstracting that with immigration policy, visa types, foreign labor law, etc to influence the effect doesn't change that.
I really suspect the sellers of VPN are involved. Managing to DOS the site that the professionals use, those that are able to use VPN too and are more probae to pay.
Everybody is leaving comments like this. You're more typical if you do than if you don't.

So your risk doesn't get higher than the background risk of living in a corrupt country with broken legal system.
> To write the code, one looks at what data will go into the software, and what data will need to come out.

What if your program has no output? The applications I write seldom has. Instead they save down stuff or send it away here and there during the lifespan of the program. When they're done they just exit without any output. FP seems to be focused on one input going through transformations ending up in one output.

(I'm not a good programmer and barely know how to do OOP, much less FP.)
Ok, that's neat. Is there a proof checker and an editor/IDE other than Emacs' Agda mode?

Because I'm probably going to stick with Coq for its tooling.
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I'm totally agree with you that they don't care about minority at all (by the way, in any field).

I think this issue with GitHub will be resolved soon.

But in general, this Internet Restriction Bill (Federal law of Russian Federation no. 139-FZ of 2012-07-28) is double purpose tool.

On the one hand it serves its first official purpose (i.e. by blocking illegal content). It often do it completely awkward and don't care about legitimate users (the issue with GitHub is the good example).

On the second hand it's very good and easy to use tool for internet censorship. For example, it's so easy to block sites with legitimate information which current regime don't like.

Just think about "sudden" blocking of GitHub or Wikipedia as a training for them (i.e. just to make sure that in case of political instability they can shutdown anything pretty quickly).
4. You can't seem to actually call phones, which is why everyone uses Skype. Or did I miss something?

Notably, all videochat apps makes desktops super hot while their mobile equivalent works fine. My humble guess is because on iOS/Android they are using the hardware accelerated codecs (due to the lack of other options), while on desktop they just assume the CPU can do everything. I will be interested to see how Wire performs in that regard.

I am doing a lot telecommuting and have a frequently remote relationship, so I try a bunch of these apps. Here is the thing: I don't care about beautiful interfaces when it comes to full screen videochat.

So far the best experience I had was with oovoo, which was simultaneously the ugliest software at the time. Perhaps Wire will be successful for the same reason Slack is: it just works (I have yet to see).
> In theory a perfectly enforced set of perfect regulations might fix these issues. In practice the industries that regulators are deeply involved in controlling still seem to have these issues.

In practice regulation as it's actually practised in e.g. Germany manages perfectly well. Sounds like your regulatory system has issues. Doesn't mean all regulation is fundamentally broken.
What about matrix.org who's trying to fix the fragmentation by providing an open standardized signalling layer for WebRTC? Might interest you too! We've been working on integrating with Jitsi, although not finished yet
Этот пост полон выдумок. Скажем, абсолютно не согласен с утверждением, что большинство "проголосовало" за Путина. Большинство проголосовало за единственный вариант, которые не приведёт к неадеквату в стране "прямо сейчас", который гарантируют другие кандидаты. По сути вопрос в том что выбора у населения НЕТ ВООБЩЕ. То что преподносится как "выбор" - тонко подстроенная игра олигархических группировок.
And which of those persist if you use ===?
No, there's only a subscription service for clients (Stripe). Not for their members.

In the current situation, it wouldn't earn enough money to justify the additional work.
Github works for me, I'm in Yekaterinburg.
I don't belive that ban, if realy exists and enforced, will last long.
They, people with that list, do stupid things from time to time, but it's fixed most of the time.
We're hackers, let's promote using our own servers and service providers, don't support the VPN sellers who can be behind this particular blockade, maybe even bribing the censors. See the comments here, ssh is enough.
I think one could also tell a biologist or psychologist that their objects of study are just a bunch of atoms stuck together.

Systems (like human institutions) have organizing principles, which are at least a level above the members which comprise them. Two different institutions can have the exact same people in them, but show vastly different outcomes.
CoreNLP – The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
It doesn't run on GS/OS either. Unbelievable.
Me exactly. Didn't think about moving, now it's the only thing I think of.

I actually gave Russia a big credit on patriotism and it wasted it all. It's done for me. The country where I grew up (for good or bad) no longer exists, they destroyed it.
In short, publishing houses serve no necessary function in modern technical publishing.

...aside from the economies of scale that they can apply to activities like editing, typesetting, graphical presentation, technical review, release scheduling, marketing, publicity, and cross-format distribution. There's also the risk mitigation that happens when you get an advance that you can't deal with yourself.

There's a world of difference between "publishing on the Internet" and "publishing in the age of the Internet".
I remember the high-schoolers I knew that entered Greek systems. This is unsurprising.
I feel that sentiment. It's not that I mind people doing new apps in already crowded market segments - it's that messaging apps, like social networking sites, work on network effect. I don't want a new messaging app for the same reason I don't want a new Facebook - the existing one is awesome enough, new ones don't offer anything interesting, and I definitely don't feel like rebuilding my contact lists every other year.

In this way, a new app is a danger not only to the maker of an old app, it's a danger to the client as well.
If Skype allowed that (without having to run the original client), they wouldn't make any money.

On a related note, is there any multi network app that supports video?
dragonwriter suggested "don't use resumes, just seldect at random". You're suggesting "use resumes, then select randomly". You appear to be agreeing with mbesto.
Does it really matter whether they have encryption a or b? If it is poorly implemented it is unsafe.

So either you trust them to do a good job or you don't. Whether someone in marketing knows the name of your favorite encryption doesn't really change that.
Or follow the money, who profits in this particular case? See my other comments here.
Treat CV writing as a SEO task: "JavaScripted the JavaScript scripts using the JavaScript MVC framework Angular.js (JavaScript)." instead of "Implemented using Angular.js".
I think the point is to do it without breaking the laws of physics. Like how entanglement could occur without breaking them.
Anyone have a neat explanation for how it works?
Thank god we don't do anything like that in America, our governments are too busy jailing negroes and fanning the flames of civil war across the middle east. The level of self-righteousness in this thread is reaching levels of never before seen hilarity.
What was the overall makeup of the attack traffic? For example, 50% tcp syn, etc.
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i like to joke there are two types of tech companies, mutually exclusive.

- profit driven

- investor money driven

skype is a profit company. wire is clearly investor money driven.

So while your example is valid, i don't think they want to displace the corporate consumer that creates the bulky of skype profit. It probably wants to go after the users that uses snapchat/wasup/etc for free, with little revenue besides what is necessary for a "revenue" round A/B/C/IPO deck, and get investor money/get acquired.

PS: while skype is a consumer product, its job is not to drive revenue, but to advertise the corporate solution: Lync. Lync gets microsoft 2bi/yr, while skype peak at 600m/yr in a good year. 600m sounds good, but not when you paid over 8bi for it.
Проголосовало или нет, но поддерживающих кажется абсурдно много. Может среди думающей молодёжи и нет (хотя тоже, на удивление, хватает), но поговори с теми, кто телек смотрит (большинство пожилых людей), они считают что всё, как там и говорят, что путен на белом коне, а остальные ополчившиеся на нас геи). Статистики у меня нет, говорю по людям, которых я встречал.
Yours too. We no longer has any multi-polar oligarchic groups. It seems that all power is one set of hands now.

Even then, Putin got just 52% on elections in my town and the neighboring towns of Moscow area. I guess even Obama had it more secure.
The experiment looks flawed. It seems that ALL (or almost all) resumes are, at least, OK.

Resumes can work for weeding out bad fits, or people doing things clearly out of the scope of interest. They are not, and cannot, be a tool for choosing the best. (Unless success is so spectacular, that you know the person by name anyway.)

It's HR's delusion that previous -perceived- presented achievements written on one's resume can serve well for predicting future achievements in our company. So, don't overoptimize it an do technical interviews with people actually working on a given technical problem.
This one isn't a sanction, of course, it's just another lapse in the censoring machine.

The situation itself reminds of those sanctions, because just like how this thing mostly affects and hurts Russians themselves, those Russia's sanctions too are mostly hurting ordinary people, driving food prices high, limiting options etc.
I propose an alternative or complimentary idea. That cultural inertia guides not only that employers expect the same kinds of data, but also that employees do the same.

If employers wanted to, they could start the ball rolling by simply requesting for more predictive data up-front. Candidates often make specific designs to the company they are applying to. Then companies can filter these candidates out to control the load on expensive interviews.

I'd also say that if a company wants an introspective hiring system, they would naturally pursue a strategy where you identify the kinds of predictors (exclusive or inclusive) you want and request them in resume or some screening test that goes with the resume.
On the other hand, if it’s any good, there’ll be an open Sailfish-only app for it soon?
Not in my experience - I've been to several companies using Skype as the primary in-office communication tool and I find it really annoying. Skype is resource-heavy, poor on features and keeps breaking on Linux (management uses Windows, so it doesn't care, but I'm a dev...). I personally refused to use Skype this time (after it kept repeatedly failing on my Ubuntu machine) and made everyone send an e-mail or write me on Facebook if they need something. Works well (though I feel I'm missing on some amount of in-office chat).
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