skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, well I'm not going to try and divine the source of your woes here since I'm obviously a stranger who has little context about your life and can only offer broad, general advice, but I will leave you with two thoughts:

> I interview well and am quite easy to deal with on an interpersonal level.

I think most of us know when an interview goes really poorly, but my personal stance towards most interviews is that if I wasn't offered a position after an interview it's because I didn't interview well enough.

Now it may be the case that they had some ridiculous or completely arbitrary standards for the interview, and I may be fine with the fact that the interview didn't go well, but I wouldn't necessarily say I interviewed well if I wasn't offered the position.

I say 'most' because that might happen (I interviewed amazingly well and they didn't pick me for some stupid reason) once or twice, but if it's a consistent pattern than I would start looking at the common denominator.

> It has much less to do with 'me' than it does with a combination of my geographical location, and being a semi-self employed consultant/contractor/whatever they call it anymore, as opposed to having had a regular day job for the last few years.

Again I can't speak for your personal situation or pretend to understand, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but my experience with professional employment (even outside of tech) has been that these are things many companies are willing to overlook for the right candidate.

If it was something they were truly unwilling to budge on, they wouldn't have wasted the time to interview you. You would've been screened out before anyone even picked up the phone to talk to you.
The Paradox of the Black Feminist Panda: Godel and Intersectionality
I imagine Game of Thrones is set on such a planet :)
I feel the main problem with using the iPad as a stylus input device is the latency. There's a very noticeable and annoying lag when drawing anything via a capacitive input device, unlike on a Wacom. Hopefully the rumors are true and Apple adds a digitizer to the next iPad model!
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The moment you require guidance from an expert you've left the land of law and entered the land of interpretation, which is by definition never fair, because such a justice system lacks the basic properties of fair laws: clarity of provisions, determinedness of provisions and comprehensibility of provisions. Without these three things you have no justice, just law.
What explains this odd way of scheduling?

You can find an answer in another New York Times article I cited here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7089531

(I find that thread interesting, in part, for the spirited defence some offered for the practice. Frankly, I find it indefensible.)

The underlying issue is, as @njloof suggests, the systematic degradation of low-skilled labor's bargaining power.

There was a big deal made this week about Wal-Mart's wage increase for its hourly employees. As this NY Times article notes, more predictable scheduling was also part of Wal-Mart's announcement.

It's nice to see the issue being acknowledged and finally addressed. But I expect this was done less out of corporate altruism and more in response to the growing effort to unionize Wal-Mart and other service sector employees.
Hmm, interesting - for comparison, here in EU the telco MUST disconnect your data after you burn through 50EUR worth of roaming charges and send you a notification (which is usually an SMS to which you reply if you want the data reenabled).

Saved me and my family alot of money a few times when we forgot data roaming on and apps started downloading updates.
I actually do well in this part of what has regrettably become the norm in the industry for "interviews".

I don't really know what I am doing wrong other than needing to refresh my resume. Still, even in its abominable state, it gets attention and I do get solicited. I just always seem to lack something that, while insignificant on paper as it may be, makes the difference.

For example, I was very recently put in touch with a group in Tampa. I was contacted by them because an old manager in town had told someone who told someone about me. Long story short, great interviews and 3 weeks later, I was passed over in favor of an internal promotion because of the time it would have taken me to move my family from TN back to Tampa.
Surely there are day and night scenes in the same place?
Shame, seems like a lot of effort to fit themselves onto a platform that just wasn't made for illustration. If this is what you want out of a tablet there's no reason to get one without a digitizer.
Has anyone built a GUI wrapper for Docker that would allow someone to one-click an app like this on a Win/Mac desktop?
I dig this, it'd be cool to see a similar post for Firefox and other Browsers that are open source.
The same new was submitted a few days ago from a different source that has a little more of information. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041249 (2 points, 9 days ago, 0 comments)
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Black or white, could you get a job as a self-taught engineer today?
> “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

... I'm honestly shocked anyone could say that with a straight face. Apart from the incorrectness (is there any reason to believe a developer making a joke about dongles increases the risk of bodily harm?) -- what the hell does "your body" saying things have to do with anything?

I'm a guy and my "body" says all sorts of things that I wouldn't repeat or act on. She's implying she has no civilized control over her natural, probably rather miscalibrated like everyone's, instincts?

And to claim there's a risk of getting killed... it sounds like the no-fly list. Such obvious danger that we must restrict such people drastically because we're so sure they're going to kill people, but we've no actual evidence of wrongdoing to actually arrest or otherwise prosecute them.

And then going on to accuse the guy of starting a hate campaign against her? When all evidence points in the opposite direction? Perhaps she's planning a career move or book or something, and it's good publicity to just double down on her position, rather than just be another person that made a mistake?

It really hurts equality in tech when these incidents happen.
I have worked for large companies before. Defense Contractors and in Operations for very large retail organizations.

Am working as a contractor now. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
Are Docker containers actually sensibly secure as sandboxes? I thought there were still some gaps that needed to be closed in the underlying tech for it to be as safe as virtualization?
I'll be making a video over the next few days giving a deep dive into the tech. We also need to synthesize a spec. for now, the paper + first talk have the most comprehensive view:
- http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g
Did you see the finger crossed here:

http://astropad.com/assets/img/pens.jpg
Bonus points for doing it by fixing OS permission models instead of just implementing walled gardens through mandatory code signing.

Not likely though. The latter is far, far easier.
Yes! It made me smile. :)
Jessica Livingston is giving a killer talk. I love her point of view as a non-technical partner at YC and her huge role as a judge of character
forthcoming talks will address this. these are really really important topics that deserve careful attention + detail in explanations of our models. :)
Yeah, really terrible landing page, I'm afraid. You'll have an extremely low conversion rate which will be a big waste of a Show HN. The announcement post is also hidden quite small in the footer. I would have ignored this as legal if it weren't for the parent comment.

As it is, I'm not going to sign up without some clear value. Hope to see it again with an improved landing page.
Is Higher Education Failing Our Students? Yes
"I always wondered why they hung onto cartridges for as long as they did."

As far as I remember, people did not like optical media.

When Sega added a new optical attachment for their Sega Genesis, nobody bought it.

Optical media required loading. Interactivity was lost. You had "Dragon's Lair" kind of games that had tremendous quality but felt prefabricated.

It was only much later with he first PSP that people started using them, after PC era of CD shareware like doom or dune. The advantages(immense amount of memory, distribution easiness, and PIRACY) overcame their drawbacks.
Damnit. I'm having a hard time playing the live stream.
hosh: yeah! exactly our wavelength. come hang out in #ipfs.
This may seem way out in left field but: Do a background check on yourself. If a company does such a check and it comes back saying you're a serial murderer they will not tell you that's why you were turned down.

Background checks are often horribly wrong or contain bullshit red flags like, "Claimed position: Developer; Actual position: Architect". Get enough of those and you'll be dropped for consideration.

When I left an employer a few years ago I requested my employee record and what was inside blew my mind. The background check was so wrong it was crazy. It said I worked at places I never worked. It said I lied about my work history (aforementioned title naming problem). It said my provided address information did not exist!

Fortunately none of that seemed to matter to the company that hired me but I suspect it's only because the supposed red flags were ultimately meaningless (did I work as a customer service rep at some company 8 years ago? No. Was it relevant? No).
Awesome. Now all they gotta do is stop treating strings like we're in a Pascal Intro to Computer Science class circa 1987 and we gots ourselves a kick ass development environment here. :)
Would work 100x better with a Surface Pro 2.

Unrelated, but I utterly despise any and all video playback setups that don't let me control time. This isn't a VHS tape, let me watch your promotional video how I want plzkthx.
Somewhat related to another thread today - if I was creating a series of knowledge resources that would describe how to rebuild the world's technology from scratch, in addition to the detailed blueprints, and background descriptions - I'd also have a series of animagraffs included with each one - these animations tell a very complex story very quickly.
No. A qualified defense must be made by someone with requisite legal knowledge, and while not everyone with that knowledge must necessarily be an attorney, of course the courts use a law degree and the bar exam as heuristics.

The simple fact that you think legal documents are no more difficult to understand than manuals is a perfect example of how woefully unprepared for the legal arena certain members of the general public are.

It takes a long time to learn statutory law, case law, common law, constitutional law, regulatory law, and their interconnections about even a single subject, and it is assumed throughout that you will have knowledge of legal concepts that aren't contained in those documents.

Is it possible to represent yourself and win? Yes. If you really know the law that well, you won't have a problem, even pro se.

The issue is that many pro se litigants are like you.

They hubristically believe the law is like an IKEA instruction booklet, advance wildly incorrect theories due to lack of foundational knowledge, end up wasting vast amounts of the court's time at taxpayer expense, and then bitterly complain that the judge didn't follow the law when they lose.
Chrome won't load archive.org
Maybe it's somehow a glitch on my computer. I noticed it last night and just ended up using Firefox to load the archive.org pages I needed. Yet, today just restarted my computer and Chrome still won't load archive.org

What's happening: when I type archive.org into Chrome and press enter, it acts like I didn't do anything. I then type a different domain, such as netflix.com in, and it goes to netflix.com. Type archive.org back in and it simply reloads netflix.com

Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: clarified which domains were loading in each instance.
It's a lot better than no attempt at sandboxing, but ultimately you're still at the mercy of a late addition to the linux kernel (cgroups), which isn't exactly the safest codebase to make major changes like this in.

Denial of Service attacks are probably more straightforward than in a virtualized environment; I'm sure you could find a way to starve the kernel for something.

That said, there's currently no trivial "now I'm root on the host box" option or anything.
Yeah, we you look at total cancer burden and the associated epidemiology you can explain something like 90% of cancers from environmental sources (which includes things like obesity). Don't have a reference on me at the moment so feel free to disagree.
We are Apple's #astroboys, we like one button and no knobs...

...but just for you:
http://vimeo.com/astrohq/astropad
you can already to this. just host your src in the gateway. We're working on making IPNS + DNS play nice with ipfs so you can have nice-looking urls.
I had a similar experience but didn't have to pay. AT&T's i18n data system (the whole thing) is a piece of junk.

* I unlocked my phone (iphone4S), went to Asia, and bought a SIM card for a local carrier. The SIM card didn't work because I had unlocked my phone the day before leaving, and AT&T claims they need 30 days to process unlock requests.

* Fine. I bought AT&T's data roaming plan, and turned data on a few hours later once I confirmed AT&T had charged me. Data worked OK, though I couldn't get texts, and was therefore locked out of my work email which had text-based MFA. Alright.

* I return to the US and promptly cancel the month-to-month i18n data plan. Phone behaves normally.

* A full week after being back in the US, I get a text from AT&T saying my data is suspended for excess use. I call them (this is at 9pm and I'm trying to get dinner) and they drag me on for 45 minutes. Their system didn't recognize my i18n plan purchase and they wanted $700. Eventually they got an adjuster to drop the charge completely.

Moral: even if you play AT&Ts games you'll still get burned. Request for Startup: a telecom customer service provider.
Have you read Lucifer's Hammer? There's a guy in the book who kind makes this his mission.
True. So a little tilt then, enough so the sun sets just below the horizon - a day and night in the habitable zone. But when "winter comes" the tilt gets out of whack for a while.
> Humans are humans, doesn't matter what country they were born in..

Doesn't matter to who?... The guy in the US? The guy from India that wants to replace the guy in the US? The guy in Africa that wants to replace the guy in India?

And how does the guy in India feel about the guy in Africa taking his job or lowering his salary, does his stand still stand - or was it one-sided all from the start?

Most humans do see nationality, race, and other attributes of the group - even to the extent of killing someone over it.
Haven't yet but we're going to! Would love to help the Archive replicate everything.
I'm in the 2-person weeks-away-from-launch phase of a startup, and it can be fairly hectic. There are so many little things to do (make email templates, fix this bug, make that feature), that I use trello to keep track of a weekly plan. I split things up into a weekly to-do/doing/done and only keep on the board what I think I can accomplish throughout the week (and revisit it daily). It helps a lot with lining up tasks in the order I need to do them in.

The lifestyle part of it is that 7 days out of the week, I wake up whenever my body wakes up and pretty much roll over to the computer desk and start working. I'm married (with no children), and although it took her a bit to really buy in on giving me uninterrupted development time, I finally have that for most of the day. I pretty much do this until 9-10pm, and then my wife and I catch up on TV shows or watch a movie or two.

There are, of course, minor distractions throughout the day like reading HN, or playing a few iphone games. In order to combat that, I hold off on doing anything like that until I hit micro milestones on my current task.

As far as money goes, I left my full-time job in order to work on this idea, so there's absolutely no income until I start generating it from customers. I'm borrowing against my house to pay the bills, but that's how much I really believe in what I'm working on, and I've intentionally forced myself into this position because it makes me prioritize everything as if my life depended on it (which it does).
Thanks!! :) come help us build it!
Hey ! I kind of did this transition recently from Literature grad to developer.

I don't know if you had the same experience but I think for me the key to succeeding in this transition was to try and learn not only to 'code', but also about the engineering, quality, deployment processes surrounding code that most juniors (that I have seen) typically know little-to-nothing about.

That way, even if you have a lot to learn on-the-job, you probably won't be a burden on the rest of the team and they won't have to spend too much time holding your hand (except at code review time, but I guess that's the case with every newcomer to a project).

I also worked for myself for some time and had some experience (minor really) to help me get my foot through the door. Then when you get a job, you have an opportunity to show what you can do and after that you're just like everybody else.
As someone who is 39, why is "impressiveness = achievements / age" a problem in your eyes?

Looking back at my own life, pretty much all my worthwhile achievements has come after 20, and according to that formula I'd come out very favourable against 20-25 years olds like myself.

That formula is pretty much just saying that they expect people to have more achievements the older they are, which does not seem unreasonable to me.
Here's to those brave enough to whistle in the church of science! Even if, in this case, the science in question avoids the scientific method like the plague.
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs and software engrs  how do you come about new ideas?
The word "clip" was briefly mentioned in this article. I never understood the "don't call 'magazines' 'clips'" fanaticism among gun enthusiasts. It seems to be a pretty common colloquialism for "magazine" in popular culture now.
2) I'd definitely make that possibility more visible in any marketing.

3) Again, I'd make that a bit more visible in any marketing. (As a single person, if I'm going to have to schlep myself to the pharmacy, I might as well start at the clinic that's in the same building. So, I'm clearly not your targetmarket on this point.)
Well... we do have wireless TVs. They started that way.
Yes, I have no degrees, no certs, and before becoming self-employed, I worked at two megacorps (an insurance company and a telecom equipment manufacturer) for a total of ten years, and had 'Engineer' on my business cards.
Exactly. I think a lot of us nerds underestimate how vital of a skill that is, to be able to evaluate personal skills of a person. Someone could be a great programmer, but if he can't work well with others he'll be more of a detriment to the team rather than being helpful.
Many English dictionaries have more than 300k entries. The reason is that many of the words are close synonyms inherited from different sources. That's what I was trying to get at in my carefully constructed sentence.

IMO the synonyms you link to aren't as close as those at http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/happy - I believe there are further English translations of many of those on your page, but they take things in a different direction. Many of them relate to luck, for example.

I experimented with synonymo.fr a little further. It looks like many distinct English words have a single French word translation, and that French word has different meanings in different contexts. Consequently, looking up the synonyms for that word, you end up seeing synonyms for all the different contextual meanings for that word.

For example, take the word 'sky'. A quick scan seems to suggest French doesn't have distinctly separate words for sky vs heaven, translating both as ciel. Synonymo.fr suggests lots of synonyms, but they are mostly synonyms for heaven, not sky. It's like this with most French words I experimented with; same word, lots of different meanings, where English has separate words without the same degree of "meaning spread". That is, the English words are more precise and less ambiguous. And there are usually more of them, without wandering into different concepts.
> I interview well and am quite easy to deal with on an interpersonal level.

This is one thing I would question about your self-assessment. What evidence are you relying on for this statement?

The reason I say this is that, (I believe) research shows that anything beyond the first 30 seconds or so during an interview actually doesn't matter. Obviously this is a statistical thing and may not apply in any given concrete situation, but if you're going to loads of interviews, you probably want to maximize your statistical probability of getting hired.
You know what's wrong and mean? Getting "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." the moment you fall under the radar of the same moderator who encourages users to downvote dissenting opinions.

I kid, I kid. Down with the toxic, up with the awesome (with the definitions up to the people in power)!
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The system of legal representation is older than our legal system itself, having its roots in ancient Rome.

While law must be comprehensible by the general citizenry, this is constantly at odds with the complexity needed to support equally complex economic and social interactions.

Edit in reply:

>That is certainly correct, but not very insightful. Just because something is old it is not good.

I mention the Roman legal system, as most legal requirements that have survived several millennia intact have extremely valid reasons.

In this case, the reason is one that I have already elucidated: Human behavior is complex, and thus the law must be as well. To understand complex systems, most people need the assistance of a trained professional.

As to your second point, do you have an alternate solution? Most people have plumbing too complex for them to repair, why should anyone expect a national legal system to be more simple than household plumbing?

>If you cannot understand laws yourself you need legal guidance for everything you do...

No, you don't. There is a third alternative, and it's what most people do. They hire counsel when engaging in high-stakes disputes, negotiations, or agreements.

Second Edit:

Rhino above ^ has certainly expressed my viewpoint most clearly and succinctly here.
I coincidentally found it 2 days ago in your Github repo while looking for an alternative to Toshl & Co. that can do this kind of projections towards FI.

Didn't check it out yet but it looks good from the screenshots and you should absolutely post it on Reddit[1] as requests in this sub constantly pop up. You might "lose" plenty of otherwise interested people though because of the (lack of a proper) landing page.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
You meant $800, I imagine? How about you get one of those and report back to us how useful they are for professional illustration work.
Because clips are used for putting the bullets into the mag commonly used in ww1 era Rifles like the Lee Enfield.
only if you believe it is.
I am not sure how our comment relates to the article.
Just because it's a popular colloquialism doesn't mean it's not incorrect. As a "clip" is a entirely different thing calling the two by the same name only confuses things, especially when a firearm uses both a magazine and clips.