skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really liked her take on her judging interactions, especially during the technical conversations. I think having an outside (even slightly outside) perspective is incredibly useful
I'm curious, what kind of data transfer rate do you need to get a solid call through? In the past when I tried to make WIFI calls through Google Voice "Hangout Dialer" the call quality was poor.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE INVENTION OF THE GAME CARTRIDGE:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040889/the-untold-story-of-the-i...
Disclaimer: I'm in a medium sized city in the midwest that has developer jobs but none for large corporations that sell software, so my advice here may be a bit skewed.

Co-ops/internships: this is where you get your real experience and in the trenches learning. Sure, theory is all good in the classroom but if you actually worked with something 40hrs a week for 4+ months, it says a lot more about what you can accomplish for a possible employer. I've only once had an interviewer look at my transcripts (to my knowledge, they may have been accessible to any of the co-op interviewers at my college) and it was for a co-op position and I had no previous work experience in development. After graduating, it's never been requested of me, its almost like employers really don't care what I did at college, just that I graduated. They are far more interested in what I have done professionally in my career and side projects, making things happen outside the classroom is what matters to them.

College: I would personally recommend being selective with your courses. Try to find ones where you will learn valuable information, not just get you the credit you need to graduate. This goes for field related (CS) and outside your field (e.g. business courses).
> I'm 100% for rigorous product testing to ensure safety, but if an ingredient is safe a

And how many long term tests have you personally performed or at least how many scientific studies have you persnally analized to know if an ingredient is 100% safe?

"Natural" doesn't mean much these days. I presume here it means "it won't result in short or long term harm".

> Cars, the internet and modern medicine aren't "natural" either...

Yap not natural. And "new car smell" that so many people love and appreciety is pretty bad for you.

> There are literally tons of people who will ridicule anti-vaccination nuts, then turn around and insist all food be "natural", completely oblivious to the hypocrisy.

You mean real world is not 100% black and white? I think it is reasonable to assume vaccines are safe and result in a net benefit if taken yet to being skeptical of new and untested long term compounds. This has happened many times with known "safe" chemicals that let us down. BPA and plastics, DDT, medication that caused birth defects. The track record of vaccines letting us down doesn't come close to that.
I think I'll be swapping to Dell myself
And that's assuming full capacity (100kW)... That's too bad.

But I don't quite understand what you're doing with the $. You're taking how much it'll generate in kWh vs how much they say it'll generate in worth of energy and getting a $/kWh. But isn't the $kWh just determined by the market?

Why not: 2,000,000 / .02 (your number) = 66,666,666 kWh over the lifetime of the 'project', not individual units, which has 4 turbines (this is a similar value to yours x4).
Some videogame systems still had shielding over the motherboards a decade or more later. I know the Atari 5200 did. That might have been the last one I took apart..
We have different definitions of interactive then. Smalltalk is interactive. Dr. Racket is interactive. This is just a pipeline.
Great work, this has always seemed like one of those obvious things that we would have seen before. Great job making it work!
The most charitable way I can interpret it, is that she's trying to verbalize a genuine, if irrational, fear and unconscious thought process that drove her emotions in that moment. Talking about what "the body is saying" makes sense in that context.

Still, she is not quoted as saying something like "But I recognize that's irrational, and that tweeting would not save me if I were actually in imminent bodily danger." So my conclusion is also not favorable to her, or maybe that the article author has not been fair to her.
RStudio in a Web Browser
With all due respect, Chainsaw gave you some wonderful advice about your interview ability that you have seemingly chosen to ignore, instead choosing to focus on your resume's shortcomings. Two things:

- first, if this is indicative of how you usually behave, you may in fact be more guilty of smartest-man-in-the-room syndrome than you realize.
- second, if you do get interviews, your resume is likely not the problem, but I would still consider how you come across to others. In what I've read of you, I'm sorry, but you're not coming across very well.
Hey everyone - this is insane. My friends and I created Magic a few days ago as a side project and it's completely blown up by accident since then. We're getting stormed with messages and orders.

We thought we'd launch it ourselves later if it did well, and other people have been posting it on Product Hunt, Reddit, HN themselves...

I'm here to answer any questions, although we've hardly slept!
I kind of like the idea of a broker service for deliverables. Does this look for best price or just best effort at fastest fulfillment?
Great service for a consumer. But as a business - how do you earn revenue?
Drifting Videos
Besides questions about revenue and such, can I just say that I absolutely love the landing page. No gimmicks, no parallax, no videos, no fake testimonials, no hero images, no marquees. Just good copy.

Not sure if this is because of how quickly this blew up, but well done.
How are you scaling it up?
Great idea.

Can we find out how much it costs, or do we just have to trust that the quoted price for the task isn't too much above actual cost? Or does it not have any service fees? The site is really vague about pricing.
Why use C#? It seems overkill for something you could do in a third of the lines with python.
Two months ago OpenBSD removed the unused stdlib.h include which was present since they forked from NetBSD in March 1995.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/echo/echo.c...
Please do something other than another video!
As of iOS 8, webviews have the same JavaScript engine as Safari does, called Nitro, which I believe does do JIT compilation of JavaScript.
I'm sure many of our parents or relatives think similar things about computer terminology. "I can't connect to Internet Explorer" "You mean the internet, and your browser is called Chrome..." "Whatever, same thing. Just fix it."

That does not make that terminology incorrect.
Berlin is first choice of several high profile US citizens who have become fed up (or had to leave) due to US bullying
Thanks! Yeah, honestly, after deciding to launch this we released a really minimal landing page which I saved here: http://getmagicnow.com/index-old.html - As you can see I made that in about 20 minutes, and was not expecting this. After someone posted it on Product Hunt I spent whatever time I could polishing it up. In general though, I agree, simple websites are much better. Thanks for the kind words.
humans.
Never roll your own crypto?

Also, D-H was published 39 years ago, before the author was even born.
It would be more worthwhile to show various shells implementations of echo, because most of the time you are going to be running your shell's builtin echo instead of /bin/echo.
Here's some more feedback. Your description on your profile here isn't so good. It reads:

about:	31 year old unemployed with 13 years experience. Trying (unsuccessfully) to break in to the IT Sec field. Been hacking and learning security in my free time since I was about sixteen. An enthusiast..

First, remove your age. I can't begin to tell you how unprofessional that makes you look. Second, the entire second sentence makes you look bad - like others have screened you and passed. The fourth sentence doesn't add anything. And finally, you should put in some contact info.

Sorry if I'm coming across a little strong, but I know where you are, I know it sucks and I want to help.
This is a great question. We are still trying to figure this out right now. Our vision is to be a service that handles everything - and that means everything from ordering food, to ordering clothes, to booking a one week's vacation in St. Thomas. The fees obvioulsy vary. Any ideas you have about doing this in a more straightforward way would be welcome. For now what we are doing is thinking about what would be reasonable on the fly. Sometimes it's more than people think, i.e. if someone wants milk delivered to their house in Wisconsin, we have to call a local courier, etc. However we've found people are willing to pay more than you would think, too.
Arthur C. Clarke famously said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This maxim has proven robust over decades. But now are we now so used to interacting with layers of technology and automation that sufficiently trained humans could seem in any way magical?

I don't agree, but a scary indictment if it were true.

Clever business name though.
They're likely using one of the world's oldest business models: "Buy things for $1, sell them for $2."
In our previous businesses we have scaled large customer support teams efficiently, and we also have handled a lot of online chat-based systems. As long as we can charge appropriate fees, this should be solvable. So far, so good.
Presumably by taking a percentage for acting as a convenient middleman. (At least eventually, even if they aren't now)

Cust: I want 100 bananas
Magic, to Instacart: how much does 100 bananas cost?
Instacart: $100
Magic, to customer: Sure! Does $109.19 sound okay to you?
Cust: sure
As more people use it they eventually push higher up the stack.

People said Go was just a systems language and we've seen it being used for lots of different use cases.
Perhaps off-topic, but you might want to check out the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."

One of the things it teaches, if you're interested, is how to draw without looking at the page. It's incredibly useful if you're ever drawing from life, and will probably lessen the weirdness of using a tablet.
How do you generate revenue?
I've seen something similar before, very cool idea! My question is from an operational standpoint, who are the "operators"? Given the side-project nature of the site, are you up all night answering/ordering these things?
Do keep in mind that food prices are murderously high in Japan, which is a very real problem for low-income families.

One single apple at my local supermarket is $2 and up. A head of flavorless lettuce costs the same. The Japanese equivalent to "beans and rice" is instant noodles, because both rice and legumes of any kind are pricy.

It gets better outside of major cities, but food prices here are insane.
fyi, there's a typo in the FAQ: "we'll let you know the total price so you can confim"
Right from the site:

> It's completely free to chat with Magic. When you order something, we'll let you know the total price so you can confim it before you are billed. There are no hidden fees, and tip is included.

You have to confirm the price. It sounds like you can decline if you think it's unfair.
The simplicity of your reply blew mine out of the water. :0
I love this quote. Thanks for reminding me of it! :) For me, the "magic" refers to the magic moment that I experienced when we prototyped this internally. Despite the power of today's on-demand services, I've always felt them to still be rather frustrating. Sometimes the drivers cancel, they get lost, you still have to manage them. We tested this by delivering the product to each other internally, handling all the annoyance of dealing with these services behind the scenes. The result feels like magic. Just text in what you want...and it appears.
Loving the simplicity of it all. I just need to text a number. No app to install and grant access to my phone, no website to go and sign up to with my facebook account. Nothing.

Just text a number and get what I want. It solves my problems by giving a path of least resistance to getting what I want. A company doing a similar thing was handing out fliers over the summer and they had an app to install. I thought the idea was cool but never got around to installing it.

I just added this phone number to my contact list for when I'm reading to use it.
Thanks. Please let me know how you like using it. That's exactly what we were going for, and I hope that the experience persists throughout.
Yeah, and that. :)
Good idea, you're blowing up so get off this damn forum and go fulfill some orders. The best to you gents/ladies.
Not just a matter of degrees: Other pathways to STEM careers
Could "Natural Flavor" not include garlic? I can't see why not, but IANAL. I'm actually a little hazy on what the limits on declaring ingredients as "Natural Flavour" are - they seem very broad.

The definition of natural flavor under the Code of Federal Regulations is: “the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional” (21CFR101.22).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor#Regulations_on_natural_f...
Java shop politics
Maybe it'd be helpful to not discriminate against other genders and have other gender specific conferences too. Maybe we can divide the groups by race too. You know, so people are comfortable. Maybe I am too simple but I do no understand segregation. Neither do I understand "reverse" discrimination; for the lack of a better choice of words. Anytime you have something going on where if you reverse the "minority" with "majority" labels and the result sounds bad, I feel like the original was bad too.

For down voters: Please feel free to leave a comment explaining your stands.

Also, people who are interested in the ideas of removing bias, scientifically backed arguments exist. The touchy-feely-ride-the-trend ones are just more talked about. It's like picking the color of a bike shed. Here's an interesting talk titled Unconscious Bias @ Work | Google Ventures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjFTHTgEVU
Sounds like General Services from the story We Also Walk Dogs. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%94We_Also_Walk_Dogs for the story.

I'll bet they don't invent antigravity devices though! :-)
This business started out of a need that I had. I've hired numerous assistants for myself in the past to handle these types of tasks for me. I've always been OK with paying a premium to have thing handled for me like magic. I've had my assistants do work for other people too to simplify their lives, and often times it was for things just like this. Here, we realized that instead of having to pay a salary, or even a monthly fee, we could do it on a per-item basis. I didn't know how popular it would be, but it seems that other people in addition to me are interested in the idea of paying a premium on top of per-item prices in order to have them handled like magic. Maybe it's not for everyone, but there is definitely a market.
First thought that comes to mind: Look into how Virtual Assistant services do pricing... Whatever it is, I'm sure it could be improved, but it might be a good starting point. I imagine they either charge a % of the cost (eg, milk+courier+0.15(milk+courier), or a subscription (plus cost of each transaction of course), or time-based (how long it took to complete the request). Maybe urgency-based?

Or a combination of any of above.
It's safe to say that this is no longer a side project.
The Rise of Algorithmic HR
Both. Whichever you like. Just specify.
Interestingly enough there's another implementation of echo on its wiki page, which is as succinct and simple as the Unix V5 version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(command)

I wonder if, like a "Hello world" program, some of these simpler utilities might not even meet the minimum level of creativity to be eligible for copyright, so complexity was added - true.c and false.c are the other two examples I can think of; the "true" utility is basically generated by the default code template provided by many IDEs.

There's also a fun story floating around called "The UNIX and the Echo" about what it should do without any arguments, or whether or not it should accept options or escape sequences:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3290683/bloated-echo-comm...

The official POSIX definition leaves it implementation-defined, with XSI forbidding options and requiring escape sequences:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ec...

It's amazing how much variety can be present for functionality that seems so simple at first glance.
Everyone that claims to know the law seems unanimous in their wish that no outsider learn it, or die a painful death.

Steve Jobs had a very strong understanding of law and commerce fwiw.
This is a shadow, a hint of what AI and machine learning will bring us.
have we seriously gone so far down the rabbit hole that you're wondering how a service that takes your credit card and charges you for deliveries... makes money?
Is this available in Canada?
Just want to chime in that I also think having a number to text is more convenient than using an app that I'd surely forget about within days.
Just had to post this:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/91/
I think I stole the quote from the Wire.
How to create an admin control panel with Ruby on Rails in less than 9 minutes
I'm recruiting at the moment. Having just gone through 153 resumes in a week, and 4 phone interviews so far, there are a number of things that will get you to the top of the resume list, the top of the interview list and the job.
As a potential employer, in my mind I am really asking myself the following of any candidate.

1. Is this person the solution to my problems, or another problem to add to my long list of problems? Or, will this person make my workload lighter, or heavier?

2. Does this person really want to work in this capacity, in this industry, doing these types of tasks? Or, are they desperate for work, and will use me as a stepping stone to another position and in 6 months I am back looking at 153 resumes again?

3. Does this person think first, and ask questions later, or the other way around? Questions that could have been answered with just a tiny bit of thinking are part of my list of problems. Great questions, honed to the crux of the issue, after thought and research are actually beneficial for me and the person asking, as they are opportunities to not only fix things, but improve the end solution as well.

Following on from this, if I were you I would redo your resume AND your interview technique with the above in mind. Your potential employer is a potential client of yours, and you are a micro business of one person. You need to convince your potential client that YOU are the solution to their problem(s), not another problem sucking down a paycheck.

How do you do this? Personally, I would recommend listing 2 or 3 problems you solved in each of your last positions. Being self-employed/contractor is no different to being employed. You are a small business, hired by your client to solve problems. So list them. If there are disclosure or confidentiality concerns, make your description of the problem and solution very high level.

I know this will probably sound strange, particularly in this particular forum, but nobody really cares what you KNOW, they care about what you can DO. When I read your story about getting 895/900 in the Security+ exam, what it tells me is that you can learn complex subjects in a short time frame. The mark is irrelevant to me, you might just have a very good memory. The REAL question I need answering, is can you put that knowledge to practical use. Will you protect my company's network like it was your first born child? Or will you take advantage of the fact that I don't really understand what it is you do and do nothing all day leaving my business at risk?

It's not easy for technical people to do this, but you need to put yourself in your potential employer's shoes for a minute. Imagine YOU own your own company, and you need a network guy to solve your security problems. You need this person to be capable, competent,responsible and reliable. You need to know that they wont leave you hanging in 6 months because this wasn't what they really wanted to do, and they flit off to something else. How can you be THAT guy?
> Navigation meshes, visibility graphs, and hierarchical approaches are all worth a look.

Navigation meshes in particular are worth consideration. There is a great reference here [1] from Epic Games about navigation meshes, and why they made the switch from a traditional node-based graph to them for the Unreal Engine. Although for most simple cases, a graph is much easier to conceptualize and implement.

[1] https://udn.epicgames.com/Three/NavigationMeshReference.html
Very cool. Particularly nice work making it a web interface (I think I saw the previous ncurses-style version on here a while back?)

(On a side note, I think we used to hang out in the same IRC channel 10+ years ago? #spacespider?)
Looks like an even more minimal version of WunWun (https://www.wunwun.com/), which is a "write some unstructured text and we'll dispatch it" app, in NYC and SF. They hire and manage their own couriers tho.
Haha.

Boom! there goes every single bit of something resembling "privacy" you had. Magic.
The variation among geographic locations is interesting. On the other hand the rise in the rate of colorectal cancer in Japan may simply be due to a rise in cancer screening. Do Japanese die more often from colorectal cancers? For an example of why this is relevant, over 80% of men in their eighties may have prostate cancer yet the lifetime risk of dying from it is only 3% for a 50 year old man in the US (see http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/2/278.full ). So if we improve screening of prostate cancer we may find a lot more cases even though men's risk of dying from it is unchanged.
When people start making assumptions about you, then giving advice, take it with a grain of salt.

Taking the known issues as you have stated them: No degree, no direct experience in the specialty that you want to pursue, this is how I would proceed:

1) Focus on jobs at small to medium sized companies. They will be less likely to rely on some hiring script, and likely to give more weight to an interview.

2) Make a spread sheet of all jobs on monster.com & similar services that involve security and start applying for them.

3) Make a spread sheet of all the companies that you can find where you would prefer to work, regardless if they are hiring, and apply there as well.

4) Once these two resources are compiled start your weekly applications...

Week X:

5) Blast 20 companies with your application, prioritizing the companies by which ones you like the best. Make sure to customize the cover letter for each job.

6) Follow up on the previous weeks 20 applications with a short friendly email.

7) Spend some time during the week building something that show cases your knowledge in security.

I hope I've said something that you believe will be beneficial and actionable. Good luck!
I saw, but it doesn't say how their fee structure works. I would rather not have to compare their quote with the original price every time just to be sure I'm not being dealt a 50% "convenience fee."
How did you get office space at Moffett Federal Airfield?
I think we should have laws to fix these problems, but then in a few years Amazon will just have eliminated all these jobs anyway, so what's the point?
Prostate cancer is omnipresent, but should we screen for it? (2007)