skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which attitude are you talking about? I don't think there is one that generalizes.

Also, whose security are you talking about? The article spends quite some time presenting national security concerns, but the proposals to enhance that often harm the ability of individuals and companies to secure their data (which the seemingly adult experts quoted in the article do bring up).
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Here is my feedback:

1. The main section of your CV is filled with things that are either not that impressive compared to other things you have done or are hard to judge on. "4x speedup on Docker," how many machines? What infrastructure? I don't know anything from that sentence. In a generic case, 4x speedup is not that great. You've highlighted things like "php" and "MySQL" in bold. That makes them sound those are your biggest accomplishments, and they are easy enough for a 5th grader to learn.

2. The things that are actually amazing about you are buried so deep I suspect most reviewers aren't getting to that point. "ACM ICPC World Finalist" should much more up there. Hackathons should be higher. You have insane amount of repos on Github, a list of those should most definitely be higher.

3. Understand that you're applying for internship. What cool stuff you can do should be highlighted more than where you worked before, unless you worked at an equally competitive company.

4. Do not highlight unimpressive things like MySQL, makes you sound like you peaked.
I've been tempted to do something like this with my CV. However, I'm concerned that the use of icons and colours might be seen as immature, unless of course you're looking for a position as a designer: in which case it makes perfect sense. Have you had any feedback on your CV format which you might be able to share?
"Learn x in -1 days" books follow that pattern, but original ones?

Not this one: http://www.stroustrup.com/3rd_tbl.html
Or this one: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html
Or this one: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/toc/toc.html
Or this one: http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2010/04/table-of-contents-for-...

In general, once you know a few different languages and want to learn a new one, read the language spec or a good book on the language.

Good blog posts are an option, too, but those are hard to discriminate from bad ones, and run a greater risk of being incomplete (hm: here's and idea for a new product: a service that ranks blogs for accuracy, completeness and timeliness (K&R C is accurate and complete, but if you want to learn C now, it shouldn't be the only thing you read, and possibly not even a thing you read))
This is just the initial phase - finding out the traits of the perfectly controlled citizen. Next is actually creating such citizens. I wouldn't be surprised if within 3 decades China regulates how parents design their children at birth (as in they'll all have to design them to be compliant to the government in adulthood).

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/designer-babies-on-the-way-in-ch...
That's a very Swedish name for a Norwegian person ;)
Jokes aside I have through referrals been interviewed for positions at Google in Europe. Didn't make the cut, but at least they looked at my CV.
1. Location - I've never heard of El Rehab City, but just the word "rehab" has negative connotations about one's past in the English language. If you were in the US your chances would go up, but it's really a tough process for companies to hire non-citizens.

2. GPA - It looks like there's a discrepancy on your GPA: 0.86 > 0.7.

3. Specialize - Tailor your resume for a specific job title. You may know every programming language, but that might be just extra fluff to read if the position is for a front-end developer. Keep the other info off to the side if you have to but keep it brief.

4. Layout - a recruiter from Apple once told me to put your skills right after your contact info. Education, experience, etc after that. Your resume could also use some improvements in formatting.
Gave up at the lede. Admitted insufferable asshole, proven in the first two sentences. Couldn't care less about his opinions of his new $350 toy.
If I'm converting this properly that means in the States, he's actually a B/B+ student. 3.255813953 GPA. B+ being 3.3.
An interesting piece about this is [1].

I like the example of the double meaning in 'as you like it', shown at 8:11 [2].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gP...
The people in charge of the world have divided it into imaginary lines to control the rest of us better. It sounds like you're in a different division than the companies you're trying to work for.
I couldnt find anything interesting on the github profile on a quick scan, mostly what look like university assignments.
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who would pay $25.99-$54.99 for any of these ten pages?

http://learnxinyminutes.com/ - the Java article is 1500 words :) and, I gather, sufficient to get started.
Hi, Co-founder and CTO from Codeship here.

happy to help you out with getting started. Currently we don't support OSX as base build system, but would be interesting to see if its necessary for you or if our Linux machines work as well (sounds like they should if you deploy to EC2). You can send me an email to flo@codeship.com if you have any questions
The start of this article sounded like any modern story. Two adults going through education and trying to make a carer, both having long term plans and has jobs in order to support themselves.

And then, in a instant, he handed her his credit card and all that talk about bartending jobs and becoming an aspiring writer get pushed aside. Instead its about postnuptials, and how a life without him was unthinkable. He also seem equally changed, with "I am the alpha in this relationship", which sound completely absurd and nothing two equals adults would ever say to each other. When the divorce comes, the focus is solely on the entitlement from being a wife.
ok, I totally missed his github profile page link. interesting projects, a link to a personal page with more links, so this is probably not his problem. I'll delete my comment to make sure I don'd give him misinformed advice.
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I doubt it. To make it work, you need leverage. Make citizen's life slightly easier or slightly worse based on his score.

Worse access to credit, withholding from top universities, preventing from starting a business - not easy to do anything like that on a grand scale in market society. So you won't exactly be making a new citizen.
David Patterson lead the Berkeley RISC project which is the ancestor of SPARC, he didn't have anything to do with MIPS.
I was at EmpireJS where this was announced and they said they had a team of Googlers working on it, and showed a few production Google apps built using it.
"Your name, Mohamed, -1 point." ... This sadly probably has something to do with some rejections. As open as the US is on immmigration, racism is still there in the professional world.
Possibly hugely cynical view here, but...

There's probably 500,000 other companies out there you could apply to that a) you'd have a better chance at getting in and b) probably need your particular skills and abilities far more than Facebook does.

Yes... working at one of those name-brand exclusive companies will no doubt be fun, exciting, helpful, etc, but... there's just something about young people just wanting to work at "top X SV companies" that bugs me, and I don't quite know what it is. Lack of perspective? Sour grapes?

Maybe as I've gotten older I've just realized that no matter how impressive a CV is, there's (almost without exception) multiple other people with CVs more impressive and accomplished than your own. Oh, and generally, CVs are generally less important than the networks you have access to.

Continue to grow your name in the communities you serve right now and opportunities will find you.
Wouldn't it be safer if he used some sort of percentile system? Something like 5%-10% for the GPA-equivalent exam in Egypt? (with the actual score afterwards in case they want to check).
I am a bit creeped out at how well you are at spin..
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While I agree with the premise of what you're saying (and Web Summit are super spammy too!), I don't quite agree that "the only winner was the organizers".

I've been at the last three Web Summits and while I don't think the stand is worth €1000 in itself, the Web Summit (including stand) totally are - but you get from it what you make of it. With sufficient preparation, Web Summit can be quite valuable. For example, in the last one we arranged meetings with both investors and potential customers weeks in advance of the event; we also printed flyers (which worked as people came to our stand saying they saw the flyers). Over all, it was very positive for us.

BUT the reason for this is that we made use of the fact that a lot of people we wanted to talk to would be in one place. We didn't just go and hope people would talk to us, we arranged it in advance (and the flyers were bonus). That made it worth a lot more than €1000 to us.

Would I pay that much just for a stand? Hell no. Would I pay to pitch? Hell no. Would I take advantage of the fact that such an event draws a lot of useful people? Yes, of course.
Facebook has a large Engineering office in London these days and we take interns.

If you're interested email me.
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I've been thinking about this as well. A visual and intuitive way of building software would make software and code as disposable as paper.

Do you want to help build a system that is universally distributed and allows creation by everybody? I want to build something that will allow every person to create software on their touch screens without having to fiddle with complex interfaces or text-based commands. Do you want to make this vision a reality?

Email me sethjgore@gmail.com.
Call me crazy, but if you don't have a working computer anywhere where you can use one for free is a pretty good place to work on a task that requires the use of a computer.
> That’s true now, and we don’t realize how lucky we are that it is.

I don't think it is true. I see no reason why one should come to the US and not to UK for example.
If you don't mind interning in Cape Town at a startup you've never heard of based in Sydney, Australia, building our next web-based platform and web products, pop me an email at eric@gradconnection and I'll see what I can do. If fate (and you) may have it, it's a possibility you might get to intern in Sydney, rather than in Cape Town.

Our current job ads would give you an idea of what our current stack for our next platforms and products looks like, much better than the soon-to-be-obsolete website we have online at the moment would:

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/84553/front-end-devel...

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/85966/senior-python-d...
Why, I am of course.
I think UI programming almost always need a framework than a library, under these definitions of Library and Framework: Library = independent objects and methods that your code invokes; Framework = entry point to the app, controls the event loop that calls your code, and lets you hook into its lifecycle methods.

Under that definition, ReactJS is strictly a framework. But we tend to look at it as a library since unlike other monolithic frameworks (Angular, Rails etc.), it is quite small, composes well, and is not overly prescriptive.

While I don't think FOAM is the next-big-thing in Javascript frameworks (that award goes to React's component model), I am happy to see it focusing on the primacy of the data-structure and recognizing that good code flows from a good data structure. We can already use that philosophy in React by ensuring all components are annotated with propTypes, using a statically typed language (TypeScript), and clearly defining the API schema using something like JSON Schema (http://spacetelescope.github.io/understanding-json-schema/ab...).
ProTip: Don't go to law school. Society is already awash with lawyers, who, beyond their functional purpose, quickly represent a corrosive and corrupting impact on society. Lawyers are like algae, if you don't make sure the conditions keep it in line, it will bloom and suffocate all life in its self destructive zeal.
Sorry but using PHP and MySQL makes you no less of an accomplished developer.
Very few investors around...

I disagree. We met a LOT of investors. The important thing to note is that they won't come to you just because you're there. You have to attract them in some way (or better yet: contact them in advance and have meetings already set up).

I completely agree with the "shoulder to shoulder" thing though. It was very cramped :(
Just compare number of well-known production apps written using React & Angular.
It is pretty much similar in the french-speaking EU countries - France, Belgium, Switzerland... You should either be local or a resident of the french-speaking African ex-colonies.
That resume is beautiful.

Was there any particular inspiration?
yeah, try "Petter Nilsen" :)
for a long time I would say ive had a hard time answering that question, but at the moment I think I would pick Casey Neistat. His motivation and creativity is an inspiration for me. https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat
Given that we're talking about impressions, it seems pretty relevant.
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Everyone would get an "A"?
Reading the youtube comments of the video GP posted casts a different light on this discussion.
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Hello, I have a question, what made you want to start this project? What do you not like about main branch vim?
Previous discussion from another source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504 (592 points, 3 days ago, 194 comments)
It can simplify templates; allowing you to treat free functions and class methods the same way.
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> Just get a Baofeng something

I second that. you can get UV-5R for about $30 bucks. You can really learn a lot from a simple, small radio like that.
I don't think that applies at the college/university level.

Evaluations are at the end of the course and you will know if you have learned a lot.

The problem is profs just reading the textbook or parts of the textbook in a powerpoint, without challenging students.
ELK and others have been mentioned and are great tools, but if you want a more simple solution within the Sql realm postgresql with table partitions works well for that particular problem.

I agree with many comments that this isn't ideal, but setting up weekly/monthly partitions might buy you plenty of time to think through and implement an alternative solution.
I wouldn't put the blame on visa issues. Facebook, Dropbox and Microsoft (dunno about Quora) are very happy to apply for J-1 visas for interns -- every year, 50-100 students from my university (University of Warsaw) get J-1 visas and go to the US for internships. Most go to NVIDIA, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, but I also know handful of people who were at Dropbox and Palantir, and it seems that one person goes to Quora this year. Maybe with applicants from Egypt it's harder, but I wouldn't bet on that.

Your resume looks better than CVs of some of my friends who actually got jobs at the companies you mention, at least from what I can see.

It's not the cover letter either -- cover letters are not necessary for Google, Facebook, Dropbox, or NVIDIA, as far as I can tell.

My personal guess is that you just had bad luck. Try again and don't give up.
I have a Lite for 30M and the web guide is Very helpful

http://www.wb5rvz.org/softrock_lite_ii/index?changeBands=no

There are web guides at that site for all the radio models.

It doesn't drift much and is reasonably sensitive enough. To keep ground loop hum out I ended up putting in audio isolation transformers between the radio and the computer, life probably would have been easier with laptop, and audio xfrmers don't work so well at 192KHz so that limits performance.

I've been thinking of buying a 455 KHz Lite model to help align tube radio IF strips. Like a cheap spectrum analyzer. In my infinite spare time LOL.

Life is a lot simpler now with the web frontend store, although the prices are around twice as high as the old yahoo group days. Used to sell the Lite kit in the group for like $9 years ago although batches always sold out in about an hour, which was annoying.

There is probably an interesting startup lesson that saving people 50% purchase price doesn't help if they can't buy it at all, friction in the sales process etc.
Richard Feynman.

I knew him at Caltech. He tutored me in Quantum Mechanics.

A few things I learned from him: you cannot bullshit a good scientist. If you can't explain it to an undergraduate you don't understand it yourself. Experiment rules - if experiment says it's not true then it isn't, despite what theory might say - and he was a theoretician!

Everyone who knew anything about him revered him as a god because he made it plainly apparent he regarded it as more important to teach Physics than to understand it himself. He must have come to that conclusion late in life, as I recently learned that as a young Cornell professor he was quite irresponsible towards his students.
You can still not learn very much and still get a good grade.

Students are attending to learn and will give negative reviews when they are not learning as much as they expected they would learn.
The methodology is flawed. If a lecturer really is terrible, then more people will fail that course and not go on to do the advanced course, artificially raising the average for the advanced course because only the best students are able to pass the prerequisite DESPITE the terrible lecturer.
There's something very human about being in a fringe, they're like our scout ants.
Fair point, there definitely is a danger of over doing it. I'd keep it simple. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication after all.

A designer at a startup that I interviewed with, said it stood out from the hundreds of other CV's they'd received which meant they at least looked at it.

I've been told that my CV is OK for startups and the above companies. Less so for fintech, big corporates and academia.
Sometimes you have to think about which articles you open to read and the title should tell you.
@DonaldH, Sam is a great guy! Hit him up :)
What is the point of creating novel content online?
I've heard about (but not yet read) studies indicating a similar relationship between patient satisfaction and outcome for medical professionals to the one between student satisfaction and outcome. There's a pretty strong negative correlation between the two.

Frankly, I'm not surprised. Back when I was TAing and tutoring, it was pretty clear to me that a great many students just wanted the high mark, and were much less concerned with how they got it. And I've had way too many conversations with people complaining about a doctor refusing to prescribe antibiotics for a viral infection.
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Even at the college/university level I have seen students complaining about professors that were fairly good, sometimes just because the grading was a bit tough.
Congrats!

I got mine (AF7NK) just before the 2015 new year. No HF radio yet. I'm just using an infamous boafeng plus a homemade ground plane antenna in the attic.
It depends on so many things. And you've provided no context. The premise of the question is flawed.
I'm also an Arab, from Jordan (granted, my name is not Mohamed). A lot of the answers here are on track but let me give my view and what I've seen from my friends and colleagues' experience.

While companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and Google are usually fine with sponsoring students for J1 or H1B visas, it makes a huge different whether the student is applying from within the US or not. Students from all nationalities who study in a US university will have a much easier time getting a summer internship at these companies.

Part of it is that the paperwork is easier: an international student with an F1 visa studying at a known American university can simply apply for a CPT (Curricular Practical Training) authorization and be allowed to work. Even before that, it is much easier to meet the candidate in person and decide if they are worthy of an offer: you can simply conduct campus interviews or fly them over in a (cheaper) domestic flight.

Simply put, the cost of interviewing an international student outside the US is high enough, that often times it isn't worth the cost to find out if a candidate is worth it.

Looking at other students from the Middle East graduating from my school, I see a similar trend: Those applying for internships and full-time jobs while still in the US as students will get interviews and offers, while those who were in the US and went back home have much more trouble returning.
Thank you! Hope it will be helpful for someone
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By the end of the course they'd only know they've got an exam to pass and they'll hate it. Students should not have any say in anything related to their courses, professors, marking, workload and such.
What if students could fire the ADMINISTRATORS?

What if students could run the university?
Based on my experience at University great teachers who push and challenge students are generally disliked by the large group of students that don't particularly want to be pushed or challenged.
Rich Hickey. He's brilliant and is arguably the best deeply technical speaker I have ever seen/heard.
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As others have said, you're most likely being rejected because hiring interns from Egypt is a hassle rather than any perceived deficiency in your ability, but I'd still recommend you put achievements and awards near the top... it marks you out as a top student far more than a GPA the recruiter doesn't understand from an institution they haven't heard of.
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I think the comments about applying abroad are probably right. Certainly try to apply to German companies, they are usually eager to get skilled people and the fact that you worked there already helps (instacredit as "don't have to worry about background checks and the like" for the pencil pushers)

Some random other thought:

1) There's no available source code to check that I can see. A link to github would help, maybe write some code specifically for that if you haven't done so.*

2) I'd stress the competitive coding a bit more. That probably means you have some algorithms/data structures chops, those are usually worth a lot on a CV. I'd have a seperate entry in skills for that.

3) Maybe rearange the skills by buzzyness (I'm assuming it's roughly by skill level now)

;) Maybe it just landed on Emacs users' desks

*Edit: Oh wow you have a pretty nice github repo. Def feature it more prominently.
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"Over the next eighteen months, your enterprise will need to adopt container technology at pace. And that will put pressure on you to assess the role containers can play and adapt your infrastructure to support them"

Technology adoption for the sake of it?
I managed 12 years so far without Docker, why do I suddenly need it now? I Already know how to use virtualenv with Python, or a full virtual machine. Why do I suddenly need another level?

Fad driven development.
Would that be a majority though?
cperciva without a doubt.
The lines are imaginary. They still execute people all of the time in America, oftentimes for things just as trivial.
We use papertrail and have been very pleased with it.
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No say at all? Not even trigger a review?

Profs that consistently get poor reviews are getting them for a reason.