skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there are "lots", but I think there are enough to distort the view of the labor pool. Additionally, there is the issue of these fakers staying in the pool much longer and spraying their resumes out more often further distorting the view.

As for how they get through the screen, I think they just blatantly lie on their resume hoping to get a company that doesn't do its due diligence in determining if the stated experience is real.
It isn't what I fail to grasp, it's that I reject the idea that one's performance can break such a curve in a developer job unless the person in question was underpaid to begin with.

That doesn't happen unless the deck is stacked. It just does not.
I've been watching HEMA videos, and it's quite interesting how little resemblance fighting with sword/spear/shield on TV and in movies has to the real thing. I am not a HEMA practitioner, however here is a some of what I've gleaned from their videos:

No one sane would take off their helmet in the middle of a battlefield for the most important fight/battle. You don't slice with a sword through plate armor or decent chain mail. It just doesn't happen in real battle conditions. For that matter, it's not so easy to slice through padded cloth gambeson armor! Also, the "reality-tv" shows that have covered historical weapons are often bogus. You "half-sword" to wrestle your opponent to the ground, then guide the stabby point of a specialized sword through an eye-hole or other gap in their armor. Likewise, real battles between knights didn't consist of them bashing at each other, using their swords crudely like glorified metal clubs.

Long exchanges of blows/parries in movies are just for show. In fact, there are fighting manuals that urge you not to parry if you can help it, but rather always "bind" a weapon in the process of some kind of counterattack.

Social class meant a hell of a lot. On the battlefield, it determined how much armor you could afford to keep up, which made a big difference to how likely you'd be killed.

Most swords were sidearms, not main battlefield weapons, analogous in role to an automatic pistol vs. an assault rifle. For most of western history, and in many other parts of the world, the main battlefield weapons were polearms, often used in conjunction with a shield. This even applies to a certain extent to Japan! (Though the naginata fell out of favor and for awhile actually became a sign of social status for women.)

Katana are not magic, and there were and are european, middle-eastern, and indian subcontinental swords capable of equivalent feats of cutting.
Because the "inner city" culture demonizes people who live and work hard in the suburbs.

I noticed this in high school, when it started becoming popular for inner city families to ship their kids out to the suburban schools to get them away from "bad influences". Many of those kids had already been programmed by their peers to think that working hard and doing well was uncool.
What percentage of Linux users do you think have the capability or the desire to spend their time tracing calls through various libraries and kernel source?

When I run into a problem on my Linux machine, I typically have to do a lot of searching. More searching than I must do with Windows, because while there is generally only one Windows (at least relative to Linux), there are hundreds of Linuxes, distros and versions of those distros - many that are majorly different than the previous version.

Do you think it's easier for the average Linux user to find answers?
I agree. If this were written by a Nissan Leaf blog it would come off far more proletariat and I'm not sure any of it would have to be changed (except the bit about the frunk).
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> But Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg said it was "not sustainable to offer the whole internet for free".

I think that's exactly what they should do, if they're serious about this: just find a way to offer everyone the whole internet for free. If something must be compromised, then compromise speed, not access to sites. Sites that want to reach poor people would just have to practice draconian bandwidth discipline. At least that way, sites could opt in on their own terms, rather than having to kowtow to some consortium of rich people.
Well I won't be linking that anymore. Anyways, I was really more interested in the little narrative observation above than the numerical results of the study.
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The problem with a mileage tax is that it would need to either be backed up with tracking (so an Illinois driver wouldn't be on the hook for miles driven in Michigan, as an example), or it would have to be a federal-level tax.

A possible alternative would be to tax the electricity at the charger, but that also opens up more cans of worms.

Another thing to consider is that, beyond normal weathering, most road damage comes from heavy (and often overweight) trucks.
NDN sounds a lot like http://ipfs.io/
A surveillance-state Montessori with a big data fetish and a bottom line doesn’t count as reform, sorry AltSchool. I was particularly struck by:

> “It’s not hard to model language acquisition if you can listen to every word a person is saying,”

This is patently false big data hubris, which I’m afraid bodes poorly for the rest of the rest of their approach. I study early language acquisition and have worked on some very large datasets (e.g. Speechome,
http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word), and there’s a lot you don’t know about the language system of a child even with a complete record of utterances and videos of everything that happens. Higher density/quality data is fantastic, but to understand language acquisition or to understand the progress of a single child you have to work out a complex system of latent variables. Education is similar— the biggest thing is that there is s different mixture of explicit pedagogy vs. observation.

I’m all for school reform that leverages technology but this misunderstanding of data, in conjunction with the for-profit aspect, leaves me pretty convinced that this isn’t the right direction.

The other thing that caught me off guard was:

> “and wearable devices that help keep track of students off campus”

I did a double-take. Why does this school track the kids off campus?

The complete lack of criticism eliminated the last shred of credibility Wired had in my mind. I don’t care if you think this is a good idea or not, tell me who doesn’t think it’s a good idea and why.
Referring users to a third party to understand your error messages is an asshole thing to do. It's just another flavor of the typical "you're doing it wrong" shit we always get from PHP.
maybe she said she "was not really a programmer" because she didn't want to be associated with one (consciously or not). I have heard that sometimes women view programming as a low-status job i.e. akin to labor.
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You do have a point, but your description sells Inline::Perl5 short: For example, it is possible for Perl6 classes to inherit from Perl5 ones.
> The results of an Idaho National Laboratory study released in March found that the test LEAFs lost 22-26% of their initial capacity after just 40,000 miles...Frankly, I'm burned out by the bullshit EV enthusiasts push out on these forums.

From your link:

> One of the most important variables in battery longevity is temperature. In general, temperatures above 86 degrees F place great stress on the battery and speed up capacity loss. Vehicles that have a liquid-cooled battery, like the Chevrolet Volt or Tesla Model S, are less vulnerable to high-temperature effects as long as they are not parked in the blazing sun. However, the Nissan LEAF may be notably susceptible to rapid degradation in extremely hot climates. The results of an Idaho National Laboratory study released in March found that the test LEAFs lost 22-26% of their initial capacity after just 40,000 miles. This is most attributable to two factors: the vehicles were tested in Pheonix, where the hot climate accelerated capacity decline; and the vehicles were discharged to less than 5% capacity twice per day.

I'm not seeing how a number derived from deliberately-abusive worst-case scenario of a known-inferior approach is relevant to discussions of future EVs.

(If anything, that sounds pretty good - the worst-case scenario for one of the cheapest ones out on the market right this second is only 1/5th capacity loss? I would have expected it to be much worse.)
Interesting, I grew up in eastern SD, pretty much right in the big cluster of deep blue counties in the middle of the country on the map.

I'm trying to think of what could be responsible for the above average outcomes in this area, and not coming up with much. The best reason I have is that it's a very family focused area. The 'default' path for most people is to get married, have kids, and put parenting before their career. This is quite different from what I see now, living in the bay area.
I also love manual transmissions. It will be the hardest thing for me to give up when I eventually make the switch to electric.

I suppose it is similar to the satisfaction the owner of a mechanical watch gets -- but it's more visceral. You're really becoming part of the machine, and you feel it. Coordinating gear shifting with clutch pedal actuation, instinctively doing it all at the right moment based on what you hear and feel from the engine. Your body and mind are involved, consciously and subconsciously. Now all that is just ... gone.
> I am of the opinion that the successful interviews are not improving my job hunting skills. Only failures do. Since in these cases I got to the money talk I consider this successful.

I really don't agree with this. I've gotten a ton of value out of seeing what works--and even when I don't go to work for somebody, I've usually stayed in contact and made a lot of acquaintances that way.

But I treat interviewing as a game, and a game I enjoy; last time I was looking I interviewed at thirty-five places just to keep meeting people.
I guess that's why they just lost their commercial sponsors recently.
> It's not verbose. "Option" is 6 characters. ".map" is 4.

I just want to note that verbosity isn't just about symbol length, but also about operator noise and the number of available or required commands used to achieve a goal. Just counting these characters isn't very relevant, and isn't even the best Rust can do (as someone pointed out you can use 'Some()' to get an Option var, which is only 4 chars).

That said, I agree this is rather subjective, and can't be well compared outside the context of the rest of the language.
There are alternatives. Look at Google Loon.
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In this topic: people demonstrate they don't know what "bimodal" means. A normal distribution of programming talent doesn't preclude the existence of "10x" programmers.
I remember quite clearly the jump from 300 to 1200 baud and how amazing that was. When 56k modems came out, I thought, that's it, we've reached the limits of what we can push over copper. Joseph Lechleider proved me wrong. I use a pair of VDSL2 modems to connect my home condo to my rental condo downstairs so I can share bandwidth between the two units, and it's awesome. Thanks Joe, I owe ya one.
When I see a resume with a "McJob", I'm impressed. It shows me they will work.

My best Unix/FreeBSD admin came out of a crappy Verizon customer support job - he's been eager to learn, works hard, is appreciative and is really nice to be around.
What are the filtering capabilities? Someone needs to finish flushing this out (maybe make it speak to snort or something) because there are a lot of corporate proxies out there that don't support TLS 1.2, for example, which is a travesty that they're really downgrading your security.
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Cool effect, but does not seem to work on Safari (8.0.5, OSX 10.10.3)
Carly Fiorina: A Record of Failure (2009)
> (as someone pointed out you can use 'Some()' to get an Option var, which is only 4 chars)

Some() is 6 chars.
On the contrary, I'm glad that Teslas are both handsome and fairly normal-looking. An electric car doesn't need to look ridiculous.
I am afraid that Mark and few others start to live up to their stereotype.

I am surprised how sneaky is their buisness and how far in the future they plan.
Ask HN: I'm a hacker visiting SF for three weeks. What should I do?
I'm a 32 year old MD (anesthesiologist), software dev (mostly iOS) and hacker from Denmark.

I'm visiting SF for three weeks. Apart from the usual sights I would really like to experience the startup scene and perhaps visit some hackerspaces.

Where should I go, what should I see?
That is not what the article says. It's about an attitude that only great programmers are welcome and average programmers aren't worth anything.
Rolling zero-downtime deployments with Ansible
It's definitely colonialism and the effect of modern western media.

I know this because I grew up seeing this change happen in India. Today in India everyone (obviously an unfair generalization but still) wants to conform to the white standards of beauty. This wasn't always the case. In south india, I gradually saw the change happen; each generation of film actors was more light-skinned than their predecessors.

And if you read the classics of Indian literature, a lot of the protagonists are dark skinned. The funny thing is even a lot of the Indian gods and mythological characters are portrayed as being dark skinned in the myths, but modern paintings, TV serials and movies portray these characters with light-skinned actors!
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Agree, this seems like a collection of interviews with some famous folks who are in the field of 'data science' (can we just call it stats please). A handbook is a poor description indeed.

For folks interested in learning about this topic there are tons of online courses/videos on the real stuff. The stanford islr course is a great place to start
I can only speak about the german car industry, and over here, every manufacturer is lead by an engineer. Let that sink in for a minute.

Ferdinand Piëch said in his autobiography:

"[The leader] must have a technical background, as a development- or production technician. He has to have an integral (not quickly acquired) passion for cars and be able to think ten years ahead. The technical foundation is required in order to develop the necessary phantasy."

I think the "develop the necessary phantasy" is the interesting part, as I think this matches Steve Job's approach, too. No engineer could bullshit him, because he knew exactly what was possible. He knew when it was possible to build the iPhone, when the RIM CEOs didn't even believe it when it was revealed to the world.
I'd say that the 'talent' of programming comes from the tenacity to handle all kinds of bullshit and be able to adapt and survive in this environment. Just setting up a Python environment on Windows is a nightmare, and most people will just give up. Second part of the talent is the experience of how to handle or avoid all the bullshit and get the work done.
I have somewhat mixed feelings on the subsidies. On the one hand, I'm all for encouraging innovation in renewable power, energy conservation techniques, and electric vehicles. On the other hand, it's true that most of the "green" tax credits available to consumers--whether for electric cars, solar panels, or energy-efficient windows--do go to relatively high-income individuals. And it's not unreasonable to be discomfited by that fact.

That said, as others have mentioned, there are lots of subsidies for lots of things and the premise of these ones seems laudable for the most part however they're delivered.
There are not alternatives. I recommend you look at Google Loon before citing it as an actively running alternative in India.

For the people who use Internet.org, there are literally no other ways to get online.
Flexible working hours and remote work option.

Probably the most important thing, which isn't really a perk, is having a good boss who doesn't micromanage or try to get you to work more hours than you're comfortable with.
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"When I asked one of the higher-ups, a lieutenant, what he was doing to ensure that the law was being followed, he told me bluntly: “They are violating your rights. And everyone here knows it.”"
> My main problem with Perl 6 is that it seems overly large and complex. It is very different from Perl 5

Perl 5 is also overly large and complex (with most features getting used only rarely and some being broken/having half-assed implementations), only not as scary because it doesn't get presented to the newbie with its radically new features first.

For example, did you know Perl 5 has a UNITCHECK compile phase keyword? Almost noone uses it.

Did you know that you can execute code inside a regular expression with (?{ CODE })? It's very useful but too bad that using other regular expressions in the code you use/call from there will break things silently.

It's such things that a) made the implementation of Perl 5 already overly complex (and progressing slowly) and b) made things harder for the Perl ecosystem to fully support the language (even parsing Perl to analyze it, like Perl::Critic does, is nearly impossible).

Instead of addressing these issues and slimming down the Perl 5 spec to a useful, easier to maintain, optimize and learn core functionality (and perhaps giving it a name that doesn't imply backwards compatibility), they built another large, incompatible mess. We'll see how well Perl 6 does out in the wild.
Note that no actual IPC is involved: The Perl5 interpreter gets loaded from a shared library and afaict does not run in a separate process.
I didn't realize I put forth that the bimodal should be eliminated. Just that I don't think it should be taken as a natural fact. It may be that eliminating it is meaningless. It may be that keeping it is meaningless.

Consider, do you really care about having the best and brightest doing something. Or just getting the best results. Odds are high that those align at least somewhat with each other. I don't know if it is a foregone conclusion, though. Study will show.

If you have experience that a normal distribution brings down the top end, I'd be interested in seeing it. If it is just a gut feeling, it is something that can be tested. If it can't be tested...
Popularity != quality.

Or would you argue that Honey Boo Boo was the best show on television?
Has your new hire been poached by an investor?
After watching the new episode of silicon valley i'm wondering if there is anecdotal evidence of investors poaching employees from startups they invest in?
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Song about the trough of sorrow
Has anyone written a song about the trough of sorrow? This is a real question for the startup podcast.
Seems like that would only apply to highways. The average neighborhood road sees zero truck traffic, so 100% of the road wear is done by cars.
> She would make comments about how "good looking" white people were from time to time, and how she thought Chinese people were ugly. When she would see pictures of my kids she would say things like, "You have the cutest children ever; Chinese kids are so ugly."

If it makes you feel better: I dated a white girl (I'm not white) who would constantly say the same about white people. Kids that I thought were very cute just didn't seem cute to her. She wanted more color in them, darker hair, darker eyes, etc. We broke up but are still friends.

I also dated another white girl who had not dated any white guys after high school. We also broke up but stayed friends. Then she met a white guy on OKC, but after the first date wasn't excited about him. He seemed like a great guy, so I encouraged (pushed hard!) her to accept a second date. That went better, and next thing you know, they're married and have a kid... she couldn't be happier now.

Our brains work in so weird ways.
A more accurate analogy would be "anyone can learn the piano well enough to play in a bar and entertain patrons", i.e. not in the 1% of piano players, but you are good enough to be effective at a job.

Also, I felt that the point of the article isn't that anyone can code, it's that we are discouraging people who COULD have coded.
Zoom way out to the national level. Looks like the empty towns in the middle of nowhere do the best -- because they force you to move out to get a job. Also, no one there is having decent jobs just appear locally in front of them, so you have to make yourself look good on paper to get one of those far-away jobs.

There are other factors that obviously affect this, but looks like that's the real dominant factor. Drastically changing location is the best way to quickly increase wage, and these towns do that, like tossing a young bird out of a nest.
Also, the first cohort of Model S' are coming off lease to certified pre-owned and the price is right around $60k with some dipping below it.

Edit: here is a link to the fan made sortable spreadsheet of available cars http://logmysc.com/cpo-reports.php
I think one difference between this lady who built a complex system and "a programmer" is that the typical professional programmer works on a legacy system.
I'm a product manager with Microsoft.

With the Azure Stack, you can deploy your applications on your on-premises (private) cloud, just like you would do in Azure - you're essentially retargeting the app. Our ultimate goal is to empower maximum application agility.

To enable the same deployment experience, Microsoft is bringing the same Azure portal, user experience framework, and underlying IaaS/PaaS APIs and services to your on-premises environments. We're also being thoughtful in which services we bring on-premises so that enterprise customers get maximum value.

We want to enable our customers and partners to run Azure in their datacenter in a way that's appropriate to their business requirements. We understand that not everybody operates at the hyper-scale that Microsoft does - as such, we will translate Microsoft's cloud designs and bring them to customers so it's easy to consume while enhancing flexibility and security in datacenter operations.
If portrait artist trades were paying as highly as programming, I'd wager you'd see a lot more failures at that level, as well.
> Only the top-of-the-line performance model is $105k, and that's before tax credits which bring it back down to five figures.

Which loan financing and sales tax brings back up to six figures.
Startup Elementary sounds great because entrepreneurship does start young. I like that this environment will encourage young kids to pursue their dreams. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to young entrepreneurs quitting school to follow dreams. LOL! Just Kidding…
Ah, thanks. I suspect this is a bug related to the transition to sdl2, though I'm not sure what makes it present (it doesn't happen to everyone's android build).

If you're interested, one thing to try is (if you're using buildozer) to put 'kivy==master' in the requirements line instead of just 'kivy'. This will download the master branch, which may have a fix for this.

It not that, it's probably an issue somewhere in the python-for-android/buildozer build process, so that log would be the most interesting. If you're able to provide it that would be great, but thanks either way for reporting it.
They're not expected to go to the mill to help support their family.
Which, for a consultant, means more work for me.
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Important things:

-- Modern development practices.

-- Good hardware, paid up.

-- Health insurance.

-- Short commute or remote work.

-- Significant equity or revenue/profit sharing.

-- Autonomy to solve problems.