skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in all my experience in hiring at my company, the one thing i find that 99% of applicants fail to understand is that a company is hiring a person to fit a certain need that is being unmet. therefore, listing a long resume full of all the impressive things you have done, but are completely irrelevant to the position being offered, is a waste of space and time and will increase your chances of being overlooked. you really need to think about catering your resume to the job and leave as much else as you can as a footnote.

if you do manage to get to the interview process, ask about the job you are being interviewed for so you can get a better understanding. a job interview is a conversation, so it goes both ways. try to find out why they are looking for a new employee. for example, they may be looking for a system administrator to do sysadmin tasks, but if you ask further, they might tell you that they are in the process of trying to scale their systems, at which point you can talk about your past experience or what ways your might go about developing a scalable architecture. make yourself relevant.

all too often, candidates just come in and sit quietly, waiting for the interviewer to ask them question after question, trying to pull information out of them and then it simply becomes checklist of questions to tick off (while looking at your watch) before thanking the interviewee and showing them the way out.
It is somewhat notable that _this_ entry was written (and submitted) by the CTO of the company in question.
Fine in Opera.
Work Out Plans
http://www.work-out-plans.com
I wrote a program to find the shortest URL. Enjoy!

#!/usr/bin/perl
#

use WWW::Mechanize;

die "usage: $0 <url>" unless @ARGV;

$name = 'a';
$m = WWW::Mechanize->new;
while (1) {
print "Trying http://to./$name\n";
$m->post('http://to./', {
url => $ARGV[0],
name => $name,
'Witz that URL!' => 'Witz that URL!'
});
unless ($m->content =~ /sorry/) {
print "You got http://to./$name\n";
exit(0);
}
$name++;
}
Can't believe it took them so long to implement a feature that is so obviously useful.
How to Navigate the Leadership Pipeline
Nice effort, but time taken to get to fully loaded state is a useless metric.

My homepage takes 2 seconds to load according to google, however what it doesn't/can't realise is that after 150ms (ie. the html page and css is downloaded) the page is entirely in 'usable' state, since all the javascript is loaded after the page finishes rendering.

I load the external javascripts on every page regardless of whether they will be used or not (because they will be cached after that).

Functionality is not an issue - I don't believe in 'graceful degrading' of javascript, I believe in using javascript to 'enhance' pages.
30 - 40% in my experience in the UK. It's pretty sickening.

That's the default. If you're crafty there are ways to force it down over the course of the arrangement.
The hedge funds and the Goldman Sachs of the world (as if there is more than one GS), are profiting at the hand of institutional investors, you know, the folks that don't get pensions any more, but instead have some 401K pitchman come into their office and tell them how to plan for retirement.

They used to have this graph that showed the DOW never lost money in any ten year period. It wasn't adjusted for inflation, do that, and you'll hear a giant sucking sound. 401K chumps don't stand a chance of beating inflation, they're sole purpose in life is to add volume to the markets so the skimmers, who add far less value than they take, have someone to fleece.

It's white collar crime: if you can pay off some legislators and capture a couple regulatory agencies, then it's almost legal, though it's far from moral.

Joe 401K should seriously consider keeping his retirement money closer to home where the electronic thieves can't get their hands on it. Let the hedge funds make the long investments. I know corporations need to issue stock in order to grow, but the hedge funds just sit in between the investors and the corporations and manipulate the market.
seems they have problems if the same url is used more than once.. the subsequent additions all break .. you can get around it by adding a query string on to the domain your shortening like ?like=this
Cloud is The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Science fiction gives us all sorts of ideas for futuristic interfaces, and I think (and hope) many of them come to fruition. But cursor position dictated by eye movement will be tricky or impossible---we can more or less do this now with the right equipment, but your eyes saccade all over the place, subconsciously, even when you think you're looking at just one thing. You've noted the biggest problem with voice input: it'd suck anywhere other than a private office! (Not to mention the homophone errors. True voice recognition is AI-complete.) Finally, look up the fate of the IBM PC Jr keyboard to find out why a fade-in touchpad keyboard will be less than ideal for fast, reliable text entry....
The reason banks can lend money at low interest even when nobody is saving is because they can create new money. A hike in interest rates means a reduction in the production of new money. If you define inflation as the increase of the money supply, then obviously a hike in interest rate, or equivalently, a reduction in the production of new money solves the problem of inflation.

A gold standard also solves inflation, but fundamentally and non-policically, by limiting money to the supply of gold.

The purpose of the Fed is to inflate the money supply for the benefit of the government, the banks, and borrowers who want artificially low interest rates at the expense of everyone else who uses money. If the Fed did not inflate, it would be no different from a gold standard, and in fact, when the Fed corrects inflation, it does so by reducing the production of new money as under a gold standard.
Google offers a "push" mechanisms for sites. You'll have to google for the specifics, but if HN implements it then google knows when a page is updated and re-reads just that page.
Yeah, Chrome does the same for me. I can click through the links just fine, but pasting into the URL bar (which you're probably going to have to do until the world updates its URL regexes) only gives me the option of a search, unless the URL's in the history.
Lots of stuff on the page != cluttered != confusing
And most importantly - Farmville actually has an income model....
Also, the page looks very 1998-notepad-hand-coded html. Not the best calling card for a computer geek dude. Go get some Dreamweaver time somewhere and make a nice layout.

Sorry for being a bit off-topic there, but I'd like to comment on that bit. 1998-style code would be a non-semantic mess of tables and other elements thrown in just for a visual effect. Code of yangman.ca however is very clean and semantic. I wish all those zillions of web agencies and "professionals" who are stuck in last century would be able to write code as good as this.
Getting DW won't help a bit there. Adding some niceties via CSS may.
Piracy: The people vs the entertainment industry
The most obvious thing to me is freelance coding jobs. Try a site like Guru.com or Rent-a-coder. You can build experience as well as client references, and if you're good take on larger jobs.
if they syndicate their content, maybe the reason for de-indexing was duplicate content (the content on IMDB would rank higher I guess).
1.4 million photos per second. If you turn that into per day it's 1.69e11 photos (you write out the zeros).

That's just not possible.
OMAP isn't a DSP, it's a dual-core with an ARM on one side and a DSP on the other. I don't know of any port of Linux to an actual DSP.
I've heard 10% at my current company.
after i just spent all day yesterday building and rebulding amis... this is great.

i can see a lot of advantages in terms of boot time and having a much bigger root but for us since boot time is negligable compared to puppet config time, the biggest saving will come the next time we're doing the
the whole configure/test/ec2-bundle-vol/ec2-upload-bundle/ec2-register cycle, which is so tedious.
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Comparing FarmVille and Twitter is like trying to compare blunt hammer to a swiss army knife. A hammer is fun for doing simple, satisfying things like banging in nails and smash old glass window pains. Twitter, on the other hand, is like networking on acid - it's incredible & there's so much more you can do with it.
Anxiety Natural Remedies Stop Your Anxiety in 5 Minutes
In Just Five Minutes You Can STOP Panic Attacks And General Anxiety Today This is the best program Ive ever used for stoppi
A Social Crime: This is Ridiculous
WebGL goes mobile - WebGL demo on Firefox/N900
Close. It's 120 billion per day. And with 250 million Facebook users that's 500 photos per user per day. That sounds rather a lot.
Robert Glass writes consistently interesting stuff, and this was no exception.

I wish he had a higher profile (similar, say, to Spolsky and Atwood, for example)....
nothing at all, but sadly, I know some employers(HR people, etc) probably don't even go through that much trouble in the screening process. If you are paying for stackoverflow to list you you know the employers on the other end are discerning enough to actually care about your stackoverflow rep. This is the same value provided by GitHub's job profile.
The fascination with url shorteners is really worrying and useless. Can we get past this fad?
Comcast to acquire NBC
I wonder if you are asking the correct question. Your frustration from the process seems to stem from not having received an offer yet. Would you not rather ask the question, what can applicants do to obtain an offer from prospective employers every time? You might want to keep the discussion focussed by providing a link to your stack overflow profile.
But this isn't work, and the answer isn't a program.

This is an interview, your "customer" is the interviewee, and the answer you are trying to impress on your "customer" is that you are smart, articulate, personable, etc. Even more important, can the candidate look at an obvious question (the quiz) and see the underlying real question (is this candidate outstanding?).

All the things that don't come through on a paper-and-ink resume.

P.S. I've worked with lots of engineers that answer the question that is asked, but never think about what is underlying the question - sometimes the question is wrong. That is the difference between "smart, and gets things done" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html and "done, and gets things smart" http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things... (a GREAT rant).
Sweet, I got http://to./m/r
The vertical integration continues. It's always seemed dicey to me that a cable provider owns so many content stations, and this just exacerbates it.
Flash applets can't be trivially parallelized.
Joe 401K should seriously consider keeping his retirement money closer to home where the electronic thieves can't get their hands on it.

Joe 401k doesn't have much choice in the matter; the tax system leads him in by the nose.

Here in the UK, the housing bubble was largely caused by individuals looking for a viable asset class for their retirement. The stock market was out due to a combination of poor returns and Gordon Brown's tax raids on the pension funds. So we see when regulators meddle too much, lots of honest individuals making the correct decision for their own and their own family's future leads to negative effects on the economy as a whole.
Works fine here with Google Chrome.
This article is really crying out for footnotes. It cites a lot of studies and facts, but provides no references at all.
The documentary version of How Buildings Learn is also available:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=863955592548621085...
Bing might actually be heading towards a major slice of the search engine market.

Right now everyone's browser defaults to Google search. Partly this is because most people still have Win XP and when they got those the default (Windows live search) was horrible. There was a reason to switch to Google.

These days Bing's results are good enough that most normal people wouldn't bother to change their browser default if it was set to Bing.

Thanks to the good publicity it's been getting in the main stream media it looks like a _lot_ of people are going to upgrade to Win 7, including the crowd of late-adopters that stuck with XP.

All of these people will get Bing by default with their new install/computer, and a lot of them won't bother to change it.

A box you type in to get search results when you open the Internet window? Yep, I can 'google' from here. It would take a bad experience to drive these users to change their home page to Google again.
Software's Ten Essentials
Presentation Lessons from Comedians
PG can we please do this? We're looking to hire 15+ people right now and we are running out of good people in Toronto.
The "Demo Fact Sheet"[1] is really pie-in-the-sky. My favourites are "Cloud Programming on a Chip: Hadoop Web Search" and
"Programming for the 3D Internet: JavaScript Server Farm on a Chip"

[1] http://download.intel.com/pressroom/pdf/rockcreek/Demo_facts...
I don't think there's much in the way of guidelines or advice that would apply to all employers. Although you're probably focused on just getting a job (and understandably frustrated with that at this point), some employers just won't be a good match for you. So, adopt some of the methods that seem like they'd work with the kind of employers that you'd want to work for.

As for me: I hired recently for an open-ended contract position through Craigslist. The pay was pretty good, given the area I'm in. However, the vast majority of the applicants couldn't be bothered to tell me anything about themselves. Most of the responses were along the lines of, "Here's my resume". That was it, nothing else, and the resume just included their work history.

I'd like to know a little bit about the person applying. Just a paragraph would be fine. Don't limit it to your work experience; your hobbies and how you spend your free time tells me a lot about you.

Good luck. It's ugly out there right now.
Detecting an unnatural decrease in the value of currency is not as simple as tracking prices and standard of living. You need to track productivity too.

Normally, in an economy that is growing in productivity, your purchasing power should be growing, not merely staying the same. If your productivity increases by 3% per year, then you should be able to buy 3% more goods and services every year (assuming you work the same hours).

If the supply of money does not change, then increases in productivity will be reflected in lower prices. If you made 100 widgets last year for $100 ($1/widget), and this year you made 103 widgets because you got better at it (productivity increase), the price of your widgets would be $100/103widgets = $.97/widget if people spent the same amount of money or portion of their income on widgets. Your goods would be cheaper for customers, or, put another way, your customers would be a little richer in widgets. If others in the economy experienced the same productivity growth, you would also be richer. The $100 you made producing widgets would buy you more of other people's goods. Your standard of living depends on your own productivity and everyone else's. If your productivity is average, and the average is growing, then your standard of living should be growing too.

Thus, if the money supply were relatively constant as it would be under a gold standard, prices should naturally fall as productivity increases, while wages should be constant (assuming no population change).

When the money supply is growing, it is a lot harder to make these calculations and know what your money should be worth. This is an irritation at the personal, consumer level, you don't know exactly how much the government is screwing you, but at the macro level, it causes bubbles. When people don't know the value of money, they spend unwisely, paying too much for a thing. The housing bubble was caused because people thought that money was worth less than it was. (They can be forgiven for this mistake because it was reasonable. If money were worth more, why were the banks selling it so cheaply?) As a result, they overpaid for houses and builders built too many of them. By the time the mistake was discovered, there were too many houses on the market and their prices dropped suddenly.
> Laws enforced against deceit and theft and murder help freedom. Laws dictating what's legal to sell, at what price, not at all.

Laws are far from the only way to restrict what is sold to the public. Large corporations can leverage their market share to shut down competition in other areas. In order to maintain a healthy market place, you have to ensure that a market is not completely controlled by a few large corporations.
World Statistics in Real Time
I clicked on the 'past awards' link on this page http://www.sbir.gov/

and after lots of signing up and applying for things, I think they 'declined' me to view the past awards because I'm not a government employee. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better place to look this up?
A lot of these come from Glass's excellent book "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering": http://www.amazon.com/Facts-Fallacies-Software-Engineering-R...

It's quite concise (224 pages), but it's chock full of quite excellent advice. Each one of these points (and many others) is fleshed out in a separate chapter that gives a good deal of background, clarification, and supporting evidence.
Most studies that I'm aware of in behavioral psychology (granted, it's a young branch of science) confirm my point, though. When they tell people about the anchoring heuristic, people still continue to make similar mistakes.

One way to explain would be to think about the number of variables we should account for in virtually any everyday decision. Finding even a fairly optimal solution would consume too many resources and evolution has taught us to deal with this using emotional shortcuts. On the evolutionary time scale, the 50 years when the question of choosing a programming language was relevant would be a tiny dot.

On the other hand, rational knowledge can by absorbed subconsciousness eventually. But when it does, we become unaware of it, by definition.
How To Screw Up Your Life [warning: list post]
Public Policy and Venture Capital
Also, even if you do realise you can change which search engine backs the search box in the top right, and manage to get to the add provider gallery, Google is way down on the second page.
17 million Americans don't have a bank account
I'd like to highlight this particular gem:

RE4. Even if 100-percent test coverage (see RE3) were possible, that criteria would be insufficient for testing. Roughly 35 percent of software defects emerge from missing logic paths, and another 40 percent are from the execution of a unique combination of logic paths. They will not be caught by 100-percent coverage (100-percent coverage can, therefore, potentially detect only about 25 percent of the errors!).

Given the fanaticism for TDD today, this is a fact well worth remembering.
Once upon a time Yahoo was trying to buy out Facebook. How times have changed!
The average index fund will be the average actively manged fund.
Multiple processes cannot share regular in memory data structures. That makes the multiprocessing library unsuitable for a growing class of applications. However, unladen swallow aims to remove the GIL, so there's still hope for Python.
Indeed. They're a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Ask HN: Is this a bad situation?
I am employee #1 at a well-known web company. I started some months ago, but have yet to receive a contract. Furthermore, the equity (1%) I was offered verbally and in the offer letter vanished from the contract and was replaced with a sale bonus. Something about tax liability... Anyhow, am I mad, or is this a bad situation? I am a technical employee with a very solid background and experience, but am also receiving below market rate for my level/role. What should I do?
Check out http://ai (my DNS seems not to like it but there is a site). I love the URL. :)
Take initiative. I hire UX people. I give them little assignments. One of them did some user research with her friends before doing the assignment -> hired! Come with a critique of our existing website, and we'll take you very seriously. Any kind of initiative beyond the standard boring stuff is much approeciated, means you care and are someone who gets things done without us having to ask for it.
And if you see google as a search company, than this is ba news. Too bad they are an ad company.
BBC News - Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip
Also, please accept that people don't read your resume, they've probably skimmed it and don't necessarily remember which resume you were. You are the one that should do the homework.
Most of his stuff is excellent. ComputingFailure.com is a rip-off. It is a compilation of articles (not by Glass), mostly very shallow from newspapers about dot-com business failures, the only thing about computers in the book is that the businesses used them.
It was probably also a sneaky way to get more funding for the project. Politicians won't want to shutter working rovers on the surface, but building in 6+ years of operation would have significantly increased the projected budget. Savvy!
NoSQL No Niche
House scalpers didn't force legitimate buyers to take out huge mortgages. The "legitimate buyers" (I assume you mean people who wish to consume housing) could have continued to rent.

Most of the people who bought houses are also scalpers; they bought a house in the hopes that it would be worth more later. "Real estate never goes down!"
Procrastination - Not a Problem
If gold were used as money, money would be like any other good. Anybody could produce their own coins by marking on them their brand and their content of gold. The value of coins would depend on people's ability to verify their content or the maker's reputation. The market would police the quality the same as it does any other good. If a coin maker began to produce coins with lower gold content than marked, it would be discovered, sued for fraud civilly and criminally, and shunned by the market. The same mechanism would police money as polices gas stations and forces them to use accurate measures in dispensing gas.
Google Makes It Easier for News Sites to Opt-out
You are right, Collor wasn't a dictator.

But he did do some things right, like starting the process of opening Brazil's economy, which in the 80's was more closed than those of the communist bloc. I wouldn't ever think of supporting him, though.
And a problem to a solution that does.
State Abstraction for Programmable Reinforcement Learning Agents
How Attention Goes Wrong
The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
Good point.

But if the code has copyrighted issues, then how can I show publicly? I usually have a copy of repository for my past projects and I don't mind to show it to people who interview me.

Also I think if I need to put code on GitHub, it has to be some software for more generic tasks.
New York Times: The Anti-Social-Network Social Network
Exactly. I probably read it in 10 minutes 2 weeks ago when I gave recruiting the nod to bring you in. After that, if I looked at it for another 10 minutes in the morning before your interview, consider yourself flattered/lucky.

The fact that I walk into the interview room knowing less about your resume than you do is your problem/opportunity, not mine.
Facebook, and I say this with great admiration, is the devil.

First they use your friends to suck you into joining the site. Then they amuse all of your bored friends with games, then they use the games to get those same friends to lure in more FaceBook users and to market/sell things to people already there.

It's referral marketing taken to the nth degree. It's been obvious to me for some time now that it has more legs than Twitter, now it looks like it has more volume (and a better business model) as well.

(sigh)