DavidChouinard

The thickness of edges represents the number of times the pair of senators voted the same in the Senate (only edges above a threshold are shown).

The two tightly coiled clusters shows just how weak the relationships are between the two parties.

The closer the nodes are to the center, the more bipartisan those Senators are. In the current Congress, Sens. Murkowski and Collins really stand out as by far the most bipartisan senators and important linchpins in bridging the gap between both parties. (this bar graph of partisanship shows that: http://i.imgur.com/gYCMaxo.png)

Also, it’s clear that in the current Senate, partisanship is a lot more pronounced among Democrats, likely because they hold the majority in the Senate. (ie. they have a lot less incentive to compromise)

While there were ups and downs, it’s clear that there’s a general trend of the Senate becoming a lot more divided over the last 25 years. Comparing 1989 to today is striking — opinions were a lot more intertwined back then (this static image really emphasize it: http://i.imgur.com/4kDokyz.jpg).

Keep in mind that "Computer Programmers" means a very specific thing to the Department of Labor and only captures the low end of the developer market: http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/15-1131.00

There are half a dozen other job categorization that could also be computer programmers, such as:

• Software Developers, Applications

• Software Developers, Systems Software

• Web Developers

• Software Quality Assurance Engineers and Testers

• Network and Computer Systems Administrator

• Computer Systems Analysts

• Computer Operators

• Database Administrators

The wages are much higher for other job titles. (eg. $88,589 for "Software Developers, Applications")

Also, note that the figure you quote is for the SF Bay Area, while the H-1B figure is an average for the country. Big difference.

David from FlightAware here. The last few days have indeed been very hectic on the ops side.

The gentleman who wrote it is Bret Victor. I highly recommend this talk [1] by him (500k views), he's a true visionary.

[1] https://vimeo.com/36579366

Incidentally, I also believe this is a powerful idea for other types of spam, including text message and Twitter spam, and ultimately, telemarketing spam.

Incidentally, I also believe this is a powerful idea for other types of spam, including text message and Twitter spam, and ultimately, telemarketing spam.

I was intrigued by your background. Since you invited us to Google your name, I hope you don't mind my posting this here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/man-allegedly-b/

I emailed you on April 30th with the following:

  I recently applied to FD and it appears that you randomly 
  spammed 10 of my LinkedIn contacts. What the hell? Not cool.

That "line" definitely wasn't obvious to me. I originally dismissed the oversight as carelessness on my end, but the widespread outcry here leads me to believe the UI is likely deceiving.

I was highly embarrassed when I received a reply to one of the LinkedIn messages. And your failure to respond to my email only makes it worse.

I highly recommend Radiolab (http://www.radiolab.org/), it's one of the most respected podcasts out there. It's changed the way I see the world.

Shin recounts his experience in this incredibly touching and thought-provoking 60 minutes interview: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50136263n

Also, here are illustrations of a North Korean concentration camp by an escaped prison: http://imgur.com/a/648Mv. Incredibly alarming.

Another version of this story got flagged, but some of the comments are interesting (in particular, patio11's): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064586

Also, the original Verizon report: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/case-stud... (seems to be down, cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...)

I've been curious about percentage of success as well. I've seen numbers on this for the first time in this slideshow. See this slide: http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#category

(Note that Kickstarter has a fairly selective application process, these figures pertain only to projects accepted on the platform. No idea what percentage of projects are accepted on Kickstarter)

I've always been curious about that as well.

Although it doesn't entirely answer your question, you might find this paper to be interesting: "Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?" http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf

I agree, I can't overstate how weak your labs.im pitch is, especially in regards to your clearly very impressive skills. That pitch easily cuts your market rate by half, probably more. And as csomar mentioned, it's going to get you the crappiest, bottom-of-the-barrel jobs.

In all types of pitches — to employers, VCs, etc. — desperation is the absolute worst thing you should ever let transpire.

I agree, this is top-notch work. I would drop the beatup negative attitude, it's a big turnoff. You could easily get a remote part-time job in the Valley for 100+$/hour — think of it, that's only 40 hours of work to pay off your tuition.

Rudism originally posted the story here: http://www.rudism.com/s/vimcreep . Just submitted it to HN, upvote here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876) if you found this story insightful and beautifully well written.

Related: "Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?", http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/WhyFromNigeria.pdf

Yes, it was antirez: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/210633349436407808

FlightAware (flightaware.com) — Houston, TX (no REMOTE, no H1B)

Front-end (UI/UX) Developer

Here’s a profile of us from 37signals (we do flight tracking software, 2M+ pageviews a day): http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2780-bootstrapped-profitable-...

We have very interesting data visualization and UI problems and your work will reach millions of users. We've also released a bunch of open source projects. You get top-of-the-line Apple gear and our kitchen is always stocked with snacks and beverages, including a free (!) beer kegerator. We’re a fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.

We’ve been around for a while and are profitable, but we’re still growing like mad. Compensation is very competitive.

Who you are:

• You have a trail of cool projects you’ve worked on, including some you’ve written to scratch your own itch.

• You obsess over the design of everyday things, from door knobs to teapots or light switches.

• You have a passion for software and desire to change the world.

• You have excellent implementation skills, including deep expertise in Javascript (jQuery).

• You enjoy working on tricky UI problems with equally smart people.

You can apply on our website: https://flightaware.com/about/careers/position/frontend_deve... or shoot me an email: david.chouinard@flightaware.com

Agreed. Figuring out a way around the admissions process is the admissions process.

FlightAware (flightaware.com) — Houston, TX (no REMOTE, no H1B)

Front-end (UI/UX) Developer

Here’s a profile of us from 37signals (we do flight tracking software, 2M+ pageviews a day): http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2780-bootstrapped-profitable-...

We have very interesting data visualization and UI problems and your work will reach millions of users. We've also released a bunch of open source projects. You get top-of-the-line Apple gear and our kitchen is always stocked with snacks and beverages, including a free (!) beer kegerator. We’re a fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.

We’ve been around for a while and are profitable, but we’re still growing like mad. Compensation is very competitive.

Who you are:

• You have a trail of cool projects you’ve worked on, including some you’ve written to scratch your own itch.

• You obsess over the design of everyday things, from door knobs to teapots or light switches.

• You have a passion for software and desire to change the world.

• You have excellent implementation skills, including deep expertise in Javascript (jQuery).

• You enjoy working on tricky UI problems with equally smart people.

You can apply on our website: https://flightaware.com/about/careers/position/frontend_deve... or shoot me an email: david.chouinard@flightaware.com

Slightly related, but if you haven't yet seen Luis von Ahn's TED talk on reCAPTCHA, I recommend it highly: http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_c...

It can also do "satellites above": http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sattelites+above Make sure you enable interactivity (if you have Pro) on that last graph, it's pretty amazing.

FlightAware (flightaware.com) — Houston, TX (no REMOTE, no H1B)

Front-end (UI/UX) Developer

Here’s a profile of us from 37signals (we do flight tracking software, 2M+ pageviews a day): http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2780-bootstrapped-profitable-...

We have very interesting data visualization and UI problems and your work will reach millions of users. We've also released a bunch of open source projects. You get top-of-the-line Apple gear and our kitchen is always stocked with snacks and beverages, including a free (!) beer kegerator. We’re a fun, high-caliber team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to be brilliant.

We’ve been around for a while, but we’re still growing like mad. Compensation is very competitive.

Who you are:

• You have a trail of cool projects you’ve worked on, including some you’ve written to scratch your own itch.

• You obsess over the design of everyday things, from door knobs to teapots or light switches.

• You have a passion for software and desire to change the world.

• You have excellent implementation skills, including deep expertise in Javascript (jQuery).

• You enjoy working on tricky UI problems with equally smart people.

You can apply on our website: http://flightaware.com/about/careers/position/frontend_devel... or shoot me an email: david.chouinard@flightaware.com

Background submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577301

Background submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577301

Care to share?

We do, unless you have (a) changed manually your language, in which case we save a cookie or (b) you're logged in and changed your language in settings. Also, (b) takes priority over (a).

On some flights, we actually know what the corresponding inbound flight is. If we know, we show a small "track incoming flight" link and consider it in our delay prediction algorithms.

Yes, we do (we're about the only serious production site running Rivet left). Our codebase is almost entirely in Tcl (sigh). Apart from that, our core algorithms are in C and we run a pretty serious production Node.js app.