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Ask HN: I can't find a First job, now what?
I have graduated with a Master's degree over 6 weeks ago. I have been submitting for job openings for over 3 months now, with no luck.

Overall, I have submitted a little under 100 job applications. I started with a selective attitude, but recently I have been submitting to everything that fits the technology stacks I know.

I have kept an updated resume, a personal website, another website for my open-source projects (+ Github), a (not very active) blog and created a profile on all major job platforms such as Linkedin.

I'm starting to question if I'd ever find a fist job, and what to do if not.

I thought I was doing everything the right way, and was wondering if someone here has been in this dark place and what did you do to get out of it?
This article from Five Thirty Eight addresses this:

"Clinton Voters Aren’t Just Voting Against Trump"

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-voters-arent-jus...
The name is obviously ironic.
I find it interesting that you think prosecuting someone for committing a crime would result in fascism, so your solution is to absolve her of the crimes she committed.
My only comment would be that I find what your friend Scott finds. I don't teach middle school, I teach in college, so my day is more mixed than his. But my training was as a high school teacher and my wife is a high school teacher, and I do find that her routine is exhausting.

I hear you about having little mental energy left. There are lots of intensely dedicated teachers but it is unreasonable to expect that they will be on 24-7. They get to have families, to have hobbies, etc., just like everybody else. Just like engineers, police officers, and any other highly trained professional.

(It is especially discouraging, for me, when someone writes a letter to the editor seeming to assert that teaching is something women do so they get summers off with their kids, kind of a hobby. Those make me cringe.)
I think the new MacBook pro is actually a really great move... it was just not sold properly.

-USB-C can replace HDMI
-Touch bar uses watchOS
-The touch bar is actually much better than full touchscreen since lifting your arm up all day to the screen is much more effort and will smudge your display. They didn't sell the possibilities of a dynamic portion of your keyboard

-I'm not sure about removing the magsafe port, but I'm sure I won't miss it once I get used to not having it
I would absolutely consider speeding up R&D to save that number of lives. I'm 100% behind self-driving cars. I think self-driving cars will eventually reduce the number of road deaths significantly.

I don't think the case has been made yet that today's tech will reduce the number of road deaths. I don't think it's unreasonable to be skeptical of the claim "this works great, trust me".
There are lots of exceptionally talented people who aren't software developers and want to be. Three standard deviations above the mean takes you from roughly 100 million working Americans to a hundred thousand. Two standard deviations of being unlucky in having the life-history that gets you to programmer-hood drops you down from 100k to 1000. It's not that surprising, honestly.
Only? My 2013 rMBP lasts a solid 8-9 while browsing.
A very valuable vulnerability
You are absolutely right, the amount of engineering that went into making them is impressive.

Regarding the UI - despite not looking "high-tech" (no animations at all -not even transitions- simple basic color scheme), I find it very good: I live in a remote village, and grandmas here have no problems using the ticket machine, even for unusual trips.

Of course they usually pay with coins, and that part takes ages ;)
It took them about 25 minutes before they even started talking about Macs.
In addition to Lenovo, consider the XPS 13 and 15. While Dell's quality has been somewhat inconsistent as they launched the line, they stepped up and took care of the problem I encoutered with my XPS 13 and it's quickly become my favorite laptop ever.

Great battery life, super portable, an external battery for long flights and an AMAZING screen. It even supports touch, which I don't use all the time, but find nice to have.

With either the Lenovo or Dell, make certain to add multi-year same or next day service. With Dell, it's easier to do that from their small business sections than from the home section. If you forget, just call and buy separately. I got my laptop from MS Store due to a sale then called and added 4 years to the warranty. While many rave about the genius bar, I find the "come to my home or office and fix this" experience far preferable.
Facebook introduces spooky reactions for Halloween
I wonder to what percentage US people feel they are threatened by a crazy president. I am under the impression that US has the most impressive checks and balances and nobody is above the laws&constitution (and this act by the FBI seems to prove it).
I would not want to use that. That sounds beyond annoying, trying to guess the lowest fare that will be accepted.
Yeah that makes sense I suppose. Just turning it all into a single matrix or an order of magnitude of smaller matrices would certainly simplify analysis.
A lot of the replies here demonstrate a significant amount of ignorance about just how hard it is to pay for things outside of the US. It's not too bad in Canada and Europe, but once you have an address and credit card in a small developing nation, you have substantially limited payment options. With my Panama credit card (which is a premium card) I can't buy from most places outside of Amazon.com. PayPal fortunately accepts my card, so I shop anywhere PayPal is accepted online.
I was realizing how horrible the ideology of "free software" is for a while now, especially when taken too far (for example microcode updates).
A person I met a few years ago told me rather proudly that he refuses to use banks because the courts can use the money in his account to pay his child support when he doesn't want to.
For a very large number of people, these aren't "extremely niche use cases."

Something more comparable to Bitcoin than regular banking would be Western Union; they make 5 billion dollars a year in revenue transferring money. And they charge vastly higher rates than the Bitcoin network does, charging in the 5-10% range for for transactions, which is a pretty hefty overhead.
What I don't understand is how in the world does stuff like this happen (Private Email Server). Isn't there anyone handling security for these people? Just like the CIA assigns people to guard the President and the folks around him, why in the world are there not Cyber Security Experts over seeing communications and making sure that everything these folks do follows a certain protocol.

They are not allowed to drive cars and the CIA makes sure they don't. So why are they not monitored to make sure their communications are secure and there is no risk to the nations information.
I've only ever had Soylent 2.0, but I've had 200 bottles by now, I've never been sick, and I still think it tastes fine. Why do so many people here assume their personal experience is everyone's experience?
I often listen to pink noise while I work to suppress room noise and mask tinnitus. Ironically, I find it is also good for relieving headaches! :) I have a CD with hour-long tracks of just white noise (sounds like static), pink noise (sounds like waves), and brown noise (sounds like airplane hum).

http://whitenoisemeditation.bandcamp.com/
I only meant that they could "impeach" her over something but she could still be in office.
Here's a project for you: Let me input a list of small companies' career pages. Send me a daily email when a new job is added to one of those pages.
>her opponent represents the very real specter of the end of democracy and the closing of our free society

Let me get this straight. Hillary intentionally subverted the democratic process by having the DNC work against Sanders. We have concrete evidence of her working with one of her PACs, which again is highly illegal and subverting our democratic process. She has shady and inappropriate meetings with people responsible for running the voting process. She's sponsored by people who own the voting machines. And not to mention that she has inarguably done highly illegal things with her private email server and got off without charges, showing the injustice of our two-tier criminal justice system.

edit: removed argument I rescind and check out this recording of Hillary that came out today: http://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-cl...

"That troubled me deeply. I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. And...if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win."

And Trump is the one threatening our democracy?
Introducing the Algorithmia R Client
It seems I was right with the UK prices: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/28/apple-hikes...
I don't necessarily disagree with you but one thing that I think a lot of people are seeing is you are relinquishing control of your car to a computer. When I think of computers I often think of things that I CAN MAKE WORK but that aren't inherently trustworthy. Sure they're great for things like math and stuff but when I try to run a new piece of software I expect crashes and they generally happen. NOT ALL SOFTWARE. But a good bit of first gen software.

So do I really want untested first gen software released without extreme safety standards and heavy testing? No. Do I think the net result of that happening would be a safer driving experience? No. Give me the iOS 9 or so of self driving car software or the unix. Not the Amazon Fire phone.
It depends what the US allows them to do, the same way you cannot legally "cut corners" with FDA regulations.

Obviously you cannot sterilize astronauts. But they could be restrained to landings outside of the special regions, which are the most promising for astrobiology.
Really depends on your team. I work on a small team in a huge investment bank and we are working on new nice-looking apps. I usually don't have to deal with audit, risk management, compliance, regulators, etc. When I do it's usually minimal. We don't have root access but we have full access to production. We release twice a week. I have to deal somewhat with India but it's bearable
It says they're going to look at whether the emails are relevant. That means they don't know if the emails are even relevant yet.
OP here: Just more information, I'm looking for jobs mostly in Europe (Since I have studied in France) but I require VISA sponsorship.

Which might be a factor in my situation.
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Then start your own investment firm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies.
It may be a language thing, but I believe teekert meant bitcoin exploded, as in, took off and was temporarily valued at ~$1,300. So, you mistook the meaning as the exact opposite of what the author intended (I believe).

Also, the other reply to you mistook you for not understanding that your link is satire, which I believe you understood.
This was the most interesting thing I've read recently about the emails: https://plus.google.com/+AndreasSchou/posts/66GZj3y6dWn
The comments in this thread make me realize that there is a large amount of HN readers who have never had to deal with the government.

Yes, the penalty is scary looking, but it is par for the course. You don't get exposed to it if you are doing amateur/freelance/e-commerce.

As soon as you touch critical national infrastructure (Telcom, NTSB, Healthcare, finance) then you have to deal with the government, which never forgets to remind you of the threat of authorized violence and financial penalties.

If you want to play at the high stakes tables, you have to pay the blinds. If that's too scary, then stay at the smaller tables.

The unfairness commentary here is pretty naive.
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> Terrible analogy.

I think it's apt, but of course you're free to disagree. Both companies entered fields with a founding team that lacked any particular expertise -- dropping out of Stanford or a degree in electrical engineering doesn't give you the background to know what's truly possible in nutritional or life sciences.

Theranos and Soylent were both shipping their products to much success not that long ago. Theranos was exposed and shown to be almost wholly smoke and mirrors.

Soylent is unlikely to be that bad off, and as you said their main thesis hasn't been disproven. They also haven't shown that they have done anything novel to meaningfully reach that goal. Their constant reformulations and sales suspensions (this is not the first time) tell me that this isn't a high tech food operation based on years of research and scientific processes. It's some powder being mixed in a warehouse by a contracted company and sold on a fancy website. That's not a breakthrough.

> Better pull Ensure from all the hospitals then, just to be safe.

I don't know if Ensure if significantly better or worse than Soylent. Just because it's from a big company and is an established product doesn't necessarily mean it's any good, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's approach is as shoddy as Soylent's either.

I can say that Ensure has not embraced the one-size-fits-all approach of Soylent [1]. They also don't seem to believe in the 25% DV at-all-costs approach. For example, iron does not seem to be included at all.

[1] https://ensure.com/nutrition-products/compare-meal-replaceme...
Man fits linear discriminant classifier on small, noisy set of data, finds it has 100% accuracy on entire set. Did not do any cross-validation to figure out robustness of fitting procedure or magnitude of generalization error.

News at 11.
Technically it had never been closed in the first place, so if you want to be technical Chaffetz is still full of shit.

https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/792065775658012677
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/792063653919031296
"Product" ? I'm seeing a demo he wasn't selling.

And when a big govt stick comes a'knocking, unless you're also big and well connected, you will get shut down.

This was clear as a way to "do insane amount of documentation in a laughably short timeframe, or fuck your business with a fine-stick."

Yeah, GeoHotz is an ass, but this is inane. Great way to kill small businesses.
As others have pointed out, the short timeline is mainly due to Hotz himself and his plan for putting the product on the market so quickly.
I am a motorcycle-riding, mountain-climbing, pyromaniac daredevil adventure-instigator whose friends would burst out into astonished guffaws if they heard you call me "risk averse". The key is that I choose risks where skill and training give me influence over the outcome. I will hurl myself into danger when I can be reasonably confident that I am capable of triumphing over it because I know what the variables are and how to bias them for success.

I have at various points in my life accepted 100% variance in pay by choosing to work freelance. It was an acceptable risk because I controlled not just the tech but also the nature of the business, and had reasonable confidence that I could make choices which would result in a satisfactory rate of return on my effort expended. Accepting employment as an engineer while also accepting the financial risk of other people's choices about how to run their business, choices you explicitly have no influence over?? That's not risk, that's an exploitation lottery.
I understood what you meant by "charitable". My point was, if you're being charitable, assume I don't think you're so like a hammer that you don't deserve different labels.

My point is that you're as different from a hammer as an AI is different from a hammer. You seem to be lumping yourself into a separate category. This is hubris.

You won't find a single line separating hammerness from AIness. This makes no sense. The categories can be compared on all kinds of axes.

The categorization that your brain applies to things is arbitrary and flawed. And invented. When you realize this, questions that used to seem deep become trite and boring.
I looked over that paper, and honestly it is nothing that impressive. Basically it just described applying off-the-shelf algorithms to a particular kind of data. It probably would be published and is interesting to look over, so I don't mean to deride the paper itself, but still it is just not that novel. Nothing about how their end-to-end self driving works or how it's better than the many competitors. So to me this was hugely underwhelming, really.
Apple hikes prices in UK by 20pc in response to post-Brexit
Virtually 100% of the top quants code. From experience, I think your feeling is a close, but a bit off. Some code more than others, some code in pairs with more experienced hardcore devs, but the best all code.

HFT != Banks, Hedge Funds != Proprietary Trading Firm (aka prop shops). They are all in Finance and all could be considered "Wall Street" firms.

Your feeling is akin to thinking the mean annual compensation of all of IT (including software architects in Finance) is the median salary of Junior Windows Administrators :)

Source: I've worked in HFT for the past 10ish years and currently work for one of the larger futures trading firms in the US by volume.
Soylent? I remember that comment, good one :)
I think this is awesome and I encourage this extraordinaire effort.

Here are my reasons:

1. I've actually coded something similar a long time ago (I think Eve is even better than my solution) and it worked. My team and I were able to make entire apps in a heartbeat.

2. The reason it works is because, as pg famously wrote, programmers think in the language they use. Our cognitive load and power are function of the language we think in.
The key to Eve on this purpose is that you can program not only your app, but the development organisation that goes with it. Also, it is beginner friendly.

3. With 1. and 2., you get that Eve is related to reflectivity and homoiconicity. Maybe it is what's behind homoiconicity: your code and your organisation share the same language.

I wish the Eve team the best.
It's very surprising actually. Apparently he knows how to ship code yet hasn't even had a real programming job yet. How is it even possible to be among the best in the world without having had your abilities tested in the world?

I'm not doubting that this gentlemen could possibly be extremely talented. What I think is clear is the criteria for "best globally" skews towards theoretical knowledge without concern for real-world abilities.

Kind of like saying "this guy nailed the whiteboard interview better than everyone else, therefore he must be among the top developers globally".
So what would you have the regulator do here--wait until the product is on the market first?

He's publicly stated they were aiming for year-end release.
I agree with you, but I think she needs to be indicted if the e-mails prove her to be culpable. Ideally she will win the election, and if the e-mails prove damning she will be indicted and hopefully impeached and forced to resign, leaving Tim Kaine to finish off her term, which IMO would be the best case scenario for the country.
Off topic: The interesting thing about that video to me was how closely it mirrored the rhetoric from the opening of the 'Three Body Problem' as the Chinese revolutionaries tried to force a college physics professor to revoke science.
The question is whether he was obliged to inform the congressional committee they were reopening the case. I would think they'd FIRST do a preliminary investigation to determine if the evidence warranted further investigation (ie. if it would change FBI's position on the DOJ charging Clinton). But I guess as informed voters, it's better to have more information than less, however untimely it is for Hillary.
So my immediate thoughts are this looks very nice for designing websites with. It does look like the ideas all rely on a static webpage though (not many moving parts). As I understand it, your page is built with a set of tagged content in a DB, and then further queries can access data via those tags. You've fit together a DB + real time feedback + visualisations in an appealing way that actual makes creating webpages look fun. Something that is otherwise a terribly monotonous task in the current JavaScript climate.

I wonder how well these ideas work as you ramp up to complex algorithms though. For example 5 nested for loops with 10 000 records of data would likely choke your visualisation to death. Also often the decision of choosing your data structures (list vs hash table vs concurrent queue vs ...) are paramount to the performance of the application. A single DB I can't imagine always being the best approach, but one idea could be to measure the data frequency passing though and optimise for the best structure perhaps? Similar to how SQL operates at the moment.

The idea of splitting functionality up into blocks is interesting, though I think you are focusing too much on the literate side of things. I think I would just keep the English text to a minimum, only explaining the 'why' and let the code explain the 'what/how'. But forgetting that, the block separation idea is nice enough on it's own, especially with the table of contents.

I've not looked very in-depth at the language, but what you did in the video did seem a bit like magic at times, and the simplicity seemed to hint at a lot of code hidden away behind simple looking APIs. Meaning doing anything out of the norm would find yourself having to roll a lot of your own code, but I could be assuming wrongly here so won't dwell on it.

I did notice that there was no autocomplete popups in the video. Does this mean you've forgone a type system of any sort? I would hope not as TypeScript has shown the productivity hike adding a few simple type annotations can give. Fully 'dynamic' code bases tend to be nightmares after a certain LOC threshold.

All in all congrats for giving a new outlook on programming by combining a set of old ideas in a new streamlined way, and giving HN something else to grumble about for a while!
Of course smart homes are targets for hackers
Don't you mean on-premise?
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> derogatorily referred to as 'back office' workers

1. That's not respect.

2. You can't assign a monetary value to respect, unless you're willing to sell yourself out.
The problem with neural networks is they use nonlinear transformations after every layer to prevent this. Usually something like max(0, x).

However it is sometimes possible to train a much smaller neural network to imitate a larger network, or to prune irrelevant nodes and connections from a big network.
> We're doing strict self-policing so that this isn't the case.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

> It's just too much of a risk to flout the clearly defined congressional cap,

HAHAHAHAHAHA

> calling down the wrath of Congress.

HAHAHAHAHAHA
There are indeed many professionals that don't need high specs, and could even do their work on a 12" MacBook or iPad pro.

The Pro in MBP refers not to them, but rather to those needing powerful CPUs, GPUs, large amounts of memory and compatibility with various hardware. I'd have added upgradeability, but the MBP has been a complete failure at that for a long time.

Who defines "pro" like that? The internet. It became a synonym for heavy duty workloads.
VR museums are my personal killer app.
Github Enterprise is on-premise too.

I don't know that this would make you necessarily want to make both the change to self-hosting, and the change of platform.
Wow, what a great idea! That would certainly be useful.
Apple was never niche within the industry, they were the forefront of mainstream. Now they've alienated absolutely everyone and their only direction seems to be toward proprietary nickel and diming.
Very unlikely. Self-driving cars are potentially enormously profitable; with such profitable products I think you'll find that the opinion of an outraged public matters somewhat less than it customarily does.