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Ask HN: Advise on CV, etc?
I've been unemployed for about 3 months and am about to be homeless. I've been applying for jobs for the last 3 months unsuccessfully. I'd really really appreciate someone with some knowledge looking over my CV and past cover letters to perhaps find out how I can improve things.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been rejected at the application stage so I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong. I would offer some money but I don't have much left. I can spare $10 for a decent critic, beyond that you'd have my genuine thanks. I'm barely sleeping and beyond desperate. Thanks.
Easy just think how browsers render HTML/CSS/JavaScript, C compilers specific interpretation of ANSI C, UNIX variations from what POSIX leaves to each implementation, and many other implementation vs standards variations.

Just like them OpenGL is a text standard describing how a 3D API is supposed to behave.

It happens that what those papers state and what each team of developers at every card manufacturer understand is not always the same.

Then there is the set of card specific extensions, for every nice feature they want to sell on their graphics card, but yet to be adopted by OpenGL paper standard.

There are of course certification tests available, but they are costly and don't cover 100% of the API usage anyway.

So programming OpenGL, happens to be like trying to write web applications, while trying to make the code portable and bug free (with workarounds) across all graphic cards out there.
FF on Linux. Don't use maps, but YouTube works as it should (but then again, I only allow youtube.com, ytimg.com and googlevideo.com via NoScript).

It might be deliberate, at least in sense that MS pages never worked properly on Netscape / Firefox / Konqueror /... in the days of IE dominance.
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So then you're still paying taxes twice. In addition, what you're saying is not 100% accurate as US does not have tax treatise with EU but with EU members.

Here[0] is a friendly, 2000+ page summary from region to region on the EU taxes and how US corp tax credits are applied.

[0]: https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/tax/corporate-tax/worldwide-tax-su...
No, a company is not being punished. What the ruling does is fixing an ilegal advantage given to a company
Does it need more content? As it is, we've become spoiled by endless content and $0.99 cent games. Half the 1 star reviews for this game are that it's too expensive or too easy. My only gripe is the lack of family sharing and the constant internet / DRM problem. Otherwise, it's well worth $10, it's a very polished game. IAP is one of the worst things to happen to gaming.
Astronomers find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way
TransitApp rolling out crowdsourced real time transit information
I have a neato botvac. Great device but it has some serious flaws. The biggest one in my opinion is a lack of long-term memory. It gets stuck in the same places every time, every day. I wish there was a way to simply speak to it and say "don't go there" - and it would remember it next day. It could use Alexa or Siri to do that.
The robot also needs the floor to be cleaned from socks, cables and whatever before it can work, but I suppose that is the same for a manual vacuum, and it's not all bad that these things have to be removed. If the robot could be smart enough to not digest cables and socks, it would be better but for me it's not a dealbreaker.
The furniture humping is really bad. The robot will find a chair it likes and keep humping it until a human intervenes or the battery runs out. Again, the device should have a long-term memory and learn about places and things to avoid next day.
ESA and Inmarsat deploy real-time “4D” air traffic control system
Neat to see they seem to be improving. I've had two different models years ago, both only lasted a few months and required you basically sit and watch them... In the end it was simply easier to sweep and vacuum the floor myself, from the comments here it doesn't sound like much has changed.
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Take a look at stumpwm sometime … it's a tiling WM written in Lisp. Only problem is that the default command key is, frankly, insane (C-t). That's easily fixed, though.

I need to give i3 a shot, though, and port some of its functionality!
Only tangential, but I really hate the "free to download, IAP to unlock" model. Why? Because IAPs don't "share" on family plans, so if I buy it, I need to buy it again for each of my kids. No thanks.
No one else mentioned my $500 phone has trash speakers compared to my $90 (or whatever I paid for it on sale) echo? I wouldn't want my phone to be as big and heavy as the echo, but I certainly enjoy listening to it.

Also binary thinking, people in the ankle bracelet tribe literally cannot comprehend people who don't carry their phone with them everywhere 24x7 and vice versa, and echo is incredibly useful to members of the non-ankle bracelet tribe.

(ankle bracelet as in giant house arrest GPS tracker thingie, not shiny gold high fashion)

I have another interesting problem in that I have a newer phone that uses huge amounts of power to do the simplest things, and aftermarket wireless Qi charger, and Qi only provides USB1.0 slow charging rates of power, so even with my phone laying on the charger (s, I have multiple chargers) the battery slowly dies if I play music or podcasts or anything, whereas the echo is ac powered and I don't feel like I threw out $1 into the battery replacement fund every time I charge it because the echo is always plugged in. It feels cheaper to use the echo, less hassle. I can afford to replace my phone battery but its a huge inconvenient PITA.
> GPUs do not actually have control flow.

Wrong. Let's look at the instriction set of the AMD GCN3 ISA:

> http://gpuopen.com/compute-product/amd-gcn3-isa-architecture...

which links to

> http://32ipi028l5q82yhj72224m8j.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

which even has a whole chapter about control flow: "Chapter 4 Program Control Flow".
It was quite recently and I am still overwhelmed by the reaction:

- The Road to learn React - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170837
They actually didn't get flamed. There was no personal attack, even though he was well in the right to do so.
For comparison, Fastmail provides static website hosting as part of their email service, and it has an 80,000 request or 2GB bandwidth limit per day. 100,000 requests or 100GB per month is extremely low.

Yes, I know that Fastmail is not free, but website hosting isn't their primary service, and I'm using it as a comparison for the amounts allowed.
As a fully certified member of the lazy club™ this looks great. Really nice interaction with how it lets the person receiving the present know they've got a gift, and prompts them to fill out the address themselves.
How else can the US compete with the nearly free labor in China?
In the US, hate speech is protected by the First Amendment "as long as it doesn't promote imminent violence".[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States
I can take take a look. (Thanks for the $10 offer, but no thanks).
So Vacumes Dream of Electric Sheep?
Yeah, it kinda sucks, but after doing a bunch of research I still end up with a Macbook (Pro) for my next machine.

There are quite a few decent alternatives that are hundreds of euros cheaper for at least as much 'machine', but Time Machine and the ability to just go to the Apple store if something is wrong (especially with Apple Care) is probably worth that difference to me.

What seals the deal (again, probably, not 100% sure yet) is vendor lock-in, a great touchpad, iOS development, and a whole bunch of miscellaneous little things.

But I will say my next Mac upgrade will not be a happy one, which is a first for me. I hope it doesn't stay this way.
I'll try to clarify. According to the studies I've seen, mortality is decreased for all runners compared to non-runners. However, the greatest benefit was for people who ran a moderate amount. People who ran a lot regressed somewhat vs. the moderate runners, but still not to the level of the non-running population.

There are also some serious methodological questions about the studies involved. The best analysis I've seen is here:

http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/will-running-too-m...

So no, there's no solid evidence that any amount of running is harmful. Maybe if someone did a study in a place where pollution was extra bad (e.g. Beijing) they would find such an effect, but I'm not aware of any such efforts.
I thought the HN headline was incorrect until I read Pauli was looking for a particle of ~0.01 proton mass (neutrons and protons are about the same mass).
I really like the shareware model- a lot better than the pay 2 win model. As far as your concern, it sound slike an Apple problem/limitation to me.
Couldn't Cloudflare just connect over HTTPS using the regular github.io domain?
That website crashed twice in a row on my iPad.
Six ways that negativity can make you happy
I'm happy to have a read (no cash necessary). Contact details are on my profile page.
Not literally, there are thousands of counter examples, but it does seem that you seldom see fake news sites with a comment section. More and more authors are getting tired of being called out for shoddy reporting on the same page as their article.
I'd love to DM you with some questions about Toronto. Can you ping me via my profile info?
So he threw ~6k at a random but famous designer, ~3k at a random developer, and got a MVP that works. No idea if the product was successful, but assuming it was - he won the lotto.

I bet if 100 people each threw 6k at a designer and 3k at a developer for the same exact product.. about 90-95 of them would not work, or be complete trash.

It seems really hard for a non developer to build a MVP. (I am a developer so not personally, but looking back at reports of someone who does the non-dev MVP thing).

RE clever.do https://app.clever.do/

Nowhere on the page do I see the price. So hard to tell if they actually get paid ;)
Thanks, I really appreciate it =)

What's the best way to contact you?
The Future of Driving Is Now a Gold Rush
I find this to be the optimal wow.
The problem is that it creates a race to the bottom.

If you're Lithuania or whatever, you have a 0% chance of getting a company like Apple to build its European headquarters in your country if they decide on factors like accessibility, talent pool etc. So you can offer them whatever you want, and if that means they rent a mailbox in your capital and pay you 500$ of taxes per year, you're 500$ minus a mailbox ahead.

Of course London just lost 10 Billion $ in yearly tax revenue... And that's where cooperation really starts making sense: you don't make tax deals, London pays one or two of those billions to you and everyone comes out ahead (except Apple).

Technically it's a cartel, but the effects are limited because countries still have a vital interest to allow cooperations to flourish.

(Also: I know Ireland actually had a lot more to offer than a mailbox, and it's actually quite a success story)
But not web apps. That's what I mean.
i think different areas of Rails codebase vary here, some are pretty legible, some less so.
While I'm glad that this topic is getting addressed, that video was pretty difficult to watch. I know it would be unwise to spend extensive amounts of time on each topic in the video, but the way it was cut made it hard to think about the topic before moving on to the next part.

Otherwise, this topic is likely what I want to focus my career in at some point, understanding how to improve the ways cities run, given how they are more and more the drivers of not only the economy, but a lot of the culture and thinking generated in the world. (As someone who grew up in global cities such as Singapore, Paris, etc., I always felt that these cities had more in common with each other than with other cities in the countries they are in.)

I'm making my way through Jane Jacob's Life and Death of American Cities right now, and it has definitely changed a lot of my thinkings of how cities should be designed (more mixed-used, parks are not necessarily ideal, etc).

I wonder how a company could be created to tackle the issues cities are facing these days, working with local governments (or without if need be).
Thank you =) I'll send you an email now
Your comment is spot on. I checked the webpack home hoping this tool somehow could optimize and/or clean inherited messed up projects with dozens of js libraries, only to learn that is up to the programmer to explicitly tell it the dependecies. At least, that's what I expected when I read "webpack simplifies your workflow by quickly constructing a dependency graph of your application and bundling them in the right order".
I've got a Neato Botvac Connected. Works for me (single dweller in a bachelor apartment).

Problems:

- The app SUCKS. I can't stress this enough. You can't even request that the bot return to its dock without first asking it to do something else.

- It took forever to setup the WiFi. Randomly it just worked after trying 5 or 6 times, repeating the same procedure.

- There was no documentation for the API until very recently. And as far as I know, you need to connect to their cloud services to make use of the API.

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2619/hacking-a-neato-robot...
Because it takes more time...
Same here, on the other side of the country.
And also will make a huge mess if someone else has checked out your code already.
> If the EU found Irish tax code to be illegal then the word "illegal" becomes ambiguous as it involved Sovereignty of a National tax code vs EU guidelines.

translation: I choose to accept the court that agrees with me and bluntly question the higher ones that don't

> EU doesn't have a standardized tax code so finding something illegal would imply there are rules and unifications, which there aren't.

I just leave this here for your amusement: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...
David Davis is also one man with basically no power-base in the party. It's not a coincidence that he was handed the hottest seat in cabinet this time around, the one most likely to fail no matter what he does.
Sadly, the translation from SPIR-V to system-dependent machine code can still be buggy. Although hopefully most of the optimisation will take place at the SPIR-V level, which, as I understand it, is pretty similar to LLVM. That should enable reuse of thoroughly debugged code, instead of each vendor maintaining their own full compiler.
Considering that this is in Atlantic City, it hasn't really happened.
So it's the responsibility of a company to make sure then that laws are properly made / voted / etc? Where does this end? Why exactly do we still need politicians then?

Second, while such a ruling does indeed fix the situation, there are usually plenty of alternative ways of structuring a transaction to achieve a similar tax rate. Why would I ever bother making a deal with a country that has "screwed" investors over in the past?
It's probably more of a headache than it's worth. Static site hosting is a low margin market that GitHub probably has no interest in entering.
Question is that how does a state fund itself with that low of corporate tax? The entity that Apple is shuffling the money through in Ireland has 0 employees and no office and thus doesn't generate any other tax revenue.
You might also be interested in the Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi APs. They are access points, so you still need a router and a switch. I got a Unifi AP AC Lite recently, and it's probably the best AP I've ever used, behind perhaps only the Apple ones.
I feel like OP needs to reimage his machine.
I used Tinder, Happn, Bumble and Dine for 2 weeks. Results were interesting
Ubuntu accepts closed drivers fine, it puts them in a separate section, but you can install them and they work.
Nobody except Vice gets to see that, and since nobody sees them Vice won't feel pressured into correcting their article.
Those things annoy me too, but thankfully it's been years since anyone sent me one (unless my mail clients have been silently reporting back to people other than the NSA, of course). I assume the read receipt request button has been made harder to find in newer versions of Outlook or something.

I reckon the correct way to handle these receipt requests is to configure the mail client to send a modified receipt email which also has a read receipt request, and keep replying in kind until your correspondent gets the message (or the mail servers break down due to two bots telling each other that they read the notification that they just read each other's mail telling them they read their mail, of course).
To be precise, the Luxembourg loophole was in force only for digital goods.
Does anyone of thoughts/experiences/learnings around co-founders? Would love to quote you and share with the rest of the community!
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Yet VB 6 had two nice features that we had to wait until .NET Native and .NET Core to get it back.

- AOT compilation straight native code

- Distributing the runtime with the application, instead of a central installed location
While this is correct, it isn't the whole story.

GPUs can implement control flow by calculating both results and then throwing away one of them based on a predicate. Also, GPUs typically do have a scalar unit which can perform branching but this is heavily discourage by CUDA and OpenCL due to the performance implications.
Extraordinary as it might seem, Tom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn aren't on speaking terms. Watson finds out most of Corbyn's decisions by reading about them in the newspaper. To call Watson a loose cannon would be a gross understatement.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38340131
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Because you should know better? These kind of deals are totally shady anyway and some alarms should go off in your head.

Claiming ignorance just makes you look stupid.
I am the Product Manager for GitHub Pages. As has been mentioned multiple times here, the usage limits were not in response to a specific external event. The limits have been an internal policy (in one form or another) for as long as I've been involved (nearly 4 years now), and we chose to publicize them in a series of updates beginning early this summer.

This is a classic case of "this is why we can't have nice things". If you're using GitHub Pages for your personal site or to document/talk about the work you're doing on GitHub, in general, you should be fine, even if you get HN-level traffic every once in a while.

The problem comes when a small handful of users use GitHub Pages for things like automated version checks or configuration distribution, as a makeshift ad CDN for for-profit sites, pushing an automated build every minute, or to distribute large assets (for which things like Releases are a better fit).

When a user (ab)uses GitHub Pages in a way that threatens our ability to build or serve other users' sites, technically or practically, we need to step in, and those posted limits are intended to help set expectations as to what you should and shouldn't use GitHub Pages for. But again, the vast majority of the nearly 1M users that use GitHub Pages will never hear from us (and in most cases when they did, we proactively reached out and provided ample warning/offered to help).
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What percent of users will even open link from SMS and futhermore provide their physical address in web form? It looks exactly like most phishing schemes.
Is there any way I can convince you to stop with the 'Apple fanboys' bullshit? It's not furthering whatever 'cause' you have and just comes across as presumptuous.

Based on what I've been reading here on HN, most Apple users are pissed off by the choices that Apple made for the new MBP's, and are honestly exploring their options (as am I). That doesn't sound like fanboy behavior.
You mean like a PC?
Interesting budget question, how will government fund itself?

I guess nations like malta could rely on exporting state owned ventures like taboo, but what about Hungary? They happen to have the highest value added tax in Europe, and Tax revenue in Hungary stand at 39.3% of GDP. One way or the other, taxes are being paid.
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This is an ID/IQ, which means that DISA has set aside $927M over five years for optional services and support. ID/IQs are a cool contract vehicle because it gives the government a cost-effective way to buy just what they need as they go along.

Even if they leveraged the hell out of this contract, they're basically buying the full power of MS for $185M per year. That's a hell of a good deal for the government.
I'm curious to learn what the technological solution was to the XVI century religious wars across Europe.
Corporate taxes tend to only be a small amount of the amount of incoming tax. Personal taxes, i.e. on salaries / dividends / capital gains taxes tend to generate the bulk of tax revenues.
How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers
CVE-2016-7117: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Linux 2.6.x – 4.5.1
Nintendo priced this game fairly and appropriately. The game is absolutely packed with content and beautiful design and I'm glad they went for a traditional one and done pricing scheme rather than what other mobile games often use. It's the investors clamoring for more content to sell, not the people actually playing the game.

IAP is an issue but it's not Nintendo's fault. They clearly wanted a way to try before you buy to entice more people to download, and this is the standard model that Apple has put together.
This should certainly be adopted by official/serious projects (such as albums, movies, events, etc.) with Arabic names written in Latin script. The use of the "chat" form (e.g. "7" for "ح" and "3" for "ع") is just horrid and makes any serious work look childish.
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Its worth noting that you can build a Echo yourself, for example: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Raspberry-Pi-Powered...

With blacjack, and hookers...
this is why i come to HN
What would you suggest as the alternative? Have DISA write their own tech stack, operating systems, and cloud services? This is a freaking great deal for the government.
You don't understand, they would gain nothing by moving to London. Either London stays in the EU market in which case it must not give Apple unfair advantage or London does not stay in the EU market in which case Apple must pay tax for EU sales in EU.
Income taxes (i.e. personal taxes, dividend taxes, capital gains taxes), VAT, etc etc. Corporate taxes tend to not bring in that much money for most countries.
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Apple doesn't pay the VAT the consumer does. That is why Apple products costs roughly 30% (24% VAT + some extra due to fucking up the dollar to euro conversion) more in Finland when compared to US even though they ship directly from a factory in China.
Benefits of connection pooling in PostgreSQL
It's much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with Mercurial.

Which is why so many developers and companies prefer it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228399

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9465084
> By this judge's reckoning, you have to just be a robot that sits passively and accepts all the hand exactly as dealt and not use any strategy to play the game to your advantage.

That's baccarat -- the only interactivity is adjusting your bet.