skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree.

I'm regarded as a pretty good developer, but I've also had stretches where I was desperate to change jobs, and the offers weren't coming in fast enough. I got very stressed-out and emotionally over-wrought. That's not a good starting point for impressing prospective employers.

If you can, I'd suggest the following project:

1. Commit yourself to not look for a job for 6 months.

2. Pick just one or two of the constructive criticisms people post here, and use that time to see if you can improve in those areas.

3. At the end of those 6 months, give yourself 1 month to apply for jobs, and see how well it goes.

4. If you don't get an acceptable offer, GOTO step 1 above.
The number of engineers is dwarfed by the number of attendees so not really. And they can rotate more engineers e.g. have people there for half a day, it's not wasted when it's a 5mn trip from HQ versus an hour drive to SF.
1) it is my understanding that libraries still need to be in obj-c for maximal compatibility. That is, there are some limitations to Swift code usage from obj-c. If I'm wrong about this, this would be excellent news!

2) code rot. As new feature development is started, if all the Devs are more comfortable with Swift, it is practical that it should be done in Swift. The obj-c libraries will languish. This is just a statement that if Swift becomes the default language, then Apple should only build new features in Swift. You're correct that code doesn't need to be replaced... if it ain't broke don't fix it, though in my experience eventually someone will find a way to break it, and it's at that point that someone ideally replaces it.
It is also possible the tunnels could be privately financed and owned, which could have long term advantages for Tesla.
This is hilarious. Mr. Feinberg is going to be completely blind to the real dealings of the IC. They'll show him enough to stay occupied, but nothing damaging.

I can see his first recommendation now "We were the top Spy Country in the world before our spies had access to the Internet. The Internet is also the cause for all the leaks. Turn off the internet access to the IC! We'll be the best again with no leaks"
This. If you are eligible to work in the US, come right out and say that.

Agree with the other comments that you should market yourself as a software engineer, focus on the tools, languages, and frameworks that you're familiar with there, pretty up your website some (the random yellow stripes look like edit bars to me; monospaced fonts look terrible, IMO, etc). Make it more generic, less jarring, get the interview, get hired as a software engineer on a frontend team and then let your design skills develop and be recognized.

No one is hiring a ~25 year old remote product designer from another country based on that website. Start with incremental steps. Get the SWE role first. Go from there.

(Also, count up how many applications you've actually done and then compare that with 1,000,000. I suspect you're going to be off by at least 3 [and probably close to 4] orders of magnitude. People who hire SWEs tend to like people who care about precision.)
The doctor or the patient; if you're told that there is a lump (or seventeen) and it's probably nothing but you can get it checked out if you really want, most people will blame themselves if they don't get something checked out that later turns out to be something, and they know it.
The transcript is quite long. Can you tell me where they show that the Census, BLS, BJS and other government agencies that I cite are wrong?
Thanks for letting me know. Although it seems to be working fine without www for me and for quite a few others?
Amazon doesn't make it possible to prevent a shipper from being chosen to fulfill a package, but you can request what they call "carrier deprioritization" via their customer support helpdesk, which will artificially weight the carrier in question so that their algorithm will opt against it unless it is the only carrier able to fulfill a given order.

I've had good success with this last year, after Amazon's own in-house fulfillment service caused me a series of issues due to erroneously failed deliveries; since I made that request, I haven't had a single shipment fulfilled via AMZL_US save those for which I requested same-day delivery of items present in the Canton warehouse. Other sorts of orders which AMZL_US would previously fulfill are instead now handled by UPS or FedEx.

If you have trouble with LaserShip, as I gather many do, you could probably do worse than to request Amazon deprioritize that carrier. If my experience is any guide, you may have to bounce from rep to rep a couple of times before you find someone who knows what you're talking about, but it's worth persisting, because the results are, at least in my experience, much worth the effort. Hope this helps!
Us customs and border patrol have a 100 mile radius
I think you should chill a little. How are supposed to read your post? "I'm so good and nobody hires me, wtf?" I'm sorry to say so, but this makes you come across as the quintessential millennial entitled brat.

If I was recruiting right now, I would think: this guy will want to control everything he touches, and will be extremely negative whenever something doesn't suit him. And then he'll leave, shouting how crap everything is, you get the picture.

How about marketing yourself like so:

"I'm a young and passionate web designer, have been training myself on apps / webapps for the past 3 years. I'd like to think I'm ready to put my skills to use, so I'm looking for a group of great people who are putting together a product that I may be able to help design".
Robots and artificial intelligence: MEPs call for EU-wide liability rules
For the windows version, input will follow something similar to this: https://github.com/bethesirius/ChosunTruck/pull/10/files

Right now I'm changing SendInput to use mouse simulation instead of pressing keys. Hopefully this will fix some of the lagging caused by pressing keys too fast / too much.
Apple has totally rewrote the dock , in macOS Sierra in Swift.
How to create successful social mobile app
Here's something that's worked for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660378
I know right? Phone lock screens could conceal bombs or invasive species.
How a Million-Dollar Superwatch Is Fighting Back Against Computing
"since you likely have the kind of education and experience that makes immigrating here a breeze"

I don't think you ever tried immigrating to Canada. I don't mean this snarkily but the world would be a much better place if every citizen was forced at some point to go through his countries immigration process.

I have a friend who has been for the last years going through the Canadian immigration and his lengthy facebook posts describe an awful and demeaning experience. In all disclosure, his partner is from a third world country, and that's probably the biggest problem, but he's a clever, resourceful and valuable person that has been living all around the world, including SV, and it's absolutely incredible how have made everything in their hands short of blocking his entry in the country to stop his immigration.
Yet another reason never to sign up for Facebook.
That is not possible. At some point, your tunnel starts collapsing under the pressure and the great heat makes tunneling incredibly difficult. The deepest we've ever gotten on Earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole (a Soviet project) that got 12km deep. On Mars, with the lower gravity and cooler center, we may get about triple that before reaching similar constraints in pressure and temperature. But no way you can get all the way to the core. Also, in order to melt the core, it'd take an insane amount of energy.

Mars' core is 6-21% of the mass of the planet. Mars has a mass of 6 * 10^23kg. Heat capacity of iron is 450J/(kg * degree C). To heat up the iron by 1000 degrees C (rough estimate of what'd be required, though even if this is off by an order of magnitude, it won't change the conclusion), you'd need to provide at least:

1000 * .06 * 6E23kg * 450J/kg = 1.62 * 10E28 Joules. That's equivalent to 3.9 * 10^12 Megatons of TNT. In other words, it'd take about a trillion H-bombs to do what you say. Not feasible, clearly!!!

Luckily, that's not required. You can simply build a superconducting cable around the planet. The ambient temperature is already near the critical temperature of some of our highest performing superconductors, but because the cable (or, likely, a series of large cables in parallel to keep the local field at the surface of the superconductor below the critical field strength) will be large, insulating it very well should not be a problem, and the energy needed to run the cryocoolers could be provided by solar panels installed on top of the cable. (Superconductors also can carry more current if you keep them colder, so it's usually a good idea to operate well below the critical temperature anyway.)

This would be pretty easy to do, easier than the initial terraforming steps (i.e. raising the surface pressure by melting/subliming the ice caps and heating the regolith via albedo modification, super greenhouse gases, giant space mirrors, or Musk's favorite pulsed fusion over the poles). The amount of material required isn't that high, either. And the cable can also provide a planet-circling electrical grid and can provide vast amounts of seasonal storage capacity (actually, multi-decade storage capacity), thus negating the need for grid-level storage on Mars (or actually, the grid would literally be its own storage mechanism!).

But all this is kind of besides the point: planetary atmospheres tend to do the actual heavy lifting of radiation shielding. Earth's atmosphere is far more important than our magnetic field in lowering the radiation dose on the Earth's surface. And while in absence of a magnetic field the atmosphere is slowly stripped, that process takes hundreds of millions of years.
Hopefully not.

As a general rule "stuff" isn't allowed to sit around a mailroom or distribution center. Bad packaging and addresses happen daily.

A formal investigation is needed. The USPS still bows to political pressure. Often a letter to your congressman (not accusing but seeking help), puts postal management in another gear - and may find your items.
And that makes resetting it a non-starter too doesn't it?
These days with 4G i do find that it is not the technology that is the bottleneck. It is the carierers trying to hold on to their business model.

I would prefer if we aimed our research on increasing coverage.
Simple (though maybe more costly) solution is to send a bunch of boxes. Send only $2-2.5K worth of cartidges per box. Might double or triple your shipping cost, but would be cheaper than paying out of pocket for the value of lost package.
"They may choose to detain you anyway, and force you to give them passwords to various accounts manually. But there’s no easy way for them to know which services you use and which services you don’t use, or whether you have multiple accounts."

So next year that's what they will know.
Only if makes the overall structure actually becomes smaller. A bunch of these shorts were surrounded by fields whose alignment means that changing to int results in no increase in the overall size of the structure. In fact, I think some of them actually got smaller due to reordering the fields to be more alignment-friendly.
There is also a risk involved in changing jobs, though.

> An Engineer who enjoys their work can avoid being paid less simply because of this fact.

I think he can provided that he either:

- Works for someone who is not a psychopath but a decent human being, that is, not being entirely rational in the economic sense.

- Hides the fact that he enjoys it and would probably do it even for less money from the employer. (But this eventually transpires through salary raises or their absence.)

Note that either of those assumptions is breaking the assumptions of the rational decision-making in the free market.

I think people within the profession can do that to an extent, but for the whole profession (or a subset) it's much harder.

So for example, game programmers are paid less than typical programmers, because they are enjoying it more. And programmers (software engineers) are paid less than managers because again, on average, they enjoy the job more. Or look at a typical teacher or scientist.
> 4,444 cellphones and 320 other electronic devices were inspected in 2015

And recently I'm hearing about this -- it largely went ignored during the previous administration but now it's a major concern, articles on HN, my Facebook feed, Reddit, ...
Great to see support for all those important projects, but maybe DDG should use that money to hire someone who makes their Search Results better so we would not have to go back to Google on every other more sophisticated search.
Or - gasp! - the phone could be full of dank memes that CBP doesn't approve of.
They also end 100 miles in from the border. [1]

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
This is great, thank you for doing this!
Ok, so one thing I've noticed reading the 120 comments in this thread and the article is that literally nobody knows anything about boring, or tunnels. Musk knows nothing, he put someone in charge who knows nothing, the reporter knows nothing, and the commenters here even admit they are completely guessing and know nothing about boring/tunnels. I definitely don't know anything about tunnels.

It's a joke that came to life, and it's a pretty funny one, and I'm fairly confident Musk can make improvements, but I'd still like to know something about the whole process.

I assume someone here knows something about this, or at least can find out, so here's my wishlist:

- Has there been any improvement in boring in the last 50 years? The frequently-repeated statement that it hasn't improved would be quite shocking to me since at the very least I'd expect safety to improve.

- What are the maintenance costs of tunnels like as compared to surface roads?

- What are the big costs in the industry? The article hinted that Musk picked up a boring machine for 90% off $15MM, or $1.5MM, which seems extremely cheap given that even small size tunnels in urban areas can cost more than one -billion- US dollars per mile.

- Is there enough boreable space under our cities that this is doable? I know Musk says he wants to go deep, but even at very deep depths you run into problems of sand, boulders, geography, etc, etc.
I recently did a small talk to some fortune CTOs who have sizable physical operations and logistics. Their heads exploded when I asked what the plan was for the 150,000 little computers they just placed on their LAN DDoSing the operational systems.
The Future of Containerization Goes More Abstract
I understand that. Going back to your original comment, I think Americans will understand that you don't get those culturual references, and several will not mind showing you and helping you. For me it's actually a lot of fun to show different parts of american cultureand seeing someone else experience it for the first time (Like here: https://xkcd.com/1053/ ). One of the most interesting things that happens if they ask "well why is this part of culture like this", because sometimes I do not even know, so I get to learn a bit about my culture as well.
I'm in the "never use fixed size integers unless needed"-camp. For example, if you write code that's supposed to run on an 8-bit computer (something embedded) as well as your 64-bit desktop, it makes no sense to limit yourself. For example, say that you know that your number will be between 1-200, you could use uint8_t. But why not use int? It will be the native width of the platform, and likely to be faster. Calculations on an 8-bit int can be slower than 64-bit ints on your 64-bit CPU, because the CPU might have to mask out the relevant part of the register to only operate on your 8 bits. And you don't gain anything by writing uint8_t, you still need to occupy a register on your CPU (which will be 64-bit). The behavior of your program will be the same on both platforms.
I think the main reason they're in San Jose is that Moscone is being renovated at the moment? (Which isn't to say that it won't stick).
I agree. It's rare for a teacher to pay for our cases out of their own pocket; it's generally the school system who purchases a package out of their yearly budget.
I've switched to DuckDuckGo and Firefox and am mostly happy with that decision. I still use Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs, though. Do you have recommendations for good free or cheap alternatives to those? Also, we really need an OSS smartphone operating system that really works... Any suggestion on Android vs some alternative?
WEBHOSTING /DOMAIN TRANSFER HEADACHES
Why do web hosting companies/DNS registras bring issues when transferring domains or websites?
I've been a programmer for 27 years, and I still look things up constantly. Not just API details. Everything. If I was mainly doing things I can do off the top of my head, I would suspect I wasn't doing as much as I could be.
This is exactly what I was thinking too. I have my old phone I wouldn't mind using for travel. I'd just keep that one mostly empty and swap the SIM card when traveling. Alternatively a backup could work as long as you place it somewhere online or hide it well so they can't ask for that to be decrypted at the border as well.
In general, I'd agree with you, but here's the sad truth...

Olivier is having difficulty finding a job, despite applying for 'millions' of positions. That screams that there is something wrong. At this point, we could pat him on the head and tell him that everything will be fine, or we can put our critical hats on and try to find things that be blocking his dreams.

I'll agree that some of the feedback has been harsh, but the poor man ended his plea with the word 'help'. Sometimes the most helpful advice is the hardest to hear.
I think so. But you want to do it in such a way that there's no "restore" button you could push on your phone once you're compelled to log in to any accounts that are clearly associated with the phone.

One way to do this would be to back your phone up, encrypt it, and stash the file somewhere else, then scrub the phone and back that up so that you could, if under questioning by CBP, perform a plausible restore.
A Spectral Approach to Ghost Detection [pdf]
CBP will begin asking everyone for Facebook logins.

I don't understand how this doesn't run afoul of the Fourth Amendment. Surely one's social media qualifies as "papers" or "effects" even though they're digital artifacts and not physical. This just seems _incredibly_ invasive.
I was disappointed to see the $1 a month didn't include a meal plan. The biggest body transformations come through diet, not exercise.

What is your diet going to do to me? I am already in shape. Will your diet make me gain muscle mass, gain fat, have more energy, sleep better, induce insulin spikes, etc?

Also, don't some US states prevent people from providing physical exercise and nutritional advice without licensed professionals?
Here's a good paper that came out in 2015 about LTE security that's worth a read:

http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/cif_2015/research/day2_rese....

It was put out by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Thanks! I don't order much from Amazon these days (just because it has become really annoying to wade through all the third-party sellers, and they often aren't all that price-competitive anymore) but I will keep that in mind for the next time.

I wonder how bad a carrier has to be for Amazon to abandon them entirely.
Move to Montréal, plenty of jobs for franco-americans here!
>"Why should we hire you when there are people younger than you with more experience"

"I'm not sure why age is relevant or necessary in your question. But thank you for showing your contempt for older people. I'll be excusing myself now. Good luck in finding a candidate and filling your position. I have a blog article to write."
How narcissism can be a beneficial trait in customer service employees
Talking about underground transport, Musk, and potentially truck driver industry metamorphosis... I had this vision of underground transport network, but not for people, just for things.

It would have extremely simple, rail like or stupidly easy to Computer Vision track the lanes for big wagons of stuff.

It would make streets for human mobility 80% with occasional trucks and we could have automated Network of Things (NoT (c) agumonkey) below ground, at lower cost:

- less or no wind

- less or no rain

- simple flow => lower congestion

- no human => higher speed

- avoiding property negociations most of the time

etc etc
How can they prove it's a lie? Are they tracking my day to day phone?
Last year's Dev Conference was really dissapointing.. When is Apple going to turn the tables once again like they did in 1984?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
A fun prank: Create realistic facebook profiles for people you hate, and send links to CBP right before they travel.
The international border is a longstanding exception to the Fourth Amendment: searches at borders are per se reasonable. The history of this exception goes all the way back to the founders, so there's probably no battle to be won over whether the exception is valid, only to what the limits of the exception are.
Lytro Gets $60M More for Light Field VR Capture
It's possible (not guaranteed) that it does. There are exceptions in the law for immigration/customs stuff. The way to find out is to sue CBP and have the courts decide, or find existing precedent one way or the other.

Or have Congress pass a law making it illegal or legal. Good luck with that one.
I recently shipped something a few miles via USPS and it just never got there. I was RMAing something and the company was nice enough to replace the item.

I've noticed USPS deliveries at my office have been very unusual lately. They often just throw the stuff on the floor near the door (there's a table for mail, etc), and when people exit the door it mashes the letters and such. Very odd. Also, it appears that the people delivering do not speak any English. I've tried to talk with them and either they are pretending to be ignorant of English or they don't understand it.

The only way to protect yourself is to ship non-USPS and insure.
Struct packing is something you can control at the compiler level. In gcc, you can add __attribute__((__packed__)) to your structs.
Good inventions usually look bad from outset. Otherwise someone else would have come up with them much earlier. So, you still need to sell your inventions and get people to see the potential.
> Driver support should not be a problem for Google. They can reuse existing drivers with a rump kernel approach [1].

"Linux is a free set of buggy device drivers." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8470638 .
Spectra efficiency and even faster data rates are nice but I wonder are carriers going going to upgrade backhaul link and IP core network to allow customers to take full advantage of 5G air interface? This a huge capex spending. I wonder if customers willing to pay even more exorbitant prices for 5G plans for their phone?

With those speeds 5G could be an alternative/replacement for cable/DSL for home internet access. I'm not sure the carriers would be on board with that tough as its its easier to oversubscribe mobile devices than home internet.
Yet another reason never to enter the USA.