skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be one of several issues...

1) Your terrible at the recruitment process and do not give a good and fair account of yourself, making it hard to get past the recruitment and into the actual job.

2) You suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. You think you are great but everyone else realizes you are way below average.

3) You are applying for jobs that are not a good fit for you and so not getting anymore. Are you a tech lead that is applying for routine programmer jobs or vice versa.

4) You did not mention your age and so it could be you are coming up against age discrimination. If you are 40 then people expect you to be applying for team leader or higher level jobs and not standard programmer jobs.

I would say that if you are not currently working then your full time job is getting a job. You can do an awful lot in 38 hours of time when looking for work. Customize the covering letter for each position you apply for. Have several different versions of your CV, each one targeting a type of position you want to apply for. Research a list of software companies in your city and then find out the software development manager at each company (not the HR person!). Then reach out to them. Spend time working on a project that would show off your skills and put it up on GitHub. Try putting an ad in your local newspaper offering to work on custom software projects for small businesses.
Hi shroom -- curious why you capitalize both letters in "it"?
Lot of stuff here: https://github.com/openai
(having been an uber/lyft driver) I would say this is exactly wrong. The person being "cheated" is the rider - because if the rider is not knowledgeable enough to know that the ride could be less if they went with the "not-estimated" rate, then they could have not paid upfront instead letting the ride roll.

The driver gets paid for miles and minutes. Moreover, if say something unexpected happens, say traffic, Uber will eat the difference.

I mean if uber loses the lawsuit, they are simply going to change the T&C with the driver so that all rides are preset, and the driver will be paid the estimated rates, and drivers will get screwed when there's lots of traffic.
There are enough reasons to want our firmware to be free. We rely on our machines for our work, for our art, for our lives.

That's a political position as well.

You can't avoid taking political positions in a public social environment, all you're doing is silently accepting the existing position.
> Yes, maybe more buggy at the start, (but not really the case with systemd), but great eventually.

This kind of excuse-making makes me rabid. "We will use our position of power to drag everybody through debugging our poorly made software because we are amazing and one day it will be great" is not a position I will ever have much respect for.

If somebody's enough of a genius to see the future of software, they're enough of a genius to make their shit work for the audiences they are currently shipping to.
Awesome project, but it maxes out at 4GB due to the 32bit CPU.
That's also self-reporting to the single question "have you ever attempted suicide?" without probing for an actual intent to die. In other surveys this has found to be about double the rate compared to when something would qualify as a suicide attempt to a mental health professional.
This is why we can't have (many) political articles on HN. I'd flag this as it's unnecessarily inflammatory but I don't want to do something like that when my judgement could be clouded by my own views.
> 2) It tells the driver that it will pay them $Z to drive from A -> B and the driver agrees to it.

I don't disagree with the overall sentiment that this seems like a non-issue.

However, the driver doesn't see the route, price, then agree to it. They see a pickup point of a passenger and agree to that alone. My understanding is that this is all the information they have when agreeing to a ride. It's a feature to prevent drivers being picky about passengers based on their trip value. It's one of the more important features to me. I've lived in two cities where cab drivers ask where you're going before letting you into the car for exactly this reason. In both cities it is both illegal and common practice.

The most charitable form of this same argument, assuming I've got my facts straight, seems to be: You've driven for Uber for >=1 ride and have a grasp on the reward structure and have chosen to continue doing the job in exchange for said reward structure.
It has its own website http://lib.ivank.net/ . You could find it using Google. This website is already known to Google and others and I think it would be confusing to have it on two different places.
So much overthinking.

"Culture fit" is a deliberately vague term. It's a way to say "we don't want you" without getting into specifics that might be actionable or spark a scene. It doesn't actually mean anything and it's not supposed to.
I purchased the new 13" MBP with touchbar when it came out. As my first Apple laptop, I have to say it has changed my life and the way I use other devices.

I will admit the touchbar is a tad gimmicky. There are a few things I would change and I am waiting on many apps to upgrade to include some touchbar functionality (chrome canary currently supports touchbar contextual buttons). One thing that is kind of annoying about it is the Siri button - I’ve accidently clicked it more than meaningfully. This being said, I don’t regret the upgrade over the traditional model and I would recommend it. I think the argument of having to look down at the keyboard is a bit ridiculous.

The dongle situation is not even really an issue either. I bought two USB 3 -> C adapters and keep one at home and one in my bag. I can count on one hand how many times I’ve used them. I do think Apple could have AT LEAST included one of these with the purchase. The Apple TV airplay integration is so good you can stream action movies without lag, obviating the need for an HDMI or other video output. For the smaller and lighter profile, this tradeoff is justified.

Battery life is pretty good. It could be better but I can go a day of heavy use with two charges (ie. charging mid-day).

The large trackpad and force touch is a joy to use and the keyboard is remarkably clicky despite its low-profile. All in all, its a great machine and the additional functionality will come as apps slowly upgrade to support the touchbar.
1. Thought that was only if you were over 40.

2. Don't be surprised if he says no, he'd rather not get strung along for months. Seriously, why would someone ever accept this type of arrangement if they have sought after skills?
That was my immediate reaction as well. Also from the side the front half looks quite a bit like a Porsche I think.
> If a government employee publicly takes positions in opposition of their job duties

Civil servants swear an oath to defend the constitution, not the political interests of whoever happens to be in office currently. Anyone who doesn't want to live in a banana republic should strongly support that.
>Are you implying that the terms 'Nazi' and 'White Supremacist' isn't throw around by left-wing more sensitive idealists as a pejorative for people that hold conservative values?

No. While those terms are sometimes used by the left as general insults, they also describe actual movements, political ideologies and identifiable ideas.

However, "social justice warriors" don't actually exist, and the only equivalency that can be drawn between the views of one and the other, in the relevant context of free speech and censorship, is a false one.
If you pull it out straight? Of course it's fine.

If you accidentally yank it up or down? It's like it's glued in there. 45° angle? Also glued in there.

MagSafe, the whole point was it didn't matter what angle it was pulled, it would separate easily and with no damage.
"SJW" is about as well-defined as "alt-right" is. I also see the term SJW used by people on the left to criticise what they see as an over-emphasis on identity politics.

But one term is to you, a blanket pejorative used by anti-social types, and the other is not?
Remember, though, Milo wasn't banned for his views. He was banned for repeatedly violating the ToS.
Twitter polls are only useful as a tool for demonstrating how polls with self-selected participation are utterly useless.
Opposite for me. I think it looks modern, clean and stylish. I am starting to think air intakes look very old fashion.
One of the things that has always confused me is that Gnome Shell is really extendible, from a programmer point of view. Even if you don't like Gnome Shell, you can actually start with mutter and build a window manager really easily (or, at least this was the case about 5 years ago when I last looked into this). Building Unity on top of Gnome Sell should be very straight forward. I'm still surprised nobody has tried to do it.

Again, I haven't looked at it lately, but the last time I did, mutter was just fantastic. I was tempted to write my own WM on top of it, but since I have grown disenfranchised with the rest of the Gnome ecosystem (and it's hard to pull that out of mutter), I gave up. This shouldn't be a problem with Unity, though, as it is already entrenched in Gnome.
Back in the day, I watched someone do it to their brand new first-generation MacBook pro. I had never felt so bad for someone breaking something but, somehow, he made more selling it for parts than what he paid for it.
Tripe.
Reposting my comment from 160 days ago!

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I honestly hope the Touch Bar doesn't survive longer than one generation of MacBooks. I believe the whole thing is a gimmick (a well intentioned gimmick) meant to drive forward one thing, Apple Pay on the MacBook. Most likely it's internally perceived as a situation where the end justifies the means, if Apple Pay is widely adopted on the MacBook this will look like a genius decision down the line and make a ridiculous amount of money in the long-term. If not, blame the Touch Bar.

Apple should have done a full touch input screen on the MacBook. It might not have been perfect, but it would have been lauded as revolutionary by the mainstream media. By not doing it they have now given their competitors the chance to grab that market.

When Apple does eventually make a full touch input screen MacBook, Apple Pay will be a part of it. The Touch Bar is just a stepping stone to get to that point, but it's a step they should have skipped.
Jails are full of people who swear they didn't do it, too. That doesn't mean that you should credulously believe them without doing your homework first.
It's not meant to scale imho
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They're saying the testing medium itself made the test appear less scientific/accurate (to them) than it actually is. Perhaps if it had been a hair sample it would have appeared more scientific (again, to them).
> They don't have any fiduciary duty to give the customer the "best rate."

This, to me, is the critical point from the rider side.

If drivers were ever told something along the lines of "We, Uber, take an x% cut of the fare" then I can see a court deciding that drivers were defrauded by Uber when they misrepresented what the user paid.
A lot of the customer base is going to be relatively set in its ways - they won't like anything that changes the way the interact with their mac unless it's a bona fide home run. I would consider 50% a pretty good number and expect it to rise over time.
>A long time because they do not triangulate multiple news sources, and have a deeply paranoid conspiracy theory, shared by the president, that the main stream media cannot at all be trusted.

Zion is the Matrix. Choose the red pill, you're still a slave.
Well, what if you countered it with a lucite slab?
4 years of undergrad and 4 years of med school at least. And I agree that a tech related bachelor's is a good idea for a med school backup.
Hey Matt, Thank you for posting this. I'm bootstrapping Remarkbox and currently accepting beta sign ups.
I always find the quantity of magazine spam on apple is pretty astounding
“No one wants to be on your board.” #startuplife
That's a huge leap there Simon.

You're not even close to the mark though.
Making this shift led to improved diversity among more teams at Atlassian. For us at Buffer, it has provided us with a way to stay true to our values and united in the core beliefs that make Buffer the company that we know and love, while also leaving plenty of room for bringing your authentic self to work, including all the perspectives and experiences that make you unique.

Better than I expected based on the two comments already here before I read it. Though the lead up is a bit long and tedious, when it gets to the real point, it does have something useful to say.
I would call those SMB networks, not enterprise. But even so I'm kind of surprised by that since even some crappy home gear I've purchased has RADIUS support buried in advanced settings.
My only gripe with the touchbar is that it replaced the function key row instead of going above it; other than that, I very much like the oled touchbar.
He denies doing a lot of things that he has done. As for BLM, you're gonna have to show proof of that.
1) You hire terribly and develop people terribly if it's that easy to hire people better than your current staff (you should fire yourself) 2) Your good people leave for more secure jobs with people that aren't misanthropes 3) Over time it tarnishes your reputation as a destination 4) Over even greater time, it stunts the development of your professional network.

This is a pretty good Quora answer, all things considered.
U.S. antidiscrimination law outlaws termination on the basis of one or more of several protected categories which include race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and I believe age.There are other things you can't be fired for, such as taking maternity leave, or conplaining with others about working conditions (if you are the sole complainant, you can be fired).

You can be fired for just about any reason outside of these. And I don't think BDSM or Goreanism count as protected sexual orientations.
Why I’m selling some Twitter shares
I wrote on my iPhone with swedish auto-complete so it likes IT as Information Technology.

*I edited it now :)
Of course not. Twitter also has a right to free speech and can exercise that by telling whoever they want to leave their platform.
Wall Street vs. shadow banks? Unnecessary tug of war
That's next quarter. It doesn't affect my bonus. Next problem.
Surely this is really the fundamental disagreement.

Group 1: I would rather deal with harassment and hate speech than risk erroneously silencing someone I need to hear.

Group 2: I would rather risk silencing someone who's voice ought to be heard than allow someone use speech to hurt another person with harassment or hate.

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Group 1 isn't trying to promote hate speech or harassment, they're just worried about the potentially malicious intentions of those that want to decide what speech falls under those banners.

Group 2 isn't trying to silence opinions they disagree with, they're just worried that people are getting better at subtly codifying their hate speech in a way that gives them plausible deniability to out-groups but is obviously hateful to the in-group.

I think the important takeaway is that neither 'side' is evil and despite the fact that it causes heated arguments one should maintain respect for those they disagree with.
I was at a start-up that did this, and then expected the remaining developers to then keep the original workload with added responsibilities.
It only takes once to ruin a laptop.

And I've had my magsafe release many times in the years I've had it. Not every time would have resulted in the laptop going walkabout, but it would have resulted in a short stop and possibly damage to the USB-C socket and cord instead.
Its supported in all regions as of January 25: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ipv6-update-global-supp...
It's because of political tribalism. They want to appear impartial while still maintaining they're part of tribe X.
Correct.

But while the two cases aren't equivalent, they both stand in opposition to principles of free speech.

Twitter has no moral high ground here.
I think tech in general is much more center left than it used to be. Probably due to the fact it's now seen as more socially viable to be in it, and it's now seen as an acceptable career choice for progressive people from middle class backgrounds.

A lot of people here would probably read the "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" story from the 1980s, and complain about all the sexism.
>But one term is to you, a blanket pejorative used by anti-social types, and the other is not?

I didn't mention "alt-right" and neither did the comment I replied to. Maybe you're reading something into my words that isn't there?
that selective enforcement happened because of his views
I don't have a dog in this hunt, I will simply point out that people who have used LSD have been claiming that it's pretty much magic, that everyone should try it, etc... for decades. The very guarded initial ventures into real research seem to be entirely secondary to the evangelical zeal of some people who have taken the drug in question, and feel it's "essential".

Edit: I should point out that obviously, they could have reached this conclusion because it is that amazing, but a lot of people have ironclad convictions about everything from drugs to religion after all. The research should hopefully offer an answer that can be, frankly, believed.
This is not true anymore. It was at one point but now it's a static fare to take a person from x to y. That static fare is based on the route generated by Uber at the time that the trip is requested. Naturally, the static price is based on a minutes and miles estimation but it doesn't change in cases of unexpected delays or altered routes. The driver does maintain their ability to choose a different route, but it won't alter the cost to the rider or the driver's compensation. Passengers are shown the exact amount that a ride will cost at the time that they book.

I recently took a ride in SF where I asked the driver if we could stock for fast food along the way (I had just had a 6 hour flight and I can't eat on planes for fear of motion sickness). He said that a few months back he would have said yes but now that Uber has an upfront ride cost he wouldn't make any money while were were sitting in the driver through line. I had to eat so I offered $15 on top of the fare, great results, would ride again.

edit: It occurs to me that while users are offered a static fare, drivers could still be paid based on miles and minutes. That's obviously not how the driver in my example understood his compensation but it _could_ be the case.
Black Lives Matter isn't a single person.
I don't see why criticism being normalized as hate-speech is more scary than equating banning users who actively post racist, hateful bullshit and handing over the user info of somebody who opposes the president.

One has people starting mobs against each other while the other has people thinking actions taken against demagogues is of the same vein as government suppression of dissent.

You're more afraid of mobs of people shit talking you than the government arresting you for your opinions if they don't agree with them?
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Don't we have the numbers (and quite frankly the money) to solve this issue at the root?

Consider that there's a probably not-small team at Intel responsible for designing and implementing ME. All of them have decided, either explicitly or implicitly, to willingly follow the company plan and keep ME secret. How many of those would, if there were no negative consequence to themselves, defect and leak everything they knew about it (including the critical private keys)? As it is, a handful doing it would be sued into oblivion, but if everyone working on ME somehow decided to defect, it wouldn't be easy to stop them.

Just like with those who work on designing and implementing DRM and other anti-user features, I've always wondered: do these people genuinely believe that they are an overall good and actively promote/advocate for them, or do they personally oppose, but take the job because of some other factors and decide not to stand up for themselves due to the consequences? I mean, if I were forced to work on such things, I would likely not make them so strong and maybe even introduce some weaknesses, because I am fundamentally opposed to it.
Messing with sysvinit scripts is just that painful.
Yes. The Twitter that hasn't shut down other (left-leaning) accounts for repeatedly breaking the ToS.

Pretending that this is anything but politically-motivated is naive.
Please take a step back and think about it.

If you contracted me to install cabinets in your kitchen, I couldn't defensibly take 1 year to install them, if I estimated 3 days. This doesn't make all cabinet installers employees.
Milo Y had the entire platform of breitbart. Nobody was really silencing the guy, other than his own need to needle people and push limits.
Got a Nexus 5 that has been working acceptably. Doesn't look like it's patched anymore, not even 4 years later.
I personally hate the touchbar. I always have a keyboard hooked up to my mbp so I use it rarely to begin with. When I do use it, its primarily to adjust the volume. The fact that the layout changes and I can no longer really use muscle memory to do certain things makes it a pain for me to use.
good point, but on the short term at least, it would be pretty surprising if a sufficient amount of people took the test for that to be an actual preoccupation, lest you have reasons to think members in your family would specially likely to get the test (ie, history of genetic illnesses or a geeky uncle interested in biotech)
Beers, Bots and Broadcast companies are starting to use AI
I wouldn't be surprised if being burned by one of their investments going under has made them wary of jumping headfirst into trends. Maybe avoiding bias plays into it too.
Not for the Nexus 6 :'(

But even so, it should still get security updates. But the update system seems broken.
If you don't mind me asking, why would you prefer not to know?
"Well maybe you'd like the first amendment to be removed?"

See, this is what I'm talking about. I said I see no moral value in racists harassing people. And make no mistake, the topic we were discussing is exactly that. Racists harassing someone on a private company's platform. And now you're trying to make it like I want the 1st Amendment repealed. Despite the fact that Twitter is not bound by the 1st Amendment, nor have I called for anyone to be jailed.

"Just because something has no cultural value doesn't stop someone, in this country, from having the right to say it."

No, but that thing being harassment, which the event in question absolutely was, does stop you from having a right to say it.

"We can say great things, boring things, vile things, agreeable things, dissenting things and it's all protected. You remove protection for one, and you risk losing all of it."

I do not agree in the slightest. I'm pretty sure Twitter can not allow hate speech and harassment on their private platform, and free speech would be absolutely fine. There would be no chilling effect whatsoever.

"That said, I think speech should absolutely be protected, even for racist dickheads."

And I believe they have absolutely no right to harass another user, which is what we're talking about.

"Otherwise, who decides what's "right" and what's "wrong?""

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that advocating for the genocide of an entire people falls very squarely within the "wrong" category, with absolutely no risk of any slippery slope.

"What happens when your opinions are suddenly unpopular?"

I don't call for the genocide of an entire people, and I don't make racist remarks. I'll be fine.

"Whoops, should have defended (or at the very least accepted) the idea of free speech for all people and ideas."

Yeah, no. I'm still never going to defend or accept the idea that harassment should be tolerated.