skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually don't think that's strictly true. Although there might be a stigma associated with calling yourself an Engineer if you didn't go through an Engineering program, it is only illegal to call yourself a Professional Engineer if you're not properly licensed.

Graduating from an Engineering degree (and/or receiving an Iron Ring) has no real legal protection or obligation. The licensing requirements to become a Professional Engineer (or P. Eng) are as follows:

* Graduate with a degree from an accredited program in engineering or applied science, accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB).
* Complete an Engineer in Training or "Engineering Internship" program under the direction of a P.Eng. (This is a minimum four-year program with the exception of Quebec)
* Review of work experience by the Association,
* Pass a Professional Practice Exam(content and format of which differs by province).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...

edit: based on the "Title Usage: Canada" section in the same article, it does look like there were lawsuits and attempts to try and restrict the usage of the word Engineer, but it seems results were mixed at best, and vary widely from province to province, so I'll stand by my point that the only actual protected term is Professional Engineer
It's also a machine that generates dumbed-down conversation. The natural slant on IRC is away from intelligent discourse and toward a cross between texting and one-line jokes with friends. There's nothing inherently wrong with this. But it does foster negativity much of the time.

I know hundreds of people who dedicate their lives to the drama and bullshit that is spawned solely by being in an IRC channel. If it went away, these people might just find something productive or positive to do with their lives.
I guessed Microsoft right because everybody was complaining about their flat buttons a while back and recognised Amazon, but the others…no idea whatsoever. But then I also don’t really use their products, so I don’t know what I expected.
"It does seem terribly hypocritical to complain about the police capturing images from a public street, while simultaneously defending people's right to record the police in public."

The police have great power over the general public; we must keep that power in check, and one of the ways to do that in the modern world is to record police abuses and police brutality and publish those recordings on the Internet. I would rather see people who are dissatisfied with law enforcement aim cameras at the police than to have guns aimed at the police. We generally do not want our cities to become war zones.

On the other hand, when the police record the general public, the balance of power is further tipped toward the police. They already have paramilitary teams, armored vehicles, even attack helicopters, and they have vast surveillance powers; it is hard enough to prevent such an organization from become an oppressive, tyrannical force. Further expansion of police power is unnecessary and dangerous.
This is horrible analysis: comparing Vista to windows 7 changes to windows 7 to 8 changes.

Vista was arguably Microsoft's worst OS. Windows 7 arguably the best. Obviously the changes you mention would be better. In fact, with 5% I am amazed and think that is rather impressive.
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To be fair, they do post quite a lot of phone numbers, I don't know where they dug that page from:

http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/company-address.aspx

Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Tel: (408) 349-3300
Fax: (408) 349-3301
I find this generally helpful and I like the attitude of these emails, but you are making a massive mistake that every single one of those websites which do the same thing make as well - you don't provide a clear and quick way to be removed from your mailing list.

This should be in every email, a simple link or even asking to reply with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.

If you don't do this a lot of people are going to think you're spamming them.
I was very surprised that the article made no mention of such a bias. It was my first thought, too. I'm not terribly up-to-date on how Kepler has been detecting planets, but isn't it due to the 'wobble' of the stars? Surely they'll find planets that orbit faster (and wobble their stars faster) first. It'll take many many years of very consistent observations (or one very lucky day) to see a wobble (or occlusion) from a planet like our Jupiter.
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I didn't get any tutorial of the new features with the hot corners etc.. Never got any introduction.
I googled it and closing apps is described here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-close-app

Funny part is that it just doesn't work with a mouse. It does work well on my Win8 tablet.

Also, I didn't wanna use the power button since I wanted to actually restart it. (Actually I was in a VM).
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Alguna vez imaginaste que el servicio de tu celular pudiera ser gratis ademas generar ingresos - Red Amigo Telcel.
Indeed ...

It's fun to joke around before telling people the real story - "oh, this is my Serbian Mafia ring ... all the guys in Belgrade have them"
Sort of. The PEO in Ontario once threatened Microsoft regarding the MCSE designation, causing Microsoft to temporarily recant. After their lawyers had a go at it, Microsoft decided that they have no risk in the Engineer in MCSE (the Wikipedia link that yurisagalov provided humorously holds that Microsoft renamed it to "IT Professional" to avoid the ire of engineers. Hardly. IT Pro was a blanket marketing term introduced years after deciding to ignore the PEO in Ontario -- http://peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/21494/la_id/1.htm).

Similarly, countless people use the title Software Engineer, just as there are Sanitation Engineer and Train Engineers.

Because the PEO has more bark than bite.
>>Almost always, communication is done over email with a recruiter, and the average response time is several hours to a day.

How about trying a different method? Instead of emailing a recruiter (or the company), try calling. This is signaling that you're more serious than someone who's just following up with an email (think of the volume of the candidate pool you're in) and distinguishes yourself. Even better, at the end of the interview you could plant the seed for a follow up, like "It's been great meeting you, blah, blah, blah…I'd like to check in with with you next Tuesday (or whatever) at 10am with a brief phone call, as I've got other positions to consider and I know you've got other candidates…"

>>They then emailed me asking if I’d like to stop by their office for a few hours for an on-site interview. I responded after a couple days…

then later the OP says

>>larger companies, such as Facebook, Amazon, or Apple, are very expedient with scheduling and setting things up, and keeping the loop. This is extremely to their advantage.

Time is of the essence, but I understand you might have been busy. Probably not too busy for a quick follow up email to set up the interview. And, if you don't hear back anyway, be tenacious and call them.

>>A friend told me that I should take the strategy of sending email after email until they give me some sort of response. (“Stop sending us damn emails. We don’t want you.”) I’ve not really done this, but I’ve done more than what I think I am responsible for doing…

Responsible for doing? A different way of thinking about it would be to think about being responsible to yourself, not them. You want the job; are you doing everything you can to get this job? See stuff by Ramit Sethi for interview tips.
Don't think for a second that no one died either indirectly, or directly from the Cold War.
I feel this way with respect to sites that I am forced to sign up for just to view the demo. Sites that I will never use again ... I don't want them being my best friend yet.

If I've tried the demo and I am actually signing up to use your site, this type of email would be tolerable, but again, I generally don't want to engage with the company unless I have an issue.

The only time I can see this being welcome to me is in a B2B context where I have signed a longer-term contract for a solution that my business will need support for.
Slightly off-topic, but is there a particular reason you prefer MacPorts to Homebrew?
Fellow Mac user here... Have you tried homebrew? I had been using MacPorts until someone told me "Homebrew is far faster." And indeed, installing something on MP takes me ages, while on homebrew it's a matter of seconds
Old news:
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/releaseindex.html
It kind of sucks I created a start-up that combines Google Earth and YouTube, I am told "no one wants it" by the industry including YC/HN, but then Google launches its own version of my concept after submitting to Google Ventures....Ah I feel much better now.
> I have to actually read the first sentence to see that it's spam.

I second that. In fact I lost my primary Gmail account recently to unsolicited mail, by signing up with just one wrong guy. Started receiving roughly 600 junk daily in my inbox starting from (1) insurance schemes from big banks to (2) UK LOTTERY from our Nigerian brothers.

Betweeen (1) and (2) above, I must say, I did have to actually read first few sentences of (2) to decide that it was spam. That's so true, and scary at that.

I guess, this problem actually stems from the fact that by design email is vulnerable. And that we're forced to keep our email address a secret and share it very carefully - like using simple obscurity [username at servicename dot com] type of stuff... but this is not enough.

This model also makes spam filtering a costly affair for the service provider. I wonder how much additional cost Google has to bear to filter spam and malicious? Have seen it often that flooding continues and continues until the user is forced to change his/her email address and start all over again.

It's no wonder that over 97% of global email is unwanted [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam
I appreciate the body text of his e-mail, it does feel personal and engaging. However, I wonder if I would have gotten as far as reading the body of an e-mail had it come with the subject line "SupportFu is going to change your life - let me show you how." The subject just reeks of spam.

A better way of structuring the subject line to get my attention would be something a bit less "Enlarge your penis - let me show you how"-ish and a bit more along the lines of "On using our tool" or "SupportFu introduction." They might not be as striking as far as subjects go, but I would not be as quick to dismiss them as spam.
That is kind of like saying, "Everyone has freedom of speech, therefore the government should be allowed to publish propaganda."
You are a private citizen. A police officer is not while in the process of carrying out their duty. This is, in part, why they wear a uniform and why the are badged and numbered.

The police have a very special and privileged place in our society. They apply the law which means that they individually (and as a group) are given special rights by society for our protection. However, they are in a unique (and uniquely easy) position to abuse those extra rights.

How can we fight corruption if the people who's job it is to fight corruption are corrupt? How can we prove that they aren't? The extra powers the police are given make it very easy for them to be corrupt and to hide the fact.

Complaints against the police force are rarely about them recording their work, it is about them recording private citizen't going about their business for no good reason. Legitimate protestors legitimately protesting.

The police complain that they shouldn't have to be recorded going about their business as no-one else puts up with that. But they are wrong. They apply the law, the final step in the chain — and that isn't recorded. Everything said in parliament is recorded, everything said in court is recorded.

Hell, even truck drivers have tacographs!

Should police cars have dash-cams in this day and age? Yes.
Should police have google-glass-like recorders recording what they see and what they do? Yes probably.
Should a police gun record everything it shoots? definitely.

And the same applies for prisons and prison officers.

These are exactly the people who society has a valid, just reason to record in their duty.

A good cop has nothing to fear from more cameras. Even better—automating the process should, if done correctly, mean the death of a ton of paperwork.

The other argument for the police recording themselves is the fact that recording equipment is now so prevalent on walls and in the hands of the citizenry that they would surely need their own evidence to back up what the cops say. How many jury's will continue to take the word of a cop over two conflicting video recordings? Imagine how persuasive video footage of a cop being punched in the goggles would be? Surely the cops need that?
Link does not load CSS for me, but this does:

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/B000GQLCV...
Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after all this time :)

As far as I know my year (2005) was one of the last years that U of T still offered an actual iron version, as opposed to stainless steel (most other schools no longer did at that time). I'm not sure if it's still possible to get one today. Another option was to get an old ring from retired engineers who were no longer practicing and returned their ring to be used by the next generation... something that I thought was pretty amazing and humbling.
Someone benefitting from a story does not mean there is a PR conspiracy afoot.
Calling yourself a P.Eng without actually being a licensed P.Eng is very, very illegal.

Calling yourself an Engineer without having graduated from a CEAB-accredited institution is also illegal, just that people don't care nearly as much as bout this. You will occasionally see job postings and titles for "software engineers" from companies that don't know about this particular legal snag, and for the most part it's not policed.

You will sometimes see this dodged as "Engineering". "Junior Engineering" is a common moniker for someone who hasn't graduated yet, for example. The verb isn't protected, only the noun is.
I've said this before, but deep learning is terribly powerful precisely because you don't have to spend lots of time doing feature engineering. Multi layer networks that are trained in semi-supervised, unsupervised and supervised fashions all can now produce networks that meet or beat the state of the art hand created models for speech, handwriting recognition, ocr, and object recognition. We are only just beginning to see what is possible with these sorts of techniques. I predict within a few years time we will see a huge renaissance in AI research and Neural Network research specifically as these techniques are applied more broadly in industry. My startup is building some cool stuff around this technology, and I know there are hundreds like me out there. This is going to be a fun ride.
I had the same trouble, pretty seamless upgrade otherwise.
Thanks to QUFB for submitting this, I would have likely missed this otherwise.
There is good advice there for many other applications, like writing to a bank or public official.
> If the city actually fixed some of these regulatory issues, there would be a huge explosions of trucks overnight.

A lot of people would find this undesirable, esp. considering the vast majority of food trucks only do service in Manhattan. An explosion of food trucks eating up already heavily trafficked road and parking spaces sounds like a bad idea.
Despite all the apparent hate for using the word "hacker", I'd love to see some actual comments here on the ideas presented. I run a record label that does press releases and my gut has always said they are a waste of our time. Love to hear other people's experience with them as well.
Followup: (I can't edit my old post anymore), it's informative to actually read lots and lots of after-interview writeups where the candidate had an overall negative experience. Consistent problems emerge:

Glassdoor is awesome for this:

Some SV-companies with higher than average negative experience ratings:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Zynga-Interview-Questions...

Lots of "after the interview I appeared to have been dropped into a black hole since nobody's told me if I've moved on or not".

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Palantir-Technologies-Int...

Unbelievably disorganized hiring process by the sounds of it. Numerous, detailed reviews of interviewers simply not showing up, poor communication with the recruiting staff, etc. Weird cult-like experiences. It sounds like a cattle call. I actually couldn't find a company with a higher negative experience score.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/eBay-Interview-Questions-...

Unbelievably poor communication. Amateurish interviews. No follow up from the recruiters, candidates are simply left in limbo.

There's a fair number of obviously bad candidates who were miffed. But there's tons and tons of people who were probably good candidates, but were simply jerked around for weeks on end. In some cases, the company's own internal processes are so broken they couldn't even conduct the interviews correctly.

Some with more positive ratings:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Facebook-Interview-Questi...

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Google-Interview-Question...

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Amazon-com-Interview-Ques...

http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Microsoft-Interview-Quest...

See the difference in the candidate responses? You're doing something right if people get rejected but say they had a positive interview experience.
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How Our Tech Startup Succeeded Without the Tech
"I can rationally see that there could be a lot of uses for it, in fact, in modernizing investigations and law enforcement."

In other words, you feel that these people do not have enough power over the public, and should be given more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Bernardino_police_swa...

"Presuming that it has appropriate checks and balances"

It will almost certainly not, except under the most far-right definition of "appropriate."

"with every plate-holder having the right to use that same information themselves"

Have you ever tried to file a FOIA request? The public will have a substantially harder time accessing that information than the government will.
Photography help or digital camera help 
photography help or digital camera help
Paypal is not working around the system: they are simply not a bank. They are a payment processor. Just think about what would happen to the fees that he already complains about if they had to insure the deposits.
'pg says that VC companies never say no to a company.

I think this is just the "shit rolls downhill" version. Companies don't want to ever say no to a candidate. They can always come back to you later.

But, really, if anyone should know how much the "never say no" routine sucks, it's the companies hunting for VC.
Kepler uses occlusion, not wobbling.
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OT: His online Machine Learning class last year was great. He is the best professor I've ever had, and explains things so clearly that you understand them the first time. You are lucky if you ever get to work or study under him.
If you're using gmail or google apps just add a +words to your email and then you can set up easy filters and figure out if anyone is selling or renting your information.

e.g. sergey@gmail.com --> sergey+zappos@gmail.com
Bought the Social Regular set a while back. At $5, it's a steal.
>with this sort of trickery you could get a "domain control validated" https certificate too!

I don't understand why HSTS didn't allow some sort of pinning, or the ability to specify a certain kind flag in the certificate is required (like EV).
> Solaris, though extremely annoying to use

You can't drop a comment like that without details!
Implementing the TDS protocol is fairly straightforward, and although it may take some time, it will help a lot of people and likely make you even more familiar with the language. I did it in pure-JS for node.js and it was a great learning experience.
50 hacker teens in NYC, one weekend plus open gov data #YRSNYC
Nobody remembers the Linode bitcoin "hack" where it was assumed by bitcointalk that an admin was looting accounts? Im surprised anybody still uses them.
I love how Aston styling has affected Ford.
Play 1.x with Java works well for medium to large size applications. It's stateless architecture gives you the performance you need. For small projects, I like to use Flask.
>the system has a loophole: large swathes of the city are designated as roads, sidewalks, highways (which is a technical term for the road allowance). These areas of the city are completely free to use, for anyone, on the condition that it's a short-term, passing-through, sort of use.

You're making it sound as though food trucks stop in the middle of the road to sell their stuff. In fact they use designated parking where it would be completely legal to keep the vehicle for the same duration otherwise. Also, the business model of selling from a truck isn't going against some core concept of land ownership or something (witness ice cream trucks, which have operated with little friction for 80 years or so). The problem is with the "system" defending entrenched interests against innovation and using BS regulations (see the article) to do so.
Also something I've looked at, are you familiar with https://www.prefinery.com/ ? It seems to do what you're writing about (but have not used it myself).
Tailgating YC
Much rather, given that they intend to start up this "Tech_Hub" thing, they realized, that enforcing licensing claims (and the negative PR that generates) would give them a bad public perception... esp. in the dev world which they seem to be targeting with said "Tech_Hub"
I'm young enough that I'm thinking more of people I went to school with in most of those cities, not really professional colleagues: elementary/middle-school in Chicago, and high-school in Houston. But it's true that they were middle-class suburban areas, and probably also had a lot of people who moved around (few of my Houston classmates were multi-generational Texans).
Tools that you use at work
This where you win the billion dollar Internet sweepstakes for the first correct use of Beg the Question in a forum post. Well done.
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Sorry, I should have clarified; AFAIK, egg is not faster than magit, but I haven't really played with magit. My comment on speed was aimed at the article complaining about slow IDEs as git interfaces. When I run emacs, "slow" isn't the word that comes to mind, especially when compared to other IDEs (and I'm talking about with all sorts of IDE-type features added on to emacs). Egg is pretty fast, though.
As a rule, I refer to myself as a "Web Developer". Sometimes the Engineer label gets slapped on me and I decline to make a fuss, but when I have a choice, I don't use it.
Indeed. Couldn't you just as easily say we used to think our solar system was abnormal because we hadn't discovered any planets around other stars?