skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a degree in EE and are failing to find a job....where are you looking?

Seriously, the job market for skilled workers at the moment is booming (Maths, Physics, Chemistry, EE, CompSci), most of the companies I have come in contact with are gasping for talent - this leads me to believe you are doing one of the following things:

- Limiting your search space - Are you limiting yourself to a city? state? country? Most companies are hiring all over the place and attempting to concentrate certain talents in certain places.

- Not tailoring your resume to the job. (see point 4)

- Not being prepared for the interview...are you researching the company before hand? Do you want to work for the company? Are you getting the point across?

- Applying for jobs which you want to do but don't have the background for - You have an EE degree but say you are interested in Marketing...these are very different skillsets.. it might be better to get a more focused tech job, then attempts an internal transfer after a year, while also building up your portfolio for the other area

Best of luck on the search.
Try puting:

javascript:a=document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (b in a){c=document.createElement('img');c.setAttribute('src',a[b].href);a[b].parentElement.appendChild(c);}

into your URL bar.
"Very Worst"? Obviously someone has never played Superman 64...
HP admits to backdoors in storage products
> (a bug that becomes popular to exploit is still a bug, I don't care what the pro-gamers say)

Do you hate rocket jumping and wall hugging in Quake as well? Both are essential to playing Quake at a decent level. Both started as accidental features (call them bugs if you will) but were then given the official stamp of approval and carried forward through all the sequels.

In other words, you are committing the genetic fallacy.

Denying started as an accidental feature or bug. But it was found to be interesting and the game has since been balanced around it. Now, you can only auto-attack allied creeps when they are below 50% health, the XP from denied creeps is higher for melee heroes, etc. As a game mechanic, it emphasizes that the laning phase is a head-to-head contest between adversaries that can disrupt each other's progression through means other than direct harassment. The usual retort is that it's bad because it's counterintuitive. But what does that really mean? Not every game mechanic can be intuited. The rules of chess are not intuitive. Games are formal systems with a veneer of verisimilitude.
Really? You are really going to imply America is uncivilized when you compare it to a country that literally attempted to take over the world and exterminate an entire race of people? Within recent generational memory no less?

Europeans come in two flavors, smug, and really really smug. When will you all get off your high horses?

I think I should say it again because it bears repeating. The country that you just compared america to, implying we are not civilized and germany is, literally attempted to take over the world and exterminate an entire race of people. Civilized? Really?

At least our country was on the right side.
I've seen those containers everywhere! Just laying there rusting and collecting dust, while the DoD pays the shipping companies $7,400 for a container worth $3,200 because the contact was "rent-to-own"...
champion, didn't think to do something like that.
It is probably just because these are things that get touched by humans so there is a high risk that the virus might jump over and spread ...!
If someone buys a computer and uses the internet, Google gets to sell more ads.

The Chromebook is literally no different, in this respect.

So your argument about "inherently more tracking" is fatally flawed.
I came to say exactly this. No code reviews, no source control. Pretty scary.
Please offer a shred of evidence that buying a Chromebook exposes you to client-side or server-side tracking, other than ChromeOS updates, and the OPTIONAL log-in system with preferences and opened web pages.
The quiet giant of consumer database marketing
"Among them was the apparent assumption that a computer mouse can carry a virus."

Hypothetically, this is true -- if you disassemble the right kind of mouse, put in a USB hub and a USB flash drive with malware. But surely you could simply test the hardware with a known good installation (say, off a Live CD) to figure out if that was the case?
Granted you probably don't have to worry about this on Google but if you'd typed the name as one word (which it always is, AFAIK) you would have gotten the proper results.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo+bang+feature

You can consider that a shortcoming given how specific the query was. However, once you realize its behavior it isn't that difficult to find what you want– in some cases, it's actually very helpful.
I'm a huge fan of this kind of business model: Public free/private pay.

And if you do that, consider taking a page from the Sprint.ly playbook..only charge for months the user actually uses your service.
Eric Clayberg on Dart (Talk from Smalltalk Industry Council)
Hiding his IP with Tor would be a good start.

Using separate accounts for reading unsafe links and commenting safe ones can avoid detection based on writing style analysis.

Since Tor exit nodes can be compromised easily and HTTPS is vulnerable to attackers powerful enough to have the private keys of major certificate authorities, the passwords used should not be reused for other services.
FYI, as of today the records request page is https by default.
One problem with the office track changes feature is that ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE INSIDE THE DOCUMENT.

This is wrong, the document should be inside the VCS.

Some examples that my mother brought up regarding Law firms and the track changes feature are that if somebody writes 'adding this paragraph because of idiot customer X' or repurposes a document for customer Y into a document for customer X then some bright beaver at customer X turns on the track changes feature...

I'm sure there is a way to scrub the changes from the document before sending it but not separating the content from the history will always create problems.
If they were programmable keyboards / mice, or they were suspected to be counterfeit or other surreptitiously modified parts, I might understand.
Every decent company on the planet had PCs on a 36-48 month refresh cycle.when was the last like you heard of that happening?
I needed an ambulance in a state park and they sent a fire truck too. When I asked the EMT from the ambulance why the firetruck, she responded "they're our toolbox."
That would be what much of the article is about, yes...
>as common as fires and doors being deadbolted closed with child 911 callers

Are there any statistics on the number of cases on which a firetruck was really needed?
From SmartQuill to Lernstift, the evolution of the smart pen
This is highly unlikely. I'm on a team that administers an EC2 infrastructure with tens of terabytes of RAM, and I've never seen anything that resembles memory errors. Considering the findings of http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf, this would be rather extraordinary.
You are awesome . . . tell us how we can be awesome.
We're just getting started at BitBox and we want to be awesome too. We knew there was no one better to ask than the hacker community. So please, let us know how we can be awesome by taking this really short survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BTEzJANuW7PIpHoo3Eiy5sx8wgnoX6z78CRaJ0n60AM/viewform

Also, give us feedback on our API: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiFV__KVZG8UdHFadWdpcFd0OFFkZTllX2ctRmR1anc#gid=0
Is this for real? Man, $823,000 + $688,000 for a cybersecurity contractor to do 6 months work. I'm in the wrong industry.

The report: http://www.oig.doc.gov/OIGPublications/OIG-13-027-A.pdf
State Dems relying on Obama-style data machine for November edge
This doesn't mean that people have to edit in text editors.

Anyway, having non-proprietary file formats is more important than being human readable. For this reason and others.
I'll see your Superman 64 and raise you Action 52.
You may find this thing that we're working on relevant:

https://github.com/nudgepad/space

It's a very understandable and very powerful language that I think will at some point be extended to replace HTTP, amongst other things.
I don't want "search neutrality."

Fortunately any regulatory regime would be an absolute nightmare so I am not worried about search neutrality ever being a big thing. How do you distinguish between relevant search results and a lack of search neutrality?
Microsoft expected to announce restructuring
It is not surprising that they shot the dogs. What exactly do people think dogs do when a bunch of strangers aggressively enter the dog's territory? Even the most well-behaved dog is going to be barking and bearing its teeth.

The real problem here is the complete lack of accountability when the police raid the wrong house. When a team of soldiers damages a person's home, threatens to kill people (yes, that is what you are doing when you point guns at people), and kills their pets, they should be put in prison for recklessly endangering the public. That might make them think twice about using soldiers to enforce the law.
Action RTS. The problem with the genre spawned by DOTA is that it doesn't have a good name. Calling them DOTAlikes offends fans of various games that sport nearly identical maps, mechanics, and rosters of characters. Calling them ARTS games is silly because they're only RTSish in that they originated on Blizzard's games as map-mods. Riot invented the term MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) which could be applied to every online game ever. Sadly, the worst option (MOBA) seems to be the one that sticks.
"Today in the US, if you call 911 about an emergency medical condition, they will often send a fire engine along with an ambulance and a cop. It makes me wonder if firemen and firewomen are so underutilized they've ended up with mostly make-work."

In response to a similar observation that I once made, a friend suggested that police at a non-law enforcement emergency act as ad hoc project managers. "You need what, Mr. EMT? I'll have it for you directly, and I'll have those cars blocking access towed too. ... You lot! Back away!"
A quick look at Dropbox's new Datastore API
I consider most of the crap that goes on in commercial software to be intentionally abusive of users' computers....
I think the canonical answer to this for restaurants is Facebook page + Google Maps listing + Yelp listing.
Yep, infinitely: 0 vs. ~$40 right? Not sure why you downvoted.
Your amazingly succinct description of all that is wrong with today's mobile app stores is bordering on poetry. Nicely put.
Thanks for the push; done!
I was going to ask if the Canadian government could do anything about that, but then disillusionment set in.
Apple wasn't trying to create any old sustainable marketplace. They were trying to create a marketplace where they didn't have to compete on price so they could win on a more favorable dimension (like platform integration). Therein lies the problem.
Yes, my wife's done this for almost a decade. She gets paid well, provides professional service, and works under an LLC

What else would you call it, if not professional?

That said, I have to harass her about backups.
I thought HN detected duplicate submissions? Previous thread, 5 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022638
I frequently disagree with Thomas (tptacek), but this is unfair.
> I want the same person who makes sure the President's people get paid responsible for all of the military. They should get the same level of service.

If it makes you feel better, many civil servants do get paid through DFAS payroll handling. In fact from the DFAS website it appears the Executive Office of the President is one of the agencies that uses DFAS.

However I don't think you understand how difficult accurate payroll maintenance from an outsourced agency would be. There's no way to remove the Pentagon from it completely, as many entitlements are based entirely on unit-level information (such as a CO certifying that such-and-such enlisted crew member was distributed into a an arduous duty billet that is eligible for special duty assignment pay).
It's not fair to lump all App-Store freemium games together. Nor do I appreciate your characterization of enjoying a videogame as "addiction". Some are money-grabbing cesspits, but others are well-designed freemium games. Clash of Clans comes to mind as an exceptionally well-designed freemium game. I've spent money on it yes, but for the amount of enjoyment I've received, and the camaraderie (someone in my clan bought me Reddit gold), Supercell has earned their money.
That's right re PKIs, which is why I said "PKI-like service." I don't believe the conventional definition of PKI is useful. What would you call it?
Legislation would repeal 'surveillance state' excesses
The dreaded Trackball Mouse Flu, ready to run rampant now that all the birds caught the flu from us! Only laser mice can save us now!
Human Chromosome Created, Breakthrough that Could Revolutionise Medicine
> ... and you soon get ganked by a level 12 middle hero when you're only level 6. You get run over as well as they're little you can do. The rest of the game snowballs like this and because you can't give up in DotA 2, you have to play for 15-20 minutes defending or not defending your base against feeded (too strong) opponents

This block of text here explains why I consider the entire genre to be fundamentally flawed.
I wasn't aware that the EDA was the IRS. Learn something new every day I guess.
Do you use version control? If you do, that sentence doesn't even apply to you.
It's a static website generator written in Ruby http://jekyllrb.com/. It powers my website at zachlatta.com.
How about Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing?

- Description talks about outrunning cops to deliver illegal goods, but there are no cops in the game

- AI opponents never move

- No collision detection

- Infinite speed in reverse gear

- Sometimes says you've won before you even left the start line

- The fifth (out of 5) map doesn't load and crashes the game

- A patch to fix the fifth map just turns it into the first map but mirrored (so I guess they couldn't work out how to fix it)

Weirdly somehow I think tens of thousands of copies of this were sold. I pity the people who wasted money on this.
Feds, We Need Some Time Apart
I would mention an obscure game called 'Begin2' but I actually found it very enjoyable (once I figured out how to play it). :)
Unfortunately Dota is not so much skill based as it is trivia based -- you need to know many many many combinations of item progressions to match your hero's stats and abilities. The gameplay of Dota, creep denial or not, isn't that deep, but the sheer complexity of items and purchase order is overwhelming. So more about trivia, not so much skill.

Classic FPS's in minstagib mode are generally very simple to play with a total of about 3/4 controls and are very much skill, not trivia based, and an anathema to console gamers and noobs. Skill is not about memorizing dictionaries of trivia.

Anyway, key word is trivia.
Breaking open the ebook market after many other companies had tried and failed certainly was a new thing.
Encouraging news. Let's keep talking!
It already has. What now? Discourage the general population from using it, thus exposing them to hackers and foreign spies?
Haha - this reminds me of 50K Racewalker!

http://www.videlectrix.com/racewalk.html
If you read this book - http://www.amazon.ca/When-Body-Says-No-Hidden/dp/0676973124 - you may re-think that.
This doesn't surprise me. Government agencies tend to hire people based primarily on the fact the individual has a top secret clearance. This drastically cuts the talent pool and allows people that have gamed the system to get the job. Sometimes legitimate experience is cast aside for the mere fact a person has a clearance. I know so many people that because they have a clearance have a cushy 6 figure job with a great title. I've talked to people that are System Admins and Analysts and I can tell they have no idea what they are doing. They got the job because they knew somebody, embellished their resume, and have a clearance.
Is this the same company that owns all the speeding and red light cameras? If so, what a brilliant way to further monetize their monopoly. "Public safety", indeed.

(One thing I like about riding a bicycle is that you are mostly anonymous, and nobody is going to show up with a picture of you running a red light a couple months later. Of course, once these companies start doing facial recognition based on pictures of you tagged by your friends on social networks...)
There are plenty of other companies that can check Amazon. Consider Google. They make they can easily out-discount Amazon, they're also cross-platform and... and now that the Google Books scanning cases are turning in their favor they may soon have an huge new asset Amazon (and others) will have some trouble matching or beating.
@dylandrop , happy to hear feedback or make recommendations on how to best use Balanced
> I can't imagine any my coworkers doing their work on a tablet

I've been doing web dev on a tablet (Surface Pro) for months now.

http://i.imgur.com/a3vIbzH.jpg

The only difference between a 2013 tablet and a 2013 laptop is whether the keyboard is permanently attached.
Don't worry, you can use DDG and still be tracked by Goolge! With content of some sort loaded from Google's servers on around 80% of all sites, this mostly happens without you doing anything. But if you're really concerned, just use Chrome and/or set your name servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
I was going to say that the OP must not be a gamer...but judging from his Twitter bio, he probably does play video games at least a little, rather than just making a living making high-brow commentary about them: https://twitter.com/SimonParkin

I had this initial suspicion because I think virtually every serious gamer would have a different metric for "worst". I think we as a whole kind of appreciate games that are not fun by design: Cart Life and QWOP, for example. And, as a whole, I think we despise games that have been borked because of budget/developer problems (or, to look at it another way, cost cutting by the publisher) or are blatant ripoffs/sellouts.

(It's also possible, actually, very likely, that the headline was written by a New Yorker editor who has a non-gamer perspective on video games)

edit: Speaking of headlines, I noticed that the submission's title was originally modded to:

"Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created"

...which is the actual OP headline (though not the meta title)... I omitted the 'Desert Bus' part when submitting the link...and now, currently, the headline is:

"Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game"

I guess a HN gaming mod also thinks the New Yorker is overstating its case :)
that search doesn't seem to get the right page for me...
The Power of Small
Or Enviro-Bear 2000
I've thought about buying one of those repeatedly, but have been afraid that it won't play HD video smoothly or have decent battery life (the bigger issue; My netbook started out getting 7.25 hours and still gets 3ish years later). Obviously would immediately swap the spinner for an SSD, too.

I've actually been hoping that Haswell would revitalize the market for machines like this like you mention, but all it seems to have done (so far) is make every machine like this get a touchscreen thrown on it and marked up another $150.
Not sure if I have any advice per se, but here's a quick hack that worked for me when I first got out of school:

1) Find a few companies you WANT to work at (legitimately).
2) If they have openings in your realm, send a quick email to the senior-most person in that group (e.g. SVP Hardware if you want an embedded software job). Just introduce yourself, say you applied via the standard HR process, but wanted to say how psyched you are to possibly work there. Three lines max.
3) What happened is the senior person forwarded my email to the hiring manager, and I instantly went from just-another-resume to "hey, Johnny SVP thinks I should look into this kid". This is how I landed jobs 2-4 out of school.

PS - you'll feel dirty. That's OK...just be concise.
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If it's not codified then it's more likely an expectation than a responsibility. Of course investors expect a return, that's what the term "investor" entails.

Non-pecuniary returns can satisfy the responsibilities of an enterprise.

It appeared that a legal obligation was being suggested. What sort of obligation was being suggested and how is that obligation derived and enforced?
The original headline (on both HN and the source is 'NSA Spying So Isn’t About You.' Mods, stop rewriting headlines that don't break the guidelines.
I'm not sure I agree completely. There are some advantages. One being that if you are interested in advertising, you can work with optimizing 1 campaign instead of 4.
This is awesome. I have lived this video game. I just finished driving a 1987 ex-military Land Rover 110 from Galveston, TX to Seattle, WA. My top speed is around 55 mph (pushing it) but most of the time I averaged between 40 and 45. I took the backroads, mostly dirt roads in the desert, whenever I could.

Pics:

Galveston to Colorado Springs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/sets/721576332973927...

Colorado Springs to Salt Lake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/sets/721576335549344...

Salt Lake to Seattle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/sets/721576341355761...
Both CPU and HDD are bottlenecks, it's not a speed king. HDD is a regular 5400rpm one, the Celeron 847 1.1GHz is also rather slow. I used it for some Java + Scala compiling and it took significantly longer than on MBP (10 vs 2 minutes). Also, I was able to run FL Studio under Wine and it was capable of recording my MIDI playing in realtime for arpeggiated sounds, though it had problems with 4+ simultaneous channels. Keyboard is really bad. Otherwise for the price it's currently unbeatable in my opinion. For my purposes a large HDD was more important as I make a lot of photos and hence need a lot of storage. I use it while traveling in "less safe" countries, such as those in Latin America - I don't really care about losing it.
HTTP 2.0 is going to happen whether we complain about it here or not.

While we can certainly wait and see whether people will balk and make changes, the only true way to stop it is to replace it.

If you can write a better set of protocols that meet the requirements, do it. If you can't then work with or support those that will.
Moto X will be available on all major US carriers, backed by $500M marketing
It's too bad current vehicle codes forbid you from obscuring your plate at all at any time, this makes it illegal to hide your identity from would be data collectors, which makes protecting yourself very difficult. I suppose you could just go without plates like Steve Jobs did and pay the fix-it tickets you end up getting.

Personally, I tend to forget to pay my registration for a solid 6 months before I finally get pulled over for it every year, and it costs me about $35 extra, so if this becomes pervasive, it might be worth considering losing the plates. I'm willing to bet that some officers would even be slightly sympathetic if you explained your reasoning, not that they wouldn't still give you a ticket, but maybe.
Really? I live in the Bay Area and the ones that I've seen have pretty poor amenities. Even rather famous ones like Hacker Dojo look like just some cheap tables and chairs thrown together.