skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if a manager only shouts insults at women, it is illegal; if he shouts insults at everyone, it is completely legal?
amazing that in 2015 people are still saying stuff like "windoze", "micro$haft", etc.
Oh good, more cars blocking traffic in SF with their hazards on for justification.
I wrote about a lot of developer facing features and linked to source materials to help folks get more information that are not blogspam at all. I appreciate your feedback on my work though, really; you're such a nice guy.
That's bullshit. It should use something like Thread or Bluetooth 4.0 to let you configure it from your mobile device, which already assumes you'll be in the same room with the router in 99% percent of the cases.

There's no reason for this to be sent over the Internet, when you're both in the same room.
Hybrid vs. Native Mobile Apps – The Answer Is Clear
Depends on if you think un-updated, bad PRNG devices are better.
It's not my moral responsibility to police Uber's business practices for the sake of their drivers.

Actually, it is! You're not a neutral party just because you didn't make the policy. You tacitly support their policies by choosing their service. You can tacitly disapprove by choosing another service. This is the basis of things like boycotts, which actually can and do have effects on company policies.

Think about Chick Fil-A or something like that. You can choose to support a company that has policies that are bad news or you can choose not to.
Why not create a bounty then?

https://freedomsponsors.org/project/149/LibreOffice#/LibreOf...

Or pay one of the certified LO developers to implement it:https://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/developers/

I sponsored, loading Adobe colour palettes in 5.0 myself.
If Uber's delivery fleet is taking advantage of cars already on the road serving passengers, then this is a net reduction in traffic: food delivery is already a thing whether or not Uber provides it.

Meanwhile: apparently a lot of these orders are delivered by bike messengers.
Republicans' crush on Silicon Valley not returned
Awesome series, (+1) for the really nice emacs setup!
Why do you get charged $7 for it?

Here in the UK most providers seem to offer the router as a sign up bonus.

The disadvantage is that router is mostly cheap garbage, but it's effectively yours once your contract starts, no rental/need to give back
IPv6 support?
Not really. The whole point of Schaller's Open Letter is that he thinks people are being led to use an inferior version of open source code. In fact, he says: “Letting users believe that OpenOffice is still alive and evolving is only damaging the general reputation of open source Office software among non-technical users.”

This really doesn't have anything to do with market share per se.

He just thinks that marketing an inferior product with almost no community support is bad for users and bad for open source.
Thanks click170,

When we talked to potential users, XMPP didn't come up as a priority, and we haven't yet had a feature request filed for it.

Very happy to have it added so XMPP can be upvoted: http://mattermost.uservoice.com/
We're not asking them to do this, just saying that this is what they'd have to do if they want to have a frequency that's protected from other users.

Right now, hotels have two choices. They can support cheap commodity equipment that uses unlicensed spectrum, but they have to accept that everyone is allowed to use that spectrum as they wish (within the rules) and this might impact the hotel's use. Or they can use expensive specialized equipment that nobody owns, and have guaranteed exclusivity to their bit of spectrum in that area.

I think a third choice would be great, to have commodity hardware that can access licensed spectrum so that venues who want to guarantee exclusivity can obtain a license while allowing their users to use standard hardware.

But that third choice isn't available, so the reality of the situation is the two choices above. Naturally, venues pick the option with commodity equipment and no exclusivity. And that's totally fine. But they can't then try to force exclusivity into the situation afterwards.
The Document Foundation is not a company! It's a foundation!
128 WiFi devices ought to be enough for anyone
It's a good interview question. Here's how I would answer it:

At scale there would be drivers dedicated to filling up at only one restaurant, and then delivering to multiple customers before refilling. The more popular restaurants would have a multiple drivers, leaving every N orders. Less popular restaurants would be grouped geographically to "share" one driver who would alternate food-pickup between the two restaurants on schedule.
Very nice new features especially the menu customization and preview. Some of my current clients will be very happy that they can finally see what the menu looks like without flying blind. Hopefully this also works with content blocks in menus as well.
Fashion shows for the latest designer genes
> For now

Sure! What else doesn't it do "for now"? You should make a list. Subliminal messaging out of the speaker, ad hoc mesh for coordinating kill-bots...

More seriously, one nice feature of that page:

If changes are made to this article (which should be rare), a revision history will be available on this page to let you know what has changed and why.

All privacy policies should have this.
It's certainly possible that something will be logged and it's even possible that someone is actually watching the logs but it's still a gamble that the attacker does something which draws attention: if they have a solid exploit and don't do something which disables legitimate service it's unlikely to be noticed at most organizations.
They're good summaries, but after thinking about this a fair bit, I don't think they're enough to trump HN's preference for original sources. Anyone who wants to can read both, since when we change a URL we include the previous one in the comments, as above.
Sounds a bit like Jurassic Park.
The Mattress Reimagined: Casper Delivers Comfort to You and Special Offer
Does Pagekite have the same introspection capabilities as Ngrok? Otherwise it's unclear what else Pagekite overs beyond what you can accomplish with a few lines of nginx config, sshd config, and bash (instructions: https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/4586758).
Written communication can be a lot more work, but it is also a lot healthier for your opensource community. Its turns into something that is googleable for new people trying to understand the rationale behind decisions. It is more accessible for people in your community that are not native english speakers or who do not feel comfortable speaking the language while still being able to read and write it.
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What makes you, you?
> That doesn't mean nobody should ever want customization.

I fail to see where I made that claim. IDE's are also customizable - I would argue that they are, in fact, much more customizable than either vim or emacs, simply because of the breadth of features one may customize. I was addressing the parent's claim that "great programmers use vim or emacs."
You know, first get the basics done. Like being able to use a toilet or operate a fork. Leave programming for the early school years.
shameless-plug: We've been building the federated/anti-yet-another-silo version of this/Slack. Instanced interconnect kinda like usenet did and email does for 30-odd years now.

Our emphasis on being a tool for developers to add federated communication to their app (vs being another silo like Slack). The UX isn't nearly as polished, but it does federate with other servers using the XMPP network (e.g a conversation earlier today http://imgur.com/UL34KSF).

A developer started working on a slack-like UX and we threw up at http://buddycloud.org (https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud-angular-app if anyone wants to help).
Depending on where you sat in history, every programmer tool was considered something for 'noobs'.

Von Neuman considered an assembler a waste.

Fortran was considered bad by many because you weren't working with the instructions the computer was running.

Auto-completion, debuggers, syntax highlighting, fast compilation, interpreters, virtual machines and GUI building interfaces have all been derided by someone as terrible because everyone should man up and get closer to the metal.

It has never been on the right side of history to refuse to embrace new tools that make creating software easier.
To be fair, Viagra was originally being developed as a high blood pressure medication. They decided to switch to erectile dysfunction when they found out why study participants were hoarding the pills.

A lot of science is about serendipity.
Look, it sounds like you want to give the benefit of the doubt to the cops, when there's a well-established trend of unarmed black men being targeted and brutally suppressed by an overreaching and over-armed police authority. I think it is disingenuous to award the benefit of the doubt to the police in this situation.

Also, it is a long way from "please and thank you" to what we see in this video. Police have a large variety of means at their disposal, as well as the advantage of numbers and implicit authority. The way this man was subdued appears to be way, way over the top.

The only way we can really know for sure is if cops wear cameras. That's the best solution all around.
Would you perhaps have any info/reference about where I could learn more about this reverse engineered PowerPivot API? This sounds pretty exciting. :D

To expand on my question, I'd heard (from Rob 'PowerPivotPro' Collie, former product manager on the project IIRC) that the core had been written in 'unmanaged code' (probably C++?), so I believe reverse engineering it would be a significantly larger effort than just opening some of its DLLs in say DotPeek, at least from as far as I've been able to tell.
A Google branded TP-Link router
It's worth noting that the Mesos project will actually be renaming "slave" to "agent." cf. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1478
To me, people's basic parenting decisions sound like something we shouldn't be trying to debate on a message board.
I am reminded of a comment made about the Melissa virus [1]:

While the Melissa license is a bit unclear, Melissa aggressively
encourages free distribution of its source code.

While the license on genes is a bit unclear, they aggressively encourage free distribution of their source code. How are we going to prevent the Chinese from standing downwind of a farm plot and catching pollen for analysis? (I say "Chinese" only because that's what the story happens to be about... it applies to anyone, of course.) Or sequencing them through mundane means in the US and transmitting the gene code back to China?

Physically preventing people from "stealing" your genes is impossible in the long term. Only legal protection can work, and that is probably questionable in the long term too.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/04/msg00292.html
Sounds like an awesome feature. I'm a huge fan of Ubiquiti, and was planning to get some APs for my house. But this Google thing looks way better now.
They already have: LO has added functionality (e.g. embedding an .odt in a PDF file, effectively making the PDF file editable or font-embedding), which AOO simply does not support.

As good as all features listed in LO release notes are LO only.
I thought the value proposition was a better designed antenna and intelligent on-board bandwidth prioritization.
No.

By the way, on HN, please don't make things look like a quote when they're not (I didn't use the word "lazy"). I know it seems minor but it's important for respectful debate.
Greedy is better than stupid.
How does FreeBSD work with the GPIO pins, and also things like i2c ? I'd love to not use Linux, but i use my Raspi as more than just a tiny computer
Yes. The RTF filter has been improved a lot and this the doc and docx filters did too (these filters share a lot of code).
Falcor: One Model Everywhere
My biggest issue with this is that Google wants to inject a piece of hardware into my home that acts as the gateway to my data. A device through which all :

> Incoming data runs through

> Internal data runs through

> Outgoing data runs through

And then wants to be vague about what data they will be pumping to their back-end for analytics/data mining.

I have had a long standing proposal for home automation and I'm curious to know, in this era of insecurity and people vacuuming up all your data, how many of the tech minded people here would be interested in a device which ensures your 'home automation' data stays in your home. This can be quite clearly achieved in hardware and by having an out-of-band oversight controller that literally will not allow certain data to exit the physical domain of your home...

Cloud nonsense? It's called an application and a home automation application doesn't need to run in someone's cloud...

Whose interested? I think it's about time this cloud foolishness for the sake of monetizing someone else's data in an insecure manner come to an end. Everyone loves to rant about 'disruption'... I feel its about time this data monetization cloud bananza be disrupted.
> It would have been nice to talk to him about what he's building, and what he's trying to accomplish.

I'm pretty sure he is merely (!) building tests that demonstrate defects in distributed systems software.

I wonder if you think that makes the issues he files against your software somehow less valid.
It's hard to get an intuitive feel for security.

If team principals are mostly young and don't have exposure to very specific kind of experiences dealing with threat modelling, then the security work will always take a backseat to feature-building. It's how humans work - it's hard to cut time from nice visible things and dedicate it to a hypothetical (at that point) abstract goal like security. Everyone agrees that the latter is important, but it just never ends up getting any oxygen. What's worse, if the team does not know what tightening systems feels like, they don't even know where to start. No "muscle memory" for it.

Maybe at some point we'll get more baseline collective wisdom about it throughout the industry, but it will also take the people signing the cheques (CEO, investors) having a bit more (justified) paranoia and respect for these priorities, and consequently requiring them from the outset. And DevOps has little to do with it - security has to be established as a priority from the leadership levels on down anyway because it necessarily means reducing time spent on more immediately-visible things.
Beyond Unix – A True Distributed System for the 1990s [pdf]
> Editorialising serves a purpose

Mostly it serves for the editorializer to put their own spin on the topic. That's the opposite of what we want here. We want readers to make up their own minds.
I've always worked on the assumption that it is within my right to build my private facility out of copper if I choose, and the fact that your cell phone doesn't work in my facility is your problem not mine. I am not "jamming" any signals. I would be interested to hear counter-arguments from those familiar with the FCC rules on this matter.
I wouldn't phrase it so negatively but I do share the same sentiment. I think this is the craziness that seems to be so widespread that people don't notice how crazy it is - the primary way for two devices sitting few meters from each other to communicate should not be routing packets around half of the planet. I get it's easier, but it's bad engineering, unnecessarily wasteful energy-wise and I bet the only reason this is the default is for companies to lock people down and make money on data.
Blocking wifi is illegal absent security issues:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibit...

It doesn't matter if you own the land. Land ownership does not confer rights to the airwaves, the air space, and often things like mineral rights.
https://www.google.com/#q=%22indeflation%22
Yes, teaching VHDL/FPGA.
The FCC begs to differ:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibit...
This isn't an "either-or" situation. You can have an auto-updating router which doesn't depend on configuring via a third party service.
> > embedded images and other media

> Many IRC clients do offer this

Can you list some?
You are talking about UK.

On my Portuguese university, we got to code in standard Pascal, C, C++, Prolog, Smalltalk, Caml Light, PL/SQL, 80x86 and MIPS Assembly, Java.

Many of the lectures were composed by exam + mini-project.

Anyone that made it without much coding was getting a ride in workgroups, on single projects it was either code or fail.
You know if a private individual was disrupting a corporation's WiFi he'd be put in prison, right? People got sued for just using WiFis without permission, not even by the owners, but by the government.
For many families, that would be harder. For others, not. There's no right decision.
The Year Jim Dalrymple Got His First Apple Review Unit
No Z-Wave support? That's a huge FAIL for home automation.

Sooooo close Google. Add Z-Wave support and you'll have an instant winner. Make the speaker high quality (if it isn't already) and encroach on Sonos and Amazon.

But without Z-Wave, you won't sell enough to make an impact.
Would probably get a lot of value out of a gif in the Readme.
I am really happy that it helped! :)
Hey startup founders: how much money do you have?
My team and I are doing an informal study on the personal wealth of different occupations.

For this experiment, we're interested in learning how much cash a typical startup founder has in his or her bank account.

If you are a current founder, or made most of your money from your own business, would you please take part in this study? It takes 60 seconds and afterwards you'll be able to see the results.

Here's the survey: https://docs.google.com/a/hustlecon.com/forms/d/1g1-TOwUraKggXwCo0SzLrNa0dM4g_dNGUXilR3TMqUQ/viewform

If we do this correctly, you'll be able to see the answer you've always wanted to ask, but never had the courage to do so: HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GOT?
The article states the apparent agenda at its end:

"The intent of the U.S. government to use food as an ever-more powerful point of leverage to wield over large, increasingly hungry nations like China. The prosecution of Mo Hailong and his circle stands as a warning to the Chinese government, issued through its proxy companies. The ears in the field, the seeds in the ground, even the pollen on the wind, are American-owned and American-protected. They are available to the world as food only if you agree to our conditions and are willing to pay our price."

And the US, as the only superpower (1) has many ways of making other nations to comply.

One nice example, related to the GM food and the EU opposition of it, can be extrapolated from the links:

June 2003:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jun/24/gm.food

"Mr Bush's comments came barely a month after his administration took Europe's ban on GM crops to the World Trade Organisation, saying the moratorium was a barrier to trade."

Just a little later:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/02/gm.food2

"The European parliament today lifted the ban on genetically modified foods, instead choosing to impose a strict labelling regime that could stave off a trade war with the US."

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1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_superpowers
How Not to Be a Leader
What is a "founding engineer"? It must not mean founder, since then one would just say "founder". It's clearly not Director of Engineering, CTO, or VP o E.

I had just assumed this was new phrasing used by recruiters and business people trying to get early engineer hires that they don't want to give a real title to (because if/when the company grows they'll bring in adults to run things and get those titles.)

Note, seriously asking - and not trying to take imply anything negative about Marty's (whom I don't know) abilities, or contributions to Pinterest.
Ain't that what they're supposed to be called? :)
BMC acquires app monitoring startup Boundary
As always people should check out Aphyr's twitter page for more detail and local color.

"really wish I had more time to dig into chronos because it has so many fascinating failure modes but I've got 2 other systems before talks!"
Sorry I couldn't make it more clear. Was there anything particular that you didn't understand?

Agree on the basic income (in general, I'm not sure about the details). Jobs so far have been a convenient and pragmatic (not necessarily fair) way to both create and distribute wealth. At the same time, we should note that popular alternatives like communism or socialism have failed rather badly.
Why do companies outsource?
> Why would anyone want this over the latest Asus AC1900 router?

Because they've heard of the Google one.
I think what he's trying to accomplish is running the same kinds of tests on Chronos that he's famously run on almost every other important open source distributed system, and that his writeup gives you probably the most important info you need on how to make your stuff more amenable to that kind of adversarial automated testing.
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There is a massive difference in text sharpness when comparing a rMBP 15" (900p in 2x) screen vs. 1080p 24" monitor, there are absolutely no doubts about this. If you have perfect eyesight or exceed it, you would be affected less than the average users who will notice the difference.

Are you sure you're not referring to the usable workspace? The usable workspace is half the native resolution when using the default 2x setting on OS X, in your case it is 1440x900 resolution or 900p on your 15" rMBP. The text should be very easy for your eyes to read for several hours compared to your 24" screen.

For me, as I use the computer for more than 8-10 hours every day for work, Retina/Hi-DPI has helped with tired eyes at the end of the day. Eyestrain issues are like nonexistant with retina displays for me.
I don't know the automotive business, but it seems that this is an area where money really matters. Mercedes Benz and BMW are sure to be interested in this market and won't sit by idly while Tesla "outsmarts" them to a viable autonomous vehicle, but Apple and Google are investigating this market too and they have huge resources, financial and technical.
Well, if they wanted to track data through this, though, they either have to make it under the Google brand, or can’t sell it in Europe.
likely first or second employee that joined the company
Even for engineers, it's good to be given explicit "permission" to use services like Squarespace rather than wasting time rolling your own crappy version of same. I have better things to do.
The Startup Founder Wealth Survey
My concern would be in proving that the envelope you didn't open is the same one that made it into the final count. If you have no more connection with it after you leave the booth, you can not verify that the letter wasn't tampered with (and also no one can coerce you into showing who you voted for). Any way that lets you verify that the last envelope wasn't tampered with would also let some third party see who you voted for.

Anything the machine electronically presents you with can be modified on a compromised machine, while physical printout that can be used later to verify will either be unable to prove that your vote wasn't switched (though it can prove that your vote was counted) or it will be able to prove you did vote for who you choose, the latter case meaning that a third party can then use this to know who you voted for.
Yes, it's clock in, clock out. I do checks in the mail for 90% of work, billed monthly, and Stripe and PayPal for smaller projects.