skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the coverage percentages are difficult to visualize fairly, given that they don't take into account the size of each country.

50% coverage in a big country is not really less than 80% in a much smaller one. It would be interesting to have a way to visualize the network coverage taking into account that.
"What we do know is that Microsoft makes approximately $3.4-billion a year from its Android patent licening deals. " [sic]

I guess this might be good news for Google?

From my perspective, patents are a toxic drain on morale/intelligence/innovation that we have no hope of curtailing in my lifetime.
> Does that extra 4MB really bother you that much?

No, it doesn't, but what does bother me are the gigabyte+ apps that, like Game Center, Apple does not allow users to remove (without jumping through hoops that are probably both scary and technically challenging for most users).

Are you an Apple fan? Because I am (or was). I've been with Apple since the OS 7 days.

This lack of attention to detail is very uncharacteristic of the Apple I knew and loved.

The comparison to "what others are doing" is also very un-Apple like. Apple did not use others as a benchmark to decide what it should be doing, and the day it starts to do that is the day it's no longer Apple.
Well, that's half PHP's problem. The other half is that it had very little coherent design in the beginning, which resulted in idiosyncratic an confusing syntax. It focused on a few things Perl did, while ignoring the important context they were housed within (for one, the whole idea of context as Perl implements it, for another being consistent within your own rules).

Perl, as confusing as it can seem, has fairly consistent rules that it follows. Learning those and keeping them in mind will generally let you intuit how something is expected to work.
High-Speed Trading Firm Deleted Some Code by Accident
NYC is also expensive. Spending 50% on rent for a 2BR. (That said, I elected to pay a little more to get a clean, modern place in a new building. A lot of NYC apartments look like something out of 1980s Russia, only not as nice.)
There still is quite a few hurdles to switching states, not the least of which is having the money to do so, and the ability to find a job and housing in the new state. Usually those that are the most affected by bad policy are the least able to move.
Agreed. If they're allowed to. I wrote much the same thing here: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/blog/NoSilverBullet.html

One of the problems is that many people actually prefer complexity over simplicity for a variety of reasons: they wrote it, and it will be simplified over their dead bodies; or it needs all these features to satisfy all their lusers; or they want to show off how smart they are; or it's harder to reverse-engineer, ...

Joel Spolsky (who otherwise talks a lot of sense) defends bloatware here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
Note that -Os and -Oz often give you faster code than -O2. Also -O3 doesn't turn on all optimizations. (Most notably, -O3 won't omit the frame pointer for leaf calls. Yes, omitting the frame pointer can make debugging harder.)
Solving memory problems when your Angular unit tests get too big
Sure, but my point is that the market for premium goods is growing and even a small sector within a massive country is a lot of potential customers.

Obviously their next car will be the one that is accessibly priced and sells in huge volume.
Why not just sign into Game Center? It's a serious question. Once you enable Game Center it stops bothering you and as far as I can tell doesn't really do anything other than add you to leaderboards.
Edit: I thought C optimisation wasn't working but I repeated the tests and now C keeps having the same speed with optimisation despite passing the number as command line argument. This also suggests that the value is not calculated at compile time..
This semester I have two "fun" professors. One always finishes class 25-30 minutes early- just completely stops lecturing for the day, not for questions or anything. Add up every single class he does it for the whole semester and the sum is probably worth about a third of the entire semester. That's quite a bit of money down the drain. A second professor that I have has openly stated he has "stolen" and only _slightly_ modified (his words, not mine) slides from some other member of faculty here (who I think got them from Stanford); the system we use for classwork/quizzes/etc. is from some other university and he didn't even know when we'd have our midterm because he hasn't even started to think about writing one yet since he "can't get it from anyone else and needs to write one" on his own (again, his words).

The latter situation has been rather commonplace with many classes I've taken here for my degree. It's just not right. I feel like my time and money are being wasted, and rather than gaining valuable knowledge and experience, this is all rather just a detrimental experience in and of itself.

No, it's not worth the cost. From what everyone has told me or everything I've read in the past, we need degrees otherwise the chance of landing a job (in my case software engineering) plummets and only some are lucky enough to be successful without one.

And so here I am, losing out on more even than just money with not much to show for it.
I don't see how hard that is to understand, that some folks might hold a different worldview about surveillance than you do, and that in fact they are not idiots.

Their worldview isn't just different; it's bad. It's different and bad.
Seattle has the third-worst traffic in the country[1], after Los Angeles[2] and San Francisco[3]. New York is #8 by comparison.[4]

[1] http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/...

[2] http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/...

[3] http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/...

[4] http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/...
I thought we finally got a JS api to take a screenshot of the dom. Damn!
First, a quick aside. I was surprised to see this, way to go Medium! http://i.imgur.com/XwJRGKV.png

Now onto an actual on-topic comment:

This comes at no real surprise to me. I'm certain Coke isn't the only soda company to be paying people off. Let alone the only company. It's nice the author researched enough into the people and the not-so-subtle advertising going on; but really... anyone with public outreach is a potential advertiser and if they're mentioning a name-brand product, you'd likely win a bet that they received a donation in some form or another.

The problem should be that these sorts of implicit bribes are legal in the first place.
"lots of people"?

and, do you mean 4 years of salary + the equity grants, or just the equity grants, because not very many people get $250k/yr worth of equity [from any company]. A few do, but not the unwashed masses.
Studying mathematical logic is tough on your social life: you're either missing out or failing.*

* Goedel incompleteness theorem
I am certain it was much worse being a jobless techworker elsewhere at that time.
Thank you. Many people have been quite rude about this, and frankly, I expected better. 1) woz fought jobs on user mods on the apple 2, and released a post a while back about switching bck to linux.

I used game center as an example. Of coure the launchctl list uses an insane amount of resources for apple stuff. I also deleted several other apps and a few other things. Shit, running monolingual alone saved me ~1.2GB.

So thanks. I agree as well. If possible I will turn it back on after.
Thanks for responding. It sounds like a pretty reliable approach, but it almost sounds more like availability than coverage in the traditional sense that we think about it (geographic, which has some drawbacks as well).

And I agree, the end to end is where the rubber meets the road but I think with the state of LTE, particularly where Advanced features like CA come in to play, we are at times being throttled by the internet more than by the air interface. Although, we are a long way from having that type of tput across the air interface everywhere, but it seems like LTE has the potential to start outstripping what the current internet can do.
Belarus is the county Morozov apparently comes from.
Having a college degree sends a signal that you can dedicate yourself to education and follow through. I find employees with college degrees are better than those without, regardless of degree.

I suggest getting a degree and putting in some hustle to get out with zero or little debt. Scholarship, side jobs, whatever it takes.
True, although a lot of people don't know what to do with them and so get rid of them. I found a starter set (3 bulbs and base station) for $25 on Craigslist.
Serious question: so what? The case you seem to be making in your comments is that it's irrational for all of us to be looking askance at this definition of "obscenity," but it's always been subjective, legally speaking. If we accept "controversial and potentially offensive" as obscene, that's a really broad definition, and I think it's worth pushing back on.
If you're talking about their products, yeah that's my point. Plenty of products for remote/distributed collaboration. If you're talking about their workforce... not so much. Just checking their careers page, and every job I saw was tied to some location. Didn't see a single "Location: Anywhere" job posting.
In my experience the symptoms start just a few hours after a missed daily dose. That was on one cup a day from a Moka pot. I've since cut back to 2-3 times a week. If I regularly skip days it doesn't seem to be as habit forming.
You'd think that with so many applicants
and positions, they'd have lots of data

It's easy to gather data about whether the hires you made were good hires.

It's difficult to gather data about whether the rejections you made were good rejections.
Why Are Little Kids in Japan So Independent?
In Clinton's case it was deathly fear of giving the red team any excuse to call him "soft on crime", but it amounts to the same thing.
The Computer Chronicles from 1984

http://www.my80stv.com/#cmhtRHw_Bv0
Very helpful insight, thanks again mate.

Curiously, I don't normally click on the hamburger icon because hitting the ESC key also toggles the top menu, so I completely agree with you that it doesn't feel natural.

I've been tempted to put more information on the player panel but have forced myself not to do so to keep the UI as clean as possible (mainly thinking in mobile browsers). I guess I could put in some icons, though, that would give hints to user as to what's actually going on behind the scenes.
Also http://neave.tv/

Words can't even describe...
This is the bigger problem. Companies like Google & Salesforce have been there long enough for their early hires to have grown up and gotten ready to lay down roots ... but they can't afford to buy a house and they don't want to raise a family in a small/crappy/inconvenient apartment or condo.
Better yet, go after the shareholders.
Side jobs are great and sadly not many students take advantage.

I was fortunate enough to get an in-office campus job my freshman year that I'll finally be leaving now due to getting an offer to continue my summer internship part time. But the experience of working hard, learning new things (Apache webservers can in fact have very shoddy configurations and issues..), and earning money that can be spent toward tuition and other bills is invaluable.
Just because you seem to have a C-centric view of the world doesn't mean restricting yourself to C-like syntax and code structure is the "correct" way to do it. At that point, there's no reason to be using Perl over Python. You wouldn't complain that people using Haskell were writing unmaintainable code just because it didn't follow the idioms from C-like procedural languages, would you? Why would you lay the same claims at a Perl? Just because it superficially has some similar syntax and you can restrict yourself to that subset?

Learn the language you are writing code in, and use idiomatic code for that language.
Hulu adds commercial free option
If that is your only issue could you not add your own custom css on top of it?
> Concentrate your tech workers in a area that isn't hostile to expanding the housing supply when needed.

Sure, you can try that.

But if the place doesn't offer the environmental features that make the Bay Area attractive, your going to have to offer them a premium to live there; lower housing costs may cover some of that so that you are only paying the same, but may not.

The Bay Area is expensive, more than anything else, because people want to live there.
In an interesting bit of synchronicity, "sometimes slow is worse than dead" was one of the very first points I made in a presentation today. This article could not have come at a better time. Thanks, Dan!
Know the rules before you break them.

Dmitry has designed at least two of the consumer electronics products you have at your place.

He takes pretty brilliant shortcuts with his personal projects (see his others). While you're cringing, I'm grinning. A true 'hack' should do exactly that.
"Having attended a specific university" isn't as strong a predictor of performance as you might think. Even "having attended university" isn't a particularly strong filtering mechanism, as E&Y recently dropping the degree threshold shows: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ernst-and-young-dr...
> this is all rather just a detrimental experience in and of itself.

heck, that's nothing! wait until they lose one of your exams, or you write an essay that goes against a professor's political beliefs. that's when the real fun starts and you start making time/money cost benefit analyses with your own ethics!

make a deal with the devil, or waste several thousands dollars and 10 weeks?

...then again, if that isn't real world experience, what is???
How does this work with elements with a semi-transparent background? Will the resulting screenshots also be semi-transparent, or will they contain portions of the element beneath?
It's like an Onion headline:

"Banks ignore lessons politicians tell voters that the banks should have learned, while remembering the lessons the politicians actually taught them"
Because we don't have cost controls!! It's as simple as that. Every other advanced (or whatever you want to call them) country on earth has cost controls on their health care.

EDIT: every one of the countries cited in the article have cost controls except us.
As an expat.living in Sweden with kids, there's a lot of social pressure to not leave your kids in childcare longer than 8 hrs. If both caregivers don't have flexitime, 6 hrs would be very attractive to IT workers here. Both male and female.
What was the problem you had with Atlassian, if you don't mind sharing?
Tiny, Tiny Bluetooth Chips
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But software might have a race condition that causes you to get zapped by a lot of radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Tech Companies Try to Make More Room for Women
A good education is priceless. It's sad that apparently many people are dissatisfied with their college experiences, but I've always felt that if you went to a good school and feel that all you got out of it was debt and a diploma, maybe you are the problem.
pay to show your dedication is messed up
Breaking News: The Suit is Back!

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
School: *

Extracurriculars: Staff Writer for the Harvard Crimson;
Summer Internship with Professor David Malan CS50
This is an awesome feature, I love how browser dev tools have been continuously improving in recent years. Taking screenshots of DOM elements has been something I've dedicated a lot of time to recently. Most of the extensions available for doing this rely on taking a screenshot of the available viewport so in order to capture larger DOM elements they need to scroll around taking repeated screenshots (which can be kind of frustrating if it takes a long time).

We just launched a browser extension [0] for taking screenshots of Facebook posts and we were basically tasked with accomplishing the same thing. We approached it by fetching all of the external resources and inlining them as data URIs, wrapping the HTML in an SVG element, drawing the SVG to a canvas, and finally extracting the data URI for the canvas. It works really well and eliminates the jitter/delay associated with scrolling around to capture multiple screenshots.

Good thing we also automate the anonymization of private information or this announcement might have obsoleted us on Firefox :-).

[0] http://threadshots.com
I'm frustrated by articles like these that lump all of "college" into one bucket, as if the variety of degrees that one can earn at any four year institution can be combined into a single undifferentiated mass. Is college worth the cost? The answer, as with so many things in life is, "It depends." If you go to college with a clear idea of what sorts of careers your degree is going to open up, and what the earnings potential of those careers are then college can definitely be worth it. Is an engineering degree worth the money? Given the numbers I've seen fly around whenever Hacker News talks about engineering and programmer salaries, I'd have hard time arguing no. Is a degree in, say, Art History worth it? I don't know. I don't know anything about the sorts of careers Art History majors get, and what the costs of an Art History degree are.
Ok I added it and removed some of the stuff that was configured specifically for me. It should work. Please report any and all issues. I'm not sure if javascript supports local filepaths so you might need to edit it.
It could just as easily signal a lack of financial competency, and/or a lack of ability in teaching oneself. If you want to signal that you can follow through with 'something' - join the military or start a business.
Is Your Financial Adviser Making Money Off Your Bad Investments?
It would be hypocrisy if they re-created a copycat apple tv and sold it or distributed it with ads. They didn't do anything like that.

Also, they likely violate EULAs (the A is for agreement) for non-pre-release hardware all the time. Not that big a difference.
what part did the university contribute that was priceless?
Being blind to gender, age, and race make perfect sense -- but not University or Employer history. I would want to know if my applicant succeeded at a challenging vs. mediocre school, and if their previous employer was at all relevant in the industry. People can often present themselves well, but their history might reflect inconsistencies.
I got a kick out of one channel where the guy said in 1991 "The rise of political correctness on college campuses".

Oh my! The more things change the more they stay the same.
>Moreover, not every address in the US receives home delivery. If the post office does not have a delivery route going past your home address, you can instead get a post office box from whichever post office you find most convenient. What happens to packages addressed to those street addresses is ... complex.

Emphasis mine. Would you care to expand? I'm interested in complex things.
The "Mi-Light" brand stuff you can find on Aliexpress and eBay is inexpensive (like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/221527712289 ). No idea as to the quality, though.
What's especially remarkable about this process is how they're using an every-day piece of electronics, a Lightscribe, a DVD burner basically, to do the production.

They need a laser with precision control and where better to find one than in a device like that.
I was recruited to join Microsoft a while back. At the end of the 8hr day of interviews, the VP formally offered me the job. However, he made a point of mentioning his concern that I dropped out of college, twice. Being a cocky young buck at the time, I in turn pointed out that the founder and (then) Chairman of his company, Bill Gates, was a dropout. He explained to me that there were exceptions to every rule, which was why he was extending the opportunity, but in his experience, college was akin to bootcamp. If I couldn't get through 4 years of doing what I was told, how could he be sure I would do what I was told at Microsoft? I drove back to the hotel, phoned the internal recruiter and declined the offer.

He was on to something, of course. But I'd already known that I march to the beat of my own drum.
Since you are a student of logic, but you're not studying logic, I deduce that you are and aren't studying paraconsistent logic

(No, really! See: http://www.iep.utm.edu/para-log/ )
For now maybe this is good enough: https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
I don't fully understand the hypocrisy here when they acknowledged their mistake (or at least in the article, moreso a risk they chose to take) and are living with the consequences.
APL, J, and occasionally K conversation also happens on #jsoftware on freenode. Thanks for pointing to #kq, which I didn't know about.
NoScript? If a website doesn't work without JS then is the site worth your time?
Bibulous: drop-in replacement for BibTeX that uses templates
Seriously. It sounds a lot like a "we were here first" shakedown.
Generally not wide open throttle - see the efficiency maps I linked to in another reply. Generally peak is at somewhere around 1/2 to 2/3rds maximum output.
I was talking with someone about this the other day, the amount of energy you can store in graphene capacitors (potentially) is pretty impressive. The trick is not turning them into bombs at that point.

I expect that we'll see a lot more in this space over the next 6 to 18 months. Perhaps it was what Elon was eluding too with his range statements.
Most people don't have one of those in their house. Also a case could be made that it wasn't software that irradiated people, but the hardware.

If there was the potential for danger, the hardware should have had a limiter built-in. We have fuses in equipment for much the same reason.
Interesting quotes from the article:

"Two thirds of students who graduated in the last nine years and whose debt matches or exceeds the national average do not believe their degree was worth the cost."

Gallup’s executive director for education and workforce development Brandon Busteed speaking to the WSJ:

“When you look at recent graduates with student loans it gets really ugly, really fast. If alumni don’t feel they’re getting their money’s worth, we risk this tidal wave of demand for higher education crashing down.”

As Bill Ackman had warned:

"When asked if he was concerned about bubbles forming in debt markets as central banks around the world continue to keep interest rates near zero, Ackman cited student loans as his biggest concern.

“If you think about the trillion dollars of student loans we have outstanding, there’s no way students are going to pay it back,” Ackman said. He foresees a future where debt-laden students protest government officials, leading to some form of forgiveness.

The $1.3 trillion in student loan debt outstanding in the U.S. has drawn parallel among some investors to the subprime mortgage bubble of the mid-t0-late 2000s."
How Design Became the New Language of Business
Yep, and this is why moderate hills are better. It's essentially constant speed pulse-and-glide. Just building and releasing potential energy rather than kinetic.
Linear Programming in Python with CVXOPT
I mean, I would expect to see the colors of the google logo when I type "google"
I mean mostly safer from electrocution. The risk of fire is still there.