skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody you listed, excepting Amazon, make the majority of their revenue from the enterprise, not the consumer. B2B companies don't need to use privacy as a differentiator, and would gain no advantage by doing so; enterprises want "managed" software that enables them to spy on their employees.

Amazon, the consumer-focused exception, makes their money on physical products not produced by them, and on cloud services—both of which are mostly privacy-neutral as far as third parties go. Amazon knows what you tell Amazon (your shopping history; your AWS API calls) but their business model doesn't involve giving that information to anybody else. They could theoretically take a stance on privacy, but they aren't doing much to enable privacy; just coincidentally avoiding doing anything that negates it.
I think the "bad rep" might be (in my own part of the world) that they are overpriced for the quality. The quality is good, that is true with the Bose system in my 2001 Maxima, but it is probably not a bang for buck equivalent of its.. off brand equivalent.
> It's crazy to think that a major breakthrough like this with a factor of seven increase in transistor density is little more than four years of progress as measured by Moore's Law.

In a single step, by switching to an experimental new process. It seems likely that, if that process pans out, it'll then get years of extensive refinement to improve both yield and density.
Ah, the good old days.
"Progressive enhancement" doesn't need to be borrowed back from web design. In user interface design, catering to multiple levels of user expertise is an ancient concept. This can be an actual mode variable in the UI. In expert mode, you see more options. In command lines, you don't see anything, so this doesn't seem to apply directly. The program being given command line inputs isn't even running until you hit Enter. An expertise variable could be used to adjust the language and level of detail in the help strings and man pages, and to influence what is available when you invoke Tab completion (i.e. don't complete on options or sub commands that the novice wouldn't know about).

Since man pages are driven by nroff macros, the man page aspect of this seems within reach. A macro could expand a section of text only if some user expert level is greater than 2, and that could come from an environment variable.
>> interoperate

>That's what we're calling online profiling now?

My Google Now cards on Android say "yes it is". They are driven by email, calendar entries and phone sensors all tied to my profile and it's bloody magical. YMMV.
I'm running W3Counter on it now. That's ~100GB of data and a couple hundred queries per second. It's about equal read/write load with one insert and one select for every page view I log. Nothing you can't do on a single server, but it's all I can talk about.

I was renting two ~$300/mo servers at Softlayer to run MySQL (Percona), with one as a backup + failover + to run my monthly browser/OS market share reports against without killing the website by overloading the main server. I regularly spiked high loads that killed latency anyway this spring. I was going to have to upgrade soon anyway, so I decided to try out Aurora during the free preview period, and migrated everything over there one weekend.

Turns out a single R3.Large instance (the smallest) was more than sufficient. It's sitting at under 25% CPU and 50% memory usage right now, which means there's plenty of room to grow too. I'd say performance is as good or better than native MySQL based on that. I'm paying less now than I did for the two servers, and get more for it, with free multi-AZ replication, nightly snapshots, and the ability to spin up a live replica in just a few minutes to run backups/large reports against, then shut down and only pay for the hour.
>If you’re on iOS and have a Gmail account

Should have called it a better gmail client.
To kill a complex city, chase out all the poor people – and their food
Leaving the Edge news aside, that article starts off by defining event listeners as callbacks, which is awfully weird.
It's like the housing boom all over again.
This is just a plain attack on Google. sigh
Wouldn't that mean that the product is showing content at its most pleasing to customers but with reduced power consumption?
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Has anyone had experience with Redmine [1]? It's quite easy to use and extend via its plugin system, but I don't see many people who have encountered it in the wild.

I think its horrendous out-of-the-box look-and-feel detract heavily from its appeal. Nowadays I'd probably lean toward Gitlab, which seems to offer much of the same but appears much more modern.

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Does it let you install binary apps or do you have to compile from source? Do they still have to be signed? Who verifies the signature?
Using the Modern Honey Network to Detect Malicious Activity
Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online
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(Remote work depends on the role -- some are onsite only, others may be available to remote workers.)

Planet Labs has a large number of positions open. We're a collection of electrical, mechanical, aerospace, software, science, etc. folks looking to image the whole planet on a daily basis with a large number of small satellites. It's a terrific bunch of folks doing what we call "agile aerospace".
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back door for the good guys? you mean being able to execute unsigned code?

If apple is ever compelled by the government to not allow a certain app (if they lose in the FISA courts) or if the leadership of apple changes? Stories like this could be just the beginning: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/30/apple-remo...
You only have to enter two fields in your workflow and it feels clunky? This doesn't jive with my experience at all but perhaps you're on an old version or it's resource starved. Once you start beating up jira or confluence you have to start tweaking defaults and jvm settings to get the most out of it.
If you don't mind me asking, what sort of work do you do?
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I appreciate the response Joel and remain a big fan of your blog.
I don't think the success/failure of that specific venture has anything to do with the argument I made, but ok?
Essay on Realistic Space Combat
I don't know if it's banned or just expensive where I live, but I haven't seen a styrofoam cup, container or packaging for a very long time.

Everything is cardboard and paper wrappers.

You can still by styrofoam disposable cups at the supermarket though, so maybe it's just a consumer based thing - consumers associate styrofoam packaging with cheap/nasty food.
My Galaxy S3 let me flash whatever I wanted on it. Just had to reboot in a special mode and click a button agreeing to void my warranty. No back door required.

Why can't iPhones do the same (from a security perspective, I understand the business reasons)?
If people's disposable income drops to basic income level because they quit their jobs, there will be less demand for non-essential consumer goods. The idea that people will voluntarily starve themselves to death because they're too lazy to work while fruit rots on or under trees is ludicrous.
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Although we're known for our bestselling streaming players and TVs, a large service infrastructure supports our products. An important function of this service is to push software thru to our millions of devices. We are building a new component-based software configuration architecture in the cloud that will give us more flexibility and make A/B testing, app deployment, beta testing, and supporting different TV models easier. As an early member of the team, you will architect and build a new infrastructure from the ground up.

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The Jira and Stash (now Bitbucket Server) UI has come a long way in the last little while.

I think I have our company's Jira set up quite nicely, and really the only things that annoy me are the dropdowns (why isn't the selected item shown? Super confusing...) and not switching to Markdown for comment formatting.
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I upgraded my 4s on the premise that it got better battery life just by being on ios9, but it got much much worse. My battery was on the decline before the switch, but I could generally get through a day with just enough juice left at night. Now, I have to have it in LP mode all the time or it will die within a few hours.
The Doctor Isn't In
50% isn't impressive in a binary true/false scenario, but I'd say it's impressive when making unbounded predictions.
The Uber-ization of everything: these guys make $1000 a week standing in line
Not Apple's fault: poor security on the celebs' accounts.
I always saw iAd not as a money-maker, but as Apple's thoughts on what advertising should be. That is, it was their way to try to make ads less tacky for their devices — especially noticeable in the initial million-dollar ad sales to high profile brands.

The messaging was all about how slick and polished and pretty they were, and how expensive.

Unfortunately Apple failed to realise banner ads are tacky no matter how much polish you throw at them.
Pathfinder in particular is booming because all of its game content is literally open source... inherited from the D&D 3.5 "Open Game License".

There are plenty of online databases and apps that get you the entire rulesets of Pathfinder. Paizo's official one is here: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/

You can literally play all of Pathfinder (including all of their optional rules) without spending a single dollar. But the books, adventure paths, and art is so lovely that the GMs and hardcore players are willing to buy them up anyway.
Most people don't know of any intrusions. I couldn't even tell you if my government has ever intruded on me, and to assume they do is a bit too much paranoia for my day-to-day life.
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it's definitely an issue if you have background refreshing enabled on a lot of apps.

or any of those motion tracking / gps apps
You seem to primarily want to do something that's in demand. Even though it's a fairly niche language, Ruby is in demand. Many, many startups still build their MVP with Ruby on Rails. Native iOS developers are also in demand, so Swift is an option.

It's hard to go wrong with Java (Scala or Clojure included) or Microsoft stacks (C# especially) if you always want to be able to find work. Python is sort of in a middle ground, but there's some good opportunity in the data-analysis/finance world with those (if you don't want to do something more traditional like Java).

My suggestion is to find listings for your ideal job at your ideal type of company (startup, enterprise, etc.) and see what the skills required are.
What would be nice is if switching to airplane mode enables low power mode. At least as an option.
You have a misconception: any apple device is not a 'personal computing' one, but a 'corporate controlled' one. There goes your dilemma.
I could be wrong, but I think it used textile (I believe Confluence predates markdown). I'm not sure it matters a whole lot, but if you wanted markdown it's likely you would have felt underwhelmed with textile.
I fully agree that it's well past the time to switch to Markdown. That and the dropdown things are my main annoyances with JIRA.

It does make sense when you think about the context though - JIRA pre-dates Markdown by two years (according to Wikipedia) and Markdown has only got really popular in the last five years. Back when Jira's text formatting came in, everybody was doing their own thing...
I find it both interesting and heartwarming (in a weird kind of way) that Mozilla is higher than Google.
You have to compile an app using XCode and then it will automatically sign it with a certificate tied to your Apple ID.
Right. I haven't used an iPhone in years but I remember being forced to enter credit card details to install or upgrade even a free app.
The reason why you should still unplug or at least disconnect wall warts is because most of them are cheap-ass manufactured and more often than not the CE certifications are faked.

End result, happened to a friend: kitty knocks over a powerstrip, an adapter breaks down internally due to impact, causes fire. Thankfully he had a smoke detector.
Perhaps by adding a .git_sections file which keeps track of different sets of files you might want to checkout, but don't need to. You could have it that you could define different targets (and a default) such that say you are working on a large video-game you could have one repository for everything, but define a "artists" "programmers" and "full" target, where artists can keep their huge assets together with the rest of the repo and programmers can do shallow pulls, not constantly fetching asset files which may or may not be necessary for what they're working on.
You misunderstand the word 'choice'. You have a choice to go on sites with Google Analytics, you are not being coerced into using their products. You have a choice to not give out your number to those whom have Android phones, you have a choice not to use Facebook.
You have a lot of choice, you are just choosing not to use the alternatives.
Whereas Google and Apple are being threatened by force to hand over data, they do not have a choice.

On your last point, you want the same people who demand and coerce data from Google and Apple, also be the same people who make the rules for Google and Apple?
The old language of the law had a requirement for "regular and established place of business" before suit could be filed. The new language requires "personal jurisdiction at the time the action is commenced".

The key difference is in whether or not you must have an established place of business for a suit to be brought against you in a jurisdiction.
I would guess that there are lot of qualified "engineers" (not certified) with just cs, math or other non engineering degrees. How could we keep certification from excluding all these bright people?
My Jira experience was absolutely terrible. We were an 8 person team at time and looking for something more robust than Trello and ended up settling on Pivotal Tracker.

I signed us up for an Atlassian Cloud trial and right away things weren't looking good. I was expecting to dive right in but instead had to wait 30 minutes until my instance was ready or whatever.

They only offer a 7-day trial. How am I supposed to properly evaluate something as fundamental as an issue tracker in 7 days? That's not long enough to learn to use it and then get the team to try it out for a small project.

Worst of all were the 5-10 second load times on each page. I contacted support to see what they could do but they weren't too helpful and I stopped using it 2 hours into the 7 day trial.
http://patentlyo.com/patent/2007/04/patent_jurisdic.html does a good job of explaining.

Basically, the federal circuit's view of 28 USC 1391 is very different than 28 USC 1400.

If you look at cases prior to VE Holdings, they view 28 USC 1400, and in particular, the definition of "resides", very narrowly (to principal place of business/corp hq).

If you look at VE Holdings, and their view on 28 USC 1391, you can see it greatly expands the definition of "resides" to include essentially everywhere.
Even assuming that's true, is it really too much to ask for the student to have a credit? Plenty of papers that build on work by non-academics do that.
Cool! I run a site called "HelloBox", which lets you create HN-like communities! Would love for you to check it out - although you've created your own clone! :) http://hellobox.co
This isn't very different from the benchmark cheating shenanigans Samsung has been busted doing previously.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=samsung+galaxy+benchmarks+cheating

Slightly different media, same idea. Check for testing criteria, vary the output.
Proposal: Steganographic encoding of unique manufacturing ID using intentional, patterned "manufacturing defects"?
I'm not saying it isn't a solid argument. Their PR people clearly thing it is the way to go, judging by how often it has come up.

You're right, it wouldn't be hard, but they aren't doing it. Why? Maybe because they wouldn't be able to use this talking point or maybe they plan to be a hardware/OS company forever and never expand their services? IDK
You mean the "spying" program that was revealed to have filters to filter out their own citizens communications?

Seriously, why do people conveniently ignore this little fact? Why would these filters exist, as revealed in CLASSIFIED documents, if the government were interested in spying on its own citizens?

If the government were interested in spying on you, they would just do it. They wouldn't need to build machines to protect your privacy rights.
> Transcribing a minute of speech costs 2 cents

It's a shame that the public API (Bluemix) isn't nearly as effective as what I presume the private one is for their business clients. I tried the speech-to-text services and it made too many errors to be any sort of useful.
Having expended vast amounts of energy to get it up there, it seems a shame to bring it back down again.

I'm hoping to see a cleanup driven by a desire to reclaim the constituent metals, etc, without a need to boost them out of the gravity well.
Yes, c02 is the basic building block of life, able to be converted into all manner of living things. Much better to turn old plastics back back into c02 as a raw life material than to leave it trapped in the ground.
Thanks.

So conceptually, it's what I described; but in practice, it's optimized?