skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mind me asking - what's the standard rate for developers there (assuming you are in the field/scene) ? Also what's developer availability - do most young people just move to Western Europe or do they stick around in programming ?

Poland is interesting to me - it's large enough that you can have a decently sized pool of people to recruit from (unlike smaller EU countries like mine - Croatia), you also seem to have OK taxes. Not sure what the regulatory/legal system looks like but since I haven't heard anything horrible I'll assume same or better than the rest of Central/Eastern Europe.

You have very low cost of living compared to Western Europe, it seems like it would be the ideal place to create start up incubators in EU.
> change the situation and preconditions instead of trying to reprogram the machine

Kudos on recognising the prevalence of this phenomenon. When people are running in a reactionary mode, trying to reprogram the system is asking for failure. Just like with a black-box program, the input parameters need to be changed if you want the output to change. Your environment (including objects, TODO lists, people, emails, texts, location, food, and drugs) constitutes the input parameters. The environment must be changed for the output to change. If you forget to change your environment after recognising a problem with the output, then you fail to make a lasting change in the system. Essentially, your environment is a part of the extended you that you can pretty easily "reprogram".
That's the first time you've stated clearly why his account was closed.

It's still unclear to me why, if you have multiple banking partners, you don't have even one that would support an adult business. There is a lot of adult video and website business - they must have banks.

Furthermore, it's really the lack of transparency that rubs people the wrong way. When your customers are told that their accounts are frozen or closed all of a sudden and with almost no explanation, they are left flailing to try to understand what the heck is going on. It's like being kicked out of a restaurant half way through dinner and when you ask why, they just say "sorry, we can't continue to serve you..." I consider that method of dealing with your honest customers disrespectful.
Well, if you're doing a character piece, and the person who is arguably at least half to blame for the misfortune befalling his family is cheerfully wearing a shirt for a game explicitly about causing collateral damage to civilians...it's rather tacky.
Hey, they're probably happy as heck to be free of the enterprise support burden.
I think a lot of people would have seen this coming, I'm surprised they 'supported' older browsers for so long.
it sounds like you criticizing our stock art photo overlords..
This is one of the worst possible replies you could make.

The label is binary (insofar as it is applied or not to a product). The questions are about who determines what "safe" means and where. Your solipsistic attempt to frame his comment as an argument (that some comment might shut down all future debate!), which is never made, is trolling. I don't come here to read comments like yours.
Scaling vector tile analysis for the whole world with TileReduce
Thanks. It hit me pretty hard, but I'm just glad I had the opportunity to study at the university (Physics) and get a job. Although I may not have joined the military, I'd like to believe even as a software engineer at a small company, I'm contributing for ever more brighter future of this country. I revere the people who are working in US digital services agencies.
Let's stay on DST instead of rolling the clocks back. It was pitch black outside by 4:30 today, and there's another four weeks to go until the solstice. I like to have some chance of seeing the sun in the winter.
I don't think it's weird at all, and it's probably a deliberate design choice by the developer that made this page. They've probably probably suffered for years because of IE's poor support for standards and other quirks. I think it's a mini celebration by way of design!
+1 for the "autopilot" word which will be associated with motivation when i think the next time.
I hope they _don't_ have a golden parachute
Author here! I was actually working on that this evening when someone posted it. The readme's got some updates :)
I don't think the comment was downvoted for that, I think it was the "hard to feel any sympathy" line...
>You want to me to go to 3 different sites for Finance when I can get everything at Yahoo! You want me to go to 4 different sites for Sports when I can get everything at Yahoo!

What? No. He/she meant that any of those sites can replace Yahoo by themselves, not that all of them are required.
No, they aren't. In order to make use of type hints for anything, they need to be correct. If they aren't, anything else you build on top of them will be unreliable and confusing. As long as there is no way to check them, they're worthless.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620369
What about Objects/Subtypes ?: a 'Yes' in 1999 but these days, we've learned the hard way that there are at least 2 contexts were objects don't quite work:

- relational databases
(objects & classes are organized in trees,
and a tree is a sin in RDB land)
- concurrency & parallelism

so a No? (although some people keep on trying)
Fair point, and it's something I stumbled over a bit in my original post. I should have used a more objective definition of "rationality" — something that is independent of anyone's particular philosophy on morality. I believe if you Google "collective rationality", this has already been somewhat formalized, but I don't know too much about the theory other than the general idea behind it.
Nowadays I work for myself, so yes it is easier to redefine my office hours. Changing the office/school hours of all my friends/family/children however is not feasible.

It really is an all-or-nothing sort of proposition. Can you imagine for example if half the businesses in an area ran on 9-5 and the other half ran on 8-4? You would get far more chaos than the minimal disruption caused by DST.

Now you might argue that society shouldn't be run based on the whims of people who want daylight in the evening, and you'd have a fair point. The counter to that is that likewise it shouldn't be run based on the whims of people who don't.

Luckily I live in a democracy and if, based on the will of the people, the state government where I lived decided to rescind DST then so be it and while I wouldn't like it, I would accept it.

However, I would wager that the majority of people where I live prefer daylight savings and so having it is the will of the people.
Life could go anywhere -- this is just my current plan. It has been my plan since I started working 2.5 years ago, but it may change.

If I meet someone, who knows. :)

But I am happy already, while I'm single and don't own a house. I also don't assume that it's necessary to own a house when one is married. The hypothetical We could decide whether it's worth trading 2-3 more years of work to buy a house. Maybe it would be, maybe not. The key is to consider the options, and not just assume you have to do what everyone else does.
"mere typesetting" is a rather offensive way to describe a document typeset in TeX, a system invented to free mathematics from "mere typesetting".
You are not the only one. My immediate thought was, what's up with the dazed-looking Microsoft stock humans.
Manipulation (aka advertising/PR/marketing) techniques 101. Showing pictures of happy faces makes the audience (not you in particular, but the average reader) have more positive feelings about the announcement. There's no other plausible reason for using a row of random smiley faces as a page separator in an announcement like this.
How do you pronounce that word?
It's not more robust though. The type hints do absolutely nothing.
As I point out in my longer comment lower down, forbidding dolphin tracking causes much worse problems with random bycatch:

> If you do the math on this (and you don’t have to because the Environmental Justice Foundation already did), you find that one saved dolphin costs 25,824 small tuna, 382 mahi-mahi, 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 27 sharks and rays, 1 billfish, 1,193 triggerfish and other small fish, and 0.06 sea turtles.

> You and I can argue about the relative value of dolphins vs. triggerfish all day, but the important take-home message here is that we are protecting animals that are not endangered at the expense of dozens of other species, and some of those other species are endangered.
I think the kind of people (socio-economically speaking) who would actually buy this are not the ones that actually need it. I would be more worried about attaching an RF transmitter to my kids hearing enough words.
why not just say what company that is?
How about a parachute _made of_ gold...
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How many have XP/Server 2003 custom support?
Sorry to hear this. I signed up for one as I thought it would be fun to be involved, in a small way. But the delay will kill the product and the company. The market moves too fast.
It's a higher dimension of RUNTIME fuck ups.

Leveraging the type system for COMPILE TIME dynamic programming is not only safer, but more runtime-efficient.
Wanna be clever? Here you go, be type-safely clever:

https://vimeo.com/channels/flatmap2015/128466887

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/06/you-could-have-invented...

With a good type system, you won't need reflection. If it compiles, it will work.

And give me a break on the "cut out the dumb people" part, I heard it many times from people right before they shoot themselves on a foot. Repeatedly.

As engineers, it's our job to solve problem and reduce complexity. Fail at either of the two, you have been a shit engineer.
It's also going to get more difficult for Yahoo to differentiate itself as a curator/creator as it gets more difficult to survive on the Internet producing differentiated content.

Within sports, Grantland tried producing content that was different, and died. GigaOM tried focusing on enterprise tech, and died. FiveThirtyEight served policy wonks, and is struggling to attract a meaningful audience. The verdict is out on Vox, but they also may go within 18 months.

Yahoo has tried to solve this problem by hiring 'star names' but it doesn't seem to have moved the needle. People are happy to take the commodity churn article from Bleacher Report.

Oh, and to top all that off, it's unclear that there's really any serious money to be made from online content / eyeballs anyway.

Which is to say that even if they could execute on the 'trusted source of content' business model, it may not be enough to save them anyway.
The military isn't paralyzed, but it also hasn't proven that their method is the best. There are tons of places in the military where needless duplicate work is happening (and any large corporate org too) because it's easier to do the work twice than to try and coordinate the work once across all the people.
So there is none is what you're saying. I agree with that, there's none. F'king exactly.
So, I've skimmed through most of the paper, and it seems like a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. My understanding is that GV2 is an extension to jGit that essentially performs GC on the repo (or more accurately waits to encrypt until post-GC), and then transparently encrypts everything altogether, rather than utilizing clean/smudge filters to encrypt files individually like the tools it's comparing itself to. It's funny that the author dismissed git-remote-gcrypt as being "under development" even though it's a much closer comparison to GV2.

The paper mentions that it's measuring the worst-case scenario for the clean/smudge filter-style tools as it's much more likely that you only need to protect a few files and not the entire repository, but I didn't see how the second section actually reflected this more-realistic scenario. I'm not saying that encrypting the entire repository is bad, but the overhead of using filters to encrypt the entire repository is a documented/known limitation of the other tools...so it seems a little odd to gloss over that.

Side note, stuff like "This process is repeated a total of 10 iterations for an ample sample size to draw statistical conclusions." worries me, but that's another conversation.

Overall though, glad to see more research in this area, and it sounds like GV2 might be a decent solution for people looking to protect their data in certain scenarios.
They brought this upon themselves. Their progress updates on the tablet project have been consistently late, vague, and they withheld information from the backers for as long as possible. They didn't even change the pre-order page when it was clear they missed the promised shipment date.

Example: their press release about debt restructuring was released on Friday (20 November), but there was no explanation to IGG backers until this post on 24 November.

So, yes, they are in financial difficulties. But in the process of developing the tablet, they completely lost all credibility to the community (at least those of us who aren't Jolla apologists) when they didn't communicate openly to backers, and consistently missed deadlines they themselves set (e.g. shipping, communicating delays, requests for details).

Guys, a tip: "open" means that you have a dialogue with your backers. Thus far, "open" to you means that you communicate late, vaguely, and with absolutely no community interaction. This includes barely answering community questions in your blog posts (see: https://blog.jolla.com/tablet_schedule_aptoide_store/ ) where you spend most of the blog post spewing marketing shit and not answering the fundamental question people had been asking, which was: hey, where the hell is my tablet and why aren't you giving us straight answers to questions?

In my view, it is irresponsible bordering on criminal to continue accepting pre-orders from people when the schedule is wrong, and you don't provide any details on the schedule when asked.
Working with different filesystems
Judiciary has no force. Only the Executive and the People) have force, so the Judiciary must make decisions according to a process that the Executive tolerates and that won't foment rebelling by the People.
Productivity and Compensation: Growing Together
Yes, this is a silly upstairs corporate requirement on the part of your enterprise customers. Slap ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net/) on it and call it good.

One place where this sort of thing can be useful is when running a file or mail server to help stop you from spreading malware to users, but to do it as a way to prevent infection on the box itself? Worthless.
There is no runtime type checker. There isn't even a static type checker.
In terms of assessing a CEO's impact on an organization I think it could play an important role.

For example if people are trying to knock down the doors to purchase / use what Yahoo is working on but they're abandoning because of scalability issues or buggy systems or continuous delays in delivery timelines, this sounds to me like we're dealing more with execution issues.

On the other hand, if the site / products hum along without glitches, yet are receiving little to no attention or traction from the outside world, this could be a sign that the company is on the wrong track in a more fundamental way. Perhaps more directly linked to the "output" / "work product" of Marissa Mayer as CEO.
You don't get to take "life". You get violent freedom, adventure, and a nasty, brutish and short life.
Apple's CEO: “You Can't Have a Back Door That's Only for the Good Guys”
He's talking about IMVU.
tl;dr type hints are useless because they're hints.
> Buying or developing technologies that rely on weird proprietary quirks of free versions of software isn't very sane. There's not even a business model in place you can rely on to continue to want to support you since it's free.

It's all very well saying this now, but I wouldn't be surprised if at the time these technologies were seen as JavaScript is now. I remember Adobe Air was when it came out...
The advantages of switching to containers are numerous. They provide isolation, portability, quick boot times, consistency, application + dependencies in one package and a lot more. It totally refines development-production similarity when working on a software system. The same container that runs on the developer's machine will run in production. When working with Docker, your delivery pipeline is a lot more consistent and reflects better the code that runs on production later on.
Docker has all the advantages VMs have, but with some major improvements: they are a lot more lightweight both on boot time and when moving them over the network, they share host machine resources and more. A quick search in Google will yield more than you can read about this topic :)
I agree it is more complicated managing Docker containers than managing VMs, but I don't think of Docker as a new way to run things on production, this is just the side-effect. I think of Docker as a better, more consistent, way to develop and deliver software projects.
> Don’t you think your electricity supplier would love to add “no disputes are allowed, I’m the final authority” to your contract, if they could?

They do!
https://www.google.com/search?q=federal+arbitration+act
> A browser's rendering engine is the ONLY part that matters

Active X would like to disagree with you. We're currently dealing with a massive (revenue/company) product that only runs under IE < 10 because it still uses Active X.

I don't think a common rendering engine is at all a bad thing. Maybe two to keep them honest. But blink + webkit + trident (?) + Gecko (?) seem like wasted engineering talent.
If a library comes annotated with types, then an error in the typehints is just as much of a bug as an error in code or documentation.

Having most of the standard library plus large portions of the ecosystem come with these hints will be hugely beneficial for productivity.

And of course, there IS a way to check them. IDEs, linters, etc. - I'm sure if you say that your function returns an instance of User and then you try to return a boolean, they will yell at you. And I expect that the standard library and popular libraries WILL run these tools before releasing a stable version. A 90% percent solution is still a step forward compared to relying on much less reliable human brains at every step.
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It's About Hiring the Right People
Some companies have onerous restrictions on employees using their names in public, but hinting obliquely is fine. It's a matter of not appearing to endorse random, unvetted public posts by employees, not a matter of secrecy.
Something about capturing carbon credits to make money.
I would put the author in the "doesn't know what he's talking about camp" in regard to capabilities. The same could probably be said regarding the claim that distributed computing works and that maybe we're ok at security now. All of these feel like fields in their infancy.

Capabilities are among the few systems that can solve authorization decisions involving three or more principals. Ambient authority systems e.g. systems based on ACLs are inherently broken when dealing with 3 or more principals (see http://waterken.sourceforge.net/aclsdont/):

"The ACL model is unable to make correct access
decisions for interactions involving more than two
principals, since required information is not retained
across message sends. Though this deficiency has long
been documented in the published literature, it is
not widely understood."

If you're looking for a place this arises in practice, look no further than the same-origin policy in web browsers, and the complexity of three principal interactions where one principal is a user, another is a web site, and the third is a malicious web site.

That's not to say we should abandon the same-origin policy, but we need authorization primitives that seamlessly span multiple principals.

Projects like Capsicum are adding capabilities to OSes like Linux and FreeBSD.

Cap'n Proto is demonstrating what's possible with a modern implementation of CapTP.

I think the need for authorization-centric (as opposed to identity-centric) access control systems is becoming increasingly clear. Capabilities (particularly in the CapTP sense) are one realization of this idea but there are others.
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When you call 911 the police usually show up followed by paramedics / fire dept or vice versa. Depending on the city this is standard practice. The medics typically take blood pressure before leaving, not sure why but assuming this is a policy about confirming everyone is ok before they leave.

The writer likely simplified the scene by omitting the fact that EMTs arrived with the police.
> A browser's rendering engine is the ONLY part that matters,

> For example, if Google controlled the web's primary rendering engine do you think Do Not Track would be in it?

Isn't Do Not Track a pretty good example for a browser feature that is independent of the rendering engine?
That's a great question. I don't think it's a matter of "Can I contribute more than a climatologist? but rather "How can I help a climatologist make better models and predictions?" or "How can I help my city reduce homelessness?" or "How can I help microbiologists develop vaccines for Hepatitis C or HIV?". Maybe it's building software. Maybe it's just getting word of mouth out. I don't really know. But I have a particular set of skills that don't directly map to those industries, and I'm not sure how I can contribute beyond just throwing money at the problem.

To give a little more context, my fiancee is a microbiologist (lab researcher). I talk to her often about her work, but I don't understand 95% of the jargon she's talking about, just like she doesn't know the difference between OOP and ASAP. I mean, at some point it's about educating myself on these issues. But like I said in my original post, I don't know where to start.

If I don't know anything about microbiology, how do I learn enough to contribute software, without requiring a 4 year degree in microbiology?

Does that make more sense?
> All those things are done better by others.

It's highly debatable whether anyone does flickr "better". 500px, for example, have descended to suddenly announcing that they'll give away licenses for the photos you pay them to host and reward you with "exposure".
I wonder why if this is the case that someone hasn’t tried to create a “discount” management consulting service which aims to give management cover, but without all the first class travel and high living. It can’t cost that much to put together a flashy powerpoint presentation.
Fix Radar or GTFO (duplicate of rdar://10993759): http://openradar.appspot.com/23539382

"File a Radar": http://openradar.appspot.com/23505531

I feel and have first hand knowledge of their frustration. On a pleasant note, I've also had a rdar report where I emailed an Apple dev out-of-band and he told me the bug was already fixed (thanks to my report) days before the rdar was updated.