skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the original developer of Disconnect, on which Focus’s blocking is said to be based, I (with my development team) created a new, open-source ad blocker for Chrome, Opera, and iOS called Adblock Fast (http://adblockfast.com/ and https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast on GitHub) because I think Disconnect became abandonware after I left the project a year and a half ago – there was one commit made to Disconnect in 2015 (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commits/master).
That's correct, and what I mean about it being difficult to accept non-accredited money at scale. Which is the difference between being able to invest, and being able to market an investment.
This has been my experience as well, not to mention how much the client slowed down my machine. It's been really slow going but the client is getting better.
I never tried doing the encryption on my side, though, they also do diffs on each file you upload so I imagine that has something to do with the lag.
I still use spideroak, they're the only company I'm aware of that encrypts locally and also has done a lot to progress personal security for all of us.
So I've gotten used to the slow speeds and buggy software, it keeps getting better so that's a big plus :)
That was also the case for a number of ACH portal softwares sold alongside retail POS suites in the 2000s. Instead of temporary storage until batching, full transaction details were held permanently by default.

At any time, anyone with access to a payment terminal who knew where to look could process transactions manually from these records. They could have double charged and skimmed, done reversals for a cut, or copied and sold customer profiles with CC numbers. These were BSA products marketed to small and medium sized businesses, so no one questioned compliance.
Yogananda, the Father of Yoga in the West
Thanks - should be fixed!
A good example of why working at a place with such restrictive PTO is a trap. But, around here we like to have philosophical discussions about how unlimited vacation time is the real trap. I dunno, guys. It seems to work pretty well for me.
Why doesn't rpc over http work out well in practice?
Little Bites of Cocoa #142: Colorful Logging with SwiftyBeaver
I for one think Steve Ballmer is a beautiful man and his speech at the Microsoft Developers Conference a few years back was better then any Steve Jobs ever gave.
My experience is that programmers I've worked with who strongly identified as being interested in ML tended to be prone to wanting to build very complex ML-based systems when much simpler (albeit less sexy) solutions would suffice. Certainly this is a generalization, but I've seen it enough times to be wary.
Google App Engine is experiencing service outages
You can already do this. What startups want to do is market investments without dealing with public company disclosures, or the stigma of being an OTC public company.
I've spent some months in İstanbul over the last ten year. Lovely place, one of my favorites in the world.

Some tips for Americans:
* Always bring a gift for the host.
* Always offer multiple times; frequently it's considered rude to accept something on first offer.
> You can use Gawker Media as a citation, but they're no more than a series of gossip sites

This isn't true anymore; Gawker sites have done valuable reporting in a number of areas. As have Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post, two other sites that HNers tend to dismiss automatically. (IIRC, HN's software will silently reject any submission of a Gawker URL at all, which is kind of ridiculous.)
Updated the title accordingly
The 2015 Mobile Industry Year in Review
if the title of a piece contains a quote and an opinion, it's not news.
How One Man Used Artificial Intelligence to Generate Genuine Sales Leads
Appreciate the feedback , I will work on fixing some of these issues . Some of things were made specific based on user feedback but you have raised some valid points
>>My original outlay would be in the 30-40K range with an ROI of over ten years.

So you'd be getting (saving) 4K annually from a 40K investment? Try getting that kind of return elsewhere.

Seriously though, the best solar strategy for the homeowner is do-it-yourself ground mount installs. If DIY is not your thing at a minimum get separate quotes for install and supply. The markup solar installers add to equipment is outrageous.
Some companies reject people based on green card status, because they don't have the resources to sponsor them. Some companies have specific salary ranges, too. Are those factors considered during your analysis? You seem to be focusing primarily on what companies want, but sometimes what they want and what they can accept are two different things. Thoughts?
Umenmactech – testing Twitter bots
testing mentions by HN twitter bots
I wouldn't say advertisers are malicious actors: they are amoral ones. They want maximum short-term profit, and they don't care if they hurt people or not in the process.
I was surprised to not see any mention of VATMOSS. I assumed that was what the "Single Digital Market" was referring to when I read the headline.
"Art" != "expensive stuff hanging in galleries."

It's music, TV shows, movies, posters, novels, games, that amazing dinner you had the other night, expensive stuff hanging in galleries, that goofy widget sitting on your desk, etc.

Art is awesome.

The problem is shitty artists who exploit the talent of others, but otherwise don't contribute much.
As my other post in this thread gets into, this example of a "nudge" doesn't compare to the junk food case, since junk food is effectively designed to hack our brains' "food reward" mechanisms. Bag use is effectively neurologically "neutral", but junk food (and most other highly processed food) is very much not. "Pringles, can't eat just one!" turns out to be a lot more than a marketing slogan.
I'm a small development team (there are only 5-6 engineers, and I'm the only iOS one right now). I've gotten the go ahead to move to Swift as well. It's been fairly easy with only one strange crash so far.
I've worked at shops that don't meet PCI DSS. It's a sticking point, and we WANT to comply, but also don't want to spend the money to comply, and the processor wants us to comply too, but they'd rather have our business than give us the boot for not meeting PCI DSS.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript (Node, jQuery, Angular), HTML, CSS

Website: http://jordinl.com

Resume: http://jordinl.com/Jordi%20Noguera%20-%20Resume.pdf

Github: https://github.com/jordinl

Email: jordinoguera83 (at) gmail (dot) com

Full-stack engineer working with open-source technologies such as Ruby, NodeJS and Python since 2009. With
experience in 15 client projects across 4 different cities (Barcelona, London, San Francisco and New York)
If there is an engineering school/college, then yes. Otherwise its in the liberal arts and sciences, usually (my personal preference, TBH). Look at the University of Oregon vs Oregon State, for example.
My gut tells me that the value in bug reports is as customer feedback and goes beyond the mere technical issue. For example, a dialog can unearth how the customer is using the tool, what other tools they are using, why they are using those tools, their level of experience, etc.

If nothing else, googling the domain of their email address may provide useful insights. Anonymous bug reports waste the user's intent to engage with the company. That's not to say there's not an argument for anonymous posting...on the internet there's an argument for everything. But anonymous bug reports push the needle toward less customer engagement...and maybe that's the underlying motivation because customer engagement is often harder than writing code and clearing bug reports.

My experience is that any box that anonymous users can type text into gets filled by bots. Authorization is a pretty much a solved problem in so far as it can be easily outsourced.

YMMV.
So now we're back to having trusted parties only, and you thus have centralization, and don't need a blockchain at all. You just need signed transactions among trusted peers. We keep going round in circles.
The “Product Programmer” and “Technical Programmer” profiles are identical,
except one is motivated by product design, and the other by solving hard
programming problems.

This is great.

I've struggled with trying to define the difference between the great systems engineers I meet and the engineers who make great products (sometimes at the expense of all elegance under the hood).

This sums it up nicely... it's where the focus is. I'm surrounded by engineers focusing on systems programming, but I don't think of myself as similar to them, I've always been end user obsessed and customer focused. It's nice to see this difference acknowledged.
One of the Turkish "national" drinks is Rakı, a licorice flavored alcohol. Just thought you might find it amusing.
You keep deflecting and not answering my questions and it's getting really annoying. I'm not going to keep responding to all of your tangents when you can't even address a single one of my points. Please respond to what I've been saying in a relevant manner, then I'll respond to your other stuff.
This is interesting data.

I liked what Joel Spolsky said a long time ago. Basically that companies should want two types of engineers. 1. You want a few who are experts in the company's tech stack. 2. The bar for everyone else is just that they're smart and they get things done.

I guess the core problem is that we don't have a good objective measure of the latter. (Maybe an IQ test for smarts, if that wasn't political incorrect, but I don't know how you'd show definitively that you "get things done" in an interview.)
To add on to that:

> By the time Rockefeller died in 1937, his assets equaled 1.5% of America's total economic output. To control an equivalent share today would require a net worth of about $340 billion dollars, more than four times that of Bill Gates, currently the world's richest man.
Yeah (author of the blog post here), I think it's a powerful idea. I don't know of any other public attempts to do this (most ideas about hiring stay locked up inside companies). I'd love to hear any ideas you have. Email me at ammon@triplebyte.com
They think ML people aren't interested in infrastructure. That's not entirely true. Many people with actual production ML experience understand and want to work on the data infrastructure because it's all to easy for someone that's not going to build products on top of it to fuck it up.
Or just start off with a proper number of days. Two weeks seems so short, especially if you get sick. 15 days total seems about right.
This will be really interesting. What if the EC decides that you need to provide services in 26+ markets at once, when you launch, to prevent digital exclusion?
Looks like ad conmen just got disrupted even more.
If it's worth A/B testing your site, it's worth doing it with a tool that understands your costs and revenue structure.

GA is mostly used by people that don't need it, yet want to pretend they get actionable data out of it.
Former C# programmer here, in my most recent job hunt I rewrote my resume. I talked more about the value I provided for my company/customer (what the code did) rather than how I wrote the code. I'd say my results improved significantly in terms of getting my foot in the door.
Yes, but that's just an indicator of its controversy, not its validity.

HN is a pretty homogenous filter bubble after all.
"The types of programmers that each company looks for often have little to do with what the company needs or does. Rather, they reflect company culture and the backgrounds of the founders. "

THIS. In other words, the good ol' boy system still exists, only under the moniker of "meritocracy."
> Many of these types of services seem to intentionally cap upload speeds to reduce their potential storage liability (since they're likely over-selling storage to be able to offer 1 TB for $12 with the level of redundancy, staffing costs, etc, needed).

SpiderOak is definitely overselling the 1TB as well as another one that pops up once in a while called as the "unlimited" plan for $149 a year. This is clear from the disproportional pricing structure - $79 a year for 30GB that jumps to $129 a year for 1TB and then to $279 a year for 5TB - which entices users to go for the higher amounts because they appear to be great deals. What people with residential broadband connections may not realize is that a) uploading even 1TB of data will take a long time and b) SpiderOak cannot, and does not, provide any minimum guarantees on the upload or download speeds (assuming everything else in between SpiderOak and the user looks fine).
Speaking of the EU, anyone knows what is going on with the credit card fee cap? It's supposedly in effect, but I haven't seen anything in practice.
They're annoying even if they're legitimate, like CNN having an auto-play video (even on mobile) at the top of every news article.

I use firefox, so I disabled them all using media.autoplay.enabled = false. That solved it, but it made Youtube embeds and a few other things work a little funny.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547264
When can Quantum Annealing win?
Is there any reason I should switch to this from AdBlock Plus?

Edit: I see the chart comparing the two on your github page. Are you planning a firefox version?
It's not only the applicants who have limited time. The startup founders are also time constrained. You can't found a successful startup if you spend 10+ hours a week interviewing potential employees.

I suspect much of the initial bias and "hard line" preferences are due to a startup's unwillingness to spend inordinate amounts of time interviewing candidates to find that one diamond in the rough.

Imagine 4 of every 10 "academic programmer" candidates are a good fit, and 6 of 10 "product programmer" candidates are a good fit. Why waste time interviewing 10 academic programmers, for a max hit rate of 40%, when you could focus solely on product programmers and get a max hit rate of 60%?

This data certainly suggests that different founders have their own biases and preferences for what makes a "good programmer." Most of them probably realize they are pigeonholing and could be wrong, but they're willing to risk that for more efficient interviewing and a high hit rate.

Stick with what you know if it's "good enough." Optimally, as a founder you can already identify multiple potential early hires just from your own network. If you have the right background and connections, you can hire your first couple employees without doing a single interview.

Time is money. Interviews take time and cost money.
There was a joke made on stage about how it was submitted weeks ago, and they were sweating bullets, because it still hadn't quite gotten approval, and then finally, it came through yesterday.
> The company told us they valued process more than raw ability, and he’d not written tests during the interview.

Who the hell writes tests during an interview?
I also buy extra storage from Google but I have had some problems downloading large backup files (50 GB, or so) that I have stored on Google Drive, so no system is perfect.

A little off topic, but Google really seems to be upping their consumer game lately with Google Music, Youtube Red, Google Movies + TV, etc. I am now less a user of other services like GMail and Search, but Google gets those monthly consumer app payments from me. I have the same kind of praise for Microsoft with Office 365.
Fair enough, pylint and pep8 do not. Pychecker, pydoc, doctest, unittest... many other tools which are part of the typical Python development flow do.
> Even AWS limits how fast you can upload to S3...

I'm on gigabit fiber and use S3 to backup hundreds of gigs per month to S3. I've never seen them limit upload speeds, it is clearly saturating the connection for the entire duration of my upload. I would expect that because I am paying for the storage, they would be happy to let me write data to their machines as fast as I like. Is there a citation you can provide from their docs that supports your statement? Genuinely curious, because my experience has been different.

To the point that some of these sync or backup providers limit bandwidth, I have definitely experienced that. Tested SpiderOak and Dropbox and upload speed was horrid. Dropbox in particular was disappointing because they can't even claim to have the extra encryption overhead SpiderOak does, it was just shit speed every day. I'm paying a premium for gigabit fiber to the home and you really can tell who over-promises and under-delivers quickly. Fortunately my 'roll your own' backup + sync works well and is price competitive so I'll stick with that.
Hmm, not sure what game you'd mean, then.

I was only able to find this man page for the game I was thinking of:

http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/contrib/games/man/man6/con...
I would absolutely pay a monthly subscription for ad-free Twitter or Facebook and some basic analytics.

Edit: well I didn't expect downvotes, it's just an opinion... What's wrong?
More than 3rd world is "world but US and Japan". And a few more excluded countries. But WhatsApp is the default everywhere.
Home Improvements Adding Value – Mid-Atlantic Home Improvement
I wonder what the chance of a software developer would be for making it to selection :)
Google has the same problem; submit changes to a Play Store listing (or a new version) and it takes a couple hours to be universally visible. So it's not an Apple vs Google issue.

Source: I've done far too many app deployments for work (200+)
App Engine having issues since last night
IBM Watson 2.0 Is Named CELIA Cognitive Environment Laboratory Intelligent Agent
I can tell you for sure there are millions of people who don't care at all about having their pictures taken and sent over the net so long as tgey get an affordable treatment.
Altering the genome of an already developed organism, that is as opposed to an egg-cell or an embryo, is, I suppose, much more difficult. It may be possible though, and if so, it does represent tremendous therapeutic possibilities, but in the grand scheme of things, I believe it's less important than the possibility of editing organisms "from scratch", that is immediately after fecundation (or even before, as I recall an article about using gene editing on sperm cells [1]). Therapeutic prospects matter to us from a selfish, subjective point of view but from an objective, anthropological point of view, the idea that we could create organisms with an arbitrary genome is much more significant.

1. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543541/how-to-really-en...
Yes, see the benchmarks and last FAQ on http://adblockfast.com/.

Edit: Yes to Firefox as well, see https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast/issues/23 for timeline.
Yes. Facebook is PHP, as are Etsy, and there's no way they're the only ones.

Heroku, DO, and AWS all fully support PHP, which they wouldn't bother doing if there weren't a market.
HipChat is upgrading to an Atlassian account
Pushy patients downvote doctors for giving antibiotics responsibly
That's just what you do when you have a monopoly. Your customers can't go anywhere else to get your product, so it doesn't matter as much how you treat them.
It's my understanding that high-performance engines require less maintenance running on leaded gas. Or at least, using leaded gas is less expensive than using materials that don't need the lead. So maybe it's just that acrylic costs enough less than polycarbonate to make up for insurance payouts.
people who want jobs at test driven development shops.
So, let's say I market the crowdfunding shares as an entertainment product. Then it could become a legal model?

Relatedly, I had the idea to sell small shares of (legit, regulated) far-out-of-the-money options as lottery tickets. As investment products, they're legal, but work like lottery tickets in that you have a tiny chance of winning big (e.g. if the underlying security has a sudden, sharp shift in price).
This was a great point: "There’s more demand for product-focused programmers than there is for programmers focused on hard technical problems." A very talented programmer from Dropbox once told me that if I wanted to attract top engineering talent, I needed to be able to show the engineer "a problem that no one else has solved yet." This totally changed the way I wrote my job descriptions and conducted interviews. Led to great outcomes, too.
When it comes to hiring, I think that the team is more important than the individual. As the beginning of the piece stated, it's not so much about individual characteristics as it is culture/process fit. I think the main takeaway for applicants is not to take interview rejection personally. Even if you do everything "right", you still might not be what they're looking for.

Ultimately, I don't think that individual programming ability matters that much. It's extremely rare for the technical talents of one person to turn a company around. Some people can inspire others and turn dysfunctional groups into great teams, and there's never enough of that. But said great teams are ephemeral, like sports dynasties. All a company can do is try to avoid toxic employees and hope that the magic happens.
Of course. So we can't possibly answer your question. Maybe they will be killed and maybe they won't.

But my point is, it's not Apple's fault at all. It's also hardly the fault of the ad blockers. It's all due to the users who intentionally install them and use them for their browsing. It's the users who are making the decision to block ads.
Sure, why not? You can still write good applications using PHP. It not just for legacy servers and pre-installed applications (wordpress/drupal). You don't even have to use [framework of the month]. Its just a tool. Good architecture, good practices, and good code are not syntax dependent.
Cordless Telephones Bye Bye Privacy
"I remember the first time I interviewed for a front-end programming position and got asked how to do something in JavaScript on a white board. The specifics are vague, but it’s crystal clear how stupid it made me feel and how little it had to do with the actual job."

...

> "The only reliable gauge I’ve found for future programmer success is looking at real code they’ve written, talking through bigger picture issues, and, if all that is swell, trying them out for size."

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3071-why-we-dont-hire-program...
You seem to think VISA and Mastercard have the desire to reduce fraud, they dont. They have a desire to reduce their liability.

PCI DSS is largely a marketing ploy, and way for them to shift liability from banks and the network to the merchants.

As a security standard PCI DSS is terrible

Further storing card numbers is not a violation of PCI-DSS, it would be impossible for them require that as reoccurring billing, auto-pay, etc have a requirement for the PAN to be stored.

Look at Amazon, it stores my card number, in full, so I can checkout with out having to reenter it every time
That slogan is for Lay's potato chips. Pringles' slogan is "you don't just eat them".

Source: I love Pringles. http://i.imgur.com/oibfGJA.png
Content blockers seem to work on 32-bit devices if you compile for them:

"Yes, but I'd guess it's an arbitrary limitation—at least it seems to be for A6 devices.
BlockParty works perfectly on my iPhone 5C and apparently on @wadetregaskis' iPhone 5, both of which are 32 bit A6 (and not officially supported). I get all the relevant menus, and it does block ads (even the huge easylist conversion works, albeit poorly)." [1]

1: https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty/issues/9#issuecomme...