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The horse bolted, joined a herd, sired offspring, those offspring grew up, the world stopped riding horses, cars became commonplace, roads and railways went up. Then Adobe saw the stable door was ajar.
Study: America's Deep Network of Climate Change Deniers
I agree that a CEO's decision based on personal issues is bad for a company. For Gravity specifically, is there evidence that it extends beyond this one issue?

And, in the context of this one issue at Gravity, it seems to have been a good move (at least what's been made public).

Pretty much every long-standing, famous CEO has done something for a personal reason (Jobs' personal vendetta against Samsung/Android for "ripping off" iOS is an example). That doesn't mean most of their decisions are personal, or that they can't run a company incredibly well.
Why would someone use mapper over SwiftyJSON?
Two things:

1) This is pretty cool! I wanted something like this when i played; although with a better screen. and no video calling. But still, doing it with individual blocks renders cool results nonetheless. I was pondering something similar in space engineers (which, is like an adult minecraft in space) but for breaking up LCD panel textures.

2) Fuck Verizon with a rusty nail. I cannot underscore this second point enough. There is no back peddling from who they are and what they do. The day they are broken up cannot come soon enough.
Christmas pictures
Yep. When you're in a shitty mood, you want stuff that makes you feel good. Aside from the chemical content, there's also a strong psychological effect associated with eating foods you associate with certain things.

Like, for example, I'm depressed, and in particular, I have some pretty serious issues with aging, which makes my depression worse. It's something I constantly dwell on, and it causes me no end of stress. What do I do when I want to feel like a kid again? Binge on candy, of course.
Now I don't feel too bad about Fb snubbing Telegram. /s

I'm curious how they plan to liquidate that shares as it will have quite some effect on the dynamics of Fb and on this:

I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come
I like it. I would think that all they need to do is build your short term solution and the open web can provide the rest. I mean, presuming they can provide a link from the web to iTunes, which seems simple enough.
The actual study is here, behind a high paywall:

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...
It's a trap.
One of the advantages of Spanish over English is that the problem that singular 'they' is trying to solve doesn't even exist. Gotta love that always-on gender alignment feature :)
so Max will still be (half) a billionaire once she grows up.
I'm not trolling, as much as it will seem the opposite, but I feel compelled to wonder about postnatal mania (mild postpartum psychosis) as I read the letter. I wonder how different (or private) the letter may have been had it come four months from now. I wonder how many really significant acts of charity and kindness by the super wealthy and influential occur in the days following childbirth. Just wondering aloud here.
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth, for some reason. Must one's private life be this public? I get that Zuckerberg doesn't agree with privacy, but surely putting his daughter in the public limelight as soon as she is born is an imposition on her privacy.

Maybe I'm just getting old.
We can change the URL if there's a more substantive source. If there isn't, the annoyances are tolerable.
He just put his baby into the public eye; now it's paparazzi bait like some Prince's kid in England
SSL has been around for how long? Surely before 2001.
> gravity is so admittedly poorly understood

Gravity as a force/phenomena in space on its own is actually very well understood. In fact it's possibly one of the most well understood theories we have in physics because of general relativity. However, at a particle scale we lack the understanding of how gravity would work.

Dark matter is the collective name for whatever "stuff" exists in the universe that we predict it should have, however because it is noninteractive in any way other than exerting a gravitational pull (it accounts for a lot of astrophysical observations that otherwise are bewildering given what we see in the universe). We know it should exist, we don't know what it is and can barely understand its current properties. So indeed, it is quite possible that it might be Aether-ish if we end up finding something else that explains our current observations or a drastic overhaul of how gravity works at large scales (the latter being very unlikely because of how well GR has stood up to experimentation so far).
> I'd defy anyone to tell me exactly which one of the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html this his/her post is breaking

I'm not going to hang out on algolia for an hour to dig up the post, but I'm 99% sure PG ended up endorsing downvotes-as-disagreement (or at least condoning it).
This is very admirable. Hats off to Mark Zuckerberg. Very well done!
Did the same with PHP: http://phpinterviewquestions.co.in

Also contains incomplete & incorrect information.
I find myself doing the same, despite increasing preference for "she" by academicians and journalists.

See the top post in another HN thread for my criticism, copied below. When "she" becomes the default, I find myself veering off from the topic at hand to consider gender politics and try to infer the author's intention. Does OP see makers as "us" and managers as "them"? Is OP using "she" because /they/ believe managers are disproportionately male and so chooses a pronoun to prevent further exclusion? An ideal grammar solution should not require the author to disclose his politics, either by omission or commission, just to communicate effectively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658187

"Manager time" is a small allocation. Since the manager's heap only uses blocks this size, she can do this all day without any problems or fragmentation.

"Maker time" is a large contiguous block. If the heap is empty, you can allocate them without any problem. But stick one manager-sized block in the middle and now you've split your heap such that the total time available is large enough, but it's not contiguous. Classic heap fragmentation[2].
which google did by sometime in dec '12
Firearms don't walk out of a gun safe under their own power.
I'd imagine they had such a significant decision planned far before the kid was born.
> In Old English, thou was the singular second person pronoun

Not just Old English; it survived in active, everyday use well into Modern English.
People are attacked physically over tiny sums of money. Occasionally someone is murdered over sums small and moderate sums of money.

If people can be tempted by money to commit terrible crimes of violence, we should expect it would be easier to tempt someone with either larger amounts of money or less risk of getting caught.\

Mining data - from any source - is a lot less risky than murder, with a very low probability of being caught. Sometimes, selling data can be incredibly profitable.

What is the probability that all of the current and future people at google will overcome that temptation? Even if people currently at google somehow resist the temptation, the open-ended nature of the data means that someone will eventually break.
It's depressing how perfectly normal and natural the idea of tracking users has become.

I know this isn't a popular opinion on Hacker News, but why should there be any tracking whatsoever when using an OS? Are people saying that they're perfectly fine for their Windows/Mac/Linux distribution to track everything they do? The apps they use? The sites they visit? Because that's basically what ChromeOS does. It even tracks the documents you print to your desktop printer (routed through Google's cloud print service).

You aren't even anonymous when you use ChromeOS - you must be signed into your Google account. Just as a reminder, your Google account = your name, your date of birth, your location and optional phone number. In other words, some of your most personal and private information all tied to the activity you conduct on ChromeOS.

Google states that it does not read the content of your emails in GMail (emails are scanned by computer), but you could argue that your browsing habits are just as private and personal. No such assurances on how they handle this data. Does Google disassociate the identity of the user from their activity? If not, then who sees this data at Google? How long is this data kept for? These are important questions, but you won't find answers in Google's privacy policy. (And you're unlikely to find many in the tech community asking Google about them either.)

I would never recommend an OS that tracked the activity of students so relentlessly, especially when many students are too young to understand the horrendous privacy implications of using ChromeOS. Other companies like Microsoft are rightfully criticised for their tracking in Windows 10, yet Google gets a completely free ride. It's just baffling.
Ah! You caught the hook. Apple can get away with removing the 3.5mm by packaging the iPhone 7 with (likely Beats) wearables.
Keep in mind that it is of the Facebook shares value, not net worth.
Although admirable, it is not apart of the Bill and Melinda Gates pledge that many billionaires (notably, Buffet) have taken of giving away half of their new worth before they die.

Anyway though, it's still a lot. And I hope they follow what other billionaires have been doing; not just throwing it at charities, but putting it into research and even funding entirely new projects.

Funding startups and research labs that have no economic goal or an economic return to shareholders is something that is very needed. I see much of the funding coming from this.
I think his point of "We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking." is extremely important.

As someone doing research at a top university, I am constantly annoyed by short term vision and optimizing for publication number at all costs. This system is broken.

Alfred Sanger got 2 Nobel Prizes, and he spent a lot of time without publishing before each. Clearly something impossible to do these days.
I mean, what else are you going to do with $45 Billion? Build a really big house?

I've had the opportunity to rub shoulders with a few billionaires over the past few weeks, and it's remarkable how differently they think about money than the people who don't have it. Sure, they may buy a nice car (or jet), but after a certain level the only thing you can do with that kind of money is plug it back into something meaningful.

Hats off to Zuck and the other people who try to turn their success into something even greater than, well, their success.
So she'll be OK. Hope I'll still be able to take care of my kids after Zuckerberg unleashes the flood of H1Bs to lower my salary.
Anatomy & Physiology

U.S. Government and Politics

Economics

Intellectual Property

Astronomy

Philosophy

World History

Literature

Biology

and more!

https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse/playlists
Mr. Zuckerberg probably has other assets ;)
To Be Continuous Ep. 8, CD in Mobile Dev with Microsoft's Kevin Henrikson
Do you think America vs Sweden has anything to do with it?
Good point. We replaced "," with "and" above.
Zuckerberg isn't planning on retiring.

He will rival Bill Gates in the magnitude of philanthropic contributions.

And in other news Facebook Notes is challenging Medium as the default one-column publishing tool.

Note as well, that of all the immaterial goods that have the potential to create immense value to people and humanity, education and health are the ones strongly highlighted. Global equality is there, but to a critic this too will be seen as another factor in building and supporting an ever-growing, and long-living, consumerist middle class.

There is very little said about freedom, democracy, privacy, justice or self-determination. Even if this reading is unfair, cynical or simply too demanding of what this text and announcement is. Not to mention detracting from what is otherwise a highly admirable act.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10621315
Thanks! This is my first time in the pacific northwest, so I'm pretty excited about finally making it up here. I've already visited Powell's City of Books which was awesome. And one HN'er has gotten in touch, so hopefully we can meet up soon.
The heart of the problem is not publishing, it's discovery and curation. Grandma is not going to visit 20 dedicated servers for her grandkids picture fix, she needs it accessible in one place. But then how do you safeguard that place from the likes of games notifications and various spammy/fraudulent apps taking over?
Your average hunting rifle is far more powerful than your typical assault rifle... tbh, it's all kind of silly wrt small caliber weapons in general.

I don't, personally own a firearm. I have gone hunting, and done target shooting with friends, and feel the right to own as such is an essential right. I don't feel that the ACLU defends this right, which is why I put the NRA.. if the ACLU or another org was less obtuse in terms of defending gun rights, I'd probably prefer them.

I'm not a nut.
"regional" services simillar to WhatsApp

The app with a billion plus installs, quite likely the largest actively used chat app in the world is a "regional" service. Just to take a wild guess, you're not an iOS user from the bay area by any chance?
I haven't come across too many Android users who are not using WhatsApp in the US.
His code is pretty damn awesome. Open the site in chrome. Open web inspector.

Paste this into the console:

levels.push({
name: 'super secret-1',
instructions: 'This is a secret level you get no instructions.',
board: 'rggggyyyyy',
style: {'flex-direction': 'column-reverse', 'flex-wrap': 'wrap-reverse', 'align-content': 'space-between', 'justify-content': 'center'},
before: "#pond {\n display: flex;\n",
after: "}",
});

Proceed to the secret 25th level! You can create your own levels, and make a pull request to his git repository if you really want to add some interesting practice levels. Just modify levels.js.
xml is so complex and poorly understood, even big companies like google and facebook have failed to implement xml parsing securely, see xxe attacks. If you didn't know it's possible to configure the xml parser insecurely you might be affected, especially if you're using java. xml specifies how to load files from disk while parsing and validation can trigger GET requests to firewalled systems.

All I want to do is parsing a simple data structure.
It's a new redesign: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9398895/facebook-notes-red...
I give Mark and Priscilla a lot of credit for this. There's a big difference between 50% and 99%. There's a big difference between leaving your children a few hundred million and many billions. They have certainly exemplified the challenge to ''put your money where your mouth is''.

Having said that, the first thing I thought of was the tax implications. If the shares were to eventually be sold (but not donated), the State of California alone would earn roughly 6 billion dollars in tax revenue. And the Federal Government another 13 - 15 billion. Assuming a lot of variables that could push the value up or down, of course, and the fact that they would be unlikely to sell the majority of their shares any time soon. My understanding is that by donating the appreciated stock to a charity, under current laws, there is zero tax due. I wonder if there's a state financial forecaster or analyst in Sacramento having a bad day today.
Low cost of entry? It's actually quite high... my company still has to distribute instructions on how to disable Gatekeeper on your Mac so you can install our app. We don't have the resources to pay the $100/year "Apple tax" and also spend the 2-3 days developer time on figuring out how to sign our app and make it work with sandboxing.

For me, low cost of entry means "you put the app up for download, the user downloads it." Like the old days. No certificates, no Apple tax, no hoops to jump through.
You list three companies but only give examples for two.
I hope it goes better (the future of liberty in computing seems very dim), but I would be not surprised if it goes to the opposite direction accompanied by big ovations.
To be the best, you need to learn from the best. Tencent's immensely popular WeChat (Weixin) has been blocking links to Baidu properties for a while now.

Coming soon to a server near you!
It's a political statement.

Usage of the male pronoun is historic just like the usage of the plural pronoun. The choice to go agains hundreds of years of usage is very political.

Personally I prefer the plural when you do not know or do not wish to highlight the gender. It jibes more with my personal sense of right.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658787
A nice atop tutorial: https://lwn.net/Articles/387202/
You would think there is significant PR-department oversight and long-term planning that went into this.

But on the other hand.. nobody really knows?
Building an Automatic Environment Using Consul and Docker – Part 1
Did you mean: twitter?

Joking aside I almost never get followed by spam accounts on g+, weekly or more on my English speaking twitter account.
> Nonetheless the big winner here is the group of causes they donate to but it comes at the expense of a significant amount of tax revenue

Here is the world's smallest fiddle...
How much does he have outside of Facebook shares? A billion or two? So it's still >90% of net worth.
What I mean is that good ideas don't look like good ideas. The checklist you provide is a good way of validating them but even getting to the point were you want to validate them is a whole book worth.

That is why I am never afraid of sharing mine with anyone. If they are really good most people (including myself) wont see it and I would probably have to shovel it down their throats for them to even take them a little bit serious.

Great essay btw!
In the end, after all other options... the right to bear arms is key to even being able to rebel. From a philosophical pov, not advocating armed rebellion. That said, I feel that firearms ownership is an essential right, and that efforts to ban them outright do not serve the public interest.
What kind of job is it? Are you working as part of a team? Does everyone else work remote?

If you are working with others the first thing I would personally ask is what they use for communication (slack, IRC, e-mail, etc). If you are going to be part of a team where the majority of them work in an office it is very easy to be forgotten about or left out of things depending on what technology they are using and what the culture is.

I would also ask what the work hour expectations are and have it documented. Are you expected to be online from say 8am-5pm local time? I have seen some people told "just make sure you get your work done" but then let go because they were not making themselves available during the hours the rest of the team was online (even though their work was getting done).

In my experience perception plays a big role in working remotely. If the people in the office don't constantly hear from you or see you online the idea that you are slacking off because nobody is there to manage you starts creeping in.

Also don't be afraid to ask for the same type of perks non-remote employees get with regards to hardware/software/etc.
Weirdly enough, "improve this toaster somehow" is one of the interview exercises my company uses the most. We give candidates 15-30 minutes to sketch a solution collaboratively with the interviewer. Answers are a great indicator (I think) of whether a designer ir engineer is user-focused and the ensuing discussion gives a lot of insight into their values and thought processes.
Different Android app resources (icon, title ) according to gradle build type
It's simpler than that: it actually has the host logic in it. It simulates how the TCP/IP stack of the host would behave if I had gotten a ping package, for example. Same for hub/switch: it simulates how these guys would behave if they got Ethernet frames from hosts.
How to create strongly typed npm modules using Typescript
Try government NSL requests for your high school data. Things you searched for, or wrote, or did otherwise. Don't think they wouldn't reach for it if they know its there and can be used against you in any kind of way. Maybe that data is gone when you grow up; or maybe data storage is cheap and they just collect everything.
I once got them to expedite an emergency bug fix, and my company was nowhere near a "large actor". But this was waaaay back in 2009 so I can't be sure they're still that willing to help small devs. The expedited review took 24 hours when the average was over ten days at that time.

Still, any review time is really sucks as a developer. Shipping a big release and having to wait 10+ days to get feedback really slowed us down and hurt my enthusiasm as a developer. Honestly, I'm glad iOS development isn't the main focus of my job anymore - the SDK and tooling is fantastic, but provisioning and App Store submission is awful.
Cool thing is the speed and non-intrusive nature how it's accomplished. You have to do very little. Let us know if you would like to deploy it, we are here for you :)