skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep it non-committal. "I am happy where I am, and not in a rush, but it would be nice to talk to the HM. Maybe I get interested in what you guys are doing?"
I'm glad to see Apple getting more and more flak for this. Hopefully they'll do something about it.
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Loyal user for 10+ years. Apple is getting old and their apps, particularly iTunes, have transformed into an atrocity.
I feel you. This is why I stick with Apple, however.

They may be declining, but they still have an overall "least frustrating" experience, especially when I have to help my family members with Windows 8 or 10, or need to Futz with my nephew's Linux setup.
Not working very well in Chrome, either. I'm not sure if I'm not supposed to be able to drag it, but my first reaction was to try, and I wound up dragging the transform'ed images around.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/08/zenefits-ceo-parker-conrad.... Thanks!
I almost moved payroll to Zenefits, got my CPA to do it instead. Looks like I dodged a bullet.
Every Apple user paid for that, so you're getting subsidized heavily by iPhone/iPad users.
I don't wish to lose my confidence.
Sparse implies that there is something there. When I click on any of the features to get an explanation, it just becomes bold and gets a strikethrough. After I click on all three, a button shows up saying "Start Accomplishing". That's not much in the way of a tutorial. I apologize for sounding harsh, but I don't really want to learn how to use your product by trial and error or without at least some idea of what it will look like when I am using it.
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Yes, I learned my lesson of thinking 4GB was good enough.

It's better to have 8GB minimum, but best of all to get as much ram as possible on a machine.
It'll be an insurance company that holds hostage provider payments until you delete your negative review.
Super conspiracy theory but I wonder if Sacks saw this coming from a mile out. From Paypal he has heaps of experience with what puts you on a regulators radar. Maybe he saw a naive CEO who would land in trouble soon enough.

Zenefits is a weird mix of wall street sales types and ex Yammer employees, the former might be out the door pretty soon.
I wrote this elsewhere in response to a similar question:

> I've been following the project, and he has some great ideas that I plan to shamelessly copy such as Struct Of Array support. Running arbitrary code at compile time is on the table, but I haven't figured everything out about it yet.
Jonathan Blow is an interesting character. I have a lot of respect for him, but I don't always agree with him. I feel like his perspective is insightful but also limited in some ways. I'm sure the same is true for myself, but all that is to say, our respective languages will be (and already are) different enough to warrant being different projects. For example, one of my goals is "friendly to open source package maintainers (such as Debian)". This entails things like keeping a meticulous record of how to bootstrap the compiler without compromising security, having a reproducible build, providing ways for the maintainers to configure various things, etc. Based on what I know about Jon, he'll either be completely apathetic about package maintainers, or potentially even have a hostile attitude.

> Also no spoilers for The Witness please. I'm waiting until it comes out on Linux to play :-)
I must commend Grant for his thoughtful analysis of the complex association between browser choice, conformity, and career success. He begins with an elegant proof establishing that a one-to-one mapping exists between those who elect to install web-browsing software, instead of using the default, and the nonconformist personality trait. Next he observes that the study's astute selection of subjects, call center employees, gives us confidence that the results can be generalized to many, and indeed all, professions. Lastly, Grant creates a coherent picture of the study and its implications by clearly identifying nonconformity as the causal factor in the subjects' improved performance as call center workers.

Admirably, Grant breaks from the mainstream by avoiding the temptation to abuse p-values to support the association. In fact, he succeeds in establishing a direct causal relationship between browser choice, nonconformity, and career success without relying upon any statistical analysis whatsoever. In an age when we are all too weary of the misuses and abuses of statistics, it is refreshing to read an interpretation which so convincingly supports its thesis with a single figure. There can be little doubt going forward that nonconformity is a key ingredient for career success, and that this trait is strongly indicated by browser preference.
TL;DR - VTech is terrible.

Slightly less TL;DR - VTech got hacked, hard, and instead of investing in securing their products and services, they opted to update their Terms and Conditions to make them not liable for any data loss you experience from using them.

Sorry if this is too editorialized and negative for HN, but I struggle (and fail) to maintain neutrality when people are willingly putting children's online privacy at risk.

If anyone is worried their company in a similar position as VTech, security-wise, please don't repeat their mistake. You'll find it's cheaper to secure your products than to settle lawsuits stemming from negligence. Plus, there are fringe benefits.

https://paragonie.com/files/white-papers/DataBreach2015.png

http://www.ibmcostofdatabreach.com/

(If anyone reading this IS in a similar situation, consider this an open invitation to email me for help getting started on the road to better security, should you need a bit of guidance. I'm the security@ for PIE)

I only hope VTech can correct their course before it sinks their ship.
@Gibbon1 this is a pretty insightful comment. Luckily for Moody's, they made themselves part of an intricate industrial structure where their ratings drive large parts of the industry (e.g., investment guidelines, lending, etc.)
The panels themself will be decentralized but I believe that every business will be centralized once it's profitable in itself and in widespread use. E.g. the gas in the car is yours, but the gas station is a global huge giant that has more control over gas than you.
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I think part of the frustration comes from sellers who have an interest in who they sell their house to. Once the deal is signed and the original buyer flips the house (buyer #1) the seller now loses control of who ends up owning the house. It might be legal but that is little consolation to the seller who might have had reasons to sell, or not sell, to some party.
Generally speaking, racking up a bunch of Class B felonies is "inappropriate" for any company, heavily regulated or otherwise.
This is a great question, especially since it seems like he would have been in charge of the salesforce (where a lot of these issues happened).

So unless he wanted to change these processes and Parker stopped him, it does feel like there is another side to this story... (modulo many of the other issues that must of driven this change)
I don't have an issue with Apple Music -- just with the hard sell.

I have a huge collection synced to iTunes Match, and I get to spend quality time in a facility with heavily proxied wifi and no cellular coverage. I don't really need a streaming service.

Apple used to be pay more and deal with less bullshit. Add the bullshit, and the value prop changes.
There is a good way. He expressed it, you picked up on it, but you just don't trust the rest of the audience. Honestly, is there any way your type of comment makes sarcasm more enjoyable for everyone else? We get it
Agree. I am sure there must be a lone compliance or security engineer who was asked to sit quiet while they build more features
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I was thinking the same. I remember looking when considering building a Fusor and found that deuterium gas was relatively affordable. Why not simply react high purity deuterium gas and oxygen to form the heavy water? Or just buy heavy water directly as you have noted.
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Those last two are definitely prohibition violations. DUI is arguable. DUI used to be called DWI - Driving While Impaired. But there are all kinds of ways you can be impaired. The fact that driving drunk is a crime but driving-while-sleepy isn't is evidence that anti-drunk-driving laws are really prohibition in disguise.
Interestingly, given the right conditions, chain reactions can take place with very little effort. There is one known example of a natural nuclear reactor that was in operation for a few hundred thousand years (2 billion years ago). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
When my sister and I played as kids we had the bank start issuing checks. We stumbled on the modern federal reserve policy as 8 year olds without realizing it I guess.
Nixon then ordered North Vietnamese cities to be bombed for eleven days (the "Christmas Bombings"). Perhaps not coincidentally, peace talks resumed.

Give or take 1,000+ civilian deaths:

In just one night, more than 2,000 homes were destroyed around Kham Thien, a busy shopping street in Hanoi. About 280 people were killed and at least as many again injured. Ha Mi had a friend, whose house was hit.

"There were a few houses still standing, but most of it was just rubble, flattened on the ground - or even just a big hole. Houses were just gone, it was horrible. I remember seeing people just standing there looking at it - but there was nothing there. Everything was just gone."

At the time the communist authorities said about 1,600 Vietnamese were killed, but many suspect the true figure is far higher.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20719382
Interestingly enough, if you play by the real, actual stated rules of the game it goes much much faster.
Yelp is kind of stuck like Twitter. Product is not shaping up well. I am not sure how they plan to grow without improving their product. Their mobile app still kinda sucks
This is essentially thief and drug dealer logic.
nothing micro about the price. $2975 for a 360sq ft apartment off of 2nd avenue, 10 minutes walk to the closest subway stop. The only saving grace is the fact that the apartments are new builds with decent finishes (from the pictures). Housing situation in Manhattan is certifiably nuts.
"Groupthink" can be Googled.

Are you learning anything from the unresponsive down-voters of your post? The only thing I learn from grey posts is that HN does not agree. Why they do not agree... I often have no idea why.
Many thanks. I wonder how many other features I'm missing out on..
Am I very dense or is this a reference to the tech bubble?
Well that's one way to look at it. My biggest problem with Sanders is that I don't believe that the majority of the Sanders supports actually care about winning the election for POTUS. They just seem to care about taking the Dems as far towards their views as it will go.

And he has very limited chances to pick up more people in the general election unless he can get Hillary to drop out before April/May. It's hard to go from "Socialist" to "potential President" in 6-8 weeks, especially in an election that is going to be fairly close once the GOP figures out who they are going to get besides Trump.

Of course, that could all change if Trump gets knocked out early and decides to pull a Ross Perot.
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Maybe farmers have to dowse for water because they're looking at a huge drop in rainfall due to climate change: http://www.vegetableclimate.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/C...
They're not helping themselves by having a mobile website that's intentionally crippled in order to force users to the app. They need a top-shelf mobile web experience.
I don't know that this is even a particularly strong conspiracy theory - when Sacks joined, A LOT of people were predicting that he would be the CEO within 12-18 months. Parker always felt like he was the wrong person to operate such a large and complex company. Great example of his immaturity here: http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-rescinds-job-off...
What a bunch proclamation!
Sure, but the vast majority of "crimes committed to feed the habits of addicts" would simply evaporate if there weren't prohibition because the price of drugs wouldn't be so high, so addicts wouldn't need to commit crimes to support their habit.

I don't know how much crime is actually committed under the influence. I'm pretty sure that smoking marijuana actually reduces one's tendency to commit crimes.
Implementation of the real-time painted world demo
>See this is where pretty much everywhere gets it wrong. Prices aren't set by one side. Prices are ALWAYS set by both sides coming to an agreement.

The price will only be efficient in the face of robust competition. The price will not be optimal when there is a monopoly. If the telco/ISP market were actually competitive, a plan that imposed artificial scarcities (like limiting packets based on their content instead of the actual cost to transport them) would never see the light of day as competitors would offer an uncrippled product for essentially the same cost.
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I don't understand, why hasn't the product changed at all?? There seem to be some obvious wins, e.g. personalization... but no movement at all.
Didn't Sacks make a ton of money from the Yammer deal though? I'm surprised he even took another job; thought he'd go the mostly full time angel/VC route. A COO for any company is not a cakewalk.
Quite a few people would respond to that by saying:

> There are like nine different versions of Emacs for OS X...
I wonder what the downvote rationale is here?
I don't know how the iTunes matching works, but Play Music does swap out your version of a song with theirs if they see they're the same thing. I think this has only been within the last year or so that they started doing this though. I don't have any personal files anymore, so I can't comment on how accurate it is.
This is kind of like Uber firing Travis with a "we operate in a highly regulatory space. Compliance is our oxygen and so Travis, who has constantly flouted regulations, is gone"
I have used that Notes app every day since 2007 and still have notes dating back to that time.

Sync works fine (and near immediately if you refresh on a device) but doesn't actively push, I find.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976280
It will also save 40% of your time.
Congratulations you got the reference. Gold stars for everyone!
Oh bravo!
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Their mobile app is one of the most poorly designed and poorly executed major tech products out there. For a company that hires probably a thousand engineers, there has been very little improvements on the web and mobile properties in over 4 years. For a product that's innately social, local and realtime, it has missed most of the enabled affordances of years past.

I'm surprised that there isn't much competition. I was traveling recently, and found Zomato's app to be much superior.
This is one of the worst management announcements I have ever read. While on the one hand, I can appreciate the forward-looking nature of making the company better in the future and an acknowledgement of some of its shortcomings (which every company has).

But the worst crime of all is announcing Conrad's resignation and providing zero credit, thanks, or goodwill towards him for being the birther of the company which wouldn't exist in the first place if not for him. Even if he had recently run into trouble setting the company straight or other problems, it's outright shameful to simply skip right over his contribution to making the company what it is and for being responsible for making it happen from day 1.

This crime wouldn't be so awful if it had come from someone who wasn't already a previous entrepreneur himself.

This is pretty sad... Parker probably would have gotten a nicer goodbye announcement had he died.
You say you found a revolution
Data as well. I can think of at least three companies worth $100B+ (and several worth $1B+) that would love to have comprehensive reviews of nearly every local business in the U.S.
Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, 20 years on
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I think that closure and other transpilers do "bundle", but only in the sense that they resolve explicit ES6 imports. They don't attempt to grok versions or dependencies the way browserify/webpack do.
Did they ever fix the hole in their ozone layer?
That was very funny :)
Robots will force experts to find other routes to the top
Spotlight has been straight broken for me since 2008, especially when using large external drives (stuck "scanning" for >5 hours every time the drive is power cycles, using a whole core). I just gave up and now forceably disable spotlight.
The role of CTO varies so greatly from company to compan . Some are hands on making major decisions. Others are almost academic; looking 18+ months out and responsible for understanding big trends et . Not sure which is the case here. Does anyone know?
What is Zig's position on memory safety? Rust is, correctly IMO, memory-safe even if that can cause some discomforts when programming (I hear this is temporary, and mostly subsides as one gains a better understanding of lifetimes and borrows). On the other hand, Jonathan Blow's Jai eschews language-guaranteed memory safety in order to allow the programmer greater freedom, but does nothing to prevent use-after-free, double-free, null deref, etc. (Edit: this is based on my understanding of his language as it was in his last demo. I don't know what plans he has for the future, but I think that with him calling Rust a "big idea" language and rejecting that philosophy, we should not expect Jai to do much to prevent incorrect manipulation of memory.)

If we take those two languages as the extremities of a spectrum, where would you put Zig on that spectrum?
Have you figured out why some people gloat over it?
'Groupthink' makes zero sense in this discussion.

As to the noise explosion, think about what we just did. You posted a bit of offtopic meta (breaking a site rule), I was stupid enough to reply (breaking a site rule), now you're throwing inscrutable condescending non-sequiturs at me (breaking a site rule). We've added a bunch of pointless noise to a thread on the topic "Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns". Some thankless moderator will have to come clean up after us.
it's more of an iOS thing, OS X is pretty customizable.
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That's great! (And I'm a fan of my [two] Echos!) Do you have a link to said third-party auditing?
The bottom line with not tech industries is that they don't want to deal with IT implementations and it's risks. They're ok to spend huge money and go with popular software. That way if something goes wrong in implementation they can blame SAP. On other hand if own implementation goes wrong the VP/manager gets accountable. It's the risk blame game.
Nice work! Not something I'd use, but I am a fan of building on WordPress as a platform--it's highly underestimated.
What's a company going to do? Sue me? Chances are they won't even know if I'm working at another company, as I can just choose to not update my LinkedIn.

Companies can do stuff like this to a few, limited , number of people. But anybody can get under the radar extremely easily, if they so choose.
I wonder if there is any real limit to what positions such a person would take. In every company I've ever worked for there's several examples of this sort of person and ... I don't think I've ever even seen one with their own political opinion. Personal advancement, or the potential for it, determines their position in any argument, including political ones.

These days that usually makes them argue for "diversity" (taken to corporate insanity extremes, like every other position).

I would agree with the article that given the environment in the 1930's that would probably have made them nazis. But this has nothing to do with the content of these ideologies, only with their relative success.

But what I find myself at very strong odds with is the smart person who clawed his way up and finds himself beneath a glass ceiling, Mr. C. They usually have a relatively insane political opinion that indeed originates from some past humiliation. But that nearly always makes them some sort of extremist socialist or outright marxist if they were poor in their childhood, or extreme laissez-faire when not. And frankly, what is wrong with holding such an opinion due to having had to endure serious hardship or humiliation as a result (having been the rich kid in a poor school or a poor kid in a rich school would pretty much guarantee such a position, no ?). I would imagine that if indeed such a person became a nazi, one confrontation with a nazi "type D" would cure him of such an affliction, as he'd immediately recognize the ideology for what it is. Either such guys are nihilists or they have some insane party affiliation.

Given the thousands of political parties in the Weimar republic, I'd be much less surprised to find this Mr. C an avid supporter of one of the many "20 party members and only their mothers vote for them" ideologies that the Weimar republic boasted.
I use iOS Safari all the time and have no crashes and it works just fine.
> I tend to think of a new language as a gigantic library sitting on top of another language

That's a bad default assumption
I've never seen airdrop actually function. I remember when it first came out I watched some excited people try to use it and then it failed completely. Nobody I know with an iphone even bothers trying to use it anymore.
"Choosing" is the keyword tricky phrase here.

At my last job interview, the "what do you plan on doing 5 years from now?" question came up. After talking up things that interested me that could fill 5 years of time, he asked me about management aspirations. I confessed that I had no personal interest.

He followed with something about how he wished it was "realistic" for himself to stay in non-managerial roles. Apparently, there are a lot of programmers out there that feel some kind of pressure to move into management at some point if they want to stay in the I.T. game.
I love Apple's OS and hardware. It's one less thing I have to worry about condtantly fixing.

With that said. Their consumer apps have always been overly simplistic candy glossed shit,
Made worse by the fact that they can't be removed without lower level hacks.

I may not fall with their target demographic but I'd never buy into the platforms/services of a
company who won't let me have a choice over something as simple as what Apps I have loaded on my machine.
what?

jetbrains.com (intellij, appcode, pycharm,webstorm, rubymine etc)

sublime text
atom
vim
emacs
eclipse
I assumed people would be drawing this conclusion when I saw the top 3 threads right now. How do we know that is the case and not just statistical anomaly, though?
Do they all know that a crash is coming?
you use one of the many alternatives
According to this article http://fortune.com/2015/06/16/apple-google-maps-ios/ Apples maps is used by Apple iPhone users more then Google Maps. So it's hard to believe it's as bad as you claim.
If you assume that your distributed lock gives you transactional guarantees that you are the only lock holder then you are making a mistake. If, however, you can tolerate small overlaps in lock holders you are fine and this helps with numerous distributed algorithms. Further, using other facilities such as fences can make it even more secure. Another feature of ZooKeeper is write-with-version. You could obtain a lock (using Apache Curator - note I wrote this), then do a write-with-version to achieve 100% certainty that you are the only writer.