skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a handful of engineers at a handful of companies"

I think that phrasing is ambiguous. It makes it sound like even at Google only the outliers make that much. Most engineers make a lot of money at Google (relative to startups). It's not just the outliers within Google that make good money.

The entire set of engineers at Google can be considered outliers, especially given the sample set of all software engineers in the valley.

The point I try to make is that from a talent perspective, I don't think Google engineers are significant outliers. At least, not to the degree they are outliers from a compensation perspective. That's the gap I'd like to close. There's plenty of Google level talent at startups not making anywhere near what they would make at Google, and a big part of that is misinformation.
No, I think it just means that's worst than using another password generator that does this right.

I know the probability that vulnerability will be exploited is very low. But I also believe things should be done the right way.

Use another password manager, or just use KeepPass official to create the passwords.
You're not being anti-intellectual, but you're overlooking the fact that it's a precise, technical language, used in post-structuralist philosophy to describe and analyze social reality (e.g. by Deleuze, Foucault et al.), and is very rigorously formulated in the relevant texts. I guess any academic jargon would look "absurd" by a(n in regard to this domain) layperson.
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Fair points, so let me explain my reasoning there:

First of all, in the case from my past, the machine labeled it -- "mmHg". They could have read it off, had they expected things to have units that matter.

Second, it's part of the conceptual understanding of what blood pressure means -- that e.g. it's not some normalized percentage, that it indicates how much the fluid inside is pressing against the outside, that it's relative to atmospheric pressure, that we live in and expect a pressurized environment.

Third -- I mean, you read it out every day, wouldn't you ever wonder what it means? Imagine a Java dev that doesn't know what System is, only that it's the beginning of the stdout print statements they use.

Someone who merely knows that "180 bad, 120 good" has a disconnected understanding, like the expert who can literally do nothing more than plug numbers into an equation but not know what the numbers mean or whether you're measuring them correctly to be compatible with it. It's not enough.
I don't understand this article, particularly this footnote:

>OK, confession time: the article linked to in the fourth result – the one that says “no retina support […] Deluge” actually talks about another app’s lack of retina support on OS X, but just go with it!

That's the result he's using to say the results are worse, that that result should be higher, but says in the footnote that's not even a result relevant to what he's looking for. What am I missing? He's saying the first results are worse, but they are better results. They return the actual app he's looking for, where he could presumably find info on retina support, not some completely different app's lack of retina. All of the links in the second screenshot are wildly irrelevant to what he's looking for.
No need to "Arrgh.". I'm asking serious questions that seem relevant, in which I'm interesting in getting actual opinions.

And if they don't consent and Oracle does, surely the community can duplicate the effort quickly.

it's possible that all OpenZFS copyright is already assigned to Oracle -- I have no particular knowledge

As a reference, the AUTHORS[0] file from the 'zfs on linux' project that was imported into ubuntu lists 73 authors not including the Oracle developers, which appear to be both individuals (gmail accounts, etc) and multiple individual businesses (nexenta, ovh, etc)

This still seems to fall in to the category of "It's must be easy for you, because I could totally do it in 2 hours" that developers (such as myself) sometimes fall into where a task is deemed 'easy' because the complexity is hidden. It really seems like neither could easily relicense, so there is no magic wand.

[0] - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-xenial.git/diff/z...
This is very interesting, can you provide any information or research that led to those takeways? Thanks.
It's hard to set up. There is instant booking on AirBnB, but mostly you have to email people and have a conversation, introduce yourself, etc. and wait for the host to get back to you. I have booked relatively last minute on AirBnB, in fact one of my best experiences was at a "startup" hotel in San Francisco, but by and large it's difficult and unreliable. Especially the "request to book" thing. If I put in a request for same day accommodations, I can't put in a second request for fear of both requests being accepted. And requests have, I believe, 24 hours to be accepted. So in theory you could try to book this morning for tonight, and not get a response until tomorrow. Or put in multiple requests and they're all accepted and you're charged for many rooms.

And even if it works, you have to coordinate with the hosts on entrance, parking, etc. at the last minute, which could be impossible.

Generally AirBnB isn't optimized for last-minute bookings in my experience.

When I need something super last minute, I can always rely on Hotel Tonight. But something like this, a last-minute AirBnB without all the AirBnB hassles, would be pretty nice.
He's probably the only journalist who can make the topic of bond market liquidity _funny_. slight hyperbole
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Windows runs on everything from USB thumbdrivess to supercomputers. Windows 10 also runs on phones and games consoles. The IoT version runs on the Raspberry Pi etc. I'm not sure how many of those I'd want to count, but Windows 10 on a Asus T100 looks like a legitimate PC to me, whatever IDC says ;-)

https://www.asus.com/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100TA...
I've always thought that something like this would be very effective for renting "space" rather than it necessarily being a full bedroom. The company could let the apartment/house owner rent fold-able cots or something to utilize, say, a living room as a sleeping space. There would be basic check boxes like access to a shower, a kitchen, etc., but it is more of a free-form lodging rather than renting a room.
Of course the argument to be had here is OpenZFS lives completely independent of the Linux kernel, it runs on Illumos and FreeBSD and the availability of a Linux kernel module in no way makes or breaks the project. As such, is it a derived work since it is not dependent on the Linux kernel to exist?

This is the argument the Illumos developers make about including the GPL'ed KVM code, KVM does not depend on Illumos to exist, as such does loading the KVM module into an Illumos kernel constitute a derived work?

Conveniently, this is also precedent that could be set during the VMWare case the SFC is also perusing - we could either see ZFS relegated to being available anywhere but Linux and binary kernel modules totally banned (bad for nVidia, good for AMD), or a total change in the landscape of open source licensing (for better or worse).
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html seems to imply that that wouldn't work, but I don't understand why. Can someone with more experience with the GPLs enlighten me?

It doesn't work to combine GPL code that way because both GPLv2 and GPLv3 would require the clause thus meaning a new "GPLv2" with that clause that isn't technically GPLv2. Heck I don't know their verbiage enough but they might not even be able to call it that.

However CDDL is not a strong copyleft, but a weak one, so would not require any update for the combination to work.

The real problem is that you would need a new hypothetical GPLv4 (since you wouldn't want to call it GPLv3 even if you could) that includes some verbiage that allows this and then get everything that is GPLv3 that you include to upgrade to this new version. That is a pretty tall order to allow a slightly different copyleft license to exist.

In theory a new GPL version that allows coexistence of licenses could exist but doing that without allowing perverse "copyleft" licenses or specifically calling out some set of copyleft licenses would be really difficult.
> seriously, CDDL is FSF/OSI approved.

...as is the GPL, which is also written by the FSF. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by saying this. Many FSF/OSI-approved licenses are not pairwise-compatible with each other. It's not limited to either the GPL or the CDDL.

> but the problem is not oracle's clearly free software.

The problem is as much Oracle as it is Linux. Especially since, as noted in other comments, the CDDL was created specifically to be incompatible with Linux's license.

> The problem is GPL forcibly does not allow perfectly fine open source licensed software to be distributed in binary form due to it's copyleft.

This isn't an accurate description either of the GPL or of the incompatibility at play here.
This is moving fast, a moratorium for some time would be beneficial for community. Like the one that happened in Python sometime ago.
The main problem with Swift on Android is that AFAIK it is going to be limited to NDK.

There is certainly a niche where it can be useful, but for most developers, it makes it a no go.

Kotlin on the other end is indeed a very good stand-in replacement for java on Android.
>I don't know about you (Google personalizes results to some degree) but the first result I see is Yahoo Finance. Google Finance is second. Why is Google promoting Yahoo over their own product?

Because that's how lawsuits happen. They let the search engine run itself. If more people are using Yahoo Finance over Google Finance, the search results will reflect that.

I genuinely believe they aren't dumb enough to open themselves up to monopolistic behavior lawsuits. The Microsoft lawsuits weren't that long ago and I'm sure Google is wary enough to make some attempt at avoiding a repeat.

I have little reason to suspect Google purposefully toys with their search results to promote their own products. Given the quality of their products - I'm more inclined to believe that when a Google product is the first result for a name/search, it's probably because people actually use/enjoy that product.

As an example, Google Maps vs other "Maps". While Google is certainly trying to join the ranks, I find other "Maps" to be entirely unusable with terrible UI and am not surprised in the slightest when Google Maps is the first result when looking for directions.

It could also be you use Yahoo Finance more often and thus personalized results had it listed first. Google Finance ranks 4th on the page for me for that search result.
There are lots of problems that I've noticed anymore too. One that I always find is the utter uselessness of searching for a phone number anymore. There are a million pages that simply list random numbers. That's not useful AT ALL.

Another that I've more recently noticed is conversions on mobile. I went from being able to type any approximation of "ounces" "to/in/-" "pounds" and getting a number right away to having to click on one of the results to get the number. It seems like backward from Google's normal MO so I don't really understand why they'd do it but I definitely have consistently had problems with that especially more recently.
This is really cool! I'm a conlanger and I'd love a tutorial on creating fonts.

Cherokee Wikipedia looks like it's just getting started: https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8E%A4%E1%8E%B5%E1%8E%AE%E...
In some cases I think it would be useful to see a count of results with one of the terms removed, but there's no way it should override _my_ search terms. That just seems broken.
I'm moderately familiar and comfortable with postmodernism, and Cryptome still seems bizarre to me. It's not word salad, like some people in this thread imply, but it's not clear to me that we're supposed to take it as serious analysis either. Part of Cryptome's game seems to be riding the border between insight and absurdity.

EDIT: It's definitely a postmodernist writing style, though. You're right about that.
Linus removed that line before GPLv3 was created because he didn't want to give the FSF the ability to arbitrarily relicense his work to a license that he didn't have a chance to vet.

If he liked the GPLv3 he may have added the line back in, but he hasn't done so for the reason you mentioned.
Except all major Android APIs are Java only, even pure native apps are actually loaded as .so into a Java process.
Huge fan of documentaries here. I was thrilled to find about this site and definitely going to sign up.

But as a designer/frontend developer I was disappointed by the overall looks of the site since it wasn't quite par with the competitors.

I had my Photoshop open already so I tought why not give it a shot: http://cloud.vel.lu/2u1c0I0h0f0l
That's a pretty good point! I missed that footnote altogether. To me, it sure seems like his issue is more that of SEO than necessarily Google being wrong.
One would assume that Canonical would be sued, and basically any individual kernel contributor (or someone like the SFC) could do it. I agree it's unlikely, which is why I hoped for a court case, because it's just another 'exception' to the rule otherwise.
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Here is a good starting point:

https://hbr.org/2015/08/what-companies-can-learn-from-milita...

Team of Teams from McChrystal is a great book.
Their roadmap also specifies how some parts of Servo might get incorporated into Firefox: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap.
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> Just creating a filesystem on an 8TB disk takes hours.

Xfs creates such a filesystem in seconds. As another reply showed ext4 is quite a bit slower since it preallocates the inodes; more modern designs allocate them on the fly as needed.
I thought that's the opposite of what Palladium did. Doesn't it make it so the apps and data on your computer aren't actually yours? Like Microsoft would have total control over what you put on your computer? I was under the impression it didn't do anything to protect your privacy: instead it actually put backdoors in your computer that Microsoft could access any time they wanted?
All the government anti-whistleblower types are financially incentivized to hold their opinions.
The problem is that if you're a rational thinker you have to make sure you're able to make a living after doing something that is likely to ruin your career. For example, how many companies would hire Snowden to do the same type of IT work he was doing before? I wonder how many incredibly important leaks never happened because there wasn't enough "financial incentive."
I have this problem all the time. I type {movie/book/cd name} illegal free download -price -buy -purchase and click search. Google knows what I want. Everyone knows what I want. Yet time and again the first hundreds of results are for non-free stores where I can purchase the item. Stupid Google!
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Oh, good point, I wasn't aware that GNU tar also supported automatic compression recognition. I should have tested it. Thanks!
It's actually not so much 2D path rendering as CSS. NVIDIA made the breakthrough in 2D path rendering with NV_path_rendering (which is a great paper, and I cite it in the talk). The way I see it, WebRender takes NVIDIA's work a step further by observing that you don't actually need 2D path rendering to render most CSS: you just need a good blitter, a good box clipper, and some specialized shaders.
I think what's cute is the part where they point out why citing lawyer's (especially those employed by interested parties) opinions is not helpful because of the biases lawyers have to aggressively represent the interest of their parties, such that their opinions will generally reflect not the most likely correct view of the law but the view of the law most favorable to the interests of their clients -- and then, in the next paragraph, proceed to present their lawyers' opinion of the key and fundamental determining factor in the situation.

Which, of course -- as they've just telegraphed -- reflects SFConservancy's vested interests in a maximalist interpretation of what is a "derived work", since that is what maximizes the scope of works to which the necessity to adhere to a license (like the GPL) applies.
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Congratulations on the acquisition! As a fellow small company I feel like it's one (of many) fantasies to join a larger team and continue working on your product.
In this case not a stereotype. I think she had tremendous raw intelligence but she was a fulltime mom with kids and was caregiving for her aging parents at the same time and a husband on the road a lot. This just didn't leave her much time to deep dive on anything. If I were in her shoes I'd probably been fired for not keeping up. So she likely had the potential of being the most technically deep person on the team but her life didn't really give her much time to develop that. In the end it didn't matter for the team as a whole: she made things better because she simply was a better and more preceptive person than most people.
Thanks! Yeah, if there's anything in particular, let me know.
>>Isn't 2FA standard nowadays.

Some don't appear to have it at all (1&1), some offer an option to SMS a code (godaddy/namecheap), a few offer integration with something like Authy/Google Auth.

>>And it still does not disable social engineering as attack option.

It's better than what I see from other registrars. It is not perfect. You, of course, are in control of the answers to the challenge questions, they don't have to be the truth.
That's not the same thing either.
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In the very article here, the SF Conservancy claims both to have a legal basis to sue and willingness to do so, though the intention to do so only as a last resort.
How does this compare to Namecoin? It seems pretty similar.
Primary source is Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-asks-racist-facebook-empl...), but Gizmodo submission is heavily linkbait.
Presumably there is a premium for last minute bookings over traditional AirBnB. And there's the factor that, hey, maybe I have a spare room tomorrow and didn't plan on having that, might as well make some money on it.

I've stayed with lots of AirBnB hosts whose "room" is a small guest house in the backyard or detatched from the main house. No problem opening that up because the guests aren't necessarily coming through your normal living space.

I think there's definitely a small market for this kind of thing, but also a small body of hosts with the ability and tolerance to host people last minute.
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What an impressive, and extremely creepy, use of state of the art neural net technology.
I find this paper to be extremely confusing.

They state that they couldn't weigh the device because it was already running when the test began. Why would they start it before doing basic tasks like seeing how much it weighs?

Oh, because the test was conducted at the company that makes the devices, and I guess the company set up the device and turned it on before the scientists got there.

Then one naturally wonders, who set up the equipment to monitor the electrical power consumed by this device? As far as I see, the paper does not say.

One further wonders, why does it need a continuous input of electrical power at all, if that power is only connected to resistor coils in the device as claimed? The paper says that electric heat is needed to start the reaction, but why doesn't the reaction sustain itself on its own heat after starting? Why can't they just unplug the thing at that point?

Finally, the experiment was conducted with the device sitting out in the open, radiating and convecting into the air. Output power was estimated by pointing an IR camera at it (measuring only half of it!) and calculating power based on the observed temperature. All of this in an environment controlled by the company that makes the device.

I hope you can see how this experiment is 1) nothing like the definitive test I describe and 2) suspicious as all hell.

The test I describe is not difficult to set up and would not be difficult for a real, working device to pass. So again, why don't they do it? That they don't doesn't automatically mean it's a scam, but then what is the answer?
Additionally there's more than one macro system out there to allow for infix math in Lisp... And for non-mathy things, in Clojure at least you're often using the threading macro -> or some variation of do/doto.
First year, superstar teachers (which I truly believe are unicorns) have options to make more money. They can get advanced degrees or work in poor performing schools with federal funding. The former takes time and the later no one honestly wants to do. I don't think even superstar teachers can do it year after year.

As far as pay. Like most jobs the first few years are low with a steep curve. Then it tapers off to COL increases once you've put in many years. This can be said of any job. Union and nonunion.
Regardless of if you get 4 months notice or 1 year notice you still have to do the work to migrate and you're still stuck with the sunk cost of investing in/learning a doomed platform.

That's why I wouldn't build a business on Google, because they have a long history of killing things when they aren't wildly profitable/successful. A $10m/yr profit product is considered a distraction of valuable engineer time unless it has some ulterior goal for the company.

And I'm not saying they should change -- they do what's right for them. One engineer working on some distraction project could instead be moved to ads quality and end up making a change worth anywhere from hundreds of millions/yr to billions.

But they can't have their cake and eat it.
I'm happy that they try to push the open web forward instead data silos like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. And for that you don't only need a great browser but also the content in different places to counter attack the monopolies. Only this way you can find the bugs and fix them.
But you are given the ability to filter your results! Countless ways actually!

Qualify your searches and modify them if needed. You were looking for information about goats. You should qualify "goats" with some form of "information about" statement.

"goat" + "animal" makes the wikipedia page for goats the first search result.

"goat" + "facts" gives you countless trivia pages, information, videos, etc

Alternatively:

goat -"greatest of all time" -"goatse" will search for "goat" without including "greatest of all time" or "goatse".
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Reading this I wonder if the everybody rewrites everything is that much of an issue. The benefits of it-crowdsourcing capitalized through libraries isn't obvious to me. Some languages make it necessary to distribute the cost of libraries through groups. Maybe Lisp allows to skip that and go straight at the problem. I remember one article about a guy looking at a Graph library for Java. He found two, generic, typed, object and all that; they were more a problem than a solution. He made its own thing in Lisp and called it a day.
A lot of the problem comes with
A: High Quality
B: High Scale
C: Consistent quality internationally

Properly encoded HD video is still easily 4 times larger than the SD equivalent, so that leads to 4 times the bandwidth costs.
>If the reality is that literally no one is capable of adjudicating this issue, then there is literally no teeth to the GPL since who could make a decision on it.

Not true at all. Most claims of GPL violation are very straightforward.