skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally industry standard. I've been one of such freelancers in the past. If we were going to boil this down to a scientific dip sample, then yes - I'm sampling a skewed group. Since we don't have any means of doing this, I'm simply writing about my experience of what I'm hearing across, what I would consider, a broad spectrum of our industry. Judging by my inbox of relieved freelancers/industry professionals today, my post is resonating with a whole subset of people who have been quietly suffering thinking there is something wrong with what they're doing/their work; when it's how the industry does business now, that's changed.
Visual Studio Code doesn't do an eighth of what VS 2015 does. VS 2015 on Linux with a full CLR would be huge. Think about the opportunities for existing enterprise programmers, alone.
I have an internal monologue, which is my thinking, but I don't "hear" this; it's not the same as I'd hear someone speaking.

But apart from that it's mostly the same, I think.

For your example I read a half sentence, then realise it's cobblers, so go back. I end up grabbing chunks of sentences.

During the winter and touring

the humour

poignant observation to Hobbes as if (to) created

...and so on.
Linkedin is a necessary evil. HR uses it to check out my references and that's about it. I visit it only when I need to find a job - to update the details on my last job. It's OK, just don't give them your phone number or (real) email address and you won't get hassled.
Isn't that because that entire area of work (Wordpress blogs/basic websites/basic webfronts/etc) has been supplanted by Squarespace and all? Web documentation and tools have also gotten vastly better in the past few years, thereby allowing more people to get into the web industry, which then leads to a glut of supply while demand remains the same. I can hammer out a semi-functional webapp in a weekend now with backend in Meteor with a UI in React, whereas if I wanted to do this ~5 years ago I probably would've been stuck writing my own UI on top of Rails. Your article frames it as a bad thing, and I'm not sure it is a bad thing, it just means that demand has shifted to higher, more specialized web developers.
You've lost all credibility by focusing on "entitled" employees, when that isn't the case at all.
Normally you would compare the timestamps on photos of the license plate in two places; you don't know whether or not the driver was speeding until you have the second timestamp.

Or does it only take a picture in response to an instantaneous speed measurement? This seems much less useful, as you could just speed everywhere except the tiny range of the speed trap.
Verizon faces probe of falling poles, sagging cables, and infested cabinets
You know, I think it would be great if web browsers fixed things. AMP is fixing a very real problem that users have today.

If and when browsers change (including those used by a lot of people that only update once a year) AMP can just change its guidelines. These are things people have to do today anyway to get fast sites. AMP just packages up in an easy to consume package.
So if the key can't be extracted via the firmware, someone updating the firmware, even with malicious intent, should not be a problem, am I correct?
I don't see what makes it different from any other open source project. Of course it's going to have technical leads and core committers, it's not like you can go force a PR merge on jQuery trunk any time you please. I'm aghast that you would even suggest such a thing.

And CLA's aren't fun, but they're hardly new, either.[1]

If you don't like that it's Google, that's fine, but at least be honest with yourself about it. But unless you've submitted a PR or can cite a PR (on any Google OSS repo at all) that they've rejected purely on the basis that Google is somehow doing wrong by the developers, then what are we even talking about?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement#...
Why would MS want to extinguish a successful technology that they just bought?
I truly believe that it would've happened sooner, but Microsoft needed to wait until it had built up some degree of confidence among developers that the whole "new Microsoft" thing is for real. If they'd done it three years ago, everyone would've panicked, assumed that things like e.g. .NET on Linux were dead, and just written off Xamarin's offerings immediately. Now I think a lot of people are at least cautiously optimistic that Microsoft's cross-platform and OSS intentions are genuine.

You can see it right here in this thread: as another commenter said, not that long ago this news would've prompted universal predictions of doom, whereas now people seem thrilled. Timing is everything.
Time to first EEE response: 20 minutes
Have you tried to use GDB from emacs? It's like Visual Studio
I've done a bit of freelance web design and development over the past few years, but recently I've found myself referring more and more people to services like Squarespace and Shopify. As potential clients are given more options – especially cheaper ones – of course the industry is going to become more competitive.
To me the most bizarre part of this story is the argument that this didn't constitute an unlawful search because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy for Tor users:

> [...] it is the Court's understanding that in order for a prospective user to use the Tor network they must disclose information, including their IP addresses [...] such a submission is made despite the understanding communicated by the Tor Project that the Tor network has vulnerabilities and that users might not remain anonymous. Under these circumstances Tor users clearly lack a reasonable expectation of privacy [...]
(I work for Stripe) Hey! Yes we're definitely aware of the need to take into account local payment landscapes that can be quite specific (you rightly mentioned iDEAL in the Netherlands, there's also EPS in Austria, Bancontact/MrCash in Belgium, to name a few others in Europe...). We're working on this and I'd be happy to connect to learn more about your needs. My email is just gabriel at, feel free to reach out!
>Total "PC" units are shrinking

source? Total units sold are shrinking (or steady, depending on your definition of PC and who's numbers you are using), but total units in operation is much closer to describing Microsofts market and hard to measure.

>Windows PC sales are shrinking compared to Mac computer sales

Macs are personal computers in every sense except marketing speak. The competitor selling better isn't a sign of the market shrinking.

>and phones are exploding compared to PCs

And in the summer desk fans sell better than hair driers. Phones are not in the same market as PCs.
Important quote from the announcement: "We’re bringing Fiber to some apartments and condos in San Francisco"
Open Data and Strong Judicial System = Accountable Politicians in Africa?
"Let them build Skype" is a good replacement for "Let them eat cake".
The long term strategy for Kanye West to make a billion
Good question. If I actively invested in individual tech stocks, I probably would. But that's a big if. :-) For now I'm talking like a researcher rather than a trader.

My investing strategy has been to invest in large indexes with low expense ratios. For diversification against my human capital, I slightly lean against tech (S&P over Nasdaq) and for personal reasons I try to get some overseas exposure.
SWEEEEEEET! Sorry, I wanted to use it but when it runs me more than a full MSDN subscription, I decline.
Generally, women choose.

Until you spend 6 solid months in the gym. Just saying.
Yea... I'm pretty sure they recognize mobile as a lot of hype. Sheeeeeeeesh....
> Is it that hard to incorporate and set up a bank account in the US?

Yes. Yes it is.

Let me put it this way: Setting up a corporation is trivial.

Setting up a bank account can be a literally insurmountable hurdle for a business that is not based in the US.

Banks can choose to let individuals and businesses open new accounts purely within their discretion, and as often as not they want the business owners to be physically present with their identification in order to open accounts.

This is a constant pain in the neck.
Just a nitpick: being able to remotely turn on climate control in a non-EV would be much worse, as it could be life threatening if the car is in a garage. With an EV the worst case is you need to tow it to a charger.
Show HN: Slackbot for deploying code
I mostly use LinkedIn to snoop on people I went to high school with.
There has been one really significant general ecosystem change in the "web design" space: much higher quality HTML themes.

I think these have just obliterated the low end of the market as for $50 and a little developer elbow grease you can have a very professional looking site.

These are displacing web design jobs that would otherwise be in the $3k to $15k range and often times are better quality (tons of built in templates for different page types, retina ready, responsive, etc.) and no need for PSD2HTML work.
Generally speaking, phrases like "not necessarily accurate" are an attempt to describe (in words) the shape or qualities of a much more complex relationship.

For example, a scale is often an accurate measure of mass, but not necessarily, because it assumes 1G of force. It can easily give you the wrong results in an elevator or on another planet.
Unless most of the clients want a fake significant other that would normally be "out of their league" for some definition of that term.
This is interesting, especially the native windows client, but it's based on the same tired architecture as HDFS, and has all the same limitations.

1) Single Master for Metadata

One of the biggest weaknesses in this model is that you can only scale the master so far. For metadata responses to be snappy, everything in your working set has to fit in RAM. That imposes hard limits on your number of files; 100M is achievable, 1B can even be done, but more than that and you're in for hurt.

2) Chunkserver to chunkserver replication

As the moosefs write diagram shows, you're waiting for chunkservers to walk a linear tree, and you get the slowest performance of each one. Which, as it turns out, is on average pretty bad. If you have a 99th percentile latency of 10x your average, you lose 20% of your speed with three replicas. Not to mention the fact that your 'single point of failure' is actually any of the three of those chunkservers, with a long retry stall if one of them errors.
LizardFS supports a xor mode, so it may be avoiding this by having clients talk to more than one chunkserver directly. Combined with proper queueing and retry logic, this reduces the effect of the long tail significantly.
They're good options too. I use Squarespace for one of my businesses because it needs to be updated by non-web-savvy people and it was the easiest route for that particular business.
"Super-fine" cause mechanical haemolysis and will give inaccurate results for many routine blood tests
The content platform was really engaging when influencers were posting and blogging frequently. Medium now seems to be the platform of choice. Not sure if opening up the content creation experience to all users "devalued" the platform or if it was the acquisition of Pulse or a summation of a bunch of factors that caused the decline. What's clear is that content platform definitely has taken a turn for the worse.
> Hangouts

I like Hangouts, but for a bunch of reasons I want a desktop program, not a web program.
I have been following Nat and Miguel's progress since the Ximian days. This has been more than a decade in the making and I am incredibly happy for their hard-earned success
Half-Life 2 is playable on ReactOS with H\W acceleration
CloudFlare’s New Domain Registry Protects Site Owners from Domain Hijacking
Embrace a new technology

Extend with proprietary functionality

Extinguish the competition
DJI offers crash insurance for drones
cf. the FAQ
I can't believe I've never heard of this before. I'm honestly astonished! Thanks for your reply, I can't wait to try this.
It's one of those things you say as a joke, then someone turns around and does it for real.
Science has answered questions that we previously thought couldn't be answered many times, such as what the age of the universe is. Maybe the question of consciousness is different, but I wouldn't be surprised if science had some interesting things to say about it in the future.
Great that they're doing this! I especially like their philosophy here [1] about favoring index funds. Way, way too many employers give you a poor selection, loaded with actively-managed ones -- my last major employer did.

(Even better would be for the law to not limit employee 401k choices to ones selected by the employer, based on some misguided belief that they benefit from having the same choices as the "highly paid employees", as required by the 401 code, given that those very executives don't actually rely on 401ks for retirement and thus have little incentive to get the choices right ... but hey, you gotta work with what you have.)

[1] https://captain401.com/investments
You could store music in the filesystem ;-)
Our company uses Captain401. It's great!
> Ask yourself, when was the last time you heard a politician or business leader mention the problems of European American "white" communities?

Hillary Clinton, in one of the early Democratic primary debates.

It was an amazing display of skill. Clinton was asked by a black member of the audience how she, as a white woman president, would improve the lives of black Americans. She somehow turned the question around, and by the end of her answer, she was talking about a recent study on the declining health of poor whites and how she would help them.

And the audience actually applauded! Nobody there -- either black or white -- seemed to notice how artfully she dodged the question and presented one of her limitations as an apparent strength. I was floored.
My reaction: what took them so long? This has seemed obvious for years now.
I dared two expert hackers to destroy my life. Here’s what happened
Asynchronous messaging depends on a server to hold your messages for delivery when you go offline. That implies some company being behind the service to host that server, along with centralization and the ability of deanonymization. I'm sure there are clients that do support it, but I wouldn't want to use it. Proper Tox style would probably be to host your own bouncer server, like IRC, for that use.

I don't actually use XMPP, but a quick Google gives a list that do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messagin... for example. Would you be upset if I said "IRC does that" if you asked for messaging? Why aren't you upset that I pointed at Tox, which is also a protocol with separate implementations? Your point about TCP, while meant to be a critism, is actually spot on: It is a protocol. Anyone can implement it and talk to all other XMPP (or Tox!) clients, unlike Skype which is completely proprietary and closed ecosystem.
Pointing at only one client shows favoritism and is disingenuous, since you could point out "<x> doesn't implement <y>!" when another client does, while if it's supported in the protocol it CAN be support by any of the clients.

You're actually right about the WebRTC point: it inherently doesn't support text, it's for p2p signaling. Most implementations do have a textbox for communication, however, and have the same benefit as Tox or XMPP: It's a protocol. Just because one site doesn't do it, doesn't mean any other site can't and inter-op with all other providers.
Wonder what this means for Xamarin University? Shouldn't that be made available for free on Channel9?
There is also gdb's built in tui mode. You can activate it with gdb -tui or keyboard shortcut C-x C-a.
Uber's experimental service in Bangkok hails motorcyles
I have the same experience with small businesses, especially since I've given up on fighting bad design decisions by the client. I will tell them why I wouldn't do it this way, but the choice is ultimately theirs.

A whole bunch of 'real' designers work for their portfolio, not the client. I just work hard to make and keep them happy and solve their problems with the least amount of friction. Happy clients have resulted in more referrals.
They can both be true. I think the valuation will be telling.
I'm hoping they open source Xamarin.Forms. The community has been clamoring for it. It has so much potential but it’s so buggy.
What I find interesting is the call to action at the end:

"Our power has always been in our web community – we are exceptionally good at creating movements and solving things, as a community. It’s time to dig deep and put as much time and effort into helping our community as we once did fixing browser quirks all those years ago."

I think this is a common wishful thinking comment from people who don't understand how the world works. How is the 'community' of web designers going to do anything about companies wanting in-house staff or squarespace making week-long wordpress projects obsolete?

Bottom line is: most people don't need a website. Squarespace covers a great deal of what very small websites need and frankly - a facebook page is good enough for most things.

Why have a website at all?

I don't know if selling t-shirts is a solved problem in web dev because I'm not in the loop but that seems to me - the last frontier, once you can sell t-shirts and other variety of items without needing much technical know-how, the game is over.

I am glad it's over - who needs a billion bloated wordpress sites? I want everything online sold through amazon, events posted on facebook and news posted to a single platform (I use an RSS reader which makes dozens of websites look exactly the same).

We don't need much web design, 100 different types of cars or 100 different shampoos, wake up, it's madness :)
The Arch docs are super helpful on this, even if you're not running Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
Not surprising.
With a sufficiently complex passphrase, it's not a problem. With a typical 6-digit PIN, disabling the artificial delay and auto-wipe (which is possible via firmware updates) is all you need for a successful brute-force attack.
Intrusion Detection FAQ: How can attacker use ICMP for reconnaissance?
"if the open source community is so great"
if.. i dont see how they can be an if ..
it is 100% absolutely great .. with all the great FOSS projects around, how much more evidence do you need
ha! Considering our target audience is around 65 years old, I’d make it a double.
It's almost as if the media wants to see the downfall of tech companies so they can continue writing about all the doom and gloom and predicting a bubble popping (when the data thus far does not show a "pop" coming per se).
> Of course, but that's no real excuse for it not to get with the times.

It is a very good excuse: Backwards compatibility with older installations.

I suppose it could have two search paths, but why add complexity?
SlySoft (makers of AnyDVD) has closed
"Questions such as when modals are appropriate"

Can you point me to a document for this?

Thank you.
What IFTTT Recipes Would You Like Piper to Use?
That's weird, because the variety of new music I listen to each month greatly exceeds the $10 price tag to own it, by magnitudes. Even if you pirated, the time spent each month finding, managing, and evaluating torrents is worth $10.

With the money saved you could always just purchase the songs if the service stopped.
Sandboxing. The apps would probably need permission to read your licences from AD to "get it".
Rumor is just south of $300 Million. A nice chunk of change...but Xamarin had the gas and customers to head much higher valuations. Congrats to all involved.
I'm still waiting for google fiber to come to even half of Austin.
Keep your feelings on twitter. This site if for news.

OP, you think that we should all care where some dude is moving to? Consider doing something more constructive with your time.
I've done this too! I was able to do it with my AMD FX-8350 and GA-990FX-UD3, as they both support IOMMU. Passing through my R9 390 to the Windows guest, and the only issue I've encountered the whole time was having to disable hardware acceleration for flash videos.

The whole KVM/Qemu ecosystem is great.
So happy for Miguel and Nat. We worked with Xamarin when we ported Infinite flight from Windows Phone to iOS and Android. We wouldn't be there if it wasn't for them.

One thing I'm really looking forward to is efforts on the QA front. I'm scared to update every time as things are frequently broken, especially on the iOS side.
AMP encourages you to keep your assets separated, so you only load the bits you need. If a page is going to use <amp-youtube> you'll have to include the appropriate script tag for that component in the page, for example.
Wow, this is a major vulnerability on Nissan's part. It would be trivial to determine the IP address for the server and implement this exploit.
Well, that's usually what happens in 3rd world countries.

Private Security is an extremely established service in countries such as mine (Uruguay), and even bigger in others like Brazil.

One link mentions 4 million security guards in Brazil alone (compared to less than a million policemen).

Other links speak of 1.5 million of legally registered security guards.

Compare to 600.000 security guards for the entirety of Europe.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/flavie-halais/spe...

https://www.oas.org/dsp/documentos/Publicaciones/PUBLIC%20SE...
Insulting source code (2008)
There are many guides about this, just search for something like "VGA PCI Passthrough"

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=VGA+PCI+Passthrough...
Just normal consumer-protection and product-liability law ought to take care of it for the most part, if really applied. Computer software has somehow managed to almost entirely escape liability, avoiding legal responsibility for shipping software with serious defects that makes it not fit for advertised purpose. But I suspect people shipping physical devices will find it harder to avoid, because the legal regime for physical devices like ovens and toasters is well established. Nest being forced to issue a product recall of its thermostats over a software flaw is one example of this starting to play out.
Sure, and the customer that wants a website and $25/month website is not typically going to be an ideal client for me.
I believe the argument is more focused than that: there is no expectation that one's IP address is private when the process of connecting to a server involves disclosing the IP address as the respond-to destination. I have a hard time seeing a flaw in that reasoning.
OmniSharp powered intellisense and other features are easy enough to stick in VS Code. It's easier to package and deploy than MonoDevelop. Much easier (at least for me) to write extensions for VS Code. I see it as a win-win. MonoDevelop has always been a frustrating experience for me. While VS Code isn't perfect, I'm less frustrated using it than MonoDevelop.
Good for you. Lots of my associations are pretty loose though. I have no way to influence their decisions. I'm connected with them on LI because they were already there.

I only joined because my University recommended it but then I found out I liked it.
> be able to actually get things done with Congress

What kind of things do you expect Congress to do?
Generally it's better when Congress does only absolutely necessary things and does not do anything else.
An office job with steady hours isn't everyone's dream. There are plenty of people who like the flexibility of freelancing, and web design has been seen as an attractive option for those who want more control over when and where they work.