skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a FB user, but actually it can't be uninstalled.

I had an Android phone with no FB (I probably deleted it after I got the phone), and after the system upgrade it got installed without me agreeing to it. And I can't seem to undo it.
Independent SQL-On-Hadoop Benchmark of SparkSQL, Impala, and Hive
>the hackers can use their position to install malicious code on the devices or to surreptitiously monitor the comings and goings of the owners

Do we really care? I made this post couple of days back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149716

I posted the same to reddit also. I was down voted heavily.

Anyway, I want to ask this.

How did we get here? How did the whole tech crowd okayed the use of perpetually connected devices with cameras (on both sides!) and microphones to allow operating them without notifying the user.

I mean, did no one ask, why is there no indicator light on this camera (or mic) on my net connected phone that I take with me to the most private of places?

So what about forcing these gadget makers to add notification that cannot be bypassed in software to alert users when camera or mic is active? Let them add them in all the new devices.

Also, pickup your phone right now and stick a piece of tape on that camera (both of them). Will you do that? Naa...you won't, because that is too 'inconvenient' to remove it when you have to take a picture..

So yes. We deserve everything that we get!
50 days ago on the "Announcing Spark 1.6 (databricks.com)" thread I mentioned that we were doing a 3rd party SQL-on-Hadoop benchmark (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837758) and a bunch of folks sent me notes asking for a heads up when the results were in.

Well, we are done with our analysis and have a blog post offering up up the bulk of the results - http://blog.atscale.com/how-different-sql-on-hadoop-engines-...

The blog has the majority of the results, and additionally there is a registration link for the full 17 page whitepaper if you are really keen on SQL-on-Hadoop. www.atscale.com/benchmark

Trystan, the engineer that did the bulk of the benchmark work, would be happy to answer questions regarding the methodology, hardware, etc.

Due to how fast these engines are evolving, we plan on doing an update to this benchmark on a quarterly basis.
Google calls us this. Last year the position of "Web Developer" was renamed to "UX Engineer".
The case for an embeddable Gecko
Info here[0].

[0] http://www.law360.com/articles/578344/oracle-adds-ip-claim-a...
You are four X more likely to be killed by a lightning bolt than by terrorism
Security, Agility, and Accountability: A Balancing Act
Microsoft is killing it lately. First Swiftkey, now this.
data transmission from mobile is energy-hungry. More so than compute.
Actually no, that guess was incorrect. I just didn't check for replies until now.
A negative for me would be not being able to read whenever I have to wait on something. I have read more books than ever before because I have them on my phone.

It sounds like a lot of people in this thread do not need to quit using a smart phone, and instead need to quit facebook. I don't do FB and do not have many alerts at all on my phone. My email apps are smart enough to only show me alerts for things that matter and everything else I get to when I get to it.

I do agree with you on one thing though. When hanging out with people leave your phones in the car. Nothing is more annoying that having a conversation and people messing around on their phones.
Boston Dynamics' Marc Raibert on Next-Gen ATLAS: “A Huge Amount of Work”
Using the FAA location identifier for the main airport serving a US city as an abbreviation for a city is a not-uncommon practice for cities that don't have other well-established abbreviations.

So, PDX for Portland is consistent with that.

SFO for San Francisco is not, for the reason pointed out in GP, just as IAD for Washington, D.C. wouldn't be.
My friend. I ctrl + f through the page to see if someone was just as infortunate as I am :).

We are using DITA as well, in a 10 people company. Because it is so much fun to go through XML right ?

The genius in DITa, I think, is that the guys behind it have basically created a market by themselves. I mean, the main reason we don't get off it today is because we had to hire an expert long time ago to get our layout done, and we don't want to have to redo it.

Sad times :).
Microsoft Is Buying Mobile Cross-Platform Development Company Xamarin
Phone is more a way of socialization than a useful tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement

The real tool is in the access to the human knowledge with Wikipedia but people don't do that too much. They play games and send textos.
> Download a script and download a theme for it? It works pretty well for things like WordPress and phpBB. And it's not like there aren't a lot of options out there.

Are there free, actively managed, themeable FAQ scripts out there that would compete with this?

> I also don't like the move towards trying to get 'average' users to walled gardens and managed solutions, since it usually ends up being about nickle and diming them.

I wouldn't use this particular product, but other users in this thread with genuine FAQ and knowledgebase management needs seem to think this is a worthwhile product. Not everything works effectively as a one-time-fee downloadable script. And at the end of the day, consumers have the choice in what they use. It's not like these folks have the monopoly on FAQ solutions.
The most common causes of death due to injury in the United States
Looking at your source. You are using the timing API to get RUM data. How is your JS different/better than just using Boomerang to get those metrics?
Ok, you can decide not to move to a state, because my haunch is that you'll do that once or twice in your lifetime.
Hi Starwatcher. I had never even considered that this has a name, much less that it's common enough for other people to associate with it too. Cool.

I love to read, actually. As far as I know I haven't noticed any difficulty in colors. I can definitely see a word "red" that may have been written in blue color really screwing with me, but maybe not more than it would screw with any other person.
Assume 5 months pass, the developer works on the product, while the other guy does only light marketing and sales (10% part time, as there is not much to go for). For unexpected reasons, the non-tech guy moves to a different country, and there is no hope that the product will get sold. As there is no upfront funding, the developer's time (investment) is not compensated at all.
The Windows 10 privacy issues really do leave a bad taste, and I will be sticking to Windows 7/8.1 for as long as I can. There is a reason there are free upgrades to 10 being pushed so hard, and it's not because they are feeling nice.

It seems like they are giving with one hand (open source to developers) and taking with the other (data from their unsuspecting users).
Yeah, that's fascinating. I didn't realize there was a name, or even that the colors and days of the week is a thing that other people experience. How weird is it that my Wednesday is blue too?

Thanks for sharing, I've got some reading to do.
VS integration was recently re-written and re-released. I still use XS, but I hear the VS integration is now pretty solid.
If they're collecting all the calls to and from our phones, can they please start doing something about the dozens of spoofed calls I get each week trying to sell me scam services? Please?
> If you are interested I can provide you with links.

Yes, please.

Also may I ask, what's your view of Singapore as a jurisdiction for digital nomad incorporation? Braintree already supports it for payments, and Stripe is in "private beta"...
Just turn stuff off. I removed most of the Google services from my Android phone. There's no Google account. (At initial startup, you're prompted to sign up for Google. Choose "Not now", and then disable Google One Time Init.)

I miss voice dialing, though.
Airport Security vs. The Constitution
I was trying to reflect the argument as made, rather than saying I agree with it myself.

That said, 33k is quite a bit larger than I expected, actually, given that the entire UK civil service is about 10x that size but the EU doesn't do benefits management, tax collection, defence, doesn't run a justice system, transport system, etc.

With respect to democracy in Europe, it's a bit complicated. People tend to care a lot more about their national parliaments than the EU parliament. The UK, in particular, gets outvoted in the EU parliament a whole lot, so regardless of what you think of the system in the general sense, for the UK it results in having to do things it doesn't want quite a bit.
Today you can target all three platforms...
I think the best debugging option on the market is the Emacs gdb integration. It truly is quite remarkable.
The underlying problem for you and mbrock is that managers are rarely rewarded for doing these things.

Mbrock is essentially asking for a one on one that isn't filled with Status Updates and platitudes. One that fosters genuine conversation and values their input.

You're talking about real growth and whether it's a specific title or new skills, that's also a huge motivator.

Unfortunately, in most companies, managers are not rewarded for doing either of those things, nor punished for failing to do them.

The only company I know that even measures it is Google, who uses something called the "Upward Feedback Survey" to gauge it and found correlation between scores on the survey and quality of managers (team output, turnover, etc). More on the survey and some of the research behind it here: https://getlighthouse.com/blog/google-management/
If you don't own the physical layer, sooner or later you're screwed. (My comment is not meant to reflect on the merits or dismerits of the particular use in question. It's a general statement.)
This makes me happy, and hopefully it's just available as a base part of Visual Studio / part of all MSDN subscriptions. I loved Xamarin in principle before, but the price tag was steep.

I inherited a Xamarin app on one project - and while there were certainly some issues here and there, the promise of native cross-platform app development and shared C# libraries is pretty compelling.

I said a few years ago that this should happen, so glad to see it actually come to pass! http://tmarman.com/Blog/Post/ba9a711f-dcdb-40b5-bca9-ad6eb5b...
UUID V4 is ~900ns/op, NUID is ~60ns/op, so 15X speedup, or 1500%.
Now US Government Wants to Scan Your Tweets Approving Your Visa
"Aggressively being non-white in public". The dude probably showed up black to all his VC meetings too - playing the race card!
signed updates also don't prevent exploits from running.
San FranciscO

It works.
I'm pretty sure there are people with driving licenses who weren't born the last time I heard HoTMetaL mentioned.
Damn Daniel Bagel Parody Video
Oh, i know very much who he is...
What now for RoboVm I wonder. Given that its Java based and probably overlaps with the main Xamarin product.
That's still not "settled." That's one state court ruling. Other states could rule differently. A federal court in that district could rule differently.

That said, if your threat model involves anyone technically sophisticated or any government actor, I would suggest not relying solely on a fingerprint ID to control access to a device.
The CDC version of the data: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm
Pornography to be comparable to Ebola, Zika as public health crisis
> "You don't have a phone?! What's wrong with you?!" -everybody

I think next-wave hipsters won't have phones.
I'd add one more thing - if you look at it closer, web designers never tried or managed to be properly original and diverse. There was always some sort of "magical guidelines" that made everything look in essence the same. Everyone was/is copying everyone else and getting paid for it. I think this has to end sooner or later and template popularity is one of the signs that real value of things is being better recognized.
Why isn't it true? There may be a high cost involved for some people, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. Can you provide an example why I couldn't move if the government was "targeting" me?
It's amazing to how much effort some people will go, just to not be nice to a person.
Maybe they just want a phone to be a phone?
Not to derail, but...

You’re presupposing a specific morality, and then rejecting other forms of morality on that basis. Alternatives are going to by definition be different. So, you need another way to judge them.
I met Bunnie while living in Shenzhen a few months ago. His knowledge of the electronics supply chain in the city was immense and he gave a lot of useful tips on what to look for and ways that vendors could screw you over. If you are looking into electronics manufacturing, there is no way you don't end up in Shenzhen at some point.

My personal opinion of the city is stay away when you are still in the early prototyping phase and don't have a MVP yet. Ordering from Digikey is way more reliable (though more expensive) then walking for hours searching for the right vendor in the Shenzhen markets. Once you have a functioning prototype, Shenzhen is great for finding similar IC's for much cheaper and streaminglining your supply chain and figuring out your manufacturing.
I think the most egregious issue that the asus routers had (even up to the RT-N66U) was that when you used the interface to check for a firmware update, it would report you were on the latest update, even if you were multiple patches behind.
Do you have a specific use case in mind for this?

I ask because apparently there would be a practical limit on the size of the DB.

So considering that you would probably need to restrict the DB use to something specific, what would that be? (at least while performance gets better/practical for very big datasets)
What more affordable city did you move to, if you don't mind me asking?

I visit tech cities across the US often for work and in comparison I find Austin is incredibly affordable.
>if not only for the overtones of hate on religion & God. (I say this as a Christian athiest.)

and? Why should they have special protection over things? Why cannot some other made up, modified over the years stories be held in such high regard?
To what extent do you think the comparison comes from journalists wanting to feel like they are punk? When you're middle aged, middle class, living in wealthy metropolis, you're as near to 'establishment' as you could be. Or, put another way, when you've become what you despised when you were 16. Then, feeling like you're the descendent of zine culture, that you are -- even if only in the quietest of echoes -- sticking it to the man, is probably pretty good for the self esteem, no?
People haven't fundamentally changed since 1779. The main drivers of human action remain the same.

You might really not like this part: the constitution was based on documents and governments predating it by thousands of years.
I always wondered why Google did not include it's home market during the initial rollout.

AFAIK, there are plenty of cities in the Bay Area that have fiber and that Google will choose to expand beyond just SF. Some of us like not living in SF.
Distributed Deep Learning Using Synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent
I made a fairly simple claim which had nothing to do with your claims about the relative success of the US government or the enormity of the leap from the state of governments at the time.
I love Ocaml but have ditched it for Erlang/Elixir, losing a lot of elegance on the way, but massively gaining on horizontal scalability and pragmatism. I would love to stay with Ocaml but there just isn't enough of a clear roadmap to it on multicore (seemingly fraught with controversy within the community), or even multi-node distributed computing that does not require me to reverse engineer someone's 10-year-old, badly documented thesis project. I almost feel like the Ocaml project is stuck optimizing a single-core past, and that it might be better to devise a new Ocaml-based language altogether, designed from the ground up for distributed computing. I'd be there immediately.
"just". Ifconfig gets the job done, unless RH has been odd selves again...

As for devs, Torvalds didn't have much love for the ip command last time i looked into things. And a year or so back i ran into a Ts'o posting about his dislike for polkit (a close cousin of systemd).
I don't disagree that he mentions race quite a bit in the article but the first reference to him being black in the text is when he says that he was "named the Emerging Business Leader of the Year by the Greater Austin Black Chamber two years back." This is after he talks about growing up poor and his experiences in college.

The picture of his wrist could easily be someone who is of a different race/ethnicity, e.g. South Asian.
You're thinking of old Microsoft. New Microsoft is all about Azure, the walled gardens of windows is slowly being left behind. Take a look at .NET Core.
Lack of New Construction Pushes Bay Area to the Brink of a Bubble
DNF into C initiative started (package manager)
Back in the 90's I often saw right wing students who complained about the unsafe environment they perceived in the classrooms, microagrressions, etc.
Thanks! It's a bit of a hacky way (why doesn't their non-mobile version at least link to it?!), but it's better than nothing, I guess.
Yeah, just wanted to drop in and affirm that I already knew that not everything can grow everywhere.

(Ex: apples can grow in Appalachia, but they're famous in Washington state; potatoes may not grow well in Florida, and oranges wouldn't grow well at all in Idaho...) But almonds must grow in at least one other place where there is more water than in California's Central Valley.

So I think we're on the same wavelength.

And I remember hearing 10 years ago that water will be the new resource that people fight over, if oil was the resource that people fought over for the last half-century. And that agriculture trade would be a form of trading water. That's sort of already happening. Call me naive, but we should cut down on California's production of some crops, and use good Midwest farmland more efficiently by growing more non-meat agriculture instead of meat.
The Benefits of Integrating Agility Platform and ServiceNow
Anyone remember the day where you just made a business, and built it over time, and nourished it into a successful company? Where you didnt beg for money from investors and build your entire plan around using someone else's money? Where the best businesses came out on top, and not the best flashy idea or happenchance encounter with a VC? I don't get why every freaking idea has to be tied up in investors to take off, when if its a valid, profitable business, it would build on its own, and prove itself a strong business without needing help...

Im just tired of seeing so much tech tied up in the politics of investors...
Recently, I bought one of the cheapo Amazon tablets to have a "beater" I didn't need to worry about.

Sure, the price was nice. But the full-page ad upon every lock screen, that is too easy to trigger into video play when trying to swipe to unlock, has rather put me off.

I won't be buying another Amazon tablet. And I'm glad I never got one of their phones -- I shudder to think.

It's my computer / tablet / phone / computing device. The more you work to make and demonstrate otherwise, the more I'm going to move away from you.

I just hope I keep having a choice. And I have to consider my individual role in making sure that is the case.
>Clicking advertisements also helps to pay for the service you are using for free.

Yeah, well, I'm part of the 47% in this situation.
I guess those affluent villagers living in huts in the Pacific Islands will just have to relocate to Manhattan's Upper East Side?
So long social media: the kids are opting out of the online public square
> I think that you are assuming a framework of natural rights to make this statement, which is a circular argument.

Not true! For thousands of years, in hundreds of nations, the right to rule was divinely conferred and hereditary. The concept of natural rights was the legal invention that conferred similar rights upon everyday regular folks, so that they could self-organize to form their own sovereign government.

Sure people had done that before, but the concept of "natural rights" formalized an existing cultural convention--which is what all law does.

> independent of any notion of right, the people have an inherent power to govern

I mean, how can you have power without rights? Slaves in the American south are examples of people who did not have rights. Not coincidentally, they also had no power.
Hey, I live in Toronto dude. I am absolutely OK with it being too hot for a change. & we are having the same real estate issues over here too. Rich Chinese investors totally polluting the real estate market making it difficult for native Canadians to rent, much less purchase homes in the area.
Apple Pencil Navigation Functionality to Return in Next iOS 9.3 Beta
Apparently, it's much harder than it seems in our system: http://www.vox.com/2015/11/17/9749754/obama-presidential-pow...

'President Harry Truman complaining:

"I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them. ... That's all the powers of the President amount to."'
I heard that the car dealers won't allow car manufacturers to apply over-the-air updates (for example) because it breaks the agreement between dealers and manufacturers (all maintenance and service must go through dealers). I'm not sure if thats true but its pretty hilarious if it is.
The strongest contacts should be those that have overlapping resume entries, i.e colleagues, former colleagues and people you may have studied with. Other contacts should have an optional tag (friend/family/random recruiter/...) and would have a lot less weight. Being connected with someone because you worked 5 years with someone they worked 10 years with earlier is a lot closer than you having responded to the same recruiter once. LinkedIn has all this info and should really use it.

It does however show the conflict again: recruiters are their bread and butter, so they may want to be careful outing them as people with huge weak networks that appear to be spam nets.
"Initially" i think is the point you're missing. This is like a trial run to see how people use it. Once they figure out the weighting I expect changes to the newsfeed.
Vanguard average expense ratio: 0.18%
I think it's that those are the only businesses you hear about in the press.
"In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words" - Syme, 1984
I'm not an expert in either language but have you also given F# a though? The compiler is open source and should run under Mono. I do know it's heavily influenced by OCaml.
> The picture of his wrist could easily be someone who is of a different race/ethnicity, e.g. South Asian.

I thought he was a bearded white guy initially because it is difficult to make fine facial details from the tiny avatar representing him on Medium.
Huh, how does your ability to update firmware yourself "throw other humanity under the bus"? Can you explain that reasoning further?
Do you have personal experience to suggest that VCs in Austin are color-blind when it comes to race?

Do you have personal experience to suggest that they aren't?

The personal account here seems to conflate the possible race factor and the definite business factors that go into a pass. It's up to us, the readers, to decide whether or not we agree with the author's analysis.
Obama's first appointee to Treasury Secretary was Timothy Geithner. He took over from Paulson 6 days after Obama became president. That delay is maybe slightly unusual, but it hardly makes Obama responsible for the actions that Paulson took 6 months prior (I guess hiring Geithner indicates that Obama didn't have a problem with those actions, as Geithner was also one of the architects of the bailout).