skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's the public known facts and then there's a "rumor". I don't know why we're even discussing something as unsubstantiated as the latter.

Besides, even if the price was public, one could read anything it wants it that. "Oh the number is low because MS undermined them".

From what I've seen, the numbers for those companies like Xamarin are always much much lower that BS inflated unicorns with no actual business models...

And there's another thing: for what Xamarin offers (which is in the mobile space, with their support for iOS/Android APIs etc), the open source CLR and the VS Code, the basis for the rumor, don't even figure at all. Nobody that used Xamarin will gonna turn to those products, because they simply don't do the same thing at all.
I would call Winforms and WPF "mature and maintained" rather than abandoned. Especially if compared to Silverlight.
No mention of the pain actually setting up PHP web servers? Knowing how to tune apache/nginx fcgi etc?
The three priorities of software companies:

1) Make it seem to work

2) Ship it

3) Profit ?
I still have the question, Is Apple part of the NSA Prism program?
So my move to shift with services like Easysendy Pro which connects to multiple SMTP relay services and manages all my newsletter and templates was worthful.
Also they will be connecting my subscribers to push and social notifications soon.
It's generally frowned upon in the UK, where an engineer must be accredited and chartered with the Engineering Council. Software development is considered a very immature discipline that is not yet subject to the same regulation and strict principles that civil engineering for example is.

I can't say I've ever seen dev jobs advertised as 'software engineer' positions here before. It's always 'software developer'.
Microsoft lx 3000 is unidirectional and has noise cancelling and is cheap. Caveat : I haven't tried it with Ubuntu.
> a signed document to transfer domains

This does very little for security indeed.
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The Japanese government was bidding, but only offered half as much.
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I like the way you've stated this. While in general I am not fond of arguing semantics and don't often think it's worthwhile, in this case I would say it's warranted.

When I think of "engineer", I think of P.Eng., and the licensing/accreditation that goes along with it has useful connotations to it. So I'd say while some of us devs might be doing engineering type of work, and may even be eligible for something like an P.Eng. license in their place of residence, they simply are not engineers, because they are not licensed.

On the other side of that coin, I don't believe there is ever such a hard-and-fast rule that is applied to the word "scientist". As such, I don't believe that Ph.D. or getting published is required - what's required is instead to be someone who practices science.
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I wouldn't complain if you can type as fast as 60 women! ;)
Any Croatioans here?

I heard Mate Rimac (the kid) got seed money for the business from his dad who was a local mobster. It was a huge controversy and apparently all over the local press when it happened.

Somebody have more news on this?
Jolla's Sailfish Browser is based on Gecko
http://blog.idempotent.info/posts/whats-behind-sailfish-brow...

It uses custom APIs to embedd Gecko with Qt :
https://github.com/tmeshkova/qtmozembed
https://github.com/tmeshkova/embedlite-components
https://github.com/tmeshkova/gecko-dev
Judge confirms what many suspected: US gov’t hired CMU to break Tor
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From what I gather, it requires an Enterprise plan, which has no fixed price. Could just be a free part of the plan considering the price tag of an Enterprise plan.
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In certain parts of the world, including much of Europe, the question is less ambiguous than it seems. There are countries where this, for instance, has a very clear answer:

> Is someone who makes electronic circuits, but is mostly self-taught, an engineer?

If he's accredited by that country's authority on the matter (e.g. the Engineering Council in the UK), then yes. If not, no.

Around here, you're only allowed to call yourself an engineer if you have a degree from a technical university.

Sure, the company can give you any title they want (I mean, if they're allowed to give obnoxious titles like Senior JavaScript Ninja or whatever, surely they can call someone an engineer, too), but from a legal standpoint, that's null, with all the consequences that follow (e.g. legal documents that require an engineer's signature have to be signed by someone that the state agrees is an engineer, regardless of what the company thinks).

Edit: FWIW, while I'm legally allowed to claim that glorious title (my diploma says "Instrumentation Engineering"), I tend to avoid it, too. My job has always been to program computers, and if I'll be able to do that until I retire, I will. Consequently, I see no reason to call myself anything other than a programmer. My employers disagree for paperwork reasons, so the paperwork they do says otherwise, but "programmer" is what I want everyone to call me. There is very little of true value to be found in a name; people who chase the title of engineer, rather than the engineering education, are missing the point.
Windows 10 privacy settings and .Net as a viable technology platform from licencing and technology point of view are two different things, though.

"The different Microsoft" aspect comes from open sourcing the key technological components so migration away from Microsoft licenses is at least a legally plausible, and that people can indeed see what goes into the sausage.

From developers point of view this is a huge improvement and makes the .Net a much more appealing proposition.

Is a company evil? Does it make good products? To me, at least, it's not very helpful to mix these two discussions.
I mean, I was thinking less private-clinic of dubious standards in a city, and more "what can the national health services of developing countries reasonably deploy to most rural communities?".

For example, I am from Mexico, and cysticercosis (a brain parasite infection) is not uncommon in rural areas in Mexico. MRI scanners, which can be used to detect it, on the other hand, are quite uncommon outside of major cities. This might or might not be a good example, since I don't know the cost/safety trade-offs for MRI or all the alternative solutions, but if one could get, say, $20,000 USD MRI scanners that are close to in practice to $1 million ones, it might be worth a small safety delta. Public health in Mexico at the national level also tends to fall under "generally trustworthy enough, but critically under-resourced".

Edit: Again, not sure how realistic this particular scenario is, but I think in general getting cheaper equipment for national health services might be worth it in cases where having a lower-standard device can save an order of magnitude more lives than it harms.
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As much as I <3 Apple, they're still a SPoF just like Lavabit or anyone else with centralized servers that aren't "SWAT-resistant." If iDevices could work without iCloud and usefully communicate with each other directly (sans cell network too), that would be impressive... storage, processing and wireless tech are all getting cheaper... p2p "iCloud" might be within the realm of not-quite-insane.

(Somehow, I feel iMessage and related apps are MITMable because there is no mandatory, mutual, out-of-band validation of a recipient's identity.)
Sad, I have a ton of test gear and other stuff that I purchased in the late 1990's that still works well.

There have been some other stories about the prior sellers leveraging the on the shelf goods to make the books look better than they were to get the huge purchase price.

I feel for the staff that had bought into the investment scheme. If it seems too good to be true, it most likely is.
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Back when I was a freshman in college, I built and maintained a video game strategy wiki. It was popular at the time, and the modest ad revenue kept me fed. I put a lot of work into it and invested back into the website.

I was fortunate enough to be able to go on an overseas trip to China during my first college summer break. The phone and Internet service was spotty, but I was too busy exploring to care. When I got back home, I discovered much to my dismay that my domain name had been transferred away without my consent.

As it turns out, one of my old Internet "friends" had access to an administrative account at my registrar without my knowledge. They transferred a handful of my domains to their own private account and continued to run the website as if it had been their own. They moved the database, code, and everything. (I had allowed them access to the server, so it wasn't unexpected that this was within their capability.)

Being a college kid, I wasn't able to think of lawyers or legal avenues to get it back (not could I afford them), so I wrote my "friend" out of my life and took it as a hard lesson learned about privacy and security. And trust. Definitely learned a lot about trust.

FWIW, it's still online today and probably brings in a thousand dollars a month in ad revenue.
Or KDbg for us KDE users:

http://www.kdbg.org/
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I like it a lot. As a non native speaker I liked to ear how to pronounce the words.
Could you go promoting your ads platform somewhere else?
This is what really concerns me, and why I've avoided using 'google now' on my phone. With this data, google could easily construct a 'voice signature' for every one of their users. And those voice signatures are just one FISA warrant away from falling into the hands of various national security agencies.

I would rather google had my DNA on file if I had to choose between the two. Why? Because voice signatures can be used to passively authenticate/identify someone without them even realising they've been authenticated/identified. You just need control of a nearby microphone while they happen to be talking. At least with DNA, I'd probably notice someone jabbing a needle in my arm or sticking a cotton swab in my mouth.
No, the point is that if you're going to do distributed computing then multicore is a waste of time - you might as well just run one process on each core and treat each core like a separate machine (where some machines happen to have a particularly low-latency/high-bandwidth network connection). You still need a good distributed runtime, but if you believe distributed is the future then multicore is a dead end.
Alright, was with Firefox
I'm Croatian... don't know about the rumor you mentioned (but apparently it wasn't such a huge controversy that I'd know about it :D)... however - Rimac cars apparently has some well known and public investors

http://www.rimac-automobili.com/press/rimac-automobili-close...
"your Subscribers' email address, credit card information, purchase history" - These are super sensitive! It takes more than 3 months of legal process and convincing to get our customers to share these under strict data privacy clause. And here comes mailchimp and want to sniff it under the hood in the name of migration. They will literally land us in jail, if we don't migrate.
This would prevent people from recording police abuse ...
Windows 10 secrets: Where, when, and why Microsoft collects your data
Luckily, our devices have beefier security now. It`s much harder to spoof gmail or facebook or paypal these days.
Well you can make an encrypted Backup via iTunes (that would involve firing up iTunes though shudders)
Deriving from passphrase is optional. Mainly, for development and testing, and also for users who are ok with passphrases.

Having a passphrase + server-saved salt makes it better than a passphrase with no salt (for brute-force by dictionary).

If you think about it, security of passphrase approach is tested all the time with Bitcoin brain wallets. Over there, private keys are derived using SHA256 (which is fast to compute!) with no salt. It's hard for humans to generate good passphrases, so these wallets do that for them (usually 12 words).

But yeah, in most production usecases it would be some certificate, or KMS
It's not untrue, but it's worth remembering that programming computers in assembly language was quite popular at that time, especially for systems software. Assembly has idioms that can be many lines long, and you tend to recognize them after you've programmed a system for long enough. 10 pages of uncommented, but idiomatic assembly code are more or less the equivalent of 2-3 pages of uncommented (but often idiomatic) C code, which can be fairly manageable.
Thank you for your feedback.

> The decision of what does and doesn't go in the sidebar is very non-intuitive

We try to put top level navigation into sidebar and everything else in the main page. For example navigation to `Projects` is in sidebar however tabs to switch between starred projects or personal projects is in main body.

> For example, in groups and user profiles you can find the list of projects in the main body of the page (and it's not visible immediately). Why is it not in the sidebar if you have a sidebar?

Good example. Agree its still non-intuitive in some places. For you particular example we created an issue to fix - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13480.

> And then the ordering is also a bit weird -- I don't think many people would consider the order in GitLab to be "in order of importance" or even "regular use"

Ordering of projects is either by last activity or alphabetically. But in any case there is usually a dropdown in UI to sort by other criteria.

> And why can't I see the set of files in the repo when I first open it?

You can set what to see first at https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences page. We believe README is something people would like to see first we allow users to set different default page based on their preferences.

P.S. Thank you very much for your feedback. It will help us make GitLab UI more intuitive.
Huh, interesting comparison. Thanks for pointing that out! We'll read more about Datomic: maybe we can learn something useful from them
+1 for the conference slides that you can't see. The other along that line is the cut back and forth between the speaker and the interactive session they are showing things in. Unless the speaker is doing a wardrobe change, I don't need to see them again.

And finally, if you are going to live demo, please, please learn to type. Mavis Beacon should be your best friend. Nothing like watching people stumble around on the keyboard for 5 mins to get printf("Hello World\n"); on the screen
Exactly. I really think so many people happy with go would be way happier with C#. I see one of the reasons people don't adopt C# is "because Microsoft", which is sad, because it's such a great language.
Thanks, but your pricing model is all wrong when it comes to transactional emails. We're looking for something which is more usage based instead of based on number of subscribers. Nice templating though.
indeed, he probably utilizes superior techniques with multiples keyboards simultaneously!
With the new MS backing I hope Xamarin adds other languages like TypeScript to their product... This would be awesome.
With the new MS backing I hope Xamarin adds other languages like TypeScript to their product... This would be huge.
Ahh finally, a direct link to the full video that can be downloaded easily with youtube-dl (just had to rename the file to .mp4)
Isn't the donor-patient problem a vertex cycle cover? Finding a minimum one is NP-complete, how exactly is this one applied?

edit:

found a bit more information https://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=1474
Dear CloudFlare,

now that you're a registrar, will you respond to abuse reports about scammers' domains being resolved by your DNS servers by at least showing that you've understood the problem instead of a generic "We R a ReverseProxy Company, u no?".

I know that; I've said so in my abuse report. That wasn't the problem.

Really frustratedly yours,
yoo1I
Interesting read. As a GitLab.com user the speed improvements in the last 3 months have been very noticeable and appreciated :)
I suspect you've finally explained the existence of IE6...
<San Mateo county includes the peninsula which starts at Menlo Park and just NW of Palo Alto/Stanford>

Right, but San Mateo County is omitted from their list, while San Benito and Monterey are included. It's nuts.

(San Mateo County begins at East Palo Alto and Menlo Park.)
Are you sure it's not just communication between data centres?
You could make it a build-time choice and prevent building if the choice isn't made. Then Debian could choose to maintain user privacy and you could choose to violate user privacy.
Naive quedtion perhaps, bit why wouldn't they be able to employ the same hardware on icloud than on the phone?
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I could not envision living like Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) in Gattaca, making sure you live no trace of yourself anywhere.

I you are alive, you already leave traces everywhere. No need for a needle or cotton swab here.

Of course I am being paranoid, but we all should be :)
Not in a place I can try it.

But usually such dictating software does a very bad job regarding Portuguese, regardless of the language variant.

Apparently I offended some people, thanks for the downvotes!
What's new in this paper is that they do not have access to the neural net activations. They need only send it images, and get back the class the nnet predicts.
Actually, I think it's not too hard to get a python library to iOS/Android (especially Android). But I see your point.

Reference implementation without dependencies would be just a more cross-language rewrite of these dependencies though, so would take quite a while. Good news is that authors of ZODB which we use as a dependency are willing to do that (and already do that) in a more cross-language way.
"No sex in the stairwells". Does that mean they are going to rethink the glass walls on conference rooms?

The nice thing about Zenefits they will be the poster child for the next round of HR's "inappropriate behavior at work" talks in companies for the next few years.
I was surprised to see that as well. Forget about highest-paid -- just the stability of a government job allows one to afford homes. I might make more as a developer, but i have no idea when i'll be laid-off and how long i might be out of work. That forces me to stretch far less than a firefighter or teacher.
What are Bloom filters, and why are they useful?
I always wonder why they don't really advertise this to gamers as a feature at which they are better than nvidia.
Compared to Sendy, I would suggest to use EasySendy Pro, I myself shifted to this service, having previously used Sendy.
Pro gives many independence of connecting multiple SMTP servers other than, Amazon SES. Also, it is hosted web application and have plans to integrate social and push services very shortly. This cross channel will help us connecting our end customers instantly and smoothly.
Interesting. Just watched a Ben Horowitz interview containing the paraphrase quote "it's all rainbows, smiles and sunshine until someone stabs you in the back."

People tend (not always) have habit of changing when valuations increase, another reason trust and relationships pre-venture are more valuable for when things get interesting.

Consider it a cheap lesson overall about gradual ebb/flow of trust, and that people's (mis)behavior either self-selects them in or out of the running for future opportunities... their punishment is their lives.
Please remember that Tor has since fixed these bugs. What is important, though, is that nobody (not even the government) should be allowed to legally decipher _all_ (or most) of the traffic going through a network/service.

We could say the same for HTTPs, because it also had its fair share of vulnerabilities.
Atlas is going to do with stripe what Bitcoin already achieved, and Paypal stubbornly refused to implement: Worldwide availability. Good work stripe!!
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Interesting move Cloudflare!

I work with Kloudsec [1], and we're a developer-centric CDN platform, and we're moving on an entirely opposite direction from Cloudflare. If Cloudflare is Apple, think of Kloudsec as Linux. Rather than bundling everything as a "magic" product, as you can do with Cloudflare today in this flow

1. Buy domain from CF

2. Automatically, CF is your DNS

3. Automatically, CF is your CDN in a single toggle

4. Automatically, CF is your WAF

We think that

* there is danger to internet neutrality when a monopoly arise out of a single data-trafficker

* that we cannot do everything well

--

Kloudsec says come use our CDN for free. And if you like, you can choose to enable optional plugins. Be it the automatic SSL provisioning (via LE), or our WAF.

But hey, if you don't like it, come build apps on top of our CDN too. Apps like a better PageSpeed, a better WAF, etc. These apps can be a Nginx module, things that you can export to your own build if you scale, or leave the infrastructure [2] to us.

--

What do you guys think?

[1]: https://kloudsec.com

[2]: https://blog.kloudsec.com/building-an-anycast-network/
I can provide a similar list for any big corporation, including Apple and Google.
If you have to ask, too much. :)
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Some of these entry level "compensation" figures include illiquid stock. Ask HR what the outstanding number of shares are and you get a blank face. Other stock classes? Silence. Liquidity preferences? Secret. The real worth is zero, yet they get treated like $30k on top of salary.
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They are saying the paper they want arms and platters as it's more economical. An HDD is cheaper than an SSD of the same capacity at four to ten times and I don't think the electricity cost will offset this if you care more about capacity than performance.
Agree on the cage-match idea. That would be absurd.

But in the not-so-distant future, perhaps effectively communicating with devices might turn out to be a far more valuable skill to have than doing so with humans.

And natural languages are not similar. Knowing languages in which more books and articles are published is going to be more valuable than ones in which there aren't that many.

Of course writing code requires different 'skills' than writing articles but looking at this from a standpoint of employability knowing certain (natural) languages makes someone a better candidate than others. Similarly knowing certain programming languages/platforms might someone more employable too. It's unlikely that someone knows no natural languages and exclusively knows programming languages.

With this background, an interesting question is how does someone who knows (say) C++, Python and Russian weigh against someone who knows (say) English and Java!
This has been rumored before. E.g here's a headline from 2014: http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-considers-buying-spotify-...
I love it how every year the "age at which a startup will hire" increases by one year.

They must've put something in the water in 1987, because those '88 children "took our jobs" ten years in a row.

Or maybe you're just rehashing buzzwords, too. One of the two.