skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if they just release the Mono runtime under MIT (Mono requires all VM contributions to be licensed to them under MIT, they then turn around and release it under LGPLv2 and a commercial license - so it's legally doable without any effort). Microsoft's product strategy is getting .Net everywhere for free, making money on services and tooling - they don't need commercial Xamarin around to make their strategy work.
How long before Apple kicks them out of the apple store? I thought Apple always had a policy of limited tolerance toward xamarin (after having banned them once). Isn't them becoming MSFT a casus belli?
> can also include family and friends.

This is, unfortunately, very true. Once a few people have decided there is a problem there is often very little you can do about it, confirmation bias will set in and external influences often err on the side of "caution" - do not contradict the current widespread opinion.
Honestly, I'm pretty okay with this.

The city where I live (which I imagine is indicative of other cities as well) the local population of freelancers and small studios forms a pyramid.

The top half of the pyramid is made up of really phenomenal freelancers and small teams. Individually, they have pretty cool industry experience and have learned a lot from their careers, to the point where they have the negotiating power to operate as a well-payed contractor. As for the small studios, if they really wanted to they could use their in-house skills to create really amazing products and make money that way, but the personalities of the people who work there are more aligned with work where they can work on a multitude of exciting things at any different time.

The bottom half of the pyramid has some people who are in a transitional state, who will eventually move to the top half, but it's mostly made of a lot of mediocre generalists. They saw that a lot of businesses just wanted a damn website, they figured out they could make that damn website, they figured out they could potentially make a lot of money this way, so they learned the basics of the LAMP stack, learned how to use Wordpress, and threw themselves into a crowded ring.

To be fair, I've met a few of the bottom-halfers, and they seem like alright guys, but talking shop with them is pretty awful. They're not really life-long learners, or they have this unbalanced focus towards business and marketing with the idea that they can communicate the value of what they can do better, but not really looking into actually delivering more value through better skills.

To sum it up, the top-halfers move with the changing market, the bottom-halfers just sort of sit there and wonder why more small businesses don't want custom Wordpress sites.

I realize this can seem callous and harsh, but at the same time I've also seen the bottom half of the pyramid screw over small businesses on the regular. The don't explicitly brag about it, but they kinda do on an implicit level, and it's sad for the small business and it's sad that the person bragging has this weird sense of value exchange.

Besides that, it's not like life ends of these freelancers either. So long as they're humble about the fact that they need to learn new skills, they can probably use their experience to get a pretty great job. It probably won't pay as much, but it's still going to pay pretty well. If they can't accept this, then I don't know if I can sympathize.
No it does not. I used skype for work for hours a day, until Microsoft bought them. They put out a terrible Linux version which was so bad I had to downgrade.

I then refused to upgrade until I got daily notifications that my old version would be disabled from connecting.

I upgraded, as forced, and that was the last time I was able to make calls or do screen sharing.

Chat still works.

It worked before Microsoft, it did not work after Microsoft.
Maybe the relative density of SFO will speed deployment compared to some other cities? Like sprawling Atlanta, for one.
One word: rent-seeking
Are the founders (of one of these Strip Atlas-started companies) required to not be US citizens?
Thank you! That was driving me nuts. I wasn't familiar with this joke. : )
The whole Internet Protocol is based on sending packets with your public IP, by a stretch of that logic are we supposed to understand that no privacy should be expected on all of the Internet?
This argument seems sketchy at best.
A large portion of said code comes from themes and plugins. Especially the latter, which seem to use (abuse) wp_enqueue_script and wp_enqueue_style like it's going out of fashion.

A significant amount of WordPress related overhead would disappear if developers would keep resources to a minimum and provide a way to turn them off without writing additional code. Or if there was some built in system that tried to bundle together the CSS and JS files.
New product Cell phone, tablet, laptop labels tell me what you think
Perhaps start here:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/overuse-of-overlays/

Then ux.stackexchange.com will undoubtedly have some useful pointers as well....

Although some tailored google searches will also help.

Back in my UX-only days, I used NN Group a lot in supplementing my own A/B testing - it was a bittersweet relationship, as they provide a suite of analytics-based trackers on many of the websites I visit.
A better workaround would be to buy AMD GPUs.
I do plan to reference back to the notes or else they would be meaningless.
My current solution is to add categories to the posts and the use jekyll to generate a page where I create a headline for each category and link to all related posts there. This may not be the final solution, it was thrown together one evening so there's improvement.

I don't know how this will scale since I just started this project.
Phrases like "that's the plan" or "unless the universe conspires against me" help here.
How Yelp built a hybrid cloud using Mesos and Docker – Mesosphere
I wasn't aware of this parallel origin for the pipe. Just out of curiosity what did magrittr's implementation have over dplyr's? Thanks for incorporating forward piping in dplyr, it improves functional order/readability by miles!
Yes I know - I'm in one of those Big Corps, so I know the whole spiel about gift registers etc. In practice "indirect" benefits like these fly under the radar. Its just too much hassle & admin to catch everything.

Obviously if there is a direct link between say a contract given and an airline upgrade that would just be fraud. Thats not the scenario I meant.
I wonder why it was so much delayed!
Nonsense. The last 5 years show it's a whole new Microsoft.

Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)
Here's one of many examples I found on the first page of Google.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/modal-windows-in-mo...
God God, yes. Five minutes is enough to learn how to get it going, add breakpoints, see the stack and interrogate variables. On a good day, you can fix a segFault faster than it would actually take you to spin up a visual debugger in an IDE or whatever.

Sure, it's not the right tool for every job, but as a simple, easy to use, ubiquitous and quick debugger, you'd do yourself a favour spending the five minutes learning how to start using it.
Except part of the "solution" is going to be mandating signed firmware, which means you won't be able to actually own your router anymore.

TP-Link has already fallen victim to this.

You can take openwrt, ddwrt, tomato and padavan from my cold dead hands.
Well there is some truth to the pervasiveness of Windows 10 that at times makes it feel like it may be toeing the line with freemium (I'm looking at you Microsoft bundled games though that technically happened with Windows 8). I'm not really convinced this is it though. I mean do you have an issue with the Play Store widget or the iOS notifications of new apps? Seems like the same thing to me except less interaction with the Microsoft one.

Granted, as I said before, this wasn't a default on my Surface but if it was then that's not cool and they should change it. But as far as its existence goes? I don't see it as an issue. Honestly if it let me filter to a crazy degree I would love cool images for some of my favorite or upcoming games. I could be in the minority with that last point I'll admit :)
Ubuntu has removed the Amazon ads with newer versions.
That seems like a decent assumption to me. When your IP talks to another on the Internet, you no longer have any control over the metadata of that connection. It will show up in the logs of the other IP, and the owner of that IP is free to do anything with those logs.

It seems far more naive to assume there is an expectation of privacy on the Internet.
...Xamarin studio isn't a competitor to Visual Studio?

That's all I know that Xamarin makes, so I think this article is going a bit over my head, but it'll be a shame if I suddenly need a Microsoft account to use it. I do like diversity in my language tooling.
I think most of us know who Terry is, but it's the first time I see him mentioning TicketMaster. That said, the website does mention 1990 for TM, so I got part of my question. Thanks.
>>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).

Really? You want a few private players on the market controlling all interactions and commerce through their closed-source platforms?
If you can't bring your product to every part of the world, bring every part of the world to you. Pretty impressive of the Stripe team, I must say.
I guess this got downvoted due to brevity, but I would guess this is contributing, along with Wordpress themes. Not on the level of e.g. Squarespace, but definitely a factor. For a while every site I looked at having to do with bitcoin looked to be a Bootstrap site.
RedBubble has definitely wrapped up that "last frontier"
This probably also means Unity3d will soon be able to use an updated version of Mono, because Microsoft wants to back them and doesn't force them to pay the full licence price.
Read "The Humane Interface". The short answer is, almost never. Try to avoid them.
The part at 1:23 is not that impressive. It is a carefully controlled lab environment, all flat surfaces, no obstacles, with a cubical box that has carefully placed AR tags which tell of the box's exact position and orientation. Not to mention this is a video which is inherently disingenuous. It may have failed 10 times before they got it right. It isn't even using its lidar.

Now what would be more impressive would be for it to get down on it's knees and autonomously change a tire. 4/10 if it does this in a controlled environment, 8/10 if it adapts to tools/bolts being dropped, 10/10 if it does all the above outside on the side of a road.

One thing to keep in mind is that many 'menial' tasks are more complicated than they seem. Because much of the control is done subconsciously they don't seem that hard and they are harder to reverse engineer.
Leaky Birds: Exploiting Mobile Application Traffic for Surveillance [pdf]
Researchers Uncover the Sony Hackers
Reposting my comment from netsec.

I'm not sure why Troy can't just refer to others public research directly instead of repackaging it and using "responsible disclosure" as a cover for not sharing his (public) sources.

It seems sketchy at best, dishonest at worst.

>A GitHub repository documenting the API including the observation that “All other operations take the DCMID and the VIN of your vehicle as parameters for authorizing the requested operation” (although the DCMID value is not actually required and is empty in many of the examples above)

https://gist.github.com/joshperry/15eadc2a63b22632d6ae

>Another GitHub repository, this time a Python script to connect to and manage vehicle features via the API (also includes region codes for managing vehicles in other parts of the world)

https://github.com/jdhorne/pycarwings2

>Yet another GitHub repository built to target an earlier generation of the service and referenced as inspiration for the previously mentioned project

probably https://github.com/haykinson/pycarwings

>A blog post on reverse engineering the API which observes that “curiously, it seems like you just need the constant DCMID and VIN fields” (again, the DCMID parameter wasn’t actually used in our tests)

http://virantha.com/2016/01/12/reverse-engineering-nissan-co...

>A forum post on integrating the data into Domoticz (a home automation system) which makes this observation: “No other authentication necessary!”

http://www.domoticz.com/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=31&p=...

IMO, his behaviour is straight up despicable. This stuff isn't hard to find, but he still refuses to give proper credit because of "responsible disclosure". Yet, anyone interested in attacking the API can and will find this stuff on google.

Also, another example of Troy BS:

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/701733562253336576

Trying to publicly shame vkontakte for a nonexistent SQLi (this is a wiki page that anyone can edit, here's a wikipedia example demonstrating the same "vulnerability" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%27&diff=70631701...)
> Saddlebagging is about adopting sexual practices adopted specifically to prevent procreation

On that level it's not different from any kind of contraception, also widely done in humanity, so not really insightful there. It's interesting to me only because it's a religious "trick," a way to do something what is formally not forbidden. Like

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-u...

"Once Upon A Time, The Catholic Church Decided That Beavers Were Fish"

...in order to eat their meat at the times of fasting. The rest of the article has more examples.
this is why haskell has support for infinite lists
Even though it's based on Microsoft's existing technology? That saying just doesn't make sense here...
This was the thesis of the Declaration of Independence upon which the theory for the Constitution was based. That natural rights are 1) exist and 2) are "God given" and are not granted by governments.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...."
Surprisingly on my little Caribbean island a lot more people are picking up DSLR's and shooting wedding very well.
My jaw dropped to see some of their work...then again they seem to really take this thing a lot more seriously than I did.
I have an acquaintance that flies into the US to do work for clients there.
Judge confirms what many suspected: Feds hired CMU to break Tor
I really wish that looked different in Chrome vs Firefox vs Safari.
Funniest reactions to the new FB reactions
>a UI/UX engineer who can develop large-scale apps with an eye towards security, performance, reusability, and maintainability.

I've never head this referred to as a UI/UX engineer. You seem to have just described a web developer. If you're developing "large-scale apps" then you're definitely doing more than UI/UX, so why call it UI/UX engineering?
Its Google which logger heads with Microsoft. Microsoft and Apple generally get along. Heck, for IPad Pro announcement Microsoft Office was featured on the stage.
Hit-for-pass in Varnish Cache
Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.

You either die a developer or live long enough to see yourself become the manager?
Macs are personal computers in every sense except marketing speak.

Right, but the comment I'm replying to 'way up there is about MS annoying its customers to the point that they leave.
Thats not going to help leaf residual values coming off lease at all.
Web design goes in-house when there's a need for more than just "web design". It's now a total design package, from web to social to print.

Agencies are still fighting for that work. There's an ebb & flow in every industry.
> I think there's a fundamental shift

Yes, there's a shift. But could it also be that, at the same time, work is also drying up? You speak of frameworks. Until recently we needed engineers to build the functionality of those frameworks; these engineers are not needed there anymore, but is there sufficient work left elsewhere? That is the important question, imho.
Yes x1000!!!
>>Nonsense. The last 5 years show it's a whole new Microsoft

Yeah, that's why Windows 10 sends all your data to Microsoft by default and Windows updates no longer come with detailed explanations of what is in them. /s

edit: judging by the downvotes, there's a surprising number of Microsoft fanboys here. I guess all they had to do to win people over was make a few token contributions to the open-source community...
Mistaking the order of this causality is a common error. The community of people developed secondarily to an overarching economic process -- money being spent to build websites. Now, Wix and Squarespace and Facebook are "good enough," so that huge middle market market doesn't exist anymore.

They imagine that it was the other way around, that the economic process is secondary to the community, that the community created the economic process of web development, and can now control the economics of that.

This is backwards. The web dev community only ever existed because there was a large and distributed economic need for lots of custom websites. Now that there is no economic motivation -- no outside money flowing into that community -- the community cannot sustain itself, except in greatly reduced form among a few hobbyists and high-end specialists.

You might compare it to the community of horse saddle manufacturers. It was a huge industry 150 years ago. Today, only a few hobbyist and specialist shops still make saddles, because there is not much economic need for them now as compared to the previous period. It wouldn't have made any difference if all horse saddle manufacturers organized their community in 1910 or so -- most of them would still have gone out of business anyway, because cars took over the economic niche that drove their industry. They were disrupted, in startup-speak.

No amount of wishful thinking or movement-building on the part of the community can change the underlying economics. The broad middle market for custom websites simply no longer exists. The best way to help the community of middle market web developers is to help each other retrain on other skillsets.
This seems more limited in scope than the article implies, as it will only use existing fiber. From the announcement: "San Francisco—where we’ll bring service to some apartments, condos, and affordable housing properties, using existing fiber."
Totally missed opportunity to change the font via navigator.UserAgent Javascript on that site :)
Performance competition is a good thing
Yes, but in the case of onion routing, the IP address is masked by layers of the onion.

It's understandable that Layer 3 knows Layer 2, that Layer 2 knows Layer 1 and that Layer 1 knows the originator.

But Layer 2, 3 and the website should not know Layer 1 by design. Defeating this is akin, IMHO, to circumventing a lock by photographing the key that you don't own.
I have only used an IPython notebook once and have no opinion on it. I still use Mathematica. I'm thinking about a small weekend project... I'll post back if it works out.
So basically all your devices just phoning home to make sure they are updated, maybe even updating themselves and crashing/bricking at bad times, and while they are phoning home manufacturers just passing some stats on how you are using their devices.
It's already happened. Whether we want it or not is now beside the point.

Sure, there will always be a few specialist sites, but the vast majority of commerce and interaction for most people has long since moved to Amazon and Facebook.
President Obama’s Former Speechwriter to Join Funny or Die
This is addressed on a larger scale by

http://thelightsinthetunnel.com
If freelancing is so appealing, there's always the alternative of dropping prices to match or beat what in-house teams cost. The article attributed the change to cost savings.
Ask HN: Building a Brand with .Net or .Com?
I often hesitate buying a .net website since I am afraid people will type it as .com and go to the wrong site.

Although I see many startups using .net, .co and even .io

What is your opinion on building a brand using a domain that is not .com?
piggybacking on top comment. I have yet to work through this process, but there's this write-up for doing this in Ubuntu I found a few weeks ago:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2266916
> It means that MS is serious about their push into Mobile and Linux

Mobile OK but Linux? Currently on the HN frontpage theres an article about how Skype for Linux hasn't been updated for years and "is unable to join calls": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11165568
“Ecxsue brvty/tpyos – snt whl mbl”
It surely can't be that bad?

Is it not possible to do this all online? In the UK it took a day and 15 or so pounds to set up a company, got the official company documents the next day. It's also possible to get it the same day with a bit more money. Took a visit to the Branch but had the business bank account within the week in addition to the Stripe account activated within 5 minutes.
Life with the Nest Protect: Are “smart” smoke detectors a dumb idea?
Yeah, that's right. There are certain (unfortunately not so obvoius) methods that lead to a bit better results. Either through the categories (whereas most are "Universal" as in "uncategorized", that's subject to improvement too) or by choosing a smaller radius (the opposite might make sense in less dense areas) - that's when signed in with a basic user account.
Yeah, the middle is hollowing out. You can get a decent design for next to nothing with a WP template or SquareSpace and the cost of gettting something significantly better is to pay millions to a top-tier design agency. The middle ground is shrinking but the top and bottom seem to be growing stronger than ever.
Security through obscurity is no security at all!
Homestead News, Blockchain Futures, Ethereum’s First DAO
> I've seen many untrained dogs humping people's legs though.

Do people in these situations let dogs do this as long the dogs would prefer is the real question.
I run three browsers with varying levels of "openness". It just happened that I visited your website while using NoScript. Turned it off for your site, but I was only greeted by a logo. So my interest was genuine - not trying to be snarky. Why do you force JS to show a logo? And I also don't really know what your company does...
> oh that's my US company, nothing to do with you

Can you expand on this? I don't understand a problem here.
Everytime I hear this type of story -- are these people sending/receiving E-mail in plain text transport? (That sounds like a very poor judgment to begin with, especially for a journalist, if that's the case.)
> Only on the Kindle With Special Offers which is priced lower than the standard Kindle.

There is also advertising on-by-default on the full-priced Kindles, but they call it 'Recommended Content' . It takes-up a chunk of the home screen.

Easy enough to disable but it's still advertising.
The Absurd Timing of Michael Hayden’s Drone Campaign
Official Google link http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/san-francisco-go...

Apartments and condos only, should have known better than to get my hopes up for a few seconds https://www.evernote.com/l/APMXftBrJ9pDqYaymNPSZ59E-4jMUpl8a...
Definitely Xamarin is geared towards the .NET ecosystem, at least for now. But .NET aside, as a cross-platform "platform", how does Xamarin compare with React Native? Anybody has experience in both of them?