skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, by the author's standard, any nice picture would be an ad for the photographer.

Pretty picture of a New Zeeland countryside? Ad for NZ tourism office.

Pretty picture of a data center chockfull of network equipment and mainframes? Ad for IBM and Cisco.

Microsoft have been doing that since Bing, show a pretty interesting picture with a little icon to know where that picture is from. It just happens that one is from a game.

People are so tired of obnoxious and disgusting ads that they tend to forget why they hate obnoxious and disgusting ads; because they are obnoxious and disgusting. Then they go on an irrational crusade about every picture, awesome viral video, mystery public campaign just because it originates from a corporation.
If all you are arguing is that people who don't make any effort to improve their work will struggle to keep up with the rest of the industry, then yes, I agree with that. But that doesn't seem to have been your point until now.
Engineer salaries keep rising. I think there's still plenty of demand from engineers - after all, you need an engineer to use a framework. More generally, when the price of a commodity drops, that often means the total gross sales of that commodity increase - greater demand more than makes up for the smaller unit price.
The Prosecutors got the password from an ex-husband, decrypted the laptop, and she took a plea shortly thereafter
How is that legal? :)
Time to fire up HN search for that product where you host your own Mandrill clone that relies on SES on the backend and is like 5 times cheaper. Anyone remember what it was?

Hmm: I guess I was thinking of https://sendy.co which is a replacement for MailChimp and not Mandrill.
Because Microsoft's decisions have always been driven as much by its byzantine internal politics as by any rational perspective on the market?
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Buy the "S" version if you don't care about the extras. It will not have the navigation module, so no carwings either.
> Multicore and distributed computing are unrelated at best.

So give them both up and live in a single threaded world? Seems bleak.
I have. Your remark is probably a little flippant for it to survive here (not necessarily a bad thing), but I enjoyed the reference. That scene always sticks in my head and makes me laugh — it’s great drama but so blatantly wrong in its portrayal of how hacking works (of course).
> Just wondering how many people working in technology identify themselves as religious (we're talking the standard definitions of religion here, not Apple versus Microsoft versus Linux type religion).

Agnostic.
Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger
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Launch is scrubbed. The next attempt will be tomorrow during the same time window.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/702632949938696194
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What an absurd plunge. Please don't turn any more HN threads into flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11169887 and marked it off-topic.
> The fact that it's an order of magnitude faster than all
> other rendering engines can't hurt, either.

For some recent citations on this, check the first half hour of https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/

> There is essentially no webpage out there that it cannot
> get through at multiple hundreds of frames-per-second
I've seen that but the showcase doesn't look very convincing compared to say emscripten.

Do you know about any bigger projects using JSIL ?
To be clear, I don't believe flambda is providing anything on the scale of whole program optimization; it inlines more aggressively, but not the entire program.
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They've announced much bigger changes now: http://blog.mandrill.com/important-changes-to-mandrill.html
I hope this means visual studio integration comes for free.
As a paid indie developer for xamarin, being vs integration not included in indie license, was the worst thing about xamarin for me.

for the issue in uservoice 2700votes ATM:https://xamarin.uservoice.com/forums/234640-xamarin-suggesti...
It's curious to me how some people don't update their thinking. Microsoft is so far from being the dominate software behemoth that practiced EEE that's it's almost sad. The old Microsoft paid a price for that arrogant attitude of theirs that led them to make some bad decisions that got them to their reduced status today. I applaud efforts by the new crew to turn things around.
How do we distinguish between someone who is an introvert and someone who is socially lazy? Or someone who is quiet and someone who is mean?

Also saying everyone is somewhere on the austic spectrum is questionable. I am skeptical of such claims and think behaviorial choices and self-fulfilling prophechies are to blame.

Scientists and engineers can be outgoing. Introverts can be gregarious. I resist the temptation to label ourselves, I'm this or I'm that. Or the temptation to indulge our emotions; "I just speak my mind".

You are whatever you limit yourself to be. Focus, being in the zone and being mathematically inclined is not Aspergers. We are all smart enough and human enough to know and feel emotions. We aren't robots no matter how much our intellect makes us hate society or become misanthropic or antagonist towards the opposite sex.

If Temple Grandin can do what she did, a shy awkward nerdy kid can learn confidence, can challenge himself to break out of pre-defined molds, and be anything and everything humanly possible and then some.

Being social isn't easy for anyone just like coding isn't easy for anyone. Except those who practice it.
You may be thinking of http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Apr-09.html

and http://www.pcworld.com/article/2847032/xamarin-integrates-wi...
Well now I have to eat some crow. I ended up hearing back from one of these companies a couple days after my original comment. It was very positive, too! Hang in there, my friend, need lots of patience for this.
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Companies have a long history of saying one thing privately and another thing publicly. If it were public then it wouldn't be a rumor.
For small companies it is simple enough these days to have someone install WordPress, buy a theme that looks pretty good for $18 USD and you're good to go.

It might be a buggy insecure platform, but for non-tech savvy users it's brilliant. It doesn't make financial sense anymore to develop custom themes and designs from scratch. Large corps with their own branding is a different kettle of fish, but have fun trying to get on their preferred supplier list when you are a four person design agency.

Developing a one off, responsive, standards compliant website, that lookd good too, is expensive and clients don't want to pay for it.
Maybe now the Year of the Linux Desktop has truly arrived.
> [Made redundant by the compiler.]

The compiler doesn't obviate the need to understand memory management. Anyone who doesn't understand ownership and borrowing will have really hard time getting rustc to accept their code in the first place.

What Rust's type checker does is make up for the human inability to be perfectly careful. Even the most diligent programmer will make mistakes or forget something. (This is a fact of life. It can't be fixed with present-day technology.) Relative to C and C++, Rust enlarges the class of “stupid mistakes” that can be detected automatically, and this is always a good thing, no matter how knowledgeable and careful programmers are.
It's not a machine, exactly; it's not an OS in the way you are used to thinking of it. It's a library you link against, which gives you a single, statically linked, bootable image, which you can then launch inside a VM. There is no shell, unless your application includes one; there is no filesystem, unless your application implements one; there are no other processes, unless your application chooses to manage them.
The whole point of AMP is...

Right. Looking at this whole thing humorously, it seems like the uproar is over AMP is developers getting angry at a tool designed to prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot, for removing their ability to shoot themselves in the foot :)
DevOps Team Assistant, 1.61.4 released
Meh, in France some companies call cleaning ladies "surface engineers" so we're vaccinated. Sign of the times. :-)
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As others mentions the tui mode is very nice. Important thing to learn about using gdb is to write your .gdbinit file before running gdb. Write the commands like 'file <your-exe>', 'break <your-src>:<line-number>', 'catch throw', etc. and then run gdb. What I usually do when I need to set a breakpoint in a new place is I quit gdb, edit .gdbinit and start again. This way all breakpoints are always saved. gdb is better then most people think.
I remember when I ran into this the first time with my C++ code. It took me quite a while to understand what's going on but it was a good learning experience.

I don't do graphics anymore so not much floating point needed but I am still not sure how to do floating point comparisons in a stable and efficient way.
Similarly, Scala with Akka gives you an ML-like language with first-class Linux support, excellent multicore performance, and Erlang-style distribution.
Yeah, embedding is an explicit goal for us.

If a Servo browser UI ever happens (one prospect is https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/), it would probably be developed separately, with a minimal API surface between the two. (At least, I hope so)
Actually you just described a front-end developer, which I guess you call "UI Development". Which is really a scam by companies to overwork one individual with two jobs. UI and actual development should remain separate as there is a seriously massive workload for each. These "full stack" roles only make sense extremely early on in the company or on a greenfield project, anything where iteration and field testing take priority by virtue of simplicity as a result of time.
That.. deserves its own hacker news post.
I rest my case
I've had my fair share of LinkedIn hate in the past. Using it outside the tech industry is really useful though - it's almost like a GitHub profile in some circles.

Using it as an advertiser is something else altogether. Their advertising interface sucks but holy moly, it's the best business ad targeting platform in the world. People use it, that makes it valuable for advertising - that makes the company valuable. How valuable, not sure - but I think the tech industry doesn't really get LinkedIn so there's a lot of knee jerk bias.
I'm ignostic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
But whilst a single wainwright could perhaps make a decent enough waggon a single individual can't produce a car. On the web the expectation has grown, the tech has matured, the simplest offerings now are beyond what can be efficiently created by a solo artisan.

Yes you have to keep upgrading you skills but the skillset has grown - for me - so much that I can no longer be a full stack web dev without spending all my time just on keeping up with changes.

One used to just need to know LAMP, but now there's nginx, postgres, ruby, ..., two main CSS preprocessors, several js frameworks, bootstrap, WordPress, ..., source management, coding standards, more browsers, more platforms, more focus on accessibility, more legal requirements, more payment gateways, more security issues, ..., social media interactions, expectations of greater integration with other communication platforms, ...

There might still be a few wainwrights around the world but now there are while teams just to design the surface interface for the wheels. This is what web design is going.
Look at Winforms, WPF and Silverlight. They are all .Net and all abandoned. I wouldn't bet my long term future on Xamarin.
The biggest problem I have with all of these claims is the rigor of the tests they conduct. They never seem to use standard equipment that is appropriate for the effect they are trying to measure. Always they have a device that needs 1kW that has a 50kW 3phase power meter hooked up to it, or other techniques that are odd and make you wonder what they are trying to hide (thermal camera measuring temp of 1 side, nothing for the other to ensure heating is uniform). If you can afford to point a thermal camera at it, you can afford the cheapest of thermocouples to help prove the other side isn't room temperature.

For the EM drive, I would be surprised if they didn't report some trust after dumping large amounts of power into a box due to the million different things that can produce a misleading result (metallurgical defect in cavity causes heating to not match model, etc). If they can convince someone to try it in orbit, it would be a different story. Thanks to cube sats, this wouldn't be that expensive, <$500k to give it a go (launch 2 1U cube sats, one with drive and one without, see if separation changes). The bonus for the EM Drive folks is that several Nasa sites offered to independently test it when they can produce enough thrust for them to measure accurately, so if they do see something, its worth it to give it a go in orbit. They have yet to deliver such a device though.
I always thought Xamarin was a MS product anyways. Which reminds me, i need a new shirt...

EDIT: ahh, they don't do the free shirt promotion anymore :(
I don't see the novelty. Honestly, haven't there been dozens if not more companies around helping you to set up a DC corp? And once that is complete, you're free to join any payment processor taking in US corps?

I am curious - what is really new here, except that it's done by a well known payment processor?
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And back in the last century, 'webmaster' was the term that encompassed front end, back end, and web server administration work. Terms move rapidly in the web world, and as complexity grows, people become more specialized and less aware of details in other parts of the stack.
It still seems like an excuse, "it's hard". The cost of "hard" shouldn't be $15B.
it costs 7.5M to put 1 student through college? And I thought Australian Uni's were expensive.
Or maybe, like me, they accidentally clicked the button that sends out contact requests to all (or maybe just a lot of?) your "suggested contacts". D'oh!
I know a few people that use the teletext almost exclusively instead of watching TV.

Teletext is a surprisingly good internet substitute for basic information consumption: you get the top news, the sport result, recipes, meteo, ... Until recently (smartphone and social apps), that covered 90% of what a lot of people would do with their internet connection.
That is a great post. I quoted it in the post if that is cool and will read up on some those references.

Do you think that a lot of that complexity would be reduced by opening it up to a wider development community through open source? How much open source, consumer electronics, were used? Did you source the transducers from another company, or make them in house?

Cheers again for the comment.
It would be amazing if Congress eliminated 401ks, and brought over the employer contribution feature as well as the increased participant contribution limits to IRAs. The only reason asset managers get away with charging such outrageous fees is because you're a captive audience with your 401k.

Make them portable such that an IRA is and watch the fees fall.
I have a list of ~3000 lat/lng values. Can this plugin create a map out of these?
And of course you can't forget project managers, architects...

Which, IMO, are extremely important investments in any 20,000-developer undertaking. Valve Software is famous for having a relatively flat hierarchy, but they also have ~330 employees.
I regret having only one upvote. This is the way the problem gets fixed.
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
A simple thought exercise to show you how false this is:

Instantiate AES-128-CTR with a random key. Encrypt 100 megabytes with it. Have you "drained" "key" from AES? No, not in any meaningful sense. If you could, the AES-CTR recommendations would say "don't encrypt more than 100 megabytes with AES-CTR". In practice, people routinely encrypt many gigabytes with it.

Every modern OS uses a DRBG for its kernel CSPRNG. You can think of a DRBG as a stream cipher, just like AES-128-CTR, where random events are hashed to form the key, and the output is the raw keystream. Asking for 100 megabytes of additional keystream doesn't "drain" the "key" from the keystream.

Linux has a terrible misfeature, born of a failure to understand the crypto primitives they're using in their CSPRNG. /dev/random keeps an "estimator" that tries to determine how much "entropy" has been fed to the CSPRNG, and it decrements that estimator when requests come in for random bytes. Linux claims you can drain its CSPRNG. Linux is wrong; that is not how crypto works.

Linux should lose that feature, but they will not. But there's no reason you should have to go along with it; just use urandom, which will not block for the estimator.
if you have a windows 10 laptop they also have an app:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/uber/9wzdncrfhxrd
Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
What specific features or capabilities do you think a current version of OpenWRT does in a less newbie-friendly way than Tomato or DD-WRT?

They've all got web interfaces that present a status summary upon log-in and have pages for configuring different categories of settings (WAN, WiFi, port forwarding, etc.). Unless you think Tomato's default color scheme makes it vastly more usable, you'll have to point to something specific.

(And while it's been a while since I last used DD-WRT, my experience was that it had a multitude of options that were non-functional or incorrectly documented, so I'll need some pretty strong convincing that it's got any advantage over OpenWRT.)
Well, that's kind of the point. Slack has built a moat. IRC is libre and free, but also can get far more arcane than the RFC suggests and to get something like Slack's feature set, you have to either build or strap together a lot of moving parts. Discourse is targeted at gamers and is not good for businesses. Ryver is way behind. MS' offering is laughable. Slack also has exactly the kind of differentiating features that don't particularly matter to ICs, but which corporate values highly—like auditing, retention policy, and permissions stuff. There's a specific subset of "good product" which has the word-of-mouth marketing result that Slack gets, and that's not the same as being "good" in a vacuum.

People don't use the alternatives to Slack because they're not as good as Slack, on various axes, is the short version. Slack has made themself hard to compete with.
I commented on the post that you can get a thermal imaging camera that plugs into your iPhone for $250 http://www.thermal.com/thermal-cameras/ . So I think that any price above that for a unit that looks like it has a CRT monitor from the 90's is a bit expensive. I just want one as a toy and to experiment with, and think the cost is out of reach of that.
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Rape by deception – if you lie to someone to seduce them, is it rape?
Once you make the conclusion that whether or not it's legal has no effect on whether people will use it, then everything else falls out from there. It's easier for kids to get illegal pot than legal and that will always be the case.
Well, except for telemarketers.
This is too bad. Mandrill was a great product I've put several clients and my own apps on. None of these have any use for Mailchimp integration.

In December, they began to require the more strict DNS configs for new accounts... that was fine, but this latest change is horrendous in that it's giving business' who've used this service for years, an ultimatum... one that favors finding a new service.

It's going to be work one way or another so I guess I'll be moving mine and client apps over to a more stable provider.
I think they appreciate. That's why they are flabbergasted when developers refuse to implement such a trivial feature for 15 years.
That is not exactly correct, it also does cross module inlining. Now, suppose you tweak a bit your parameters to inline ... liberally. It's going to inline all the mirage functors directly into your main, which enables various things.

Of course, that's going to take a bit of time to compile.

Also, IIRC, all the ingredients are in place for link time optimizations, but they were not developed for ocaml 4.03.
Given that this is something people frequently feel strongly about, there are important subcategories.
"Not religious" can mean passive/apathetic ("don't care"), or active/idealogical ("There IS no god!")

One can be mildly or very religious without following any rituals or having anything to attend

Spiritual may or may not fit into any category because of the vague allusion to "Standard Definition". This may imply author only means large historical/traditional/formalized religions (in which case "Spiritual" or "New Age" would go into Not religious"), or religion is meant to be encompassing and inclusive (in which case they would fit into one of the other categories).
What's the difference between OSX and Windows, in your mind? It's even more "free" than Windows is, since you can't buy it separately and all OS updates for the last few versions have been free.
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Given that Xamarin bought RoboVM last year and that the project went closed source and raised prices just after that, it's fair to assume that RoboVM is dead.

Also, I'm personally not happy about this. I think people on HN should know better. Besides a couple of black swans being the exceptions that confirm the rule, acquisitions is how projects die. This is because acquisitions are either defensive or acquihires. And even when done out of a genuine desire for progress, big companies end up choking these acquisitions to death, after all they weren't capable of such progress in-house, with the project members moving on after one or two years when their contract expires.

But hey, people were excited about Nokia as well.
$20 w/MailChimp Transactional: 25,000 mails

$20 w/SendGrid: 100,000 mails

So let me know if you're thinking about switching. I'd be happy to intro you to someone on our team.

Disclosure: I'm with SendGrid. :)
How much has social media and mobile affected things. I'd imagine having a good social media presence and an iphone app would be seen as more important then the website for a lot of companies nowadays. Can you transfer web design skills to app design?
Unfortunately I think the chances of this happening in the foreseeable future are quite slim. Alas.
And I on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04, aside from having to delete my .config/Skype a time or two.
Speaking as someone with a dumb phone and standalone devices for many smartphone features... I don't want to carry an expensive, fragile device that needs to be charged at least once a day, and that does a mediocre job. My iPod Shuffle is several years old, lasts a couple of days, holds plenty of music, and survives rain, snow, mud, and being dropped with nothing but a bit of cosmetic damage. My phone fits easily in a normal pants pocket, costs all of $30 to replace if it dies, and doesn't require an expensive monthly data plan. My camera has an interchangeable lens and takes printable pictures, even indoors.

I see the potential advantages of a smartphone, but the tech isn't there yet, and it is moving in the wrong direction. I don't want a thinner, wider, taller thing with more pixels. I want a smaller, tougher, cheaper thing with more battery life.
I'm trying to avoid specifics.
Thanks! Would love to hear any other thoughts.
If they make it free I'll use it.