skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the abuse happens in Java, and java-derived languages. There is a culture,and the more lines of code you have , and the more classes you have , the better. The language environment and frameworks only re-inforce that stuff. Scala is (I guess ) functional - particularly when contrasted to Java.

In his example, I suspect he is conflating that one-liner chained function call with functional programming? Sort of like how coders like to use ternary one-liners especially when they first learnt them (and end up with unreadable code). But his first snippet is obviously simpler, compared to the OOP-cruft of the second and third snippets.

As more Java programmers migrate to coding in Python, they are bringing that toxic culture in to Python too - where boilerplate and sugar were relatively less.

Its like everyone is doing rocket science, which is despicable, given we are mostly coding CRUDs.

Any language is susceptible to abuse, its also a human trait to de-simplify something to gain a fake intellectual satisfaction.
They should make mismanagement of a government project become a felony.
Milk the framework or the engineer?
How EV carsharing is changing one American city
96% of government IT procurements over $10m are deemed failures.[1]

Absolutely shocking how ineffective the system of contractors and RFPs is. Part of it is a mindset, part of it is just needing better options.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/10/22/the-l...
I think you're conflating two different points. Just because providing privacy is Tor's intended purpose doesn't mean it's reasonable to assume it provides privacy in the 4th amendment sense, when it still involves sending your data to Tor nodes. The argument is that public IP's are inherently not private because you have to give that information up to a separate entity to make any sort of communication. I'd wager that's the "vulnerability" they're referencing - That you don't know who is running the Tor nodes, and by extension can't assume your IP will stay private if you're freely giving away your IP address to them.

By voluntarily giving that information up, there is no reason to expect that the Tor server you're connecting too will keep that information private anymore then a Facebook server would, even if we would like/hope that to be the case. The person who owns the Tor server is well within their rights to keep a log of every IP connected to their server.

You also have no control over the node which makes the actual connection to the outside world - In which case that server can equally log anything it wants about that connection. If the same person controls both servers and puts two-and-two together and figures out you made a connection to website X, they haven't violated your 4th amendment rights because you voluntarily gave that information up by connecting to the Tor network without checking who you were giving that information too.

Tor's intended goal is to provide privacy, but that doesn't mean it gives you a legal expectation to privacy, which I think is what they're getting at. The reality is that third-party entities that can do whatever they want with the data you voluntarily give them - The fact that they're Tor nodes doesn't change this.
Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical at MWC 2016
There's a lot of studies that show that money is a poor motivator long term once you pass the essentials for life (which admittedly in the Valley is higher than many other places). As important, some of those studies show that especially in roles requiring creativity (like engineering, design, etc) it actually negatively effects motivation and output.

See Dan Pink's Drive for a good summary of many of this research, which has led to his Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose framework that is part of his more well-known TED Talk on the subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation

Coincidentally, those 3 pieces of his framework hit on many of the aspects of this thread and especially the Gallup research on the desire for goals and growth.
> If my state decides to do something demented, I can move to another state.

That's quite unlikely to be true for most people in the state, and especially unlikely to be true if they are the target of the demented thing.
If both are true then the implication would hold. I think it's "true -> false" which of course doesn't hold.
There have been a couple of attempts over the years at using aerogel in high-end outerwear. Year ago, champion sent a mountaineer to the summit of everest wearing a full-body aerogel insulated suit.

Two big problems:
1) Aerogel is very fragile and tends to crumble
2) It's almost too good an insulator

#1 is a big issue for outerwear because any high end jacket used in mountaineering will see some sh*t.

#2 is another big issue because you sweat and exert a lot of heat during intense exercise. The jacket design has to incorporate the material intelligently to allow venting.

I'm curious to see how this oros jacket addresses these issues.
Ah, my error. I was using the wrong name. Yes, it was democratically rejected... and then replaced by the Treaty of Lisbon, which did most of the same things, and which was done in a way that nobody got to democratically vote on it.
These are fair points. But for businesses in particular, it's a problem since many skip on (or are unaware of the need for) pre-boot auth, and business laptops still pack FW ports, if not on the laptop itself, then surely on the docking station.
I've got this problem on Linux as well occasionally, but usually killing any lingering Skype processes fixes it.
SFO is an airport. SF is a city.
> if you ask me he actually barely mentioned race

"Black" appears 17 times, and the article leads with a large picture of his wrist (maybe that's not present on mobile).

I felt the article was a bit oddly focused on race as well considering the business just doesn't seem like a great way to make money. Especially if the VCs are flat out telling you they're more interested in B2B portfolios.

Your ad-hom seems out of line.

The story opened strong since I've lived in Austin, Cedar Park, Belton, Troy, went to church and the mall in Temple (where my mom worked at Scott & White Hospital). It ticked some nostalgia boxes for me. But the main complaint about funding and risk... I'm just not all that convinced. But again, I'm not a VC so best of luck to him either way.
It reads like a marketing piece or a resume. I could feel that there is some important topic that the author tried to convey, but it was completely lost for me behind list of achievements and recognitions.
Georgetown Law Professors Say Students Are “Traumatized” by Criticisms of Scalia
What is your CS:GO rank?
> When you boil it down, VC's only care about one color: green.

Do they? Do you have personal experience to suggest that VCs in Austin are color-blind when it comes to race?

What I see is a person's personal account of living in the Austin startup scene. They consider their race to have been a factor in that experience. Who are any of us to turn around and say "actually, you're wrong, your race doesn't matter at all"?
In your opinion, what is malware?
I think I have a mildly different opinion about the correspondence than most other people on the internet. That's mostly why I have decided to write about other things. But then again maybe that's a good reason to write about it.
So is PDX. People still use it to refer to Portland. This is not a new concept.
Your iPhone works for the Secret Police.  You thought it was yours?  Nope
Can we learn from GIFs?
Apple TV app status after 100 days
When Software Tries to Eat Regulation
But that's exactly my point!

When it's not something you want, it's to "Placate people". But if it was something you wanted, i'm sure it would be a welcome feature!

And it's not that complicated, just different.

Want a "traditional" list of interfaces? `ip addr`

Want to list running interfaces? `ip link ls up`

Want to set a device up/down? `ip link set dev {DEVICE} {up|down}`

Quick question! How do you set the MTU length in a legacy REHL system? Because with ip it's just `ip link set mtu 9000 dev eth0`!

Yeah, its new and will require some learning, but it's not inherently bad...

And talking about seasoned kernel devs, name one time that there wasn't a minority of kernel devs bitching about a new feature! Every change is going to make some people worse off.
Unless all 50 states democratically permit warrantless surveillance, you'll have a place to go to get away from it. Now you might have to live with other kinds of government intrusion, but it's in a state's interest to stand out and attract tax-payers with a progressive set of laws. Codifying and institutionalizing draconian laws the national level doesn't leave us with any choice (if we want to stay in the U.S.A. of course).
Url changed from http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/02/22/georgia-tech-discovers..., which points to this.
(Not a lawyer but) I don't think it legally holds any water, once your data is out on the public network it's out on the public network.

It's the electronic equivalent of a sticker on your car that says "This car is intended to provide its users a reasonable expectation of privacy under US and international law."
High Frequency Trading and Finance’s Race to Irrelevance
For Austin they offer[0] decent number of sports channels, probably the same for San Francisco

[0] https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/channels/
No. He says the paperwork is pretty easy now.

He says it has been pretty easy to get good tenants, but it's getting harder. The market used to be hard to buy, but is getting easier = less good tenants.
> the article leads with a large picture of his wrist

TIL that the simple act of uploading a photo of yourself is making a statement about race.
Very HUGE, now microsoft can put ads on xamarin software!
Any plans for an Android app? This sounds like something I want to try out.
I wasn't actually thinking of the EU when I wrote that paragraph specifically. My post was perhaps an unclear mishmash of comments on both the USA and - as a side note - the EU.

I agree that the EU does not seem to have a serious problem with top officials ignoring the rules and being unpunished for it (or if it does, I don't know about it). However the USA clearly does. James Clapper being just one example. Hillary Clinton being another who is in the news right now.

W.R.T. Greece, that is very clearly a couple of systemic problems coming together:

1) Banks being too big to fail. Same problem all over the world. Not EU specific.

2) EU being willing to continue giving Greece large sums of money far after it became clear that the country was completely broken and shouldn't be in the EU at all, because they're ideologically incapable of contemplating the EU getting smaller.

> By a remarkable coincidence, a key foundation of Brexit is the dismissal of the EU's requirement to treat workers in a civilised manner as "Brussels red tape"

I guess you're thinking of the working time directive?! Not sure what you mean here. At any rate, it's a bit off topic for this thread which is really about US politics, perhaps I shouldn't have brought up the EU at all.

Trump's argument is very simple - "To get to Washington you need a lot of money, most of these guys get it from shadowy lobbyists, but I am already super rich and that makes me unbuyable - and thus a man of integrity who says what he thinks. With me you know exactly what you're gonna get".

It is a very simple, straightforward argument and unfortunately it has a core of truth to it.
You can turn on Do Not Disturb and setup people like your wife so her calls/texts always come through. I started doing this with my phone anytime I want some time to think without being bothered.
Early car manufacturers in no way almost entirely escaped liability. There were many people killed or injured by the starter crank alone and the law suits to go along with it. It's the single biggest reason that steam cars were around until the advent of the electric starter.
It could be runway, it could also just be timing - there's lots of talk about how the economy is slowing, so investment in anything that doesn't currently produce profits, with strong indications of increased profits in the future, is probably going to be difficult to get.

Austin definitely does it's own thing. And gets derided as "the home of the lifestyle business". But if you're profitable and have happy customers, absurd valuations and the drama that goes along with them aren't really needed.

As a note to Joah - I was surprised I couldn't enter a zipcode.
Right. If you're doing that, I'd recommend making sure that the tools you're using to communicate with them can encrypt your messages and their messages using some protocol that only the intended recipient can reverse. Public-private key encryption seems to generally be a good approach.

Look for the "padlock" icon in your browser before talking to your doctor about Viagra. ;)
Indeed! One might add "finally!" to that as well.

From the outside, it seemed like such a natural fit that it was inevitable. From the inside, I'm sure a lots of things had to happen at MS. New Microsoft or not, it's still a big company with lots of people they have to support, so I doubt they take on such stuff lightly.
Is there a reason that you did not cite Enigma in your list of notable works? They solve the adversary problem by splitting tasks among a network of nodes that post their intermediate work to a blockchain where it can be verified for accuracy:

Very recently, Baum et al. developed a publicly auditable secure MPC system that ensures correctness, even when all computing nodes are covertly malicious, or all but a single node are actively malicious [18]. Their state-of-the-art results are based on a variation of SPDZ (pronounced speedz) [19] and depend on a public append-only bulletin board, which stores the trail of each computation. This allows any auditing party to check the output is correct by comparing it to the public ledger’s trail of proofs. Our system uses the blockchain as the bulletin board, thus our overall security is reduced to that of the hosting blockchain.

I'm not a db or crypto expert, but this seems like a promising solution to the active adversary problem if you have an honest, healthy blockchain that is incentivized correctly.
> They should make mismanagement of a government project become a felony.

This would involve either:

(1) Clear and unambiguous definition of "mismanagement" involving distant-from-the-specific-project procedural mandates, which would reduce "mismanagement" by the definition applied but increase (and mandate) what would be functionally mismanagement for specific real projects (lots of government regulation designed to prevent mismanagement all around the world, while usually not specifically felony criminal rules, works this way now), or

(2) Being so ambiguous and vague so as to provide a basis for arbitrary prosecution, such that it would make sure no one wanted to touch management of a government project at all (at least -- assuming this was the US or one with similar fundamental rules as to what can be an enforceable criminal law -- until it was inevitably ruled unenforceable as impermissibly vague.)
Homeschooled Weirdoes and the Culture of Conformity
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And I'll look you right back and call bullshit. I used an Amiga in the late eighties. It was a fantastic machine for its time, certainly more advanced than the contemporary 286 PCs, but Windows 95 was markedly superior (as it should have been, a decade later), let alone modern Windows or Linux.

Yes, sometimes things get screwed up and we get understandably frustrated, but that does not license revisionist history.
Frankly, because "web designer" is, more or less, an obsolete profession.[1]

The web is substantially more complex than it was even a decade ago. There are way more apps, platforms, and experiences to develop for—more and more companies have their very existence tied directly to their digital technology investments.

For those companies, there is no reason to hire a "web designer" (understood as someone who knows design and a bit of programming). They hire UI/UX designers and developers.

On the flip side, for businesses where technology is not fundamental to the competitive advantage the tools have become commoditized. A decade ago, they might have hired a "web designer" to build out a basic WordPress site. Now they can just use Squarespace.

If you can actually do web development, there's more work than there has ever been. Software has just eaten the middle out.

[1] No offense. I've made plenty of money doing web design work in the past.
These lists seem a little short. What about:

* The Distributed Computing Environment (or at least the OS/2 portion of it, anyway), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm...

* Taligent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

* IBM Workplace OS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Workplace_OS

And that's just a few from off my personal resume.
Remember when we were shocked that Verizon would give us up willingly?
I wonder if that would impose liability on the tor project itself or tor node runners.

If it did, you can substitute out this SEI story with the CIA just secretly directing multiple tor node owners to run special versions of their software without notifying users.
React Native applications will be faster to develop thanks to React being inherently fast to develop. I would expect a React Native app to perform the same or better than Xamarin, due to React Native's asynchronous bridge approach. I don't have data to back this up, though.
those summers tho!
Think of it like this. Something like Gmail.com is really two things:

1. a frontend, which is a Single Page App, shipped as a blob of JS;

2. a backend, which is a big fat set of services in random languages.

The people who create the frontend are traditionally thought of as web developers, but "UI/UX engineer" is perhaps closer: they're engineering a program, yes, but it's ultimately a program entirely to serve the purpose of being a nice UI/UX in front of an API.

I think the most on-target name for this role would probably be "client-app developer." The client happens to be web-based, but that doesn't much matter. It's still a client that consumes your service.
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I understand the appeal of this, but I feel like the only way to get through the modern world is to build up the antibodies to these distractions. We can't all reasonably hide ourselves away in quiet country houses either literally or figuratively. Giving up the conveniences of a smart phone for the truly useful things in order to avoid the distraction of notifications and boredom-browsing is the kind of measure that might be necessary for the truly addicted, but for most of us I think it's cutting off ones nose to spite ones face. How about just starting by uninstalling Facebook and turning off notifications?
I think you can still just click 'Like' the same way if you don't care about reacting otherwise?
While I have no doubt that OpenWRT/DD-WRT are better than the stock firmware provided on these routers, has anyone actually audited OpenWRT for exploits?
Thanks Scott, I have kept up on your work and blog and I wanted to say I appreciate what you do.

There could be many ways to undo the good things MS has done recently, and they are not perfect, but I am much happier the direction in the past year than I have been since the start of the company.
Regardless, it would take a pretty bad nuclear accident to do as much harm as existing carbon-based power plants do when operating as designed.

Not all harm involves glowing green blobs of radioactive doom on CNN.
This is great! Also it will give even a greater boost to .NET usage on mobile platforms for cross platform code.
Nah, nobody in the open source community really cares about them. HN is heavily used by Microsoft employees - and they are legion. That's all you're seeing here.
Harvard asks:  Are investors bad for business?
I'm confused: are you saying manufacturers shouldn't have security updates, or that security updates shouldn't be automatic, or what?
I'm happy to hear that gaming works well, and apparently my decidedly older CPU (AMD Phenom X4 965) supports the technology as well, which is interesting to learn.

However, my main reason for needing Windows is for music recording and mixing via Cubase and other DAW software. This requires really low-latency access to my USB and PCI sound cards.

Does anyone have experience with running applications like this in a VM? Is it feasible?

I would be thrilled if I could finally move to Linux or FreeBSD entirely and just keep a Windows 7 VM, all sandboxed up with no Internet access, just for the music recording.
I have never had to resort to this technique. However, there's a lot in git I don't understand. I've spent multiple days learning git, and at some point, the diminishing returns of further investment don't justify themselves. If I broke my repo in such a way that caused me to consider re-cloning to "get out of jail", I probably would only do it if I didn't lose a significant amount of work. (e.g. copy in-progress files to a safe location before recloning)

You say I have very little excuse for my ignorance, but I would also say that I have very little excuse to spend any more time learning a tool with as many dark corners as git.
I used to do this when sleeping. Now I've decided that I dislike getting any kind of notification unless it's objectively important. (thing I need to get done via to do app, phone call, though with the latter I can still get spam, but the rate at which those come through is low, so I still see them as important) And I can still turn on some notifications in some circumstances. For example, at a convention recently, I turned SMS and Facebook Messages back on so I could coordinate with people easier.
Yeah, but it's not really about the audience of the article, it's about the audience of LinkedIn.

Which is being portrayed as predominately tech-industry, when in reality the tech industry (where stackoverflow and github are relevant) is a small fraction of LinkedIn's market
> SFO is an airport.

And, despite the name, not even in San Francisco.
Well, for starters, Facebook can be accessed through the internet...
I haven't read the whole article yet, but I tried to do a quick search for whether it mentions our helium resourcing problem [1], but couldn't find that mentioned.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/07/feds-created-helium-problem-tha...
Affordability is relative. There's lots of real estate investment going on - a coworker had a Chinese family buy three homes on his street to rent out (total transaction was well over $1 million). So prices are going up pretty quickly because there are bidding wars going on.

So far as livability - are you ok with 41C temperatures and constantly being in a drought? With summer peaks to 46C?
Thanks I came here to complain of no pricing page also.
Shows how important conventions are.

"SlimFAQ is free for up to 20 questions. If your FAQ requires more, you can sign up to our standard plan that comes with unlimited questions for just 7 $ per month (annual payment)."
Heh, I didn't know windows had this feature. I just turned it on.
FBI Has Asked Apple to Unlock as Many as 17 iPhones in Last 4 Months
I haven't played CS since 2001
Having the experience of dealing with the Android NDK, JNI wrapping to be able to use C++ as portable code across Android and WP, I think the 25€ a month are quite reasonable for having someone else go through that pain for me.
I tried RestDB.io out and it works great! Thank you!
The logos and model numbers on cars seem to be about as weird as having Microsoft's name and logos around the OS and the logo of the hardware's manufacturer on the outside of the machine. Unless you're talking about dealer-provided license plate holders. Those are much easier to remove than most of the logos in software would be.
I thought that with Skype, then Nokia.
wow this is amazing.