skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so since the goal of the iOS bridge is to get as many iOS applications on Windows as possible. Maybe after (or in conjunction with) Swift 3.0.

Don't see it on their roadmap: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/wiki/Roadmap

But there's an open issue for it so that's promising: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/issues/25
Clever, you deserve an upvote for that :)
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Definitely going to hire a CPA. Thanks for your inputs.
No gap in pay for the same position. But the position gap is still alive and well. Also called the glass ceiling. So, the average women in tech are paid less than men. The title is quite misleading.
Could you pass 6th grade economics?
I live in Allentown, Pa., where a remarkable 23.1 percent of children tested had excessive lead. I also work with Head Start and we actually had our funding cut for testing children because they general idea was it wasn't a thing in 2016. Now it is a thing against and we again start testing every child in school. We just had to switch to getting them going to their doctor to check their blood.

My home was built in 1894 and the original wall paper was removed in 2007 before we moved in and all the wood work isn't painted. I found lead all over the house where a few doors or wall was painted in the bathroom and kitchen. Everyone just told me to paint over it but I actually stripped it all and what a pain! No wonder it is an issue no one want's to spend the time or energy removing this stuff when you can just paint over it.
"Technology jobs are very highly specialised. And I'm not just speaking of computer tech."

I would argue that computer tech is kind of an exception.

I can see a Nuclear or Aerospace Engineer having trouble adapting his knowledge and skills to other professions, since that knowledge is deeply tied to the domain, but a Perl (or C++/Java or whatever) hacker should't really have too many problems in transitioning to another language.

That they would find difficulties in finding a new job because dumb HR recruiters see 10 years of Perl experience in the resume as opposed to the "10 years of Swift" (sic) they are looking for is another matter...
Oh nice, I wasn't aware that this is being discussed already. Thanks!
Markets fix everything eh?
So... judging by the titles, what this website is suggesting is basically that free speech only applies if you agree with it, and since they don't agree with CloudFlare's decision to host everything, CloudFlare is bad?

Honestly, the only thing I don't like about CloudFlare is their treatment of Tor users, which I don't see being mentioned anywhere in here.
I'm curious to see how die-hard free marketeers would solve this problem. To me, this (and similar examples) is proof that strong government is needed so that it can stand up to strong private corporations.
If you want quick introduction about some languages, there is also https://learnxinyminutes.com/.
Hey buddy - get in line. I can destroy shareholder value less rapidly than you or Ginni, and do it for less.
Amazon Removes Encryption from Its Devices, While Apple Fights to Keep It
Yes, they are also called that. I think the dam-buster bombs had the nickname first.
Agreed, that's the type of information I was hoping this would provide.
>I think our industry needs to shed this old idea that it's OK, even encouraged to turn away technical candidates for anything less than absolute 100% confidence at every step of the interview process. Because when you do, you are accidentally optimizing for implicit bias.

Now you've got to spend time optimizing your interviewing team. What if one guy just says yes to everything? He might as well not be there but he's still a weight in that decision. What about the opposite where he says No every time? When do you decide he is actually going to say No every time and not worth being part of that decision process?

The more people you put on this decision table, the lower the chances that any one candidate will make it through. But there's an opportunity cost of time/money to that, so you've got another thing to balance.

I think it would be really, really hard for one person to simultaneously impress 10 people beyond a doubt just because of how many people have to reach consensus. And can you imagine the stress of knowing one dude with a nitpicky attitude (that none of the others know about yet) could sink your chances?
Side-Channel attacks are nasty. Wonder why the FBI wasn't able to use this to hack the San Bernardino iPhone 5C, the NSA must be aware of this? From the article

In the sequel, unless stated otherwise, the experiments were performed on Apple iPhone 3GS which exhibited a particularly clear signal.

Hope Apple fixes this in future models, even when opened.
Yeah. LLVM IR is the most suitable representation for doing this kind of thing, but it's the one that's not compatible across LLVM versions. Maybe it would be worth defining an alternate format for the bytecode that can be read and written by external tools?
You are right, it wasn't 100% accurate.

As for the usefulness so far it works great as it helps the team get synced.
Thanks, that is really interesting. I'll have to read up on the Dragon capsules, I have enjoyed reading about their boosters and their landing attempts.

If they're using stuff like hydrazine in their thrusters, that's always going to be a major concern. They are planning on using the thrusters for every landing over land, eventually, or so I thought.
> No gap in pay for the same position.

That's the point here and it's worth reiterating when feminists consistently say they're paid 7X cents on the dollar.
Tim Sweeney is pissed at Microsoft for trying to do what Apple and Google already done on mobile devices.
My team does take-home project, a small problem to solve that should take at most a couple hours. It's the same problem for every candidate so we're judging them on common work. It's not real work, it's made up.

In interviewing discussions in places like HN, there is enough pushback against this idea, which is a bit surprising to me. I thought a few hours work was reasonable when I was interviewing. But my point is that just this small bit of work seems already too big for many people, let alone working 10-20 hours a week moonlighting. It's cool that they pay for it, but that pay is pretty insignificant in the overall scheme of things. (Also, now you're not really interviewing, you're doing client work. Different relationship.)

When I have tried moonlighting in the past I found the stress incommensurate with the additional income. So I don't think I would do it as an interview, personally.

It sucks that companies take a risk during hiring. But I'm not really interested in making that my problem, as a job seeker.
There’s two models - the 1200GAE ‘anniversary edition’, and the 1200G. The GAE is a limited run of 1200, but the G isn’t.

Given that the main difference between them is the material (magnesium alloy vs aluminium) for the topshell, most the tooling should be re-usable across both lines. So if they break even on the GAE, the G should provide quite a “long tail”.
The same reason furniture stores and car dealers locate near each other: traffic.

Think of writers with magazines and newspapers. The writers themselves are what make the outlet (plus competent management). If an outlet folds, a great writer moves to another outlet, or takes a break, or writes a book.

You're not tied to any outlet. But it can be an advantage to be associated with one. For awhile.
This is a bit dishonest.

They haven't raised £1m, they've had enough people sign up as "interested to invest" to reach £1m if everyone follows through.

I signed up to invest £1000, but I haven't paid yet and have absolutely no obligation to, and as far as I know I also don't have to invest the full £1000, I just can't exceed that.

edit: Their crowdcube page shows them having £600k so far
And if you go with Go, your Rust skills will go away?
You rock! So is the issuing of PR permits for some countries.I have been there...
I bet there's a ton of legacy Perl out there. Someone has to maintain it.
I went to this site with NoScript on, and it took me 5 minutes and a trip back to these comments to figure out that something was supposed to be happening.

Is there a name for that?
We're making a lot of changes to how we handle Tor: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930
Seeing the amount of the scam, it does not seem that difficult. Anyone with the knowledge to hack the mail of the tradesman (using software or social engineering) could pull that off. Especially they can try with multiple clients.
The most complicated thing is probably to open the bank account with fake information otherwise you could easily be found. It's actually quite brilliant of simplicity I find.
Amazon removed device encryption from Fire OS 5 because no one was using it
When developing something new, I make tons of tiny work-in-progress commits, sometimes dozens in a day, and frequently go back and squash them with rebase into a logical flow of changes, once it's more clear what that logical flow really is. I keep my WIP branches around locally for a while so I can go back and dig out the experiments I made along the way.

I prefer this over trying to get every commit right the first time. I also feel there's a nice change of pace in the process of stepping back, looking over the previous work, and shaping it into something that communicates the ideas well to reviewers.
Kubernetes and alike are not solving this problem. But you can just drop in a distributed POSIX filesystem that provides file systems that are accessible (concurrently) from any host and hence any container.

For Quobyte we added an implicit file locking mechanism that exclusively locks any file an open. This way you can protect files from corruption through unintended concurrent access from applications that are not prepared to run in this environment. This way you can also build HA mysql without using mysql's replication mechanisms but resorting to the rescheduling of the container scheduler in case of a machine failure.
Maybe it's time for game developers like Epic to support Linux and make gamers choose Linux as their desktop

In the current market, this assumes a few things that simply don't work. Platform adoption drives game software development on the PC side of things. Though some of us do, most people do not purchase a high-end PC exclusively for games. They purchase it to do something they need and might add a high-end graphics adapter to allow them to play games. This often means buying a Windows box. If a game developer released a great game exclusive to Linux, that game would be played by very few people (and would be screwed by all of those graphics issues you mention). It's possible if Steam OS and Valve's platform gains wide adoption that game developers will focus more on Linux, though.

The economics of game development seem positively scary to me as a software developer. For major titles, they throw millions of dollars into development in hopes that a game, costing around $50 (and widely pirated) will generate revenue for about a year. And the success of a game is largely determined by factors that are risky, similar to other visual art-forms. Maybe the topic isn't one anyone cares about? That money is flushed down the toilet. Contrasting that with business software which can cost well over $50 and have a lifetime of several years, it doesn't surprise me that game companies look to subscription MMORPGs, paid DLC to existing content and in-game (effectively "paid-for cheats") to make money. Getting them to be willing to spend more to support a one-off platform with existing difficulties supporting high-end graphics scenarios is unlikely. Consider that a business case for an expensive piece of software like Adobe's Creative Cloud could be made far more easily. The software even has native support for Mac OS and Windows, yet they are unwilling to support Linux. That makes me a lot less hopeful we'll ever see great games running in Ubuntu without Wine.
Audition project just substitute one bias for another. They also presuppose that those who will actually work with the candidate are somehow more enlightened and above bias than the standard interviewers.
Apparently this is a guardian article, posted at 10:06 PM, that is about another guardian article [1], posted at 10:00 PM. The latter is written by Tim Sweeney himself.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft-...
Glasgow's tech community has taken over a building once home to shipbuilders
Is the Republican Party over?
What happens if an attacker (say through xss) gets a copy of the JWT? Can it then be used to make legit calls to the API?
Ok, so what's the difference between that and

libraryDependencies :++= Seq(...)

? Because I've definitely seen that in some build.sbt files.
I didn't know about it and I'm glad someone posted the link.

It's common for old stories get reposted, and it's fine since it's impossible for everyone to be aware of everything all the time.
When I Was Your Age
Building microservices with akka-http
They distribute pollen to pay for the honey. The better they do it, the more flowers, the more honey. But in the end they are not going to complain individually if there is no pollen. They will of there is no honey.
>We need to de-stigmatize flexible schedules. We need to upend the idea that family care is solely the domain of women (normalizing parental leave for fathers with newborns is a good start).

Don't certain EU countries already have this in some capacity? Honestly, I think the problem with leave benefits here in the States is the fact we treat them as a privilege rather than as some form of non-monetary compensation. IMO, if I could have an comparable set of leave benefits with a lower salary (assuming leave here would have to be set to market rate for my time I would've otherwise been working to make this an equatable exchange) I probably would take it. I like my free time. I'm sure older workers would love it too if it worked well for them if they were more focused on semi-retirement.
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Unless it's not a competitor in the same filed.
I have to agree. It's not unlike submitting w3schools.com.
Patreon is working reasonably well, and other sites are using a similar model even if they don't use Patreon specifically. Flattr is still around even though it isn't very popular. Readability tried this and distributed some money to site owners, but they didn't have a good reputation with site owners and eventually folded. Looks like the Brave browser is trying a similar thing now.
It's a lot when you're one of those laid off engineers with 30+ years of experience. It's an outrageous salary in general.
> It also really sounds weird to a French like me.

It sounds weird, and incorrect, to a native English-speaker like me, particularly when 'they' and 'their' are used more than once or maybe twice in a sentence.

If you don't know whether someone is male or female, use male pronouns until told otherwise. That's the rule in English, and it works.
While my peers using emacs might disagree, I'd argue it's also by far the friendliest scala development env as well. I've used the community and ultimate edition for many years. CE is fine coupled w/ sbt for most anything you want to do and promises to remain free.
Can someone explain to me an appeal of Mondo as opposed to some other established online banks (like Ally for example) ?
But he or she is less vulnerable to being automatically hacked by a three letter agency, foreign government, and/or hacker gathering data for identity theft.

The privacy concern _isn't_ necessarily about having something to hide. It's about the consistent hacking of major systems, and exposure of personal data.
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We're talking about tech jobs here, not minimum wage jobs that don't provide a living wage.

I think the point is really that most people conflate their NEEDS with their WANTS and end up living hand to mouth because of it. If you are a tech worker in the USA and you don't have extenuating circumstances that eat up large portions of your income (like child support, back taxes, massive student loan debt, etc) and cannot be avoided, then you should be able to limit your monthly expenses to be able to save money. The truth is though, that most people "need" the latest phone, the latest computer, a new car (because apparently no other cars are "reliable"), etc. In my experience just making small changes to your lifestyle can have a massive impact on your ability to save.
This is nuts I don't know of another crowd source that raised so much so fast. How did you hear about them to invest, and why did you?
I gotta wonder what that anon guy did to get fired.
Didn't they begin that one?
That was a great read. Thanks
How Duolingo got 110M users without spending on marketing
When I visit cnn.com without ad-blocking, I receive content from 41 different domains: with ad-blocking it's 7.

So without ad-blocking I am putting my faith in the operators of 7 domains that none of their servers have been compromised to serve up malware. Most of those domains don't operate as a service that intentionally lets fourth-parties serve up arbitrary content.

With ad-blocking I have to trust that 41 domains, some of which will be serving up fourth-party content without curation, will not serve up malware. I don't even know ahead of time whose servers I'll be visiting, so I can't try to estimate how much risk I'm exposed to.
Surely FB can find whatever skills they need domestically. I can't imagine there is a skillset that several hundred people have abroad but that does not exist in the US.

It comes down to pay not skills. FB could afford the people in the US with those skills, they are just looking for employees that are cheaper, and they tend to be Indians and Chinese because they value being on US soil more than anyone else. I heard a phrase recently "India has a population of 1 Billion and 900 Million want to be in the US".

The competition is fierce and I don't blame them.
Let's be honest, that consultant has never pushed a line of code in their life.

You're probably committing and pushing at acceptable times. Screw the consultant.
If the web development skills on display here are any indication, I think this personal lacks a fundamental understanding about how all this tech works.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Yahoo Looking to Unload $1-3B in “Non-Core Assets”
iOS 9, which apparently isn't vulnerable to this, was released 3 months prior to the San Bernardino attack. Furthermore, is a locked phone just sitting there performing time-dependent ECDSA signing operations all day long?
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It's great to see this kind of work published. It is worth noting however that the US government is well aware of these kind of attacks. The Snowdon docs show that the CIA have been performing side-channel analysis since 2012 on the Iphone 4s and Ipad 2: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-...

Cryptography Research demonstrated this on an ipod in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8rnYhnLt8

In any case, great stuff.
I've been hearing this will happen ever since the first MacBooks started to be released with Thunderbolt; it seems the market for those who would actually buy an expensive external card/enclosure would already be fairly limited (if you need something on a desktop, why not just a separate highly optimized gaming rig?), and on top of that, it sounds like AMD is planning on adding yet another new external adapter/standard, and not leveraging Thunderbolt 2 or USB C.

Sounds like yet another flash in the pan to me. VR could be a killer feature, of course, and price would determine the success, but unless they use a standard connector and don't require all manufacturers to add in yet another display/bus to the thin laptops, I don't see this going anywhere.
2 to 4 times the profit is a fairly large bracket though?

Lets say my site generates around £90k profit a year. But that is growing year on your, do you not need to take into account future growth?
This is the key question. If Microsoft decides one day to offer the next DirectX version only for UWP then the developers will either have to eat humble pie or leave the platform.
Instagram blocks users from linking to Telegram and Snapchat
Honestly, I think the submission title doesn't do the article much justice. While it does mention their intention to monetize, it talks about other tings to.

I mean, maybe I don't use it much, but it seems to do a really good job of filtering spam and I don't see much harassment. But it's hard to see opposing views unless you look hard enough for posts which are usually shut down by others. Also, the comments have to be approved by the author which does lead to echo chambers, but they seem to know this since their lawyer Ferrest said that "You shouldn't necessarily be kept safe from other people challenging your ideas."

It's also very SF-centric at times, especially with all the self-help posts, but it does do a good job at content discovery since I can get a wide range of topic from the tech industry through to social issues.

I don't know how they'll sell paywalls to users, though. I mean, the internet has a lot of blogs which are already free to see. Plus, I can use my Pocket recommended feature for diversity right?
Couldn't agree more with this. Also Codility tests in which fresh graduates do very well and more senior engineers fail, because most of the academical/theoretical/generic stuff is forgotten since it's rarely needed in the real world.
There is no "the best". There are only people. Some people work wonderfully at one shop, but horribly at another. This can have nothing to do with their skill or even their personality. Each working environment is unique as is each candidate. You simply cannot tell which will work perfectly until long after someone is properly hired.

So why bother interviewing? The goal is not "we only hire the best". Hiring is only half the battle and a short term goal at most. The long term goal should be "we only retain the best". Sometimes that means firing people, but more often it means going to the mat to keep the people who work best: Treating people like human beings and, most importantly, paying them. Pay well and the good people will not leave. Actually fire those who don't work out in the long term and even they will do nearly anything to stay.

Or do what most startups do. Pay next to nothing. Treat everyone like widgets in a great machine. Fire only those whose admit having a life outside of work. And hire only those who share similar opinions on ultimate frisbee because culture!
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That seems more like a question on how the candidate's work is measured.

While there's always some bias, I think it shifts quite a bit once you move from an artificial "interview environment" to a work environment.

Plus as has been said, since they candidates are working with the people they would be working if hired and that relationship doesn't work out, then maybe it's better to keep looking for someone else.
> To put it in the most simplest terms: the GPL is mainly concerned with the freedom of the source code, not the freedom of the developer.

Freedom of the users. Source code is not a person, it cannot have "freedom".
Polygon podcast [1] where Tim is interviewed about his article:

[1] http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/4/11159584/tim-sweeney-windows...
Your point is valid. But I was under the impression that lower level stuff often did not pull. At point does a TCP/IP connection pull for example? Bellow epll/kqueue? Or the keyboard->machine connection? I haven't done anything that lowlevel in a while though, so I could be wrong.