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Indeed. Up until recently, Chrome for iOS was actually a lot slower than Safari as it was yet to switch to WKWebView from UIWebView.

Doing so yielded much better performance:

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/01/a-faster-more-stable-chrom...
And although 3D Touch is almost entirely unused by almost everybody as far as I can tell, the actual physical implementation of it is brilliant. I wrote this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-touch-explorer/id10603467... to demonstrate it (source code here: https://github.com/benslaney/3D-Touch-Explorer). The amount of granularity and the sensitivity of it - equal all over the screen - is crazy.
Ah, I see; it wasn't obvious from the pictures on your site that the plane is significantly smaller, closer to commuter-jet sized than 747-sized.

What's the total plane seat capacity?
Yes. However judges cannot preemptively strike down laws, even if they are blatantly unconstitutional. Someone with "standing" must bring a case, which typically(?) means that the law has been applied to them. So unconstitutional laws often stay on the books without being enforced, until either someone overreaches and tries to enforce them, or the legislature formally repeals them. I believe anti-miscegenation statues were on the books for decades in some states after the Supreme Court struck them down.
And the San Francisco Bay area is _not_. That's been frustrating. Fortunately, I had a lot of PHP in the past so that helped me find a place when I decided to roll the dice and leave Texas.

Now back to scraping up some Python and coming up with a good project to throw on GitHub to show "Yes, I are engineer. Here is me saying 'shibboleth'."
> There is going to come a point where Postgres passes Oracle in terms of features and performance.

I wouldn't be so sure. Oracle has deep pockets, and I'm not sure there's a reason why anything PostgreSQL wants to roll out they can't pay to prioritize and have done sooner.

> There is also a point that Postgres will perform with enough features needed by most businesses that they'll choose it even though it doesn't match Oracle on a feature by feature basis.

No argument there.
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Technically, LLVM started as a research project at UIUC, and then Apple hired the principals and adopted the project in 2005. The LLVM website is still hosted by UIUC, and Google and other companies are also significant contributors.
If you're struggling to understand the impact of this iMessage flaw, remember that it requires either a Root CA or Apple's help to work. If you're considering an attacker with access to a Root CA, then you have problems far beyond iMessage crypto.

It is certainly a good defense-in-depth measure to implement the recommendations from JHU and it's great that Apple has moved aggressively with them. Those mitigations will protect even from a catastrophic "goto fail"-type bug in the future where you could strip away TLS.

That leaves Apple cooperating with law enforcement (or an Apple insider, coerced or otherwise) to launch this attack against one of their users. I think this scenario is unlikely given their very public reaction to the iOS 9 backdoor the FBI requested.

Finally, I think their development of the gzip oracle is pretty great and that it has the potential to work against other cryptosystems. This is probably not the last that you'll hear of it. I suspect the JHU team is running down a list of other cryptosystems that it could work against right now...
With the caveat that it's basically only on iOS and OS X.
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So noted. We asked follow up questions to get to a person's contribution. It is valid to move the team forward. It is not valid to ride on the contributions of the team without putting your own contribution in.
It's a useful point that Chomsky benefits from the same system, but,

1) Generally everyone is part of the system they criticize. The other choice is to go off the grid, in which case you would never hear their opinions. What was the last thing you read by one of those non-hypocritical people?

2) For that and many other reasons, including that we all are fallible humans, everyone is a hypocrite including you and including me.
Pie charts are terrible

http://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-2013...
I see the level of service argument. But, if an argument applies to roads or mail delivery, or landline phones, why does it not apply to fast internet service or cellular coverage or many other things, which have been doing just fine without centrally funded infrastructure?

Also, shifting the cost of such roads to everyone encourages even more construction in remote areas, which doesn't seem like a good thing to promote...
Dude a WalMart's getting screwed...
There is an ebook version floating around the internet.
Better than the debt of a changed language/library that allows for multiple and confusing variations thanks to not removing those features (syntax, keywords, functions). It makes looking at old documentation difficult (it's wrong now), but also means that outdated guides aren't still correct (so they'll get culled or corrected more quickly) and we won't have the OpenGL situation.
So right here is the mysterious reason why perfectly qualified people don't get hired at Google - they didn't spend hours reflecting on the relationship!!!
I do not have appropriate words for this. What a terrible nightmare. And even worse the second time they did this. I mean what kind of company is this? I am seriously shattered that they are so careless with so much responsibility. I never liked the trusted CA system on the web but always thought you would need to be at least some state actor or serious professional in order to be able to get hold of certificates from them without validation. They should all be required to get some real security audit on everything involved, and do it again whenever there is a change or some time passed. Without they should be dropped from the list of trusted CAs. I really do not get how this happened. It is like someone did this on purpose. I am sad now.
> people like yourself

That is certainly a risk with any notion of "culture fit", but any time someone who cares about culture is interviewing someone that fit is being evaluated to some extent.
I wrote about my (unsuccessful) app engine experience many years ago...hopefully they've improved since then.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html
I think those who've been doing this for a while joke about it all the time. I know I do. I and many others have no illusions about the cyclical nature of technology. It's just that at certain points in time we've tried certain methods and they just weren't the right fit or bastardised to a point of becoming more of a problem. So we try again, lo and behold, we start to get somewhere with it.

Moving to a distributed system is inevitable when you want to scale. We make certain tradeoffs doing it. Over the next couple of decades we'll see some cycles happen again where monoliths are cool again and then distributed systems come back into fashion. Just the way it goes.
I've been doing the same work for 15 years. Everything old is new again.

Linus is right, a plus for C is filtering out developers.
Similar systems have been proposed in the US as well. [0] Disappointingly but unsurprisingly, Intuit (the makers of TurboTax, the most popular tax prep software in the US) spent millions of dollars lobbying the federal government to oppose return-free filing. [1]

0: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/tu...

1: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-mill...
I am talking my book in the sense that my business works a lot better if companies get saner about how they hire people, but Starfighter is not the commercialization of the idea I'm talking about here.
It's not insurers who pay it's the central bank. It has control over the currency itself; because of that it can (and has to) always pay.

> Another motivation would be if you are concerned about having your assets frozen.

I'm with you on that one.
>I’m thoroughly convinced that Apple has an internal-only IDE that they use that is far better than Xcode and is actually functional, much like the internal Radar tool.

That's an interesting point and it makes a lot of sense. With the scale of the codebases a lot of them are working on I also don't see how they could be productive while working in XCode. And also XCode could not be this buggy and broken if it had internal developers working with it and constantly reporting bugs.
>It took an already hard-to-discover feature and made it more nuanced (that is, more complicated).

I would argue that it fixed the long hold, honestly. Waiting for long holds is a total pain. Being able to reach the same level of contextual menus instantly without long holding is a huge source of relief for the user in apps that rely on that kind of interaction.
Yeap, that's me. I have it configured as a smart host[1] on my self-hosted exim server, so I can change it in just one place, without touching the email clients. Came in handy recently :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host
I would not ask those things, my point was that whatever a person is focused on can indicate the characteristics I mentioned. Obviously some things are personal and cannot be asked about, but may be volunteered by an applicant.
Does this racket-based transpiler provide a REPL?
A Thunderbolt dock is very functional for a laptop. You can hang a large display, keyboard, backup storage, and wired ethernet off the dock and just plug in two cables -- Thunderbolt and power. Various OS niceties make it work well.
Most of the stock grants (given when you start working/with annual bonus) are over 4 years. You tend to have multiple of these after you have worked at a company for multiple years. It's much easier to just compare if you just tell the total amount of stocks you are going to get in a year in USD.
Agreed. I'd actually like to see the opposite: I want a "real-linux" phone, not an android phone. (I have yet to test the ubuntu phone, but am excited for it)
I have to disagree in the most strenuous possible terms.

> do I really need a degree to talk to people, to appreciate literature or art, to vote?

No, you don't need a college degree, but you do need an elementary education, which is what I'm talking about since that's what's compulsory and free.

There is no technology industry without an educated workforce. There is no effective democracy where the electorate is ignorant of history, math, and science. We can argue the relative merits of specific authors that could be covered in English/literature class, but only because we both were taught how to read.
Im thrilled to see something like this taking flight, congrats!

I have two questions:

1) Can you tell us about your start-up process? Aside from your all-star team, I can't even imagine how you could have brought this to reality. I can't even imagine how much capital and space a prototype would have taken. At what point did you decide that it was time to apply to YC? Were there other investors? How much design work did you have completed/prototyped when you starting talking to investors? (sorry I know this is 5 questions)

2) Are you hiring?
>Nobody wants to be first in this space.

Yeah, there already was a first in this space, and it went down in flames.
I just had this discussion at work... I think that it is implicit in this context that a minimum amount of technical ability be met. Otherwise we'd just be hiring "nice people". Obviously we don't do that.
The title of this post is a question: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

My comment is addressing this question, and more generally, this recent interest in posting your salary.
...and the rest of the world just got it for nothing, since USA had enough momentum to inflict policies on the whole world.

Well, at least now we know who is guilty. Now we should make sure that this crime is resolved with punishment.
I just read an ad on a "Who's Hiring?" HN post which had one of these right in the requirements:

"You have a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Degree from a top tier school."

I wonder how much longer positions with requirements like that go unfilled compared to more open-minded ones.
ASP.NET MVC 6 is RC and pretty close to stable and will support cross platform CoreCLR out of the box - Microaoft will probably start offering Linux packages with it on Azure when it's released.

But even if you need something right now and CoreCLR doesn't cut it Mono compatibility story got a lot better because they could just take stuff from CoreCLR and other OSS drops from Microsoft recently - so I would say cross platform developmebt with .NET is much less painfull than it was even 2 years ago.

Even more JetBrains is working on a C# IDE so you won't be stuck with MonoDevelop/VS code on non widows platforms.

I'm thinking most of this will be out during BUILD.

Last few posts here make me sound like a .NET advocate :D For the last year I've been doing C++/Python/Dart/JavaScript.

I also used Clojure/JVM before - I'm not one of those "full stack .NET" developers - I just had great expiriences developing on the .NET platform, been keeping an eye on the ecosystem and I hate when people dismiss it on false assumptions - there is some top of the line stuff in that platform that would make my life as a developer better on a daily basis.
Also in the hundreds of interviews club for Facebook and I also do not care about ++ or standard library memorization stuff. I think the recruiter is just trying to do as much as he/she can for you, because our recruiters are inherently invested in the candidates for obvious reasons.
Enh. Fair point, but if it's inactive, it kind of hurts at the same time. Everybody waiting for somebody else to fix a problem, nobody's contributing so we won't worry about issues or pull requests...
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You get what you pay for.

A while ago I bought a Sandisk 64 GB USB flash at Costco on clearance for what I thought was a good price. I wanted to use it to back up a laptop on which I don't have too many files, so 64 GB was just right.

Big mistake! Huge!

I formatted the flash and started backup and it was pathetic. A MB per second write speed. If that. I gave up after a few hours.

I went back to my tiny Apricorn backup drive, which I love, and which uses a 1.8" hard drive internally. Zoom. Easily 10x faster than that Sandisk flash.

As I said, you get what you pay for.
So localize in English, German, and French (maybe Spanish) and don't bother with an Android version, good to know.
I drop my iPhone 6, but never dropped my iPhone 4. They've gotten too big to hold, I'll be buying one of these.
Most rental car companies (Budget, Enterprise, Thrifty, etc) require a deposit which is held against your credit/debit card. It's typically >=$200, but they usually require a larger deposit if you use a debit card. I've been required to put down $400 in the past. They often don't make this deposit obvious, but you will definitely see it reflected in your card's account activity.

Would genuinely love to hear about companies that don't require this deposit.
I should do that sometime. For some reason I'm much more inspired to write my ideas in a forum like HN than I am in a blog post or writeup.
Not just

Of course, we sleep because we evolved from other forms that already slept!

The understanding of sleep isn't complete without taking into account why animals sleep.

Sleep could have gotten more complicated during evolution; acquiring new functions.
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> Very skeptical this little company can go all the way with this.

I suspect they intend to become a bigger company.
Reading the source code of the docker container they use (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docker/blob/ma...) it seems like it's reading the available versions from an URL (http://storage.googleapis.com/gae_node_packages/node_version...) which points to some Google hosted storage. So I'm guessing they have some process to update this list after a new release and also caches the versions themselves.
Apple’s events are getting predictable. Time for a refresh?
That's a very good point. I once applied for a job that had an interesting pay: a little over 100K. But that doesn't tell you anything, right? It's the benefits:

1. 8 days PTO - yeah...seriously, so basically no time off

2. distance to work was about 20-30 minutes -- not bad

3. LOW relative cost of living -- that 100K STRETCHES FAR, unlike in the bay area

4. no health insurance, no coverage

5. no retirement benefits

6. 70-80ish hours (basically late nights + weekends) weeks prior to investor meetings, 60-70ish hours normally

Take it as you may but taking out just one of those points above changes your whole perspective on the job.
I generally don't support endowments. The ROI seems very poor: Only interest on the investment will be used for the cause you are supporting, and it will be for undetermined purposes in perpetuity. Also, a permanent source of funding could be a very serious problem, creating a disincentive to change.

If you were investing for personal profit rather than to support a cause, would you even consider an investment that offered those terms? Even fixed rate investments return your principal eventually.
> recruiters risk losing credibility with the engineers if the candidate is rejected or ends up being a bad hire

This isn't really a good way of looking at it. It should be more collaborative/problem solving rather than adversarial/blame-based.

"YOU didn't get ME the RIGHT candidate."
You raise some good points. If App Engine does not work for your project, there is always Container Engine (Which is hosted Kubernetes, so 100% OSS) and Compute Engine (plain old VMs).

2014 App Engine is also different from 2016 App Engine, hopefully a lot of the problems you had have been addressed.

(I work for Google Cloud Platform)
Lots of Apple products have things that only power users can find/use, even under Jobs. The design philosophy is that it's not require to use, but it's there if you want it and know what you're doing.
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David Dowley (one of the authors of the patch) posted some measurements on TPC-H Q1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332713

The machine has 4x E5-4620, so 32 physical cores. And with 30 workers it gets ~80% of the theoretical speedup. Not bad, I guess.
Take a look at tasytt.com .. we're a startup so we'll work with you but we're tackling this problem completely different than most. We take care of the forms and much more. Schedule a demo and tell them you spoke with Chris on HackerNews
Thank you! I definitely need to have a look at `pdr`, it looks very interesting.

`requirements.py` doesn't stand to be "the" universal solution to Python dependency problem. It's more like a sugar syntax for "simple" setups.
Because the convoluted process of getting Application B to work with an item created/edited by Application A is incredibly tedious in the iOS model. In my opinion, while it works well in single-app circumstances, iOS' model is completely backward, from a user standpoint. An app is simply a tool that allows me to accomplish some goal. So it's not that I want to mess with the file system as much as I want to work with some file, and the app-centric model robs you of a lot of productivity when trying to accomplish this - especially if you ever need to switch back and forth between apps to work on a single file.
I went through a period of thinking the same: sometimes it would seem to want to type a letter instead of triggering the cursor movement. I think the key is that you just keep your finger on the screen while applying a bit more pressure (press harder, then release the pressure without lifting off the screen) to trigger the trackpad mode. I now find it 100% reliable and can't figure out how to trigger the odd behaviour I was previously experiencing.
The problem is that an Ivy League school is paying the expenses of managing investments worth a gazillion dollars instead of focusing on research and education. Money management is not what the universities are good at, and it's not what they are for. But in fact, the "hedge fund problem" is not the only problem American universities have - they are also running sports teams, housing, construction and real estate operations and whatnot. It's as if the purpose for which they were created has become an afterthought.
There IS a guarantee this will happen.
I agree. I built a huge python app on AppEngine back in 2009-2012 called Vroomtrap which was an app for tracking speed traps. The BigTable data store wasn't ever designed for multiple inequality queries (e.g. where X is between two points AND Y is between two points -- basically a bounding box) I ended up creating a GeoHashing function but I would have been better off not wasting so much time going down the AppEngine route in the first place. The only thing I have on app engine is a URL shorter which was a 3 hour project that I had to do for GetAround.

Last year I moved a personal project (https://www.gitignore.io) over to Heroku and it's been awesome. My whole application runs in memory on a single free dyno. the service uptime has been great and Heroku's pipeline system (Which is basically like Amazon's internal pipeline system) is really good for testing in staging and then going to production.
I was tempted to write `StarCraft is not WarCraft.' in the first place, but I managed to resist the pun. Seems like you've yielded.
I was wondering something similar, can I just use Dr Racket for this? :)
> Endless feature improvements?

I'd be ok without these, thanks. So many improvements turn out to be regressions in usability, causing and endless cycle of "now how do I do X today?"

The compatibility updates, well, I don't recall actually seeing a lot of those day to day. So, not a lot of benefit there either.
This is like asking if it's possible to use a screwdriver as a multitool. It is possible (casting the iPad screen to a monitor, for example), but why not just buy the multitool? A Macbook Air is close to the same price as an iPad Pro and does everything you want, and I'd argue that a Surface Pro 4 does the split-personality thing even better than any Mac product.
Great idea. The airline industry needs innovation around product and service to get out of it's current race to mediocrity.

2 questions:

1) Why 2.2 times the speed of sound? (Why not aim higher?)

2) Where will you get the capital? Seems like a very big ask compared to the typical company coming out of YC.

Again - good luck! I would love to clip 4 hours from the SF to NYC flight.
You can't really argue that if it doesn't do the same thing, though
Seems doubtful. The overwhelming majority of the CVEs have external reporters cited.

Instead, I expect iOS 10 and the fall hardware announcements are where we'll start seeing signs of any really big changes, e.g. an Apple push to seal itself (and government actors) completely away from customer data access.
You need some way to have this method receive receive test content from a fake (mock) service. Manipulate that mock input and test the public interface. It's enough.
Amongst it's repsonse, StartSSL should start logging every granted certificate to a Certificate Transparency log. From now on they need to provide the transparency so that site owners can verify there are no phony certificates being issued for their domains.