skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall, I get the gist of the article, and it makes sense. Some counter-points:

> Mike has worked on systems that can handle multiple orders of magnitude more load, but his experience is, apparently, irrelevant.

Did Mike build/architect said system, or was instrumental in said system reaching massive performance? As an MSFT contractor, it seems doubtful. Our team had a "Principal Architect" that did that sort of heavy lifting.

> (3), combined with (1), gets at what TrendCo’s real complaint with Mike is. He’s not their type.

Generalizing isn't good, but in my experience as a former MSFT contractor, there is a lot of stigma on A- employees, deserved or otherwise. Part of it happens because FTE's that are let go for performance reasons, end up rehired as contractors by shops like VOLT. These folks know the ins-and-outs of MSFT, and the bar for hiring contractors is much lower.

It's super easy to apply for jobs--just click a button, and you're applied. My last open rec receieved over 100 submissions in less than a week. As a hiring manager, I need to quickly go through those submissions and get back to the candidates I want to speak with. For better or worse, I've come up with filters that I use to quickly sort candidates into reject or contact bucket.

I'll definitely contact non-ideal candidates, but your resume should give me an indication that you're worth considering if you don't fit the standard mold of:

"Worked for a solid tech company, familiar with recent tech stacks, has some sort of successful side project, has a 4-year CS degree."

If you don't fit that mold, but are awesome. Great. Prove it (on your resume plz).
This Is Apple’s New Four-Inch iPhone SE – Everything We Know
Hey HN!

We just finished our book on Advanced Swift, and I think you folks are the perfect crowd. There's also an online preview =). Let me know if you have any questions!
Yeah but the beep had an envelope to it. There was definitely a strong attack followed by a less-than-square wave rather than a uniform beep. Though whether that was part of the sample (which the mac SE definitely could've played) or an artifact of some analogue circuitry I don't know.
iPhones would be amazing if it could be expanded with microSD!
This is a user preference thing. I cannot stand using the smaller sized iPhones, my fingers and thumbs are too large to accurately use the screen. My vision isn't very good either so I wind up having to squint and/or hold small phones very close to my face.

I love my gigantic Nexus 6, some people hate it. I like that I can make the text big and still see enough of it on one screen. I can accurately input text, and comfortably hold the phone in my hand.

At this point if somebody told me that my large phone was a poor user experience and I had to use a smaller phone, I would be very upset.
Please, someone provided me a single rational and irrefutable argument for there even being a 16 GB version.

People buy them.
I was familiar with the lotteries (didn't participate -- I just put my receipts in the charity buckets or the trash) but had NO IDEA this was why. I just assumed it was because the culture is just much more amenable to gambling (which I think is also true, but might not be the reason it's tied to receipts).

If this is truly the reason for the lotteries, is the government / tax agency giving out the prizes? I never bothered to look closely but it always seemed something run by those businesses.
We aspire to have smooth edges (except on firefox) - Jony Ive
Similar experiences here. GT is very underrated outside of the southeast corridor. I'm hoping this will get better with time.
A "Super. Computer." with an "OS" which I can not use to write a program to run on that same "OS".
microservice is a horrible horrible idea to uproot your existing architecture or build on top of.
This is almost funny. The reason I have a LEAF (see my post above) and not a Model S is because it doesn't fit small people. Everything about that car seems to be built for the 6' tall person with no thought about those of us not that tall.

I'm 5'6. My wife is 5'1. When I test drove the Model S I found there was nearly 3' of foot room behind the driver seat. That doesn't really bother me, but it told me the car was made for taller people.

When my wife test drove the Model S, after adjusting the seat so she could reach the peddles, the drivers should belt went right across her neck. After 15 minutes of driving she had a noticeable red mark there. She was unhappy to say the least. We went to adjust the seat belt anchor to make the belt not cross her neck.

We were surprised that an $80,000 car doesn't have adjustable seat belt anchors. ($80K as we would have configured it)

The "salesperson" (are they called that?) in the Tesla store suggested we get some kind of cover for the shoulder belt to avoid it irritating my wife's neck. My wife was "you mean I need to jury-rig something to make this $80K car comfortable to drive?"

We've never bought expensive cars; a Honda minivan was the most we'd ever paid for a car. That was comfortable and cost 1/3 the Model S. My wanting to buy one was already stretching reasonable limits. The seat belt issue made the Model S a non-option as far as my wife was concerned.
There are many cloud IDEs. The Chrome Inspector is slowly turning into an IDE.

Google has their own IDE project based on HTML/JS.

I'm sure with some tweaks you could probably run Atom, too
I know this is the case for many people but I'm not a big fan of streaming media to my phone. It's expensive, unnecessary (for my use case) and too unreliable to my liking. I sometimes do it but I just don't rely on it.
Interesting. The syntax and the memory management is something I liked almost immediately, even when it's totally alien to other languages.

Once I got it, I wondered why are not other languages cool like this.

And then I never used it again in real life (since back then nobody had Apple, and then I moved to javascript...)
wow that escalated.
The organization's webpage is not working and there are no visible people in the organization. It's probably better to keep mrusty on anima-engine for a while. By the way, I plan to use mrusty to add an mruby API and scripting to Anima.
Finding it hard to get excited about anything tablet-related these days...

I had the iPad 1 on day one, but the whole tablet movement never really lived up to the hope/hype.
Again, seems like a much simpler problem to solve rather than super-sonic passenger aircraft.
According to the page, they will have dedicated support people for these customers.
Now if they ditch the flat UI nonsense and back to the original look & feel, they may actually see me upgrade from the best iPhone ever made - the iPhone 4.
They were great machines, the Indy, the O2, Octane, etc. At the time there was really nothing comparable from a graphics performance perspective. However, even the latest mips SGI machine the tezro gets absolutely spanked by a modern machine in every possible way. They still have a premium price tag, probably due to rarity and legacy software in a few industries, but have poor performance vs alternatives.

I'm putting my hope on raptor engineering or another firm delivering a Power based system, the days of the great unix workstation providers are in the past.
I still don't understand how people can spend so much money on a small device like this. I guess I'm not so much on the move, but to me, $200 is the most I would spend on such device format. I have a $60 Huawei, and yes it's not the best android, but I'll always think that software should be adapted to take less cycles, instead of just having a umpf-ier CPU. HTML is a good example of that. There should be HTML formats that are optimized for smartphones, like preparsed HTML.

Maybe expensive patents will expire soon, which might make smartphones cheaper and cheaper, but still.
Ofcourse everybody is a little skeptical but I think it's great that you took the first step!

I hope in 10 years or so we say: yeah 10 years back we laughed at Boom but now they are booming business.
Select Edition. We've moved to car models. CE, LE, XLE, and LX are next.
I have no reason to suspect this isn't the case, but does anyone know if the iPhone SE has the same glass as the 6s?
Is SFO-NYC a feasible route for Boom?
It might happen.
My 80GB 5th gen video iPod (that's right, the clickwheel one) just gave up the ghost. Right now I'm limping on with an old 4GB iPhone 3 hand-me-down that I'm using as an iPod, since my Nexus 4 doesn't have the storage, nor battery capacity to be my music listening device.

At this point I've started to come to terms with the fact that for the next few years, my phone will not be able to be my primary portable music device because of storage.

On that note, are there any reasonable high-capacity alternatives for a portable music device that don't require streaming? I want a small form factor, large HDD with a headphone jack and a good battery and solid interface. I'd considered a new iPod Touch, but to get even 64GB is $300, which seems a bit much.

Curious what recommendations others have here.
The 747 efficiency drops off sharply above M0.85 cruise. I remember reading that the VC-25 (747-200 based) 100% thrust cruise speed is around M0.96 with considerable range penalty. The 747-400 has newer engines but pretty close 100% cruise speed. This is above the approved Mmo for the 747 and not authorized operationally.

Test pilots have reported that a Gulfstream G550 airframe can handle supersonic flight, and the BR710 turbofan engines can handle it. The limit is the engine intake design.

With an optimized intake, its entirely possible the fuel consumption at M2.2 would be comparable to ~M0.98
... and don't forget androgynous, genderfluid, intergender, demigender, amalgagender

http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Non-binary

God knows you wouldn't want to upset 0.0000001% of the entire population by leaving out their special category.
Netflix takes down several hundred torrent websites
Not really into 4inch phone tbh
Why did you decide to create micro and go-platform instead of contributing to go-kit (https://github.com/go-kit/kit)?
Jarod from Twilio here. Twilio Tutorials are a new documentation format we're releasing today. We heard from lots of Twilio developers, and non Twilio developers that the way they best learned was just having a colleague run through some code with them... a sort of annotated walkthrough of why and how they built something. What we're launching today is straight from the brains of hundreds of web developers who told us what they wanted. We hope it helps pave the path to production, and we 'd love to hear what you think of it. If you have any feedback for our team we'll be lurking on this post to field questions and hear ideas.
> The AWS teams managed to see the formal specifications are a good idea and have been better for it since.

Can you elaborate on that?
Definitely. I plan to blog my experience with hosted CI options. I have a paragraph in the CD tutorial that discusses why Capistrano felt heavy-handed. Thanks for your interest!
This actually does remove one pain point of buying these services. If you ever been on the Comcast or ATT website, you know how annoying they are.

They won't show you the options you want, and navigating them is a nightmare. They upsell like crazy there.

At least here it's like ordering anything else on Amazon.

I think that's a pretty worthy improvement.

I do notice they did keep Comcast's deceptive marketing though. Under 10Mbps -- "1 device at a time", "Single user".
StartSSL domain validation vulnerability
Nice try. ;-)

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/#computationally-secur...
I bought the phone with the largest battery and thus the longest battery life and the fewest "Oh, shit" moments when I'm traveling to conferences or out on my mountain bike. The phone with the largest battery happened to have a larger screen glued to its back.

I'm sure I'm representative of a market segment, although possibly not the only market segment.
So every time a faster processor comes out, the MSRP should increase?

First time this happens in a while, as far as I can recall. FWIW I agree with you, Apple is basically forcing you to pay for the iPad Air + memory upgrade (but worse!) if you want this device. It's an obvious margin-increasing move on a product with declining popularity.

Best to wait until it's inevitably discounted everywhere.
Have a source for that? That one's novel to me.
Interesting to watch. Apple always has a sort of "A/B" test going on with overlapping generations of their products.

My take away was that people really liked the keyboard/pen additions, so now they are testing size versions. The camera is interesting too since it always looks uncomfortable when people are trying to take pictures with their tablet. More processor power is a given and it reduces the number of "tricks" that you have to do to get smooth action on the tablet. The lack of LTE support is odd. One thing I would really like to see the Surface line pick up is built in LTE support, they had a great radio team from Nokia that could help there.

The true tone thing is also interesting. I wonder if it will be distracting like the auto intensity balancing some early TVs do.

Naming system remains confusing for consumers. The only reliable metric is 'by release date and size'.

I like my surface book that I bought, but it doesn't replace my iPad because of lack of LTE, the new iPad Pencil is a win (I struggled for years for a decent writing experience on the iPad).

One of those markets where I wish I could bring my vision of what I'd like to market and see how well it was received.
I use the --cf-invalidate flag(s) with s3cmd -- but for something with the usage patterns of tumblr, might be better to use a * invalidation so you don't have to pay too much for them. 24 hour invalidation would be confusing for tumblr-type things. I see the article posted today but the homepage doesn't have it? Very confusing.
Just curious -- why Instagram's API?
Git – Compare branch to develop
I just value my own time. It's not entitlement, it's merely knowing what my free time is worth
I don't care how small the device is - I use my cell phone a lot every day, and my business depends on it. For a lot of people it's the primary computer, primary communication device, primary camera, etc.
> there is a lot of stigma on A- employees,

FYI, contractors are v-.
> they want to make sure it is only used to add a quick way to do small things.

I don't understand this point at all. What does it have to do with not including the feature on a smaller device? "Because it might be used too much" makes no sense.
>Look at how Google has changed their hiring practices because hiring is close to impossible to get right

How has Google changed their hiring practices?
> NATing that it is mentally easier

"Because it's easier" is a terrible reason to break the internet and limit the development of networking software such that proper direct-connections (in either peer-or-peer or client-server style) are useless and a centralized 3rd party is required to negotiate the connection and/or manage the NAT hole-punching.

You're talking about convenience for a specific set of tools, when the problem is about freedom to publish without middlemen.

> a way to centralize traffic by some rogue ISP

ISPs have little[1] to do with this. I'm not talking about centralization by the ISPs; I'm talking about how network software such as VOIP should be making direct connections once the address is known, which is impossible due to NAT. Instead, we have Skype with Microsoft in a de facto position of control over a lot of the "voice chat" ecosystem.

> enables templates to be easily shared and understood

I'm sure the file-format for those templates can be extended to support a placeholder/variable/macro for local addresses.

> NATing behind the POP of the customer

That's my entire point. This is how the internet was turned into a "two tier" system, where some hosts can use listen(2)/accept(2) usefully, but everyone else has to ask permission of the incumbent feudal lord for permission if they want to accept a connection.

You seem to prefer trading that ability for an internet that resembles the "cable tv" model instead of a network of equal peers (in the protocol). I hope having convenient firewall templates was worth it.

[1] other than dragging their feet on IPv6 for the last ~15 years, which removes the need for any type fo NAT
The thing is, at the edges of people's knowledge there are two issues.

One is, people want to demonstrate what they know about the topic, even if they can't answer the specific question. If you ask me to explain elliptic curve cryptography, I can tell you that it's useful because it uses smaller keys then prime based RSA crypto, and that's something I'd want to mention to indicate that, despite the fact that I'd need to look at a book or writeup to actually implement elliptic curve cryptography and I'm not sure I can verbally explain the math behind it, I at least know something about it.

The second is, at the limits of my domain knowledge, I may not know what I know and don't know. Limits are fuzzy, and I may feel like I have a pretty good understanding of a linux file system from a user perspective (permissions, inodes, etc) but I couldn't implement one off the top of my head and I'm probably missing some important components. As an interviewee, I may have incorrect or incomplete knowledge, but not know that. That doesn't mean I'm bullshitting intentionally, I'm just trying my best to answer the question I think you are asking.

Also I have to think that other developer cultures may have different values around these ideas then my own. Maybe the cultural expectation is to show confidence in my ability; I know that confident individuals are more likely to get hired or even apply for jobs, and that often job requirements are a screen for confidence.

Sure, I'd love if I knew every gap in my knowledge and every mistaken understanding I have, but I don't know how realistic it is to suggest a deliberate deception on the edge of a person's knowledge.

And that's setting aside whether the interview process is a good predictor of workplace behavior... I think we all know people who are excellent devs that can't write on a white board for shit, or who sit down for a good think for an hour and then come up with a perfect solution but aren't going to be able to write and simultaneously talk you through a solution to a 15 minute data algorithm question.
If they require a shot in the arm backed by massive investment, I don't think privately owned interest favouring statistically birth over competence is the right way.

It is basically both ploutocratie and major life changing decision who are escaping the control of the people. Hence not driven neither by the interests of Nations nor of the environment.

We are supposed to live in democracy where the people are free to decide to not trigger a massive extinction of species or fuel wars based on biasing the access to oil or cheap enslaved workforce.

I think we have the right to decide our own destiny. But, it is because I am an idealist still believing in the rights of the people, freedom and fair competition.
You're right with respect to network or maintenance issues, but customer service might be a "bad practice" that they can improve by outsourcing. Actually I expect Amazon will cancel this deal soonish, as it becomes clear that Comcast have to screw somebody, and if they can't reach the customer Amazon will get screwed instead.
This Is Our Reality: Why I Couldn't Hold Back About BART's Real Problem
It seems to me the most unscrupulous businesses in the United States all do their business by the books. No need to fudge it by failing to declare revenue. They just don't pay taxes, and it's all legal.

Cash businesses here do exist. My mechanic only takes cash, and he's a lot cheaper (and, incidentally, better and more honest with his customers) than other mechanics I've dealt with. I wonder how the IRS deals with that. I know that with people who get tips (waiters, hairdressers, etc.) they assume a certain percentage of income from cash tips.
One of my favorite memories growing up was riding a bike down a nature path while camping and suddenly realizing a large buck was about twenty feet away bounding along keeping pace with me.

It's a nice memory to offset the sheer terror of driving down a highway at night with heavy woods on either side waiting for a deer to stupidly jump out in front of you.
You can barely put a day's worth of music on your phone

You can get ≈16h of 128K VBR MP3 in a single gigabyte.

The real problem is video. Those guys are selling 4K devices that can barely hold a full event.
Direct government funding, or indirect funding via guaranteed contracts or similar, resulted in innovations such as:

- The internet

- The microchip

- Cellular communications

- GPS

- Solid state memory

- Capacitive sensors

Just the technologies that more or less every other Silicon Valley innovation is based upon.
They don't have a history of cancelling pre-orders. They have a history of cancelling pre-order, singular.

I get your overall point, I just think you're going too far with it and being rather disingenuous when you warn people that their reservations will be cancelled if they complain.
Real time face capture and re enactment
It's perhaps the difference between leg-tall and torso-tall.

I'm in the latter category and to this day I can't safely drive in most cars with a sunroof. Things have improved a lot over the last 20 years or so: it used to be I couldn't fit into any sedan less than full-size, whereas now many sedans other than subcompact are okay.
Apple's accessibility feature works the same way.
> Privacy does not fit in there because no state has ever granted its own citizens the notion of privacy espoused by certain modern proponents of the "right."

So, if a state did that, we would have a right to privacy from, at least, state and local government? We would only have to worry about federal warrants? That would be a step forward. And do we not have a federal right to travel? Would internal passports be kosher? Residency permits?

As for the framers and encryption, some of them knew how to encrypt documents and did in fact use cryptograms to encrypt their notes, not for communications purposes, and would not have hesitated to use cryptograms against government investigations. One-time pads were developed in the 19th c. and remain unbreakable if properly implemented.

But that's beside the point. They surely did not have airplanes, and if you adhere to reasonable regulations, you have a right to fly through the air, found nowhere in the Constitution.

Also, as far as I know, it's not a crime not to buy health insurance. I'd be taxed for not doing so. Background checks, like the required training for pilots, would be a reasonable regulation. As long as the laws are not discriminatory or impose a de facto prohibition, they are constitutional. This is unlike some of the laws regulating abortion providers that are clearly meant to drive them out of business. Those are unconstitutional, because women have a right to control their bodies derived from the right to privacy.
The problem with me is that I want high quality music on my phone (and I listen to it with high quality headphones all the time). Like, nothing except 320 kbps MP3 files and occasional lossless files that randomly find its way to my library. I have an Android smartphone that only supports memory cards up to 32 GB in size. It's a pain. I can't even get 1500 songs properly (keep in mind that the music is not the only thing that I have on the SD card, there's also my book library and some photos).

Streaming them in that quality for two to three hours in per day on average would take a lot of data.
Wow this deal could unintentionally solve problems for lots of people.
Just waiting for iOS 9.3 to drop today haha