skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, are you saying that encrypted contact discovery has been removed because it's "hard to do"??

I would think that's a pretty big change to be announced other than a blog post. I reread the post and the only mention is "For TextSecure, however, we’ve grown beyond the size where that remains practical, so the only thing we can do is write the server such that it doesn’t store the transmitted contact information, inform the user, and give them the choice of opting out".

That's pretty WTF to me. Disabling access to contacts now and back to wishing for my unicorn messaging app.
Gordon Moore created Moore's law and Andy Grove made it happen.

Loved this book http://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challeng...
Yes because it would open Apple up to someone leaking the details of that deal. After the stand Tim Cook took that would not go down well.
Just what I'm noticing as well. Lots of people in London are earning terrible wages for developers.
On Disobedience
Couldn't they seek something like a declaratory judgement?
The article title "...with Schools Attached" misses an important fact about most universities. The purpose of most universities is to engage in scientific research. They are not schools, not primarily. They are chiefly research institutions that, yes, have schools attached.

For more about this, read: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/05/29/...

> [T]here is one misimpression that people seem to have, that might as well be corrected before any hasty actions are taken: the purpose of Harvard is not to educate students. If anything, its primary purpose is to produce research and scholarly work. Nobody should be surprised that the gigantic endowment isn’t put to use in providing top-flight educational experiences for a much larger pool of students; it could be, for sure, but that’s not the goal. The endowment is there to help build new facilities, launch new research initiatives, and attract the best faculty. [...]

> Don’t believe me? Here is the test: when was the last time Harvard made a senior tenure offer to someone because they were a world-class educator, rather than a world-class researcher? Not only is the answer “never,” the question itself is somewhat laughable.

> This is not a value judgment, nor is it a particular complaint about Harvard. It’s true of any top-ranked private research university, including Caltech. (Note that Caltech has over 1200 faculty members and fewer than 900 undergraduate students.) And it is not a statement about universities in general; many large public universities, and smaller liberal-arts schools, take education very seriously as a primary mission. This is by no means incompatible with being a top-notch research institution — the physics departments at places like Berkeley or UC Santa Barbara would be the envy of almost any private research university. But those places also take their educational mission very seriously, which Harvard, honestly, does not.
If it's the quirk I think it is, you can also tap and hold the link and drag down a bit. The link often then activates.
It seems like early Intel and HP higher ups were more in tune with egalitarianism as well not being aloof or unapproachable. The Moore foundation has been an amazing charity. Here in Santa Cruz, Andy Grove built a house out on one of the streets near the beach between Santa Cruz and Capitola. He worked with neighbors (according to local press) to not be out of place in the design, etc.

Contrast that with Zuckerberg and his recent building issues, or how many modern C-levels want their out of the way offices, etc.

Maybe it was just a different time.
Its not just that. I waited patiently for 9.4 to come out as I needed just that functionality of indexable JSONB for something I'm working on. It was pointless for me to start the project without it. 9.4 came out better than I could have expected. Then followed by Upserts, and now this... I'm directly and personally affected by each point release. Its fantastic.
OK, why not you? If this is so easy? You remind me of the people that laugh at modern art, in the MOMA, and say, "I could do this myself." Think beyond the first derivative.
You're assuming that the return on investing in the students, in whatever form, would be less than the endowment returns. The endowment money doesn't come from nothing, and, frankly, the larger your endowment gets, the more likely you are going to just revert to the standard market return, and the more beneficial it would be to invest in your students.

It's not the cut and dry issue you seem to be implying.
Yeah plus the integration (on Apple devices only, but hey) is superb.

I quite often use the automatic feature on my iPhone "open what you are reading in safari on the Mac Pro on your phone".

Then I leave work, commute home reading that, and then my Mac at home senses what's open in my phone's Safari and it's one click to open it on the big screen.

Safari is actually a pretty great browser, too. Faster than any other for me, more stable, less battery drain on laptops.

I still use Chrome and Firefox all day long too, but mainly for specific development chores, or to stay logged into services with my work account, while Safari is logged into my personal account.

Safari is, IMO, pretty great!
Andy Grove, Taught Silicon Valley How to Do Business, Dies at 79
Yes, fuel is the major operating cost of an airliner...
There needs to be a constitutional amendment blocking the federal government from this type of business disruption in the future.
May? That's rich. They've always had the ability to circumvent the encryption on Farook's phone since day one. They could have made a byte-by-byte copy of the encrypted drive and bruteforced copies over and over. It's just that they prefer to coerce Apple into making it easier for them by making GovtOS.
I hope so much that you'll find this comment in a decade and laugh about how wrong you were!
"Bombardier" is French for 'bomber', an aircraft built to drop bombs; certainly a curious choice for a commercial aircraft supplier.
20. You can check because they're a green user, and they have one comment, from their profile.
I want to do it right, so I want to ask you:

Question 1: Is there a de facto API/service description language standard out there?

Optional question 2: Which would be the best choice for a decentralised internet of services?
> 1/10th the price.

they always said talk was cheap, but you've handily put an exact figure on it - 90% off!
No, that's not the case. Managed VMs is a more flexible environment than our "GAE Standard" environment, but (at least currently) comes with some of the tradeoffs of a full VM (startup time, minimum size, etc.). If you've got say a vanilla python app that doesn't need custom native modules, GAE Standard is great! If you want to run something we don't currently support, then Managed VMs gives you the flexibility a Compute Engine VM can offer you (run whatever you like).

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, not App Engine but I'm familiar enough with their thinking.
Grouping builds based on common configuration I don't see as being terribly odd - reduces the chance of errors and increases efficiencies.

But that said - there's been 70Ds been showing up for a while, so I suspect it was just just done for the initial rush of orders.
Please tell me they fixed flexbox rendering? Chrome and FF have had that for a while, while Safari has been buggy/malrenderish.
and make sure billing is enabled !
It's just an abbreviation. They use the full "web API" in the sixth paragraph.
It will be a very interesting study for future generations, should we substantially legalize recreational drugs, on all of the follow-on effects.

For example, many categories of police activity (raids, traffic stops) will become harder to justify; the dollar cost of drugs going down by an order of magnitude; immigration enforcement.
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep544/ might be helpful
but it's there if you want it and know what you're doing.

Yeah, but there is a difference between a software feature that, once written, would generally take more effort to remove, and a hardware feature that costs money for every unit you ship.
How gifted, low-income kids are left behind
> A single unproductive developer will cause us to miss the scheduled release date of a feature.

The way you phrase it implies that it actually matters if you miss a release. If that is the case then why would you operate with such a lean team?

You have a bus factor of one.

This implies you are on the losing side of a political fight...

Or it really doesn't matter to the org if you don't deliver (even if it matters to you personally)...

Or you haven't communicated the potential risks properly and senior management will get a huge shock when you don't deliver...

Etc
wow, this works.

The 3d touch 'trackpad' thing on the keyboard is great, but i could never get it to reliabily work... but i think using this (slight push, then harder again) makes it almost completely usable.
I don't see the issue with this. These are long term institutions. Many are centuries old. They should invest their money for the long term and survive off the interest.

What's more remarkable is that people voluntarily donate money to them. Why would you do that? These institutions are not in need of cash by any means. And if you are going to be charitable, there are organizations where that money can do far more good, like the top Givewell charities.
Not to be flippant, but, it's a good thing Ben Franklin wasn't born in Zimbabwe!
It looks similar to the oden language.

https://github.com/oden-lang/oden
I read "why not?" as a rhetorical intro, similar to "now presenting!"
I just upvoted them again. That number is still at 20.

I wonder if they're seeing a higher number? Or maybe my upvotes aren't doing anything? (Except I just upvoted you, and that seemed to increase your karma.)
I would start by getting industry experience and understanding how some of these trading firms are businesses, not speculative machines. From that understanding, you should be able to have a better idea of where algos might provide some sustainable value.

Source: I was offered a spot at CTC, wound up at a large bank. Maybe the better wording would be, "truly understand market making and market mechanics, and where improvements there could be valuable, and then see if algos could solve that problem." Algos have solved lots of problems but when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Technology was the limiting factor in markets for awhile, and right now the technology isn't the bottleneck, it's the politics and the people - see Bitcoin. But before you go full Marc Andressen, remember that finance is fundamentally about using the massive trust and resource allocation system within the human society, and so to think every valuable problem in the space can be solved by an algo may be dated thinking.
A Decade of Twitter
vim. /ducks
"and then" implies a sequence of events that doesn't match reality. This has been the price structure for iOS devices for many years. In any case, I don't think Apple has moral qualms making cash grabs, being that they are so into profit.
Frelancers/consultants, especially remote, making >200k - how? Please share your wisdom
The Obama Doctrine: his hardest decisions about US role in the world
Using an alpha (developer) or unstable nightly is not a reasonable alternative. Now if they actually produce the unbranded version of Firefox like they keep saying they will it'll be a start.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, and any coalition is going to have members who are there for different reasons. An individual person has a hard enough time putting together a coherent philosophy, and if a party is just a sum of its parts, it's easy to believe that the philosophy is going to be less coherent.

Which isn't an excuse for inconsistent or conflicting behavior. Working to restrict access to family planning under the banner of "pro-life" while cutting food and health benefits to poor children and their families under the banner of "cutting waste" is reprehensible.
One Weird Trick for Keeping Female Employees from Quitting
I know what you mean. Coming from a C background, I had the hardest time adjusting in the last few years to what "web" guys mean when they say "API".. but, language evolves, and I've come to accept it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
What an unfortunate attitude for him to take, promoting a poor quality working environment merely because it anecdotally didn't create problems for him, thereby damaging others who may have physiological conditions (such as misophonia) or who may be more strongly introverted and need privacy for productivity.

And how bad for us now that we laud such poor anecdotes and allow words like "egalitarian" to be associated with such dysfunctional, unhealthy, and productivity-damaging workspace. It's similar to hearing a 1950s endorsement for cigarettes and finding it endearing, instead of realizing that while it may have been a product of its time, the full light of data and progressive analysis has shown how horrible it really is.
Rethink What You “Know” About High-Achieving Women
Yahoo Parries Trouble on Two Fronts at Once
There is substantial technical debt introduced by copy and pasting code. I've made a rule for myself: Never paste more than three lines of code at once. It forces me to understand the code I'm copying, and it keeps my work tidy.
So wait.. did we just do all this and end up at an operating system like a desktop OS that can only support Java apps?
Except, they treat their researchers like total crap. Taking 2/3 of all grant money for overhead? Salaries for 45 year olds with 20 years of experience that are the same or worse as 25 year old with zero experience in private sector. Publish or perish? This whole thing you say these schools focus on, research? Pathetic. And trust me I know I've been at all the top schools and am now a professor.
I think scott_s is right here. Also: being more interested in being correct than in actually maximally conveying regret and penitance is not a good look. You're hearing -- now from more than one person -- that looking someone in the eye and saying "I'm sorry." has a psychological effect that is stronger than the mere semantic meaning of the phrase.
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On the plus side, using a card gives --you-- everyone a good list so you can see what you've spent

FTFY.

The modern world seems to be one in which business, governments, and hackers know exactly what we are doing.
It's frustrating, because it is the only social network that I'm using but I don't actually think twitter has much of a future at all in the longer term.

If they levied a $1 charge on tweets by people with more than 1K followers I'm sure that would go a long way towards making ends meet. On top of that open up the firehose and the api and it might just fly.

But with the current six-different-directions-at-once strategy I don't see it going anywhere at all.
A Tribute to Andy Grove
"I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt like a misfit associating with oddballs." - Steve Roper, Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber.

Perhaps that is less true of Groves, who came from the lineage of Bell and Shockley. I'm sure it applies to the great technologists of our future.
Answer 1: Swagger is the de facto. It seems to have low actual usage, but high midshare. As time goes on, I expect there to be a much higher usage of Swagger, since pretty much all API services accept it.

(Other options include RAML, Blueprint and IO Docs, but Swagger has the momentum)
The argument is that, with few exceptions, anyone operating at this size is basically going to hit average market returns. A couple of these Universities seem to have particularly gifted investment managers, but, even there it's debatable.

It's the same old story everywhere: Do you stick the money in a 0.2% fee index fund and ride the wave, or do you spend 20% of your returns on fees in the hope you're going to get lucky?
The company is named after Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who built his first snow vehicle at 15.

http://www.bombardier.com/en/about-us/history.html

> Today’s Bombardier grew out of a young mechanic’s inventive genius and entrepreneurial spirit. Born in 1907, Joseph-Armand Bombardier builds his first “snow vehicle” at the ripe age of 15. His motivation? To help people travel across the snow-covered roads of rural Québec in Canada.

> In 1937, J.-Armand achieves his first major commercial success with the launch of the seven-passenger B7 snowmobile.
>"Most of the libraries I've looked at historically were comically incapable,"

He apparently did not look at iText, which can generate docs with support for all major fonts and bidirectional writing, forms (interactive and not), and sign them digitally.
Im seriously thinking ditching Apple for good now
We all know that Apple's quality is slowly but surely degrading and its been on my mind for some time now to find alternatives for all the Apple devices im using. I have macbooks i use for work and at home, I use mac mini as my server and of course I use bunch of iphones/ipads.

The last straw for me was 10 minutes ago, when I updated my iOS to 9.3 to get the long waited and probably one of the really useful features Apple has produced in a long time, the Night Shift, and only to learn that my device, iphone5 is not supported ! WTF Apple !? Whats so special about changing the color gamut/temperature that iPhone5 cant pull off ? Am I missing anything here ?
Death by Gentrification
Nice post. Just wanted to ask about the funding situation after YCF. Are the companies in a position to receive funding or is too early? And does YC help in introducing you to investors?

Were there any single founders during the first batch?
From a product standpoint it doesn't really make sense. Maybe they're just refurbishing old iPhone 5's and they can't build in the 3D touch capability.
High Output Management has dramatically improved the culture, communication and output of our company. I live a better life because of what this man learned and passed on. Thanks Mr. Grove, you are a giant.
Each person logs off at a different time, it's one game for everyone not a single player game.
Some of those are derivative fields from fields listed in the spreadsheet.

Non-pay benefits are a function of your employer.

Distance to work is a function of where you live and where you work.

Cost of living is generally able to be eyeballed based on the location.
Would be nice if it had 'job responsibilities' and 'tech skills' fields
Sounds like ChocolatePi is looking for a physical book: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/1847563/
Back then money was based on precious metals, not monopoly money. Although Early America did have problems with hyperinflation from war debts. Anyway the point is the money is invested, so it's not literally just cash sitting in a vault, but is earning itself interest.
Can we get a black bar on top of HN?

RIP
Cubes dysfunctional? Interesting. Your opinions are strong.

I prefer working at home, but individual offices were a nice touch if I had to be in the office, the worst of all worlds was "open offices".

A senior executive not using his role to be away from the other employees is incredibly rare these days.
Now I want the hardcover edition. (to put it on display on my desk of course)
Just watched the 1min Youtube demo for it. Looks interesting-ish.

Stuff that stuck out to me:

* Initial bootup sequence (first few seconds of Youtube video) is OSX verbose mode boot-like

* IPv4 addresses everywhere

* Command syntax is Unix-ish

* ... but also has mentions of Windows flavour "C:" drive paths (but with Unix slashes).

* Then it BSODs (complete with .dll error message about ATI driver causing kernel corruption. Who'd AMD annoy on their dev team? ;>)

Not sure if I'd like it, or the inconsistent mashups of familiar things into not-really-right other things would bug me.

Still... might be worth a look.
The violence wasn't from drug users, it was from gangs fighting over profits from illegal trade. The war created that violence in the first place.

As another commenter noted, the parallel would be the rise of organized crime during alcohol prohibition.
Because only customer support matters
One case where C# is far superior to Java is generics.

Generics were a cutting-edge feature in 2005. Microsoft took the opportunity to start from scratch, and released the .Net Framework 2.0 without backwards-compatibility, and with full support for generics. A List<String> is actually a List of String.

When Sun released Java 5, they didn't want to disrupt the established Java ecosystem. Their implementation is called "type erasure". As an example, List<String> is actually just List<Object>, with automatic runtime typecasting to String. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/erasur...

Java's solution works well enough, but it breaks down in certain scenarios, such as multiple levels of generics. For example, when getting an element from a List<List<String>>, Object is not cast to List<String> (which doesn't really exist), but merely List.

C#'s implementation of generics became even more sophisticated with C#4, which introduced covariance and contravariance. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee207183.aspx
RotorBuilds
That's awesome, but if the GP strategy has a good enough chance of helping you get to your goal sooner than otherwise, totally go for it.
" All we had to do was download an app and click on some mysterious Chinese advertisements to top up our data. "

This is the sort of shit that keeps network security people awake at night. I bet they enabled third-party app downloads on their Android phones and uninstalled some unknown .apk

The future business leaders of America... fuck...
Highly recommend Swimming Across - Andy's autobiography of his childhood. The biography Life and Times of an American picks up from there with the first ~50-75 pages recounting the story Andy told in his own words in Swimming Across. Remarkable story - a life well-lived in the face of incredible early challenges to be sure.
UPS's clients are the senders, so as long as it makes sense to them... Up your Packages with UPS!
Android does native binaries as well.

I refuse to let the 90s have vindication!
Actually, if you price us up against other _linen_ bedding you’ll see that we’re incredibly competitive. Something comparable would cost upwards of $600.

Once you factor in the fact that linen lasts up to 10x as long as cotton the price becomes much more stomachable.
Bunking with the troops sounds a hell of a lot nicer as a gesture than what the usual exec in a company would have done: give himself a corner office with a nice view while the rest of the company spends their time in windowless cubicles.

He wasn't promoting it per se, he was merely using it. Also, I think it is in poor taste to use this moment to attempt to draw attention away from the matter at hand to make it seem like he purposefully did something negative.
Unfortunately browser text resizing is fairly glitchy, at least in my experience with FF and Chrome.
This is nothing special in iOS terms, most point releases have security release notes that are often even longer than this one.
It's possible that you're one of the unlucky people who falls into the combination you described above. Unfortunately, even the best system currently available will often have cracks, and you seem to have found the one that currently exists. The vast majority of the time, kids with rich parents have a substantially blessed childhood & family-support, which justifies them having to pay substantially more in tuition fees.