skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really not the issue. Yes, I immediately used an email alias to bypass it, but that doesn't stop it from being a common and annoying issue with these types of access programs. I think of it the same way as people who kickstarted a product being told they're not getting access until a bunch of other people that signed up after it was fully funded.
Reminds me of Symantec's "we really like CT too, and have spontaneously decided to use it for all our certs" after Google ripped them a new one and demanded they do it: https://security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-c...
I believe there are PE's in the US - similar to UK CEng.
I worked on a team that had a list of "breakfastable offences" -- violating these rules meant you had to bring in breakfast for the whole team (donuts, bagels, whatever). One of them was "throwing someone under the bus." In conversations with anyone outside the team, you weren't allowed to single out a person as responsible for any particular bug/error/etc.

Granted, this is pretty vague (depending on how many "administrators" the company has), but it's still too specific for me.
What an aggressive answer. Should I come back in a few hours when everyone's had time to cool off?

I don't have anything against these features per se, but I can't help but notice when it's almost imposssible to turn them off and dark patterns are used to guide customers onto certain paths where more data is shared.
Then one starts to wonder for whose benefits are the features developed.

You are commiting an error when thinking that it's solely the responsibility of customers to take care of their privacy. There needs to be a strong legal framework and incentives should be set in such a way as to encourage respectful handling of customer data.

Because otherwise we end up in a situation where powerful corporations do as they wish as long as they stay within the too weak legal requirements (which they lobbied for) and it's the responsibility of the customer to:

* protect their privacy when everyone is trying to screw them and grab their data. Now they're a tech expert.

* protect their health because corps want to produce cheap goods and some ingredients cause e.g. birth defects or impotence. Now they're a chemistry expert.

* be careful what food they buy, because food nowadays is mass produced with bleach, antibiotics and hormones, pesticides & other nice stuff. Now they're an agricultural expert.

* and so on and so forth.

I hope it's clear that this doesn't work and the average citizen needs someone to have their back. In the USA they don't, so every corporation is trying its best to gather and mine private data.

And I am not picking on the poor at all, check your reading comprehension please. In fact I seem to be one of the few that is concerned about how the non-technical, and yes the poor too get screwed over by people recommending them that they use cheap products. If you want to recommend Android, take the time to educate people on what they are trading away for that affordable phone and tell them how to maintain their privacy.
" Mapping. Phone. Internet. Email. Alarm Clock. Calendaring. Photography."

All these are easily available for a fraction of iPhone's/iPad's price.
> I can't tell you about other companies, but ours is pretty straightforward: you tell us what your strongest areas are, we'll give you interviews that line up with those areas. There's no strict guarantees and you should expect a spread of different questions, but whatever it is that you're good at, expect us to offer you a chance to show us that you're good at it.

My one experience with getting to a Google onsite is that, despite repeatedly telling various recruiters my strongest areas, they ended up interviewing me for what they wanted me to do rather than what I was good at. In fact, one of my interviewers literally had to throw out all his prearranged questions and make shit up as he went because my background and experience were so misaligned with what he had been added to my loop to ask me about.
"Tick-Tock-Tweak" is a great summary, so much easier than the "Process-Architecture-Optimization" label that Intel gave to explain their new plan.
Care to share your experiences?
> I have a 2500k i5 in my old desktop.

> Its incredible how the x86 world really hasn't had any huge performance bumps and how a Q1 2011 CPU is still competitive.

Actually you can have twice as fast desktop CPU today than your 2500k, and not for some number crunching you'll maybe never need (even though it's the most important thing for others) but for such common tasks like compiling the code:

http://techreport.com/r.x/skylake/legacy1-qtbench.gif

Not bad at all for the times when the hardware speedups are getting harder.

But it's good that even the newest games don't expect only the latest CPU.
It's sad for Apple. Apple is a business. They want to sell new hardware.

How is this confusing?
You represent the 5% of PC consumers.

The average person goes to Walmart/Bestbuy/BJ's/Staples and spends $475 on some shitbox laptop. The 25th percentile user (ie. millions of people) probably spent $275-325.

That average person who bought that average PC in 2011 has an aging HP/Dell/Asus laptop with a failing battery, $30 Celeron or AMD processor, 2GB memory, integrated graphics, a 500GB 5400rpm disk and integrated graphics.
>Even if you insist on a tablet, you could get Microsoft’s Surface 3, which boasts a slightly worse screen but offers double the storage capacity, for US$100 less.

It is well-documented that the Surface OS takes up far more space than iOS, which means that the available space is not nearly as disparate as it would seem (though the Surface still has a bit more): http://www.slashgear.com/surface-3-storage-space-still-limit...
> The security of the name lookup relies on the crypto, but even without secure name lookups an attacker would still have to break TLS to defeat HSTS.

Which nobody enables for most websites because it's insane to pin your certificate if you're not Google.

> Onionshare and Ricochet aren't widely used, scihub is still accessible over the clearnet.

"clearnet" doesn't mean anything. Just because you can access it using DNS doesn't mean that the fact it has an onion address is irrelevant. Onion addresses provide several security benefits, and only one of them is "anonymity of the server". As for "not widely used", you appear to have redefined "only notable hidden services". Notable means "important" or "significant". I consider Ricochet to be quite significant.
AI chooses the best AI startup
Once you replace the motherboard it'll be a true modern day Ship of Theseus
We have two in the family as well. They are solid, good quality phones.

Best value on the market today.
When Should You Start to Promote Startup?
My favorite is "Oh, you can find the answer here: http://brokenlink.com"
>now you need 50 different modules from 50 different authors

Not necessarily, take a look at lodash and friends. There is nothing stopping bundling of tiny modules into big "libraries" to be used.

As for the rest, you need to do that validation anyway. But if it were bundled in a large library there is MUCH more code that you need to review.

with something like the module "left-pad", it's a no brainer to use the library. I know that it's under an EXTREMELY open license, the code is really small, and by vendoring your dependencies (you are vendoring your dependencies right?) this whole issue would have been a 5-10 minute fix that only needed to be done when you want to upgrade your dependencies next time.
Well, considering that VMWare fired their entire dev team in January [1], it's not surprising that this isn't fixed... I'd expect more of these kinds of issues to crop up without traction in the future.

1. http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/01/28/vmware-abruptly-fires-...
Honestly, while StartSSL's front-end is awful, their practices always seem to far exceed other CAs - especially around verification.

I don't enjoy the website, or the verification procedure, but ultimately I generally trust them pretty highly - they operate in a way which shows me they care about security.
Most people don't understand computers and don't want to. They would be better served by a locked down device that they find simpler to understand than a complicated "open" device for the same reason that they don't run Linux or some other open source operating system on their current computer. It's progress because they can do more with an iPad then they can with their current PC because it's more understandable to them.
Apple Computer's IPO
Considering I never noticed that this was only females (nor did I care) I guess I probably wouldn't notice that as well.
Just never enter your Google password into your Android phone.

The problem is: Access to the App Store. Not sure, if you can work around this.
Does brave have webmasters in mind? Preemptively blocking ads without an alternative revenue stream is obnoxious.
My main home machine is an 8-year-old Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. Apple today sells nothing that could replace it, let alone improve on it.
Compulsive Lying Disorder ?

hehe
or you know, we could use our internal filters.

I am disappointed with myself for clicking this link. Sometimes the comments are too hard to pass up.
Thank you!
I'm searching for a pattern already in market before study create a new one..
I'll take a look into these books, there are some interessant stuff there
Genesis10, recruiting on behalf of Bloomberg, did that shit to me several years ago. The interviewer decided to gauge my knowledge of Unix/Linux and POSIX programming by essentially quizzing me on POSIX manpages over the phone.
I can't seem to find the link anymore but recently a tool was released which let me downgrade my iPad 2 back to iOS 6 and it's so much faster than it was on iOS 8.
Obviously it's not an official Apple tool.
Very small programs don't solve complex tasks. If you plan to glue many small, correct programs together you'll likely get unintended behavior from the collection. You're just shifting the complexity around.
The only thing not lasting more than 5 years in my 20+ years owning computers are Macs, other iDevices and PCs are much, much stabler. Macbook Pro 2008 (died in 3 years), iMac 27 2010 (died in 4.8 years), Macbook Air 2013 (dying) and Mac Mini 2012 (dying) are the reason why I always end up coming back to my 2010 gaming PC and 2010 HTPC, the ones to break the 5+ year mark without a major hardware failure.
I've worked with steel on it and it does well. Fair point on the accuracy issue. Any thoughts on something I can make that's in demand?
No, they use a custom engine (Ron Gilbert's pre-existing engine with the Squirrel language for scripting, augmented with custom sugar around coroutines to more or less emulate the way SCUMM did threading).

Well, their lead tester is Robert Megone who used to work on ScummVM (and for Revolution Software), but that's not really using ScummVM.

ScummVM is used by Disney (who bought the copyright of most of Georges Lucas' stuff) for their GOG re-releases (10 years after LucasArts sent out the lawyers to try to shut down the project), and by others for non-Scumm games as well.

Also, the guy who wrote the point and click interface for Grim Fandango on ResidualVM was hired by DoubleFine as a consultant so that they could adapt his code for the remastered version.

That's all the ScummVM-related trivia I could remember from the top of my head.
>> Why didn't you upgrade her to desktop pc?

She doesn't want a desktop. She replaced the Pentium 4 Dell desktop I gave her 10 years ago with the Acer laptop.

You can't use a desktop on the couch, etc.
Seems like a dupe? There are several announcements for UbuntuBSD already on here (which seems interesting btw).
Are you planning on providing a platform for independent journalists to publish their content?
I think the most important thing with this company is not the UI or the onboarding or the way they distribute the money -- it's the fact that they got the approval of the content creators first and then went and started the beta.

Having the NYT, Newsweek, WaPo, WSJ, Businessweek, etc. on board shows that people can comfortable give them their money and know that it will actually be going to content creators. In far too many of these type of sites, the vast majority of the money doesn't actually go to content creators.
I don't think you're doing it on purpose, but you are comparing Apples to oranges.
No.

What apple is saying today is something that it has always said - but its only recently that people in america are too poor to buy american products.

I grew up around windows and linux, and whenever I tell that in a job interview - people think I am not being serious since "real developers" use mac.

In my first software job - I was told to abandon my personal cheap linux and use the company's brand new expensive apple - even though I was more productive on my cheap linux.

Apple has always been like that, its just that most people who come from money do not hear it.

Edit:

Also you will notice this in poorer countries - a strong ecosystem for recycling exists everywhere outside of the US/UK.
When I brought my first bike in the UK, I wanted to repair it and was told to just ditch it and get a new one !

It was extremely odd to me since I expected that bike to last at-least 20 years.

When my 3 year old laptop stopped working - I had it repaired rather than buy a newer one - even though repairing was almost as expensive as getting a new one. It just fell really wrong ditching a laptop rather than repairing it.

Maybe you are right - western societies do worship materialism.
Complete list (more or less) of affected drugs:

http://www.virginiageriatrics.org/consult/medications/medsLi...
If you think that's bad, ~12 years ago I worked on a project that was an online insurance form. The output from the application form was going to be printed out and then submitted to the existing paper-based workflow for handling applications - which involved scanning the application and then workers typing in the data from the scanned form.
I'm not even poor, and I still do my research on a workstation from 2009. It's fast enough for what I'm doing, and why waste new hardware on bloated software?
Until earlier this year I was still making heavy use of a Powerbook from 2004. I only stopped using it because the graphics hardware started to go funny.

I sold its battery, memory and power supply to someone still using a slightly older Powerbook.
A company thinks everyone should be using the latest of their products. Oh no.

An alternative way to read this is that Apple themselves don't believe their own products will be worth using after 5 years, and will therefore fail to support them properly in the long term. Anyone in the market for a computer to last longer than that (eg most home users, and many corporate users who don't lease) might have to look elsewhere.

This is not an offhand throwaway comment. This speaks to the absolute heart of Apple's strategy.
Another reason to use blockchain technology for trust management.
Better Living Through Microcontrollers
While, I know this is flamebate:

This statement is factually incorrect. C is the most common higher level language across all platforms, especially when you include embedded devices. (I'm not considering Assembly as a higher level language)
You forgot about server market which is Intel-dominated and growing well.
Claritin makes me feel weird, sort of light headed.

Back in the eighties in Seattle I would take a Benadryl every morning, because I was allergic to just about everything (I was poke tested). Eventually I downgraded to chlor-trimaton. So I guess I'm potentially doomed.

Here in Denver I rarely have allergy issues.
I interpreted that comment as a jab at the PC industry. The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade. Isn't that the correct interpretation, considering the whole point of bringing that up is because they're positioning a new device intended to replace the PC? I seriously doubt it's intended to mean (to quote the article) "LOL poor people".

Granted, this interpretation would make for a boring thinkpiece and would not get me to #1 on HN.
Like Amazon Lambda?
Skipping a rent payment or a grocery run might very well have much less impact on their lives.
"Mostly", because quite a few people still just want control over others. And someone striving for "autonomy" through power still just wants to make you a tool for achieving their autonomy.
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> If you're already poor, then an iPhone (not a smartphone) is definitely a luxury.

It's not wrong, nor necessarily economically irresponsible, for "poor" people to have a few nice things.

Assuming a lifespan of 3 years, the cost difference between a $600 phone and a $300 phone is barely more than $0.25 per day - and probably even less, considering that iPhones have a higher resale value.

Maybe that "poor person" carrying an iPhone just forgoes $0.25 or $0.50 of other niceties per day so they can afford that iPhone and those $100 shoes - or maybe they just work in a city, because you can literally find that much money on the ground every day if you keep your eyes peeled.

If a person routinely made such purchases, to the detriment of their well-being, certainly that could be a problem. But unless we know somebody's full financial picture we should not presume to make such a judgement.
You and the author make the assumption that smartphones are commodities of equal value. This may not be true.

Additionally the author takes Schiller's comments out of context. He went on to explain that the reason they think the new iPad will appeal to the people who have old windows computers is that it is more suited to a world which has the internet.

The implication is that nobody, including Apple, has actually offered a product that has enough extra value for PC owners to decide to buy until now.

The awkwardness and insinuations about class are just being read in by the author.
>Why does that prevent it?
Because I would need to buy my Bitcoin in "bulk" and the publishers would need to set their price in USD, EUR, GBP or whatever, in order to be able to do proper financial planning.

Given that Bitcoin is as stable as say the USD, someone is going to win or lose money on the conversion between "real" currencies and Bitcoin. I won't be risking money becoming worth less, and neither are the publisher.

I don't know BitPay, but I don't assume that they the risk of devaluation of my Bitcoin for weeks or months. We're not talking about buying just the amount of Bitcoins I need for one article, say 20 cent, because fees attached to the credit card transaction your will want to buy at least a little more.

Agreeable there is a point to be made in the fact that the price of each article is so low that you would only need to buy something like $5 worth of Bitcoin, and at that point it doesn't really matter if you lose %20.

Still I don't feel like Bitcoin is the right option, but maybe it could be the backend to a micro payment system. I just don't want to deal with the Bitcoins or conversion to my local currency.
Dating apps and sites are a tough business. As soon as you obtain a customer (which can be costly), your app will ensure that they don't come back if you are at all successful (happy people in relationships don't pay for dating apps).

This is why Tinder is such a different business model. It encourages short-term hookups where you will keep coming back for more.
Depends what kind of engineer you're talking about. You need a license to practice Engineering[0] in the US. It's just that software developers aren't considered Engineers.

[0] http://ncees.org/licensure/
It's pretty stable for the short time it takes for the payment transaction. It's crucial for having a certain level of anonymity. Besides, i can imagine there should be wallets that keep your money in USD or euro, and convert to bitcoin only when needed (edit: someone mentioned it: BitPay).
As long as it's not February 29th.
How fast is this? I feel like leaving my smartphone on with its screen at its brightest setting (presumably) for hours at a time is a great way to burn out my phone.
If they are internal hostnames, don't you control both client and server? Why not create a PKI?

In my opinion the only advantage certificates from official CAs bring is that clients you have no control over are not MitMed.
And you will remain poor and some people will continue to say it is everyone else's fault.

I've been there (before smart phones). Watching people wait for payday so they can go drinking. Everyone had a nicer car than necessary. Clothes or shoes to look like the situation is improving instead actually improving their situation.

Yes there is a marginal improvement in lifestyle. But there is always a marginal improvement available so that you can be in the bottom of that next group of Joneses.

I'm 45 and this is now making me remember some of the conversations I had with people who lived through the great depression. That generation was stamped with a frugality and practicality that just isn't being passed along anymore.
We definitely need a strong reduction in the introduction of new technology that replaces old, still working hardware. This is so wasteful. Along with this, we need centrally planned production of consumer goods to control the pace of change and prevent overproduction, and these goods need to be have government set prices to insure that everyone can afford them.
It's just another facet of the Lost Decade that we're in.
> It can't really be Bitcoin, because the value isn't sufficiently stable, there has to be some credit card option.

Perhaps not using purely bitcoin, but using it as a medium of exchange still makes sense with a volatile currency. As long as bitcoin is converted to/from a fiat currency within a short time period the risk of value fluctuations is pretty low.

This is the approach that coinetize (https://www.coinetize.com/) seems to be taking. They take bitcoin (among other payment methods), and convert it into credits which are valued at fractions of a dollar, and pay out bitcoin to the journalist when these credits are spent to access a page.

The transactional cost for bitcoin is too large to make 1:1 btc micro payments work right now.
So what is the code of ethics for this industry? And which large organization upholds it the best?
As someone who has the original game CDs and played through each of those games at least 10 times over the years, the BEST part of these remasters, IMO, is the added developer commentary. I really, really enjoyed playing through the Monkey Island and Grim Fandango remakes and hearing Tim and crew's thoughts, remembrances, jokes, etc around the development and production of the games, the music, the characters, etc. Really added something new and special to the playthroughs of games that I know like the back of my hand, like old friends.
Photosensitive resin printing using a cell phone with a grate above it for the pattern rather than a projector. Simple and ingenious. I am impressed.
As long as 'free for personal use' means 'closed source' then at least I would have a hard time trusting a tool backing up personal files into public cloud storage without transparency about how the crypto is implemented. I suspect that may also be the case for much of your 'personal use' target audience.
http://www.thenerve.org/usc-spent-millions-for-software-it-a...
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2493658/it-management/t...
http://www.scmagazine.com/peoplesoft-systems-vulnerable-to-t...
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