skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think everyone is pretty skeptical when they see HoloLens demos shown from 3rd person. The TED demo in particular felt like it was substantially exaggerating the capabilities of the device.
"Compiled Qt Quick is an elegant solution to these problems: .qml files as well as accompanying .js files can be translated into intermediate C++ source code. After compilation with a traditional compiler, the code is linked into the application binary. This entirely eliminates the need of deploying QML source code, it reduces the application startup time and allows for a much faster execution on platforms that do not permit Just-in-time compilation."

http://doc.qt.io/QtQuickCompiler/
"There's never been a reason to evolve them."

Err. As a Mac user from when system 7 was fancy looking, and who learned some basic bash in order to do useful stuff like use curl, grep, cat, ls > .txt, rm's based on partial name matches, etc. my only response is "How about we talk about it over breakfast, lunch, and dinner?"

Bash is simultaneously graceful and nimble, yet clumsy. While it's certainly appropriate to worry that any reduction of the clumsy side would have a net negative effect, to not see, or not ack the many issues just continues to deny its utility to non-expert users.
It is funny how in your head, one image of a company is replace by another over time. It does not happen instantly, but with more and more actions by the company (open source .NET, Ubuntu on Windows,...) the image changes over time. I found that fascinating watching myself change the image of MS in my head.
So are you arguing that the police should not explore all reasonable sources of information when investigating a crime?

You know, just sample a few and then if nothing comes up, just infer that everything is kosher?
In every single instance of NBA success, a substantial amount of luck is involved. Yes, Steph's contract is wildly under market. That said, even if he were on a max deal, Iguodala is the only guy they would not be able to have acquired, as they drafted Klay and Dray (both of whom weren't available simply because of a moron in front of them). If you say the Warriors "lucked" into Steph Curry, then did the Spurs "luck" into Kawhi Leonard? Did the Heat "luck" into Dwyane Wade? Draft misses are astoundingly common.

> "It's not just Steph Curry.", Are you out of your mind? If Steph Curry wasn't there they'd still be a good team, but not a team on the brink of winning 73 games.

Are you out of your mind? Yes, Steph is the key. But remove Dray, Klay, etc, and they are also no longer a 73 win team.

> Kerr has been playing his starters extra minutes trying to win 73 games.

No, he simply hasn't been as aggressive as Pop in resting starters. He's behaving the way literally every coach but Pop behaves.
Ask HN: Anyone have their personal info leaked via Ubiquity 401k?
My company signed up for Ubiquity 401k via Zenefits a few months ago. They recently did some sort of massive behind the scenes upgrade.

I can now see the names, birthdays and last 4 of socials of many hundreds of people in addition to my own employees. I'd love to speak to someone about this but I've been unable to get ahold of anybody.

My question to anyone else here who might use them: are you seeing people who aren't in your company when you log in or is this isolated to my company?
Love how Amazon pushes multi-AZ redundancy when it's always an entire region that gets screwed up. Oh, and us-east-1 again? Seriously?
How is that begging the question? You didn't say. Look, you're making a normative statement, and that's fine. It does not address at all the fact that Nature/Science is seen as hugely more prestigious in the scientific community.
Was thinking earlier today – after reading this – that Windows is one step closer to becoming a viable alternative to OS X for a development box. Lately I've been getting more and more glitches with OS X (for example a text input glitched up and started shifting letters oddly, I suspect some kind of utf16/utf8 accidentally got confused). Someday in the not to far future it may be time to look into switching, and well, native linux apps just might make it feasible.
This is a common logical fallacy. I'll explain.

Suppose Approval Voting gives you a utility ("happiness") of 10 if you're tactical, or 9 if you're honest.

Now suppose Voting System X, in which a sincere and tactical vote are obviously identical (ignore the fact that this requires the system to use randomness), gives you a utility of 7.

Now do you _really_ want to take the latter system because there's no disparity in your happiness based on whether you knew the best strategy? Or would you rather take the system that gives you a better result?

More details here.
www.electology.org/topic/tactical-voting
> There's an intangible in the way the Warriors play together that really increases enjoyment.
> It's not just about winning. It's how they win.

You realize you just described the case for the Spurs for the past decade, right?
> Pretty sure I didn't have to compile a Linux desktop driver in last 10 years

Last time I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu NVidia driver, it failed. Turns out it was because my system had clang set as its default cc.

Linux still has a long way to go, and this will remain the case as long as they continue to assume that everyone is a programmer.
He's in his early 40s and has two decades of development experience. Experience is not the issue. The issue is his lack of machine learning knowledge. His dodgy, non-working, memory-hoggy misimplementation of A* search on a problem space of size > 10^20 demonstrates that very pointedly. Also, his general experience should teach him that if he knows nothing about a topic then he should do his homework. He doesn't. Education is key.

He sure can build a great ecommerce system in Rails though.
> Gettin' a little dog-whistle-y there.

What are you talking about?
initial impression: pretentious marketing
Thanks. How does this play with privacy rules? I mean it kind of seems non standard practice.
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It should be noted that FreeBSD has had this for a decade AFAIK, and LX-branded Zones have been massively improved in SmartOS.
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Is a company that makes safes legally required to have a master key or to create a master key even when they don't want to? The question is whether or not a 3rd party can be compelled to create something which does not exist in order to aid in the execution of a search warrant. I think it's pretty clear based on prior All Writs Act precedent[1] that Apple should not be required to produce new software code for cases like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._New_York_Tele...
You're competing with UT grads and everyone else who moved to the area for tech.

Not having a degree in Austin puts you at a significant disadvantage when it comes to getting recruited. I had the same problem when I lived there and I, too, do not have a degree.
> Other comments have already accurately described how this is mostly fluff since the Warriors success is mostly due to lucky random events with Steph Curry

Lucky stuff like drafting Klay Thompson and Draymond Green? Lucky stuff like hiring Steve Kerr? Lucky stuff like investing in a training staff that has successfully solved Steph's recurring ankle issues? They got lucky with Steph falling to them, and with his injuries coinciding with his free agency. Welcome to sports, the winners always have luck. Stop trying to take away the essentially endless list of things they irrefutably did well just because HN commenters don't like VC's promoting themselves.
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Have you been following the stats? How do you defend Steph Curry? He could be with any team right now and hitting ridiculous amounts of long range shots. Those long range shots matter a lot!
I'm a little sad to read very little improvement in the raging dumpster-fire that is SQL Server Data Tools.
The "UNIX savvy guy" will just use Windows when he needs to, either in a VM, a Azure windows instance or his company provided laptop and call it a day.

All the yakka spent on avoiding the obvious solutions to justify "usage patterns", should signal any half-aware dev that those precious patterns are broken.
You'd be wrong. A vast majority of people find me very personable. I'm only talking about this microcosm of human interaction.
> So you're saying every person in America can be neatly defined as either right or left?

For hysterical raisins, the US has a basically permanent two-party system. Charitably speaking, you can be socially and economically either conservative or liberal, R or D.

There are some people who are economically conservative and socially liberal -- "do what you want, and leave me alone." There are others who are economically liberal and socially conservative -- "we should help the less fortunate, because that is what Christ and compassion demand." And there are plenty of other positions, but the only two real options are R and D. Tweaking the meanings of those two letters is your best bet.
Sure. And for every one of you, there are 20 people who put PhDs from top schools at the top of the pile. I think this is uncontroversial when talking about the industry in aggregate. I'm not limiting this to the "computer hacker community," or the "Rails startup" slice of the industry.

Also, you probably haven't interviewed for entry level software jobs at a BigCorp in many years.
Why doesn't Iowa fall off the map?
What do grad students in math do all day?
marked down its stake in big data software company Cloudera by nearly 37 percent

also slashed the estimated worth of cloud-storage company Dropbox by almost 20 percent.

Ouch
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For me, reading this was a sad salute to human greed.
Yes, there will be more sections added over time. From the bottom of the page:

> This article is an Evolving Publication. Our intention is to describe more basic techniques that developers could, and should, use to reduce the chances of a security breach.
>> he's come upon difficult issues that would be avoided had he had a more comprehensive education.

> he's come upon difficult issues that would be avoided had he had more experience.

I vehemently disagree with this. Education provides the breadth to know where to look for answers. In industry, a developer gains depth as this is mutually beneficial for the employer.

There are fundamental topics that self-taught developers generally don't learn because they're not directly applicable to industry, yet come up in practice all the time:

- compilers / PL theory

- kernel development

- distributed systems

- statistics

- graph theory

The cost of switching jobs to learn aforementioned topics is magnitudes higher than simply taking a course, assuming one can even get hired for a position with no relevant knowledge or experience.

I know a few smart and motivated self-taught developers. They're incredibly productive, but sometimes waste too much time trying to solve known problems in an inefficient manner.
Not sure about Firefox, but in Chrome you can just disable the About Ads (partial) rule:

https://i.imgur.com/qtHHtij.png
neither are Zen magnets
Deadlines are no big deal. The world won't stop if you miss some by a day or two, especially if you're already a wreck and not sleeping.
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Well, since software engineering is a field where the government is not able to settle the matter just by slapping the obligation to have a particular degree or certification just to be admitted to the job, employers are allowed to choose. If you have an aptitude for programming, you will be better off just programming for 4 years. Going to college and reading books about programming will turn out to be only marginally useful, and actually quite costly. Instead of learning, and making quite good money, you will be digging yourself into a debt hole, while you will still need to pick up the real skills afterwards, at the expense of an ever more skeptical employer.
Who said anything about grading results or comparing applicants? This should be a screening test, nothing more. Pass/fail. Any decent developer should be able to knock out decent responses to simple problems in very little time with no prep. The goal is simply to eliminate the ones who can't even do that.
It may have been more appropriate to the thread above or the sibling, but I was one who downvoted the original so I wanted to respond to the calling out.

Whether or not EEE was specifically invoked is sort of irrelevant, the implications (trojan horse of Troy) were clear to me.

There have been 3 submissions today about Microsoft and the same EEE trope has been posted multiple times to each one. it adds nothing but noise to the conversation when Microsofts behaviour, especially in the last 3-4 years, has not been terrible.
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What is the legal status of funding your company / venture in this way?
About that Dropbox markdown, I'm not sure if that's news, GSV capital has been marking down their dropbox position for months now. According to their SEC filings (ticker GSVC), these are the estimated share prices for Dropbox common stock over the past year.

June 30, 2015 - $22.88 per common share

September 30, 2015 - $19.06 per common share

December 31, 2015 - $16.94 per common share

Q1 2016 data not released yet

That's a 25% markdown over the last six months of 2015. Seeing how many other tech stocks have fallen a lot lately (LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitter, GoPro), another Dropbox markdown isn't that surprising.
> The US prefers to discredit people in the media as "terrorists" (or "gang members", etc) while throwing an unwinnable pile of charges at them to force a confession (aka "plea bargain"). This have the de facto result of keeping someone either in jail for a while or spending 100% of their time and money on defense.

Can you share an example of this happening to someone who works at a technology device manufacturer? Someone who was in a position to be aware of an NSL that they could spill the beans on?
You truly think that? I believe you can put any other reasonable players with Curry and they will perform better than ever. When Curry is dragging defense outside it makes it easy for the forwards.
This is why many companies in Silicon Valley require a degree http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Facebook/189973.htm

For every year of school a person has to have a 3 years of experience to be considered for H1-B. FB hired 3k people in 2015 (http://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-facebook...) of which 900 were foreigners hired thanks to H1-B.
> What they said is that each particular case is about unlocking each particular phone.

The FBI may have said that, but it doesn't really address the issues substantively and I think they said much more: Remember Apple argued that a solution they provided for one phone would be used for others, and a court decision could be precedent for other cases. The FBI disagreed; I don't remember the details of what they said, however.

> these are phones that the government has every right to access if they can find a way

I agree, but that's not the issue here. The issue is the FBI's apparent attempt to deceive the public and the courts.
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There's always at least a bit of racist motivation for complaints about NBA players' "egos and attitudes". In this case that's probably not even most of what OP was saying. But when white American racists read complaints like that, they accurately assume that racism is part of it. Those who don't think that way, don't make that assumption. It's like a dog whistle in that certain audiences hear the message, and others don't.
Raft isn't, but that is extremely different from whether an implementation of Raft is or isn't. Kyle Kingsbury's work shows this to be the case quite often - see http://jepsen.io/ .

I have read the design document, and know how Spanner works. This isn't the first time I've asked about this, I had the 2nd highest upvoted comment on the initial CockroachDB announcement ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9660339 ) which means it is many many more people than just me that are concerned about these claims.

Unless you can show me exactly what research contradicts my critique, your response has no merit and doesn't address my concerns. You can't handwave magic appeals to authorities without citing them. So my questions still stand.
Oh god, the node-gyp rebuild errors...
Plenty of people are working as "Cloud CTO's" these days - Basically senior developers (with or without a team of their own) who can help you architect, build and scale your products. Some work on cash, some purely on equity also. They will also offer solid tech advice on other aspects like SEO, Digital Marketing etc. though they may not be experts in those.

In my experience, good technical guys are either blocked by large corporations (the Google's and Microsoft's of the world) or are doing something of their own, so finding good cofounder/CTO talent is a big challenge. The cloud CTO model has worked well for a surprisingly large number of startups.

Disclosure: I work on the same model as well.
For this remapping and a few others I'm using Karabiner for OSX. I remap elisp commands in emacs all the time, but I don't know how to remap the keybinding for the single SHIFT to parens. The answer might be here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ch...

Karabiner is pretty good though, and you can select certain keybindings to only work in emacs.

I've also remapped CONTROL to CAPS LOCK, a more common re-binding to save one's left-hand from endless torture and mutilation!

Karabiner https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/index.html.en
On GitHub https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner

It's also pretty simple to extend Karabiner with XML scripts.
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I hadn't thought of that, what with UT being right here. I was able to get hired with relocation 5 years ago. Since then I figured it'd be a good town to put down roots so I bought a house. And now here I am seemingly unable to find work.

Damn. Maybe I'll have to look to other cities. I put my resume into the big corps and either got nothing or had some asinine HackerRank test that lost my progress 1:45 in and then heard nothing more.
Like both idea and traction, but I'm taking bets how long it takes for the investors to "convince" the team of a rebranding. I mean imagine anyone suggesting "CocktoachDB" in an enterprise setting... Guess we'll see the rIse of the all new and shiny HydraDB soon, mythological creatures always go well :)
Dude... you were the one that asked "How so?" in response to a statement that nothing of value would be recovered from the iPhone that the FBI was using as a means of creating a precedent. I gave you the "how so" reasons, I didn't say anything about not exploring reasonable sources of information. If FBI investigative time is a scarce resource, I would expect them to prioritize the sources of information, putting "less likely to yeild results" lower in the prioritized list. I would also expect them to stop investigating the material way down on the priority list if the material high on the priority list had yielded results.
wip, but agree.
I really hope windows runs on linux some day. I've always liked the windows shell. This might seem out of place on this post, but I get the sense that MS is putting more effort into linux.
Thanks. We've changed platforms a couple of times and have lost some pages and introduced some broken links and "CSS" issues along the way. We need more manpower to make it pretty, but no one cares enough about democracy to give us the millions to invest in such things. :)

This was the original site from years ago:
https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/approval-votin...
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Ironically, my startup just got through YC and my fingers are crossed that we're successful enough for me to one day fund such reforms, so we'll never be threatened by a Trump again.
Chatbots are the new apps.

Chatbots are a way to integrate other services into WhatsApp/FB, Slack, etc. China's WeChat is setting the trend here [1]. You can do things like payments, online shopping, order a pizza/taxi/whatever with just a simple text message.

WhatsApp will be offering a paid API soon that will make Chatbots available within WhatsApp and thus make all the above possible.

As a result, messengers like WhatsApp will become a platform. Instead of having to install an app for every service you just add a contact to your messenger and text him what you want.

[1] https://www.techinasia.com/wechat-social-commerce-chinaccele...
It probably does depend. I just did a phone interview with Google. My lack of degree didn't bother the recruiter at all.
This is awesome, but I wonder how useful it would actually be to use. I imagine the functionality is going to be limited to only the features shared among each platform (which is just text messaging? Unless by SMS they mean MMS also).
The other problem I see with it is that they've implemented it in two languages simultaneously, but there's no common code between the two because there's no simple way to link the two languages together. I think a better solution might be to create this as a whole API layer over the other bots where you could gain:

- A single API key to keep track of, and they automatically handle keys for the other platforms

- Less connections to handle, just read all the messages from a single queue and tell the API which one you're replying to

- Common backend code that could be shared between both C# and TypeScript/Node, as well as other languages that could be added in the future. For example, Python, Perl, or Ruby are extremely popular for IRC/Slack/Telegram bots and it would be nice to have a common API for some of those languages.
> Remember that the FBI said that if Apple provided a solution, it would not be used in other cases

Given Apple didn't provide a solution, that seems rather moot...
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Any idea when this will be available in the enterprise edition?
I'm sorry, I don't see how the above statements relate to John Comey's public explanations of why hacking the iPhone in question was so important. Maybe you can expand on the above to clarify that relationship?
I probably shouldn't have talked about the 73 wins, since I was more ranting about the context of the article; how they address how great the owner is, and that it's his "plans" that are the keys to how successful they've been and not that they kept literally the greatest shooter of our time at a reasonably bargain. So yeah saying "It's not just Steph Curry", it's how we do <X> is pretty wrong.
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I've come to the point where I walk out of interviews that involve whiteboard questions. I have conducted my fair share of them, and I have been on the interviewee side as well, and in no situation have I ever found any modicum of value in a whiteboard question. They are a complete waste of everyone's time, and to me, they are the hallmark of an incompetent interviewer/manager (and yes, I felt that way about myself back when I used them).

There are plenty of companies out there who agree that whiteboard questions are ridiculous, and I'd rather work for one of them.
I'm with you on the touch pad, three-finger touch-drag in particular is something I've not found a PC do well; my PCs' scroll simulated scroll momentum is also buggy (scroll, stop scrolling, Ctrl+click to open new tab, messes up the font size instead because it's still stimulating mouse wheel movement)

I'm surprised to hear someone preferring macbooks cooling though, my macbook always gets so hot relative to other laptops
Quiz != Interview
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