skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
on the peninsula, plenty; in sf, work for a larger company or at least not for yc-aged / early 20s founders and you'll do ok

my oldest coworker, and this was at a < 10 person startup, was not a founder and was a line level search engineer and over 65.
Yep. Many companies like Disney are getting cracked down on for hiring lots of contractors to avoid FICA and other implications with employment.

Then they try to hire their contractors (at a discount of course) but the contractors tell them to piss off because they already have benefits with their staffing company and don't want to be employed by Mickey Mouse.

So you have companies that want our talent but don't want to pay for it and obey the system. Something must give...

The corporations will probably win, although I'm not sure yet on the best policy.
- Computer, restock all my essential groceries.

- Sorry, I didn't quite get that.

- I want you to restock.

- Sorry, I don't know how to "Youtube Rostock". Do you want me to google that?

- Well, it's... Uh...

- I don't know what you mean by "Whale that's a".
everyone wants a page in a history book

no one wants their name uttered for a last time.

to me it sounds like their ways of ensuring remembrance.

the end goal being to become some kind of communal deity, foras an ancestral deity is much more at risk of being forgotten.
Hi creator of it here. Ideally you would place this inside your internal network and as you say behind a reverse proxy or firewall.

If there is enough need I will consider adding authentication but it is not something that has been asked for enough to warrant the time investment yet.
I work in Austin, and can confirm that $120k is not ridiculous.
Plus, your proximity to Tahoe skiing is to die for!
Incoming Patriot/USA Freedom Act 2.0
Yeah, after reading that I came away with a really REALLY sour taste in my mouth.
What got stuck in his craw and died?
As someone who works out of coffee shops quite a bit, Saigon was amazing (same with Chiang Mai in Thailand).

Amazing coffee, cheap wifi, good food and no one cares if you camp out a bit.

I was there for a week on a "workcation" and spent about 10 days bouncing from shop to shop without hitting up the same one twice. 10/10. Would go again.
Surely though "we" have nothing to hide!
Atlassian offers Free JIRA training videos till end of May
> That is one anecdotal. A much more interesting one is that Tesla is so bad at QC that even the most die-hard Tesla fans are now building checklists to do the quality control that the factory skimped on.

Yet a staggering 98% of the Mode S owners said they would buy the car again [1]. Can you name a single product that has that kind of loyalty? I've never driven a tesla, but clearly something very different is happening in the automotive industry other than Fanboism.

1. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/12/owner-satisfactio...
It's good to see powerful machine learning hardware come out. Much of the progress in ML has come from hardware speedup. It will empower the next years of research.
Watching cartoons and listening to kids' music isn't a "sacrifice", not for me. It's fun to watch my boys enjoy something. I get great joy watching my three year old watch Octonauts and get so excited when the decorator crab steals Shellington's magnifying glass or whatever. I'll listen to Caspar Babypants every day on the way to daycare because it makes them happy, which makes me really happy. It's not a sacrifice. They'll be plenty of time to rock out to my music with them later on. Enjoy this while it lasts.
Girl coders in Slumdog's Dharavi fight back after fire
http://redef.com/channel/media/feed

http://readability.com/topreads

https://longreads.com/

http://longform.org/

longform has a great app
Funnel Ventures helps bridge the gap between Aussie startups and Silicon Valley
I should note that I think this whole thing was handled poorly, and I think there's a lot of room for our entire industry to come up with some best practices surrounding sunsetting (and, in my happy place with free ponies for everyone, mandatory open-sourcing of the backends needed with clear instructions for how customers can switch to running their own. But that's my free pony land.)

But that said, I think it's more than that. There's no such thing as autopilot on the Internet, particularly for a company that deals with customer PII (and I count the ability to control stuff in your home in that category. :-). You can imagine the rathole -- we've all been down it a few times: You need to upgrade the kernel/libc on your EC2 instance because of the security vulnerability du jour. But libraries X and Y won't run after the upgrade, so you need to upgrade them. But the developer of those libraries changed the interface, so now you need to... yadda, yadda. One or two of those changes you can probably just hack in, but depending on how disgusting the codebase is (and let's be honest here - it was an acqui-hired startup that was probably in panic mode towards the end!), at some point, it starts looking like a choice between a total rewrite or tossing it to the wind. Suddenly that takes you up to an FTE, who in the valley is going to cost you >= $20k/month. Then you divide by the # of still-active devices (I have no idea what this # looks like) and suddenly it looks like a big resource drain for no benefits.

(Imagine, for example, that the engineers became aware of a firmware-level vulnerability that exposed all customer devices to remote exploits and control -- and somewhere between the acquisition and then the build system for rebuilding and testing the firmware had gotten screwy. Or the last set of test devices in the lab finally broke. Or that, plus it turns out the remote firmware update mechanisms had never worked in the first place, and fixing all the bugs would require not just fixing them, but actually creating and deploying an entirely new update path. Or, or....)

Of course, one can wish that were the case something like that, it had been communicated. My fingers are crossed that maybe Nest - and other companies - can use this as a learning experience and come up with policies, with teeth about acquisitions, governing the sunsetting of cloud based services that are essential for the operation of customer hardware. I'm not optimistic yet, but I'm glad to see the EFF raising the issue.
A quote from The Atlantic article on Gangnam Style

"In the song, the narrator says he’s looking for a classy lady who can afford a relaxing cup of coffee and he’s a real man who downs the boiling hot coffee in one go. And I think some of you may be wondering why he's making such a big deal out of coffee, but it’s not just your ordinary coffee; it's gotta be a cup of Starbucks coffee if you will. In Korea, there’s a joke poking fun at women who eat 2,000-won (about $2) ramyeon (Korean style ramen) for lunch and then unstintingly spend over 6,000 won (about $5.30) on Starbucks coffee. Actually, the word Doenjangnyeo (“Soybean paste girl/woman”) or Doenjang girl/woman was created to mock women who spend more than they can afford. Such crazes were believed to be inspired by HBO’s “Sex and the City” in which the designer stuff-obsessed women frequently meet together to talk over brunch or coffee. "
If they didn't want the customers maybe they should not have bought the company.
There are many, but they don't stand out and are out of the way. And it's impossible to tell which ones are good without trying.

Regular ice americano was $4.50-$5.00 there, more than double what I pay in the states. I do ok here in the states riding the healthcare IT gravy choo choo train, and I don't know if i'd ever pay that much for a cup here.

So I was shocked at the number of people that paid $4-$5 for a cup of coffee there.
Should I get my SSL certificate from host service or domain registrar?
As an American living abroad now, I agree!
Sure, some journalists' careers and livelihoods are occasionally ruined for reasons. However, the vast majority of journalists are so routinely wrong about everything that such ruination seems unlikely to be at all related to that.
For that to happen OpenCL has to be at the same level as CUDA in language support and tooling.

Having C only wasn't a good idea. NVidia was quite clever in giving first class treatment to C++, Fortran and any compiler vendor that wished to target PTX.

Also the visual debugging tools are quite good.

Khronos apparently needed to be hit hard to realise that not everyone wants to be stuck with C for HPC in the 21st century.

Also although Apple is the creator of OpenCL, they don't seem to give much love to it.

Then you have Google caring about it's Renderscript dialect, which doesn't help to the overall uptake in OpenCL.

There isn't a monopoly, rather vendors that lacked the perception to appeal to the developers wanted to have as tooling and performance.

Anyone is free to go use OpenCL, use C or a language with a compiler with a C target, do printf debugging and feel free.

Are any vendors already doing SPIR support?
do the people he watched become victims you tell them they were being watched?

none of the information he released was used directly against people.

at times he seems to have crossed the line of not acting on his knowledge, eg to flush drugs down the toilet.
Do you think earning money with apps does still work?
I am an app developer from Germany and I really want to break free from my current job. Do you think earning good money with apps does still work?
See also this article by Jimmy Maher [1] that gives an in-depth look at the copy protection used in three games:

1. Microsoft Adventure

2. Ultima III

3. Dungeon Master

[1] http://www.filfre.net/2016/01/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-3-c...
>Mountain view's NIMBYism is especially objectionable since it actually green lighted the corporate construction that brings many new workers to the area, while almost with the same stroke of the pen banned new housing around those places of business.

This is out of date, and has been for a while. The voters of Mountain View responded to the housing crisis by voting in a much more pro-housing city council. There are now over 10,000 units planned for North Bayshore (the area around the Google and LinkedIn campuses):

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/03/03/council-oks-plans-fo...

As a long-time resident and voter in Mountain View, it's exasperating to have people so fixated on the NIMBY narrative that they ignore the significant steps the city and voters have and are taking to address the housing crisis. Regardless of what Matt Yglesias said, or that article from the Washington Post said, the votes of the Mountain View citizenry, and the resulting choices of the City Council, should make it clear that we're not a bunch of anti-density NIMBYs.
The problem is that there can be a lot of lag between asking someone to review the PR and them actually doing it -- yes, I have definitely ran into this issue at my previous job, some PRs take forever to get merged because everyone else is so busy working on their tasks and nobody has the time to do reviews.

The process at my current job: we have a soft limit on how many tasks can be in the work-in-progress status at a time, that includes tickets that are currently being worked on, or being reviewed. Then there is a hard limit of 3 issues at a time that's test ready. When we exceed these limits, developers need to stop pulling in new tickets, and our priority becomes to help with review or test issues, that helps moving things along. Instead of assigning your issue to a specific person on the team, it is the team's responsibility to move things along and get these reviews done, that eliminates constantly bugging the same person for reviews.

Since my current job is front-end heavy, we also do preliminary QA when we're reviewing code, we pull the branch in and make sure the obvious aren't breaking. I personally find it really helpful for understanding the context of a PR and gives me a clue of what I'm trying to look for when reviewing. Of course this process is still not perfect, there can still be a lot of back and forth, and sometimes you need to ask people to explain some of the context to you. But overall I find this a fairly decent process so far, most importantly I feel like it gives everyone the sense of team work, no issue should be the responsibility of a single person.
While BBC is usually a decently produced news source, they still have levers than can be manipulated by the government. They were beating the war drum pretty hard in the run up to the war with Iraq after 9/11.
Yes; that is the line that danso noticed. However, nemothekid tried to verify it and was unsuccessful in finding any documentation for this presumbably publically available API. A github gist is the top google result for 'Tinder API documentation'

https://gist.github.com/rtt/10403467

which suggests that Tinder does not provide a public official API, people have simply reverse engineered the network requests of the application.

In short, the article is wrong.
Not in my experience. You can start small and ramp up. I prefer to experiment using my own servers (mostly old minitowers and some ex data centre stuff). But for the MVP, replicate the working configuration to either AWS/GAE, etc.

Perhaps you could explain why you ask?
There is a webphone library from mizutech which offers webrtc whenever possible with failback to others when webrtc is not available (native plugin/flash/java): https://www.mizu-voip.com/Software/WebPhone.aspx
At least many of these IoT devices still work if their Internet service goes away. An unsupported smart TV still works as a dumb display for a more modern streaming stick. An unsupported smart fridge still keeps food cold. my smart scale can still weigh me even if it can't upload the reading. I'm not sure if a Nest thermostat can work offline indefinitely, but I sure hope it can.

The question is, what will most consumers do when they discover their smart device is no longer smart simply because it's "old"? Considering the lifespan of the dumb versions of these products, I'm guessing the owner's definition of "old" will differ from the manufacturer's. Not many consumers would consider a 15 year-old refrigerator to be old, but it's hard to believe Samsung will still be maintaining the software on their 2016 smart fridges in 2031.

Will most people say "well, that was nice while it lasted" and keep using it as a dumb device, or will they be so used to the smart features that they'll go out and get the latest, supported model - deciding that a thermostat or a bathroom scale is now something that needs to be replaced regularly like a phone or a PC?
What I love is the number of people who keep espousing cloud services of every other nature. "Everything is already there! They're better at security than you!"

And then history shows services close down, change ownership, prices fluctuate, and there are inside and outside attacks and data loss.

You try to tell people that though and they just close up and repeat the same argument.

This is why I think repeatable installs / setups of infrastructure is important, and tested on self hosted infrastructure before bubbles pop.
Why to use wrapper libraries when you can use OpenCL for CPU compute device?
Yesware's Free plan is ending
Personal cloud storage for home/business
I bet even aaron is :)
A white paper is not an implementation. Whatsapp is owned by Facebook and required to increase their bottom line. They are not a charity.
Not to try to make this sound less awesome than it is, what happens in a proxy fails? Are the proxies now the weak point in GitHub's architecture?
Icelanders are not savages! They moved on from blood feuds quite a while ago. Nowadays (if the history I learned in school is still accurate) they resolve their disputes like civilized people with hólmganga: http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/holmgang.shtml
International Day Against DRM
Hi,
This is not true - PS2 Linux provided full hardware access to the graphics hardware via the SPS2 library, which just mapped a bunch of hardware registers into your userland address space.

The IOP chip was restricted but that wasn't really a big deal for most purposes, as it was generally only used for I/O.
Remember when Google's guiding philosphy was "Don't be evil"?
Same in the Netherlands. Not sure there is legal precedence but warranty law says a product should keep working as long as 'reasonably expected'. This means you don't get 1 or 2 years of warranty, but potentially fifty if that would be reasonable. If the seller (they can't forward you to the manufacturer or anyone else, either) refuses however, I suppose there is little short of a lawsuit that will help you through.
Wouldn't this be a little tricky if such a step can expose proprietary parts in the closed-off products, given that one can expect a reasonable rate of reuse?
What if I think they should pay zero taxes? Is that doable?
The BBC is not government funded, it is funded by a compulsory licence fee, and is independent. They have come under government pressure in the form of having their budget effectively reduced by the government resulting in a shrinking news department.

BBC news was not pro war in the run up to the Iraq war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Dossier#The_45_minut...
Working at hardware companies, you quickly realize the toll taken by having to deal with vendors in Shenzhen. Meetings at the extremities of the day on both sides of the Ocean isn't fun for anyone. Outsourcing your core development team, let alone QA or sysadmin, to Asia isn't a panacea.
Nest isn't a polished consumer product unless your bar for "polished consumer product" starts and stops at the industrial design budget. If they didn't look nice anyone with sense would call these products what they are: trash.

And, anyone who wasted money on one... did in fact waste their money. They can still get on board with a working, non-Nest solution at any time.
How to manage users?
Hi,

I am developing multi-tenant application. Core service is running well. Now I need to manage users. I can create "users" table and some fields, md5 encryption etc. But is there service for it? I dont want to store users information on my tiny server and manage them.

Thanks,
This price point is extremely accessible to most major research universities as well.
In Australia, some (including myself) would argue that our Liberal party is decidedly not very liberal...
Maybe build your hypothetical tech team in Montreal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424876
This is material science porn!
Still, how many of these boxes are we talking about to match the performance of the #1 from the top 500 in 2005? 10? 20? That's still under $3m for 20, which is pretty impressive to me.
If you're from the U.S. you seem to be forgetting some very hard lessons that were paid with blood in the past. There is a reason why we have a bill of rights. There is a reason for our rule of law, of requiring warrants before searches. That our 'forefathers' said that it's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be falsely charged. Racial profiling is wrong because you're infringing on the freedoms of innocent people that have committed no crimes.
What a promising young woman, I'm sure her parents are very proud! Sadly, it's not very hard to beat the local paper anymore. Now that we consume most of our news online for free, media companies rely entirely on ad revenue and simply can't afford to provide good local coverage. Ad-supported professional journalism just does not work for local stories that can't attract a huge audience.

Some of you have suggested Government funded news - while I agree that quality local news is a critical public good, I believe that Government intervention in the industry is dangerous. I'm confident that the free market will eventually solve this problem with a creative new business model.
> This is related to the conversation about squash that happened last week.

> Basically, the moment two or more people try to work on something outside of the trunk line of code (trunk/master/whatever), there is no version of their commit history that will be pretty, and so squashing the branch at the end seems like a good idea, even though it produces objectively worse code over the long run.

I don't like squashing at all, unless you're squashing commits locally because you fixed a bug in a previous commit that only exists in your local branch. Because in that case, it doesn't make sense to pollute the history with commits that were known to be broken when merged (this causes issues with bisecting).

> I want to tell one little white lie with the code: I want to pretend like Joe and Tim wrote their entire feature after my bug fix and before Steven's, even though they worked on it all week. I want them to be able to commit it as a single transaction but with all the intermediate steps.

> When I say 'parallel history' I mean I want Joe to be able to rebase the branch on top of my changes, without having to go apologize to Tim for making his snapshot into mincemeat.

I had to read your comment several times and I still don't think I understand what you mean by "parallel history". Are you saying that A and B are working on a feature concurrently (but not by merging into a central place)? If they were merging into a central place than that central place can be rebased to get in line with C's bugfix. Then A and B can rebase their local branches with the central branch.

It's also possible to do all of the rebasing locally, then once one pushes the other needs to rebase. But I don't think that works well.

Essentially you need to treat people collaborating on a branch the same way you consider it as collaborating on a project.

But maybe I misunderstood what you meant.

> Or, I want us to stop pretending like feature branches fix all of our problems, with no serious consequences.

Looks like I did misunderstand.
Since the Revolv products themselves already run such an OS it might just be a matter of popping a root shell, curling a dropbear, and killing the update daemon.
Dharamshala: A Land That Speaks the Language of Friendliness and Peace
My two main problems with not paying $15/month:
1. I'm only using opens and clicks. No templating, no scheduling etc. I'd love to use landing page tracking, but there's no such thing.
2. It's buggy. To remove notifications, despite reviewed them, I have to refresh Gmail's page.

A side note, to not be able to completely remove/delete your account is remarkable.
I agree some parents get too involved and stop doing anything they like because they think their kids need 100% attendance and "only the best" (which is actually not).

That said, I have a hard time to believe that you could get away without any sacrifices (not talking about neglect).

Those diapers don't clean themselves, and although small children themselves are rarely boring and in fact mostly hilarious, you still can't just go on with the same activities you had before and possibly would prefer at that moment.

Additionally, kids are very different when it comes to needed attention and and care. Some children wake up at 4am, others nicely at 8 or even 9. Some children are sick more than others, some children are more "low-maintenance" (ugly word for a human actually) than others.

The children's age is of course a huge factor. The younger they are, the more the balance between your needs and theirs tips more to the side of them, and I think rightly so.

I still want to reinforce you sentiment that children do not need to be one big sacrifice and constant burden. They can be a nuisance at times, but mostly they are just great human beings in a very special time of their life, and you have the privilege of keeping their company.

The older they get, the less they need your labour, and can hold their own. For that reason alone, you should not give them 100% pampering all the time.
Sweden's got a crazy new photo-sharing law that it can't possibly enforce