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IoT brings new energy to the Arrow Integration Center
If you've been away from Ocaml for a while, this would be a great time to check out what's changed. A package manager, a new optimizer, and we'll soon have modular implicits (think Haskell-style type classes, but better) and multicore. Ocaml is really a first-rate programming language and I wish more people knew about it.
>" should represent the percentage influence they should have in the company"

Something "should have this much value" is often that eventually leads one down the Orwellian newspeak road eventually.

As an investor I care only about returns and nothing else. If I can get a little more by giving up the influence I have over company I would gladly do that.

We must remember that pleasing wallstreet has destroyed many companies.
While I agree that limiting inflation seems to be a laudable goal for economic stability, I disagree that enough is being done about it.

Inflation has gone /rampantly/ uncorrected for those who are able to make the most prominent political contributions. This is evident in the widening growth gap mentioned in this very article.
> but this still seems like a bad precedent for the financial markets in general.

Isn't this sort of thing really common?

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/share_class.asp
Got it. Thank You. I didnt know about this policy but basically trying to answer the question as to why one should read it/look at it. I was trying to stave off the question that this is for 'mainframe' computing and that it is dated etc
It gives every shareholder the ability to sell 2/3 of shares without any change to their percentage control of the company.
I think if you're a member of the public trading on an exchange, all you can do is ask an authorised entity to accept the "bid" or "ask" price (mentioned by brwnll above), which are set by other authorised entities. Maybe you can trade at another price by not using the exchange, in which case the market price would not reflect that trade, but I imagine that it would typically be difficult to find someone to trade with unless (maybe even if) you set a generous price.

I don't know, but maybe donating securities to charity and accepting a takeover bid could be considered examples of off-exchange trading.

If an authorised entity wanted to set an unusual "bid" or "ask" price, I think that would either trigger a trade (if it made the "bid" higher than the "ask") or (otherwise, assuming other authorised entities don't follow suit) merely signal that particular entity's unwillingness to trade that security at that the prevailing market price and have no effect on the market price.

I don't know whether this differs from exchange to exchange.
> discussing giving away literally BILLIONS of dollars to causes that are not even tangentially related to Facebook

Except he hasn't, yet. He's allocated billions to a corporation he owns, with the goal of, someday, spending those billions towards purposes that may or may not ultimately serve Facebook's very long term interests.
Odds are that while you'll write software in swift, you'll probably encounter other people's code written in Obj-C. This could come either from inherited code (ex:project you took over) or open-source components you may use. It's best to have some familiarity with Obj-C, that way you can at least navigate and understand the logic.
Think about how browsers could be improved if people were willing to pay $5 for them.

Perhaps it's time to attempt to "pay" for such software via cooperative effort, eg. by the publisher setting a price for it, and then people paying $5.

Why people will pay $5 for coffee they could make at home for 'free' but not for software is beyond me.
RFP?
I generally avoid anything that doesn't have legitimate safety certifications: UL, ETL, TUV, etc. ("CE" as printed on random imported crap seems to mean nothing in particular.)

Also, you can usually count on actual, non-counterfeit chargers from well-respected phone and tablet vendors being just fine. I've never thrown out an old USB charger from an iphone, samsung, motorola, asus, just put them in a box for possible later use :)
They are extremely upfront about expectations.

Sadly, whenever these discussions about employees leaving SpaceX come up, some commenters invariably come to the false conclusion that anyone who leaves SpaceX is a loser or somehow couldn’t hack it here. This is obviously not true.

Priorities change and work being the number one or singular focus during one period of life doesn’t make it so perpetually. People get older/more mature and some decide they want to start a family, travel more, want to own a home (not an easy task even as a well paid engineer here in LA), or any number of other good reasons that may lead to leaving SpaceX. None of these reasons should reflect poorly on those who leave.

With that being said, I find it incredibly annoying when new employees come in, some with very impressive backgrounds, and within a few weeks start complaining about the work environment despite it being made abundantly clear to them at every point in the hiring process. I was first hired for a job consisting of extremely low skill manual labor and even for someone in my position it was made very clear what was expected of me from the very first phone screening.
> and ignore the future potential of Tesla to bring large amounts of jobs

Once Tesla stabilises, they'll be looking to move manufacturing jobs offshore, just like any other manufacturer. 'Future manufacturing jobs aplenty', without some significant social changes, is a pipe dream.
Hahaha...that's ironic.
These are not VC-backed startups with a hundred employees. They're small businesses with high capital costs, high labor costs, high operational costs (fuel), and high liability costs. A single cab might bring in 100k gross, and a fleet of 100 might be 10m gross. Even assuming a generous 20% operating margin, that's $2 million left to play with. In Q2 '14, Uber was spending around $50 million, annualized, on R&D, and has grown immensely since then.

Even developing a relatively simple app (but one reliable enough to be trusted with handling fares), would be out of reach of all but the largest cab companies. Developing the infrastructure to calculate surge pricing, connect drivers with nearby fares, etc, would be completely impossible.
Security defects in the SS7 global cellular network, and how to fix them
Sounds kind of like when EA made SimCity have a required online component and claimed it was required for doing some game calculations.
How does Erlang's reduction-counting scheduler work with native-compiled code?

I believe Go's scheduler only preempts goroutines at function call entry points. A goroutine in a tight-loop, that doesn't call any other functions, could block the scheduler.
I am in favour of fair and reasonable regulations, but your examples are unconvincing. Faking emissions, avoiding taxes... those are illegal actions, just because you are trying to fool government for profit. Fukushima most likely followed regulations that were inadequate.

The key word here is responsability. If businesses are made responsible and have to pay when they behave recklessly, the only measures needed are those preventing unreversible damage.

Also there should be some kind of limitation to what government can regulate and how.
What a troll...
Ha, this reminds me of my own track record in applying for jobs...

I must have possibly the widest number of rejections by many of the most prestigious companies, NGOs and government institutions in the world.

Prestigious names like Google, Apple, Facebook, McKinsey, Stripe, The Guardian, BBC, UN, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Shell, Statoil, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, US Embassy London, UK Labour Party, UK Foreign Office, Stroz Freidberg, Billiter, Mandiant, Portland PR, KPMG, Deloitte - that's just a sample!

After awhile I decided I was just better off setting up my own company - and haven't looked back since. Now some of them work with and have to hire my company instead. :)

If anyone feels bored and wants to add your name to such an illustrious list, drop me an email with a job description, I'll make a fake application and you too can reject with the stars... :)
> What do the monks gain by falsifying those records?

Depends on their motives. Depicting the world as chaotic or orderly can allow you to manipulate people's fears and hopes.
Although I'm skeptical of that idea, it does follow the popular narrative of "The actual goal of this was to force Apple to make a back-door, not to get info from the phone"
He already owns 60% of the voting rights while his actual holding is only in the early 20's.
Nobody can oppose him, even if the vast majority of shareholders oppose this new arrangement, MZ can bulldoze it through regardless.
So you're saying there could be Blue Men walking among us and we wouldn't even know?
Why do you think that "more importantly, data from 1682–83 to 1922–23 are considered unreliable for analysis ice cover freeze dates" means "a couple years that were considered unreliable" instead of "the entire range of these years are unreliable".
Reasons to Be Wary of Free Social Plugins
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4goslw/i_recre...
I like Facebook, and I'm happy to see a gazillionaire get into philanthropy this young, but when I see goals like "cure all diseases by the end of this century" it does make me wonder whether the Foundation might be too disconnected from reality to get good world-changing value for its money.
A lot of engineers will probably get non-voting shares as RSUs, especially new engineers, acquihires, and refresher grants. They're hoping that they will get more shares than if the company had to continue issuing only voting shares, because it doesn't dilute the founders' control of the company as much.
How could any information obtained in such a way be useful to them, as there is no way to prove it is not tainted (chain of custody and all that?)
WSJ has a target on Elon Musk's back. Every week they post something negative about him or his companies. I have a couple of conservative friends who have an irrational hatred for Elon. They rail how everything Elon Musk does is a "scam". The WSJ comments are a reflection of that mindset. More broadly, I wonder why WSJ and some conservatives set a target on Elon. There are literally a gazillion subsidies, tax credits, offshore accounting going around. For example, Hollywood shoots their movies wherever they get tax credits. Texas has attracted large back office operations using tax credits. Data center locations are chosen based upon which state government throws in the most benefits. It seems odd that they would spent so much energy on Musk, whose subsidies are probably a rounding error. It makes me wonder if there are bigger things at stake. Are the WSJ overlords really scared that he is making material changes to energy and transportation that could hurt them ?
1. Unix pipes are 1 dimensional

grep ”^#” dat1 | foobar > dat2

whereas the key thing about this idea is that real pipes can be multidimensional

grep ”^#” dat1 | foobar

| |

| |
snafu | stitch > dat2

2. This system treats ">" as a program in itself and verifies a "program descriptor" before it trashes the next one in the pipe

3. Unix pipes give you the error code of the first stopped component in the pipeline whereas in this model you can hook up instrumentation/statistics to any stage of the pipe
Why You Should Care About the Coming Email Privacy Law
Lots of people in the US want to whitewash all sorts of atrocities. (for example: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/07/30/3686060/conserva...)
For the lazy: https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV.pdf
We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not to (2014)
I was just watching Silicon Valley yesterday and this is exactly what I was thinking when I read the title. 6.0+?
I imagine that part of the sweatshop mentality comes from those who burn out. Not being negative about them at all. When you are in it and excited then long days and nights aren't a hardship but it can get that way. I doubt there are many who will stay the course with spacex if that is the mentality there but they get to cut their teeth there and branch out to the rest of the industry.

Normally I would be critical of that type of workplace, which is how I feel about Amazon when the stories of that workplace are aired. But I give spacex a pass because they are aiming for something no one has done before. Busting some amazon coders balls to raise the profits of the company is a piss poor reason for stressing people out, going to the red planet however.
So some company builds the software. Can cab companies afford to run that software on their own server farms? Of course not. So the software company sells it as a service, running everything on its own AWS instances. At that point, there is zero reason for that company to not just be Uber.
Also the profit the company chooses to distribute at the end of the year...
LATimes, is also a bit skeptical of Elon Musk.
I think the general implication that's being suggested is that the FBI is all too happy to not know the details. It sets a dangerous precedent where these sorts of things are routed through contractors so that safeguards like the VEP are bypassed.
Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1Billion TB's in a gram
I'm sort of surprised by the level of cynicism the HN crowd has. Call me naive, I'd like to believe that he's trying to do something good with his money without letting shareholders steer FB into a typical wall street short-term balance sheet game.

Reminds me of https://medium.com/conquering-corporate-america/mark-zuckerb...
easy. Be honest without bitterness.

And I found asking questions a better way to make people aware.

People will first deny we all have shit in the eyes. And say you are exaggerating.

But, ask them about their experience in IT, but also every days inconvenience because of loss of quality in product. There is a pattern. People feels like industry don't care anymore about consumers. And let them tell their part.

It makes people realize they miss the simple boring life that works.

And maybe they saw something you don't see and they can help you and you can help them.

My first way to improve this is to help people be better consumer by sharing simple way to spend less and get better products by focusing on rational choices. I also sometimes learn. I also sometime am bullshited.

But, you know: trust but check.
Review: Toyota’s redesigned Prius in the real world
Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House
By all means please make the case in the thread about why this is interesting. And thanks for posting so many high-quality stories to Hacker News! Historical material, like this one, is particularly welcome.
The gauntlet also applies if you've spent the better part of a decade in an industry that recently collapsed, and your connected friends are either unemployed or living in constant fear of the layoff notice. cough oilandgas cough
Yes, it's true that they don't care. I know this from experience as one of 'they'. It's I guess oversimplified that we don't care. It's just that I, as a developer, would not be able to justify allotted time to fixing hacks that don't hurt the game much until they do.
Scage: game engine written in Scala
Here is the thing: this allows someone like Zuckerberg to separate his control/power within the company he founded, from his wealth. I can easily imagine him being in a position where he truly has more wealth than he wishes to keep for himself (I cannot imagine any way in which I could spend 35.7 billion USD on myself, hell 0.1% of that seems far beyond enough for life to me, never mind the 1% he intends to keep), and yet would not give 0.01% of his say in how Facebook is run for anything in the world. So, this gives three alternatives:

1) He keeps all his stock, retains control, can't spend the money and can't donate it. The money serves to "keep the score" but his goal is to keep control of Facebook. His interest is still to run Facebook according to his ideas of how it should be run. He is not particularly aligned with stockholders who just wish to make money from FB, because, as we have established, he doesn't care about his FB stock's being worth any more in cash directly (unless there is a risk of it collapsing by 99%, but that is an extreme scenario). He cares only in so much as it allows him to exert more power through Facebook in the direction of whichever "historical legacy" goals he has.

2) He gradually sells FB stock as is, slowly cedes control of his company to other investors. Donates the 35.7 billion over time.

3) The company accepts this split. Zuckerberg still keeps control of the company and still runs it according to his wishes without caring directly about personal financial gain, just as in case 1. He is now able to donate (or use) the money as in 2, but faster.

So, if you accept that he is sincere in that he doesn't want to accumulate more money in his person but use it for charitable giving (and again, there is no reason to believe he wants get richer, there is little you can buy for yourself with 35.7 billion that 357 million won't get you), then the best alternative for everyone is #3. Facebook will be run just the same as if he couldn't sell his shares, yet the money will be used for charity.

p.s. Whether charity at scale should or should not be tax deductible is another matter, and there are arguments either way, but that is sort of independent of the analysis above.
Facebook swells to 1.65B users and beats Q1 estimates with $5.38B revenue
Sounds like you were not going to be a good fit for them. I expect this will be why they are keen on recent grads with little in the way of a personal life and still plenty of energy for all nighters.
Who was Ramanujan?
What I would do:

1. Determine your liability to the customers in the event the APIs are discontinued

2. Assess the risk of the APIs getting shut down

3. Have a contingency plan in place in the event you have to scramble.
It's not even a non-profit so that he's able to lobby the government.
IoT open data exchange needs to be open source and non-proprietary. I urge everyone to carefully study the AST-based programming-language-neutral nature of web assembly, semantic versioning, and distributed networking technologies such as IPFS and NDN along with module registries like npm. These are the types of systems we need for IoT and more broadly as a basis for systems development and integration.
120 Are Charged in Gang Takedown in the Bronx
Being familiar with the US form of democracy that involves lots of lobbyist money, it would seem.
Cocoapods iOS frameworks with storyboards, nibs and resources
And this world needs better algorithms.
It depends on what you put first: yourself or others.
So California requires employers to document their employees' lunch breaks.
Does anybody think that this law was passed simply on a whim?

Of course not.
And the same is true for nearly other regulation that is taking up business' time and money.

The people at fault here are those employers that did not let their employees have lunch breaks.
And the companies that did not provide safety gear, and that refused to hire non-whites, and that wantonly dumped toxic chemicals in the rivers.

We need regulations because some people are scumbags.
I think the key here is motivation. When cost cutting is the motivation, managers are told to remove X number of people from the department, even if they all perform their jobs well. This is more common than you think.
Haven't even heard of it! That looks really interesting. I'll add that to the list of candidates at the start of my next crossplat mobile app.
If by "look hard" you mean 'make us prove our innocence at the cost of huge sums of money and time, under the threat of years in prison', then yup, that's about the size of it.
You really don't want to use DC for distribution in your home. Go price out telcoflex copper cabling (from 0000 up to 4 gauge) for -48VDC datacenter use. Voltage drop over distance and losses to heat make it impractical in homes. You really want to pay the extra money to wire your home with 6AWG cable in the walls? That's a lot of copper.

Centralizing an AC to DC transformer is pointless for consumer stuff since things run on DIFFERENT voltages. A lot of consumer grade stuff is 5VDC internally. Or 12VDC. Or 17.5VDC. Or 19.2VDC laptops. Or 24VDC. Or 48VDC.

That's before we even get into the problem of "everything in the world is already standardized to run from 110-240VAC 50/60Hz".

If you really want to do DC distribution in your home, do it with 802.3af/802.3at switches (or "dumb" midspan injectors") and cat5e/cat6 cable. You can get LED lightings and other things that will run off PoE voltages and amperages now.
It's About Time Someone Redesigned Crutches to Be Comfortable
Thank you for the answer, HN software won't allow me to reply under your comment. I've seen companies smaller than that with very sofisticated applications that, at the time, gave them a big chunk of their markets and ended up being not so small anymore.

I'm chuckling now remembering how one of those apps was really a big compendium of smartly programmed forms to solve a regulatory problem. It was a big success, but it burned to the ground because the owner, that had managed to hire a handful of very good techies for peanuts tried to squeeze them a little too much and ended up completely alone with customers knocking on the door.
Didn't Babylon 5 have frequent CG sequences relating to ships docking and even landing on planets? (Granted they probably reused, maybe from different angles and with small changes, a lot of those sets).
What a horrible choice for a name. Canonical has had Mir for a while now. Choosing an unique name isn't that hard. Not everything needs to be 3 letters.

https://launchpad.net/mir

This had me confused for a while:

> Introducing MIR (rust-lang.org)
The Case for Protected Bike Lanes
> Regulations are great for handling tragedy of the commons scenarios.

I have never seen any actual evidence for this. There is strong reasoning to say markets are bad at handing tragedies of the commons, but it does not follow from that that government is good at it.
This is just another scam by the rich to not pay taxes, total BS. That this is legal in U.S is total beyond belief. Its worse the the Panamanian shell corporations.
social media + developer ego = unreachable utopia.

The first company where I started developer, the developer egos I had to deal with were consistent with the egos of outside sales people. Most of them were quite active on social media touting the latest release of this iphone game, or this huge website they got done in three days. I only found out later that while most were true, there was a definite bending of reality in terms of what they actually did and how long it actually took.

After I left the company were the developers , I purged all my social media, keep Twitter as a news feed and only followed people who I had a common interest in and were actually inspiring to me. It completely changed my perspective on what people say they do and what they actually do.

It makes a big difference when you listen to the people who are actually humble in what they do compared to those who are only out for the retweets or excited looks from other developers.
Terrible and flawed on so many levels I can't believe it
Internships have become way more important and complex than anyone's acknowledging
If you own 1% of something, you should get 1% representation in something.
A company should hire for the ability to engineer software, not on how much of language X's API they've memorized. Language really doesn't matter too much. Theory is what is important.
Just not the regulators.