skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And oddly enough those "services" (or daemons as they used to be called, wonder why that changed) could run for years if not decades without a hitch.

But now everything seems to be a case of web monkey balls of yarn that is no better than Windows in staying upright.

Its like i can reuse old UF comics, only replace Murky's love for Windows with Ubuntu or some such.
I read it more as "I can't get it to work so it's not worth my time." Which seems reasonable in this case.
I think it is not that easy. Meeting will be a huge pain. And the communication is not as easy as you can do in person.

Also some ideas/conversations sparks during casual talking, if remote, those small things will be missed.
The cascade has to continue cascading...
How does a background check or fingerprint accomplish that either? And secondly, why is that even a concern? If someone wants to rape, they don't need to be an uber driver to do it.
Have you got any example tar files that definitely hang on the latest build? I'm sure I've been able to tar -xf on the first and current builds.
It's absolutely horrid. Lets say you want to read everything: first you need to experiment whether depth-first search is going down or right. Then you miss stuff because the down and up buttons on some screens use a lighter shade than what you're expecting that is very close to the "nothing here" shade; after figuring this out you go back to examine everything you saw because you might've missed something based on this mysterious hard-to-distinguish shade. Eventually I gave up, maybe he has interesting stuff to say further on but I'll never know because I was defeated by terrible UI patterns.

Prime example of sacrificing usability for looks.
Another exception is biotech startup world I think. You need a PhD cofounder to start a biotech company.
Apart from not having the elaboration between slides, I followed it quite well actually. Left/right for chapters, up/down for slides in that chapter?
How does a fingerprint/background check stop a person from becoming a driver just so he can rape his first fare, then quit?

You're basically asking, how does X prevent a person from being a rapist?

Answer: nothing can "prevent" rapists and murderers. they exist regardless of precautions, and the word "prevention" is overused. background checks, and fingerprints do nothing to prevent creeps.
So do the children of "actual" Canadians who betrayed their true country and turned to work for foreign, non-Canadian governments have their citizenship annulled? The children of the Canadian counterparts to Ames and Hansson? (I'm sure there have been some)

Or have about those Canadians who work legitimately for foreign embassies? Canada clearly has those [1]. I assume their kids don't have their citizenship retracted.

My guess that this is meant as some sort of punitive action against the parents, but it seems wrong to punish the children. Even assuming the kids knew, as the article pointed out, what's a 16-year old who finds out his parents are foreign spies supposed to do? Call the FBI? I can see children in a totalitarian country reacting that way out of fear or an excess of patriotism, but have we really reached that point here in the West?

1. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/nnrsdnts/ntcs/frgn-eng.html
In that caee it seems that there is no RESTful API's at all in global meaning :D
> Main AAA (Authentication/Auhtorizaation/Accounting) problem is the clould.
> How can we federate identity and manage them safely?

AWS, and I assume Google's stuff, will let you integrate their authentication system with your internal one using SAML to authenticate.
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"Meeting will be a huge pain"

Not sure if that's true - I work in a company that has a very flexible approach to remote working and pretty much every meeting we have has some people remote (or indeed I am remote) and I don't think it makes much difference to the quality of discussions.
Even if we consider August 2015 as "recently", this money is already included in the $1.8bn (they actually raised $740mn in August 2015).
Why, when they can grab the reins?

Iirc, glibc used to be maintained by a RH guy until he got on so many people's wrong side there was fork made that ran for a number of years until the original was merged into it and the fork renamed.
> This shows the power of any major secret service. They can do literally anything they want. They don't care about anything except their own survival, and they will easily adapt to any circumstances and any political climate.

And that is the reason we should get rid of them. It's anti-democratic in large parts.
I just wanted to go to sleep when I wrote this comment. I should have been more precise.
I was drifting up the mountain with an RWD car and when I took a corner at 15-25kph with a nice angle I heard a ratatatatak and saw the chain flying. Tried again and got the same result.

At this point I got curious and I wanted to know under what condition the chains would stay on the wheels. I did some experiments and came to the conclusion that you can do what you want with theses chains as long as you're driving more or less straight but as soon as you start cornering you better be careful or you'll see the chain flying. They hate lateral force. Will try next winter with regular chains to see how well they do.

I precise that I did that during the night and the road led to village that has at most 100 inhabitants. I didn't expect to see anyone going up or down the mountain and you can see car lights way before crossing an other car. I wasn't reckless driving
File I/O error handlers should not be a rare untested code path.
You can simply press "space" to go to the next slide, almost like a linear presentation.
Somewhat similar, just don't care.

They did it so intentionally that makes you feel if you don't work your ass off, you didn't deserve such a good company! But I just ignore them if they are not essential.
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Because they gave an update on their plans four days ago.
To answer the question posed in the title: because it's hard and the people with those skills are already getting paid to do it. It's also the answer to why there's no free software that's as good as Photoshop.

As others have said, the JVM has been a popular runtime target for the last few years. But it's been in constant development for a quarter century, and it powers countless enterprise systems, so the amount of time and resources that have gone into it are enormous. It's hard to get that level of investment in any software, period.
Btw. does anybody know what happened to kOS or z? I can't find anything on kparc.com anymore.
That you say it easily doesn't mean that it's easy to do.

The current telephone infrastructure wasn't designed. It grew: Verifying a call would involve either tying up an additional channel back (doubling the cost of the infrastructure), or replacing (parts of) the infrastructure with something better designed- like a TTL "ping" packet going backwards to verify the route on the original channel. Getting everyone to change their hardware is hard. Just look at how long it's taking to get IPv6 out.

Fortunately, tracing a call isn't like television: You do not have to "keep him talking". You can ask the phone company to research the calls made to your number at a specific time, and in the process of reconciling billing, the phone company can find out, and then you can use the judicial arm to deal with people who spoof the calling number.
One of the many flaws. The other is that his cellular automata model violates special relativity.
You work for Cisco?
Nice question, I had to think for a while. :)
I get not wanting Apple to manage payments or data analytics.

Wouldn't it be possible for podcasters to add some sort of protocol for paid podcasts that could be integrated into apps? Like "purchase URL" (or some sort of stripe-y token or anything).

I also don't really think that giving podcast producers playback data would be a bad thing. The thing that creeps me out the most about ad cookies on the web is the cross-domain tracking, but if we're talking about behavioural data for a podcast just to that producer, sounds like it could be a net benefit.

I feel like this post is mixing concepts (making paid content in podcast form more viable) with implementation details (Apple doing it). Though it's in response to the NYT article that does the same thing.

Feel like there's a lack of imagination, and there likely are ways to do things in a decentralised way
I think they wanted to post "F" but posted "F#" :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_(programming_language)

Not to be confused with F Sharp (programming language).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_(programming_language)
Is it here because of that Tesla hipe? Tens of cars per year probably crumple just like this Model S, but there are (rightfully) no articles on HN or other IT web sites about that.
I didn't say meeting is impossible, there are a lot of solutions out there. But it is not the same quality as meeting with real person. The images are laggy, and audio is often here and there. And as the person remote, I feel like, it increases the distraction, so the quality of conversion is not the same as you might have if present in the meeting.

I just don't buy remote is the remedy to cost-cutting, it brings new drawbacks. Personally, I don't feel the same level of collaboration with my remote 'colleagues' than onsite ones. But it could be personal.
Ahhh, the old "ideas during casual talking" trope. In all my years I've never seen anything of significance come out of people talking over lunch - for most companies, the concept of unexpected collaboration based on overhearing something in the office just isn't true and is mostly not required.

I'm sure that sometimes unexpected collaboration may happen that might have a small tangible benefit to a company but I can guarantee you that most companies do not need this and the benefits of a work from home culture on the whole city and America's general mental health will be better than whatever new feature you cooked up over your company provided lunch.

imagine the problems working from home would solve: housing costs, high density living, pollution, no commute time, improved communities, improved family life.

The odd piece of collaboration that may come out of lunch chat is really not worth the pain that our cities and resident workers are going through. Can't afford a decent sized house? Probably because everyone wants to be close to work so you're priced out. You'll feel the pain when you get married and want kids; very long commute or sub-standard living conditions, great choice...

Like you said, I'm sure small things will be missed but employees having a great standard of living is likely going to do the company more good than not. I do admit that we would need a cultural shift for this to really work though.
Disclaimer: I come from neo-communist controlled central / eastern europe. Read : a populist government controls the country, gives freebies paid by tax payers to the elderly and the elderly + dumb vote for the same communists again and again. Younger pop. is trying to escape the country and the middle class shrinks every year.

You do not really want to use public services in my country. Trains are in desolate state and remind you of nazi trains used to transfer prisoners.

Health services are underfunded and the 50% of funds are being stolen by the gov and other oligarchs.
Oh and when they get sick they get treated in another country.

Most of the youngsters in my country see capitalism as the only way to vote in everyday life. You vote with your money wherever you go.

It's not ideal but we hope it works. Unlike our corrupt socialism.
>Welfare states don't require states anymore.

Tell that to the Varoufakises and their multitudes of supporters who want state-backed coercive programs like compulsory Basic Income.
The ones who get it are also the ones who stick with the concept of doing good long enough, to learn the facts you mentioned.
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You're neglecting the fact that the complexity of an economy scales with computational power and algorithmic efficiency, meaning the simulations of the economy can never catch up to the economy in fineness of detail.

Economic activity can only be effectively coordinated through decentralized market calculations that a centralized computer simulation cannot match, that incorporate the vast troves of private knowledge that a governing authority is not privy to.
PLASMA: Interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS generates indented pseudo-code
There are a bunch of modes and plugins that are aimed at improving readability.

I use Readability Redux, but there are others.
Sorry, what's an SIP provider? I've looked it up and still don't understand what it is. Is it a residential service? Can anyone get it? Is it some form of VoIP? Or a classical phone line? I've seen it in multiple places but don't understand what it is or which companies it relates to.
The car-analogy is a good sign that the speaker is not able to express the thought directly. The networks are not that simple, and the analogy breaks down at depth for every comparison. Like the modern drivers who consciously chose not wear a seat belt. Or that half of the 1.25 millions of death a year are the "vulnerable users", called so by the who: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/ , and fatalities of laws of momentum, where a 150 lbs pedestrian absorbs more energy than a 3000 lbs Scion...

Stop talking cars and and analogies!
Talk straight!
I had a fairly nice experience with X2Go.

But you might also want to try stuff like icebergs.io or nitrous.io (https://www.nitrous.io/features)
You realize that these same laws were in place when economic condition were different, right ?

On a more general note, I would to reconsider your appreciation about France, and in general, about countries which work differently from yours. Unemployment in France is a huge social impediment, but I don't believe it has nearly as much effects on the economy as you think it has.

One of the reasons for it is that jobless people are low-productivity, low-qualification which, if employed, would not contribute significantly to our economy. Also by increasing work price, pressure is created on companies to improve work efficiency. I wouldn't say there is a strong connection, but UK's productivity puzzle has been conjectured to be linked with zero-hour jobs.
Write a compiler. It gives you great insights into parsing/tokenizing, building syntax trees, implementing syntax and Symantec checks and code generation. Obviously, you would have to pick a toy language (typically a subset of a known programming language) and your generated code will be inefficient. Still, you would learn a lot.
It's a cultural thing - you're just not set up to do it well. Image the problems working from home would solve: housing costs, high density living, pollution, no commute time, improved communities, improved family life.

We need a cultural shift.
Children of Canadian citizens acquire citizenship by blood. The "employees of foreign governments" clause only applies if the parents are neither citizens nor permanent residents.
This is a very interesting book analazing and explaining the situation by former chess world champ. G. Kasparov: Winter is comming (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610396200/).
I did have that experience myself.

Me and colleague are talking about, back in last November, Paris attack thing. And we are working in the media sector, he just mentioned that we could use the user behavior stream to detect whether something big happens. Now it becomes a viral item detector, also providing real time metrics to other services.

It might not be significant, but it did evolve into something useful.
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I'm sure the cost of setting up the kitchens (capital expenditure) and the cost of keeping them running (operation expenditure) negate this saving. Are there any published figures?
This is also a fun attack. Find a provider that does this. Request to port a target number (a bank or an escort service or whatever). Port will stall for a bit, in the mean time, the service provider activates your number internally, so their own dialers route to their "version" of the number.

Now you get all the calls from that provider to that number. Forward them to the actual destination (using an unrelated provider) and no one will notice for a while. Except, you get all the calls and media.
In response to your response (which I cannot reply to)- that's just one example. I did say that it may benefit some companies some of the time but I highly doubt that it's worthwhile enough to be a driver for EVERYONE to work from a central location in every company. That one time when something awesome happened at the office just doesn't outweigh the need to cut pollution, solve the housing crises and have better family lives.

America is experiencing its worst mental health and depression crisis ever, I would not be surprised if working conditions were a massive factor.

Companies should not live and die by water cooler conversations (and mostly don't).
So what is "IP Score" in the car analogy? A World-wide DMV? With all user information exposed to either a closed-source entity, or an open source effort?
> In all my years I've never seen anything of significance come out of people talking over lunch

That's nice, but probably trying to generalise your personal experience to everyone as though it were an immutable law isn't a good one. I've certainly had the opposite experience.
Press escape to get the slides overview.
That's the work of Latvian street artist kiwie. Here's a great making of video https://vimeo.com/48299610
There's actually not. Unless it infringes on a protected class (eg "no black people") or a fundamental liberty interest, the "rational basis" standard prevails. This basically means that if a hypothetical reason could be articulated to support a public interest it's legal, even if it does not actually achieve that goal in practice.

This becomes particularly broad when you're talking about actions in public. So while it would probably be considered an intrusion to send the Dental Police into everyone's home to be sure that they floss daily, it would probably be legal to have the Dental Police perform mandatory tooth-brushings on all taxi drivers. Nobody is forcing you to be a taxi driver and you could reasonably avoid the situation by practicing another profession instead.

That's how you get stuff like requiring hair nets for food safety. But again, it doesn't necessarily have to be sensical. Unless otherwise restricted, states and cities have an enormous amount of leeway to do whatever they think is in their citizens' best interests. It's a list of things you can't do, not a list of things you can.

If Austin wants to fingerprint taxi drivers, that's well within their powers. Not even controversial - that has been common practice for probably a half century now.
> Pursuing a PhD only makes sense if you want to go to the academia.

The pursuit of a PhD makes sense if you are interested in research.
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Model X production was hampered by suppliers not being able to build enough parts to specification leading to the slow down in production. Model 3 supposedly has fewer parts is less complex so they might be able to ramp up production to the 500k level.
> Universities are not growing at the same rates that they were in the 60's and 70's. If you're a graduate student, not only are your classmates your competition, but every professor who supervises more than 1 PhD thesis is actually contributing to the overpopulation of PhDs.

I must say, I quite disagree with what seems to be a generally negative tone on HN towards academia. Basic research is fundamentally important, more than that there are extremely talented people who should be doing it - rather than allow themselves to have their time wasted by some corporation that does absolutely nothing beneficial for civilization.

Obviously it's a problem if these people are disenfranchised, not sufficiently funded or otherwise aren't able to do what they wanted to do and for those reasons are turned away from Academia (btw tenure track is not the sole option for doing fundamental research).

But on here it seems the entire critical conversation is centered, on job options, salary, competition, and all the other things are really evidence of someone too deeply emersed in the corporate culture. If you are doing good research - competition doesn't matter, if you care significantly about the research salary doesn't matter all that much. There are surely negative aspects but statements like these:

> That all amounts to about 6-10 years of post-baccalaureate slog before you can even start a career and begin living like an adult.

Sound almost like corporate salesmanship for getting talented people out of Academia, into useless soul-destroying jobs.
This is a pretty cool story. A shame they got caught. :(
The benefit you're describing is just end users already being familiar with the interface because it's running Windows. That's not the case here, the entire interface on this device is of the custom application itself. It doesn't matter that the user already knows that the start button can be used to launch new programs, they're never going to see any hint that the device is built around Windows unless it's broken. There are numerous disadvantages to using Windows for a heart monitor, everyone else has described this to death but the only real benefit to using Windows is that development doesn't require a software developer competent with embedded work. Now they can hire any Tom, Dick, and Harry from the local community college because it's just a Windows app.
Good and insightful criticism. Thanks for the input :) A refreshing alternative to knee-jerk dismissal.
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ActionCable is super simple to setup since you can keep the same style as the rest of your Rails application. The only downside at the moment is the support/documentation: the real time messaging app, I'm working on is starting, to get more complex and it would be better to get more support. But hey, it's still in beta... so better wait if you don't want to get your hands dirty ;)
Not quite ... they tell people to ask about a certain, non-generic, drug.
I assume the implicit subject-predicate structure here is something like: "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" itself exercises a kind of tyranny.

It would be interesting if the person you were replying to would expand on that idea.
I think most people reading here are aware of the genotype/phenotype distinction, so you don't need to make that point.

As for the argument that a tendency like this would disappear in a few generations -- we're in a very different environment compared to history (see previous paragraph, in fact...)
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The MSP430 will run flat out at about 200 μA / MHz, and they have 32 to 64 kB of non-volatile RAM. You could certainly get useful stuff done with that.