skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. Demand for people with this skill must be higher than the supply.

This point goes against all of his other points. A skill that takes six months to get extremely good at is going to be commoditized in short order. So, it seems like a mistake to bank on this kind of knowledge being relevant in 40 years.

Honestly though, I am starting to feel like a fool for completing a CS degree. While I have a great career, most of the what I learned was useless. Back in 2012, I couldn't get a job doing machine learning because nobody wanted people with those skills, and the few companies that did looked for Ph.Ds. So even though I could build do cool stuff with ML in plain Octave, I couldn't get a job in the field.

Today, all you need to do is to break into the field is read a few books and learn a tool. The skill has been completely commoditized, rendering all that I work I did moot. Then again, at least now I sort of have a job in the field.
Nokia had far better industrial design, logistics, marketing and brand recognition than any current Android manufacturer.

If they had carried out that switch (and survived in the short term - they were on the brink of bankruptcy at the time), Nokia would be doing pretty well nowadays.
Google doesn't break out their ad revenue numbers. Current estimates are that Youtube & Google Play ads contribute >15% of their ad revenue. I would argue that "ads against search" and "ads on Youtube" are two different businesses even if they do seem similar. Google is not a one trick pony: they have 5 billion dollar businesses: ads against search; ads against their web properties like Gmail, network ads (DoubleClick), ads on YouTube, Android.
> I don't think the failure is on Mayer; Yahoo was a walking zombie before she arrived.

But they brought her on and paid her amply to specifically fix this problem. As a result she shares part of the blame for Yahoo's failure to right the ship.
I'm not sure I would consider this him taking them down. The case has nothing to do with him beyond his money, and without the case his money wouldn't be doing anything here, so it's the case that's doing the work. He's just supporting it.
Fixing IT – The Importance of Ownership
He's doing what most people would do if they had money to burn. Not saying it's good, but I think that's true. How many times have you heard "I'll f*cking sue you!" as an impotent threat? I like to half-jokingly say that my definition of wealthy is when someone can refer to "my attorney" and not be bluffing.
I'm amazed that you were amazed. Seems like the perfect job to me. Not only because economically it's obviously fantastic, but also because she came to a company with significant resources and were basically given the freedom to do whatever the hell she wanted with it, without having to think much about an existing identify and business.
The "tak[ing] money from clickbait" is precisely the problem. Reputation matters.
Understanding Deep Dreams: An ELI5 on CNNs
It makes me curious how Quanta is funded. The journal is very high quality and in a niche market: pure science journalism. I can't imagine they make enough subscription revenue; maybe it's funded mostly through the Simons Foundation?

Either way, glad it exists!
What was your experience with game theory and bitcoin? Do you recommend any readings or links?
What phrase is "not even wrong"?
You might be more understanding if you had a preference that was still somewhat taboo (yet ultimately harmless) and expected the simple human courtesy of being able to announce it on your own terms.

Even though I'm a Kinsey Zero, as a privacy advocate, I'm very happy that powerful, good people of a historically-beleaguered orientation (Tim Cook, etc.) have become forces to be reckoned with on the privacy front.

Forcefully outing people is not news, it is harm.
Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
The irony of having to scroll past three ads to read this four paragraph article about Google serving "a lot more" ads
They have ignored a direct court order telling them to take down the article. You reap what you sow.
Some of the projects which don't directly generate revenue are still useful - they gather data on users and/or pose as extra ad space.
I love to see it go to production.

Hydrogen fuelling infrastructure for Fuel cell + safety issues of carry two tanks of Hydrogen in a small plane need to be solved before production.

One Hindenburg like accident would kill the idea forever.
During the filming of the TV series of Last Chance to See (with Stephen Fry) this happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY with a Kakapo named Sirocco and he then became quite the internet celebrity: https://www.facebook.com/siroccokakapo
There's also an audio version of the book read by Adams himself, called

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (read by Douglas Adams)"

Try to track it down. I found it very enjoyable to listen to.
With all respect to Kevins benchmarks. There are many ways to measure performance and most of them are wrong. If you see the talk he even admit that his numbers changed quite a bit between each benchmark run.

From what we see, we are generally faster than raw SQLite on all metrics except when doing batch inserts. This is primarily an API problem, because our low-level access is 200-300% faster than SQLite (which Kevin also mentions). It is something we are well aware of and plan to address quickly after 1.0: https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues/1684

Our own numbers are here: http://www.slideshare.net/ChristianMelchior/realm-building-a... including a link to the code
Absolutely. Google is far and away what I fall back to when I need to really find something. That being said, I use Bing and DDG as my defaults to see if I get good enough results.
But this "anonymous" benefactor happens more often than we think. Lots of times its someone indigent who gets a pro-bono lawyer or gets backing from interested parties to establish precedent --or to prevent precedent. I think the only newsworthiness in this comes from the "billionaire" adjective.
But Ron Johnson brought and executed a coherent change plan. It wasn't at all successful, but it still existed.

Mayer spent a lot of money on acquihires and self-aggrandizement but all that was externally visible was entropy. The changes that I've seen all involve the pollution of their various news aggregators with the lowest grade clickbait.
ISRO’s Completely Indian Made Reusable Launch Vehicle Tested Successfully
Do you mind sharing the traffic you're getting that translates to the adsense revenue? Static single-purpose sites like this one are an interesting way to generate passive income (think a small network of useful pages).
11 years ago Liverpool comeback in UCL
I'm 91% through a full series read (kindle stat) and while I find some parts to be funny it's more arduous a task than an entertaining read. You're not alone. I like a good dose of silly but sometimes I just roll my eyes at the Guide. 9% left...
I too was there during those days, in Espoo.

But to be honest we also had our share of alienating developers, it wasn't only MS fault.

First the Symbian development was a mess with the Metrowerk tools and that Symbian C++ dialect, then came PIPS, followed by Carbide (Eclipse based).

Followed by the whole mess of open sourcing Symbian and closing it again.

Or the Symbian model moving from Symbian C++ / PIPS to Qt, also in the middle this process.

Maemo was GTK, but then everyone should move to Qt. Better not lets also move the OS into Meego.

I remember asking why the Nokia 770 didn't had a GSM modem and the team saying to me that wasn't the market they wanted to target. When they did the usual roadshow of upcoming devices.

Nokia was already quite bad in terms of relationship with app developers before Elop came into the party, due to the internal politics.

Of course, the famous burning platform memo was just the last way to alienate developers that were slowly accepting the new Qt based model for Symbian, after all the previous pain points.
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. I might be critical as well, if I hadn't read it until adult and could compare it to other kind of humour. (Say, Monty Python.)

Thing is, the Guide (the local translation of the radio play and then the book) was about my 4th or 5th science fiction thing ever (after some Star Wars and Star Trek I had seen in TV, and some occasional book, probably Heinlein), and for a ~12 year old, it was a formative experience. Not a single Monty Python or Dr Who contact prior to that.
Easier to just monitor network traffic.
Some of us here are old enough to remember the horrors of the British Rail sandwich.
Gawker is a "source of information" like chlamydia is to the common cold.

Nothing is lost in the destruction of a source of bile about individuals and their private lives, it was zero-information content in the first place. To posit Gawker as a "worthwhile source" indicates a lack of critical thinking to begin with.

Or, I reject one of your primary premises and think you're drawing a connection to "information being stifled" that is tenuous at best given the nature of the information and the behavior of Gawker as an organization. I also disagree with the implied slippery slope on the grounds that the content being "stifled" was bile about individuals in their personal lives and devoid of artistic, journalistic, or any other praise or protection.

tldr: Fuck Gawker.
I read it over a decade ago and given my impressionable mind and lack of other such "ridiculous" stimuli in my immediate environment i found it hilarious at the time. I also found things such as improbability engine ingenious. Vogon poetry, depressed robot, doors programmed to be cheery, building a computer to figure out what the first computer said. All that was non-linear and mind opening to people back in the 80-90's-ages. Reading it today I could understand that it's not as mind bending since such humor is abundant. I loved star wars growing up but don't think it would blow my mind as much if i watched it today for the first time either. Adams made a great contribution at the time and that's why all the nerds still appreciate him for it.
3/4? There's 5 books in the series.

Are you in book 4? I had to crawl my way through book 4 a bit, but once you get to book 5 it is well worth it.
Congrats on the release, glad you made it to 1.0. And well done sticking to semantic versioning and going to 0.100 before doing the 1.0.
Look at google and all their various endeavors. How many of them are all that profitable. Their primary revenue generator is search/advertising. Android which is super successful is to ensure people use google search.

How much money does youtube really make compared to search. The profit margin is not anywhere close to their search ad business.
Bradley Martyn Lifts the Biggest Dumbbell in the World
Consistency problems can be detected quite rapidly, for example http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/ . Automated fixing of them is generally pushed back against socially though. I think for good reasons. One is that a data user can do the automated fixes if they want to, so it's better to put human eyes on all the issues so that the ambiguous ones get fixed correctly. This is perhaps a conservative pov, the less ambiguous cases can probably be safely resolved with automation. But "obvious" consistency problems are the easy ones for consumers to deal with too.

Do you mean getting Wikipedia to use OSM more? The basic scheme of tagging wikipedia and wikidata links on OSM objects seems pretty complete on the OSM side (there's just lots of things that could have tags that don't).

Area mapping for highways is well enough sketched out, but I think there isn't a natural way to derive a graph, so it ends up being visual detail and a low priority (I don't care about having it in my area so will spend ~0 time on it).

The search on OSM.org (nominatim) is slightly pedantic, approximately for the reason in your last point. Pelias and Photon both bring stronger search to OSM data.
People want to send money to others, so they go to their nearest accountant and ask the latter to write their transaction down, so it's formalized. All these accountants are in the same room and each one has a bunch of transactions to write down, but they need to figure out how to write them down a specific way.

When an accountant figures out how to write down the transactions he has at the moment, he yells "HA! I got it!" and the transactions to everyone else in the room, who goes "ugh, damnit", the accountant collects the fee from the people whose transactions he wrote down, and the cycle begins anew.
It's not simple, but it's not hard to imagine. Some of these things exist already:

* Image support (I can't remember where I saw this but it exists)

* Structured data piping (in Powershell)

* Machine-readable command-line arguments, which would enable...

* ...Proper autocomplete (like in IDEs)

* Real types (Bash is 'stringly typed')

* Sanity (e.g. look at how `[` is implemented in Bash; none of that)

* A better way to integrate with programs than running them on the command line (e.g. shell bindings).

That last one would be tricky and really requires moving away from the C ABI as the Lingua Franca of libraries. That is probably quite far away in the future unfortunately.
True, but you can/could easily do that with LVM snapshots and merges too. We snapshot the databases (copy on write) which is instant, then if we want to roll it back we lvm merge and remount. Everything is pretty instant and it doesn't matter what filesystem you want to use.
My question is more about the process. Everybody knows that Apple does a lot of internal R&D that never sees the light of day. For example, the heavily rumoured Apple TV.

My question is: do they do a small number of internal R&D projects, or do they do a large number that gets continuously filtered?
RhodeCode Goes Open Source: Unified Security for Git, SVN and Mercurial
> If the institution needs more confidence, it can feed back and ask for additional mechanisms: more biometric data, for instance, or an old-style password.

I get the feeling that early adopters of this would end up erring on the side of more confidence and still ask for "old-style" passwords. So basically, 2fa on a more widespread/intrusive scale.
I'm fascinated by the vitriol directed at Marissa. A lot of people seemed to take her hiring and subsequent performance as a personal offence to them.
> CDDL is an open-source licence just as the GPL

But incompatible with the GPL, which mostly explains the current situation of ZFS on Linux.
"Several have been accused of using legal methods to minimise their tax bills. In Google's case, its tax structure allows it to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland, even when sales appear to relate to the UK."

I took this to mean Google was among the companies accused of using "legal methods". Am I misreading?
If you still think that population size is relevant to the point, the contrast is still lost on you.
The penalty was chosen after the defense did nearly everything possible to sabotage their own case and paint themselves in an unsympathetic light. It's rather telling that the jury awarded damages in excess of what the plaintiff asked for.
Agreed on the perspective regarding hydrogen cars - I never quite figured out the thought process behind trying to make an experimental platform of that type into a mass-consumer product. I mean, I guess it makes environmental sense but the R&D path seemed so long and trying that EVs & hybrids really had a lot of growing up time in parallel.

For me I was always more interested in a turbine system for cars that would use an advanced biofuel (ex: eventual algae-based fuel) which would power electric systems (wheel motors, some batteries, KERS) and sort of convert they existing infrastructure into a more modern one - tanks, pumps, etc.
Got this link? Sounds interesting!
There's something to be said for the punch that Jet A still packs

Personally I suspect that the US Navy nuclear-powered CO2-to-JetA system, or something like it, will be the long term solution when fossil JetA becomes prohibitively expensive. Electric prop planes are feasible but electric jets really aren't.
Yes, there is. Elizabeth Warren, when she was an academic, did a fair amount of work indicating most of the marginal gain from the second earner goes to positional goods (like real estate in "good school districts" (ie areas with good demographics)) to no net gain. It also, as I said above, makes coordination more difficult.

Two-earner households also result in delayed fertility, which has harmful demographic effects and dysgenic effects.
Did you read the article he was commenting on? If so, his article makes lots of sense.

Don't blame your lack of understanding on the author.
I agree that Nokia was too slow to compete, but they had massive advantages over both Apple and Google and with good guidance could've survived successfully.

Even years after the iPhone came out, Nokia outsold Apple, had a bigger R&D budget and a bigger foothold in practically every market except North America.

Smartphones outsold feature (dumb) phones only in 2013, five years after the iPhone came out. When did Nokia slip to 3rd place by number of sold devices? Q1 2015.

There was time, just no will.
>I guess MS got all the Nokia phone software copyrights to themselves

This is incorrect. MS only bought non-exclusive, 10-year license for Nokia’s patent portfolio. Nokia has all the IP.
From developer point of view, more mature .NET Native instead of MDIL, ability to use VC++ 14 improvements and best of all the 8.1 Universal App solution model finally merged as UWP.

From the user point of view probably nothing.
Reflections on six months of Swift
Do LVM snapshots still cause massive performance degradation?

https://www.nikhef.nl/~dennisvd/lvmcrap.html
The thing is, my personal views are such that I wouldn't be happy using Windows with unclear phone-home behaviour, but for my small businesses, accepting that Windows is watching us in unknown ways is absolutely out of the question for regulatory and contractual reasons.

The average home user might be set to automatically install recommended updates, but I doubt many businesses or power users do that. The important thing in this case is that they do have the option not to.

As for telemetry "accidentally" getting in, this is why as mentioned elsewhere our policy is now not to install any Windows updates by default, even security ones. We install selected security updates manually, if and when we've confirmed they are relevant to our needs and not getting reported for anything sneaky.

Several of our machines can't even install those updates at the moment, because Microsoft appear to have horribly broken Windows Update in the past few weeks anyway, so until that's fixed it's a moot point anyway.
So honestly it's best use case is "gotcha". As in you didn't know I was recording and you said something stupid and now I have a recording. Likewise if you are talking to someone and you say something along the lines of "Are you sure about that?" or "Can you confirm this is what/how you want me to do this" and then you record the audio for later incase they come back and say "I never said that".

For myself I went the extra mile to just have my laptop record ALL audio but then felt this was a little too douchey/NSA-y and disabled the whole thing and wiped the audio. I wanted such a system not only for "You said this then and now you are saying that now" but to remember things I had said myself. I wanted to hook it up to STT to have a searchable archive of what I had said but again it was an invasion of privacy (to people around me) that I personally couldn't stomach.
If the reason for this is too many passwords, the answer is a central auth service, not new auth factors. They should be working on a privacy-oriented protocol and network, not making yet another independent auth mechanism.

Not to mention this only works for smartphones! What happens when I need to log in at Kinko's?
> When something does, they work on variations on the theme (to their detriment perhaps, see their numerous chat offerings now). If it doesn't, or it isn't profitable, they scrap it.

Even if it does gain traction, they'll do it for a little while, then kill it anyway. And make another messaging platform/app.
Considering I've never see a family with more than 2 people that wasn't dysfunctional in some way, this doesn't sound like a great thing to me.

I'd rather see a society where polyamory became normal, so people could put together their own families by choice, rather than having it forced on them by genetics. There's very few of my family members that I could stand living with.
We're not just a company, we're Hooli
How Genius annotations undermined web security
No clue why you’re getting downvoted. I’ve seen at least two other (now-closed) posts about this that linked back to the original you pointed to.
I used to be bullish on Xiaomi. Not any more. They seem to get into any hot sectors very quickly, but never manage to grab a big piece of pie and keep it. I wonder if Xiaomi has spreaded itself too thin.
Does slack really not include basic delete functionality for files?
hkex$$
WebGazer.js: Eye Tracking on the Browser
Embarking on a similar process at my company, and hit a similar wall using symbols in Sketch. They're great, but are a pain to maintain for a pattern library project.

We had a breakthrough last week when InVision updated their Craft plugin for Sketch to include Library [1]. Well worth a look, we've tried poking holes and it's held up. Syncs seamlessly across Dropbox/etc and allows for on-the-fly updates that go out to the team "magically". Requires education to make sure our junior designers aren't accidentally updating styles cross-team, but outside of that works as advertised. Very impressive for a v1!

[1]
http://blog.invisionapp.com/cloud-connected-design-assets-li...
Moreover besides leadership skills 'silicon valley chops/cred' and 'good taste in design' did not get proper scrutiny in most of the articles about her post Google work.

IMO her Google career itself was vastly exaggerated portrayal of her actual talent
nice calendar! Today is also the day Star Wars was released, what a geeky day indeed!
(JP from Realm here)

Yes, it's all bits, but those bits matter :). The internal query engine is extremely optimized based on the layout of those bits, on a per-architecture basis.

Also, integers are adaptively bit-packed, so you shouldn't worry about the size of your integers, as Realm will intelligently use the appropriate widths.

I'd suggest continuing to use this computed property pattern and to keep track of #651[0] where we're tracking better support for this.

[0]: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/issues/651
My guess: either common wifi networks or IP addresses.
Maybe I wasn't clear in my comment. Being in the military is onerous, boring, soul sucking and awful. Being a civilian is much easier. Once you've been in such a crummy situation, nothing can faze you.
My wife really likes Windows Phone and wanted a Lumia 1020 for the camera. I offered her my 6+ and she refused.

Trying to upgrade her to a new model is basically impossible. At the time we bought it if you went to any carrier store the Windows phones were clearly second class citizens with the best models not present. Carriers like T-Mobile wouldn't even sell you a decent model because they don't carry them at all and if you buy one separately you find that carrier specific stuff (tethering) is broken.

With Windows phone it was really like they weren't even trying to move units. Sure they built the software and hardware, but actual retail presence seemed pretty broken.

They also failed at continuity. There is no Lumia 1020 successor. The lineup in general seems fragmented with no regular predictable upgrade path and iteration.
Not ZFS, but filesystem snapshot technology in general. Ten years ago we were force to move from a NetApp (which included snapshot) filer to a SAN with no snapshot and that was our biggest impact. Database changes went from being minutes to hours because the DBAs now wanted to do full backups before any change.
Woah! :D
DJ Phantom's rival.