skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Summary

Founders set the company culture, success ingrains that culture deep into a company's subconscious where it runs in the background regardless of whatever cultural reforms/artifacts are introduced - culture can only be changed when a new CEO (Jobs, Nadella) steps in and announces a huge change in culture, which usually stems from an otherwise unimaginable partnership (such as Apple/MSFT) that shows a concession to the realities of the market, which the company once thought it was above.

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Author singles out Apple and Google as companies he is worried about WRT current culture.

Apple - threatened by "big data AI services": Author calls for Apple to partner with Microsoft to get access to cheap backend services (Azure) and/or frontend services (Siri + Cortana), ostensibly to play in Amazon AWS (compute as a service) and IBM Watson's (AI/marketing as a service) markets, respectively. Alternatively, Apple should open iOS to enable customers to muck around with the latest and greatest Android developments and set Google services as defaults on their iOS devices.

Google - threatened by users spending time on social apps: Should partner with Facebook by building a bot for Facebook Messenger and a backend for Facebook Messenger developers.

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Questions/Comments

- It is unclear what unique advantages Apple would bring to the table for either the frontend/backend services market. Why break the intense in-house hardware/software coupling focus by leaning on MS for services? What backend services does Apple need to bring in-house through a partnership?

- What are the cool new Android services that iOS needs to integrate? I know the author says AI capabilities, but that is not a well-defined technology or use-case.

- I don't know a single person that likes using Facebook Messenger. Additionally, messaging applications have much, much lower barriers to entry than web browsers. Messenger is not comparable to Chrome. This is why Fbook purchased Whatsapp.

- Underlying premise: does Apple really need to play in the big data/AI space? Does Google really need to play in the social media space? Are these really going to be markets that drive future growth?
post I responded to said "smarter than average" which is not the same thing as IQ and conflating the two of those is also a trap.
Time 2 Gold (with color display!) + Core. Fantastic. If only did they ship to my country.
Yup, having more structure and types would be nice.
However, that would require effort from all application writers, where as unstructured text is what they'd naturally output, and it works well enough for most things.
Pretty cool way to visualize the route. Would like more info thrown in along the way.
>A chunk of the telemetry recorded by Windows 10 has been back-ported to 7 and 8 in updates

1. you don't have to install those updates

2. supposedly, even if you install them, they do nothing unless you also enable CEIP: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2981947/microsoft-windows/t...
Fast Inverse Square Root
Rendering is a trade off between time, quality and artistic and technical effort. No frame needs 24 hours to render; it just means someone wasn't tasked with making it faster or cheaper.
Why is this particular article on HN?

Look at the poster image - using a commonly maligned ethnic minority as the "face" of this movement. An attempt at bigotry IMO.
In other countries it's common to live with your parents until you're married, or even a little bit past that. In America it's looked down upon. Nothing wrong with staying home, saving money (even if you pay rent to your parents, it's cheaper than living on your own). You can save money, pay for school, or not be forced to work a job by staying at home longer.
And they also explicitly prohibit using Tor, it's right in their ToS => https://quadhost.net/policies/terms-of-service/

Many of the cheap (read: sub $10/year) OpenVZ VPS offerings prohibit ANY type of Tor traffic, even use of a client (such as torsocks) - I've used many of them, and they are quick to detect and suspend based on traffic analysis.
Currently not inside pipelines. You could create your own redis and connect to that. Best option is to stub/mock redis in the tests.
Anti trust law does not deal only with monopolies. It is about companies with dominant positions.

Is facebook a company with dominant position?
Not only is this completely off-topic, they are a publicly traded company NASDAQ: WIX and they are currently valued at ~$1B.
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I am working with wp lately as a developer. Would I pay for an awesome tool that makes my life easy as a wp dev ? I may. But can it do the following:

1. Setup a dev environment with all the nuts and bolts that wp requires at the minimum which is LAMP/WAMP/MAMP etc. Windows, Mac, Linux wherever.

2. If you go the vagrant route, that is great. I love vagrant BUT can you ensure that it makes my life easy to use with things like xdebug ? I would prefer not write any PHP code without using a debugger like xdebug. My experience with vagrant environments has been a pain when it comes to setting up debugging.

3. Please don't pre-package it too many tools that are opinionated ? For example, I may not prefer deploying using capistrano. May be make them optional. I have googled a few vagrant boxes so far and most of them are overloaded with too much crap. Again, this suggestion makes sense as you are trying to release a product that works for a lot of people not just a single developer.

4. How will integrate with version control tools like git and others ? If you are doing wp, you may want to consider svn as well.

5. How will it integrate with code editors like visual studio code, sublime, vim etc ?

Finally, what value will this desktop app add over a regular pre-packaged WordPress vagrant environment that are already out there ?

Hope this helps. My 2 cents.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing -- the last sentence brings this up: "What all of these shifting dynamics mean for the future of housing, families, and work has yet to fully emerge."

Just look at other developed countries where living with parents is normal. Could this just be the US lifestyle evolving? It looks like a pretty regular trend over the last ~50 years.
There is no investing going on here. This is absolutely a pre-order. It doesn't matter what Kickstarter says in their ToS, you're pre-ordering a product.
CryEngine was used for FarCry, Crysis, BattleCry, and a good number of games from other developers.
Virtual Reality Celebrity Dating Is a Thing Now Thanks to Alibaba
That's somewhat true for VFX in general, but not really for Pixar: They mostly use procedural textures (they use them a lot more than most other VFX studios can) so texture IO is a lot less, and is one of the reasons they can get away with starting to use a GPU preview renderer (i.e. the textures fit in VRAM).

Regarding model complexity - that doesn't really matter these days - if you want to raytrace a scene, unless you want to do full-on deferred raybatching and geo paging (like Disney's Hyperion does), you need to fit the scene into memory, so other than at startup/ingestion time, model complexity doesn't really matter in terms of IO. Also, Pixar's base level subd meshes are really rough (compared to what you see in VFX in general - for VFX base levels are probably subdivided down 2/3 times more), so the geo given in in Pixar's case isn't actually that bad.
Great website to learn from: codeacadamy.com

Here is a basic list of some of the skills required and some of the popular choices for beginners to learn.

Databases: MySQL
- Used to store the flight records

Web Developement: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Used to create the UI on the website

Web Applications & languages: Ruby, PHP, Java, etc
- Used to handle the business logic on the server side of things
- Learning this will probably be the biggest hurdle to overcome

Web Server: Apache, glassfish
- Runs on your backend servers and replys to http requests with your website pages

Operating Systems: Linux or windows
- Core operating system running on your server. Could also be run in a virtual machine

Networking: TCP/UDP, DNS, Domains, etc
- Basic skills needed to setup and manage a simple network.

You can learn most of these skills in a 4 year BS in Computer Science. Additionally there are trade schools or boot camps where they can teach you a specific focus on web development in shorter periods of time.
I never understood the point of a wireless keyboard. You get the hassle of batteries, and the security risks mentioned here. Yet you cannot really take advantage of the portability since keyboards are stationary and work best on a hard flat surface. They are rarely moved.
Absolutely, and even companies with transparency as a value often hide terms from employees.

See [1] for my recent experience with Gusto.

[1]: https://medium.com/@octopoedi/dear-gusto-mission-is-more-tha...
Restaurant owner jailed for six years over death of peanut allergy customer
Depression era children created the reforms that ushered in an era of plenty, which was then slowly eroded until we are back where we started.

We can only hope that the Great Recession created another generation that will fight for the economic reforms necessary to regain our dignity.
Strange.

Living alone is expensive, yes, but living with your partner shouldn't be much more expensive than living with your parents.
Pretty cool!

In the comment for the code,

# 'what a Lovely Day'.upcase_first # => "What a Lovely Day"

How does it know that "a" should not be capitalized? Does it work with words like "of", "the", for" etc?
I should write up my stack BSTD (pronounced b'stard) - BSD, SQLite, TUX, D.
They can mean different things based on what set of renderings you're using for the same emoji... good writeup here https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/12/apple-did-not-invent-emoji/
Nope it descends from magna carta and UK common law
Google is betting that its Daydream platform for mobile virtual reality—announced last week at Google I/O 2016—will be good enough, its performance will evolve faster and its price will drop faster than immersive VR headsets such as the top-tier Oculus and HTC Vive.
nginx 1.11.0 Released
There can be other clauses (in bylaws for example) which can prevent transfers and effectively render your shares worthless.

See [1] for my recent experience with Gusto.

[1]: https://medium.com/@octopoedi/dear-gusto-mission-is-more-tha...
There's definitely tension. That said, I'll go further than the usual startup qualifiers (e.g. You SHOULD™ be aware of the risks.)

Getting accurate financials is tough even when a company isn't cooking the books, let alone when a company is misleading investors. Here's an extreme: "Over-transparency" didn't help Enron's employees.[1] All of the information was there, but people refused to believe it. For startups, it's hard to remain disciplined and realistic about hype from an internal perspective.

Meanwhile, I'm sympathetic to keeping information privileged within private companies.

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2001/10/enro...
That's true, in Italy this is definitely the norm, but this kind of screwed up economy that only functions for the oligarchy has also been the norm in Italy for hundreds of years so there would seem to be a correlation between not having families and people being stuck under systems of oligarchy.
Legally you still have to pay your taxes when offshoring or you could be in trouble if the taxman finds out.

But Delaware is Corporate haven. Planet Money did an episode on this

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/16/470722656/episo...

> Easiest place in the world to register a business anonymously is definitely the United States. The four sort of most lax states are more particularly Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming and Oregon.

...

> And again, we found that in places like the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands and Jersey and then in one of the Channel Islands, we were very, very strict, and, you know, people email back and say, look, we'll sell you a company, but you must send us a scanned notarized copy of the picture page of your passport so we can keep it on file so we know who you are. But in the United States, the answer was, sure, this should take you about 10 minutes. Just fill, you know, fill in the details of the company you want on the website, transfer the money, and we'll send you the company today. I think it would be interesting if you tried to set up a company and compare how many documents they asked for compared to how many of the people in Belize are asked for.
This is possible (in reverse) with lists. I don't follow anyone on Twitter, but I have a dozen or so lists for friends, news, etc.
ballpark is nearly uses. The difference between X and 2X is huge and it's very hard to make the estimate tighter, and you don't know what not-profit metrics will impress investors to put more cash into further growth. Many many companies run for 10 years pre-profit.
Semi-autonomous car hits new record speed at Indy track
While I'd guess the number of actual racers is tiny the number of posers seemed pretty big, I was in college at the time and knew a few guys who had Subarus.
Gusto uses secret bylaw to render employee options worthless
UniK: Compile apps into unikernels rather than containers
Nah. Venezuela's brand of Socialism/Communism just wasn't the right brand of Socialism/Communism. That's why it didn't work.
3 excludes critical points from being local maxima while 2 does not, right?
Donate to torservers.net. They are well known, frequent hacker meetings and partner up with other organizations in this space.
Progressive IoT Appliances
The thing the article doesn't examine is how many single people live alone and are unable to partner even if they have above average income, we're seeing a shift into an asexual society made up of people only connected to their immediate family with no other connection to community or non-familial relationships.
> efficient market hypothesis

absolutely does not apply in private-company stock.
UX Design in Action: How Top Companies Design Their Products
Yeah, I actually love the parentheses!
You're right. I was trying to reply to a_c_s. Not sure how I managed to fluff that up. But yes, total agreement that the ratio of flights that fought back on 9/11 is a whole lot less relevant than on flights since. Or rather, how we handled the unprecedented vs what we learnt from it.
They weren't even bringing them up to the same level as taxi drivers; they were just requiring a livery license -- which is a rubber-stamp process in Austin and again, is required even of bicycle-taxi drivers who are only allowed to work for tips.

Uber and Lyft threw a hissy fit because it undermines their complete control over the driver ecosystem. Best I can tell, they're afraid that licensing drivers would cause them to expect to be treated like employees, while making it ever-so-slightly harder for Uber/Lyft to recruit drivers. IMO it's more about labor relations than regulation.
>> I’m worried for Apple…If the landscape shifts to prioritize those big-data AI services, Apple will find itself in a similar position as BlackBerry did almost a decade ago:

Maybe Apple is betting that AI won't be achieved in the next 15-20 years.
Reading this article sent me on a whirlwind of Wikipediaing and Googling...just like Unicode itself is vastly complicated, so is the thought and design behind emojis, which have their own technical subcommittee [0], currently chaired by Apple and Google employees.

One of the best articles I came across is from Huffington Post, before the inclusion of multi-colored faces in 2015:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/emoji-meaning_n_553...

I knew that trying to design universally readable iconography is an essentially impossible task in itself, but the article brings up a lot of other interesting issues, such as the worry that Apple might take it upon themselves to revamp their emojis which were designed before the "flat" days:

> By comparison, Apple’s iconic emoji are horribly out of fashion. Its icons have shadows, depth and a three-dimensional look that’s a holdover from the Steve Jobs era of skeuomorphic design. Flat illustration free of texture or highlights is now de rigeur. Apple has already abandoned the faux-wood paneling and leather elsewhere in its software, and its emoji could change at any time — potentially a rude shock for those who’ve come to identify with the brand’s symbols. “I kind of hope they don’t [change it],” said Van Lancker.

Even the HTML of the article itself contains interesting insights, especially about web production and the challenges of digital preservation. I thought at first that, in a decade, the opening paragraph might completely lose its meaning...but then I opened up my web inspector:

http://imgur.com/YUVtwPe

[0] http://unicode.org/emoji/
So does "other living arrangement" include prison?
Good spot!

I wonder whether Google Project Fi will support this. Fi is already very reasonably priced and recently began offering data-only SIM cards extending a base plan with a pay-as-you-go rate.
What's wrong with managed pointers? Rust uses them just fine. C++11 has them natively.

Using raw pointers in C++ is rarely really needed.
I'm glad that the general public is growing more aware of privacy issues but the more cynical part of my brain tells me that, since the government and a very large industry share an interest in eroding privacy as much as possible, putting stronger privacy protections into place won't be easy no matter how many people say that's what they want. I want to feel confident betting on privacy, I really do, but I won't until I see some evidence that growing public awareness is getting politicians to address privacy issues directly instead of brushing them aside to focus on other, politically sexier issues.
Well, it's true that somebody has done it. Those who've done it are either exiled, behind bars, facing suspiciously timed "unrelated" charges that could result in extradition, or anonymous. Not sure that invalidates the point the person you're quoting was making: that there is repression of dangerous ideas in the US.

I'm less familiar with Germany, but I'm willing to bet that while people in principle can say whatever they want (with some exceptions), there are other, less visible forms of repression and/or means of neutralizing those opinions. That they are less overt than in China doesn't mean they are not there.
There's a proposal to add them to the C++ standard, but I don't know its current status. “A constexpr bitwise operations library for C++”: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n386...
Regular saving, backups, and scheduled maintenance should be a standard part of any computer setup. To pretend they don't exist is madness.

And they are sensible precautions against system failure. However, system failures should only be caused by something unavoidable like hardware breaking or a sudden power outage, not by your own operating system pulling the rug from under you.

Good operating systems have long supported extended 24/7/365 uptimes even with most security updates being applied. I have servers -- which get attacked, for real, far more than any workstation -- where the last time I needed to reboot them was when I chose to migrate to a new Linux kernel as part of a distro upgrade some number of years ago.

There is simply no excuse for shipping a consumer OS in 2016 that interrupts average users every few days just to apply some updates. The need to do so betrays a deeply flawed underlying software architecture.
Well at this stage in the game, it seems like everyone right now who owns a house is someone who owned a house 30 years ago, i.e. the only way anyone from my generation gets a house is to inherit it from my parents when they pass on. Fortunately, my parents fully intend to do that.

There's a rise, however, in the number of seniors who reverse-mortgage their house and sign away the title to it in exchange for a monthly income until they die. If that continues, I imagine the banks and private companies will own all houses in about 50 years, because the previous generation decided to further screw their offspring in the name of having a slightly cushier final days.
Not really enthusiastic about file syncing moving into kernel space. I get that this is necessary for on-demand fetching of files, but I worry about stability and failure modes - I can see apps stalling and/or getting confused when file open calls fail because the network drops, etc.

Reminds me of the Coda/AFS2 days, really (those weren't as much fun as you'd think, back when we opened files over X.25 links...)

Bottom line: I hope it's configurable and that I can switch it off (preferably by default).
Also, "only 10% of voters people said they would consider quitting their job"

Trying to minimize 10% here is strange - that's a massive percent. I'm surprised its so high.
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Living at home while working at even a decent paying tech job is a great way to save tons of money or pay loans. Definitely something I've considered doing. Also works great with remote jobs.
> Delaware's "body of case law" can be leaned on by courts in ANY state if there is a conflict that state has never seen before.

That's kind of how it works, but not to the effect you hope. Delaware law isn't binding outside of DE, so if another court looked at it, they would only use it as guidance. Versus if a DE court looked at it, they would use it as binding precedent.

Which is the benefit of incorporating in DE. That law is out there and binding due to the large number of incorporations there and large body of case law that has developed. So answers to random questions are really known and agreed upon. Whereas with another state's court, if you can even get them to consider DE law, you're praying that they side with DE law, which isn't always the case. There's more risk.

There is an advantage to incorporating in DE, whether you believe that or not. Even if the advantage is, like using Ruby or Node or something, that everyone knows the law and it's well settled and boilerplate. You don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Many options like VMware Fusion, VMware Player Free, Virtual Box:

Recommended:

Latest Option One

Try Veertu - Native Virtualization on Mac OS X.

Mac Store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veertu-native-virtualization...

Veertu Ltd
http://veertu.com/

Bit Dated Option Two:

Use Docker Toolbox Beta to install docker engine, docker compose and relevant tools. Use that for running Linux in Containers.

https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox

How to install:

https://docs.docker.com/mac/step_one/

HTH
Great article, I really liked the end of if...
Bluetooth lets you connect additional devices, so I think that's covered.

edit: and it has a special hardware port you can use as well.
This is true, but now you are saving for a meager deposit so you can take on a mountain of debt so that the rentiers can keep all your labour.

This is not a good development, even if they used to do it in England in the 18th century.