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But why Wine?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/keepass2
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Software Developers

Join one of our game teams to build something that millions of people will play and love. Primary tech is either Javascript (HTML5) or Unity.

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> Also, the fact that it's a hard problem is what makes it a compelling product offering. You can't make much money solving easy problems.

If they can solve the hard problem, yes. Which I believe is unlikely.
It may be difficult to live without one, but I'm pretty sure that legally, the agreement to let the provider do whatever with your data comes at the point of activation.
The only thing that can ''take out'' Uber is widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles, whereupon ride sharing becomes a physical-capital intensive business (cars) rather than the current human-capital intensive business (drivers/their driver network). Autonomous vehicles (and the infrastructure to support them) significantly reduce the amazing network efforts that Uber has enjoyed to date. An investment into Uber at these valuations is a bet that this future adoption (to the point where it would disrupt the massive revenue Uber realizes from places like LA, NYC, and SF) is decades further out than some futurists predict. Even transitioning into this brave new world Uber still has a lot of brand value, although there will be a ton of competition (all auto makers such as Tesla, GM, Ford, and new entrants such as Apple, Google, and Amazon), ultimately benefiting consumers: enjoy your $12.50 ride (est. 35% of which will be local and state taxes) from SFO to 3rd and Market.
In my personal experience, the more I learn about security, the more cynical I become that privacy has any chance in modern society. There is a staggering amount of realtime, personally identifying (meta-)data available to a growing number of companies. It's truly scary, but I fear there is little to be done except prepare for the inevitable. Privacy is on its way to extinction. Adapt or die.
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We are looking for developers in several areas, including Python/Django, web front end, network protocols, QA, GOLANG, C++, iOS, Android, Delphi, as well as people for IT-admin/tech support/pre-sales. We have a “cloud first” policy and make heavy use of AWS.

I founded Paessler in 1997 and today we provide network/uptime monitoring software to 150.000 LANs in 170 countries. Fast growing bootstrapped company (160 employees) with a great culture owned by founders&employees. Listed by “Great Place To Work” several times. We “own” all parts of the value chain/customer journey (e.g. own shop/billing/crm/cms/mis system coupled to our on-premises product).

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How to Track Customer Acquisition
I'm an undergrad at UCSD and your product has been a lifesaver :)
Most PhD programs have negative return on investment, mostly because the academic job market has a glut of postdocs looking for work.

("But but but look at all of my smart grad student friends getting their PhDs! They can't all be doing something irrational, can they?!")
Well, the publication is called the New Yorker!

Can you please elaborate where in LA you don't need a car? Beverly Hills on Shabbat? :)
Do you have to change those passwords so frequently? You could just use an external service for creating these when needed.
My impression is that the Mozilla developers are motivated by helping people and keeping the web open.

To answer your question about OSes, most Mozilla developers who I've met run Linux or Mac OS on their machines, but they also try to use Windows sometimes because Windows is such an important desktop platform.
Here's the idea:

I own 51% of the shares, so have a strict majority of all votes. I call a shareholder meeting and propose to take the company private by selling all the shares to me, for any price I choose. The vote passes by majority.

To prevent the 49% being completely screwed with regularity, the law provides for those who voted against such a takeover to have the sale reviewed by a judge. The 51% owner takes this into account when proposing a price.

In the case of a political election, the losing minority does not have their property instantly and compulsorily purchased at an arbitrary price set by the winner.
I think their point is: does refraining from outsourcing expose a company's leadership to fiduciary duty risk?
I recently spoke to someone who left Apple, who was able to list three people who died on his team due to overwork.

Died.

People acclimate to awful things when isolated in a monoculture. It is not worth it.
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> There is no such thing as a trustless app

Reread my post, I said almost. Nothing in life is trustless [for instance, solar flares could effect my computer's state], but you can get close. So we agree there

> Ethereum adds no value to Bitcoin because any useful apps you want to make NEED a centralize source to provide data to it.

This is called the oracle problem --- it's a difficult problem, but not intractable. Augur doesn't use a centralized source to resolve its markets, it has groups of reporters who do that [with a whole set of incentive structures surrounding truth-as-schelling-point and relying upon bonds to cause monetary loss to people attempting to "cheat" the system. Your cost to cheat the system will almost always be more than potential profit [unless there's only 1 market in a system with a ton of volume and no other activity, which means it's basically dead anyway and there are 2 backstop mechanisms surrounding this as well]. Anyway given infinite money anything is attackable / not trustless.

Second, you're missing _a lot_ of the benefits of Ethereum. It can control funds programmatically. To run a prediction market using bitcoin you have to hold customer funds, on Ethereum you don't [this is a huge opex]. On Bitcoin, you have to process the trades, on Ethereum you don't [hello more opex!]. On bitcoin you're forced to use a multisig 3rd party or have counterparty risk to trade prediction market assets, on Ethereum you don't. You have to resolve markets yourself [or with multisig of a handful of people, because bitcoin cannot support multisigs beyond 20]. People can't create their own markets and add liquidity to them on your platform if it's on bitcoin without trusting you either. Could go on and on, but _unless_ you're referring to a sidechain of bitcoin you can't do any of that.

As far as the example here: "For example, if I want to make an app that sends coins to someone when bitcoin is at a certain price, I would inherently be relying on the trusted source, that provides the bitcoin price data." is wrong. On Etherex on ethereum I can get data for he btc-eth price and do a transaction based on the exchange rate without trusting anything in the outside world
> A solid business model doesn't require this sort of continuous cash infusion.

Where is this assumption that this cash is required coming from? A very common use for investment is to accelerate plans which would otherwise unfold over long/impractical timelines. Another common use is to get ahead of competitors.

I know much of HN is very eager to see all billion dollar valuations deflate so as to prove that extremely conservative risk profiles are the only strategies worth considering, but there's nothing inherently troubling about a highly-valued, late-stage company raising so much money.
I think cross-platform development is a lot easier as well, especially with mature tools available for developers. (Unity, UE4, MonoGame, etc)

I use Linux, Windows, and Mac regularly in my everyday life, and most of the games I play are available on Steam and cross-platform.
There isn't really a meaningful distinction in a dynamically typed language.

Null is a value that indicates the absence of something else that could be there instead, Unit is essentially the lack of any value. So when a python function implicitly returns None whenever it's called, that's semantically more similar to Unit than Null.
guess who is Saudi's biggest trade partner?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia#List_o...

or who actually sells them guns?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_Army
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Renewable energy now supplies a quarter of the world’s power
It seems like a lot of big companies are open sourcing their deep learning stuff. Part of me wonders if they do it because, as people get scared of AI, the federal govt can't come after lots of of small companies using the opensource AI to regulate/fine/shutdown. They could come after just Google or FB once people start loosing lots of jobs to AI, if they where the only kids on the playground.
My recent experience with Gitlab:

Went through several interviews with them, including their technical interview and had a blast. Met some nice folks and was having a lot of fun interviewing with them.

Was told, "I am confident that you would be a great addition to the team."

Then I hit a wall when Sid (sytse here on HN) was unavailable to perform the next interview for an indeterminate amount of time. Ended up waiting 2 weeks between interviews.

During that time I received an offer from another company and, asked if they could move things along or, perhaps, provide some timeline. At that time they made an informal offer via email.

Then, there were two problems as I see it:

1. The offer was significantly less than the floor I had given during the screening interview when asked about salary expectations. During that interview, the interviewer gave no indication that my expectations were out of line with Gitlab's salaries. [1]

2. When I finally interviewed with Sid, there was no mention or acknowledgement that an offer had been made.

My interview with Sid was tough, and definitely not what I was expecting after my earlier success interviewing with the company. Ultimately, he decided not to continue with my candidacy. I don't want to get into a "he said, she said" thing here, so I'll leave it at that.

I hope this post does not come off as "sour grapes". My objective is not to trash anyone at Gitlab, there are a lot of great folks over there. I think there were some surprises in their process and I would have liked to have known these things upfront before I contacted them.

[1] While I was still interviewing they edited their handbook to indicate that "Many of our team members who have joined have taken a decrease in compensation." https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/#compens...
Sure do. Yarvin's AMA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/sjws-urge-programmi...

Its the sum of these views, writings, and his own AMA that steered me clear of his stuff. Mainly, if he treats fellow members of the community like this, I'm sure not going to have a good fit in ... wherever he works on.
The ride-sharing market stops being a free-for-all once many people start to share a car and it's critical to find the most optimal route for them. Than having large masses of users become critical.

The only thing i find curious - why is UBER/LYFT so slow in attacking the true sharing market ?
Rem0te from Europe?
Their long-term play is driverless cards--buy or lease fleet cars, then charge people a subscription to commute or use the cars a certain amount per month. The current business is building brand awareness and inertia.
yes, that would work for that.

In my case, with my domain protection system I had well defined domain-crossing points across which I could guarantee that no data was being passed-by-reference, At these points I was trying to fit the Cortex MPU windows as closely as possible over the 'used' stack area so I could prevent access to it by any potentially malicious code.
I would poison the return address to cause a known fault when the code returned and move the MPU windows accordingly.

Although it worked, due to the limitations of the v7-M arch MPU windows the protection was never complete and proved to be time consuming to implement due to the size of the application.
Maybe in future it will become more practical.
> it does happen, and we know how to make it happen.

I mean this entirely seriously with no sarcasm: enlighten me.

How do you create jobs when your economy is approaching steady state, your population is on a decline glidescope, and technology is providing deflation better and faster than a central bank can create inflation?
Oh lovely, it contains PoC

Hope there was previous disclosure.
>As such, it discloses the names and PIDs of all processes running on the system...

So I don't really see how this is considered a big vulnerability, unless the goal is security by obscurity, but then we could go even further and obfuscate the whole system.

>NET_RAW abuse

Hard to blame LXC/Docker for something that has to do with the configuration of the bridge, plus for some setups this is desired functionality.

>DoS

Some of these are interesting but I don't see how filling up the diskspace is a problem with containers and not operating systems in general, and I feel like a lot of these DoS attacks are all just basic OS limitations but I don't know enough to make an informed statement.
Failing for missing semi colon seems harsh, but in reality, when students are told to run their code before handing it in, a missing semi colon tells you exactly that the students didn't run the code. If a student fails to meet simple basic requirements, they cannot expect some leeway.

That said, in a test when hand writing code it should only be pseudo code. Expecting learners to write syntax correct code by hand is stupid.

> why not let students be creative with their comments, even if its redundant to you.

Because I have to read every comment, decide if it's relevant or not, and delete it if it isn't. "End of line comments" on every single line is not helping anyone - "using for loop to iterate over the array" is bloody useless, because it's right there in the code. Keep in mind this is CS students at least 2 years in.
I would, but it seems I am not able to change the title anymore. I have an "edit" option in my comments, but maybe this functionality does not work for submissions? In particular I am not the author of the linked page.
While this is somewhat true, it's a somewhat ridiculous argument to bring up when talking about saudi arabia. I think the west has come to the general consensus that women have rights, and that people should not be beheaded in the streets for denouncing their state religious authority. This hermeneutical matter-of-interpretation crap is no defense for the crimes against humanity that saudi arabia commits regularly.
In my opinion, being "dated" isn't entirely a property of a site's design, but of its functionality and usability. With HTML5, a plethora of new features and tools are available enabling new accessibility, semantic, and usability options. They may not seem strictly necessary, but they can greatly improve the quality of life of e.g. blind/disabled users, mobile users, search engines, users with slow or intermittent connections, users with bandwidth limitations, and a host of other things I'm forgetting off the top of my head.

This isn't to say I'm being judgmental of the distrowatch site, I think they have accomplished great things, I simply mean to say that I believe that a site update has much more value than you may think.
> The "leader" is an avowed racist and nasty person in general.

Oh, good. This again. Curtis has stated publicly, "I am not an 'outspoken advocate for slavery,' a racist, a sexist or a fascist." See: https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lam...
I haven't worked out the specific numbers, but $60 billion is reasonable if you expect Uber to become a global near-monopoly on hired ride services and related logistical services they're branching out into. Whether that scenario is reasonable, is itself an open question, of course.
And Google may have to pay 1.6 billion euros as taxes and fines: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-france-taxation-idU...

(yes, it was in February, but the investigation now is a follow-up)
Unless you have some sort of constitutional provisions protecting people from each other, 51% of your fellow citizens will trod all over the other 49%.

And you may or may not have noticed, but most citizens don't seem to take the time to be up on the pros and cons for each and every provision of each and every piece of legislation that are debated today on the floor of parliamentary bodies.

In other words: it might solve what economists call the "principal-agent problem", but at a (potentially very high) cost.

A person who should not necessarily be considered a political system theorist once declared that freedom and democracy are incompatible. This may or may not be true, and for those pushing for democracy, maybe freedom is a non-issue from the start, but I think it needs to be at least considered whenever pushes for "moar democracy" come around.
You're probably thinking of Sacca and Twitter:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/jp-morgan-twitter-chris-sac...

He may have done the same for Uber, but I haven't heard anything about that at all.
The Platform Generalist Engineer position doesn't actually appear on your careers page.
On the other hand, if it had taken off then maybe Apple would have gone forward differently in terms of hardware/included video cards.
First, public backlash has not stopped Uber from doing things before.

Second, all the smart money is either sitting it out and/or can't invest at these levels, and Saudi money in a tech startup is definitely dumb money.
Ok smart guy, then tell me how so.
That's all true. I was referring to regular web surfing and such. Video and integration are substantially better on Windows.
"Excuse me driver, can you pull over for a minute? I need to beat my servant."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/world/meast/saudi-arabia-beati...
Latest Uber worry: When the Tesla 3 comes out, Uber drivers clogging the fast-charging stations. "Free power for life" is a great deal when you're a cab.
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Well it certainly has more grounds for a get-in-on-the-ground-floor impulse than App.net did a few years ago
Same with a bunch of companies in there. Looker quickly comes to mind. Looker is a great company IMO but there's a lot of other great companies in the space.
Ya, it's pretty amazing as far as how quickly it gets you from downtown to Santa Monica, and I experienced the same thing. It's already in heavy use.

One complaint, tho, is that the cars don't have decent accommodations for bicyclists, which is really annoying. You basically have to stand/sit w/ your bike all the way.

Also, you still mostly take it in the bum on travel time in the transfers and many bald-spots of decent coverage. I found that to get from Santa Monica to Silverlake, for example, was more convenient on the 704 bus, because there's a spot for your bike, you can sit and work on your computer the whole way, and it's a closer fit for minimizing your talking time/distance, and it's a more direct route.

The train alternative is to find and descend into a red line station, transfer through the greater depths of Union station to the expo line, and then babysit your bicycle all the way to Santa Monica, which is the bulk of the transit time.

Gotta give Santa Monica props tho for the treatment they gave that Santa Monica train station and the surrounding area. I really like it.

Overall, nice stopgap improvement, and when the world improves and human-driven cars are outlawed, it could be paved over and made a thoroughfare that allows only self-driving electric cars to use it, and they could tap into the electric mains for a recharge along the way. :)