skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, this is impossible for larger organizations. Mind you the hiring committees I've been on are just that, committees of 3-4 people. Maybe one person makes the phone call to the person at the end, but behind the scenes there are several people potentially looking at the resumes. Alice's version of perfect can differ from Bob and Charlies definition
I'm not sure that I think that we'll get desirable results if our motivations are "let's get people to do things without thinking them through".

Their initial example is taxes (and tax cheats). This is a good example for my point...

Paying taxes isn't morally righteous. Our government takes some large fraction of those and spends it on killing people. Killing them far away, with little justification (much of it absurd), no transparency or accountability, and what we have found out about all this is that it's all abominable.

If I could figure out how to cheat on my taxes, I would. I'd feel obligated to do so.

Their second example is hardly better, though it seems that way at first glance (and note how all of these seem simple at first glance). A young man saved a woman in a flood. And his gamble paid off. That time. He almost certainly risked much to save her, and those gambles rarely pay off. Much of the time, acting quickly without thinking gets people hurt and killed. Usually many more are hurt or killed than would have been if slow, deliberative thinking had delayed such rescue.

Then it veers into situations, where the agents are all mindless algorithms, and only the programmer/researcher/experimenter gets to decide what "beneficial results" means.

This reduces everyone in such a model to mindless automatons, where only the results of those in charge are considered. Is that what they want to turn us into? Maybe they can find some secret psychological button to make your concerns melt away, so that the only thing worried about are the wants of those who manage to find and poke the button? This should worry people.
From quora:

In city areas it is possible to make up to 8 deliveries per hour.

In suburban areas it is possible to make up to 4 deliveries per hour.

In rural areas it is possible to make up to 2 deliveries per hour.

If you assume about $14/8 that's about $1.5 cost during prime times.
There are only a few apps that leverage device functionality e.g. gyrometer, fingerprint, etc. Even location and camera are now available for web apps. So for a majority of native apps a web app makes more sense.
Ah sorry--the pharma comment was complete non-sequitur.

I recall that despite the medical field being roughly equal in representation of men & women, many of their conferences cater to men.
> Methinks the load balancers aren't as magical as they'd like to make out.

Agreed. I'm still put off by the fact that ELBs specifically can not handle a sudden spike in traffic orders of magnitude higher than the previous rate. They fall on their face, bad. If you expect a spike like that to happen, you literally have to submit a ticket and ask them to pre-warm your ELB...
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You're right for websites. Other services can take care of both sides (Squarespace, for example).
2001-present here. Yes, Wechat for e-payments and QR codes are everywhere. How secure are things? Not that dissimilar to the west, which it to say that even high profile companies make stupid mistakes all the time. (Late last year, one international Chinese business made it impossible for me to report an issue trivially exposing vast amounts of highly personal user data.) (PS. I didn't read the article, because Bloomberg's website is so screwed up.)
Isn't that in essence trying to time the market?
Google Instant Apps will fade away after a couple of years because nobody gets it and it's a solution looking for a problem again. They specialise in auto-failing ideas like that.
This architecture allows you to move gradually from certified libraries (included in the proprietary HAL) to your own custom libraries when you're satisfied with the result.
So all they determined was everyone already has the top installed (and often pre-installed) apps already installed? What a surprise.

Also I would love to install more apps but to do so I have to clear space on my phone, and the apps I already have are slowing my phone down and eating my battery. For me it's always a matter of resources.
I think it's obvious you've won that argument, but I just wanted to chime in so you hear it from someone else.

1) Netflix has confirmed they recommend this "non-serious interview" approach, and

2) The candidates are just going silent after an offer. If you were simply not offering enough, or the wrong kind of compensation, you would expect to hear back something from some of them.

Really scummy of Netflix to encourage this. Why not just ask an internal recruiter about expected compensation packages? There seem to be a lot better options than just burning up their time like that.
It's not the French government, rather French law, and arguably French values. I've been living in France for the last 3 years and have come to deeply appreciate their tenaciousness when it comes to labour relations and worker rights.

As for the ruling, it's worth noting that the demand for material damage of the civil parties in the case, notably taxi driver unions, totalling some 114M€, have been rejected, while the court did accord the 5.2M€ in moral damage[0].

[0] http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/06/09/uberpop-80...
... which reminds me of this:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/autoweapons.html
The "staff" you mention that does the walk-around of the major commercial airliner is/are also the person(s) who will be piloting the plane, IIRC.
Nice article. I just had a similar experience: after a bunch of work building a product, I came to the realization that the problem I was trying to solve just wasn't urgent enough, and the organizations I was trying to sell to just didn't have it together enough to decide to buy. So ultimately I decided to shut things down, though I did manage to salvage some of the code for reuse in later projects. Ultimately, entrepreneurship is an experiment, and sometimes what an experiment teaches you is that your hypothesis was wrong and you should try something else instead.
One possible alternative/addition is what I've done for my Podcast app, SkipCast (http://skipcast.net/).

I worked with Blubrry to create a new donate tag:

http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/advanced-tool...

If the feed supports this tag, a simple donate link appears in SkipCast and when tapped, takes you directly to the donate page. This tag can be supported by any Podcast client.

To me this is a clear win-win situation, though the feature depends heavily on adoption of simple, easy to use and deploy donation services, and of course the user supplying the tag.

One good example of the donate model working is the Crate and Crowbar podcast (PC Gaming). They created a Patreon and literally shut it down after a few months. The reason: they got hundreds in weekly, recurring donations and simply didn't need that much money.

Donations can work, and could be a huge boon to smaller, independent Podcasters. This could in turn ensure a healthy ecosystem that's more resilient to monolithic entities.
That's pretty magical.
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There is some value in that because an advertisers knows how much they invested and what they return is. This tells you very little about the actual size of the audience and nothing about the conversion rate.
I am surprised that Tinder didn't crack the top 20.
Yup, but these aren't "tech" companies. These are traditional manufacturing, finance, insurance (I've heard about State Farm moving to Richardson, TX) etc.

Apart from AMD (when it was on the brink) moving it's HQ to Austin from Sunnyvale, I can't think of any other "tech" company moving major operations from SV to elsewhere.
If someone is really going to take the advice of a person they've never met so completely literally, without considering its nuances, then I suggest that they're headed for failure anyway.

Sure, it's easy to treat it as gospel (it's also easy to not think about what you're doing); doesn't mean it's a good idea to do so.
Some fun rejection comments in CS research journals
1) I want to control what my binaries look like.

2) The article itself essentially makes the same point - the problem is unneeded debug statements are being inserted into release builds. The article mentions that Microsoft promises to fix this.

3) Sure, this sounds harmless, one shouldn't explain with bad intentions things that can be explained with incompetence. BUT, big but, in Internet Security, we've seen many situations where chains of "unnecessary but harmless" stuff, incompetently inserted resulted in horrible things ("shell shock" was "it's standard and harmless to get this functionality by shelling out, what could possibly go wrong" etc).
Right, which is totally understandable given that the app market has been going for about 8 years now. There's obviously a shift towards apps that provide more longer term and reoccurring value to customers which is great for consumers and for the businesses that build/ship these apps.
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I think they did provide a link at the top of the article that said Most US Smartphone users download zero apps per month
[0] http://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-app...
It's pointless to use anything other than these ASICs because their price/performance is so far ahead. Software routing is especially pointless.
Which U.S. cites generate the best VC returns?
Shh! You're ruining it.
The problem is that usually you still have to commute to work. Living far away from jobs means a long, unhappy commute. The unhappiness caused by long commutes is well researched - look it up if you like. People compromise and live somewhere in between, which often means the worst of both worlds.

Contrary to what you say, dense cities can be quiet and have isolated private space. Look at the vast single-family-home suburbs of Tokyo. The population density is high even without large buildings, and you can live without a car easily (if desired), but you have your own house with a garden on a quiet, secluded street in a safe neighborhood all within walking distance of the train that can take you downtown. Not particularly cheap or spacious, though. The noisy, crime-riddled, no-privacy-at-all hellish city you describe is common, but it's not the only possibility.

What the sibling comment says is true about social interaction in cities as well. Living in the city people have more friends, more sexual partners, attend more events, and interact more with strangers. For some that is a plus.
First issue is out... Check it here
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/ventaapps/archive/21100

Second will be out over in this weekend

Your feedback is highly appreciated :)
BMW CEO foresees car that knows how you feel
> If success is unpredictable, that usually means that luck plays a large role.

Could it be also that maybe we are not yet aware of the myriad of other factors that also influence the outcome?

i.e. it may seem like luck but it could be something we just aren't modelling properly, unless you define luck to be precisely the "bag of unknown variables". However more than once I've seen people define luck as "that ether around us that makes lucky people lucky", kind of like an external force and not something directly related to you, your surroundings and your history.
Is it just me or is it obvious that "the app boom is over" . . . until another great app worth downloading comes out . . .
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[NSFW] New porn startup donates to charity every time you orgasm?
I actually don't really like the continuous flight between systems.

Are you familiar with Star Control 2's "hyperspace?" It's really not all that more involved than flying into stargates or using the map in Elite, especially for short hops. I wanted to get away from point to point stargates in order to avoid the creation of choke points. I wanted to eliminate "gate camping."
I'm not convinced by what people say. It might be partially true, but i think there's something deeper behind it: blogs, music and video are addictive for the right people. Hence they'll spend a bit of effort to ask around what app to use, and ask about good tv, etc. Also because they're addictive and the barrier for sharing is much lower, they'll get shared much more often, talked about much more often - so you get discovery.

Podcasts aren't addictive(and i like podcasts). Lectures are boring by nature, and demand tons of focus(something we we may have more than the average guy). And even in fields that could be addictive(and don't demand great focus), like comedy, the quality is terrible - most comedy podcasts don't even come close to professional comedians doing standup.

Here's one idea: build a podcasts comedy site that curates only consistently great podcasts, and enables extremely easy sharing including sharing of very short segments.

Make the transition from the using the site to using it while driving easy and habit forming.

I think doing that you can get users "addicted". And once they are, they'll get your app, they might listen to other podcasts, etc.
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The beasts of Silicon Valley
An entrepreneur needs to create some unique value. That won't happen if you're following the same path as many others. Prestigious paths are very competitive, and they're competitive for precisely the reason that so many people are pursuing them. Thus competition is for losers.

Which is a better direction? Investing your energy in solving a problem where no good solution exists today? Or competing for a corner office?
This is really concerning, and disappointing if true.

I'd be less concerned if they were also cleaning up autocomplete for the other candidates, but it appears they are not.
I believe it is tied to wage, but it isn't really designed to support high income earners and has a relatively low ceiling as far as software engineers are concerned.
I'm super curious about this. When was this, mid-90s?
I noticed that as well and i'm surprised they didn't mention it in the blog post.

28 of the top 44 Twitter leak passwords don't appear in the RockYou top 100[0].

It suggests that they're bots - but then how does malware capture credentials for a bot?

[0] http://i.imgur.com/3cQgrFm.png
This is a very welcome addition. Heroku and CloudFlare are key components of my startup’s infrastructure stack, and for years both of them have positioned simple multi-user access as an "Enterprise" feature. That's been disingenuous at best; team accounts are obviously useful for every organization larger than one person.

Heroku’s implementation has one gotcha, and it's that Teams cannot use free dynos. I thought that'd be a dealbreaker at first since we have 20+ app pipelines on Heroku, each with a staging app powered by free dynos.

Luckily the pipelines work just fine even when split between my personal account and the new Team. The free staging apps remain on my personal account, where I have been grandfathered with 2250 free dyno hours. The paid apps are now on the Team account, where other team members can now change the dyno formation and provision add-ons.
I certainly have no interest in accumulating more of them. It's actually nice to delete one whenever I realize I don't need it. Why do I even have so many to begin with? I hate these damn things.
Redhat et al. have shown us that it is entirely possible to make money off of free software. Google et al. have shown us that free software trumps proprietary, even if there is no money to be made from it. The business model of selling licenses to proprietary software is a relic of a long-gone era at this point. Even Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 for "free".
When I was following the primaries, I preferred Bing's tool to Google's here(just search "primaries" from a US location in either tool). The Google one seemed overly simplistic, especially earlier when there were more potential delegates.

I still tend to search with Google, but Bing at least seems to give a more 'unfiltered' view of your query. Google seems to have a lot more heuristics tweaking things in the background, so I use them for my first search and switch to Bing if I need to see everything for some oddly specific query.
> The variation is too great to paint everyone with the same brush. It's like saying 'everyone makes mistakes'; yes, but some make far more than others;

I think you are referring to China making more mistakes then UK in the past. If anything, I think it's the opposite. For example, the whole world made a huge deal(rightfully so) about the tiananmen square protest in China. Have you heard of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ? Hundreds of unarmed peaceful men, women and children were murdered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

> Do you have any evidence? A history book? A study of history books?

"Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed...

You can see the bullet marks preserved in Jallianwala Bagh. There is a well inside the premises where people jumped to hide from bullets. 120 bodies were recovered later from that well alone.
http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/8-pictures-of-jallianwa...

EDIT: Here is one more, it isn't hard to find with few online searches

".. Mike Davis tells the story of the famines which killed between 12 and 29 million Indians(1). These people were, he demonstrates, murdered by British state policy.."

"..In the Express we can read the historian Andrew Roberts arguing that for “the vast majority of its half millennium-long history, the British Empire was an exemplary force for good. … the British gave up their Empire largely without bloodshed, after having tried to educate their successor governments in the ways of democracy and representative institutions”(9)(presumably by locking up their future leaders). In the Sunday Telegraph, he insists that “the British empire delivered astonishing growth rates, at least in those places fortunate enough to be coloured pink on the globe.”(10) (Compare this to Mike Davis’s central finding, that “there was no increase in India’s per capita income from 1757 to 1947”, or to Prasannan Parthasarathi’s demonstration that “South Indian labourers had higher earnings than their British counterparts in the 18th century and lived lives of greater financial security.”(11)) In the Daily Telegraph, John Keegan asserts that “the empire became in its last years highly benevolent and moralistic.” The Victorians “set out to bring civilisation and good government to their colonies and to leave when they were no longer welcome. In almost every country, once coloured red on the map, they stuck to their resolve.”(12).."

http://www.monbiot.com/2005/12/27/how-britain-denies-its-hol...
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I think "interest in apps" (i.e. people experimenting with, talking about, and sharing apps) plateaued in 2012. You can see this effect on Google Trends.
I don't have a problem with the PTR's battery life. It lasts two or three days, but that's not really a big deal because it only takes ~5 minutes to charge enough for a full work day. Oops, watch is running low, I'll just plug it in before I get in the shower.
Same here. Deleted Facebook app long time ago. And now use their website every now and then. - Also the excitement of finding and trying out the latest and greatest apps are gone years ago.
It's possible to make money off free software in B2B with services, support, SaaS, proprietary value adds, etc. That's how RedHat and many other enterprise vendors with OSS offerings make money. This only works for selling to corporations. End users don't pay for that kind of thing.

I am not aware of anyone making money in free software in B2C other than through surveillance, ads, or other ways of "monetizing the user." This is how Google, Facebook, and others who produce free software in B2C areas make money.

From a freedom POV, B2C is what matters. I assume that since we're talking about free-as-in-freedom we're interested in getting beyond surveillance as a business model.
Sapience and language
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Well side channel attacks should be very relevant for all projects involving security. And several similar projects have already been produced (see TREZOR, KeepKey in the Bitcoin space), based on a similar chip which is in my opinon not great for that kind of use case (the fuse protection mechanism is not certified, the chip doesn't offer any protection against active physical attacks and so on) - that's well explained in the original Yubico article.
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XenServer Dundee Released
Video of keynote by Jessica Livingston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2B4cVFIVpg
The data in the article doesn't really show anything people didn't already know. There's no surprise that the download rate of the top 20 apps will eventually decline. I mean, look at their saturation amongst users, it's still ridiculous.

What's interesting is going to be the new subscription model incentive that gives publishers an extra 15% for subscription retention after the first year. Don't forget, App Store 2.0 is just around the corner and it could change the game. Not saying that it will, but it could.
"Anergy"[0], in case you weren't asking a rhetorical question.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anergy#English
But they really really want you to use their app! They're hungry for those permissions, which will give them more data and give them more chances to "engage" you! They're tired of the limits of the web as a platform, and excited for the limits of native! And that app is a whole feather or kingdom for someone who's really killing it and going places, because apps are How We Do Things Now. Or maybe that's bots.
If team & investors wanted to move forward, did you discuss letting them (without you)? Basically just walking away, with no/low strings attached. I'm just curious, because sometimes I pick up on an "if I can't have it, nobody can" type attitude. If you made that offer and they refused, it's not on you.

I think you made the right choice, I would have done the same and don't think you should be judge worse for it. The whole thing was an experiment, your reason seems like a good reason to cut your losses personally. Before investment, that's Ok.
Yesterday I was on a voice chat with a friend in Shenzhen for FIVE hours without a hiccup. Imagine how much it would cost on AT&T.

Although it is already hard to picture a WeChat group of 500 members, I just learned that in China, the size of QQ group can have up to 2000 members!

Welcome to the People's Republic of Big Data. :-)
It goes both ways, really. I have a suspicion there's a lot of trolling against both coming from third parties though (read: the Trump troll brigade.)
I'm just a geek who grew up in Silicon Valley. I soldered and wire wrapped chips I picked up from Haltek/Halted and the sales offices of local chip manufacturers, and taught myself programming using switches to enter binary codes (before I bought a broken teletype and fixed it - paper tape was a huge improvement after using switches to program.)
Actually, they will. Not necessarily "kinder" but certainly more "lax" in my opinion.

The thirst for pilots in expanding markets - notably Asia - is forecasted to exceed the number of pilots working globally at the present. In order to fulfill this need, qualifications will conceivably be relaxed.
Yes. 3 senior devs or 5 junior devs would fit cleanly in $250k, at least in the part of the midwest I'm at.