skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, there's no real place in the world for a highly technical business leader.

You were at MS. How do you call Bill Gates if not highly technical ? :-)

That said, I understand what you mean.

> Also, I'd really misdiagnosed my malaise. What I'd been missing was not strategic input, but the opportunity to build things.

Isn't that exactly what Steve Jobs was doing for a living at Apple (or Pixar)?

Again I understand what you're saying, but maybe not all companies/positions are so well defined as you make it sound.
A year ago today was my last day working a tech job
Does the fact that they didn't talk about UXKit mean that it's not happening?
Nice to see everybody working together
Considering the Yammer failure, This purchase makes no sense whatsoever. Satya is flushing MS down the toilet.
works perfectly for us, and I'm at a Fortune 5 company at the moment.
Before people start saying "you can't be neither sex" (theres already one deaded), I would like to remind us that intersex people exist and can be indeterminate.
Plus nobody likes Microsoft or linked in. Microsoft makes stuff you only use because you're paid to, and LinkedIn is something you use because of its ubiquity and despite the phone calls you're going to receive at work by desperate recruiters.
Will this work on other browsers besides Safari?
Building and training a non-technical sales team
A report about a vulnerability in Telegram
Recently, we found a concerning security bug in the widely-used instant messaging tool: Telegram. In order to explain the criticality of the issue we decided to publish it on our blog.

We are security researchers from Iran and as you may know, Telegram holds the position of the most popular instant messaging tool in the middle east (consequently in our country).

The blog link: http://www.sadghaf.com/
At the same time, any company that would look down on you for doing this is a shitty company.
I wasn't sure about that one and googled him a bit. He actually seems more tech than you might imagine. Apparently bachelor's degree in EE/CS from Princeton, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, worked as a programmer, wrote part of the original Amazon code in C and there was this on Quora:

>At Blue he reads every technical memo released to the company. He also participates in weekly reviews, and the more data-rich the presentation the better. He'll stop and analyze every plot and gives feedback to the point you think he knows more about the subject matter than the actual presenter.
Apple Takes on PayPal with Apple Pay on the Web
Lots of university have MBA-MEng joint program that will award 2 degrees upon completion. MIT's LGO program is such a program.
Without Thiel's money there wouldn't be a trial.

Trust me, Hulk Hogan and Thiel aren't friends, he just has a personal vendeta with it.

And I think you bought into a narrative of Silicon Valley cocksuckers ;-)
Lots of answers already in this thread. The ones I'd recommend:

https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph

http://titan.thinkaurelius.com/

https://www.arangodb.com/

http://orientdb.com/orientdb/
Plus, the guy bought 4 $1,000 Titan X GPUs, when the next generation GTX 1070s are out very soon, and will have the same power for $400 each.
There is a Fortune 200 headquartered in my area that, by far, has the worst application process and software I've ever seen. Aside from REQUIRING you to type in information like your high school's address and your high school GPA, they also have pre-screening booby-traps which you may need to lie to get past (e.g. my wife was applying for an HR job there and they asked if she had a bachelor's degree in HR, which she didn't, she has a JD and has worked in HR for years and she was filtered out of the applicant pool because of that). One of the last pieces of the process is answering a few long-form answers on why you'd be a good fit. They have four or five questions but the gotcha is if you lose focus on the textfield and have to click it again, it erases your answer.
Netflix Introduces New Quality Metric
I know it's text based but still, the gov.uk is blazing fast. Looked under the hood, seems like they're using client-side template rendering via Mustache, and JQuery.

Not sure what the back end is written in, saw a reference to Flask in a javascript comment, so maybe Python.
Introduction to the Solar System (Free Email Course)
Still no support in Germany. A bit disappointed.
Haha OK, thanks! I don't mind the cartoon of the queue at the top but for some reason I don't like having a little cartoon lagomorph appear in a speech bubble by the paragraphs while I'm reading.
What will people do with this tool exactly, once it's a mature tool? It doesn't sound like it will require much in the way of human guidance at some point down the line.
Nothing in the article suggests that the individual in question is intersex. They have a very clearly defined sex. It is preposterous that the government would adopt a stance of official ignorance in this respect.
I have to disable security by typing commands at a reboot to change system icons, so I'm not really root in the traditional sense on my Mac.
Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric.

Maybe while they're at it they can add a real package manager too.
> The length of time a copyright can be held on any IP has been continuously lengthened over the past 20 years, making sequels a more tenable venture for movie studios.

Strictly speaking, it was lengthened once, 18 years ago, with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

I don't know if copyright law is really all the important. The Mickey Mouse Protection Act extended corporate ownership from 75 to 95 years, but no one is making an Iron Man movie or not based on what they think revenue for it will be in 2091, much less 2111. Economics alone means that the NPV of 2091 revenue will be ~$0.

I find much more compelling the argument that it's an attempt to de-risk an increasingly capital-intensive and high variance business.
In Palo Alto, Google/Apple Would Have Been Evicted from Their Garage Offices
A report about a vulnerability in Telegram
I didn't know that, but I suppose even then they can claim that there artistry exists in the choices they make. If a machine can make equally viable choices from the audiences' and critics' perspectives...
Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh.
I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out.
Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!
With EBS you can't just match size, since the IOPS and latency matter far more.
I love the common assumption that you can just stop all sales and marketing activity and nothing will happen. LinkedIn makes its money from selling $80k enterprise contracts for Premium. They don't write themselves.
Seems like Stripe is late to the table on this. Hasn't Braintree been supporting this for a while?
We removed the image, it took 30 minutes to an hour after after we notified them of it to get it reactivated.

The problem was not giving us any notice in advance. This was a single image on our entire site. Seems excessive and unproductive to immediately shut down an entire site for a thumbnail image posted.
Obnoxious, perhaps, but not unprecedented; Google and Facebook have similar structures now, and it's not unprecedented outside the tech industry. (The Ford family used this kind of structure to keep control of their Motor Company.)
A study of gifted people (probably relevant to a lot of people here) found that people who run, manage and/or start companies are the most satisfied with their careers: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:281434/FULLTEXT0... and that gifted people in most other fields (law, medicine, etc.) as professionals are mostly good at what they do but indifferent about it. Start a company is great advise.
> Change for change's sake, imposed by angsty college-aged kids upset that all the worthy causes were fought-and-won decades ago.

Hardly. I'm a 90's kid and I already amazed by how far we've come. In the mid-90's, only about half the country approved of interracial marriage. The "liberal" position on LGBT rights was "don't ask, don't tell." Marital rape was still legal in a couple of states.

And there is so much left to do! E.g. Gay marriage is legal now everywhere in the U.S., but it'll be awhile before a church refusing to perform a same-sex marriage is regarded as aberrational as a church refusing to perform an interracial marriage would be seen today.
The Zune did sounds really good, up until the day it turned itself into a brick.

Before the cause of the one-day bricking was known, I'd already tossed it so hard against a wall it would never work again.
I don't have to un-pair and re-pair my LG Tone BT headphones. It's paired to my laptop and my phone all the time
I'd agree with you... but a really good friend of mine was in exactly this situation and that company, pretty much on the day that he left, ended up selling for big money to a competitor. So, having learned the hard way (but not the hardest way, it could have been my ass on the line instead of my friends') I would go the lawyer route, just in case.
Musn't SM be either incomplete or inconsistent, per Gödel's results?

Can SM not represent integers?
I like my storage to persist across power failures :)
The LG G4 was slightly thicker than the others, has a 3000 mAh battery. I can go two days unheard of before I had this phone.
Would it be immoral to send out a generation starship?
I like how the SEC filings now contain slides like from a round pitch. "Here is a graph. Here are reference. Buy our stock. Go technical! Underlying?, meh... we chose not to"
Weren't all pre OS-X versions also called Mac OS?
I don't really understand why that comment was killed. It seemed reasonably worded to me, and the poster didn't write "you can't be neither sex" he wrote "With rare exception, a person comes into the world as a male or female," which is quite different.

I think it's a shame that on HN people can't voice opinions like the one in that comment. To me the comment didn't seem bigoted, but seemed worthy of discussion.

Edit: the comment is no longer dead, at least at the time of writing this.
Seeing as it launched today, I doubt it
My take on this:

- Better integration of Dynamics CRM with LinkedIn
- A move towards social selling with LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Enriched LinkedIn news-feed with updates from work life (example: meetings, projects)
- Better Cortana (personal assistant) that can help you professionally
- Integration of Office suite with LinkedIn learning
- Usage of Bing for professional search
Business Survival: How to Thrive in Spite of the Madness
We colloquially call it "Mac OS" in English too.
Tabs across all windows, all apps.
The article doesn't contain the term 'Safari-tab'. It does have 'Safari-like tabs' in it, by which I would imagine they mean tabs, like you get in the Safari user interface.
Good research, but some parts of the videos are like badly dubbed sound effects - actually hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FW99AQmMc8&t=1m1s (the drumstick noise in the middle).

still impressive.
Apple opens Siri to third party developers
I only heard them refer to it as "macOS Sierra".
Apple Opens Siri to Third-Party Developers with iOS 10
Spotlight is already incredibly useful, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's getting some of these improvements. We should know soon since Developer Preview of Sierra should be available today.
I'm an experienced CTO without an MBA but I largely agree. Having an MBA and continuing as a CTO employee doesn't make a lot of sense. I have a decent amount of business knowledge thanks to working at an accelerator, being an early employee at a successful start-up, and consulting.

However, most organizations want one thing from their CTO: deliver tech that fulfills the promise of what we sold. Sure, you'll have some product input, but in most cases you will be excluded from overall business strategy other than to answer "when can we have it?", or if you're lucky, "what are our options?"

This is true for a number of reasons, including:

- Maybe the CTO shouldn't be making strategic business decisions. If it's not a consumer start-up, the CTO is often not the most clued into the market, either for lack of access or because they're so busy managing the delivery of the solution.

- Stepping on toes. In a perfect world, no one would get threatened if you see something on someone else's turf and point it out as gently as possible. We don't live in that world.

Personally, I will most likely found my own company, knowing fell well that I will be the CEO and that my development tools will change to communication and money management. An MBA could be helpful for this but it's not essential, from what I've seen.
If he's an employee there ought to be an employee contract somewhere and employer taxes paid. Since he's not being paid, a contract never got signed and likely the taxes did not get paid OP can either go and enforce his position as an employee or opt to be treated as a freelancer, in which case a whole pile of other legal issues kick in (even then you need some paperwork).

As it is I think the hardest thing for him to prove is that he worked there at all.

Lawyer up and get them to commit to something in writing to the lawyer. All this very much depends on the location he's in (and the location of the company, might not be the same), so any references to actual law would need more information.
So the Mac is listening all the time. How can I physically disable the microphone?
VPC's are a software network layer construct, your VM's still can be launched on hosts with other customer VM's unless you are using something like 'Dedicated Hosts'.
Microsoft does not own Pluralsight (employee)
Stripe and Braintree have been supporting Apple Pay on iOS for a while. But Apple just announced today Apple Pay for the web on your desktop (OS X/macOS) or mobile web browser, and Stripe's announcing that they're adding support for it.
The number of free parameters is not the same as the number of experimental measurements; you are correct that there are orders of magnitude more than 26 of those. The point is that the equations of the theory can correctly model all of those experimental measurements only if 26 parameters are included whose values cannot be predicted by the theory; their values can only be obtained by analyzing all of those experimental results and finding the combination of 26 values that best matches the data, given the equations of the theory. It is hoped that a more fundamental theory, to which our current SM would be an approximation, would reduce the number of free parameters required, i.e., would allow the equations of the theory to match all of the data with fewer numbers included whose values the theory cannot predict.
Sounds like another gimmick to me. It's slow and not convenient. Might be good to write where you parked your car, but I doubt it would be convenient for taking notes.

IMO Pebble got it right. The watch is a companion to your phone, not another phone.
Apple might be making fingerprint sensing available for the web soon

https://stripe.com/apple-pay
I get most of my gigs through contacts on linked-in.
Unless they remove the ability to turn off SIP, you have full control over your machine. This is very different from iOS where you have to wait for some team of Chinese hackers to discover a security vulnerability in order to get access to your own device.

Not sure why this is not "root in the traditional sense", unless you're in some environment where you don't have physical access to the machine and can't reboot for some reason.
Writing UIs on Elm lang
Why Elm can't have a XML-based language to declare the UI like React's JSX? Coding UIs with functions its pretty unreadable. Or does people get comfortable with that?
And for what it is, it's really unimpressive. It's a cool idea and all, just with disappointing results.
what happens if the app already have tabs inside? Like sublime for example
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes is your friend.
The main deal is that an instance method (e.g. append) uses the latest stack value as the instance and has its return value put on the stack. So when chaining, it doesn't need to re-put the variable on the stack to call the next method. When not chaining, it has to pop (i.e. discard) that previous return value and then re-put the builder/buffer variable on the stack each time.

But this is seriously micro-opimtization only beneficial in the most strict of situations. Only in this crazy situations would I ever use this as justification to choose one approach over the other.
"Real-time dashboards considered harmful"

"There are cases where real-time dashboards are invaluable. Knowing whether database response time is higher right now than it was a few minutes ago is incredibly useful when your site is slow, and we use real-time dashboards extensively for solving availability and performance problems at Basecamp."

What an awful title.
'X' could potentially also stand for Xnu or uniX.
Difficult to define it, but we can be pretty sure we're nowhere close with our current tax policies.

In theory you set the tax rate to counteract the net negative externalities. It's estimating those externalities that's the source of contention (as you hint at re: feedback loops). So assign ten teams to estimate it and take the median?
Vitalik and his organization achieved a lot, Gavin deserves a mention as well as the guy who had the math behind ethereum. Nevertheless I don't see any killer apps coming out, so overall, its just another rerun of bitcoin.
it's the plot from last seasons' "House of Cards".
That's nonsense. I can't think of any realistic examples in which it would be useful for multiple threads to write to the same StringBuffer.

You might as well sprinke random and pointless synchronized blocks around your code. The magical synchronization fairy will give you a false sense of correctness.
New Paste Site
Came across this earlier today. Popped when I was having a look at tweets from a certain hashtag. A new paste site, simple design but works well:-

http://helpyoudoxme.pe.hu

The site domain name suggests doxing but the site is anything but, well at the moment it seems, that could change!
I hope there will be option to disable Siri. Don't want turned on mic 24/7.
WW1 - http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/causeww1.htm
I don't think thread-safety is a big concern for string building APIs. I expect 90% or more of all uses of StringBuffer are easily verified to be used from only one thread because they allocate an instance, assign it to a local variable, append to it a few times, and finally get the string that was built exactly once.

Actually, I don't see why it would take a very smart compiler to do this kind of escape analysis and automatically and safely replace StringBuffer by StringBuilder where possible. The only large downside I can see of that is that it would require the compiler to know quite a bit of the semantics of the standard library.

If you refactor your code and pass the StringBuffer to (small) helper functions, doing this would be more work, but it would not get essentially harder.
Would be useful to be able to type to Siri in a public setting...
wow. what a great innovation. rename the damn thing and auto unlock. i hoped for new stuff. even a /bin/bash upgrade would be nice.
I mean:

GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

but, no. all we get every year are either 3d icons, or flat icons, round corners, new name...
The data is a list of triples. They can be in .nt format, for example. They can also be in a CSV that looks like .nt format without all the angle brackets and escaping, if that would be better.

Contrary to the assumptions of the OrientDB CSV tutorial, my edges are not being exported from a SQL database. The nodes aren't, for example, foreign keys into a SQL table. They don't have sequential IDs. They are just strings that identify the things that the edges connect. This is typical in N-Triples.

The triples are not currently in any kind of relational database, which I think is what Teleporter is about.

With the link to http://orientdb.com/docs/last/Graph-Batch-Insert.html, you seem to be asking me to write my own importer in Java. I'd rather not.
> Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric.

They won't, they don't want to touch any GPLv3 code.
FWIW redux-form v6 changes this: https://github.com/erikras/redux-form/releases

I've been using redux-form in large production app, btw, and have mostly found it nice, but am looking forward to migrating to the new version.
From the demo, the payment overlay seems integrated directly into Safari. Hopefully there's an OS level API that Chrome et al. can hook into, otherwise it's going to be fairly limited in adoption.
> If this happens to you, you're doing it wrong.

Except for some corner cases - you're right, probably I should add a note about it...
The home page says it's in the public domain.
What do you mean with "fragmentation"?
I don't think so.. and you also have to use an iphone
Apple is unbundling the apps
I would add to the other comment that there are plenty of ways this doesn't improve your life in San Jose. But the Vox article points out those 70K people who live in a slum of Rio do have the benefit of a working system.
Since people are venting, I'll contribute with one more frustration I don't often see. The one thing I'd think facebook would be good at, it is not, and that is: Finding events.

One of the main reasons I ever started a facebook account was to be able to follow events happening in the city I live in. Now I am in a new city and don't know much of what is happening.

However, UI-wise, there seems to be relatively few ways (at least, discoverable ways) to search for events that are targeted to your interests, and within a certain distance from where you are. This is _exactly_ the kind of thing I expect facebook to do well. It has enough data on me, damn it. Yet, I find it almost impossible to get FB to actually give me a list of music events that I might enjoy that are in a given city. (And if you want to search one city over from where you are, forget it.. it's either your "home" city, or nothing.)

If I search for very specific terms, sure I can find relevant things, but it doesn't seem to be much better than text-searching a database. I'd rather it finds similarities with things my friends like, previous events I've attended, etc, and use this to recommend things to me in the new city I moved to. But no. It's like starting from scratch. Meanwhile I continue to get ads for events in the previous city I lived in, while I already told FB that I moved to a different continent.

The best approach I've found so far is to find one or two poeple/productions that do things that I like, and to start checking their friends/likes, but this feels extremely "manual". Isn't the whole point of a huge database like FB for it to figure this out for me?
Yes! I hate hate HATE trying to type on a glass keyboard, and I really wish I could have a plain old QWERTY button keyboard back. I'm delighted to see Blackberry offering one with the Priv. And yet - a phone also needs to fit in my pocket, and it is difficult to imagine how one could do that with a Priv. I don't really need a huge screen because I don't find the web very useful on a phone, but writing text messages and emails is my phone's primary function. The device I actually want is something the size of my Moto X equipped with an actual keyboard. Make it twice as thick, I don't care, just let me type without stumbling constantly.
Legal sex is more a form of socially-ascribed gender than tightly bound to biological sex, and this is simply progress in aligning socially-ascribed gender with gender identity.