skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has a cost of goods of about 60% and it has done fairly well over the past 10 years.
One way it could have happened: marketing says "let's have someone live code from the NYSE trade floor, that'll be great marketing"- and an engineer begrudgingly does it.

Another way it could have happened: some engineer nerded out, and said at a team meeting "can I live code from the NYSE trade floor? It's silly but would be super fun!". To which marketing replies "yeah, and that'd be great for the company image too- do it!".

You seem to interpret it as the first version, but for all we know it could be the second. Something that would not be out of line with the personality of someone like Woz either.
The permanently impoverished underclass is already here [1][2][3][4], so the answer seems to be yes.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/124476/dispossessed-land-dre...

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-plac...

[3] https://www.thenation.com/article/bridging-silicon-valleys-w...

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/25/news/economy/middle-class-si...
I'm sympathetic to the idea that people have different experiences with companies - especially large ones with a lot of variance between orgs and teams, but this:

> "Usually those that struggled were just weak engineers to begin with"

just seems like an awful thing to say that is almost certainly untrue.

Full disclosure: I spent 2 years at Amazon and knew many extremely strong engineers who struggled, as well as some who had great experiences.
Can you define shell? Do you mean you can get a bash shell from an exploit in this code?
But a private 401k is just another type of pension. The people I was replying to were saying that pensions, in general, so of all types, were a bad idea.
As a California resident, I have the impression I live in the technology center of the world, that I am part of the 6th largest economy in the world, and that California is a beautiful place to live - and more importantly, that once you move out of California you will not be able to move back.

Also we have Feinstein so that's... that's a joy.

PS: I love it how there's a desperate need for cheap housing, and developments are approved - but always priced for big-earners.
Some Fabulous iPhone Accessories for Youngsters
At least Opera was transparent about the details of their test. Was Microsoft?
The hippies either aged out or bought property decades ago. They were a real thing for a couple of years at most. The rest is myopic and ignorant nostalgia.
Next step in Slack's Conversational UI evolution (must-read for bot-makers)
Not just San Francisco; California in general. Jerry Brown has done a fantastic job of forcing rainy day savings on the legislature, building a budget surplus, and enforcing fiscal discipline.
> Unification is a mistake. But 囍 has nothing to do with unification.

I'm not saying it does, I'm saying Unification illustrates the fact that the Consortium's decision-making with respect to CJK has changed over time, has frequently been illogical, and shouldn't be pointed at as an example of anything good or sane or worthy of precedent.

The fact that 囍 has a code point but 福倒 doesn't have a codepoint is another example of the Consortium being unnecessarily reductive and intransigent about CJK.

> Do you think that 福倒 should have a code point?

Yes. If we want to be able to talk about it in text (like now), I want to be able to encode it in a standardized way.

> Should they have unicode points?

I'd lean towards no, as they're one-offs, not something broader that people want to discuss and use in text. But I'd be ok with adding them, too. We're not running out of space. There's no value in making CJK so much harder to interop with than everything else, in general.
And here I thought this was a nitpicking subthread.
The article mentions that the level design was "empowered", but it doesn't mention specific level design decisions. Here's a recent article about that: http://kotaku.com/surprise-doom-is-still-an-incredible-game-... The author has lots more discussion of level design and game mechanics at https://www.patreon.com/DocGames
The shape of open source
You misunderstand. It seems clear that iLoch views this as a fundamentally different use of water than, say, watering your lawn, since he emphasizes the gone-ness but doesn't mention the magnitude of the usage. The point is that this use of water is no different than any other one-time use of fresh water. (We'll be farming for 30-50 years too, thereby depleting the ground water.)
EBCDIC had many problems, agreed. One is the non-contiguous range. Another is the many variants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_code_pages lists 11, x2 for the Euro Update).

But how serious is the problem? How many times do you need to test if a given character is one of the 26 allowed letters of the English alphabet, and where you implement it by testing it against the range?

Typically you write it as "islower_english(c)" once, and be done with it. Is that really hard?

If you do think that's a serious problem, then what of those programmers who need to test for lowercase letters in "España", "München", "Diyarbakır", and "façade"?
> They won't see this kind of real estate wealth growth in their new communities.

The question is do they expect to?
From [1]:

> 08/24/1993: Ken signs employment agreement with Apogee Software Productions. A special provision on the contract says that Apogee cannot interfere with Ken's education.

Inferring from the first entry in the timeline, he must have been 17 or 18 then.

[1] http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm
The first one has certificate problems and the second doesn't provide a customer list (probably a good thing). I was specifically asking if Apple had a list of charities that it found acceptable for matching donations.
Inside Japan’s Future Exascale Monster ARM Supercomputer
Thanks Ben :^)
These press releases from BD are certainly impressive and are always great fun to watch.

But they're mostly silent on the matter of how much autonomy the robots are operating with. I never know how much of their behavior is human directed, or how those directions are conveyed to the robots.
You should move to Portland. We have all of that and more. No wait, the Californians are already ruining Portland. Please, do not move here.
Business Idea Validation
It wouldn't be too hard to dual-boot Win10 on Apple hardware and compare them, but it might be a little awkward for Microsoft to do so officially.
Or future-proofing your PC by not buying low/mid end parts. Spending an extra $400 when building so you can keep the PC for 4-6+ years instead of 1-2 years. If you don't mind playing games on "low/mid" console-equivalent graphics this isn't even necessary except for the most poorly optimized games. Unless you want to be playing the newest games on max/ultra settings and expect 60+fps at all times you will not need to buy new hardware or even the highest-end hardware at anywhere near that rate.

Unless you're buying a $350 Facebook-browsing machine to game on the lowest settings - you will not need to upgrade every 1-2 years to run games.

You lack the option to play the newest games at max/ultra settings at 60+ fps on consoles. Because the options simply don't exist and you can't update the hardware to allow for it. You get 30fps and med/med-high graphics at best.
The modding was indeed a class of its own. One guy even implemented a rudimentary flight simulator called Airquake.

Basic thing was that the engine had few hardcoded limits.

You could implement a crazy number of weapons and/or weapon modes for example. Quake 3 on the other hand was hard capped to the number of weapons the game launched with, iirc.

And all you needed to write a mod, as long as you didn't need new models or maps, was a freely downloadable compiler for quake-c. And compiled mods were easily decompiled. So others could have a look and learn.
I am doing healthcare development in C# - CQMs (clinical quality measures), CCDA generation and parsing, HL7 processing, patient portals, doctor portals, ePrescribing, direct messaging, lots of REST APIs as client and server, the list goes on and on. C# is an excellent fit for all of this and lets us develop powerful applications quickly. The web sites are IIS and most of the applications are distributed as Windows Services.

The typical model for most of our applications is we have three components - background agent, UI, and database. The UI handles configuration, user management, controls starting and stopping of processes, and also handles incoming API calls. The background agent is usually a windows service and the database is usually SQL Server.

Our products are used by hospitals as installable products and also by software vendors as libraries and bolt-on applications.
Just read here [1] the Twilio net profits are these:

2013: -$26.9m

2014: -$26.8m

2015: -$35.5m

1/1-3/31/2016: -$6.5m

[1] https://twitter.com/jammasternate/status/737314901572616193

Edit: removed note against HN policies.
Same with transportation. The reason transport is such a mess is because of all the different municipalities involved. To continue to think of the Bay as a group of totally independent cities is ridiculous.
Right, but it glosses over the fact that they were not able to afford their lifestyle 'organically' in their new place. It only seems awesome because they're going in with huge wads of California cash.
the semantic and working implementation of spawn/away are quite different from async/await. While they might be related, i think it's kinda of stretch to call them prior arts...
What are you talking about? The burgers are made from plants and natural ingredients, it's not "lab grown meat" did you even read the article?

Further more, if you think "fixing livestock farming practices" is easy, then you're missing the big picture issue where billions of people demand meat on their plate every day for little cost. The environmental cost of the meat industry is not on your average meat eater's mind. Is it on your mind? Doesn't sound like it if you say things like "hey just fix it hmmkay cos I loves my meat".
Redesigning Shakespeare
Yet Doom plays great on a console in terms of movement...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01WpGDwSPpg

The US tested a live Polaris in 1962. They were responsible enough to cook it off at 11,000 ft, a real combat launch would likely have been detonated closer to the ground.
I believe one of the earliest 3D games is Elite, from 1984. (Example of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmCaNwBwXoQ)

But I too didn’t know of it until very recently, when Elite: Dangerous came out. In my social environment, the Quake series was however very well known. I have the impression that Elite was more restricted to the British market.
The bar hasn't been met for her to somehow be indicted no matter how much Reddit wishes it to be true.

From the 2nd link:

What OIG Recommends:

OIG makes eight recommendations. They
include issuing enhanced and more frequent
guidance on the permissible use of personal
email accounts to conduct official business,
amending Departmental policies to provide
for administrative penalties for failure to
comply with records preservation and
cybersecurity requirements, and developing a
quality assurance plan to address
vulnerabilities in records management and
preservation. The Department concurred with
all of OIG’s recommendations.
Don't be thrown off of Toronto by one douchebag company. There's lots of jobs here for developers, and it's just a great city (imho).

I posted below, but the company I work for is hiring in Toronto and the pay is pretty good for this city.
Definitely not a fair test... Edge was rendering a lot more without an ad-blocker.
even with good salaries, I would move away from California at the first chance I get.
Nice website design.

Do you offer any non-mac laptops by any chance? I've put in a request.
At the risk of the grossest generalisation, the Bay Area has worked because it's combined two very different types of people. On the one hand, the engineers/techies (with roots in the defence industry and conservative midwest backgrounds) and on the other, the idealists/utopians (with roots in the counter-culture movement).
Strange bedfellows, but a world-changing combination back then.
I don't live in the Valley now, so can't comment on the situation, but I hear it is far more of a mono-culture now.
Blog post OP here.

No, we are not the first SQL vendor to provide this. And many other non-SQL databases also have this feature.

Performance is faster than other reads, in general, because of less risk of transaction retries.

Columns can come and go, and change types, and that is all handled correctly. If a column reappears as a different type, it will work correctly. This is because we also version the table schemas each time they change, so we can always fetch the correct schema when doing a time-travel query.
I have a child on the way, live in Frankfurt Germany and feel exactly this lack of cultural environment, as most topics in intellectual circles here can be either categorized into "how to make more money/keep up with the joneses?" or "how to be really politically and environmentally friendly while having a good quality of life?"

I'm really unsure if this environment is so great for children as i'd rather be able to get them in an environment where big ideas are discussed. I've been doing my best for the past few years by organizing meetups/events or supporting others who do likewise, but at this point I question if that is enough compared to just moving to a place where these things are just the norm.
But South FL also has some truly great schools. I graduated High School from one of them. Many of my classmates ended up in ivy league schools. Everywhere, in my experience, has some good and bad schools.
The fact that Comodo was able to get this far with infringing a trademark just because it wasn't registered is the abuse that I was talking about.
> I can get is 24 Mbps for around $80/mo

Bucharest internet pricing is 10$ / 1gbps, so that would come at about 320x price ratio, and still 5x cheaper than Google Fiber.

Funny thing, the ISP I am getting this from set the price for 100mbps and 300mbps the same, 7$/month. As if a 200mbps difference is trivial.
Merchants pay a bit more in fees than banks give in rewards, but definitely not 2% more.
Dude... You deserve a lot. :(

Take all their red staplers.
There are two different things. Employees of the company of course assigned their work to us and then we made sure the appropriate entity (in practice mostly either us or the FSF) owned the entirety of the corpus. These assignments were third parties who contributed code, so we wouldn't have to chase down piecemeal assignments bit by bit.
Snyk for GitHub, Fix npm vulnerabilities with a click
Recently took a trip out to the Bay Area, and when I did the back-of-the-napkin calculations, I figured it would actually be cheaper to fly from the Midwest and stay in a hotel every other weekend, than it would be to live there. Really neat place to visit, but I can't understand how anyone in their right mind would live there.
Traffic in LA is an all day (and all night) thing. But, like anywhere else, you can choose to live close to work -- or not.

The light rail is actually a huge success story in LA right now.
Hedge funds and REITs are not involved in single family residential in the Bay Area, and even as a whole they are small players. Most REIT assets by far are in commercial / multifamily property.
Unikernels will create more security problems than it solves
Distributed, Real-Time Joins and Aggregations on User Events Using Kafka Streams
It's not humor-policing to point out that HN has a different culture and comments serve a different purpose here. I like pun threads - but I go to /r/jokes when I want them. Here, I expect a certain sort of signal - insight from experienced and intelligent people working hard on interesting technical problems.

This isn't to say that humor should be verboten, or pun threads strictly banned - but they're definitely not what HN has been about historically, and arguably should not be encouraged if we want HN to continue serving whatever role it serves. There are more places like /r/jokes than HN on the net, after all.
But they could do a separate test of Opera, Safari, and Chrome on the Mac.
1)

Dead is dead, armed robbery is armed robbery. People (except those responsible for cleaning up the mess) could don't give two craps how someone was killed if they've been killed.

If you were in a position to reduce the net number of homicides by 1% in exchange for a >1% increase in the amount committed by firearms how would you defend not taking that deal?

2)

If you have to use a national tragedy as leverage to get something done that's a damn good reason not to do that something. We've only begun to take baby steps to undo the damage that was legislated post 9/11.

Focusing on a tiny fraction of the problem is a complete disservice to everyone. People would look at you like you had three heads if you said seatbelts make you less safe because they can trap you in your car. Using "mass shootings" as though it's representative of all gun violence is just dumb. The most effective ways to tackle edge case don't carry over to the non-edge cases.
I mean, if you really want to get into it, it was a huge pain in the ass at a time when paying the cost of a call to islower_english was much more expensive than a hardware less-than instruction.

We've broadly moved beyond that, but there's still value in grouping sets together in a way that makes certain kinds of frequent tests less computationally expensive than they would be if codepoints were randomly distributed.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950631
> For any kind of "being" "living" in the simulation itself, there is nothing of importance other than a bunch of electrical impulses in silicon.

Considering the fact that "a bunch of electrical impulses in silicon" is enough to encompass all computable functions, including all of the laws of physics, I don't know of anything "other" that a being might care about...
Agree, especially with all of the choices that employees have and the risks & fees associated with those choices. Mostly, it seems to be another way to funnel middle class money into the financial industry. The history of the 401k is interesting and was never intended to replace a work's pension.

"It was intended to allow taxpayers a break on taxes on deferred income. In 1980, a benefits consultant named Ted Benna took note of the previously obscure provision and figured out that it could be used to create a simple, tax-advantaged way to save for retirement. The client for whom he was working at the time chose not to create a 401(k) plan."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)
and a copy of my Chrysler contractor ID badge

How is that not the end of proof needed to a court?

Unless they are claiming he made a counterfeit badge which is silly.

There also have to be tax records on the state and federal side that a court can order them to retrieve?

The saddest part of that whole story is what I recognize as the descent into the mental state of homelessness, because once you are there, it's REALLY hard to dig yourself out to start thinking normally again. He's been at it since 1999, he's not coming back out whole, maybe ever. Story starts to have grammatical errors and paranoia at the end too, not good signs.
0×03 – Enumerating UUIDs with phone numbers. The bug that was marked as duplicate but I think really is at the heart of it all. Without this you won't get the UUIDs which are needed for all the other exploits. Just imagining that you can get anyone's email using just a phone number is crazy.

This alone should be worth thousands of dollars in the wrong hands because just imagine someone running a telephone book against this exploit - it's like having a peek into their users table and seeing all the registered users.
Re: "owe nothing to it", I respectfully disagree.

Canadians at Waterloo enjoy a heavily subsidized world-class education, at the tax-payer's expense, then leave to contribute nothing to the economy that produced them.

Interestingly, some also come back later in life to enjoy subsidized health care to which they've also never contributed.

I wonder if there's a way to structure post-secondary education subsidies as a sort of debt that you can pay off by either remaining employed in Canada, or in cash if you decide to leave.

Disclosure: UW Comp Eng '98 grad, still in Canada.
Well, good thing members of the EFF are on the Technical Advisory Board at Let's Encrypt, and the board of Directors at ISRG.
Lighting the way to deep machine learning
I'm not totally sold on Bias' viewpoint. He wrote another interesting article declaring the death of hypervisors and the eventual takeover of containers: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/will-containers... When I talked to a guy who had worked on the Xen hypervisor for years, he kept going back to Randy's key requirement for all this to be true: "if configured properly" So this other guy's response was "SELINUX is an armed camp if configured properly, yet we have everyone from major banks to the Pentagon being hacked. Truth is that few people have adequate time to configure security properly in the real world. Something that is "probably" as good as the status quo is a very scary statement for those of us living in the real world."
I moved from Seattle to the Bay Area about 15 years ago, and at the time, Seattle traffic was far worse. Of course, the metro Bay Area is physically larger, so it's possible to conjure up a worse commute involving more miles, but for the same number of miles, at the time, Seattle was worse.

Traffic in the Bay Area has gotten quite bad of late, but I know Seattle has done the same.

I live 7mi from work so it hardly phases me. Particularly when I bike in.
There was _way_ too much couture tie-dye at the Haight-Ashbury street fair a few weeks ago.

But then I stopped by the California Historical Radio Society booth (Radio Day is July 23 in Alameda!), and spoke with them abuot their "KSAN Live Jive CD Project", and all the good memories came flooding back.

If you're curious about the Bay Area, read David Talbot's wonderful history, "Season of the Witch".
Asians drink alcohol for the first time
What else can people do? The choices I see (with no mention of efficacy) are: leave, demand better pay, lobby for cohesive regional zoning and transportation planning that meets growth.
Url changed from http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/23/12014008/boston-dynamics-s..., which points to this.
Notably 76% of respondents are using Docker in production.
> it can find things like the "sine function" via examples of inputs and outputs

I really like the idea, and reading through comments this question came to my mind.

Names are important for us. They synthesize what a "thing" is, and they help us organize knowledge.

So even though it might be true that for computers names are not that important (i can describe what i want), i believe they are for us, humans, when trying to understand a given system.

We grow systems both for humans and for computers.

What's your take on this?
How would you find balance between the two?
I disagree, I know a lot of people who reluctantly moved to the Bay Area for salary who would rather be elsewhere. The Bay Area appeals to some people, but not everybody

(also, hey Keith :))
Eh thats kinda hard to say. Looking at the quoted price of a stock is a little bit misleading without looking at the Bid and Ask volumes.

Currently the bid of ~1000 shares are available at 24.97 (these number will vary second to second)

That doesn't mean that all of the shares IPOed could have been sold for that price.

Was there likely money left on the table? Yes. But its pretty difficult to put a dollar amount to it.
+1

I was just looking at doing this last night for two sites and came to the conclusion that it was too painful.

Far too many products still require manual intervention which is a huge bummer. Synology, VMware, ddwrt etc.

OTOH, lego with Cloudflare DNS challenge proved to be very easy to use with a single command.