skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised no one has mentioned how the cards were stacked against them from a bureaucratic level. I understand the airport authorities help run their operations from what they get from rental car fees. But Flightcar was clearly treated in an heavy handed way by different municipalities. That's very difficult to overcome.

I only used them at SFO and the rules kept changing underneath them. They had to change locations multiple times and went from curbside service to being treated as an off-airport vendor. It's all the bloat and corruption of the taxi industry PLUS local municipalities getting their cut and fighting to keep it. That was going to be a very difficult terrain to overcome even if the customer service was perfect.

Overall, I was probably typical. When I could avoid the airtrain with their blackcar I was willing to put up with the off-airport location. As soon as I had to take the airtrain to the rental car facility and then hop in the blackcar, the modestly lower prices with more variable car quality was no longer worth it. Curbside pickup made a lot of sense. Until the SFO authority regulated it toward their own bloated interests.
I agree that they're not likely to do a full abandonment of the Windows stack, it still makes money for them so why mess with a good thing? I think more likely is that as Azure expands they'll try to make more money off of that platform and use Windows (desktop/server) as their supplementary income which in itself is a big gamble IMO.
How to Use StackOverflow Inside Your Terminal Window
There are several firms that offer computing capacity online, at much more granular terms than "the rest of the year". It seems these "cloud" computing services are common topics of discussion here on HN.
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It looks like his work is not deleted, just not accessible due to possible TOS violations? I am guessing he can get it back.

The title seems like click-bait.
>At Microsoft, those resources are so disconnected from engineering that they seem to rely on whitepapers and customers to learn about their own products.

This is so true. My company was being courted by Azure folks so we got some premium access and it was always laughable and frustrating how much more I knew about their cloud architecture than they did. I remember finally being able to talk to the head of network engineering, who was able to talk me through the finer points of how their load balancers worked (we were bumping up against some limitations). That 5 minute conversation was worth more than all their white papers (which were incorrect and contradictory at times) combined. I think I asked her why they didn't publish this information. She didn't say anything.
Yeah. Also the 10x thing seems wrong - if overhead is percentage based then having 10x devs means you will have the same maximum team size, but your total maximum productivity is 10 times what it would be for 1x devs. Pretty weak article on the math. And then they act like they invented the term PIP.
> If pledge were completely bulletproof, but still limited in terms of what it could restrict, would that still be worthless? Granularity is an interesting problem but it's more subtle than typical criticisms of ad-hoc mitigations.

I think the idea that you can allow a program to get itself in an attacker-controlled state and that will be ok as long as you blacklist what the program can do is fundamentally unworkable. So yes, I think pledge-like approaches are always going to be worthless in the long term - if the program is under the attacker's control, it will almost certainly have enough access to be able to do damage (with a sufficiently skilled attacker), because every program does something, particularly if we're talking about a large and complicated program like a browser. (You could potentially segregate the browser into multiple processes with distinct responsibilities, but I'm not convinced that helps, because those processes still have to send commands to each other and so an attacker who can subvert one can probably control the others).

If it had the level of granularity to express restrictions like "should be able to write only files that the local user has chosen via the save dialogue" then it might become an effective security layer, but at that point we're not really talking about a sandbox any more.
Nintendo is releasing a miniature NES with 30 built-in games
You would first have to verify the furnace and the "turn it to ash" process.
My advice: talk to existing users and make the product better.

I'm not saying that the product is bad. I am saying that changing the logo is a distraction. At the stage where being on Product Hunt might matter, function not the logo is the difference between people caring about the product enough to pay money or not.

If the company makes it to the scale where there are designers on the payroll, then an overhaul makes sense. But a logo is mostly irrelevant to getting there.

Good luck.
Granted USA is not a true Democracy but doesn't that defeat the purpose of a Democracy?

Of course I know that you can't have freedom and security these days but should we just start re-labeling the states as a different type of government?

I'm by no means an expert however if we are to have freedom to keep our secrets why is it shameful to do so - even if it is "something to hide" is fearful to divulge we should still have that right to make the choice.

Correct me if I'm wrong, please, because I'm still very young with politics and as such am still learning a lot about it.
Actually, this guy gives a very well-written common-sense guide to getting rich. There are a lot of people in the middle class who live paycheck to paycheck because they manage their income poorly.
"life insurance is hands-down the easiest and lowest-impact way to pass wealth on to the next generation. . . . If you’re retired, your adult children should be paying the bill for you."

Can anyone explain the math and/or logic behind this to me?
Or one to mute idiots.
In next product, Purism will add a physical kill switch for Intel ME :)
That's best example of SEO-domaining I have ever seen. I am sure that guy gets a lot of ad revenue for almost no work.
> The are finally starting to be cool again as the engineers take over.

That doesn't necessarily lead to a successful company.

As a proud engineer myself, I'm not arrogant enough to believe that my kind are the most important in any company. Google has terrible product direction, customer support, and communication, for example.
Does anyone have pointers to good shielded usb 3 cables of different lengths?
Not somewhat, but really, really relevant.

Dude uploaded all his work to a service he did not control without having backups or plans to move to a self-hosted blog. Hell, he could have used wordpress.com if he didn't want the "hassle" of updating his installation.

And on top he didn't have local backups? I mean, what if his hard drive had died? Would he have blamed WD or Seagate?
Related: My company recently announced that they were phasing out our VMWare licenses in favor of something called Metapod:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-managem...

I still can't take it seriously.
12 devs on 30.000 employees? This was an (IT related) company that would be a possible customer of statuspage.io? I have to admit i'm very curious what company, industry this was/is or services were provided. It's a strange balance 12 over 30000

And im curious if* you wouldn't have liked it more if you did have more time, resources, colleague to have had the chance to develop those things in house, yourself. And having another product to sell instead of buying a service from a (potential) competitor?

Also i doubt they have been coding for 3.5 years, and if their show HN was 3.5 years ago, very nice promotion for them. But that doesn't say anything about the quality of the product. From what i have been reading over the years from their development they are just integrators of already existing technology. So if you want me to integrate APIs for 3 months, i think i can get quite a long way.... by myself in the evening hours and weekend even.

They started with outsourcing most of their services used (mailgun for mail, twilio for sms, etc etc), so i rather develop something myself, (and yes in 3 months i can integrate a lot of 3rd party services via APIs). So if you prefer to OUTSOURCE, your service to a party that outsources their services again, and find this of a higher quality of service then* writing your own (which give you options to resell that product etc), then i think we just have different view of what quality is.

Nonetheless, weekend is coming, hope you have a good weekend :) probably in case of reply will read it only after
For all autistic people: this is not being autistic, I guess maybe sometimes arrogant, sometimes dumb (as an organisation) or rather "too big" for our own good would be better descriptions.

But at least not autistic, and definitely not with a follow up where that is used as an excuse for not feeling sorry for them. :-/
Move to where the money is.

Befriend those who are already wealthy. Emulate them.

Befriend people who are on the fast track and believe in loyalty. Be very useful to them. Help them rise.

Invest at least 25% of your income.

Get out more. Talk to more people. Increase your opportunities to get lucky.

Eliminate toxic people in your life (you can help them later if you want).

And, don't burn bridges.

Edit: forgot one - dump bad investments (and places, people, etc.) quickly
Well yes I agree if you compare OCaml to Standard ML its syntax is not as good and I do prefer Standard ML over it. However I prefer OCaml over Java, Javascript, Scala (and the bazillion other brace block languages that are the same), and yes even Haskell.
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I don't think this is giving any answer. Sure the brand is important, but the big thing is that you get the idea of the game really quick. Ingress on the other hand always seemed to complicated for a casual game to me. Pokemon Go is a hit because you can casually start playing it and have fun w/o devoting a ton of time to it. There is no complicated and dark story.

Also, if you look at Ingress, you always needed an invite to play, so when I finally got one everybody playing it was already so advanced that I could not see the fun in playing it.

For me it boils down to a few points:

* Pokemon Go is super simple to get started with

* The rules are easy to grasp

* You can play it casually

* It is light-hearted
> How would you enforce that when working in a big project with many contributors?

So what you're saying is that BEM is the Java of CSS? Because that explains a lot.
As it should be. I wonder why the EU isn't putting more scrutiny on the app store.
They will get the inheritance money, why should you be paying for it?
An abstract logo is usually less memorable (unless you become well known). Genie was used as it resembles human and also signifies the app can do lot of magic for you.

As you mentioned, due to size we can't show entire genie there. So might have to either just keep the name and show genie separately in full or think of some separate image in logo
Moreover, a really nice couch will probably run you north of $2000. We have dogs, three kids six and under, things get messy. A cheap pleather couch from Big Lots is $350 (and is plenty comfortable). I'd rather buy a handful of those over the next 15 years and just throw them out when they're destroyed than a nice $2000-$3000 couch.

(Note: I haven't read the article yet, I'm planning on doing so, and I generally agree with buying nicer well made things, BIFL, but sometimes it's easier/cheaper to buy something you know will be ruined and you won't care as much).
How did Intel respond to said petition?
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Indeed. Though I think we need to resist the slide towards post-truth politics.
Correct on all points.

100% regarding Ingress, I tried so many times, and gave up.

Also the Field Trip app uses the same data if people want to find interesting things without Pokemon stuff.
I'd love some citations there..
After living in Germany for a decade (I'm American), I've found that I'm mostly "bilingual," but like I do when I speak German (not quite fluently), I often translate in my head (5cm? 2 inches. 300 grams? 10 ounces.)

I learned metric in school and used it in college science courses, but didn't become fluent until I lived in Germany for a few years. It was trippy having "non-science" people talking about grams and centimeters. Metric fluency has come far more easily than German.

Oddly enough though, I've found that I react like the Germans around me to weather forecasts in Celsius (30 degrees - it's going to be HOT!) when if I heard it in Fahrenheit, I'd react more like a Texan (86 - pleasantly mild for a summer day)
>Gyro-based 3D with camera feed background

Isn't that how augmented reality works? I can't think of any other way to do it, unless you are tracking specific objects and overlay something on top of it.
It would be more interesting to know if the soloists play better with one.
Try this: Google "Office 365"

The first result just says "Email". The second result says "Office 365 login"

I'm not an internet dunce, but this is just bad user-experience. Why not have a modern landing page that tells me a bit about the product, it's price and what I can expect from it?

Why is the first result a login page?

I've been using Google Docs almost exclusively for work now. I've ditched Word completely. I was willing to give Office 365 a shot, but the signup process is so infuriatingly out of date that I don't feel like bothering.
Because, at that point, life insurance is basically your children's inheritance. Everything beyond what goes to paying burial costs and remaining debt is your adult children's inheritance. If you don't believe in transferring large inheritances to adult children, then there is no point in paying for life insurance beyond funeral costs.

What the author didn't explain is that life insurance is a way to avoid inheritance tax. Depending on circumstances, it's cheaper to pay an absurd amount of money for an insurance policy, because the payout to the beneficiaries is taxed differently than a straight-forward inheritance, and thus might, after taxes, result in a better payout.
Ballmer's biggest mistake was the review system at Microsoft.

- Managers spent easily a quarter of their year on reviews

- Employees often competed against one another (have a great idea? Okay, but That Guy down the hall found out about it and did a half-assed implementation and got a great annual review, and you got slammed for not accomplishing enough. Or maybe your idea simply got sabotaged in some closed-door meetings. Customers? What are those?)

- Sorry, we know all the people on your team are good, but you have to fire five of them. And . . . don't bother picking them, HR already did that without your input.

In 11 years I went through four changes in how reviews were done, and things got steadily worse with each iteration. I hear things are better now; it wouldn't be hard. There was a ton of bad attrition, of really good people who got fed up with things and quit.

In a Q&A session I asked Lisa Brummel, the then head of HR, what she was doing about bad attrition, about good employees who were leaving because of the review system and politics. She wouldn't even admit that the problem existed.

The board should have fired Ballmer five years earlier; on the other hand, they might have wound up with Kevin Turner running things, OMFG. Microsoft Kremlinology is a thing.
$5 deck chair. Either buy something nice that will last, or buy something so cheap you expect to throw it away. Used is also a great option.
So far Gatekeeper, macOS X sandboxes and UWP do suit my needs.
Change that woman's picture at the bottom, not classy in my opinion.

Also, in SeaMonkey, the part with the sliders is like the sluggiest I've ever seen a website...
Microsoft kills dev backdoor that boots Linux on locked-down Windows RT slabs
> In one study, a German professor of psychosomatics gave a lecture that included, in the first half, a series of what might be called itchy slides, showing fleas, lice, people scratching, and the like, and, in the second half, more benign slides, with pictures of soft down, baby skin, bathers. Video cameras recorded the audience. Sure enough, the frequency of scratching among people in the audience increased markedly during the first half and decreased during the second. Thoughts made them itch.

I itched while and after reading the article. At various times I scratched my head, my nose, my lip. I don't normally have a problem with itching, and none of them were extreme.

Writing this comment made it way worse! I've scratched my arm, my leg, my back, my eye socket all since I went to copy and paste the quote above. Anyone else find the same?
PokéHack – Gotta code 'em all
Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press
Offloading the GPS work to the step/direction trackers in the phone would also be great for those of us that work in big old buildings that do a great job of blocking my GPS position.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/4stnx4/how_can_we_...
I'm not an expert on the history of opinions on amazon oxygen, but

>but fail to account for major substances influencing the value (water concentration in atmosphere)?

is absolutely false.
I downloaded Ingress yesterday because apparently Pokemon Go pokemon spawn locations are based on data from the Ingress map that was collected over the years. Ingress is sooooooooo complicated it's a major turn off for everyone who wants to play casually.
With all this discussion on car rental options. I'm surprised no one has mentioned SilverCar. Has anyone used them?
The airport rental business is indeed one that needs major overhaul. If any of you are curious, there are some fascinating case studies out there on enterprise and how they succeeded by avoiding the airports.
See "perfect solution fallacy"
Originally this started as a platform for business apps. You can create custom apps with just drag and drop. Hence we chose the name CompanyHub (center of business) and the logo as Genie - to represent the magic it does.

Though this functionality is still there, we are marketing it as a CRM as I was adviced that people buy solutions, not platforms. In terms of vision, its still the same - you will be able to run your entire business on it.

Knowing this, do you still think they don't match and logo should change?
I have tried at least 3 most popular dialer in play store and none of that was as good or simple as windows phone's.I did find T9 search good but searching through the recent call list or finding a linked contact was felt better on windows phone.My biggest gripe is about the email clients.I am still looking for one which is very simple to use and has a simple UI.I find even Microsoft outlook offering is bloated or not simple as windows phone's.
We had an escalation to "the expert" on an Azure product one time and the guy's response to one of my questions was literally "I don't know, that isn't in the PowerPoint I brought."
The success of Pokémon Go as the first breakout AR "belief circle" certainly seems like a victory for the Scooch-a-mouti. I wonder how the Librarians Militant will respond?
Tech industry treats veterans the same as non ex-military. Just insure that you have the technical knowledge and background for the job. If you do not, government contractors will gladly bring you on to teach you, especially if it is something that helps maintain your security clearance. They will normally put you in a journeyman position if you have zero experience in a certain technology sitting right with experts in the technology.

With enough time on the job and at home teaching yourself you will be at the junior level in no time. Once your able to do all your regular tasks along with more advanced projects you may be able to start working in a senior role and be handsomely compensated for it.

Now if you have heavier military only skills government contractors more then likely still have a place for you, I would recommend checking the top government contractor job sites. They can normally place you in something very similar to what you were doing in the military with the added benefit of you learning new tech and some times becoming the expert on that tech, especially if it is very popular in the tech industry.

If you want to use many of the benefits that come with joining the military long term you may want to check out jobs at the intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, NGA, DIA, etc.) or usajobs.gov to see if there is anything there you like. You may also be able to get a higher paying ranked job based on your military experience.

Do not forget to also take a look at the agencies like FDIC, SEC, Patent and Trade office too. They are smaller but pay better and offer more benefits than many of the larger agencies for tech talent.
I exclusively run Linux on my laptops and Microsoft is part of my work flow. Their web versions of Word, Excel, and OneDrive are 'good enough' and convenient to have. I never have to worry about working with a customer's Excel spreadsheets as a data source, etc.
> Ingress on the other hand always seemed to complicated for a casual game to me.

Pokemon has a clearly defined goal which even the most casual player will easily understand: Catch all the Pokemons.

But in Ingress there is no universal goal which you _have_ to reach. It is open ended and you can do whatever you want to do. You can try to make tons of small fields, you can try to make very large fields, you can specialize in missions, ...

In order to really understand Ingress and all its different gamestyles you have to invest some time or you need a good mentor who teaches you all the basics.

Also Pokemon Go in it's current form is just a single player game in a multi player world. In contrast, Ingress is a true multi player game because there is much more player interaction due to attacking and defending portals.
I think the fact that it is barely a game with a low entry barrier (compared to "turn based tactical video game" like most other pokemon games are) with a massive following who don't really play video games or have ever watched the anime but know who Pickachu or what a Jrigglypuff is (nerd-credit rating requirements, mention in BazingaBang or "hip" stuff like those) was an important factor too.
Guilty as charged.. I did learn OCaml first and from that official green HTML documentation which still appears to be green after 16 years :).

My complaint with OCaml was OCamlp and the tedium of creating modules and functors. While AdHoc poly (aka type classes) is not as flexible it is IMO easier to understand, generally less verbose and slightly more elegant than OCaml modules. I'm glad they added first class modules as I recall wanting something like that a long time ago.
I bought a "leather" (no idea if real or not) couch from Ikea about 11 years ago for around $600. It's still holding up great, even though I've moved several times, and have 2 dogs and a toddler. The rest of the furniture is not... but you can't expect an 18-year-old to buy real furniture. To me, the choice was to have a place to sleep and put my clothes, or save. I'm all for delayed gratification, but I also like not having clothes all over my bedroom.
You'll have to compare yourself, but http://alternativeto.net/software/gimp/?license=opensource&p...
Assemblyman ponders Pokemon Go legislation
"Answer by Ron Rule, CEO of As Seen on TV"

Where's "how to scam low-income folks out of their money with cheap useless crap" on the list?

This is someone whose business model is literally marketing shitty, unnecessary products to low-income folks via infomercial advising purchase of "quality goods".
Seriously? Life insurance is a great way to pass down wealth?? Depending on your situation, your life insurance will barely pay for the funeral. What, do you think everyone can afford million dollar policies for 'a few measly dollars a month'? Sorry to dissapoint, but teaching people to wait for their family to die is a horrible way to 'pass on wealth'.