skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that many will think themselves qualified. It would be too easy if the Boss/Senior in the case described in the article was aware of their non qualification in the domain.

I think the article is simply that if you are pushing for a very small change, one that would make not much difference, and is just a matter of opinion, then don't do it as it will impact negatively the original author.
That logo does not even remotely resemble the Java logo.

There are literally thousands of companies in the world using a bird in their logo, but they are not all the same company/organization/concept.
That article was posted on April 1st 2011...
> I make some embedded "devices" as a hobby (none of it is mass-produced), and I feel like things are better now than they used to be ~3 years ago.

I guess what they meant was that sticking to old versions gives you a stable target to develop against, not that the resulting product will be stable.

Upgrading to 4.whatever would give you all the improvements, absolutely, but it would also give you all the new bugs, and mean that you have to keep up with all the refactoring that have been done since (and will be done in the future, if you plan to stay up to date).
> Merchants are suing to have this overturned because they don't want to pay for an upgrade if they can get a court to force the old terms to stay in place

I haven't seen those. Which merchants are involved?

The lawsuits I've seen over chip cards were merchants who want to switch and are upset either because the card consortium is being too slow, or because the merchants want to require PINs and the card companies won't allows that:

• B&R Supermarket. Bought new NCR Equinox L5300 terminals to be ready for chip cards well before the deadline, installed them, trained their staff, and asked the card network consortium for certification. Liability shift deadline came but the consortium has not certified B&R yet, and now B&R is getting hit by a lot of fraud and chargeback charges that they had not suffered before. They are annoyed that the same group that is taking so long to certify them is also the group the benefits from the liability shift, and so are suing.

• Home Depot. They have upgraded their terminals to accept chip cards, but want to require PINs reather than signatures. Suing to try to force the card companies to allow that.

• Walmart is suing Visa over the same issue.

• Kroger. Same issue.
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Panasonic Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics in India
Websites would then just set up proxies to do the same thing. Rather than adding a JS call on a page, you'd get some sort of FB-provided box that makes it look like all scripts originate from your domain. This would only hit small operations without the time or inclination to add extra infrastructure to support social sharing, everyone else would carry on as before. Maybe an industry-standard proxy format for shared hosts would emerge at some point, giving the same power to small actors, and you'd be back to square 1.
War crimes: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/24/donald-trump...

Invasion: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/11/trump-wants...
I dunno, I seem to recall a laundry list of folks that were qualified on paper to do the job who still couldn't do the job.
I guess the key difference between my experience and this article, though, is that the article seems to be mostly focused in a non-technical boss commenting on benign/arbitrary opinions (like shades of color), rather than a technically skilled superior commenting on his area of expertise.

The article is referring to things that are ostensibly subjective changes that don't make a tangible, measurable difference. The suggestions in question are often the boss putting their mark on something so demonstrate that they've made an impact.

Even if the suggestion actually improves the product, suggesting something that deflates team morale more than it brings to the design means the change isn't worth it. As a boss that's quite a hard lesson to learn because logic says you should be doing whatever you can to ship the best possible product. In reality, especially in the long term, the product is going to be better if you temper your suggestions in favour of the team.
If you mean "hipster" as in "jumping on a new thing too early and bragging about it" I agree. I totally admit that Chromebooks are not mainstream or usable for all kinds of professions, but I was surprised on the maturity it has gotten to.
Are you aware of paste mode and clipboard/register sharing in Vim?
The Joules/year on the graph is a flat line from now to 2040. It ought to read "does generate" instead of "can generate'.
It's funny how developers have completely lost the idea of real push messages, and ended up thinking that the client always have to initiate the connection.
I think this is more-so a critique of toxic manager-developer relations, but that's just my 2 cents.
I would perhaps argue that it has a whole lot to do with Sykes-Picot still too. While obviously the Iraq war is massively significant in terms of specific recent events, it is possible that we are biased to overestimate the effect our generations have on the overall trajectory of the region.

Even if you want place blame more firmly in modern time it is perhaps more useful to attribute much of it to neo-conservative foreign policy as a whole rather than "the Iraq war" which is only one negative outcome of the former.
I was about to mention that was backwards but forgot about that silly April fools joke. That was worth a good laugh this morning.
>Worse, a language that forces people to Do The Right thing ... just encourages closed minded rule-following.

I think experience shows that freedom to do the wrong thing frequently leads to the wrong thing happening. There are many case studies to be found in security and concurrency.
I'm working at a publicly traded company for the last few years. It is a disaster in terms of policy and procedures you'd expect at a Big Corp Inc.

It sucks not to get the feedback because I have no clear indicator if what I'm doing is good or bad. In terms of pay and bonus I would assume that I'md oing a great job because it keeps going up.

I note that the rest of the group I'm in have similar concerns.
or, the more likely ending where the poor is subjugated and enslaved as man-servants. Like in the old days of kings and warlords.
It has gerber-to-svg as an dependency, so I'm curious what it actually adds to this.
Because that would mean they have to train their networks on _huge_ amounts of actual child porn.
> If only there was some free and stable alternative...

There's no shortage of good-enough loggers out there for major languages.
Finally got into using spacemacs as my go-to editor... Mostly because I couldn't reliably get python completion to work in Vim.

But one thing that's annoying the hell out of me is window/buffer management. It really confuses me when plugins 'eat' a buffer to display something.
Regardless of how you feel about the opinion. The one thing that stood out for me was the walled garden. If you really want more and more of these cases to happen, keep using these giant walled gardens like Facebook.
We'd probably increase power production before that point, methinks
Most great people I've seen have had great mentors guide them along the way.

Very few great tennis players do it without a coach. Same with piano. And chess. Why should programming or leadership be so different?

This doesn't mean feedback is easy to give or receive, or that everyone listens.
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It isn't a flat line: http://i.imgur.com/oTUC2Nf.jpg. The black bar I added is flat.
Bots shouldn't be conversational
What fraction of the chip and pin cards use tokenization?
Global IT Market Overview, June 2016
Mutability of a variable and const qualification of the target type of the pointer used to store its address are independent, and language semantics really only care about the former.
I identify with "liberal" politics and parts of Thiel's RNC speech resonated with me, but I'm wondering if those parts were lost on the RNC's target demographic. For example: he says we should have gone to Mars instead of starting a war in Iraq (paraphrasing). I feel like the Republican demographic wouldn't care about going to Mars, and not to mention a bunch of people got rich off the war (at tax payer's expense of course).

Then there's the part where he said the party shouldn't focus on fake "culture wars" like which bathrooms transgender people use. How were those parts received by the RNC's target audience?
Out of curiosity, which candidate do you support, and in your opinion do they pass the litmus test you've set out here?
There is a huge difference between 97% superset and 100% superset. JS is valid TS without changing anything. The transition is easy.
Speak for yourself

a = "a long message with 70 chars..."

vs

a = ("a long message..."

" with 70 chars...")
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I view employment different than most people I have found anyway

Trust has nothing at all to do with it, nor does ownership as the article implies as I do not own any of the idea's or work I produce for my employer. That is the purpose of my employment, I trade my skills, knowledge and experience for currency.

My employer trusts my boss that is the only Trust that is required, I give my input based on how I see things, if they accept it great, if they want to go another route or use a different idea that is fine as well.

I do not have these types of emotional attachments to my work
The closest to that I have seen was a terminal in Alaska (or Canada, not sure) which had a option to add a percentage. Had to do a bit of mental math to figure out the right percentage to end up at a nice round number :)

I've certainly never seen an option like that in NL. The three common things I see here are 1) you say "make it amount X" before staff enters the amount in the terminal, 2) you leave some extra cash on the table after paying the normal amount with your card, 3) just don't tip (which is acceptable here since wages are decent enough).
I know of one place: on an airplane. They only accept cash and creditcard because cc payments will be delayed until they have signal on the ground.
> Do you have any quote for that?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/3/donald-trump-...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/...
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Yes the judge ruled that even though knowingly accessing a service in violation of it's TOS is not a crime, accessing it after being sent a cease and desist is. So it appears that the way in which you are asked not to do something has a bearing on whether it's ok for you to do it or not. That seems pretty crazy.

Facebook as a way to prevent this access that's guaranteed to work. They could block the user's account.

Furthermore the Judge's argument regarding a bank barring someone from entering if they are carrying a shotgun is bogus. They could just as well use an example of banning someone if they are carrying a cuddly toy. Using a gun in the example is a transparent attempt to appeal to emotion. There's nothing in Power Ventures activities that could be reasonably equated to openly toting a deadly weapon in a bank.
Why is the world's energy production a constant value from 2010 to 2040? Surely we produce more energy today than we did 30 years ago. Is this just a chart scale issue?
I am surprised they did not mention the FDIC hack.

This is dangerous stuff when a small hack can destroy peoples lives.
Ask HN: Why is news about the DNC fiasco being flagged?
It seems like every post about the DNC emails hack (and its relevance to Clinton vs Sanders) is being flagged on Hacker News. Perhaps I'm being too much of a conspiracy theorist, but is HN following a political agenda?
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Wrap that link in a referer stripper, please. Otherwise it redirects to a NSFW expression of jwz's low regard for Hacker News.
I 'm pretty convinced that most people people do not support trump for what he claims he will do. He seems so unpredictable that nobody can believe what he says. What seems to resonate more is his confidence, and his risk-taking ability vs the very predictable, but very unlikeable Hillary. No amount of quote-listing or fact-checking is going to change their minds.
Erlang Copied Scala's Actors & Erlang's VM is almost a Clone of the JVM - Apr 01, 2011

Erlang was released in 1986, Java in 1995, and Scala in 2004.

I wouldn't be surprised if LFE were older than Scala.
You are not presenting a quantitative basis for a change. That "work me out of a design" is as diminishing as direct request.

Please, answer to me why are you concerned with such minutiae next to project completion? Is the Statement of Work you have prepared with designer not detailed enough?

The only reason I, as a manager, would like to ask questions about "blue and huge" is to provide a way to me to experiment or allow some other people to experiment and fine tune (think A/B experiments). But that would be in SOW in first place.
>Planes travel 500mph and they fly themselves.

Case in point: Why Tesla's naming of Autopilot is misleading.
Define this murky "left". In case you haven't noticed, the old political categories are shifting. I should be on "the right", having grown up in the Midwest, served in the military, and am now working on Wall Street.

Donald Trump is irresponsible and wrong, and you should note that many military service members in particular are rooting for Gary Johnson. Advocating for war crimes is wrong. Nuking Syria will not work. But don't mind us, we've only fought the wars of the past two decades.... Listen to the guy who dodged the draft.

The fact that Johnson is so popular among vets and service members should be a telling indictment of the foreign policies of both Trump and Clinton.
They weren't accessing Facebook with their own account, they were accessing Facebook with their users' accounts.
The link above is broken. I'd be interested in reading about that if you can fix it.
My thoughts exactly.

>Why did the NYtimes publish this garbage ?

Probably because the rest of the staff shares the author's personal resentment for Thiel, which isn't surprising considering their liberal bias.
Autodriver would be better ?
Slightly off topic: I think someday may be, once our Internet connection are fast enough, we will go a full circle and have our own server and the Cloud will be a dump storage or backup.

Think iCloud for example. My Router; Airport Server / Time Capsule Server. Will have all my iOS / macOS backup, as well as Photos, video, game saves etc. All iOS update and macOS update, App update are done through this proxy / cache. I will have all my documents inside this little server. And a Backup of these files will be done in the Cloud. So in the worst possible scenario, You can cut off my Cloud backup and wipe it. I will still have all the info inside my Router / Server.

You can provide me a Blog platform on my little server, and insert ads on it all you want when it reaches your cache/proxy/CDN. But when you take down my blog, all the content i spend my time writing is still on my server. In my procession.

Sometimes with Cloud, i just get the feeling my precious data are being held as hostage.
For larger stores which have a basic always-on internet connection it will be much faster. In my experience 2-5 seconds is what you see for mobile devices that use 2G or 3G, or places that still use some form of dial-up for every transaction (ISDN still exists..).
I've picked up quite a few over the years, with my favourite being Algorithms by Sedgewick.

With that being said, I've tried to teach myself about the most important data structures and algorithms, but I find that I'm not "really" understanding them, and am purely just remembering the gist of what I need to know.

Perhaps it's imposter syndrome, but despite being a passable developer, there's a part of me that feels that I need to be able to read the CLRS book and actually understand what's going on, because until I can read that book I don't feel that I know the ins-and-outs of these algorithms.
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I'm surprised replacing the electrolytics wasn't the first thing he did.
If you have a 30 year old piece of technology that isn't working, it's almost definitely the caps.

This is why so many console recapping services exist online.
I cannot agree more. This is why I propose measurement and observations with the report of the results to the people who should change. Probably, with a set of options of "how to change", just to spark a thinking or discussion.
A human brain runs on 20W. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us
Note that the company is named "Tesla" and isn't a Serbian engineer! :)
I wonder if feeling better with feedback has the side effect of not shipping something world-changing in the long run.
When looking at how autopilot is used in other industries like boats http://www.westmarine.com/WestAdvisor/Selecting-an-Autopilot

What Tesla uses as the name does not seem far off at all.
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Ask HN: I think I'm being stalked by a hacker. What should I do?
I think someone who is very knowledgeable about security vulnerabilities might be stalking me. I don't have any hard evidence, but we've been "coincidentally" running into each other a little too often in the past few weeks.

I work as a dev myself, but I don't know a lot about security. Aside from the obvious things, like changing my passwords and keeping records in case I need to get the police involved, what should I be doing to protect myself?
Is there a simple CLI TOTP client? Or what do you use a backup system if/when your phone fails?
> Internet connection are fast enough

And if our storage options are more reliable we might not need the could at all!
It's not constant, and the scale is logarithmic.

That said I think this prediction is really insane and goes against common sense.
Bull.

It's the artist's own fault that he didn't make a backup.
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Yep - Telstra Air. But I'm not on that ISP yet
The ROM BIOS was released online a little while back and there's already emulator support and homebrew software for the thing[0]. The jury's out on how accurate/compatible it is though

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/07/play-a-homebrew-game-d...
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There are at least two third-party candidates in the race. Last I heard, the Libertarian candidate (for those on the Right) has been polling almost well enough to get into the official debate cycle.
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Facts are facts. If Trump talks like Mussolini, perhaps deliberately, then he deserves the comparison.

Sure, all the fascism in his speeches and platform could be some grand act just to rile people up, but he's giving no reliable indication that the terrifying things he says aren't what he really believes.

But I am, of course, biased. As a Jew, I can't stomach anyone who brings white supremacism and open antisemitism into the mainstream. It's just bad for me, you know?
If Trump thinks the problems are internal why are his solutions focused externally. Closing down immigration, withdrawing from international treaties etc?
I always find it funny when projections decades into the future show straight lines. Even more so when the scale is logarithmic.
It's off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Interesting read! Didn't know all of it about CF.
It's the other way around. AKKA started as a straight copy of Erlang actor model[0]. And Scala is much younger than Erlang.

EDIT: Oh wait, I got myself baited.

[0] Source: the original author of AKKA admitted it on a Java conference I attended.
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me? I don't get to vote in the US, so that's a bit of a moot question. I deliberately phrased my posting focused on one particular statement that I regard as particularly dangerous because by that line of reason you can justify support for anyone.

Anyways, since the choice currently boils down to Trump vs. Clinton: I regard trump as a deeply dangerous candidate. He seems oblivious to a lot of issues and seems to be focused primarily on furthering his ascend to power, by whatever means necessary. While Clintons politics certainly have their own set of issues I'd prefer her as president since the person in the oval office should show a little interest in complicated matters. In that regard, she passes.
Massive discussion from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135484 (168 comments)

That was the third submission, with one the previous day, and one the day before that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131735 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122560 (1 comment)
> "If a business is flimsy enough to be destroyed by a letter, it was toast anyway."

Completely disagree. In the early stages of its life, almost any business is very vulnerable. If Microsoft had irritated IBM just the slightest bit in the early days, they would have been toast, or at best a small niche company, because they were completely dependant on IBM's goodwill. An IBM executive could have decided they preferred the boys at Apple instead. no letter even required. Yet look at Microsoft today. Who is to say that a business starting out using a Facebook API today, could not diversify and be a powerhouse and industry leader, tomorrow?

The point is that this ruling allows one company to make illegal, the business activity of another just by sending out a letter irrespective of whether that company's activity is actually illegal
Yes, I didn't compare to Wavefront as I have only basic insights and therefore cannot make a valid statement.

Competition depends on the uses case - if you are using a tool like SignalXF for custom metric analytics, then we are no competition as our focus is monitoring of applications and its underlying infrastructure.

We are an Application Performance Management (APM) solution and therefore compete more with tools like New Relic oder AppDynamics. Theses tools are sadly only used for troubleshooting in 90% of the cases and not for management or monitoring. They also do not work in highly dynamic and scaled environments as there "model" is too static. (which they try to fix with their analytics offerings)

This is what we want to change and were we add the whole stack to the game to analyze all the dependencies and help finding root causes quickly and monitor and predict the KPIs of your applications, services, clusters and components.

We integrate with solutions like SignalFX if needed but I have really good experience to do "dashboarding" with more business related tools like Tableau or QlikView - this also offers application owners an easier way to aggregate the monitoring data and metrics on a higher (business) level, where tools like Instana offer the instrumentation data as an input.