skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could argue that some paths are impossible to reach without diversification of skills.
I have pretty mixed feelings about this. What I think the article gets right is that the false sense of profundity surrounding stuff like this is really and truly ridiculous. The Yo app, I think, is/was an even better example: yes, there is definitely value in having 1-bit communication, as Marc Andreessen put it. But much like this candle, the actual fractional value achieved over existing options (text messaging, or a normal candle) is just so minimal that it absolutely does not justify the $2.5mm raise (for Yo).

At the same time, the tech stack involved in producing these things, especially anything social, is so incredibly complicated that, from an "effort invested" standpoint, that hefty price tag almost seems justifiable. At the core, every digital "social" system -- that is to say, any digital system that communicates between autonomous physical-world entities instead of discrete topological points on a computer network -- every social system has a common core set of problems that have to be solved, but that are so incredibly onerous that even the "silliest" of applications end up with some serious capital.

I've thought (and worked) a lot on how to solve that, this enormous disconnect between consumer value added and investor prospecting, but I think in the web world, there's simply too much momentum behind existing best practices to make any real dent. So, with a touch of irony, I think it's actually IoT, which is arguably even more difficult than your standard "social" app, that has the best chance at fixing it.

My point is, there's definitely a place in the world for gimmicks like this. They're fun. They're cool. That's fine! The problem we have, and one that I hope to see solved (or solve myself) is that it's so absurdly difficult to do this stuff that these ridiculous little things get so much time and effort poured into them. Making something like this should only be marginally more difficult than writing a "flickering" integer object in Python. We've added way too much bulk to that, and I think we in tech, as an industry, would do well to add a little introspective pause into this crazy trend of "connect all the things!"
Cool to see you're still at it!

I think I wrote one of the few first real third party plugins when this was hot in Holland last year.
I wish Founders Pledge wouldn't break scrolling or include gratuitous, contentless animations. I also learned far more about what they do from Sam's blog post than from their website.
There are more papers coming out soon about eliminating covert channels at the design/kernel level!
Makerbot releases new printers
Your milkmaid calculation misses the taxation part paid by the employer. London might be sort of a tax-haven compared to Prague.
Finally need a new Mac ! My 2009 MBP has been cast off from the upgrade train - forever to be stuck in ElCapitan :(
Over the years I could upgrade the HD speed and size from 5400 rpm -> 7200 -> Momentus -> 512 GB SSD. Can't say that about the newer MBPs .. (waiting for October to see what comes out)
Rust's set types do implement the BitAnd and BitOr traits, which allow using the & operator for intersection, | for union (There's also a few others, like (Sub, -, set difference) and (BitXor, ^, symmetric difference)).

They use Clone to construct a new set for the result, for use with a functional style. There are also the union/intersection methods that produce lazy iterators over references to the values in the sets, for cases where cloning the set elements would be too big a runtime price, at a slight cost to ergonomics.

Clone-based operator overloading:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashSet.htm...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashSet.htm...

Lazy-iterator-based methods:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashSet.htm...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashSet.htm...

Do these qualify as reasonable set operations?
I bought a HP laser printer (P1005) in 2008 or so and I'm still printing papers on it using the original toner cartridge. I was wondering for years when will it die, but it keeps printing. Couldn't be happier.
APFS (pre-release)
This kind of thing leads to many "wait, what?" moments... confusing and aggravating to someone just learning syntax.
I'm not very knowledgeable in this area and haven't used these tools myself, but you could start by looking into theorem-proving tools like coq and agda.
Why no different languages in passwords?
The New Microsoft Academic Search
Good point about the RAW. But I thought this was enabled in software via iOS 10, and was available on many other devices as well [1].

How does the RAW part factor in, especially if Apple is selling the feature based on "unretouched" photos like the ones from they keynote? I thought the point of RAW was that it would make for better post-processing.

1: http://www.imore.com/how-shoot-raw-photos-your-iphone-or-ipa...
Favorize launches to fuel discovery of bite-size content
Well, or sending very compressed binary data to the user and rendering more client side, vs sending fat HTML on every click.
Enh. All the people declaring that they'd never pay money for something so frivolous (snrk) wouldn't have bought one anyway, and it'll probably bring it to the attention of some people who might.
..and no i dont want to use VS Code either!

grumble grumble grumble

(Of course if yc ever decides to fund our small startup it should know that we are a team of forward thinking progressive individuals who will use the best and most robust tools available to us, who's views i do not necessarily represent)
Luper – Contact Manager and Personal Relationship Manager
The updated version does claim that they reached out before DMCA, but something still feels wrong... That is why I put quotes on "clarified" -- I don't think it really qualifies as clarification. I'm more of the belief that one of the two versions is factually wrong.
Not anymore, AFAIK. Starting with the OP3 they switched to an instant purchase model.
I agree with you on that one. I debated whether to count it as going from one extreme to the other since it stops about 150 miles short of the ocean, but I figured since it gets you most of the way, might as well count it.
$2.06M for eight employees seems very steep
Belief in the pervasiveness of regulatory capture is really less the product of empirical research and more a restatement of fundamental principles of liberal economic theory as old as Smith, buttressed by some good anecdotes from certain markets. When it comes to actual empirical research, disentangling the interests of the public and established corporations is pretty difficult: often they are shared, particularly when it comes to safety regulations.

It'd be easy enough to show that a future testing regimes increase the market share of domestic self-driving car manufacturers and push the market price up; less easy to show that it wasn't also in the public interest to have that testing regime in place.
The update should show up later today. If you are impatient, you can search for it in the meantime.
Computing the Ocean's True Colors
We're all just here to giggle at the beauty of it.
Lean Startup is also based on consistency, except that what you do is not defining the kind of task as such. What you do is to keep learning, listen to your users and push the company into directions according to those insights. That's your One Task, even if it might encompass a lot of different subtasks.

It's unlikely that this interpretation corresponds to what Jiro meant, since it essentially tells you to practice being an opportunist every day, rather than to practice a more narrowly defined occupation in greater depth. But it's one way to accept both pieces of advice without disagreeing with either :P
> I use Typescript 2.0 RC

No need to use the RC any more. 2.0 is out!

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What's-new-in-T...
Oh man, even funnier than the idea itself is over the top claim that they're going to "reinvent wine". Thanks for sharing.
If these people are planning on dedicating 50+ hours a week to this, then yes it's a waste of time. I doubt they will, though. Once these things are built, the product moves itself, especially off of a Kickstarter campaign went viral. No need to spend any more time on it once it's done - its just a resume builder and laughable revenue generator at that point.
Listen, I've read enough of these in the last couple of years. Enough! Don't fucking comment on the stupid article if you don't like it. What, commenting about things nobody needs to read is more valuable to the world than creating questionable articles about new technology?

People can write whatever they want and if nobody comments on it - they'll stop.

Sure, I wish everybody worked on finding a cure for cancer every day but that's not how stuff works. Get over it.

You know what this is? Lazy commenting. Find another topic.
Only if the enryption is done properly. Is that an open source project? Did someone you trust security review this?
It's sad that a post like this is needed... I wouldn't consider doing a modern spa/webapp of even medium complexity without a state machine similar to redux or redux itself. In a team setting it allows you to establish workflows that are consistent and easier to understand.

Also, your reducers and action creators don't need to live together, I tend to import from the base directory into feature based structure/directories. A given directory/feature does not need to contain all of actions(creators), reducers, dumb/smart/pf components and sub-components. But by organizing data/handlers into features and components into features, sometimes in the same directory, it makes it easier to find/discover, though it may seem chaotic at first. Imho, it's better than having to traverse through a deep tree to go from a component to a reducer, etc.

I really like redux, and I'm personally inclined to lean on it, even if it makes the code slightly more complex, that complexity is consistent and easier to follow than just about everything else I've seen.

That said, if you have state that doesn't need to be persisted, then go ahead and keep that at a component level. You can have a higher level component with your actions and setstate, then pass them down to more simple components, or pure view functions.
|$250k/employee

hmmmm
The new file system has been delayed by a year, right?
I think I remember a defcon talk by PPP, where they talked about finding 0days in wireshark to thwart their opponents in the CTF.
nice! any screenshots of your designs?
Can you think of a concrete example where the government got it wrong?[1] For the sake of argument, the federal government in the last 50 years? Maybe the encryption export ban. Or the CDA, but that was quickly reversed and the part that's left (Section 230) was really instrumental in the rise of the modern web.

[1] And I don't mean wrong as in "NSA spying" because you disagree with the policy. I mean like, "regulations mandated everyone use Beta tapes and laser disk even though they quickly became obsolete."
Does any method of converting the store image to a bootable disk, like the previous versions, exist? Anybody tried it?

I prefer testing major upgrades as clean installs.

EDIT: createinstallmedia method is reported to be working. Haven't tried it yet myself.
Wow, accusing the victim. I'm sure they're in business when they have something beyond other free alternatives or else they won't exist.
That's a problem... Can you elaborate?
Glad this submission is being upvoted but I think there is room for more practical and direct advice. Here are some resources for JS:

- https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...

- https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2...

- http://danieltao.com/lazy.js/
> If I were to guess, once self-driving cars are widespread, cars won't be pulled over any more for driving-related issues

There will still be black people in cars
Approximately 100% salary overhead is pretty standard, so eight $125k employees plus infrastructure and office costs sounds reasonable.
They aren't related as products, despite being developed now by the same company.

There was an integration you could get (purchase, I think?) which allowed Lync to connect to the MSN network and chat to users of MSN.
Firefox 49 released
Do you need to use their services? Have been (mostly) Google and Facebook free for a long time, and I don't live under a rock. Maybe you should also try the "FB&G"-free diet too ...? (It's not for everyone :-)
My thoughts as well. Roughly 250k per employee?
I agree that the shine has worn off startups, but don't agree with the reasoning. Startups were great in the 90s because VCs and investors were desperately hurling money at businesses that they didn't even remotely understand. Why work long hours in a stuffy traditional office at MSFT or IBM when you could make more at a carnival-like startup where you spend more time playing foosball than working?

Nowadays that equation is somewhat reversed. Most startups expect crushingly long hours, and typically pay considerably less than the tech giants and have vastly lower total compensation. There's still the slim chance of a huge payday, but the expected earnings are far lower. And while there's still plenty of "keep doubling down on legacy tech" at the giants, there's also way more genuine innovation than there used to be, whereas startups are the output of tech industry magnetic poetry sets as often as not: "instagram for urban farmers", etc.

In the end I also agree that we should push for facilitating more new companies, and the article underlines a lot of the hurdles we need to lower or remove. The big questions in my mind: whether that can be done in a way that doesn't just further empower the big established players, and whether anyone has the political willpower to hamstring successful, generally well-liked companies to increase competition.
Is sizeof(void()) a legal expression?
I think a lot of people are waiting for new macs, not happy with the minor upgrades every year.
Spotify and Tinder Team Up, Adding Music to Your Swipes to Impress
While waiting for the webpage to load I eagerly imagined a port of all my favorite old games to OS X.
I'm quite surprised - $2.06 on staffing seemed steep, so obviously read on as I was thinking that there must be a lot of employees. But 8? OK, I'm just a teacher, and I earn around £30k a year... not the kind of figures I've seen bandied about on here for graduate programmers who seem to be pulling in 8-10 times that for their first job... So I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the payroll (which I doubt would happen) - an average of $250k seem normal to others on here?
Depends on what level of detail you're interested in. You could check out ADA/Spark or Dafny. Or, investigate something like Isabelle/HOL or Coq - perhaps via http://concrete-semantics.org/ or http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/.
If you want something this critical done correctly, is it really that steep?
Securing Spring Boot with JWTs
Since when was choice of brick colour a constitutionally protected right?
Same. I guess 7 years is a good run. Also I can't play 1080p Youtube videos anymore (I could play it at 30 fps, but Youtube almost always delivers 1080p as 60fps which is too taxing.)
I don't know about you guys, but I'm trying to work on a cure for cancer over here. I don't have time for these comments about comments about articles about things nobody needs...
I think a lot of my frustration stemmed from NOT using CCS. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and do that...
I'd like to see it broken down further by staff, it would be interesting to see the responsibilities of the "Executive Director" and weigh up the salary difference between that and the median salary of the rest of the team.
I know what you mean, people can be so frivolous. Sometimes I just can't believe I'm surrounded by a bunch of lazy, time-wasting jerkoffs who fritter away their days getting haircuts and drinking coffee and reading magazines and walking their dogs. I saw two fellows playing Chess in the park the other day and I just wanted to run up, flip the board over and scream "PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN AFRICA YOU SELFISH MANIACS".

Or maybe I should lighten up.
250k per employee all-in (benefits, etc) doesn't seem that outrageous being in SF. Plus I'm guessing they're all high caliber employees given the scale of what they set out to do and what they've accomplished with a relatively small team.
APFS was never delayed. There is a preview version included that works with sparse image files.
When using TypeScript subtly forces you into a MS toolchain.

Then when everyone's hooked on VS Code BAM VS Code Pro Extreme Edition!
If you're using iOS or Mac OS X/macOS then Apple already has access to far more than links you copy into the clipboard.
They have to compete with the rest of Silicon Valley. That's about what it costs to get a good engineer around here, when you count benefits.
Are PGP and GPG 100% compatible in all use cases?
> Development of what?

Custom software(libraries, custom patches to OSS, forked branches of OSS).
That's for ten employees, not eight. Salary + benefits.

Could have been more clear in the post, but we have eight employees now and have budgeted for ten in 2017.
There's a distinction between trusting a company not to look at your data when you hand it to them in plaintext, (Skype) and trusting them to have completely flawless, bugfree code that the NSA hasn't backdoored. (Dual_EC_DRBG)
A bunch of years ago, one of the climbing magazines (I think it was Rock & Ice) did a practical test of ice screw strength. They went to the ice park in Ouray, Colorado, placed a bunch of screws of different sizes and orientations in solid ice, and then dropped a standard load onto them.

The first surprise was the size of the forces. Their initial fall test actually broke some carabiners! So they adjusted it to be a smaller load.

The big finding was that negative placement angles held higher loads. I remember being surprised at this, and I have a vague memory that it was major news in the climbing world. I believe that, to that point, the typical climber would try to place screws square or at a slight positive angle.

Incidentally the reason to carry short screws is for thin ice. A short screw placed fully tests stronger than a long screw, because if the long screw hits rock before going all the way in, the exposed tube creates a lever arm. In those situations the generally accepted practice is to use a webbing runner to tie off the ice screw at the ice, instead of using the hanger.
You still have to trust that the encryption is indeed E2E as they claim, no?

I mean, whatsapp claims it has E2E encryption, but I've never checked...
This is so meta
Bummer, no support for my 8-core, 32GB Mac Pro which has been working great since 2009. It's still a fast machine.
There are bits that JS based tooling will miss in terms of a bigger picture... they don't represent your real load when you run a site that is getting hit by a lot of different smaller search bots. Of course, once you're on s3 or a similarly cheap static delivery option (and/or CDN), you may not actually care.
The C code is manually written.
8 x $125K would be $1M, not the $2M that is currently being spent on employees.

Edit: Missed the first part of that, I apologise. 100% overhead doesn't seem reasonable per employee to me though.
CCS has come a long way since version 3. Ever since TI started using Eclipse as the base for CCS things have been getting better. Out of all the IDE's I've used over the past 5 years CCS is my favorite.

> Embedded development requires very precise control and knowledge about what you're doing, and IDEs more often than not get in the way of doing that.

Embedded development requires precise control and knowledge about what you're doing, and that's precisely why you would want to use the manufacturer's recommended IDE. Have you ever tried managing development with an RTOS? Or streaming data out of RAM while your code was running? Or fiddling with the processor registers when debugging? IDE's make all that much simpler, you may want to give CCS an other chance, it's a really powerful IDE.
There's a bit of misdirection employed in distilling every consideration in building a power plant down into one single dollar per whatever ratio. Other factors may include volume and risk of waste byproduct, amortization and duration of a particular type of power plant, geographic factors coupled with insurance costs, potential economic factors of switching everything over to a particular technology, number of suppliers in the market, etc. If the entire USA were to switch over or away from a particular technology, that's going to have market effects on all of the other numbers...e.g. dollar figure $X is not static, but rather each dollar figure is dependent upon the others in ways that are not covered in this one paper.
They should consider running the service in Canada, where software engineer / programmer salaries are a third of that
What can Karabiner do better than Ukelele?

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
The candle doesn't seem replaceable, so you'd need to buy another of these smart t̶u̶r̶d̶s̶ candles every time. Considering that those restaurants keep them lit for hours, that would be insanely expensive.
I have the same feelings about my infrequently used but trusted 2009 Mac Pro. After upgrading RAM, GPU and spending SSD disks it was performing "well-enough" after all these years. It's sad that I have to replace it not because of performance issues but being stuck with an old OS now.
I imagine it would be like radio tag toll lanes now. If you go through and do not have a tag, they mail the vehicle owner the ticket. Most violations would not need stops. I don't think private vehicle ownership will survive self driving cars.
I disagree on the scalability of Vue / Vuex. I've found it to be quite flexible and simple to grok.

Fyi, Cocos Creator was built with Vue. That's not a small app: http://www.cocos.com/download/creator/
people who seriously know how to code mission critical X.590 root CA PKI infrastructure are not cheap when you're looking at total benefits/compensation per head.
Its actually 2.06m for 10 employees: https://twitter.com/0xjosh/status/778283999609298944
You sound like selling an open source software someone else made is inappropriate. Apparently nothing is wrong with that as long as the license is applied.
> We’re currently working to raise the money we need to operate through the next year. Please consider donating or becoming a sponsor if you’re able to do so! In the event that we end up being able to raise more money than we need to just keep Let’s Encrypt running we can look into adding other services to improve access to a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.

Wouldn't they want to secure funding for 5+ years for existing services before considering adding other services?
Why would they have to be in Silicon Valley?
That seems weird.

I've known the month numbers since early childhood. Dates were often read as "the twentieth of the ninth, [twenty] sixteen", especially if they were being written down: 20/09/2016.

Though now I see it can't make sense if read in the American order.
I was thinking it meant the car would not drive itself away and hide after a collision :-)
it's (8125k) 2 since there is 100% overhead
I guess 20k a month per engineer by default, all in. That's probably out of date since I've been using the same number for over ten years now.