skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far I haven't seen any indication that they plan to stop developing the full .NET Framework. I'm sure some parts of it will stop growing - things like WinForms and WebForms probably aren't going to see a lot of attention in the future, but they're also as close to done as software can be. Large enterprises will be using them for probably the next decade or more, even if they get no features at all.

I look at .NET Standard as a good thing. Even if you don't write portable code now, a whole lot more of what you know as the .NET Framework today will be available to Core as part of the standard should you ever want to write portable code in the future.

I think .NET Standard will eventually make it easier to describe what .NET is. Right now, the .NET Framework is way bigger than what most people think about when they hear the word framework. The .NET Framework is a pretty extensive library, plus Winforms, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Workflow Foundation, and probably others I'm forgetting.

Having a robust stdlib in .NET Standard should simplify things. All .NET environments will have the same standard library, and the .NET Framework to .NET Core comparison will be something like the Java EE to Java comparison. I know that's by no means a perfect one to one comparison, but it'll help make it easier for people to understand the difference between the two main non-mobile .NET distributions.
Actually doesn't your experience hint at the opposite trend in the working sector?

If everyone (roughly) either fails programming, or aces it, then the working professionals are the ones who passed AND excelled.
Ubuntu Touch is still going. It's up to it's 13th release now and I don't think it's a failed project.

However I do think it's something that isn't yet ready for primetime, and it's going to be more a year or more before it is.

In the meantime they are trying to iron out bugs, improve features and get more developer attention for it. Recently they've added support for React Native: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native

HN readers might like to check out the Ubuntu Developer blog: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/
Maybe that's it? The product category of "smartphone OS" is now so well-defined that the possible improvements are evolutionary at best, not revolutionary, and hence there's also no space for a new entrant to provide a big enough improvement over the incumbents to gain significant attention?

Firefox OS promised to make app creation easier through web technologies, but "not enough apps" isn't the problem with Android or iOS, quite the contrary, so for an end user, that's pretty irrelevant.
How about a video call then?
They have rebooted the complete platform already a few times, why should any developer waste time on Tizen?
KDE Kirigami 1.1 Released
> There are political avenues to explore. Just as Microsoft was hit hard by a number of anti-monopolistic EU decisions regarding Internet Explorer, Apple in particular could be the target of an action in that space.

That makes no sense whatsoever. MS was hit because they were leveraging their OS monopoly into driving out and destroying competitors in other categories, such as browsers. Apple is so far from a monopolistic position in the EU they have a minority marketshare.
App in the Air team rocks!
Realtime back end for react TodoMVC in 5 mins or less [video]
Interesting theory.

I have a different one, derived from teaching 1000s of students over 2 decades. the bimodal distributions comes from two sets of people: one set working hard and putting the hours in until the master the subject, the other set being lazy, cheating, and don't put the hours in, so they never achieve mastery. Appearance and substance.
Making Internet a worse place day after day. Congratulations, Google!
“It has to be their decision, whether they want to connect their account with Facebook,” Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg data protection commissioner, said in a statement. “Therefore, Facebook has to ask for their permission in advance. This has not happened.”

That's a fair point. I don't use WhatsApp, so did it asked to accept new privacy policy, terms & conditions or smth? Anyway, I'm happy to see that institutions in Europe take a stance against big corps to protect its users lately.
Pretty cool. The other holdouts are gentoo, and part of the Arch userbase, because Arch is very hackable, and someone set up a repo for openrc.
Scale is part of the demand side of the supply and demand equation.

Using dkopi's example, at a company with 2M users, it's worth hiring a developer for each "penny per user per month" problem. A company with 1B users, it's worth hiring a developer for each "0.002 pennies per user per month" problem.

Or similarly, if you look at developers who work on internal tools that save other developers time. At a startup with 40 employees, each new tools developer must save everyone else two days per year. At a large company with 20 000 developers, each new tools developer must be able to save everyone else 6 minutes per year.

As the scale gets bigger, smaller and smaller problems become worth hiring people for.
FYI, you have an untested hypothesis, not a theory. Unless you have done some research somewhere. Sorry for the pedantics!
How child predator was caught by tiny clue in photo he posted online
Hehe true!
But... it has always been like that with bigger frameworks (NancyFx excluded :)).
Oh if only that were true.

I've worked with people in the past who know just enough to hack together a front end on top of a simple database, but who would completely fall apart when presented with anything more complex than that. These are the sort of people who when asked to build an internationalised website "solve" the problem by copying an entire PHP application into directories called "english" and "german" and then proceed to change the text in the German version.
They never released anything, Compaq reversed engineered them.

IBM tried to close the PC again with the PS/2 models but it was too late for them.
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New Full stack JavaScript framework created
Full stack JavaScript framework built using famous open sources libraries Nodejs, Anjularjs, expressjs, and socket-io.
http://nooljs.github.io/nooljs/
Easy to build complex data driven JavaScript applications with minimum coding.
Support multiple data connections suck as Ms-sql, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Mondodb.
Real time framework build top of Express-js and Socket-io
The client side is powered by the Anjularjs. The layout can be build using the Anjularjs tags and elements.
Modularized layout to simplify the complex web pages.
Can be mixed both Express-js and Socket-io
Flash--something far more a resource hog than SVG

If you had actually tried the first few versions of Macromedia Flash, on hardware of the time, you'd be surprised what could be accomplished. SVG is absolutely bloated in comparison.
Regardless of how this ends up working or being decided, I'm very happy to see such discussion occurring. The large scale collection of data on users has benefits both nominally 'good' and 'evil' - from app UX to advertising profits. But equally interesting are the potential drawbacks involving privacy concerns, and lack of user awareness.

It is this last point that I find best remedied by articles like this appearing in widely available media publications. When a discussion is on HN I might learn a lot and reflect upon my choices. When the nytimes and German privacy commissioner start a conversation, I consider that even more valuable.

Hopefully a balanced outcome will occur, but I don't see that as important as the inevitable education that comes with such public debate.
What I don't understand is who runs the actual streams? They require loads of bandwidth and are easy for law enforcement to target. They seem to be just standard HLS endpoints.
I didn't know that ubuntu had a phone. I wondered if it could be installed on my own phone? Doessn't seem to mention that on their website. Oh well perhaps I'll buy one "Note — all our devices are currently sold out"

Ok well I guess I'll stick to android then...
There is a bit more here: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/23/the-verge-founding...

but it doesn't really fill in all the gaps. Like where he is now, if he still works there, etc.
US citizenship is a requirement if you are going to do something related to the US government. I've worked for them in a position not related to the US government(not a US citizen myself) and the number of technical people who also happened to be US citizens were quite low.
Programming goes through phases.

We are in a phase of ridiculously over-complicated tooling. In a decade or so someone will come up with the radical idea of some sort of rad tool which hides all the silly complications. Like we had in the 00s.

I especially love the not one, but two, completely inexplicable:

await next();
The banking industry is heavily regulated, and getting more so. Described criminal tactics as being "par for the course" is not true.

Also, regular consumers have little recourse against large banks for many reasons (e.g many consumers have little direct contact or influence with investment banks), which is who it is up to governments and regulators. ISPs are similar in some ways, but are way more consumer controlled.
Except the market isn't open ? It's a walled garden kept by Apple/Google.
I don't think Servo is mature enough yet.
UK company “Javawag Ltd” got a letter from Oracle demanding to change it
The original asp.net was pretty shit, too.
In my experience, there is enough fluff and non-programming, abstract theory classes in a CS major that people who cannot program their way out of a wet paper bag can complete the degree, and even get high marks. These people can get jobs, and coast along for years at sub-mediocre levels of production, in most cases.
This is an interesting suggestion.

However, it is very easy to cheat your way through college and obtain good grades. My assessed coursework regularly shows up on rentacoder.com and similar. There is an industry out there for writing dissertations. Group work is another mechanism that weak programmers use to avoid getting better: they let the good programmers do all the programming and then do documentation, or UI design, or nothing.
In addition, there is a pronounced grade inflation, so even weak students look great on paper.

Not every organisation has the know-how to filter out weak students that look great on paper.
https://mycroft.ai/

Mycroft has a lot of native skills and abilities baked in and, since it is open source, it allows outside developers to add more features over time.

Video:
https://youtu.be/m4L0QfzUeEI

Github:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core

Docs:
https://docs.mycroft.ai/development/getting.started
I don't know. I had my little shareware programs up for download in 1998.

Software thrived on the PC since its original inception. I remember swapping shareware diskettes with my friends back when we had no reasonable access to the internet.

Hell, even DOOM was released as shareware.

A lack of infrastructure is not the same as a bunch of gatekeepers you have to pay for the possibility to distribute your software. Today distributing mobile apps would be highly trivial as every smartphone is connected to the internet. But there are artificial limitations put in place by platform "owners" so they can "curate" the software.

Call me dumb but from a freedom perspective I would prefer the 1998 situation to what we have now with mobile.
Another possible contributing factor is that Mercury/mercury is a capitonym[0] in that it changes its understood meaning via capitalization, which is obviously obscured when it's used in a headline or as the first word in a sentence.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitonym
How to hit it big: finance vs. Silicon Valley engineering jobs
Apple's relationship with pro everything is broken and it is only going to get worse.
> Something on the lines of don't collect any data, besides name, password, email address. This information can never be sold.

Would you then pay for the services in full that you now could use for free?
He gave two talks, the one he referenced in the article, "The State of Kernel Self Protection Project", is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkCKeZ8xZw

All the available videos from the Linux Security Summit are listed here:

https://www.linux.com/news/linux-security-summit-videos
I know plenty of people making over $200k in the Bay Area, some over $300k.

I think that is the point of the article commenting on the bimodal distribution of salaries.
Google has lost its innocence and is slowly turning into an old voyeur :)
>the individual's expression of interest indicated that the individual possesses the basic qualification for the position [1]

The issue for this case will be proving whether or not the applicants actually met the basic qualifications. Interestingly, the language implies that someone must simply indicate that they possess the basic qualifications. It doesn't go into detail on verifying the actual possession of those qualifications.

I'd like to see what exactly is done to verify the applicants actually met the basic qualifications.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/faqs/iappfaqs.htm#...

[2] https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsrelease...
I read that blog post when the acquisition was announced ... And laughed! While it feels like the (then) WhatsApp CEO was sincere, did anyone really believe that Zuckerberg would be a hands-off owner? Or that his public-only data content ideas wouldn't become dominant? I'll agree that I think this move contradicts his blog post but I also don't think the purchased entity gets to set the terms after agreeing to be bought ... That would be an interesting contract to read.
Cracked's "After Hours" described Rom-Com as "The Only Film Genre That Gets You To Root For The Bad Guy" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZT8ix-lfXs

RELEVANT, btw, is a Christian magazine for twenty- and thirtysomethings. I had not come across it before.
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Will that speciation be driven by genetics or licensing terms?
I think most of the "shit" in this article comes from Angular. The asp.net part is pretty lean.
Should i be seeing anything special on that page, other than a list of "news" articles discussing when Google's birthday should be?
"Apple in particular could be the target of an action in that space."

I never understood that people keep saying that. It's not because you make a lot of money that you will get under investigation for being a monopoly.

Microsoft was fined because it used it's marketshare to bulldoze into other markets. Apple marketshare is so small in comparison that it can do all the same stuff without disturbing anything.
I believe your comment is missing a /s tag.
White House Reveals New Funding Model for K-12 CS: Begging
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I don't think the conclusion follows from the data. It's not implausible that in computer science you need to "get" a whole bunch of things before it clicks and you start being productive, and a bimodal distribution of grades would then be indicative only of people who are further along in the learning process vs. those that have not yet reached that critical point, rather than any huge difference in intrinsic ability. This is just speculation, of course, but so is any other explanation and I prefer giving people the benefit of the doubt.
By middle 2014, many FirefoxOS phones were already months behind on updates and neither Mozilla nor the hardware vendors were putting any effort into supporting their own flagship devices. By that point, the app store was useless, because you couldn't install any apps on most devices due to ABI breakage between versions and a fragmentation worse than Android.

Neither CEO did anything to mitigate this issue. I don't know how that's not bad leadership.

(Not that updates would have helped much: 1.3.0, the last and only FxOS version my phone received – which is still sold by Alcatel – was much worse than Android 2.0 in terms of UX and stability. I have no idea how anyone thought this was in any way ready to ship.)
Here is a quick Google Sheets with most "Developer employee codes" that are reported to the tax authority/Statistics Sweden.

Salaries listed per Quartile, in SEK. The categories are quite broad. There is a listing per decile but I could not find it right now.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yPjcXoKuwq8SBngQ2-G9...

http://SCB.se is the source.
Construction workers are traditionally resources, They can be quickly replaced. With software this becomes tricky. You need to spend considerable time, amount and energy to find the correct replacement who can drive it with same efficiency. The 2 reasons why companies like Google, Facebook etc pay so much is because:
1) They want to attract the top talent, top 1%, 5% may be.
2) They want to keep people happy so that the key people working on most important features don't leave the company.
I think the commenter meant ASP.NET WebForms, which is pretty awful.
While I do agree it's a complicated example, I also feel like the phenomena of people claiming to understand why women in aggregate behave a certain way similarly confounds OP's investigation. So a complicated example for sure, but for fair reasons.
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Maybe yes, maybe not. So what? It should still be forbidden. If it turns out that not enough people want to pay for it, then tough luck for the company, they should design something that people will pay for.

For example it is forbidden to take organs from people as payment. We could forbid taking certain private data from masses of people as payment.
The Kiss network store their videos on googlevideo.com.

Other common places to store these things are on vidlocker.

I believe the business model is that the video service provides no search, making it hard for rights holders to be proactive, while 3rd party uploade and curate videos under the guise of "since it was on this other network we believed that license was taken care of (just like how YouTube tend to be responsible for licensing and not you, when you link to YouTube)
In case OP doesn't, here's the article anyway: http://imgur.com/a/8MogG

The ads could have been much worse.
The race to the bottom only happened because there wasn't much differentiation between the apps people were developing. 10 todo apps is plenty, 100 is more than enough, 1000+ is what we had.

That's why people started competing on price. And every business owner/entrepreneur can tell you that competing on price is a game you don't want to be playing.

There's enough successful mobile apps that charge $20+ - but they are not trivial TODO clones but specialized applications.
I have had many people with 3-5 years of 'experience' developing not know how to find the smallest element in an array. Initially I was thinking it would be a quick check to see if people thought about null values, but apparently this is a hard problem...

Now they might have been useful for something, but I suspect they are just playing the numbers game and showing up to a lot of interviews until they get in. So even if say 5% of coders are useless that 5% is vastly over inflated in the interview process.
Alphabet = winning bet
I agree, I don't think there is much difference in intrinsic ability. I'm absolutely convinced that every healthy person can become a really good programmer.

But becoming a really good programmer requires putting in a lot of time doing programming, and a lot of students don't put in that time.
Casually using an Ubuntu Tablet
sometimes I do wonder why Microsoft fanbois creep around in comment sections, downvoting everyone who doesn't fall to the ground at the amazing (not) quality of work Microsoft does
Just load it with javascript disabled.

You may need to find a sane browser for that. Opera 12 does that job fine for me.
> AKA, SHA-1 may not be secure against a nation state or attacker with a ton of money, but it's secure enough against for almost every site against almost every attacker.

Issuing a SHA-1 certificate for one domain doesn't just put that domain at risk, it threatens the entire ecosystem. Someone requesting such a cert may have a second cert with the same hash, but for a different domain or even an intermediate, like the MD5 collision. It's not like you could avoid this by asking "are you a nation state attacker" during the application process.
Absolutely! I am a big believer in paying for things. I wish sites would give me the "option" of paying and thus not being mined and spammed with stupid irrelevant advertisements (advocates often saying these two phenomena should cancel each other out and I have yet to see it ...) but most sites that I do pay for want to do all this stuff anyway!

To be honest I don't mind the mining so much, as long as I know there is some "protection" for my data - as is under discussion here. I do object to annoying poorly targeted ads though.
I don't understand why the state has to become involved. Let the free market work and people decide for themselves.

I stopped using WhatsApp the moment I read that facebook bought it.
I hate asp.net webforms as much as the next guy, but this is the same program in webforms:

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello world</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello <%= Request["name"] %></p>
</body>
<html>

How many lines of code and config files are in that blog? 100? Compared to the 1 line of actual code in this...
Yes, thanks Mozilla for making a timer app that by default neither beeps nor vibrates. Thankfully I only lost one oven load of food before I noticed.

And thanks Mozilla for making an OS that glitches out if you use the power button in the wrong moment, nothing wakes you up better than having to reboot your phone to stop the damn alarm clock.

FirefoxOS is such an unfinished shitfest. I have no idea how 1.3 passed QA. (Nor why Alcatel still isn't releasing any update, even though they're still selling the phone in question.)
They have different features. RPi still doesn't have any support for analog. The BeagleBone has had an ADC since the beginning. If you are using them for anything more than a basic computer these little things matter.
This particular case is proof that yes: for certain services we happily pay a modest recurring service fee.

Edit, clarification:

- this does not mean that I want to pay an monthly fee to use pro features on static apps. Anyone who does this instantly loses a star in the review as soon as I get around to it.

- however I also understand and appreciate that I sometimes can pay a higher up front price to support the developer(s) for apps that works offline without a service connection.

- feature keys or even donation addons etc to support further development are also well received. This nicely aligns the incentives for developers/users.

- and finally, for some select projects I would think it would be OK with a subscription that gave me all new features as they arrived.
Every media box ever has been able to play copyrighted material.

You play copyrighted material everytime you play a dvd, stream Netflix or listen to the radio.
Not a full fledged app, but React Boilerplate (http://reactboilerplate.com/) is pretty nice in terms of the structure and pattern it follows.

Check out this video which explains it pretty nicely: https://vimeo.com/168648012
If only there was any decent hardware for Jolla.
The AltaVista search engine most powerful operator was NEAR, it helped you to rank the results until Google came to the scene. Google much later added the * and proximity operators [1].

[1] http://www.hbagency.com/every-google-search-operator-youll-e...
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The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein (2014)
النفط أخبرهم أنه يخذع لقانون العرض والطلب ولا يخذع لمنتدى الطاقة الدولي
how hard is it to add a single letter to your font. say a triangle?

I suppose I could use a Delta, and get HΔPPY -- I guess that's how the t-shirt was made.

in general, though -- is Metafont still the way we add new fonts to TeX these days in 2016?