skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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.

Why? In the 5 largest European markets, Android has 3/4th marketshare [1]. How can Apple be targeted for monopolistic behavior?

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/11/android-is-eating-apples-i...
Which clothing comes from the battlefield? I can only think of codpieces.
Thanks for the excellent reply. I happen to enjoy reading and I am looking forward to it.
Any books you recommend. Primary management skills where I lack:
- I tend to look at people through my tech lens. if someone is more technically skilled than me, I look up to them and I cannot accept laziness, non-commitment, bullshit etc. Now I understand that I need to stop doing that and see people as just people who have different moods on a daily basis. What books would you recommend to become non-judgemental, and empathetic

- What do I do about actually non-competent people. You see, while I am excited about the role, I am also scared. I have been very good in my tech role and my management career will depend upon my team. But, in the fast few years, my team has accumulated a lot of baggage and a lot of people are totally unmotivated and non-committed. I feel like I am being given this role because noone else wants it. any suggestions?
The PC world was never really "open" it just didn't have DRM like Apple and Google want to. Are into their walled gardens.

The market will force a correction at some point if the value is there for an open platform.
People probably don't like constantly reading about how some large SV player pushed its half-assed ideas through to the public despite the pain it causes.

If the wheel you reinvented is square, you might run into someone who doesn't quite buy into your pitch of this being the future of technology.
Plus, I'm much more worried about Googles vampiric approach to personal data, rather than Apple merely making it hard to deploy software.
Linux/Clang/Modern C++ on Travis-CI
Funny thing that I was having a discussion with one of my friend who is in the middle of salary negotiation. The company is pushing him hard to accept the offer well below than his expectations and he was expecting more hike as he was relocating to bay area. He was quite disappointed that he didn't get the salary figure he was expecting but still wanted to accept the offer as he didn't want to loose the opportunity. We discussed at length about how the salaries in software ended up like this. Why are they not transparent like finance guys, lawyers, doctors etc. This is also the standard structure across the world for all software industries irrespective of the country. The salaries are not transparent and the developers are kept in dark.

How did we end up like this? Is it not a bad thing for the company that employees are demotivated when their pay sucks? I feel it is a very basic thing. To make more profits you need to build better products and sell better. How much can you save on operating costs by paying employees less?

I feel the companies & HR needs to modernize itself. There was a time, you could get away by paying a particular employee less and he may never find out. This is an Information age!! Information freely flows. There are many sites like Glassdoor, Paysa where people can go and find out more about salaries that you are paying to your employees. It is no longer a well kept secret. What is required here is that companies and HR's understand this and make salaries open and relevant to the value produced/added to the company.

Since the early managers probably didn't understand the dynamics they went with what they could do best at their time. I feel this model of negotiating a salary based on previous salary should be deprecated. It should be replaced with a more open model.

It doesn't hurt much to know that the next guy is getting paid more than me, if that guy truly deserves it and produces much better code or is adding more value to the company than me. What hurts more is that to know that the company values the other guy more and pays him more just because he is straight out of college or gets lucky at salary negotiation.

I think it is time Developers & Engineers talk more freely about their salary.
How the UK Government Spending can be explored through UK open Data?
I just peeked and even Google and Apple don't come close in similarity to the data presented in the article.
SVG lets you use ECMAScript, and ECMAScript is Turing-complete.
I really want the Tizen project to succeed. It's tragic that this doesn't even run on mainstream Samsung devices. Talk about faith in their own work!
> While work at Mozilla on Firefox OS has ceased, we very much need to continue to evolve the underlying code that comprises Gecko, our web platform engine, as part of the ongoing development of Firefox.

So, according to the history of past announcements, if I translate from Mozilla speak to normal English, Gecko will be abandoned in March 2017.
>Apple in particular could be the target of an action in that space

Android's market share in Europe is 75%. Google's search market share is over 90%. Any action against Apple would be completely counter productive when it comes to fighting monopolies.

Also, you need to take into account that the Web is a third mobile platform for all intents and purposes, and Windows still dominates the desktop.

So the case for any anti-trust action is extremely weak.
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"please turn off your adblocker" yeah, no thanks.

Do you have another link?
Do you guys have the same rendering as me?
Being: the font jumps size for each character.

http://i.imgur.com/3ZABB1y.jpg

Chrome / Ubuntu 16.04
Oh I have seen EMI shielding tape on some cables but I did not know what it is until I have googled for it after your comment.
Seems like something to try out.
Motor is 20kw driving less than 1 meter from installation. It is not standing there but it is mounted on machine, which comes at the spot from time to time, and while passing by it causes resets.
In a new Safari window (private browsing, 1920x1080 screen), for the search query "holiday cottages Wales", I don't get any organic results above the fold. The first one is at 1380px down the page.
It is about $1100/month (can be less). Expensive, but not outrageously so, well within reach of, say, an experienced software engineer in SV, NYC or London. We are still considered middle class, right?
They also run bare metal.

Do you want commercial products specifically targeted for ARM Cortex M chip with GC enabled languages?

Bare metal Oberon compilers for ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M3:

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

MicroEJ developed in a mix of Java and C.

http://www.microej.com/products/device-software-development/...
> Programming also doesn’t have a licensing body limiting the number of programers,
> nor is there the same prestige filter where you have to go to a top school to
> get a well paying job.

This is my favorite quote from this article. I went to a great school and even though it wasn't Berkley, Stanford, MIT, or CMU, that qualification has never limited my ability to get great opportunities.
Where do you live? The numbers you are mentioning sound sound very realistic in the Bay Area, if you are talking about total compensation (salary + bonus + equity).
200k isn't that rare for senior engineers in large firms in NYC or the bay area.
> You don't get to control source IP ranges, but those aren't generally trustworthy on the open internet anyway.

IP ranges are just another layer of security controls. They may be easily spoofed one way. They may be even spoofed in a two-way communication in some situations. But it doesn't mean it's a useless control. If you can filter more traffic you should and Tor makes that hard to achieve.

> Also, the traffic isn't "forwarded" -- hidden services shouldn't be run on a relay, actually, so you're not forwarding anybody's traffic but your own.

Even if you don't participate in the relay of traffic, you're still connecting to the nodes that can send you anything and you need to process it, because it could be traffic addressed to you. I said you may get traffic to forward (or random traffic in general) - it doesn't matter if you're going to actually do it or not. I wouldn't be comfortable running that service. This does not help to reduce your attack surface.

> allows you stronger security guarantees and MitM defense than TCP+DNS+IP routes

It's a tradeoff. You're substituting tested routing mechanism should not be trusted (so we do the AuthN/Z in higher layers), for a relatively new routing mechanism which in duplicates some of the AuthN checking, but at the same time exposes and advertises a new service on your network. You may think it's better, I would disagree.
Toll roads ftw?
Vuhl05
Now things are going to get interesting! I completely understand the desire for privacy but I thinkmit's unrealistic to expect that Facebook won't consolidate its data by user across all their applications. Facebook (and Google, etc.) are now in the same business as the credit reporting agencies ... You are their only product.

The difference in this particular case is that Whatsapp made an explicit promise that they would not start sharing their data.

Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible: You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don’t know your birthday. We don’t know your home address. We don’t know where you work. We don’t know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it. Instead, we are forming a partnership that would allow us to continue operating independently and autonomously. Our fundamental values and beliefs will not change. Our principles will not change. Everything that has made WhatsApp the leader in personal messaging will still be in place. Speculation to the contrary isn’t just baseless and unfounded, it’s irresponsible. It has the effect of scaring people into thinking we’re suddenly collecting all kinds of new data. That’s just not true, and it’s important to us that you know that.

Make no mistake: our future partnership with Facebook will not compromise the vision that brought us to this point. Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide, so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/529/Setting-the-record-straight
yes, but it still sounds better than all the other versions available for streaming. the uploader also added some reasoning in the video description.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/autos/vuhl-first-mexican-super...
We just moved our stuff from Comodo to Let's Encrypt for an ancient Android version that's a few percent of a few percent. It'll happen.
Does 150k include bonuses and stock?

In my experience, 150k base pay sounds awfully high
The macro abstraction is that the AST is exposed as a series of lists, which is what macros process. Instead, syntax-case exposes 'syntax' objects, which are entirely distinct from any other datatype, and kind of complicated.

This isn't a horrific sin (new macro abstractions pop up like rabbits, although they rarely change something so fundamental, at least in Lisp mavro systems), but if you're going to replace an abstraction everybody knows and understands with a more complex one, you better have a good reason, and I don't think the benefits outweigh the costs.
Sure. Just it's nice to know which pieces are:

- considered obsolete (e.g. complicated and nasty, and still outclassed by NNs),

- building blocks of current techniques,

- provided inspiration for current techniques,

- are still state of the art.
The PC was sure "open"... ever since IBM released the complete schematics and BIOS source code for the PC, XT, and AT. Maybe not in the OSHW/FOSS sense, but it was certainly open enough for tons of clones to flood the market. It's only been getting more closed since then.
> Does anybody else think the salaries are a little high?

The numbers for programmers are total compensation, not just salary. The lawyer figures are actually salaries though.
Oh, thanks, I really appreciate external references!

I see maybe five of those as particularly laudable + practicable. And there a number of other projects I'd add (or substitute) into the list.

Solar, water, infrastructure, information security, nitrogen cycle, and carbon sequestration seem sound. The others not quite so much.

there are a few entries I'add or substitute on that list.
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@Yoavm, what pisses me more is that both Apple & Google now have a yearly update of their OS and all they shamelessly showcase on stage is emoji's and notifications.
Google is against this greatest sin to save humanity from Fiery Gehenna using DRM.
Thanks you for sharing the experience.
I totally understand what you are saying. Especially the part about 40+ and getting only freelance jobs.
But I have a question:
As an entry manager, how do I go about managing the incompetent team members. The reason I am being given the opportunity is that they don't have anyone to take this role and the senior manager is finding it hard to deal with so many people. But I have been working with the team as a lead and it has been quite frustrating a few times due to total lack of motivation,commitment and in many cases ability to learn from many members. I am now being given the responsibility to manage them. I worry that I might be getting into a role set for failure from the beginning itself.
Right, they did add this recently! I haven't played with it yet unfortunately.
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I use warriorforum.com for that
I have a theory where the bimodal distributions comes from two sets of people: one set focused only passing the course/assignment/test, the other set focused on actually knowing the content. Appearance and substance.
Drone jamming
is it possible to immitate?
I wish I knew for sure. It is just something I read. Rockets need to maintain the pressure in the tanks as fuel is depleted. Most fuels will not vaporize fast enough as they are used. Helium seems to be the best option but hard to obtain on Mars. I guess nitrogen is another choice but it is less than 2% of a very thin Mars atmosphere. I am not sure if methane will do the job by itself or if you might need to heat some up.
I would like to see a federal Staute inacted regarding the collection of user data in the US. Enacted quickly!

Something on the lines of don't collect any data, besides name, password, email address. This information can never be sold.

I have weird feeling, in the near future, we will find that information/data has been abused. No just abused by marketing/big data, etc..

And I'm not even arguing about the obvious--personal privacy. Although personal privacy should be the number one reason for this hypothetical statute.

I have a feeling, it will be the next big financial insider trading scandal. It will involve people we talk about here-- Google/Bing/FB insiders(the ones who can see individual IP's, and their data.), took all that information, and traded stock upon it.

I have a hard time believing every email that Warren Buffet/George Sorrows/every sussessful trader makes isn't looked at by someone. And it's not just email; it collating search histories, in order to get a "feeling" of where the money to is to be made.

They are then using that info. to invest in stocks, bonds, real estate, etc..

And yes, they will claim we don't care about getting insider info. on investments--we make a killing selling the data to marketers. Why would we do such a thing? Because you can. I would have a hard time not looking at that information, and I don't have a penny to gamble.

I think it will be a huge story.

(Edit to a legitimate question about the poor websites that depend on advertising.)

Yes--I didn't bring up advertising. They could advertise like the old days, like newspapers did. They just couldn't target market their advertising--like they presently do at nausium.
I still think they would make their nut. They would still be winners!
And yes--I would pay for the right service, if they couldn't manage to compete by being hobbled with not targeted advertising. I paid for many websites before Google made advertising a science.

My post has nothing to do with advertising. I get advertising. Just leave my detailed, personal info. out of it.)
On one hand -- sure, I've sadly forgotten most of the math I ever learned.

But on the other hand, no. I can bounce around modelling with basic data structures (hashes, arrays, structs/objects etc) in my head like a good juggler can treat 3 balls.

I think that is normal for quite a large subset of developer work. I assume there will be some jobs that won't need those data structures, but can't think of any. (Graphics and game developers would remember more math, of course.)

The description in the GP sounds more like the (probably false) stories about the Japanese English education: People with a vocabulary of 40K words that are unable to order coffee or talk about the weather.
Whatsapp gained massive users with their "no commercials ever" claim. They were a small independent company. And people arguably got invested in the network as a result. Now they reverse on that but the public feels locked in. I myself think... just switch to Signal or Telegram, but the amount of WA users is simply massive here in the EU. Everybody uses it.
Did you miss the blog article where he said a friend had told him that women were trying to have sex with OS leaders, so they could accuse them of rape?

Sounds pretty paranoid to me.

I might have been wrong about the racism stuff. I swear I saw some stuff, but I can't find it now, so I might have been confused with somebody else.

But at the end of the day, he's still an unpleasant person.
Ask HN: What are some cool ideas for a Chat Bot?
I want to build bots as a side project, and would appreciate some ideas.
They could be just productivity increase ideas (e.g. solve human problems/needs in a office(?)), or just for fun.
I'm thinking about integrating with Slack, but not necessarily limiting the platform.
Thanks for any help.
Though not a web app, I've used magic wormhole [0] with some success with clients. Your requirements for hosting might make finding something suitable difficult.

[0] https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
I think your original comment was spot-on, and far more interesting than the hackneyed discussions taking place in this thread. For a little context:

"In 1922 traffic towers were beginning to be controlled by automatic timers. The first company to add timers in traffic lights was Crouse Hinds. They built railroad signals and were the first company to place timers in traffic lights in Houston, which was their home city. The main advantage for the use of the timer was that it saved cities money by replacing traffic officers. The city of New York was able to reassign all but 500 of its 6,000 officers working on the traffic squad; this saved the city $12,500,000."

Crouse-Hinds was still getting sued in the '90s for liability in accidents at intersections. I don't know if these lawsuits are still happening, but I assume liability has something to do with why your suggestion of a more adaptive light system is not tried.
Where does it say that Facebook will respect that blog post?
Bahumbug. Another lame attempt to justify greed at the expense of others. Not to mention the added resource use and pollution. The Profit motive isnt always right, correct or optimal.
I sense a new market. German number-as-a-Service...
I'm a big supporter of GNU/Linux on the phone.

I don't care if Jolla or Ubuntu don't ever make it as "major" players in the mobile OS world.

I'd be perfectly happy with GNU/Linux mobile software that's as good as the Linux desktop.

I run Linux on my desktop (and laptop), and we're 1% of desktop users. I'd be satisfied with 1% mobile market share. We don't need a billion users, all I want is a hacker-friendly platform, with a good developer community around it (which I think both GNU/Linux on the desktop, and IMO SailfishOS [Jolla] provide).
This is the "Say no to Bossy" campaign all over again...

Seriously, these memes feed off patriarchy-paranoia, indicating there's far too much of it around..
If you are a woman or spend any time in feminist circles, you will come across the "lack of pockets" argument multiple times.

It's a bad argument.

Fundamentally, "pockets" have only become a feminist rallying cry because of their unpopularity. Even if you assume that women's clothes do not contain pockets because of underlying misogyny, that same argument would apply to any other parts of women's grooming that do not apply to men. Skirts, makeup, dresses etc.

Yet, no-one is willing to openly rally against makeup or skirts or dresses because feminist women want to wear them. "Pockets" are a safe repository for illusory protest because they have very few IRL defenders. There is simply no demand for them.

This is simply virtue signaling. Nothing more and nothing less.
Microsoft mobile strategy might pay off on the hybrid laptops and the new netbook generations (4/8GB + 32/64 eMMC).

Also they seem to at least cater to those not caring about apps, not able to pay for iPhone and dislike for Android.

Overall Market share in Europe around 5-10% was around a few months ago, but they have money to spare, and might keep selling Windows Mobile devices just not to loose face.

You cannot sell mobile OS based on FOSS religion, normal people want the apps everyone has and convenience, while most developers care about tooling.

So whatever alternative comes, must have a very good selling point to consumers and developers currently targeting the established platforms.
On the (in)security of popular open source PHP Content Management Systems