skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has to refactor into new frameworks later on. Going without a framework early on doesn't add an expense, it actually just subtracts one. It is only if they had chosen the framework (and other code decisions) with perfect future vision that this cost would be mitigated.

I estimate that every 20% that a codebase grows it needs some amount of refactoring. Definitely anything that moves from skunkworks to production will need some pretty heavy rewrites, and will probably need a framework that better meets its newer needs. The question is how much cost was sunk in getting there. The refactor will have to happen no matter what.
I was reminded of this recent news.

Normal mice put inside a watery maze took more than a minute to locate the submerged platform that would let them escape. But these mice — which had been injected with a curious new molecule — found it in an average of just 16 seconds.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/28/memory-isrib-peter-walte...
RSA, ATT, and Verizon all took bribes from the NSA to screw over their users. At least one worked with DEA as well. These were leaked in prominent media with exposure to millions of American consumers and business people. So, let's test your theory:

RSA Net Income (2011-2015): 426M 320M -306M -115M 79M

Verizon Net same period: 2.4B 875M 11.5B 9.63B	17.88B

ATT Net same period: 3.94B 7.26B 18.25B	6.22B 13.35B

RSA took quite a hit but it could be market as well. I don't know what it's status was pre-Snowden but much of hit comes during year of the leaks. Revenue dropped a billion or two with profits turning to losses but rebounding into $75 million in 2015. Verizon and ATT are doing great. Other companies that are managed profitably that cooperate tightly with Washington are Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Oracle. Their net incomes are in the billions.

So, I think the market data indicates you're wrong even in the worst scenario for working with the surveillance state. Also, the more lock-in the business has, the better it does despite any evil choice it makes. Rule of thumb.
because games

It's no different from people choosing a career in early childhood education. Some people insist on doing what they love, ignoring ugly financial issues caused by supply and demand.
You can type place names into the entry boxes on the front-end - they get converted to lon/lat using a geocoding database.

OR you can drop pins on the map.
Rand is properly criticised with extreme prejudice.

The passage, moustache-twirling or otherwise, is a fair presentation of the principle of threat-based leverage and its use.
Ashton Kutcher--Startup School

I like it because it is the intersection of so many things. He starts slow, is very intimidated by the audience. The audience, obviously super skeptical of the clown from that 70s show giving any useful information, they could learn from. He finds his footing with a great morivational story (albeit laden with a few cliches) about a forgotten entrepreneur and how he built some lasting value.

For me, this is a great talk. The story is extremely motivational and has some interesting bits of history & entrepreneurial genius-- but the entire experience is extremely educational. About bias, drive & success.

I liked it for what it wasnt.
I was tempted to reply with a "found the objectivist" just to illustrate what "ad hominem" really means, but I'm waiting for a build, so I have time to kill.

Ad hominem would have been to attack Ayn Rand. I didn't do that. The quote I used doesn't attack the author, it attacks the work. I happen to agree with it. If you want to criticize it, you would do better to point out that the quote I used is not constructive criticism. I would agree with that, but I would probably also point out that humorous quips rarely are.
Hmmm. Most full frame cameras are not medium format[1] ( ~ 24x36 to 100x125)

And most medium format cameras aren't large format [2] ( > 100x125)

Full frame has its fans, and there's certainly some photography styles that benefit from it, but all these formats are fairly arbitrary - especially full frame.

Highly recommend Full Frame Wars [3] that includes a history (and some myth-busting) of the format - all the way back to a 1891, when an interest in having 16 frames per foot of rolling film was the basis of this particular (and now 125 year old) standard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_format_(film)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_format
[3] http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/FullFrameWars.html
As people usually point out when he comes up, just about any Bryan Cantrill talk is at least entertaining, and usually contains a good amount of technical, historical and personal information in various amounts.
It's on the roadmap, but so far hasn't passed QA testing.

The engineering time is going into upstream too, so ath9k, hostap, and other big networking libs are benefiting from this.
Oh so HN exists to help companies market their gadgets?
Ah, no. I missed some stuff. Yeah, that's a but worse than usual.
Knowing Latin America: Lack of credentials and opportunities.

People take very stupid decisions when they are desperate.
Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle" [1] or Rob Pike's "Concurrency Is Not Parallelism" [2].

[1] https://vimeo.com/36579366
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso
There's an unsettling undercurrent of thought in the disabled community: "What if society decides I'm more trouble than I'm worth?" Some of their opposition to legalized euthanasia probably comes from that, and some from religious motivation.

Obviously neither justification is valid as a basis for making laws that apply to us all, but on the other hand, how do you tell them their concerns aren't worth listening to? Some cultures have practiced selective involuntary euthanasia in the recent past, so you can't say "It'll never happen."
Nope. Well, there's a claim that the Asian empires had the most advanced weaponry of their age. But no examples.

Such a claim is probably false, given that China historically lagged the Mediterranean in terms of adopting technologies like swords, iron-age weaponry, chariotry, Greek fire. The main exception to this rule (gunpowder) isn't really an exception, since the development of weapons that made effective use of gunpowder (namely, the arquebus) did not occur in China but in Western Europe.

The author also conveniently ignores that many of the large European powers tried to claim the right to be the successor to the Roman Empire--the Ottoman Empire, the Byzantine Empire (which always called themselves the Roman Empire), the Russian Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire. And the fact that Latin and Greek was the mark of learned scholars, that classical works like Aristotle and Euclid were the textbooks of learning, all the way through the 1800s is a pretty clear parallel to the way that Confucius' teachings were considered the mark of proper learning in China. It can be argued that viewing Chinese history through the lens of the Mandate of Heaven hurts understanding, not helps, since it downplays the (sometimes significant) periods of disunity in China.
I didn't know I was supposed to allow location at first and got just "planet earth." it's a default.
I never said they should be OK with it indefinitely. If I was in their shoes, I would have just quit immediately. But I wouldn't accuse my employer of bad behavior either.

Many of the other comments seem to be accusing the employer of acting in bad faith, or of immoral behavior. If the employees knew exactly what they were getting into, these accusations seem baseless.
It looks like every other apple phone, the camera quality is table stakes, come off with that "super advanced" ridiculous hyperbole (it's just Google Now rebranded), and... wait that was all? I'm supposed to be leaping around in excitement over that?
1Gbit in Chattanooga, TN cost $350 a month. You gotta buy some servers and maybe a colocation fee. Way less than $22,000 a month. Actually, while I was looking that up, a recent press release says they're deploying 10Gbit to homes for $299 a month. Things may have improved on business side, too. :)
Sapira by Leesa: The Ultra-Luxury Hybrid Mattress (in a Box)
I guess the lay persons question at this point is why not just publish the software and dispel any notion of privacy infringement?
Yup, and I suppose that's why they went up from something like $100k to pushing $500k now that the market demand went up. No accident picking that car out specifically, just to mention it. I know it's a loaded concept.

If you're curious, the dynamic you mention was already used in the movie "22 Jump Street" where the undercover, older guy has a Countach poster and the investigation target, the college age guy, had a Murcialago poster.
I actually prefer modern Samsung variants of Android over Google (aside from the not-updating quickly thing). I really prefer S Planner over Google Calendar, and the Samsung Keyboard is superior to the Google Keyboard too (Samsung's runs much faster).
I encourage you to watch this panel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsgapaYCs40) and then say that "the facts are found". They have been stonewalling all fact-finding from the start, and anyone paying attention to the actual facts can see a seriously egregious pattern of corruption and cover-up on multiple levels.

I'm not a Trump supporter, either, but I am baffled by how ignorant some Democrats have become to this stuff given the relative cynicism and insight that prevailed during the Bush years, especially concerning Iraq. She acts a lot like Bush and we can expect a very similar administration from her. It's sickening, honestly, as people will die and suffer for our ignorance.
A good pitch would be: Medical diagnostics/pathology professionals are really exited about VR as (according to those I have spoken to) the 2D presentation of 3D data impedes making precise diagnosis (which VR solves).
I'm also kind of tired of having to fight my own government every step of the way. My conclusion is different though: I'm no longer interested in fighting for political solution that will be overturned the next time we turn our backs, meaning constant fighting and more time where shitty laws apply than not. Hence, I prefer a technical solution.
Eh?

I still use a first generation Nexus 5.
SNES/N64/PSP emulators run like a dream.
Apps open/transition instantly.

What performance metric are you even using?
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been detained in Thailand
It depends on the type of development work you'll be working in. The main role of a Solutions Engineer is to translate marketing vision into technical specs. Take note on the word "vision", it means the customer will have high expectations because usually marketing/sales will present your product like it can do everything. Solutions Engineers mainly deal with high-touch sales, only means one thing: large enterprise customers.

If the customers you'll be handling would be up in AWS/Google, it's good, but if they have on-premise, that means you'll really have to know your stuff about the following:

- Feature Lists - translating what the product does into a feature list that describes perfectly what the customers are looking for. Makes it easier for them to explain to the board so they can get budget and approach finance and procurement.

- Active Directory or Auth0 integrations

- Network - from DNS/dnsmasq to iptables

- VA stuff - meeting generic hardening requirements and VA scans, java key stores, SSL certificates/ciphers and ton of Linux/Unix or Powershell.

- Linux/Unix - NTP, mail servers if need be, proxying using nginx/apache, user access, etc.

- Architecture - explaining the entire product in high-level and how components integrate with a customers current infrastructure

- Benchmarking - customers will ask apples to apples comparisons with other vendors, and they'll stick by your numbers.

- Appliance/Infrastructure sizing - you'll probably take part by this. Certain customers will definitely ask data growth and network growth as well. They need this to line up corporate budget.

and a lot more

So being a web developer is just a piece of the pie. Full stack is a must.
Those of you who want the history of RSS (and why Atom seemed necessary) might be interested by a long article I wrote in 2006:

RSS has been damaged by in-fighting among those who advocate for it

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/rss-has-been-damaged-...
Sonys A7 variants are FF and really, really good (and similar in cost to top DSLRs of course). And I've seen pros rave about Fujifilms as well.

It really depends on what kinds of photography you do and how much you have to carry your gear around.
Same story as covered by the ACLU website: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/new-documents-reveal-g...
the opposition in Syria has a deep relationship with al Qaeda

But it isn't as simple as that. "The opposition" isn't one group, and no one could ever sensibly claim that it is.

The FSA (such as it is) doesn't have a deep relationship with al Qaeda. But that doesn't mean that there aren't times when there interests align (ie, both are fighting the regime).

No Kurdish group has a deep relationship with al Qaeda, but there are times when they've had agreements to leave each other alone.

BUT, it gets complicated. There are plenty of Islamists groups which aren't al Qaeda/Nusra/ISIS and do have good relationships with the FSA. Groups like Jabhat al-Shamiya[1] fight alongside the FSA, and have sometimes received US aid (while at other times haven't).

the US stopped bombing al Qaeda after it changed its name

Well, no. Even RT is reporting US attacks on Nusra[2]. Interestingly, RT makes the same claim you do, apparently based on this quote: "We did carry out strikes initially, back in 2014-2015, against Nusra. But absolutely, you’re correct in that, as they became intermingled and as they became intermingled in civilian areas, we’ve always sought to limit the possibility of civilian casualties in any of our airstrikes. We wanted to work in a very strategic fashion about how to take out senior Nusra leadership like we’ve done pretty effectively against ISIL. And that doesn’t include just laying waste to populated areas that may be under Nusra’s control.".

That seems pretty well aligned with how the US has been striking at ISIS too.

Russia is there legally

Does anyone dispute this? I think the primary questions about Russia's involvement is around how they are carrying out attacks in Aleppo.

the US primary objective in Syria is regime change and is illegal

How can anyone claim the US has a single primary aim? I think everyone would agree that is one aim of the US: they say that all the time, and it has been widely reported.

It isn't clear how that is illegal: at the moment the peace process seems the primary path towards settlement, and that is what the US is engaged in.

The US isn't going around bombing Assad in Damascus or anything (not withstanding the attack on Syrian troops a week or two ago, which didn't help with anything!)

[1] https://medium.com/@ryanmofarrell/jabhat-al-shamiya-is-one-o...

[2] https://www.rt.com/usa/361519-pentagon-airstrike-al-nusra/
One of the challenges of medicine is that the information is gathered from so many sources and is so "fuzzy" in quality.

Building a "database" of information from which to make a diagnosis is unlikely to be easily automated. Take a straightforward case of a patient who comes to the emergency department after "fainting". Did they slowly kind of "melt" to the ground, or did they just BOOM fall? Were they confused after they woke up, or just a little sleepy? Was it a hot day or is it wintertime? Were they wearing a shirt and tie, or a t-shirt? Different answers to each of these questions will change the probability of each potential diagnosis. The signal:noise ratio is frequently very low, and there's not a great way to improve it without adding an extremely large amount of cost and time to an already expensive and slow healthcare system.

Good clinicians already have an idea of the top 2-3 most likely possibilities before they walk into a patient's room, based on epidemiology and a quick review of a patient's chart, but we try to be flexible enough to discard those preconceptions if new info becomes available. Sometimes clinicians fail to fully investigate what a patient is telling them, and that's where the real mistakes get made.
The quote is somewhat apt, because it describes, to a certain degree, the current state of federal laws. That's the best thing I can say about the quote. It certainly isn't good.

Those same views of the nature of power were much better expressed by Orwell in his "1984". That's what I would call good.
A couple of things might be going on in your comment:

- You might be confusing the ability to pronounce a sentence with the ability to understand the meaning of a sentence. As here, in "Even with the mainland Chinese's simplified Chinese system, most mainland Chinese can still read traditional Chinese without special training. Because the simplification was mostly codifying the existent shortcuts in ordinary people's hand-writings." This confuses "traditional Chinese", the spelling system from before 1950, with Middle Chinese, the language Wang Anshi wrote in. It is much like saying that the Romans didn't have difficulty reading Greek because their alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet. It happens that Wang Anshi wrote using traditional character forms; that is unrelated to his language. For another example, the opening couplet from Jabberwocky is in faux English:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe

This has no meaning, but no modern English speaker should have difficulty reading it aloud.

- You might be suffering from a cognitive illusion.

- You might feel compelled to defend this viewpoint out of some misplaced ethnic pride.

Regardless, I can safely say that your viewpoint here is so much 费话, and your "firsthand knowledge" is either a lie or stunningly nonrepresentative. Though the topic has come up many times, no Chinese person of my acquaintance (and they tend to come from 复旦大学) has ever claimed that the Chinese of today can understand Old Chinese without extensive training in the field, much more than the educational system provides by default. They all admit, without feeling any shame, that Old Chinese is totally unintelligible to them and everyone else. You might even be the first Chinese person I've seen making this claim from the safety of the internet -- the claim is common, but generally it comes from whites who are blindly repeating what they heard somewhere.
Comparing specs between iPhones and Androids is far from simple.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12886058/iphone-7-specs-co...
Are you talking about "The Art of War" by Machiavelli or "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu?

Edit: Thanks for the clarification.
Is the geocoding database public as well? If so, do you know where it's hosted?
I have a Netgear router and it's fine. Sometimes I have to reboot it but it seems related to Apple devices that refuse to give up their prior IP address after they've been away, causing conflicts when they return and the address has been assigned to another device in the meantime.
Ha great points, and I suppose that's why I appreciate the Resto-Mod movement of taking gorgeous hardware (69 Camaro in my case) and re-working it with modern tech. Engines, suspension, brakes, tires...ahh! I hope you get a chance to re-visit that 240z and if you ever want to kick around some new life ideas I'm game. Shouldn't be too hard to find me and connect, cheers.
Have you tried riot? Or mithril? Small and simple.

Regarding react I don't think there is anything in react itself that says that you have to use es6 and an advanced module bundler (like webpack). Just use es5 code, place everything in one file or just concatenate the files before using them in the browser and everything should work. You mainly loses out on how easy it will be to copy from tutorials that are written for es6 code with modules, and that some 3rd party things are written as modules.
Public companies have no real ethical consideration other than the warped perception of fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. Some companies may be managed by good people, but people are ephemeral, tomorrow anything can happen.

You have to criticize and a spew abuse at these companies, whether or not they are secretly resisting these orders, because their resistance is secret. Only by damaging entities responsible for implementing government policy can you affect change.
http://www.noslidesconf.net/

Quite feasible for a good keynote. Harder for a technical talk, since a good diagram can greatly improve an explanation.
Define scratch.

Are you starting from beach sand, or do you have a fab and raw materials? There was an interesting video that showed what you had to do to make a pencil "from scratch".
They mean more.
Here's a video on making your own transistor.
http://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/transistor-fabrication-so-sim...

Here's an link on having a custom chip made:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7042/how-much...

getting chip done cheap:
http://www.planetanalog.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id...

computer built with transisters:
https://hackaday.io/project/665-4-bit-computer-built-from-di...

IC built from scratch:
http://hackaday.com/2010/03/10/jeri-makes-integrated-circuit...

or with unlimited money buy one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_integrated_circuit_man...
Power isn't uniform or absolute.

Centralised powers have capabilities, but also weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and Yahoo in particular is an exceptionally vulnerable technology company.

Companies can influence specific laws, and sometimes work in concert to achieve specific aims (see the totalitarian plutonomic pact, a/k/a TPP, backed by virtually every major infotech and comms company: Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Verizon, among others). But they're also vulnerable to specific legal threats, investigations, and withdrawals of contracts.

Where corporations influence governments most effectively is where the collective interests of political and industrial leaders is furthered. Where corporations successfully oppose governments is where the corporations have some level of political leverage, often through influence on key elements of local economy. Where government has influence over corporations is where there's little financial upside, and often only a vague and long-term benefit to the company, and where national security or mass popular interest plays strongly against the companies.

Yahoo had no leverage and considerable downside in trying to stand up against this order. The long-term downside to compliance is what's emerged here: disclosure of the project and a possible scuttling of Yahoo's announced purchase by Verizon. The best case for Yahoo without the Verizon takeover is that it's dead. With the takeover, some of the investors and executives recoup a small amount of the long-term loss of value in the company.

Yahoo had little to gain by fighting (it would have been executively decapitated and entered immediately into a likely fatal legal fight with the US Government), and something to gain by playing along.

Mayer took the easy, and unprincipled, decision to play along.
This worked for me, but only when I googled the exact article name. I had to open up the article (in "pay or else" mode), copy the title from there, paste that into Google, and then click on the same search result that had failed many times prior. It finally opened the article up for me.

What a mess! Thanks for the help though. :D
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