skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speed is an important metric, but only up to a point. Once a browser renders a page faster than a user can interact with it any further improvement has very little impact. Any phone released in the past year or two meets that criteria for a well constructed page (obviously a badly written site is always going to perform badly, even on the best hardware.)

So, while it may be true that an Android phone is 5x slower than a new iPhone, that doesn't make a difference to the end user. They see the website working well on both devices. At that point it starts being about features, so iOS's lack of support for WebRTC, Beacons, Gamepads, Fetch, etc means the experience is worse. Not that Android supports everything, but if you compare iOS Safari to Chrome on Android[1] it's very clear that Safari is behind, even if it's faster.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#compare=ios_saf+10,and_chr+51
By the design of the program, the federal government is not permitted to negotiate prices of drugs with the drug companies

Yes, but Medicare Part D is not run by the federal gov't, it's run by private insurers (the gov't just pays them). Private Part D plans negotiate down the cost of drugs all the time. In fact, the actual costs of Part D have consistently come in lower than projected since the start of the program.

Private Part D plans get lump sum payments from the gov't to pay for patients. Each Part D plan bids on being a provider. So, when the Part D plan negotiates a lower price on a drug, they can bid lower for their overall plan and the savings get passed onto the gov't.

And it's not fair to compare Medicare Part D prices to what the VA pays. The VA is a pretty small slice of the market and there is statutory language about the discounts they must receive. A lot of it isn't even negotiated.

And finally, Medicare couldn't negotiate lower prices if it wanted to. Right now, Medicare Part D has a hell of a time excluding a drug from their formulary. They basically can't say "no, patients can't use this drug". If they can't say no, then what leverage do they have over drug companies? The rules on how Medicare can manage their formulary would have to change before they could start negotiating.
Currently in the UK there is some controversy about human rights legislation and it being used inappropriately.

I think human rights legislation is fundamental. As such I really, really hope no-one ever uses it for something like this, even worse to win a case. It demeans it to use it to save someone having to write a bit extra code to have their commercial application sell better in China.
How are the two related at all? You point at the performance of Apple's browsers and imply that means they are likely spec-compliant as well.
As an "old" programmer myself am a bit disappointed in the takeaway that jsx is a templating language.

State management is the more important topic and the React tool chain has some great options for addressing it.
Nah, you've proved unwilling to entertain other viewpoints so I'll save my breath.
Do you believe this makes them a monopoly?
wow, didn't know about this. I'm definitely going to attend next time!
It's possible that the government talked to both. Craigslist walked away from hosting that service, and Backpage did not? I'm just speculating, but the Craigslist thing was a while ago, and should have at least been seen by others as a message to get out.
Yet another reason not to get offended by such things.
This reminds me of Codingame, they have a similar challenge where you code an AI for a Dice Wars-like game and send it off to the ladder to compete against other people. It's great fun
Very common system, I've worked for two companies and both has this exact system.
An Oregon datacenter was also announced this year:
http://mj.ovh.com/nl2/4tpt/xsvw.html
Lets be honest here, are you saying that a web-based real-time-communications API is a basic human right?

> Apple has no reason to "not" include it, except financial gain.

The reason they have not to include it is that they have different priorities than browser vendors who want to jam mobile browsers full of every unripe API under the sun (like those that dangerously leak user's real connection info even when behind a VPN).
Speed of development or speed of execution? :)

I don't think anybody anywhere has ever chosen a Lisp language because it's fast.
I understand your point of view and you are probably right.

But to my opinion, everyone here knows Apple is blocking HTML 5 somewhat and there is almost nothing we can do about it.

PS. General public/buyers don't know and i already changed from iOS, because "add to homescreen" doesn't work as well as on Android
Early fifties here.

> Your use of the word "burn" concerns me. I'd prefer the word "invest".

I agree, but... sometimes it really is "burn". I don't keep up with front-end tech these days. If/when I need to work with it I'll learn it, and not before. If I spent time getting up to a real working knowledge now, there's every chance that in, say, 4 years when I needed to work in that space that I'd have to start learning from scratch again rather than brush up.

I do spend time learning new (to me) things, but I'm very selective. I devote most of my time to learning things that will give me alternate ways of doing things, rather than learning every nut and bolt of the latest framework.
> but the other solutions that I've seen are as bad, or offer little real protection to the content creator.

Frankly, "then don't put your content on the Internet" would have been the response 20 years ago. But that conflicted with making money over an ultra-low-cost, global, distribution medium so something had to give-way.

The early days of the Web had a real new-frontier feel, as if the common man had finally found a platform for communicating with the World. It was heady and thrilling.

But DRM, and content restrictions in general[0], is a rude reminder that the Web nowadays is primarily commercial and centralised and is run for profit, not enlightenment or sharing, and that creates an emotional response in many people. Perhaps that response is irrational, but it's widespread and deeply-set.

A closing question: why do you want to put photographs on the Internet but also want to control what people do with them? Why not just keep them on your NAS, nice and safe?

[0] I consider anything like -NC-ND to be content restrictions.
I've seen even worse than that - for low-importance passwords I normally record them in a mail-to-self memo then paste them into the signup form. I recently encountered one site that silently truncated the pasted password.
VMware CEO: Dell-EMC Deal “Shocked” Customers and Partners
Also, mirage goes well with https://github.com/appbaseio/dejavu for performing CRUD operations on an Elasticsearch index.
Apple doesn't provide Internet access -- ISPs do. Nobody forces you to choose Apple's products, there are plenty of others to choose from.
For non technological fields, I would say philosophy, investigative journalism and fiction (books, movies etc where you cover your bases). One might add whatever political analysis do too but to me they are basically fence sitters who say things without accountability or liability and are simply glorified whatiffers.
I got run through a PIP ( at a unnamed company full of Jack Welch devotees - srsly, ex GE ) because I was twice old enough to vote and wanted to stay technical. They were basically lining up a layoff. This worked out long term but it was inconvenient for several months. I'd gotten a LOT of work done; multiple high value contract awards, all on time and under budget, all that. No, our way was to overrun and do Difficulty Kabuki Theater.

Why demoralization? It ain't you, it's them. There will be more people you don't want to work for than that you do want to work for anyway. I thin you'll find that the good people are bright lights in an ocean of darkness.

Also and seriously - there are still people in tech who allow homophobia to affect their behavior to that extent?

Yeesh.
Webster Dictionary: Sarcasm http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm

Full Definition of sarcasm
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain

2 : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual

Nope your Ironic contains sarcasm.
This!!!! I cannot believe that Apple is allowed (even by EU) to only allow their own browser on App Store. Having a choice is always good.

If it was Microsoft, the story would have been completely different today.
Where does the "time" part come in?
The silly password rules aren't great, but on the whole I think of the issue more as "account fatigue" (which is sort of mentioned in the opening paragraph and then largely ignored). At work alone, I have:

1) A Windows domain account

2) A GitHub account

3/4) Accounts for two separate project management web apps

5) An account for our own web app

6) An account for the payroll web app

7) An account for the HR performance appraisal web app

8) An account to register for on-site flu shots

9) An account on a project development VM

10) An account for the outsourced IT security training

And probably a few more that I forgot because I'm not in front of my password manager right now.

It also doesn't help that we have a narrative around "identity theft" that puts virtually all of the burden of a leak on the account holder, even in cases where it was unequivocally the company's security that failed.
Amnesty International relied on a flawed and now-retracted study that initially said violence against women had increased in Norway since banning the purchasing of sex, when in reality it had not.

That is basically making things up.
There is a difference between Data Scientist, Data Engineer, and Data Analyst.

"Data Scientist" is for Ph.D.s or sat least Masters, those
are the less common jobs.

At least that's the theory, we all know what happens with titles... anyway, the point is that we can safely assume that this particular article "Foundations of Data Science" refer to the actual "scientist" role.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/data-science-in...

https://bigdatauniversity.com/blog/data-scientist-vs-data-en...
While I understand your frustration, I think it is not necessarily a bad thing to support this.
I think we live in a pretty unique time where being a visionary is encouraged and more economically feasible than ever. This will result in many novel products, some of which will greatly impact the mankind. Granted, most of them will just be noise with little or no global benefit, but I'm willing to take that risk.
This is a strange claim you're making. Squeezing out competition is bad, but banning competition in the first place is okay?

Would it have been okay if Microsoft had charged a 30% tax on all sales of anything (software and content) consumable on the Windows platform on day one?

Or what if the very first iPhone had a provision that for the rest of your life you were not permitted to buy a competing smartphone or participate in the development of one? If enforceable, Android might never have happened. Would that make it okay?
> Deming's 3rd deadly disease: Annual rating of performance. “It is purely a lottery”

More of a popularity contest than a lottery.
You did an incredible job, ignore all this trashing.
It's definitely not intrinsic.

"[The] federal government is prohibited from negotiating drug prices on behalf of Medicare Part D plans."

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/sep/04/t...

It probably doesn't take much guessing to figure out which industry's lobbyists helped that one along.
Shenzhen I/O
Dejavu:

> Early 2010s: Cloud computing

1960s: Client/Server Architecture. Big servers and small clients.

> Mid 2010s: Quantum computing

before 1950s: Analog Computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

There is nothing new under the sun. Analog computers passed away because they were not usable. Ok, quantum computing may be different but their practical use is also questionable.
I don't see anything wrong with picking up ideas like that and promoting them, if he didn't rename so many of them...
I genuinely look forward to tech-specific leadership opinions, but the author lost me with the ham-handed attempt at humor in the opening paragraph.

"Don’t worry, leading engineers is just like writing code. Just like apples and oranges..."

and:

"You can’t write tests. An occasional survey is ok."

Seriously? If I can't show my new engineers how I expect tests to be written - who will? IMO being a technical lead is all about leading from the front, and by example - and that means everything from documentation to unit tests to architecture.
If this guy thinks he's is old at being shy of 40..I must be really old at almost 45.
The Next Few Years for VR
obviously the standards process moves slower than innovation on web technologies, but many of the things that iOS doesn't support are not yet standards. E.g. WebRtc, which Nexedi's link shows had an update to the draft in September, so clearly it is not yet stabilized. The legal basis for requiring compatibility seems much thinner for complying with working drafts (or a working group note, edited August 31, September 7, and September 15, in the case of the webm link).

I mean, what level of compatibility should you have with a document that says:

> Implementors who are not taking part in the discussions are likely to find the specification changing out from under them in incompatible ways.
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As pages get more and more complex (say, because they have new fancy HTML5 APIs) that performance actually begins to matter, right?

I'm a web developer and I don't feel like iOS Safari is holding me back in producing the types of web experiences that myself or my clients are looking for. They're not asking for HTML5 Gamepad support. Instead, they just want an image carousel - Chrome doesn't support that but Safari does http://caniuse.com/#search=snap.
This is the answer. If you have a problem with the product, don't buy it.
I really miss old meetups where people would just present their open source projects and discuss technical topics.

To add a counterpoint, I, on the other hand, am burnt out on these kinds of meetups. For short 5-10min lightning talks, I think presenting projects or libraries is fantastic for discovery, but longer talks about specific projects bore the hell out of me 9 out of 10 times. I can learn faster in my own time and its difficult to match the topic (and level: beginner? expert?) with the audience.

Visionary talks are harder to miss with and therefore safer bets to not bore me.
The sex workers aren't the ones whose moral choice is in question here; the sex purchasers are the ones who should feel shame and whose behavior is for society to condone or to curtail. Slaves weren't the bad actors in that peculiar institution, either.
Too many cooks spoil the broth, if everyone shunned frameworks in favor of rolling their own things would be even more of a mess - except in JS which has all sorts of problems whichever way you go..
Data cannot be open sourced. Source code can be. You may want to learn what "open source" means before your next headline.
I believe that is the goal. I'm all on board. I've heard about proposals like this for years and years. I'm thrilled someone is actually working to make this theory reality.
Third party code execution environments seems like a bit of a slippery slope that I can understand Apple wanting to avoid.
"Apple is blocking HTML 5 somewhat and there is almost nothing we can do about it."

Sure we can! Vote with your wallet and don't buy Apple's products. Or at least write a complaint to one of their support centers..
Listening to Software Engineering Daily, I heard that the there is a trend toward developing 'data engineering' as a discipline that handles sanitizing the data pipeline so that data scientists can spend more time working at business abstraction layers.

There's probably a scale at which that works better, two pizza data science teams for example.
yeah, so we are not far from that
Implementation on Parallel Network File System (nNFS)
Microsoft had 90% percent marketshare in the '90s. Apple is not in that position.
ML predates Ada by about 7 years, so that's unlikely. The way it is implemented in ML is most likely just an implementation of the mathematical concept of sum types rather than a feature influenced by existing programming languages.
Nice, there is also HashIds [1] with implementation in many languages

[1] http://hashids.org/
> paying their players ten times market rates

They're not paying their players ten times market rates. They're paying their players 1x market rates. The market rate for those players happens to be very high. That's the whole point.
For me it is the sharp spikes in sound curve that is annoying and distracting, like honking of vehicles, screaming kids etc in an otherwise quieter environment. Any uniform/sustained sound, for that matter even constant blaring of horns on busy roads or bunch of noisy kids playing, will quickly melt into the background. I suppose this is what happens to most people too. So I just have to tolerate a bit for the easing up to happen. Earplug like contraptions make me claustrophobic of sorts. Also, I like to do things "naturally" and condition myself in general, so this approach might be due to that as well.
Drug marketing isn't illegal in most other countries, just marketing to consumers. You're free to market to physicians pretty much everywhere which is where the real money is spent anyways.
Microsoft's problem was that they had a monopoly of the market and were distorting it. Apple has nowhere near close to a monopoly on the smartphone market, and there still is plenty of innovation in the 'mobile web' happening.
"If so many "modern" languages still copy features from Lisp (hello C++) then why not use the real thing?"

Because if it hasn't "succeeded", for suitable definitions of "succeeded" in 50 years, as an old fart approaching 40 myself my assumption is that there is a good reason. I was much more willing to believe the "everybody else is just stupid and can't see the obvious brilliance" reason when I was younger, but as I've learned more, I've learned just how many factors go into a language being successful. Lisp may have all the features, but there are also good reasons why it has never really quite taken off.

That said, it is also true that using languages that bodge Lisp-like features on to the side after several decades of usage is generally inferior to languages that start with them. It's one of the reasons I'm still a big proponent of people making new languages even though we've got a lot of good ones. (I just want them to be new languages somehow; a lot of people just reskin an existing language with a slightly different syntax and then wonder why nobody uses it.)

But they've all been listed before, and I don't expect me listing them here will change anything, so I'll skip it here.

(I did a quick check on Google Trends; Clojure seems to not be growing. It's not shrinking, but it's not growing. That was Lisp's best chance for growth I've seen in a long time, and that window has probably now closed.)
Analysis and exploitation of Pegasus kernel vulnerabilities
Gosh, there is a lot of depth to language. I like lisper's note because there are a lot of people whose first language is not English and may not know the difference; I like your rejoinder that it was sarcasm against another audience, but was ironic humor to Google. (We can write to multiple audiences at once, no?)

And now here's a font complete enough that perhaps I can find the right glyph to punctuate the idea. We need something with a bit more nuance than the interrobang, I think.
I recently went for a C++ job which I hadn't done for 10 years. Most of the questions I was asked were the same ones we had in interviews in the 90s. It actually felt really nice, I just wish there were more good C++ roles around - would be nice to live in a world that doesn't radically change every few years.
Bitcoin: Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution
This comment explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12658321
> there is almost nothing we can do about it.

Don't buy their devices. Apple is not a government that can coerce you into submission.
Ah... Apple wants you in the app store they create.

Chrome is forced to use Safari under in IOS.

Google want's browser to get the ads revenue.

Suffers the web developer and end user.
I'm not trashing or at least wasn't intending to. I see how it could have been interpreted in that way, though.
I would have an easier time believing this if the company had not retaliated against people who tried to complain internally.
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Video chatting with Skype is preferred rather than a funky VR setup personally. I can not imagine this taking off in business. It would like be using dressup clothes in a business meeting -- what is the purpose?

I can view this possibly useful among the Snapchat crowd, but Snapchat allows for deferred messaging, which has great use.
> if all Europe were to do that the consequences would probably be really dire for a lot of women

Yes, because people who purchase sex are a scourge to women everywhere.
What I learned from talking to 100 equity crowdfunded companies
That's an interesting idea... I think the thin atmosphere and lack of ocean might actually make comet strikes on Mars less devastating than on Earth. Less frictional heating during the impact, no global tsunamis caused by an ocean strike, much less wind and shockwave around the impact site, faster settling of post-impact dust and debris. You wouldn't want to be near the impact site on either planet, but if you're far away on Mars you might barely notice it, while on Earth you could be on the opposite side of the planet and still be killed by a tsunami or shrouded in darkness until all the plants around you are dead.
Seems like XMPP is still a viable option.
Here is a list of beach cams. Most don't seem to be operational this morning. http://www.mybeachcams.com/florida/east-central/
Ask HN: Is anyone running iOS 10 on iPhone 5S?
Just wondering what the performance is like.

I've replaced my battery once already, and frequently my phone dies when it gets <30%, so I don't want to make things worse by upgrading.
I love Lisp and I'd use it for everything if I could. But the Lisp community spends too much time talking about how awesome it is instead of making good frameworks that anyone can use, even kids just out of college. It doesn't matter how beautifully made your project is. New programmers make trends. If the framework can't be picked up and run without spending years in the Lisp community it won't take off.

Look at Clojure. They offered the kids that started with Java something new but with a flair that was familiar. If you know Java, Clojure isn't too hard.
These were not tech (engineering) jobs. The article talks about Media, the divisions Marketing and Yahoo News editors.
How does one find out when the next one is?
Once a company has hit the ... point of maturity to where signaling is more important than production, there's not a lot you can do about it. Because in that case, the signaling probably is more important.

And I got news for her - you can't visibly tell if I am busy or not short of standing behind me all day.

Still, you get the feeling she was sort of the sucker at that particular poker game.
I haven't seen those kind meetups that much aside from a few of the more popular meetups where I live (NYC) and even then it's only rarely.

Where do you live that you get a lot of TED talks?
>There's an eternal war between "avoid reinventing the wheel" and ahistorical "not invented here", isn't there?

There is a iternal itteration between reading disgusting Documentation (nonexistant one) and finding the hidden shortconmings of existing solutions - and just doing the only "open source" that is accepted in every company- rewrite it yourself.