skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming I'm linked right to the exact app to install.

Click install. Review and approve permissions. Wait for some ungodly amount of megabytes to download. Wait for installation. Then open. Then approve some new permissions. Splash screen. Woo, content! But I'm not "deep linked" to the place I need to be.

Or, for a website: I'm just there.
That world exists in free software OSes like *BSD, GNU/Linux, illumos, etc.
I agree. The level of activity here is the highest so we decided to start here and expand.
Expect to see additional locations soon ....
I was comparing to Indian salaries. For example, as you're probably aware, the outsourcing industry has caused a rapid rise in computer engineering salaries in India. A similar thing happened in Russia already.

I only referred to small launches because you mentioned them.

If you're interested in Indian rockets with larger payloads, you might be interested in checking out the GLSV Mark III, which is expected to reach production long before the RLV-TD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_Satellite_Launc...

I read about both the GSLV Mark III and RLV-TD in Western news sources.

I'm a big fan of India's space program, but it's very tedious getting downvoted on HN for talking about it.
Arguably, no. That means the current population isn't really in charge--some anointed holy men who wrote in the supermajority requirement get to override the wishes of the current population.
I can't find the "right-wing garbage" twitter posts? Where did you get that from?
I've been thinking about implementing a custom controller that would use Third Party Resources as a way to install and manage an application on top of Kubernetes. The way that Kuberetes controllers work (watching a declarative configuration, and "making it so") seems like a great fit for the problem.

Its exciting to see CoreOS working in the same direction - this looks much more elegant than what I would have hacked up.
> I absolutely do not understand the need for 'web fonts'. Just specify a normal font that most users already have installed in CSS, with some fallbacks.

Imagine you're a company whose business operates exclusively through your website. Imagine further that your company is the sort for whom design is critical because it drives your business. You are going to insist on making sure everything looks perfect in every scenario.

You can think of it as design control-freakery. Typography really matters to some people.
Sorry, I was being unclear. I was speaking only in terms of addictive potential and difficulty of quitting. MAOIs in cigarettes make them more addictive than e-cigs (nicotine alone) as the different action of other opiates makes them more addictive than mitragynine.
That trend slowed down a long time ago. There are as many smart people in India as there are in the US. Those who migrated/are migrating to the US, migrate for greener pastures. There is no reason to believe that those who migrate to US are necessarily better than their Indian counterparts. In fact, I know quite a few who got calls from top-tier colleges in US (Stanford/Harvard etc) but chose to stay back in India and launch their own startups.
Yeah, the author says "we don't use apps. Any apps you are using are actually browsers. We only use browsers."
Energy Giants Turn to Drones and Sensors in New Embrace of the Digital World
This sounds a lot like Joyent's Autopilot Pattern (http://autopilotpattern.io), but will be more integrated with Kubernetes, rather than being agnostic.
From Trump's plan for his first 100 days in office (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-pledges-to...):

>First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service.

>Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs.

>Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists.

>Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.

>Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections.

>There is another major announcement I am going to make today as part of our pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If I am elected President, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

>Decades of failure in Washington, and decades of special interest dealing, must come to an end. We have to break the cycle of corruption, and we have to give new voices a chance to go into government service. The time for Congressional term limits has arrived.

If you wanted to actually do something about corruption in Washington instead of just talking about it, you should have voted Trump.
Their clients would have to be updated as well, so there would be an indefinite period of time where the unchanged protocol still works giving microG a chance to upgrade as well.

Google has all the data that makes it work + you would need to analyze all that data to end up with server that can take radio levels and output location. It's not as easy saying lets use our own servers.
One of those weird tidbits ... the Apple building at 300,000 sq feet has nearly 4x the office space of the HP buildings it replaces (75,000 sq ft)
This [0] is why we both need something like MicroG, and why Google will never allow it to succeed. I realize it's an old story, but it shows Google's ruthlessness in protecting platform dominance, even against a single-digit percentage Windows Phone platform. Even if MicroG ships good, working code, Google will break it. And if MicroG fixes that, Google will break it again, until the people writing MicroG give up.

I'd love open options instead of Google's services, but when 95% of your revenue is advertising, you have to own the platform, and Google does.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4625502/microsoft-responds...
I don't think it's a moral issue any more than our natural urge to defecate without using toilets is a moral issue. It has impacts on other things that are moral issues, but there's very little sense I can see in treating people's thoughts and feelings as evil.
Why Udacity and EdX Want to Trademark the Degrees of the Future
Even the shallowest dive into Trump's business dealings would show you that he is no stranger to corruption.

I personally do not believe that he would enact a single one of those campaign pledges.
Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?
Just as a thought experiment for current Apple users - if you joined a new company and were offered a new MacBook Pro (the most recently showcased) or a new [NON-APPLE] laptop, would you choose the [NON-APPLE] laptop? I ask because I've heard many say they're looking for hardware to run elementary OS on, which is mimicking the mac OS UI (I don't mean to disparage elementary OS - I think their work is fantastic!). If you're not paying the bill, will you really move away from Apple?
Best as I can determine, this is original writing. I like it very much.
Zapier is hiring a platform and partnerships engineer – remote welcome
I've found the extra money to be an illusion when you consider public holidays, sick days, holidays etc.

I've found it to be a net negative when you consider time between contracts. Contracting really needs to be about double your salary to make it worth it.
I agree.

Mobile is already maturing. By the time web technology is good enough to create a native-feeling experience, we will be on to the next runtime.

(Disclaimer: I do iOS consulting, so hugely biased)
Google Home vs. Amazon Echo: A Face-Off of Smart Speakers
Could you elaborate on why you hate it? I like it, to be honest. Despite its inefficiencies, it feels way more robust. I don't know much about Verilog, but it feels more like a hacky scripting language than a proper engineering tool.
Being someone who's been getting more familiar lately with backend engineering and has been trying to make sense of various options, I've got a strong enough impression of CoreOS that I'm betting my time it'll be dominating the next few years.

I also can't wait to see an open version of AWS Lambda / Google Functions appear.
John McAfee: The FBI Is Either Incompetent or Corrupt, Here's the Truth.
> These guys don't want to go to jail or have the government poking around in their business.

But they're okay with running a business that depends (in part) on some very bad people using trickery and violence to acquire and control new talent.

I'm not here to berate you. I worked on amusement gaming machines, but started to get cold feet when it would have turned into casino work.

I want devs considering working in porn to consider how their work contributes to human trafficking -- modern slavery.
> Said companies then hire the top students in the classes. The classes work as a sort of technical screening.

Do you have any sources for this? I see that a lot of companies sponsor courses and nanodegrees, but I still haven't seen any statistics about jobs after "graduation". I had considered taking some nanodegrees myself but can't really justify it since I have to work full time and make a living which is difficult enough.
I love Tetris! Played it for a few minutes.
Time to attach to blocks shouldn't be instant and I had the top and right game borders start flashing after a while but otherwise pretty cool!
BLM should really have been called Black Lives Matter Too
>trying to redefine "operating system" to include things that have never been a part of such a term before,

That ship has sailed. All mainstream users expect those things to be standard in any mobile OS.

> it's as open as it's ever been

You're out of the loop. A lot of apps/APIs/frameworks which were maintained as part of AOSP have been abandoned to the point of being useless after Google introduced proprietary playstore versions.

>Given that both the protocols and client libraries can change at any time without announcement,

How do you then claim that android is "as open as it has ever been", when this was not the case before since android had fewer proprietary libs.
Obama was the status quo? Bill Clinton was the status quo? Carter was the status quo? JFK was the status quo?

How many times were Reagan and Nixon going to run before they got the nod? McCain? Romney? W's singular skill was being the son of a former President.

Yeah, Hillary is running for Obama's third term. But otherwise Dems don't double down year after year. That'd be the Republicans. Trump's bull in a china shop approach doesn't change this.
You're not being unreasonable. But you also don't need to "rage quit."

It sounds like the culture is shifting in a direction that doesn't fit with the way you'd like to work. Time to move on, simple as that.
No, the issue is that their current application is now dependent on Google's proprietary infrastructure, because Google has moved away from an open source application platform.
But how did the final bet work?!
I've been impressed with Amazon Basics Lightning and HDMI cables for the most part. I've noticed more and more folks with the Amazon Basics Backpack. Consumers appreciate quality. See also Anker.
It's a balance, yea? On the one hand, apps that I use rarely that are totally functional via a mobile browser, such as Facebook or Google News, take up space on my phone and potentially Do Bad Things in the background. On the other hand, there's potentially more of my monthly data used when I visit the sites vs using the app.

I remember hearing about / reading about (here? on reddit? at a meetup? who knows) that the Chrome browser on android is going to begin implementing features that allow "psuedo-apps" to be developed. A browser favorite exists on the homepage and has a fat cache to save bandwidth, but isn't an app in the sense it can run in the background. I don't know too much about that, but what I DO know about are cool firefox and chrome Javascript methods like window.getDeviceOrientation or sendVibration or getLightLevel and other experimental features obviously focused on mobile devices.
Wasn't a downside to IRC so much as there are UI/UX stuff in Slack that helps a lot. These are small things that seems obvious now, but they help with communication.

I've been working on applying the theory of Kanban starting from first principle: "Make work visible." Visibility helps develop trust. Slacks helps with signaling a lot, and there are obviously a lot of thought put into the design.

Some examples:

1. URL for every message. I can paste that URL into Github PRs or Jira to reference a conversation where people talk through something.

2. Cross-device notifications and fallbacks, and other controls such as Do Not Disturb, etc. This allows me to control heads-down coding vs. when people needs help.

3. Notification integration helps. I know there are IRC bots that can do that, but how well you can just click through things depends upon the IRC client you choose. Being able to see a log of say, Github and Jira (usually in a separate channel) helps stay in the loop. The same with when adding CI/CD notifications.

4. Starring messages helps me manage time. I don't read everything people send over the chat. I certainly do NOT try replacing person-to-person contact with Slack (or IRC or HipChat). Sometimes I'll star something I want to read later (which may or may not happen).

5. URLs posted often have previews, which also helps with managing whether I go read it or not.

I'm sure these things can be done with IRC, and Hipchat probably copied over some of these ideas. Mattermost has certainly cloned the important stuff. By no means am I saying any of this seem earth-shattering innovative, but it is clear to me that Slack was designed around remote working, and it works well.

To keep things in perspective too: before Gmail, I used to run my own web server and used terminal-based apps for that. I don't do that anymore because it was easier to just dump things in Gmail and then search for things I need. I'm still keeping my tmux+emacs setup though -- maybe I'm missing out with web-based development.

So yeah, Slack is a great tool, and it works well with what I do. If you don't use it with discipline, or you have not developed much of a philosophy on how this all works together, it's not going to work well. You won't have a philosophical framework in which to curate or vet what you want in your life or attention-space.
The power of end-to-end testing
Have you tried Windows 10 Enterprise, which claims to have (Group Policy?) controls for turning off all the tracking?
Oh. never known it. how stable is it?
Because the primary/caucus process disenfranchises the majority of the electorate.

I believe this is why the GOP produces such poor candidates in the last 20 years or so; they must pander to the hard core of the party to become a candidate, and the people that pass that test are almost always too far removed from the electorate to win the general.

This is also why we're devolving to a system of ruling families. Clinton was never the best candidate. She was the presumed candidate and the candidate preferred by the party core, so nobody was willing to challenge - except Sanders who could seriously run on ideology.
iOS doesn't install updates without you giving it permission. It pops up a dialog and lets you choose to install it now, overnight while plugged in, or to cancel, but it doesn't do it without your permission. macOS has an automatically install updates option which you can uncheck if you don't want them.
Some numbers to consider: according to Apple's Q4 2016 financial report, Macs represent less than 10% of the company's revenues. Notebook revenues are also declining significantly (14% down from last year).

I did not see the numbers by category, but suppose the Pro line represents (optimistically) 5% of company's revenues and declining.

In this light, the company's decision not to dedicate significant resources to a declining segment of its lineup makes sense.
So people getting money from paying roomates, doing private lessons (personal training, music, etc), therapy, working remotely, etc have no business of doing so in their home too?
"Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon!"

"What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!"
> The reason I install such few apps isn't because Google Play is inconvenient, it's because the vast majority of apps are simply designed to data mine or pump advertisements

The iOS App Store isn't perfect in this regard, but it's miles ahead of Google Play, which doesn't seem to have any standards at all.
Sorry you're stuck in a bad situation. I'm a reporter for a US publication. Any interest in chatting off the record? I can give you more details if you get in touch, and guide you through the process of remaining anonymous. You can email me: germanthrowawayquestions@gmail.com
I heard alot of lobbying by tobacco has an end goal of putting the third party ecig industry out to pasture(high regulatory standards) so they can seize it themselves sans any price competition with every taobao vendor in China.

They see the future is ecigs but realize it's a race to the bottom in profits.
New study details a security flaw with Philips Hue smart bulbs
Okay fair enough. Thanks for explaining your position.
Can PlayStation VR Use PS4’s Mass Appeal?
> More likely because it's not available on-premise. Check into how many use HipChat instead, because it is.

Just one data-point, but: my employer went with HipChat because we needed an on-premise solution. (We were moving away from IRC because we needed persistent chat history for remote employees. Using IRC bouncers was considered too high of a barrier-to-entry, given we wanted non-technical employees to join the conversation too).
Yes, I should have been clearer. Running slower compared to a stationary observer.

Your last point doesn't explain why or how time dilation occurs, just that we know that the speed of light is a constant to all reference frames.

There is a famous experiment with three synchronized atomic clocks. Two were flown in opposite directions around the globe the other stationary. The eastward flown clock lost 59ns and the westward flown clock gained 273ns, both relative to the stationary clock. The reason is that the clock flown eastward is travelling faster since it is in the direction of the earth's rotation. Measurements are consistent with the theory of relativity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experim...
The issue isn't India performing a terrorist strike agains the US. They'd love to send nuclear missiles to Pakistan, though.
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Just because you didn't mention it, Matrix https://matrix.org/ is another option. It supports federation, services (like IRC bridges), encryption, push notifications, offline storage and has some really nice clients for Android and iOS.

I found it really cool that I could spend ~half an hour setting it up on my own server then just pop in on chats on another server.
I took the Data Analyst nanodegree, paid entirely by my company as you say. I don't think it's really worth it as the classes are pretty shallow and undemanding, but after a year of doing it I did get a lot of exposure to different languages/technologies and the opportunity to do several cool projects (here's an example http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/visualizing-imdb-data-...).

So I think for expanding your knowledge base while being employed or doing other things, it's quite good (and, there is also Udacity's MS program with Georgia Tech for more serious education and credentials). It is even perhaps worth paying the $100 a month yourself if you put in the work to finish a bit early (the deadlines are set so it takes 13 months if you don't try to finish early). But, there is a lot they could do to improve - the nano degrees really are a bunch of totally separate MOOC classes strung together.
But you just can't compare private company salaries with government salaries. The perks that are enjoyed by government employees far outweighs that enjoyed by private employees. You might be tempted to think that private employees get "x" times more than government employees and they should be better. But that is not how it works in India. If you are a private employee there is a possibility of getting fired. If you are fired, getting a job again is akin to going through hell. If you have a home loan from a bank you are doomed.

Government employees in India are the blessed lot. They of course have lesser salary but the perks they enjoy more than make up for it. They get free housing for life, pension after retirement, free insurance, they can purchase land at extremely subsidized rates (which for a private employee would be his entire life savings). You just can't compare salaries. Especially in a country like India.

EDIT: Not to mention: If you are a government employee your social life is set. You can easily get married (not easy for a private employee. You have to be in a top MNC and earning a big salary or have a graduate degree from a top-tier university in India). Your entire family is covered by Government insurance for lifetime (which for a private employee ends as soon as his employment terminates). In some cases, your next kith and kin are guaranteed a government job in case you pass away prematurely.

Also, a Government job is the most sought after in India. There is major competition to get a government job (I have even heard of cases where people bribed officials to get the job). Private employees on the other hand demand greater salaries just to be on par with government employees (whose salary + perks are far greater than private employees salary). Apart from that, a Government employee cannot be prematurely terminated (even if s/he is lazy) unless s/he has committed a grave crime.
I honestly don't think Google needs anyone's charity. And bear in mind that Ron Amadeo is far from a anti-Google critic here. He's a former writer for Android Police, a fan blog. I've found his articles incredibly fair.
Myopia is a good word for it.

A quote I like on designers avoiding the actual experiences they create: https://wellfuckingsaid.com/2016/on-designers-ignoring-those...

A thing I wrote urging you to test your own work in simulated slow network conditions: https://alanhogan.com/slow-it-down-gain-empathy
>Well he probably had it coming

I've witnessed people saying exactly that. You can't argue that anti-cop violence is any less real of a problem than anti-black violence. What about the shooting in Dallas?
So should the response to a troll be to ban and chastise him?

I'd argue its better to start offering counter arguments. If they engage reasonably, have discourse. Otherwise, start ignoring / saying 'here's that guy again'.

Yes, someone who remains reasonable and yet seeks to defend racism is probably slightly harmful. As he might move a few people, and keep others on the fence. And yet, I'd give most people more credit than that. I also care more about free expression of ideas. Finally, I care about convincing those on the other side, rather than confirming those who are on my side.

If you start dismissing everyone with a non-progressive view point, that won't convince them. Heck, it'll probably make them think all progressive are oversensitive people; people who defend their believes because they can't stand the very though of disagreement. Instead, we should look to express confidence truth seeking and reason. That is a lot more likely to get them to consider us.

Moreover, if the non-progressives are essentially unwelcome in progressive circles, we are just strengthening the divide and increasing tribalism on both sides. Heck, non-progressives basically aren't welcome in higher education. That can't be good and isn't what we should want.