skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This piece also captures the angst. The openly hostile acts of soldering ram, and glueing batteries is something that kind of made me angry. Ok, I told myself, maybe the device and OS will compensate for the fact that it is not user serviceable anymore.

Nope, for the last 3 to 5 years OSX and now macOS software has been beta (at best) on release day. They finally issued recalls for some older graphics problems the "Pro" models had. All in all they have just iOS-ified everything. Very gimmicky updates... nothing that really got me fired up.

This has all come to a head with the latest release of hardware. I don't need a hands on to know 16gb isn't enough RAM. I don't need a hands on to know that the touchbar isn't going to work for ME. I don't need a hands on to know that dongle hell is coming. I really love the trackpad on the mac (one thing that no windows pc can touch), but it looks like the STUPIDLY large trackpad is going to have issues as well....

I do know that I can't stand the "apple" tax any longer. I am sick of not being able to do "everything" on my computer because there isn't enough power/ram/etc. I should have just run Linux VM's for development while keeping Windows, I don't know... I haven't "gamed" in a long time, because it just sucks on a mac (maybe that is a good thing for productivity?).
The Bizarre Plan to Drain the Mediterranean
> biotech on artificial skin

I've got a bunch of projects on that kicking around. Wish I had more time.
This article smacks of hubris. While it's impressive that these everyday people ran, biked, and swam some distance...it can get much worse. The link below is about as "tame" as special operations training gets, and it's not "tame" at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_School
Indeed, there are more options there, cool!
Oh, I use it that way from time to time. But I like to say "order of bignitude" to disambiguate binary. Also occasionally useful is "order of wordnitude" for millions / billions, etc.
I want to make explicit the sentiment that I think underlies some of the comments here. For much of Western human existence, families could own, inherit, and stay in one place for generations. But now, catastrophic value inflation, property taxes, eminent domain, etc. threaten that expectation of stability. It shouldn't be surprising that people who don't value a migratory lifestyle are upset by being forced to abandon what they see as their little demesne.
We could just write a JSON Schema for it. It allows you to specify a "format": http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-validation.html#an...

So you can write a schema like: {"type": "string", "format": "email"}

or: {"type": "integer", "format": "uint64"}

There's no spec for what is allowed as a "format", so you have to decide on your own values and write your own validators, but someone could come up with a standard spec for this. Swagger formally specifies some values of "format" in this document: http://swagger.io/specification/
I agree that tech interviews are terrible, and you cannot do any sort of self-reflection on them (especially if they are these q/a and or puzzle types where they don't give you answers or feedback of what you are looking for, despite being reasonably confident you answered correctly -- even after having requested the feedback -- I had this experience at GitLab)

> We believe that technical interviewing is a broken process for everyone but that the flaws within the system hit underrepresented groups the hardest… because they haven’t had the chance to internalize just how much of technical interviewing is a numbers game

I just don't understand this reasoning. Can someone explain differently?

I also agree with a later point -- no firm should have a "VP of Diversity and Inclusivity" but for different reasons.
> this was the opposite of 20 years ago

perhaps I should have put that other part in quotes. that was the refrain from mac-bashers at the time (well, one of them). Everything revolved around windows ecosystem, it had the developer mindshare and market strength, etc.

It's not the same story today.
A docking station would indeed make my life easier, but only with a significant investment of extra cash in addition to my new PC.

Even then I'll still need adapters to operate in the places where that cash has not yet been spent (i.e. conference rooms).

And perhaps it's just me lamenting a sunk cost, but it is going to suck to throw away hundreds of dollars worth of cables, hubs and adapters.
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My response was "Fuck yeah, we've been trying to figure out how to work around that for months. Good catch." I praised another dev who just joined for getting a whole lot more done in her first two weeks than I expected. Entirely new language and tech stack on a sophisticated application. It's impressive. I said so.

Your anecdotes are not about thanking people or expressing gratitude. I kind of agree with both you and the GP comment. I am a woman and my life taught me to do a lot of emotional labor. It mostly has not led to money.

I think discussions about stuff like this are probably overlooking something important. As best I can tell, being too touchy feely personal reads as "I love YOU" and is problematic. A better message is "I love your work, good job!" and that seems to be the note you are hitting.

So: Good job!
Cue people spouting how it's illegal for you to record a conversation.
CloudFlare is requesting SSL certificates without user consent
A few recommendations for you:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=ad&fdid=org....

http://repo.xposed.info/module/tw.fatminmin.xposed.minmingua...

Never seen an in-app ad on mobile personally. No one is freaking out because it's a solved problem already.

If those don't do it for you, write an Xposed module to strip it like http://repo.xposed.info/module/ma.wanam.youtubeadaway

Don't underestimate people who hate ads, especially video ads.
Many private companies give RSUs then take some back to pay the taxes.
Without arguing the merits of the Wealthfront plan, "greed" is about as diplomatic as it gets in this scenario. It applies to both sides. However there is an information and cultural bias asymmetry that puts the company in a much superior position. As a result the equity and compensation issue is ultimately seen as the company taking advantage of employees in an unfair way.
Aaaaand it's a bunch of unsubstantiated spiritualist gibberish. Oh well.
I requested the page, I got the page. How I render it is a completely separate issue. If I choose not to render some of the data, or not execute some of the code on my machine, that's up to me.
Because it's what you use a phone for?
Woman denied $43M (2^32) jackpot, offered steak dinner instead
Some people can pick locks, but not everyone can pick locks. Limiting dumb or lazy criminals is still useful.
What kind of food are you making that you won't want to eat for 3 days in a row? You may want to consider an investment in some cooking classes or some youtube videos. Outside of brewing beer, I can scarce think of a better ROI on your man-hours than learning to cook. Try these links to learn how to start:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbe...

http://www.guidingtech.com/13245/youtube-channels-learn-basi...

It will take some time to learn, and some epic failures, but within a few weeks you'll be making great food you can't wait to eat!
>Why is it that these people are nice and kind when they finance your government spending for decades but turn into facist greedy bastards when they come asking for their money back?

They're not trying to get their money back. They're simply taking the reins of power and threatening economic catastrophe if they're disobeyed.

It ought to be obvious to anybody with a functioning brain that Greece is not paying down its debts and that the European Commissions directives are clearly not about making Greece more able to do so.

The question you have to ask yourself then is, what are they asking of Greece? Because it's definitely not when are they going to pay us back?

>That's democracy for you.

It's democracy when you inadvertently voted for somebody who handed the reins of power over to a foreign country. That's the transition of democracy to dictatorship.

>Your right to vote comes with a responsibility for the consequences.

Which country do you exercise your vote in?
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I don't want to rehash it here since it's been done a few times on HN already but PowerShell is awesome. I encourage you to search HN for previous discussions and give PowerShell another shot. The old windows command prompt definitely took away some of its appeal when I first tried it so I can understand why some folks have a distaste for it. First impressions and all that. But it's extremely powerful compared to bash or other "string passing" shells.

Of course if you use it regularly and hate it you can safely ignore what I just said. I'd be curious as to what you hate about it though.
<Command> + <Tab> cycles open applications, but
<Command> + <~> cycles windows in the current application context

I find this two-dimensional switching incredibly useful for multitasking, whereas Windows just flattens all windows to the alt-tab list, which quickly becomes overwhelming if you're a power user who doesn't like to close windows.
Perhaps it's just the people writing electron apps doing Abbas job, because some of them work fine
I have always found the history of the population of Madagascar amazing [1]. Who would have guessed that people from Borneo would be the first people to arrive.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Madagascar
Why ban assault weapons (which are hardly ever used in shootings) instead of handguns (which are by far the most common type of gun used in shootings)?
I mostly agree with you. I don't think adblocking is great. However I think for several reasons it won't be as bad as you think.

The vast majority of users use software on default settings and never change anything. IIRC only like 30% of users bother to install adblocking, and while that increases, it's going to asymptote sooner or later.

For the time being ad blocking is still inconvenient on many platforms like mobile and smart TVs. I still see lots of ads whenever I use any platform other than my desktop. And fewer users use desktop.

As technology improves, the costs of running websites should decrease. This means bandwidth, storage, open source software for running the website, etc. Many websites that required ad revenue to operate in the past, could get by with much less today or in the future. I know that's not ideal. But most of the software I use is produced open source without profit motive. Why can't the same be true for software that runs websites? Sites like HN and reddit get 99.99% of their content from unpaid users. Reddit uses entirely volunteer moderators even.

In the past newspapers and magazines required subscriptions. The worst case is we go back to that world. I can watch tons of TV ad free with a very cheap subscription to netflix, and youtube is rolling out a similar platform now. As much as I hate paywalls, they seem less sinister than advertising based models.

Adblocking will never be complete. You can block banner ads, but you are never going to be able to block someone endorsing a product in their podcast or youtube video (ok I shouldn't say never, but it seems reasonably unlikely for the near future.) Those ads also seem the least sinister and annoying to me, so I am ok with that. Websites might just put up endorsements or self serve ads, instead of relying on ad servers.
And Bart is still pretty dirty.
I think I will remix it with the Google Pixel ad music and style and see if it helps. like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBM5W12JYmQ
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name-...
Data governance and master data management spring to mind as existing ideas along these lines.
Everything is extremely marked-up in pet stores.

Pet water fountain at PetSmart: $50
Exact same fountain at Amazon: $25

But I've noticed that pet stores (or at least Petsmart) are starting to do price-discrimination by having online-only 'sales'. Purchase online at 25% off, pickup in store.
Good founders live and breathe their business every minute of their life. They're up most of the night and back at it the next day at 6am. They're constantly worried about increasing revenue, the threat of competition, and making sure there's enough cash in the bank to keep payroll afloat. They're the ones who go without a paycheck when things get tight and sacrifice time among family and friends due to the never-ending deadlines.

Employees get to bounce around from company to company, commanding an ever-increasing salary due to the bubble we're in, and usually get a solid chunk of equity to boot. They work their hours, they take their vacation time, they come on HN and wax about the insensitivity of the open-office floorplan, or that lunch is only catered 3 days a week. They have a never-ending flow of job offers in their inbox and when things aren't going their way, they can simply pack up, walk away (with equity in hand), and move onto the next cushy job. They aren't up late at night worried about how they're going to make ends meet the next day, their biggest concern tends to be whether they embrace the latest JS framework or wait the three months til it's supplanted.

I'm sorry if you've encountered founders that treat their employees like shit, but dammit, most of us do our best effort to take care of our employees with competitive salaries, excellent benefits, fair equity amounts, and frequent profit-sharing bonuses. We don't take lofty profits, we invest it right back into the company so we can hire more people and provide better accommodations. But if we come across as thinking we should eventually reap the benefits of a successful company: you're goddamn right we do, we earned it.
Yes, I have gotten contracts (not salaried jobs).
What about Ardour?
If that is how a given company filters for candidates, then I have desire to advance through their funnel.

This seems like a reasonable deal to me.
And chat logs if your chat is company hosted...
The extra $200 is because the 2016 base model starts at 256GB disk instead of 128.

If you configure the 2015 model with 256GB the price is the same.
Instead of having everything go through central trusted authorities, as Linux distros do, wasm (as the Web does in general) relies on sandboxing untrusted content on the user side.

A binary encoding does not contribute significantly to obfuscation when it can be trivially undone. WebAssembly is an open standard, and browsers supporting wasm have builtin support for converting it to text and displaying it.

Compiled code can be much harder to read than human-written code, though this is mainly because of lowering and optimization, rather than the final encoding.
I have absolutely zero issues of that nature on iOS - it can be a bit fiddly to get the hang of positioning the selection handles, and moving the cursor using the soft keyboard is a relatively recent feature, but it's _miles_ ahead of Android.
Two weeks ago. Here's the comment from Sean Tracy regarding an old procedural city generation demo at Crytek:

> We had plans at Crytek back when Marco and a team of guys worked on this (and now we are looking to hire some guys from that old team ;) "spoiler alert" ).

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/57wlln/marco_c...

The CIG Frankfurt office (Foundry 42 Germany) is already staffed by a bunch of former Cryengine devs who left Crytek 2-ish years ago amidst rumblings of people not getting paid.

There's also Amazon Lumberyard, which is effectively Amazon giving away Cryengine (or an offshoot of it) for free with ties to Twitch and their cloud infrastructure. That launch came across as a "we badly need money from someone" partnership on Crytek's part, you won't find their name anywhere on Lumberyard.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/02/09/amazon-lumberyar...
Yes transactions costs are high in greece, but it's not what stopping people from buying. Prices are still too high. Rental yields do not justify buying at this time[1], even for newer constructions that are 100% legal. While the government could certainly reduce transaction costs, the homeowners themselves are sabotaging the market[2].

FYI i live in greece and could not afford a house during the boom years. Now i can but it's just a bad deal. It's cheaper to rent.

1. http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Greece/Rental-Yiel...

2. http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/19928-new-yor...
I think you're being downvoted a little too harshly.

My comment to your experiences: I've been in your shoes. The solution was not to become cynical, but merely to find a better work environment.

When I was leaving my old job, the refrain from my peers was: "You're just running away. You'll face these problems in all jobs."

Never been happier that others were wrong.
If you can generate income from all over the world Greece is a great place to work at. Great weather, great food, private health coverage with about 1K per year, private international schools for about 1K per month. Life and especially rent is pretty cheap compared to other European cities.

The problem though is that there is always a danger of a Venezuela style collapse but you can always move out.
“The Surprising Benefits of JTBD Thinking”
Your landing page's first call-to-action has gotten caught up in the cascade!

If the anchor text ("VIDEO INTRO") isn't hovered while its parent `div` is, the result is black text on black bg.
Well TV ads actually are regulated in many countries. There are restrictions on what products you can advertise, what the volume can be, how long the ads can be relative to the content (especially for children's programming.)
It's tied to modern groups in exchange online a team is anyone in your group is on your team. Your chose a channel inside of that.
300,000 New Yorkers are reaching doctors via IM – for real
New Yorkers are now instant messaging their doctors in between appointments (because does anyone actually like calling their doctors office). Check out more here: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-yorkers-are-instant-messaging-their-doctors-with-klara-app-300355887.html
You're right that I made a mistake, but it's the labor income case that is exponential, not the capital income case. Earning Wr every year is constant income and linear growth in wealth (where W is your starting wealth). Earning I(1+g)^n every year is exponential growth in both income and wealth.

Note that r is the return on capital, for an asset worth W, you earn W*r income. It says nothing about whether W increases or decreases. (In fact, if the value of W increases but the income generated is the same, then r goes down.) That would be a capital gain (or capital loss). An asset can produce a return on capital while losing value. If you assume W doesn't go down in value, and furthermore, all the capital income is reinvested, but no labor income is reinvested, then you do indeed get exponential growth of wealth for the capital income case, and no growth of wealth for the labor income case. But then all the work is being done by assumptions about savings rate and depreciation, and none by the comparison between r and g.
I listened to the first three episodes, very interesting! I will definitely keep following the series, good luck.
Just like desktop KDE, the UI doesn't appeal to me. I find it too flashy and kind of "in your face".

My favorite mobile OS so far has been Meego that ran on N9. That device was mind blowing and that OS. Amazing. It had such a simple, yet useful UI. Multi-tasking was better than what even Android has now. I hope Jolla doesn't die like that and we see a lot more devices come out running Sailfish.
Actually wikileaks was an unthought player. More likely (if at all) someone who sells data or just likes to watch things burn. It was a bit knee jerk on my part, as I've become much more reluctant to spread my data footprint. If the data isn't there, it can't be stolen.
Granting number of shares instead of percentages gaurantees that employees will get screwed by dilution. Vesting shares over 4 years means most employees won't get much, since employees often last only one or two years. Options mean most employees lose their equity before a liquidity event, or otherwise pay thousands of dollars for a lottery ticket. In general, employee equity is a joke.

Here's a "Good Way":

- Lock-in percentages instead of number of shares. Real dilution protection - not handwavy vague reassurances.

- Vest shares over quarters not years.

- ISOs that convert to NSOs after employee leaves OR RSU's with the company paying the tax bill.

- Termination protection

Anything less is scraps of a lottery ticket.
> That's democracy for you. Your right to vote comes with a responsibility for the consequences.

True. But as a US citizen, that's also very frightening at the moment...
I'll take a stab at it. Do not embed javascript at all! Javascript slows down the webpage, send creepy-tracking-stuff back to the ad network, and gets easly blacklisted in adblockers. We should not trust arbitrary 3rd party javascript code anyways. How about embeddable static images instead? Generate a unique img tag for each content creater, that we can refresh at our end, everytime the webpage loads. Will show a new ad everytime a user goes to the page.
>> the internet without ads would not be a useful internet.

I, and many others were on the net before ad-revenue models existed. I can assure you, it was quite useful.

People build stuff because it's cool to build and useful to have. Even Google's and Facebook's origins might fall under those descriptions.

>> lets force the advertising companies to be responsible

This is the global internet. It routes around people trying to force anything.
Microsoft is rapidly moving away from this type of situation. You buy 365, always have the latest version, have nothing on prem to maintain, can beta test everything in the cloud before general release, AND most importantly, youre not getting an empty infrastructure/platform that isnt useful out of the box.

Sharepoint by definition required an architect or someone to flesh it out. Microsoft is taking on that role of turning a skeleton into a body.

Their pricing is more like (a made up example): Exchange $2, Sharepoint $2, Skype $2, OR Everything + BI, Teams, Groups, Planner, Flow, PowerApps and whatever else they make/dreamup this week for $3. It makes no sense to buy 2 things from Microsoft over the bundle. The pricing is even more apparent when you look at their mobile management offerings, and its cheaper to buy 4 products than it is to buy 2. So now that you are "getting Teams and Planner for free" you might as well try using them before shelling out for Slack and Trello. Plus compliance worries are handled.

Also, it's fairly easy to "leave exchange and sharepoint document libraries" if your setup and permissions arent complicated. Microsoft is pulling an Apple, and abstracting the filesystem away so you use Planner directly to store planning data, in a proprietary, non exportable format, instead of having a storage locker to store files. These "freebies" exist to make it more painful to leave the ecosystem once you have them up and working. That said i am guessing most companies dont have a ton of buyin to things like Planner or PowerBI yet.
Me, 19 hours ago. :)

Took a second pass to get the syllable count right.
For that price I expected more than 16GB of RAM or at least the option to increase it. I've heard that it may be Intel's fault but it's frustrating to be limited to the same amount of memory I have on this Mac purchased 3 years ago.