skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ha!… and some defenseless individual from eastern Europe gets incarcerated while a joker security consultant gets federal protection in exchange for deleting 30k mails… only to find out that a superset of those mails is available on another dicks' machine elsewhere…

Propaganda machine can be hilarious at times!
I personally find that team sports help much more than individual sports. It's the only thing that motivates me to push myself beyond my mental limit to my physical limit. Basketball is my all time favorite sport, and I'd play for 3 hours a day if I could, but I've started playing soccer again and I think it's probably just as beneficial.
Not necessarily lie. People, that earn less, are likely to be ashamed (even anonymously) of their salary, while big earners are prone to boast on every occasion.
But, the thing everyone is overlooking is that the new GPU is 82% more performant than the last model, so it's not like they're reducing the specs. They just haven't increased the specs to the level of some of the other big notebooks.

I personally think that thinning the frame out while also increasing specs and keeping the battery life high was a smarter move than trying to cram in more RAM and keeping the 99.5 watt-hour battery that, with 32GB of RAM and a better GPU would have resulted in a ~5 hour battery life.

However, what I wish Apple would have done, instead of making the new Macbook (the little 12" notebook), was to make the MacBook Pro thin like they have, with the same specs they have added, and then have the only other offering be a larger, more pro notebook (maybe on par with the 2011 level of thickness / weight) with 64GB max RAM and with one of these great GPUs everyone is talking about. They could have done with a ~5 hour battery life on the main battery, keeping the 99.5 battery for airline regulations, with an extra 50+ watt-hour battery that slides into a slot for use when not getting on a plane. This would have given Apple 2 choices, 1) an awesome MacBook Pro for most of us, and 2) an awesome MacBook Super for the power users who don't mind a 5lb notebook.

There is not too much value in an even lighter / smaller notebook than the 13" MacBook Pro, which is why the Macbook 12" hasn't been flying off the shelf. Most people who can't do with an iPad (or iPad Pro) need a full notebook, not a 12" device that is slow.
Great thread idea. To echo the thoughts of others in this thread, it is nice to see conversation and transparency around this difficult topic.

Personally have been on both sides of the layoff table and have seen it handled different ways. In some cases, have seen transparency throughout the company failure process with founders and investors working tirelessly to help people land on their feet. In others, have seen deception, founders locking themselves in their office or staying away entirely. Then, little more than a "Dear John" letter telling people it is over.

As you can expect, the general outcomes - from perception of the founders and investors to future collaboration and working relationships between laid off employees - have been significantly better in the former scenario.

Quick plug - I'm on the team at a VC firm out of Chicago and am always looking at new ways to help companies we work with find and retain great people. Have been looking into ways we can work with founders of sputtering companies (both in our portfolio and outside) and the employees that are impacted by the failure of those companies.

Overall goal being to...

1. help hiring companies find great, available people
2. help laid off employees get back on their feet and find great roles
3. help CEOs of failed companies do right by the folks who

If you are a CEO that is contemplating layoffs or have had to do them in the past... or if you're someone that has been laid off, I'd love to connect - brett.bivens [at] gmail.com.

Or, feel free to just reply here!
Star Citizen's developer, Cloud Imperium Games, was pretty forward about getting a blazing deal on a bunch of churned out crytek engine devs a few (weeks/months) back; I recall hearing a lot of discussion on their subreddit/forums/chat about the issues at crytek that lead to this migration, so the parents statements certainly don't disagree with other facts that I trust.
>> I see this in politics a lot.

So much so, it's even called that. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
Our group uses a chat bot, which plays silly games at random times. Sometimes the challenge is like "Say thanks to somebody to earn some points". Those points are useless gamification tokens, but maybe it helps to encourage gratitude. There was always somebody who took that challenge so far.
Millennials swipe right for Hillary, says Tinder
You just repeated your point without adding anything new, that doesn't help your argument.
Last summer I thought about getting the new (2015) Macbook. Everything I read online said it was underpowered, overpriced, and if you really want it wait. I took a bet, walked to the Apple store and bought one. After a year of using it, I have zero regrets.

Prior I had a Windows desktop, Surface Pro 2, & 3. The desktop got many years of use but sat in one place. The Pro 2 & 3 were very cool, at least initially. Both had issues with randomly shutting down or overheating. The 3 gave me insane eye strain and I had to get rid of it quickly. Going back further, all of the other major PC laptop makers had their shares of weight, clunkiness, and quirks. They devices were not enjoyable to either travel with or use.

After a few weeks of use, some keys on the butterfly keyboard started behaving poorly and I thought for sure the thing was toast. Magically the keys unstuck themselves and I haven't had a problem since.

Is the 2015 Macbook underpowered? I use Illustrator, Photoshop for design work, Tableau & Excel for data analysis. Commonly I have at least 3 running at once. All of the server work is remote so that doesn't put any recognizable strain on the device. If I need massive computational power for some reason I can spin up an ec2 instance. An occasional website with heavy JS show signs of strain. This makes me wonder more about the sites' developers than the Macbook.

Expectations for Apple to come up with radically new innovations each year are like movie fans demanding a totally new and completely unexpected ending from a film. Maybe bloggers, newspapers, and viral news sites should be upset when Apple fails to produce a jaw dropping headline for them - but end users should not.

I don't want entertainment from the computing device I work with -- I want something that works so well I forget about it. I don't miss the days of low-resolution, loud fan blowing, heavy, crash prone laptops one bit.

My initial skepticism of Tim Cook has faded. I think Apple is doing a great job. And yeah, I already ordered the new Macbook Pro.
Alternatively, get this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/refcontrol/ or an equivalent for Chrome.

Then add www.ft.com and www.wsj.com sites with the Action of https://www.google.com
When people ask me about blockchains I point them to this somewhat tongue-in-cheek article by Tony Arcieri:

https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoc...
Before the Flood – National Geographic
The number of people that would bother to do that is relatively small. If it's a good product, and reasonably priced, people would much rather just pay to have it. (See music streaming.)
I see some of the upsides of both Slack and Gitter, but having used both I still find IRC or a Signal group much easier and more convenient overall. Perhaps its the familiarity, or that I find both to be yet another tab to have open/app to install & maintain, but I just can't call myself a fan.
I agree this is kinda frustrating, but judging from other comments it seems like ElementaryOS is maintained by a for-profit company. Driving conversions is probably more important to them rather than optimizing for total total number of downloads. I personally think this strategy is limited in scope as it ignores the life-time value of users that donate after using for a period of time, but always interesting to play devil's advocate.
I'm not missing the point. The author is purely speculating and has no data to backup his claims.

Also RAM does not use much power. See here - http://www.buildcomputers.net/power-consumption-of-pc-compon... This is very old data. Newer RAM will use even less
It can run on non-Apple hardware.
To save others from having to Google this, it's a Cowboy Bebop reference: http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Jamming_with_Edward
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Are you counting the costs of shipping yourself to the store, and then shipping yourself plus the product back home?

There have been a lot of times that I've paid shipping and handling on something that would be far less than the costs in gasoline of driving to the store and back.
That statement is a little dramatic, but these sorts of things have severe impact.

Upstate NY is a great example -- property taxes are oppressive, and while property does sell, the value is kneecapped because the tax costs are so high. In my city, a house in a nice area valued at $200k (which is a 3-4 BR, 1-2 BA house) is taxed around $6000-6500. So a typical homebuyer who needs a mortgage automatically loses around $550/mo in buying power. In a suburban area, those taxes are $4500-5000, which boosts the value.

At the macro level, it's more insidious. With multifamily property, there's little incentive to maintain property, so the business model in urban areas is to suck as much value out of the property as possible, stop paying the taxes and let the county sell it at auction. The lower tier of scum landlord buys these properties, restores them to minimum code compliance and rents them to subsidized tenants.
“Hello world” programs
Toolkits always had their own implementation of widgets, that's not even Linux or X11 specific. The same applies to Windows and macOS: ever noticed that MS Office has different widgets than Photoshop? The only difference is, that Windows and macOS had one or more widget libraries supplied with the system and synced look&feel for them, while there was no canonical widget library or l&f for X11.

Title bars are up to compositor (it was up to window manager in X11). Even client side window decorations (i.e. mostly title bar combined with toolbar) are nothing new, if that is what you mean with custom implementation of window titlebars.
It's because they're using a stricter form of https, which fails if your company messes with the certs (I'm guessing proxy problems).

This is what it looks like for me:

> Certificate Error
There are issues with the site's certificate chain (net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID).

Issued To

Common Name (CN)	blog.torproject.org
Organisation (O)	<Not Part Of Certificate>
Organisational Unit (OU)	<Not Part Of Certificate>

Issued By

Common Name (CN)	$my_company Web Gateway
Organisation (O)	$my_company
Organisational Unit (OU)	$my_company_infrastructure_unit
Researchers create technology to detect bad bots in social media
App Deployment Monitoring Now Available
> I am sure there is a correlation between pay level and understanding of security

Good, then maybe you can see a path forward to stop arguing the opposite?

Yes, it is possible to pay a lot for a little. Developed country, less developed country, wherever. It remains, nevertheless, relatively less expensive to hire an inexperienced coder than it is to hire an experienced one, who has a greater likelihood of being security-conscious. But no formal mechanism prevents the inexperienced coder from finding work cranking out unreviewed programs.
There is a gender gap in extremely high math SATs but it is closing quickly
What about the mass murder weapon you drive to the mall in? We gonna ban cars the next time someone plows through the waiting line for the new shiny at 100 MPH??
http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/11/01/study-finds-wide-exposur...
University Startup Exits: The Good, the Bad, and the Off the Charts (Literally)
> not sure if you'll see things like sd card readers disappear anytime soon

I hope they don't. I love to open my camera, put the SD card in my computer and copy all the pictures.

The camera also has a WiFi chip, which would let me download pics and control it with a very invasive mobile app (lots of unnecessary permissions). I just disabled it. Needless to say the desktop application runs only on Windows and Mac. I could have installed it in a VM but the SD card is just faster.
> We'll have fewer deaths, but much, much nastier ones.

How do you quantify "nastier"? I couldn't really say.

Meanwhile, I can quantify "fewer deaths". And I'd try to achieve that first.
Blockchain to be used on Myanmar stock exchange
It seems like the areas are really limited. Best I could find for my central Mass location was "Greater Boston Area" which really skews the numbers up (obviously cost of living in Boston is higher)
> And that is only in the interest of Google, not the customers

Long term, it's in the interest of the customers as well - that's the only way to encourage ocmpanies to be releasing fixes sooner!
Sounds like a bargain. Why shouldn't I pick up a property in Athens, right now? Are you talking about prime property locations in Athens?
It seems by "Open Platform" they mean shoving all your data onto their chat platform, basically an open API. That definitely is not an open platform in my book, as you can't federate, run your own, etc.
The UK also has a Stamp Duty tax when property is purchased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_duty_in_the_United_Kingd...
I was let go two weeks ago from a small downtown, Austin dev shop. I was let go because they couldn't afford to keep me on anymore. I could see the decline in the company as it was happening so it wasn't a huge surprise. Still sucks. Now I'm scrambling to get my tech stack up to date and find new work.
Not too many people can build such a thing in their garage...
> but the malware authors get one now famous 0-day.

They already had that. That's what active exploitation means. It's not a 0-day after it's known.

> And that is only in the interest of Google, not the customers.

Sure. Just like newspapers report misconduct and it's only in the interest of themselves, not their customers. You seem to be under the impression that companies will endeavor to fix the problems as quick as possible no matter what, and that public exposure won't change that timeline at all. History tells a different story

Edit for your edit:

> 0-days are carefully guarded and have high price.

They are carefully guarded because every use risks discovery of the exploit which reduces its value. Being identified in the wild to the level seen here, or at least to the degree of importance here, indicates that the can't already out of the bag. You can assume being used in a high level attack like this effectively eliminates it as a zero day at some point, as forensics will be done. I wouldn't be surprised if the exploit was dumped to the general malware public as soon as the hack was made public, which also helps to obscure the origin slightly.

> The moment Google publishes the details, the whole malware community has an access to something that is provably 0-day working exploit. The difference is huge, more orders of magnitude, up to every script kiddie.

You act like we can reliably make predictions about what will happen if not released. It's entirely possible it could, would or has been dumped to the greater malware community already, and not releasing the details will just allow those same script kiddies access to a populace that hasn't had a chance to mitigate the attacks.

When presented with the option to keep information about danger to the greater populace secret or take it live when taking it live allows people to take their own actions to protect themselves, you take it live. Preventing people from taking their safety into their own hands by hoarding the information is immoral. It actively prevents them from protecting themselves.
You really want a higher-level API in most cases, and these are almost exclusively written in C/C++. Also in Go, there's a certain overhead when calling C functions.
There are massive incentives to lie about how much you make. It's not hard to imagine this tool will be used by HR compensation experts to determine wage parity. With that in mind, the higher the average, the better positioned you will be to negotiate a higher salary, therefore everyone who reports how much they make is ultimately incentivized to state more than they make in hopes of driving up the wage index for their field.
The desktop client without having to have my phone around is useful too.
>Don't ever rely on your own perception of what's intuitive to evaluate a user experience

Really great line, i liked that a lot.
How large? How fast?

Unless it's ridiculous, I can't see even counter rate being that high.
And when she has them, it'll be something different ridiculous. Seriously, this is what whatsapp is for. I don't see why we have to dump down EVERYTHING for those people.

From my own experience the biggest reason is that "my friends are elsewhere". I force my gf to use signal, her mother started to use it too because of that and because she wants to have PC problems solved by me. Same goes for other people that want to interact with me through an communication app like Signal. Other just have to call or write an SMS. Those functions are still there.
Got a contract, it took awhile for a response but found it on HN.
The 13" is 3 pounds. The 15" is 4, kbutler even reminded you to look at the right one.
Yes. I linked it to show how a web client can run requests in parallel using Rust's tokio and futures libraries. If anyone makes a similar implementation, it might go in tokio-hyper/examples ( https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-hyper/tree/master/examples ) or near rust-wget to add more of wget and curl's wrapped functionality.
I imagine that applies if there is no evidence that the bug is being exploited. When evidence exists that it is being exploited perhaps it doesn't apply.
I played around a bit and didn't find it too useful. The folks at step.com (previously posted on HN) produce something that is much more useful for me:
https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...
Building a Trusted Open Source Software Supply Chain with OpenChain
I was reached out to by almost every single company that I approached (NYC) and finally ended up accepting an offer.

If I can make a recommendation, go for the companies that supply personal email addresses. If they don't supply them, go find them.
As an OSS contributor, I _do_ begrudge him for it - and this is why.

If you were to email Elementary and ask for support with a non-working 'sg' kernel module, I would be highly surprised if they offered you any support. More likely, they would tell you to contact one of the authors, who did not receive one dime for our work. He takes your money, and shirks off supporting you to people that _didn't_ take your money.

edit: typo
I was actually very surprised at the amount of folks that simply didn't respond _at all_ -- meaning not even an _acknowledgement_.

The folks that I did hear back from were great, though. Nothing ever actually worked out in my case, though.
There are adblocking plugins available now, yes. Though last time I checked uBlock Origin wasn't one of them, unfortunately.
The iMac and the Floppy Drive: A Conspiracy Theory (1998)
And who is to stop a software company from doing the opposite? If they want lower wages, they could spam a region with fake workers with lower wages.
A supercomputer just made a movie trailer.  what it came up with
> There's no need to know the actual details of exploit to provide workarounds

Your premise is wrong - there is a need. The details can be used to create signatures for anti-malware software and IDSes by 3rd parties who are nimbler than Microsoft.

Additionally, there is more to be worried about than just workarounds: some organisations do full-take packet capture archiving and might be interested to know if they were hacked via this flaw (retrospectively) before (more) data is exfiltrated, the sooner they are made aware of an actively-exploited bug, the better.

> ... If they don't, everybody has to wait for Microsoft anyway, but the malware authors get one now famous 0-day

Wrong again: there is no need to wait for Microsoft for the reasons I mentioned above. Before this, only the bad guys knew about the exploit, now the good guys also know about it and may work to mitigate it. We have no idea how well-known this exploit was in underground forums, so it is hard to quantify how many more bad guys know it for certain.
It may be the greatest thing in the world but when you click through to the price/buy page you get the ever craptastic line: "Please write us from your corporate e-mail address for details on PVS-Studio prices." In other words, too expensive for consideration outside the fortune 500.

No, I don't want to negotiate a price, discuss my use case, or provide any information as to how I would be using the product in order to get a price. Can you imagine buying a house, a car, a most anything else like this?! "So, are you planning to eat that gallon of ice cream yourself or are you going to give it to kids at a birthday party? A party ... maybe we can work out a deal."
IT Jobs Watch surveys recruiters for permanent roles data and contractors quotes for rates.

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
There is a desktop client. It's packaged as a Chrome app. Some people downthread think a "decent" desktop app must be (more) standalone. You seem to think a "decent" desktop app should live inside a browser tab. It's hard to make everybody happy. People need to stop claiming there is no desktop app just because the very clearly existing one does not fulfill their own arbitrary set of criteria.

I don't know if you can sign out within Signal desktop (I assume you can, but I can't verify at the moment); you can sign out existing Signal sessions from within the mobile app.

The phone number is Signal's account identifier. You don't see somebody else's phone number because you've got them on Signal, you're seeing them on Signal because you've got their phone number. So you're worried about people having access to your phone number who already have access to your phone number. Signal using phone numbers as account identifiers has it's issues, this is not one of them.
If you think that, then you don't have any idea of what a fully working desktop stack for GUI developers looks like.

GTK+ is no competition for these APIs:

https://developer.apple.com/reference/
Your #2 benefit is "Ping pong"?! Your career page shows a picture of a ping pong table in the same room as a bunch of desks. That sounds like hell.

https://www.okta.com/company/careers/
Well, I was asking in general about all those new features that are in consideration: cancelation tokens, try...else, even the await.cancelToken meta-property [1]. It feels like a lot of baked-in syntactic support for a very specific pattern =/

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises/blob/ma...
Yes! Using every day for ~3 years. Thinking of going even further with treadmill desk.

My story about it here: https://www.fitnessblip.com/how-standing-desk-can-change-you...
Ah!

But this will correlate one file to that person and will not be able to correlate multiple file requests that they all belong to the exact same person.
My team ended up hiring a candidate found through the Who's Hiring post. I found the resumes I got to be better than those I get from HR on average.