skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mostly google employees reading hn these days would be my guess.

anything that suggests google isnt and never was the "do no evil" company and is rather just another pyschopathic corporate machine will just attract the wrath of said psychopathic corporate machine.
All we can do is guess, but maybe they're retiring AppleScript specifically, rather than automation support generally?

Yosemite added JavaScript for Automation (JXA)[1]. Very few people actually enjoy writing AppleScript, I think most see it as a noble but failed experiment in human-language syntax. Perhaps this is just a sign that Apple's removing AppleScript altogether in favour of JavaScript?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7862973
I actually gave this quite some thought after talking with a friend about the up-and-coming startup he was working for. Recently they just received a 20 mil series A funding and yeh...they're burning cash (mass hirings, searching for a new location, etc.).

The thing is, the CEO has started his own company twice and sold both (this was his third company) so we both assume he knows what he's doing.

In the scenario of the CEO, I feel like his plan is this, and only this:

"high risk, high reward"

"live fast, die young"

Are these the correct thoughts for a serial entrepreneur (who is also sorta like an investor)?

*edit, funding was actually for series A not B
That rephrases this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Yes, I know there are a few people who have said "He is fine, trust us", but it would take all of 2 seconds for him to send a message himself, a picture, a video clip, stand by the window, or go on the balcony, and there has now been a very long, uncharacteristic time window where he has not done this. He has many means of communication, regularly has visitors, and has a very legitimate reason for doing it (to silence all the people who are concerned, constantly Tweeting at them, calling to cease donations, etc.) - so the fact he hasn't is worthy of our suspicion.

EDIT - I really did mean "didn't want to start full discussion", because there apparently is a whole lot more circumstantial evidence, including regarding some of the people you mentioned (like some members of his legal team being barred entry), but seriously, I'm going to leave the fullness of that discussion for Reddit, and think anyone who is interested in it should take it up there.
I'm moving my personal domains over to Route53. DYN's standard service is pretty expensive as it is.
I'm not super familiar with Capistrano, but you can provision systems and databases with Fabric. I'm still very doubtful of the utility of these more heavyweight technologies relative to the simpler ones for all but a very small subset of organizations. To me, it reeks of people trying to make simple things much more complicated. I haven't used Kubernetes. I tried docker and never understood why people would use it over an ordinary VM and some reusable deployment scripts.
It could be very useful for docs sites, blogs, coding books. Anything where ease-of-authoring is the highest priority. You could maintain it in markdown but also inject your custom components for examples or bits of interactivity.
We're using Ghost as our blogging platform with deliberate constraints. Constraints aside, if you notice throughout the article, I'm using Codepen to help visualize the edits as I make them. This helps reinforce the concepts and is pretty low friction. I also provide the link at the end so readers can follow along. Thanks for reading!
When we're spoonfed consumerism from the outset and lobbyists run the Government and each of the regulatory agencies have private industry leaders cycling through director positions. Planned obsolescence and consumerism keeps everyone keeping up with the Jones's... "it's not about wake up sheeple." Honestly, I couldn't care what people think, each to their own. Just some awareness of what goes on and some critical reading before saying "we're better than they are" goes a long way - but very few people do.
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>6 months living expenses is on the high side

Not at all. Whatever causes the emergency is likely to come with unexpected costs of its own, so 6 months salary is more of a minimum in my opinion.
Uh huh.

Or you know, he's already rich.
Only a question of time, really.
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Trying working at a startup in a heavily regulated industry, such as finance or telecommunications. It becomes obvious very quickly why those industries converge around large players, and that reason is a huge regulatory hurdle to even get started.
They will direct traffic to your site on ddos if it will affect their infrastructure in free plan. And this will not protect you from level7 ddos.
I like this saying, but can't track down a reference to it. Pointers?
Because companies (at least corporations) are people according to tax law, silly. =)
Second that. Excellent uptime and pricing. Can't recommend them enough.
I don't think there's an equivalent to Bigtable anywhere. It's so badass it's not even funny - take a look at [0] - a small team of engineers took O(weeks) to build a system that clocks 56 million qps (and these aren't simple bits - 56 million FIX protocol trades and orders).

You can think of Hbase as a clone of Bigtable, if that helps. Bigtable is actually exposed through the Hbase API. /u/mbrukman here is the PM for Bigtable.

[0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/financial-servi...
> Do you want me to make a crappy guess based on the crappy data you provided?

No, I had zero problem with your response (assuming it was genuine). As I said, it sounds like you are avoiding the question, however avoiding making those associations is the correct response.

Anyway, I was not asking if you thought they where guilty or anything. This was a friend of mine and he had zero problem admitting what happened.
>UK is more status/class conscious

Can you give an example of what this means? I'm a programmer and I have friends that are mechanics, lawyers, teachers, doctors, accountants, electricians, radio engineers, server-cpu designers, etc. Some of us live in McMansions while others of us live in 1 bedroom apartments or anything in between.

Would our jobs determine what status/class we belong to in the UK? Or is this based more on your family background (aristocracy)? In the UK would we not be as likely to be friends if we belong to different status/classes?
China and India don't pose a problem since Pinyin uses standard ASCII characters and neither Chinese characters nor Brahmic scripts have any symbols that resemble ASCII characters.
I don't scam GoogleFi.

BUT I have no clue on what google doesn't like next. There were not rules and regulation on their service terms. If I put money in Bank and Credit card company, I know there is consumer credit protection act.

I know so such law to protect me from and $ in in Google or Paypal's account. There isn't even a phone # to call for these "services" at this time.
If you want Medium, why not use Medium?
> Given that this is no economics site

Well, we were talking about economics. I wouldn't find it necessary to hold back technical jargon on a forum not specifically about tech if the topic in question was tech.

> and that no parent gave reference to FMV

And what do you think compensation represents, exaclty? That's right, someone's established market value.

> that quote is so far from reality that it's pointless to even consider

What quote? Fair market value? What formal definition do you go by?

> Surely you should be able to put that part into the context of a worker?

Yes, although we've already discussed that to death, surely? Without a union, each person has the fair opportunity to make their own choices to their own benefit, including undercutting the next guy to ensure getting the job over the next guy. With a union, the people must be employed under the terms of the union, and do not have fair opportunity to make their own choices for their own benefit, like undercutting the next guy to secure the job.

This is a good thing. Fair is harmful. You don't want the next guy undercutting you, as that's what drives down value, reduces compensation, encourages you to take dangerous risks, and so on. I still find it difficult to fathom that you are in support of a fair labour market where anyone can do those things. We have a long history before unions to see what happens when the market is fair. It's not pretty.

> Ehm, profits?

But there's no pressure, right? Walmart doesn't have to change a thing if they don't want to. With no pressure, why would profits change? The market is fair, according to you, after all.

> Why does this matter to you?

Because it might help me figure out where you are coming from. Are you anti-union? I'm staring to get the impression that you are. Why do you support a fair market when the downsides are abundantly clear?
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This is absolutely key!

"No scientific evidence this product works" does not mean the same thing as "this product does not work!" People confusing the two is very harmful.

It could mean, for example, "there is plausible mechanism of action but there hasn't been much research on the topic [for whatever reason]" or it could mean "there's absolutely no known mechanism of action, it doesn't make physiological sense, and a century of research has proved it doesn't work." These two statements are obviously not the same!
Because theres no perfect solution at the moment we have opted for a 4 disk setup, and mirror them all using ZFS. We also do 10 minute snapshots, and incremental snapshot backups (to S3).

Feels safe enough for our needs. Before this we didn't have 10 minute snapshots of all our data so this has actually allowed us to recover from dev errors as well (if they were to happen).

We do have our DB running in a container + mounted volumes that use the above configuration.
It has a simple-to-use interface as well as Markdown support, and it allows adding details to each checklist item. These and other features help you structure tasks all through implementation. And it's free! https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1215277
There is server side templating and asynchronously loaded js. Just because it loads quickly and efficiently and without massive js bloat does not mean it isn't useful or dynamic
every now and then people get the idea to build a visual programming language, meaning that you don't have to write code but instead make a bunch of boxes and arrows to indicate programmatic flow ( and probably have to write some code inside of a box or something but at least the whole program flow is really clear). Dr Dobbs used to always have articles highlighting implementations - for example http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/visual-progra...

My comment might sound like I'm against it, not exactly though, it's a fascinating idea (the first time I saw anything about it I though wooooo, this is the future!!!) but whenever I get into it I just find it awful and confusing.
I wonder how many of these cheap things are going to get plugged in this holiday season with default login/passwords.
You probably haven't sent out ambitious enough solicitations. Like, if your response rate is that good for CS roles, you likely could have busted your ass for getting multiple competing offers from companies with gigantic piles of cash, or much more senior positions, or finding a business co-founder with good skills and connections.
The median for software development in San Francisco is about $120k [1]; this means that even experienced developers are getting paid around this amount. Sort by the highest salary and you'll see Twitter, Dropbox, etc.

It looks like Square starts at about 100k for a new grad (uni degree). Seems high but it's more credible than $120k for a bootcamp grad.

Remember that median rent for a 1 bedroom in a non-trendy area is around $2900/month [2,3] and taxes should take about 39% of salary at that level of income. It is far more expensive to live in San Francisco than most of Europe.

1. http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=software&city=SAN+FRAN...

2. https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/...

3. http://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/23/13034910/san-francisco-rent-a...
Your comment is a distraction, not a contribution. People came here to discuss whether a warrant canary had died, not to hear you trot out security 101 cliches.
MySQL is rubbish compared to many things (seriously. It's kind of amazing), although I won't discount how useful is, and how much Oracle has made the situation better.

The JVM stuff and virtualbox are both pretty good. I don't know how Oracle has refrained from mucking them up.

But if there's any product that you actually have to pay for, Oracle has screwed it up.
Part of how Microsoft got into a bad spot was refusing to end-of-life anything. The hardest choice in making products is what not to build and what to take away. Apple cannot maintain an infinite number of components, so I find this type of argument unconvincing. If this feature is so important I need to see numbers. How many people are using it? The thing is, Apple probably already knows this from system analytics and they know that they are better off putting 50 engineers on facetime and zero on this. If you want to argue a feature is important, show me numbers. They cannot please everyone.
You can still generate them from a Microsoft site:

https://www.microsoft.com/tag/m/Make.htm

There are some phone apps in the wild still that will read and/or generate them.

At one point circa 2010 there was an https://tag.microsoft.com homepage for them, but trying it just now it doesn't seem to resolve any more.
Chinese people will be fine since all Chinese URLs are either ASCII compliant or use Chinese characters, which can't be confused with any ASCII characters.

Russians would definitely be pissed though.
Or at least care enough to update them more than once a quarter... worse than useless, since those Unspeakable Agencies will have had their fill of information by then. And then the canary dies and people panic into moving their hosting to 'stay private'.
It's just applying a function to a tagged template literal at compile-time instead of run-time, but it doesn't change the semantics of the language. Calling it a one-off language is hyperbole. Think of it as a compiler optimization step.

You bring up a good point with the hard-coded name though. Instead of hardcoding in the pragma it should probably check the name in the require. This wouldn't be difficult to add, and the project is only two days old.
> if (!this.recording) return;

This is the key I was missing in my implementation. Another challenge is wiring this up to multiple OscillatorNodes - the docs say a ScriptProcessorNode can only have one input. In my implementation I create a new OscillatorNode whenever you press a key.
"Windows 10's protections are an inconvenient subset of EMET's"
That's encouraging innovation, but it's innovation specifically related to the regulation. It's a bit like saying, the best way to help people climb to higher ground is to first drop them into a pit.
> The first is less likely to require debugging in the first place.

I'm all for functional languages but this scares me a bit. What do you do when you need to debug something and everything ends up being harder to debug but "less likely to need debugging." I've actually run into this situation a number of times and faced with a sea of linked compound expressions, debugging can be a daunting proposition.
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So long as OSA sticks around, it'd be hard to shed a tear over AppleScript - you can use saner languages to do everything Applescript does through OSA. AppleScript is a complete abomination of a language. Killing OSA would be a terrible idea though. Not enough information to really know what's happening, regardless.
I've done this twice and both times it was a pretty positive experience on the whole, but I made sure to be really open about stuff and ask questions where I thought they were appropriate. I would imagine the experience really comes down to the company, the interviewers, etc - but I figure if they're going to be watching me code it's now pair programming and I treat it as such.

That being said, tech interviewing in almost all current forms sucks and we need a better method. As has been said for years now.
The average age in my class was 28. People weren't ex-baristas. They were people from various backgrounds, often technical-related. I was a Math and Econ double major with a minor in applied statistics, then spent 6 years in finance doing equities trading. I was drastically more qualified than the average 22 year old with a CS degree.
Honestly, considering human nature, it's better to have someone to yell at (sorry, reps) and ask for the boss than sending e-mails to a black hole (Google).
I had no idea that existed. It had honestly never occurred to me to render markdown in the server
It's the same post, not a duplicate.
>>when I say full stack I mean "literally full stack" as in I have a working level of knowledge with every piece of the system from hardware/kernel to networking to databases to application

That seems like an impossible definition to fulfill by most humans today, though. I mean, how "deep" do you take it? Pre-processed code? Assembly code? Object/Machine code?

Computers today (especially server-based systems) are so massively complex that I don't see anyone possessing working knowledge of "literally" the entire stack.

And then there's the question of the depth of one's knowledge. I'd argue that the more you spread it out, the thinner it gets at each level of the stack, just by virtue of the fact that one has only so much time to spend on learning, practicing and keeping their skills up-to-date.
Tim Cook was supposed to be a logistics guy. "In parallel" should be his thing. To have years in between updating products is the opposite of what I expected to happen. Thought he'd put Apple on a schedule with periodic updates, like ducks in a row. This plus the lack of vision is sad for a company that had both.

EDIT: And look at Tim's wikipedia page, there's a quote: "You kind of want to manage it like you're in the dairy business. If it gets past its freshness date, you have a problem"
I'm not very sympathetic to some who are hyperventilating over this.

Yes, Net Neutrality is important.

But if you're on Team Pepsi, you shouldn't be very happy when your captain makes things happen due to technicalities and the ability to skirt Congress; Team Coke is going to be in charge at some point and all of these easily-implemented changes are so easily undone.

So now Team Coke is going to be running things, and the very means by which Team Pepsi got what they wanted will quite possibly be the same means by which they are removed.

The hand-wringing is over the wrong thing, and years too late. The focus should have been in placing proper legislative protections in place when the political environment was favorable.

This possibility was predictable and, given enough time, inevitable.
Perhaps I'm doing this wrong but when I try to verify the gpg signature I get

gpg: Signature made Tue Aug 16 01:01:19 2016 EDT using RSA key ID 139A768E

gpg: Good signature from "Riseup Networks <collective@riseup.net>" [unknown]

gpg: aka "Riseup Treasurer <treasurer@riseup.net>" [unknown]

gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!

gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.

Primary key fingerprint: 4E07 9126 8F7C 67EA BE88 F1B0 3043 E2B7 139A 768E
Requiring a browser implies that the device has a full web stack on it, including one of Perl, PHP, or Node.js. That's the last thing I want on my WiFi router, or any router!

As annoying as it is for some, the configuration interface for Apple AirPort used a simple SNMP interface. Now, lots of SNMP software has had bugs and remote exploits, but all things being equal it's a much simpler interface to export and requires shipping less code, not least because it doesn't have to support a GUI, directly or indirectly.

That said, I always configure my WiFi router (AirPort or w'ever) in bridging mode and put them behind my gateway. And I try to disable any web GUI entirely if at all possible. People who use the built-in WiFi capabilities of their Cable or DSL modems are begging to be hacked.
> Better-quality devices will almost certainly be better protected against this kind of thing, and may for example block all incoming traffic until they’re paired with another device and set up manually. Still, this is a good reminder that it really is a jungle out there.

This seems like a bold claim, unless they define "better quality".
Both freshwater and saltwater would agree with the comment I replied to. freshwater and saltwater econ differ in their approach to macro models. Both sides broadly agree on general equilibrium theory as kind of first order approximation, and the post was a summary of general equilibrium theory.

Which side do you think would disagree or are you just trying to bluff me out with technical terms you don't fully understand?

As to funding, can you point to major sources of funding for academic econ research that would introduce bias?
But they can please the right type of people. You know, the users who talk about your product all day long to anyone you asks and end up bringing all of their relatives onboard. You want those too, and raw numbers won't let you know who they are.
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Maybe it helps that I have customer service experience myself? All I can say is that I've never had trouble with them. But I suspect that'll change as soon as anything happens that can't be solved by Tier 1 or a truck roll.
What good is a warrant canary if it's also used for whimsy or commercial speech? If they don't take it seriously enough for people know what it means then their system isn't worth using to start with.
I don't think Apple needs to up its game. I think it needs to put some of the gray hairs out to pasture. If I see another video of Jony Ive looking soulfully into the camera telling me that I really really don't need USB and MagSafe because the future ...

Love my SE. Love my Mid 2014 MBP. Don't need a watch.
labs.riseup.net is home to the git repo for Tails.
How do you wash stuff? This list seems to include everything except ... the kitchen sink.
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I wonder if the EU will investigate this as they did with IE and the European Union Microsoft competition case[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Interesting play for Oracle. Dyn was in the news a lot lately due to IoT type DDoS vectors, are these thing connected? Is Dyn looking at some sort of lawsuit with regard to 'enabling'?
Exactly.

The challenge now is to predict whether society in 50 years is going to look more like "Idiocracy" or "The Walking Dead".

Either way, I don't foresee a good future for the human race.

Hopefully, in some parallel universe, humans have avoided this fate, and are continuing the trajectory of the Enlightenment, and will proceed to exploring the stars, going where no one has gone before.
Make sure to be diligent in checking the terms for that LOC. Many banks reserve the right to cancel it if there's substantial change in your financial situation, e.g. if you were to lose your job.

Make sure your emergency fund remains accessible if you get into an emergency.
On what basis? If there was an "aware" AI program, it would be just as "aware" in a silicon computer as it would be in a marble computer (albeit much more slow).
One is a matter of international standardization of a protocol. Another is a matter of client side security for a certain type of user.
I can only imagine the company sourcing these displays thought that was a typo. It's such a crazy aspect ratio.

In another universe that touchbar would be used to relentlessly hound people with advertising since a classic 468x60 ad would snug right in there.