skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VC/exponential growth increase risk of exploding the whole company.

In alternative reality:

1. They could hire way less aggressive and stay lean. Product development will be much slower, but they can operate cash flow positive.

2. With Kickstarter/pre-orders they could avoid taking any serious VC funding.

3. They probably need to move less expensive region than SF Bay Area. SF is great for go big or go home, but not an ideal place for long-term sustainable business.

4. Probably the price of watches would be higher and they will be niche, but still there are tons of watch manufactures that survived decades.
Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes: Container Orchestrators Compared
I'll trade verbosity for braces and no significant whitespace any day of the week.
There's a scale. ;) But yeah, still making those wristbands!
Speed of light was first calculated in 1676 and with the help of Jupiter
Which one? Also, is that with a connection to your phone or data service so you get push notifications? Can you run custom apps on it?

My quick perusal of Suunto's site seems to indicate their watches are more like a fancy fitbit then a smart watch.
My first thought when scrolling through it. This is a great example of what makes Python such a nice language.
Is there an alternative out there right now with comparable battery life and features? It looks like I won't be receiving my next pebble so I am looking for something similar.
That is a bribe. They initiated the issue, so why can't they provide a mechanism to explain your situation to a reasonable human being?

Customer support should not be considered "noise".
I don't usually get upset about this stuff, business is business, but with my outstanding time 2 and core orders, I am definitely feeling bamboozled.

I always thought of pebbles fighting fitbits, the watch for 'us' vs the trackers for everyone. The open platform vs the locked in, the device that got just what you wanted done vs the not-really-a-watch.

It seemed like with pebble health and their relationship with Stanford things were on the up and up. Now ending warranties and such a trying to be nice but not really announcement. I expect nothing from fitbit. This sucks.
In some cases they have more info than official websites. For example for Asus Zenbook UX305UA they have info about two models -AS51 and -FC001T. Asus official website does not have these details (http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-UX305UA/specifica...)
That offer seems unlikely since that would have been a substantial portion of Citizen's market cap.
I do this to keep my internet histories separated by hobbies/business/personal. I have seven different Chrome "Users" open right now.
One thought:

FitBit's customer service with me has been nothing but exceptional from start to finish, and is the reason I have bought several for family members.

I would hope that FitBit would recognize the loyalty they create based on this quality of service could be magnified by grandfathering Pebble's various services and by maintaining them, while helping Pebble users to transition at their convenience. This would allow Pebble users to continue to have functioning Pebble watches, with the likelihood of sticking with FitBit once the watch does finally break.
man ulimit?
It's worth being clear that statically typed languages don't have to be this verbose, this is a Java peculiarity. In Scala you write code that looks very much like Python.
+1 for comparing to Trantor rather than Coruscant
If you don't enforce your copyright or trademark, you lose it. That's likely what this is: Some lawyer saw that DoomRL was using Zenimax property and got all excited about it.
Same here. Switched to Brother and am never looking back.
>"If you know Java learning C++ is easy"

Yes, because [smart] pointers, memory [de]allocation and all that stuff is just as easy as "new Object()" and forget the rest. Not to mention the Java collections library vs. STL.
Statistics are like bikinis: they show a lot but what they can hide is significant too.

Fatalities overall have fallen and continue to fall, largely due to increased use of seatbelts, other safety features in cars improving and being more commonly available. Also in many areas the overcrowding of roads is making fatalities drop: if you can't get up to any sort of speed then and collisions you experience will be less likely to be fatal!

But accidents due to being distracted by technology (and therefor the number of fatalities as a proportion of that) are, according to a number of studies, on the increase.
If you run a business through Amazon or rely on the money generated by these links, then you're in a very dire position if your account gets suspended until Amazon fixes the issue.

How would you feel if someone had a gripe with your cellphone provider or bank and got your accounts suspended until their issue was resolved? How would that impact your life? What if it took weeks or months to resolve?
> I'd love to start a company that offered this sort of communication AS A SERVICE.

My company does exactly this (mostly for multilingual support), and I'm pretty sure it's pretty common (and in some cases exceedingly disliked by customers -- I'm looking at you, offshore support) to outsource your phone customer service.
In the mean time, Talk Talk advise their customers that there is "no need" to change their passwords: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38223805
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Well, personally I'd say "keep the styling and scripting to a minimum, don't make it a single-page app at all, and just load the whole page when you need it."

But if I were charge of a magazine and ran it that way, it would quickly die from lack of ad revenue, oh well. :/
There is also a Category V, which requires twice the study hours of Category IV (2200 hours) [1].

Last I heard, Category V was an unofficial level, and Korean was the only language in the category. It seems they made it official and shifted the languages around (interestingly, German is only language in Category II, now. And Japanese is considered more difficult than Korean.)

[1]: http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang...
Having recently tried to read a lot of old-ish research (10 years maybe, that's old for malware research), I really appreciate the value of the Wayback machine / Archive.org team. Donated €15 at some point just to feel a little better and will decide on another donation later. Was about to post the same link!
> In our job application frontend we don't even require logins or passwords. Only after you have finished your application and confirmed the privacy agreement we send an email with a confirmation link, only then you can add a password to follow the progress of the application, but even that is optional.

I noticed smartrecruiters.com follow this format and it was such a pleasant experience using it.
That's not necessarily accurate. The smaller mortgage BROKERS will likely sell your loan to the highest bidder. If you go with a small town bank, they're often self-funding the loans and won't ever sell them off (which is exactly why I went with a small-town bank). Every small bank I've ever dealt with was extremely easy to work with and up-front about whether or not they'll sell the loan.
'gzip --rsyncable' for gzip.

I couldn't find the equivalent for 7z in a quick glance. It supports at least 5 compression algorithms so there is probably not a general option. Maybe one has to play with the advanced settings per algorithm, if they support it.
Xerox failed to profit directly, because the Alto was designed as a hyped-up minicomputer to compete with systems from DEC and IBM - a reasonable choice, because that's what business computing looked like back then.

Xerox didn't lack the commercial understanding to sell Alto+spinoffs, it lacked the understanding to realise you could build a developer ecosystem to support your hardware and make it the de facto standard.

DEC and IBM didn't understand this either. Gates and Jobs totally understood it, which is why Windows became a business standard and the Mac became the only serious business/home alternative.

But Xerox still did okay, because the use of GUI software transformed office culture and made it much more visual - which meant very steady sales of copiers and printers.

Xerox's stock price climbed steadily through the 1990s while paper remained a thing.

After the dot com crash, GUIs and screens had evolved to the point where paper became non-essential, and Xerox never entirely recovered - although you can still find a few people who print out and file all their emails.

tl;dr Xerox did very nicely indeed from Alto etc in an indirect way, for at least a decade or so.
Interestingly, while the C# language uses static dispatch by default, it is at least the case that Microsoft's compiler always emits the `callvirt` instruction[1]. This is because the language spec requires that a method call to a null instance of a reference type must throw a NullReferenceException, and callvirt is apparently the cheapest way to do that on the CLR.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericgu/2008/07/02/why-does-...

[2] §6.1 of the C# language spec.
Show HN: Ndm – Npm Desktop Manager
Spotify – Musical Cities
No mention of the PixelCNN WaveNet VPN ByteNet line of research?
I think your parent means a gamble on the part of Pebble.
What Future Java Might Look Like
Spotify Musical Map of the World 2.0
e.g. a pledge to open source the code base if the company folds?
That's a highly debatable factoid. Milk is in the back of the store because that's where deliveries come in, so it's easier to ensure it stays refrigerated at all times that way.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episo...
I actually did exactly the same thing over a year ago. I needed to download Cynogen nightlies quite frequently which was not feasible at that time as I was on limited data. So I used to download the nigthly on my digitalocean droplet and calculate patch over their. Patch sizes were just around 12MBs. I would then download the patch file and patch the old nightly on my local system. Voila! phone upgraded by downloading just 12MBs! I did thought why Google can't do the same thing with Android applications.:)
Your mortgage contract will undoubtedly include language indicating it can be sold to another company.
Shotput is a YC company that was in the S15 batch that does this. Awesome founders and great company.

https://shotput.com/
If you want to throw a wedge in between you and your family over this that's fine, but you did break it by preventing them from doing what they wanted with their computer.
13 Email Marketing Trends to Follow in 2017: A Sumo-Sized Guide
Right, but I meant a gamble on their side, not the buyers'. Like when MtGox lost their bitcoins and ran as a fractional reserve trying to cover what happened. Or an actual addicted gambler trying to cut their losses by playing more. I wonder when they learned they were going out of business, and if the last Kickstarter was just a Hail Mary...
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When I receive a resume in PDF instead of Word, I count it as a plus for the candidate.
Why I left academia post-PhD for the world of driverless cars
Sites use a pretty complicated pile of ad networks sometimes to try and get the best bang for their buck. You may not always see the same ad network ad in the same box. And something that detects adblockers could run with any of the above.
Hilarious Startup Simulator Game
> Just get the national government to distribute RSA USB keys to every citizen. Then they can use them on public government websites (taxes & jobs stuff) to confirm poeple's identities, just plug in the key. Quick and simple. (And that's not incompatible with ALSO asking for a password that was send in a different paper letter. 2FA-style.).

Estonia does provide S/MIME certificates for every citizen, although I've been told that they're not particularly heavily used.

Between Estonia and the DoD, there's a few million users of S/MIME. Whereas PGP has a few tens of thousands of users. It's clear which product won out in the marketplace.
Do they? How many people do you have to screw over until Amazon takes notice? How long does it take for you to screw over those people?

Suppose it takes 2 months to do and during that 2 month period everyone with a suspended account misses out on any sales of their products on Amazon or any commission from referral links. Suppose some of those people rely on the revenue they get form Amazon to pay their bills.

When Amazon resumes their accounts are they now winners?
I guess the real reason for a scripting language programmer to go Java is that you want to use the JVM?

Otherwise, wouldn't it be simpler to just profile to find the slow places in your existing code -- then rewrite those in C? You can use the scripting language for most code, where it shines -- speed of development. And still get a good speed of execution.

If you need even more speed (you wouldn't really get less memory usage!), then sure... Java is one way to go for a Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP guy. But... when is it the best choice?
I used TurboTax as an example simply because I have the disk siting on my desk right now.
a good idea: let's put our 2.5 yos in the overhead!
Switched from Java to Python as my main moneymaker several years go and I still don't understand why some people have such a big problem with significant whitespace.

You format your code anyway, right? So what's the difference if it actually means something?
Ask HN: Services vs. Products – How to Combine the Two Under One Brand?
Hello HN,

You might know Mobile Jazz[1] already from various other posts[2][3] and comments here on HN. Especially those about remote work, company culture and doing things quite a bit differently than most other companies out there.

We’re originally a pure service provider. We started with app development, then integrated a web dev shop and later on extended our offering to backend development, hardware and in the recent years also medical technology. I believe we’re doing a decent job, as all our work comes by recommendation from people who’ve worked with us before and have been very happy with the result, but also the relationship with our team.

While we’re still pretty much focused on helping others in developing their technologies and products, we’ve also been building quite a lot of internal libraries (most of them are open source) and tools for ourselves as developers, to make our daily work a bit easier, more productive and more fun. The one product that we’ve been actively promoting and that also had quite some traction during the past 12 months is Bugfender[4]. But besides Bugfender, we have additional products in the pipeline, that work technically, but need some more cosmetic work in order to be launched to the public.

The dilemma we’re in right now is the following: we’ve a strong brand (“Mobile Jazz”) that is associated with a successful technology and innovation services company. But now we also see that our products (at least one of them) is having a success that we can't ignore. From a company and team perspective I see no problem in doing both: services and products. However from a branding and marketing point of view, the target audience is a completely different one (“people that are strong in their industry but lack a technical background” vs “developers that need tools to make their day-to-day work easier and more productive”).

...continuing with the question in a comment below due to the 2000 char limit...
I only used Java when I was in school, has the standard changed to always use the boxed type?

for (Integer i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {
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...Continuation of the above question...

So my question is, does it even make sense to put everything under one brand? We’re hesitating to create too many brands, because it means having a lot of duplicated effort for brand-building and marketing. We're also an engineering company at the core and marketing and brand-building is not necessarily what we're good at or enjoy doing.

I currently see the following options:

1) Put both services and products under the name of Mobile Jazz. Products like Bugfender will appear on the website, blog and social streams of Mobile Jazz. The disadvantage is that we’re targeting completely different audiences and the mixed messages might be very confusing.

2) Leave the services branch continue under the name of Mobile Jazz, but create a new separate brand for each product with its own blog and social streams, e.g. bugfender.com. This way the marketing can be very targeted to each specific niche, however the disadvantage is that every product needs a lot of marketing effort despite the shared audience (“developers”).

3) Leave services continue under the name of Mobile Jazz, but create a new umbrella brand for products with its own blog and social streams. This way we can address the shared audience (“developers”) with just one targeted marketing effort. Disadvantage: we’re marketing developers in general, but maybe not enough the niches that our products are for.

Maybe I’m overthinking all this. But I believe someone else must have been in such a situation before. Would be great to get some feedback or maybe just a different perspective.

[1] http://mobilejazz.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9346726

[3] https://mobilejazz.com/blog/working-remotely-from-a-tropical...

[4] https://bugfender.com/

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They say, thanks for fixing all those bugs. They know the bugs exist because they encountered them. Fixing bugs actually looks like work is getting done.

Unlike if you came back to them with a polished product with no bugs, they would be like why am I spending all this money for this time?
I don't know, that may be true, but I saw multiple people walk into target and ask for Pebble's. I was actually astonished when I first saw it, but I was like - "alright, pebble is going to be okay".

This was like six months ago, but it was in SF.
I'm not a lawperson, but can companies really just terminate a warranty like that?
If someone is that concerned perhaps they should have been using an encrypted volume on the flash drive in the first place.
Peek of the studio researching body lg that makes VR characters seem human
They may have bought them for patents though. E-ink display on a watch could be pretty important for fitbit going forward.
we have interac e-transfer which is offered by virtually every bank and credit union in canada and requires only an email address or phone number to use
That may be the excuse you give, but be away that by supporting or using ad blockers, you're feeding a toxic force on the Internet, and drastically hurting good journalism.

Check out Troy Hunt's experience, with his ridiculously unobjectionable sponsor scheme, and the fact that ad blockers have gone out of their way to explicitly block it anyways: https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem...

Even if you believe you only use the ad blocker because of terrible advertisers, you're likely harming legitimate ones as much or more.
Vim already allows you to use :shell. Neovim took it a step further with the added benefit that you can treat the output as buffer text. Just because you can't see the advantages this gives developers doesn't mean it was a waste of time.
> those who...deliver a great product versus those whose primary motivation is publishing

Interesting quote. Federighi seems a tad condescending - in that producing great products and producing publications are mutually exclusive.

Whilst Apple might expect their engineers to toil away anonymously under NDA without much recognition outside the organization, the world of academic research does not work like that at all.

I guess proof of the pudding is in the eating and in my experience with Apple's AI efforts they are far behind their competitors. I for one am glad Apple are going to start publishing research - it should attract talent, foster sharing and ultimately result in better AI products.
Would have been better if they had open sourced the OS and the server code. And the designs for that matter. Obviously the IP is worth quite a bit, but since it doesn't look like FitBit will be producing similar hardware, it sucks to essentially lose these designs and it sucks that at any point FitBit can just shutter the services that make the current watches work.

Also, the Core was going to be awesome. Too bad it didn't happen.
To keep it from turning into a generic trademark[1], I would guess. Aspirin is the classic case of this that I know of. It's the same reason Coca Cola sends representatives to restaurants and when they ask for a coke they make sure you actually bring a coke, or ask if Pepsi is okay if that's what they have. If Coke becomes generic for Cola, then they can lose their right to enforce their trademark. As an example of this happening, apparently in some areas of the US Coke is generic for soda/pop, not just Cola, and it's not not unheard of for someone to ask for a Coke, and when prompted for what type, respond with Sprite.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
codefresh is awesome
That's no longer the case with Nougat. Apps are now interpreted with a JIT compiler and a profile is created for performing optimized AOT compilation when the device is charging and unused for subsequent executions.
Almost all of this is of no practical importance to 'many users'. They're nice-to-haves for technical users.
To be fair to 'people', the flight search engines do a really poor job of permitting sorting by any other variables.

British Airways recently announced that they're modifying their 777 fleet to ten-abreast seating, instead of nine, to bring them into line with other airlines like Air France and Emirates. But if you were browsing similar flights between those airlines you'd never have been told that BA offered an extra two inches of seat-width, so why would you have chosen them?
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Steve I think the critique is a little pessimistic.

Exporting to Word would be simple change if merited, so that is really more of a feature/strategy suggestion rather than evidence the business is fundamentally not viable.

Regarding competing with LinkedIn, it hard to judge without knowing the full vision. OP said this was step 1 towards a platform. Besides LinkedIn does lots of things suboptimally, and other people have built businesses that work along side their ecosystem.

Finally other comments are correct when they say recruiters only want Word to strip your info. Couple fyis on this point:

1) Stripping contact info is not unethical. If a recruiter worked hard to find you and/or build a relationship they should not have to worry about companies using their work to cut them out of a deal.

2) Adding in skills without your knowledge is way unethical. Ask up front if they do this. Some also scrape your resume (and tons more) and submit without you knowing, then if a company is interested they call you and say XYZ company is interested in you. Most people don't complain about this part because its a free job offer, however personally I don't like and always ask what their source was.

3) Having only PDF and not Word is very unlikely to hurt you. If recruiters are interested they will just OCR into Word in about 30 seconds.
The iPhone has a home button, power button, and volume buttons that all move. The Macbook's keyboard is comprised of moving parts. There's also the screen hinge which used to be a very common point of failure in laptops.
As somebody who had to code in Pascal (in this millennia) I just... I'm not sure I can get passed that to enjoy the game. I think this is the moment where I realize that I'm a coding language bigot.
You could argue it certainly, but I suspect it might cost a bit, and you would end up at the bottom of a long list of creditors.