skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it's an SO survey, so 70%+ of the respondents are going to be web devs.
The NPR of blogs?
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> but some companies might ask it to a 10 year old programmer as well..

I'm glad I wasn't interviewing at 10. I could program, but couldn't have handled any of these algorithms.
(edit) WebSockets isn't built on top of HTTP, but it is effectively an extension of HTTP. Not officially of course - then they would have had to get people to agree to an extension, so instead they called it a new protocol. But basically it's an HTTP request that turns into an obfuscated socket.
I don't know anyone who was ever happy when they had to deal with lawyers...
How so? You mean from user access and usability standpoint?

I know I certainly wish there was a Keychain access app like on macOS available for iOS rather than only being able to access passwords via Safari settings.
There is literally a chapter titled "No Silver Bullet."
Unless I missed something, it matches if you don't treat it as a directed graph. Edge (1,6) accounts for both (1,6) and (6,1) in that case.
Its intended as humour, not a rant. Maybe read some of his other stuff, for context.
Probably other companies will step in to manage the inventory and match cars to users, just like existing rental car companies.

Although in the short term, I can see the appeal of selling cars with a built-in ride-share mode. Many current car owners are likely to continue to want to own their own cars. If manufacturers can provide this feature out-of-the-box, it may help drive car sales to people who want to own cars and get "free money".
Not sure about break-even, but Apple notoriously underpays relative to the rest of SV and the caliber of work/time expected.
Its previous edition was required reading for CS 161 at Berkeley. Would that it were required reading in Mountain View.

http://www-inst.cs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa16/

(Yeah, it says optional on the syllabus but Weaver said required in lecture.)
Thanks for the tips! A card limit is something I just discovered recently and a great suggestion.

I also like the idea of having the feature requests in a different view or even different system. I used to collect all features and bugs inside a note-taking app on my mac.

This worked well until I hit 100 or so items. It's true, the important things come up again and again, but sometimes it's a small group of very noisy users, which skew the true numbers. Or it comes from people using your trial, who are not your ideal customers. So I would like to track how many and which users are requesting something. Just to avoid biases and loud users with their edge-cases. What's your experience with this?

Regarding the kanban columns. You know other column systems and workflows, which are maybe more suitable?

Another point we missed out earlier is to review the cards and throw away stale ones.
The problem is it's closer to $100B a year the first decade, acquisition costs are are going to be the big part of it and hey are frontloaded. $800-$900 Billion over a decade is a stupendous amount of money.

Secondly, how can an un-necessary plane be a "backbone"? The nuclear triad is our backbone. The F-22 is more capable than the F-35 in most measures. The F-35 can't dogfight, can't ground support, and is too expensive to be a good fighter bomber.

The reality is it's going to cost less than $1.5T, because it's going to get canceled after three or four hundred planes, and our cost per unit is going to be extraordinary.
http://www.cultofmac.com/280189/icloud-hacker-calls-apples-r...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/a...
Someday, people will live in a world where both errors are funny for the same reason. Right now we've got a lot of cultural baggage we unintentionally picked up over the years. I'm glad most people are aware enough to see it as a disaster, and maybe they're able make some adjustments to their values, slowly influencing our collective cultural values. I doubt i'll ever see it, but hopefully 10 generations down the road, it'll be funny for everyone.

I wish there was a way to make things like that go faster, but it seems like most people have a hard time changing at that level. On the upside, my parents are less racist than my grandparents. I like to think i'm less racist than my parents. The only effective method for that kind of change seems to be the people holding old values just dying off.
You're kind of assuming the conclusion - that children must be educated. If someone needs to learn something in order to meet their needs or fulfill their desires, there's hardly a force in the world that can stop them from picking stuff up. If it doesn't meet their needs or fulfill their desires, then why are you trying to make them learn it anyways?

Setting up an environment that allows children to learn is ridiculously easy. Food, shelter, freedom to explore and experiment, other children and adults to interact with and discover things, more detailed resources if they end up needing math or something to solve a problem, and so forth. Primary schooling costs something like $200k total per student, and this expense could buy a lot of child-focused structure.
Yeah, maybe instead of complaining about that complaining, it would behoove folks to take it seriously and make a study of prior art a part of their workflow. Those cyclical-nature complainers are a great resource for pointers!
Modern apps completely banned JIT back in the Windows 8.x days (except for the CLR which was whitelisted), the APIs/capabilities you mentioned were only added in Windows 10.
Yes. Math is an universal language. Programming languages are either domain-specific by design or you extend them until they become maths again.
And I am still stuck in 720p using Linux.
Diffusing the return is actually good for the radar. If all return goes in one direction and there happens to be no radar receivers in that direction, radar won't detect anything. With diffused return at least some of it is reaching the receivers.

Cell tower signals have higher frequency than VHF, which makes position estimation easier. Cell towers will work for a few days even if power grid goes down. There are too many of them to take out individually. Nuclear blast has EMP powerful enough to burn them, but by that time you probably no longer need stealth.

With access to baseband code in modern cell phones it might be possible to build distributed passive radar surreptitiously. There is enough processing power, exact time and location from GPS, and communication over LTE.
When you want to have a mega-city, you need to make some compromises. The bigger the city, the more you need to restrict citizens from affecting others.

The inconvenient truth about liberalism is that it doesn't scale as well as authoritarianism does. Human nature is a limiting factor and corporate humanity hasn't any good solutions aside from "pass more restrictions". So giving your citizenry the ability to trigger others when your society is inherently unstable is obviously a bad thing.

This is also the Twitter problem- turns out that when you put the entire world in a room with each other, political and cultural differences tend to make that room a particularly bad place to have any meaningful discussion (unless you consider lynch mobs 'meaningful'). Allowing people to disrupt others has a heavy price because they leave before they talk or click your ads.

Of course, because there's no opportunity for disruption, there's also no room for innovation or growth, life is lame (yet stable) for an unusually wide cross-section of individuals, and your best and brightest move to countries that still allow and encourage the diversity they need to succeed. But that's beside the point.
A candidate's performance on these questions is probably not indicative of his or her performance at your iPhone fart app company.
Maybe it's the low-IQ people doing that?

/i-will-burn-in-hell
"There have not been any breaches in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud and Apple ID," the spokesperson said. "The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services."

http://fortune.com/2017/03/22/apple-iphone-hacker-ransom/
Hadoop “fails us”
Oops, you are correct -- I somehow forgot that shards are logical, not physical.
If you have an iPad, GarageBand for IOS is an absolutely incredible start for that kind of thing. Or Korg Gadget, or UVI Beathawk. They act like the physical ones but have more features and cost way less--you've already paid for the hardware.
Better not to be trigger happy. Much better for society. He probably found a job where his age and wisdom is more valued. The fact is some roles are better for young ones and others are better for older more experienced.
Symantec is now a company that operates both as a CA and, having acquired Blue Coat, also as a vendor of TLS intercepting middle boxes that they sell to despots.

With this history of mis-issued certs in mind, Symantec's CA business should be kicked to the ground, left bleeding and never be trusted again.
I really do respect Apple's attention to security and privacy, however I was a little disappointed when I came across an Apple ID leak from their login form [0] last week. They patched a fix a couple days after I reported it, but still haven't responded to my initial report. It's quite concerning given how easy this simple flaw could have been used for malicious purposes to potentially collect millions of Apple ID's.

[0] https://github.com/zaytoun/Apple-ID-Data-Leak
Until theorem proving is as easy in a programming language as it is in plain old math (last I checked, dependently typed languages were still verbose and cumbersome for this purpose), then Yes, math will still be special because it is the proofs that make it special (also, not all proofs use deductive logic).
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I agree that open/free access to opiates is a solution and don't think I wrote anything against opium? - I mentioned better replacement therapy ie the actual drugs instead of methadone/subs.

I'm also not sure that Fent/synthetic opiates would go away if everyone could grow opium. It depends on cost and scale. Fent is cheap as shit for how powerful it is. I'm not sure mass cultivation (time + resources) would be cheaper. IDK maybe I have no idea I have never grown poppies and don't know the cost.

But I do know the price for 100 grams of fent and it's insanely cheap.

If opium/naturally derived opiates were available for cheaper/free from governments than sure it would probably reduce dramatically the amount of fent produced.

I'm not sure how I feel about your characterization of poison/medicine.

I don't want to argue about it either.

But I guess I'm genuinely curious as to where you're coming from with that statement and your experience. Are you an opiate user? alcoholic/recovering alcoholic or addict? mental health? everyone's experience is different so who am I to judge or critique.

edit again don't want to argue, but I guess I would offer a simple question about the 'most beneficial plant known to man'. How would you compare say, antibiotics derived from plants to poppies in terms of benefit to man?
Yup. Our only closed source bits at this point are Flash and the Widevine CDM (DRM), both of which can be disabled from: Settings -> Content Settings.
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Alternative viewpoint:

Roles that require less experience generally outnumber the roles that require a lot of experience. As you go up the experience pyramid, more and more experience is required, but fewer and fewer roles exist. I'm not talking about management per se, just trying to count roles by experience needed within a generic organization.

Challenge being that any group of individuals advance in age at a fixed rate (one year per year).

Does that make sense? Not sure about it myself.
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Why are we age segregating in the first place? Most of what that does is make it easier to administer a classroom, manage the teacher responsible for it, and develop a standard syllabus for it.
Both my wife and I skipped a grade in elementary school. Neither of us had any issues and were both successful academically as well as in our careers. I was both the class clown and a frequent bully (not something I'm proud of) so being a year younger than everyone didn't make me less social or vocal.

I met someone who was the youngest in his grade and he wished he was held back.

I think it definitely depends on the individual.
Digital Rights Management is a proprietary method to prevent unauthorized copying. DRM literally cannot be open-source. DRM literally cannot be defined as an open standard. DRM is, and inherently must be, literally closed-source proprietary software.
Well, imagine being able to project your "laptop" where ever you want using AR? Then you could use it as your home desktop-laptop and carry it everywhere with you.

Tablets are cool and you can carry them everywhere, but you can't really work important stuff on them since they are still too small.

On the other hand, even if laptops had very good battery life (which usually is not the case), they are still too big and heavy to carry around unless really needed (ie. for a meeting or something like that).

But an augmented reality laptop that lives in your phone is something people might want to use. Not for gaming, but for normal office work, be it programming or using spreadsheets.

And, at that point, regular users might think about obsoleting desktop PCs and laptops.
But he's not testing whether it's even or odd. The lines don't necessarily pass through the origin.
By "fired", do you mean expelled?
Do they don't know/care about security, or is it simply the case that it is hard to have something like the secure enclave across all Android devices? Genuine question.
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>What's wrong with eSATA/SATA/PCIe/USB/other existing technologies?

That they are all multiple specifications to bother with (you mentioned 4+others), and that they don't offer the full capabilities, speed and power draw TB3 does. Not to mention the ugly cabling.

>and real high end computers will make use of eSATA/SATA.

There's nothing unreal about a pro wanting an expandable portable compute to function as high end.
Thanks!

I can see a bit different approach in your workflow, which I like. In our lists, we don't track specific releases, the cards are just continuously moving up the chain. In your approach you are tracking releases separately from the backlog.

I think the last part you mention, to keep a card limit, is what broke our system from time to time. And the reviewing is probably very important, so stale cards are not kept around for no reason.

Is there a special way you organize your backlog board? Such as sorting it in themes of your application, urgency, etc? And do you keep track, if it was an external user request (and from how many) vs internal request (your own ideas) or other metrics? Do you find attaching estimates help, such as effort + impact?
Virtual reality as possibility space
200k sounds wrong. I have my children in private school and it costs about $25k each per year. Assuming that the private school is profitable, to get to $200k would need a lot of explanation. Sure, amortization of the mortgage for school grounds, etc, but that won't make up the difference.
>Thunderbolt, on the other hand, in order to even start looking at the datasheets, you have to apply to the developer program, and wait an unknown amount of time for intel to decide if you can even start to develop.

That sounds excellent. Fewer amateur hour broken, incomplete and potentially computer damaging implementations!
God, I had a Seagate drive that failed a few years ago, they lost track of how long the warranty was supposed to be (5 years) and I had to fight with them to get them to replace it, then they sent me a refurb that had bad sectors, then they sent me a second refurb with more bad sectors after I asked for a brand new drive…
It's 100% counterfeit. Never buy Japanese game/anime merchandise on Amazon.com (Amazon.co.jp is probably ok) or Ebay. There are specialized Japan-based stores like AmiAmi which never sell counterfeits.
We just added the dialpad, so you should be able to navigate phone trees as well now.
Due to globalization, which one (as Thiel does) could argue is not a sustainable source of intensive progress, but just basic labour arbitrage with an expiry date and zero sum implications long term.
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We talk about all of those things.

If you really want something we're blind to, it needs to sound a little nuts. For example, cruelty to fungi, or music as a manipulative weapon.
Ah, I see. That's not something I considered.
>And, unlike the current market leaders for smartphone OSes, Windows Mobile had the same open model as desktop Windows: no app store or walled garden, just compile your app and load it onto the phone and it would run. So, not so crappy after all.

From the openness aspect no. From any aspect that actually matters while using a device, yes.
This is something I wonder about in a much more general way. So many things we take for granted are dependent on planetary orbits and lunar cycles that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Our whole sense of time is so steeped in accident and tradition that hardly anybody ever stops to ask questions such as 'why is it that we get paid per week or per month' and 'why is it that the earth revolving around the sun once' makes X, Y or Z happen which is not related at all?

The degree to which accidental items shape our economies and perceptions is odd, to say the least.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is proprietary (closed-source) copy protection. It is made to prevent unauthorized copying.

In order to implement DRM, one must create a method for the user to decrypt a file without letting the user have any control over where that data goes. Netflix uses DRM to show the user a video file while making it difficult for the user to put that data anywhere outside of the browser's DRM plugin.

What Netflix has done here is strongarmed Mozilla into including the proprietary WidevineCDM component into their implementation of the open HTML5 standard. This means that Netflix has more control over what Firefox does on your computer than you do, or even Mozilla (who creates Firefox) does.
Yeah, you do. Tor is not plug-and-play. It requires some degree of savvy to operate. Not a lot, but above the average.

But that's actually irrelevant. You shouldn't have to lift a finger to protect your basic rights. You ought to get them by default.
It's almost exactly like TCP-over-DNS. Both are stateful protocols on top of stateless ones. The only difference is HTTP responses can essentially go on forever, whereas DNS ones are typically UDP with an upper bound on size, and TCP ones have a timeout on the order of seconds, and thus need to re-encapsulate further messages.

The biggest difference there is that while TCP-over-DNS just has TCP->DNS->UDP as overhead, the WS method has TCP->WS->TCP. Because the connection is stateful and the WS encapsulation is minimal, it's more efficient (and HTTP tunneling is almost always more functional than DNS or ICMP, anyway)

It's still inefficient. And it's not a raw socket, it's an application layer socket, essentially.
Yes, this is what "perf stat <command>" does. Add more -d options to see more counters, or use -e to ask for specific counter(s) ("perf list" to list them).
That would be a significant barrier to overcome.

It's not tortious interference with Symantec's business (who are still "free" to issue whatever they like).

Google is under no obligation and cannot or should not be coerced into saying "You have to accept Vendor A's CA so that they can continue to represent Vendor B's SSL certificate as 'secure'."

That's also very deep water that might result in some 'diplomacy' but with little actual legal position.
$200k over twelve years, or ballpark of $16k/yr. Quick Google research says that this is on the higher end of public school expenditure levels, but not unheard of.
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Well, just because YOU cannot write good code with regions doesn't mean it's a bad feature. It's actually very very useful thing, but as with everything, you have to know when and how to use it.
The physicist Max Tegemark claims that the only real properties are mathematical properties. Notice how much physics relies on math. What are the properties of an electron? An electron is understood mathematically.
Home schooled kids largely miss out on lot of things. The quality of education (surprisingly) is irrelevant here. The major thing that school enables is socialization, ability to interact with other kids, form friendships, face/become adversaries, collaborate, strategize interactions and so on. All these social aspects would play much larger role in their lives than any formal subject they learned. In ancient times, this would been naturally enabled as parents go on doing their duties and kids in the village play/work together all day. In modern times, school is usually the only available close approximation.
I also canceled my prime due to this and them intentionally making it hard to purchase only ships and sold by Amazon.com items. That and commingling their inventory means I have more to worry about, and I'd rather just use Costco/Target/Walmart/Apple for whatever I need, or just go straight to manufacturer's website.
Thanks for the explanation and link. This makes total sense. Cheers.
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To be fair, the LOOP facilities are ridiculously complex. Similarly so are the FORMAT facilities.

I regret not knowing more about them as a younger programmer. Most of the "power" of lisp is always shown in the ability to compose programs out of forms. It is amazing how much code you can avoid writing by just using either loop or format. Or both.
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How is this any better than the plethora of HTTPS VPNs which have been around for nearly two decades?
Oh, an extension already :) Excellent.

Although, at this moment, my Firefox (52.0.1 on GNU/Linux) says the extension cannot be installed because it is faulty what ever that might mean.
> DRM is a necessary evil in that video studios would never ever provide content in the clear.

That is an untested assertion with no supporting evidence. The only reason studios get to strongarm providers like Netflix into using DRM is that specific providers like Netflix are happy to accommodate.

> what the best alternative is for implementing DRM on the web?

AFAIK, DRM inherently must be closed source. In order to implement DRM for the open web, you must circumvent the open web, or (in this case) sway those who implement that open standard (web browsers) to include your binaries.
Read an article about NHL players with late birthdays few years ago.

Majority of NHL players have late birthdays. It means kids that are just slightly older than teammates by just a few months have advantage over early birthday team mates. This advantage helps them advance over younger ones (just by a few months) through their young hockey career and eventually to NHL career.