skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole "Apple needed to buy an OS to be saved" thing was always hogwash -- they bought NeXT under the auspices of "just" porting OpenStep to PowerPC and Mac-ifying it ... but in reality that took them 5 years to accomplish. I'm pretty sure that in 5 years pre-Jobs Apple could have shipped the Copland project, which had reached Developer Release status just prior to Jobs coming on board and its cancellation.

I don't think NeXT brought anything tech wise to Apple that Apple couldn't have done already. In reality it was a Steve Jobs/Avi Tevanian coup that led to the mass layoff of a whole lot of people and the garbage binning of a lot of good tech (Newton, OpenDoc, Dylan just to name a few).

In any case if not for the iPod/iPhone/iTunes jump, Apple would probably be dead by now. They were in trouble until the revenue and brand cachet from that started to roll in.

What I mean to say by this is: Apple needed neither BeOS or NeXTstep. They needed urgently management discipline and to ship the decent tech they already had. Jobs came on board and provided discipline, killed a bunch of expenses, and kept a lifeline going through the iMac sales, but wasted that money on the OS X transition when they probably could have just finished Copland in that time. But hey, I wasn't there, so...
Popular Beat Combos I Believe :-)
When those internet connected jukeboxes came out some bars in the area for some reason had the Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout on it. That one was always fun to put on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CJ4SD-kWek
What does equivalent mean? Is BitCoin an equivalent? Stocks? Real Estate? Food? An Education? Do like-kind exchanges count as income? What about non-like-kind exchanges? (i.e. what if you sell real estate and buy stocks?)

What about barter? If I trade my property or time for someone else's property or time without it ever being denominated in "money, cash or equivalent," is that taxable? From the recent controversy, does a graduate school education have a taxable value when it's offset by work the graduate student does for the University?

What about inherited wealth? Does an inheritance count as income? From one perspective, at T-1, you didn't have it and at T you did. But from the family unit perspective, nothing changed. If someone's spouse dies, since their 50% ownership of communal property just increased to 100%, is that taxable? If not, how is that really different than leaving wealth to children or extended family?

What about expatriates? If someone lives in France, earns money in France and pays French taxes, do they pay US taxes too? What if they work part time in France and part time in the US...does that earn them the lower marginal rate in both countries despite earning a much more comfortable living?

These kinds of overly-simplistic tax plans always seem to breakdown in accounting for situations that happen in the real world. And once all the necessary questions have been asked and the answers incorporated into the tax code, it's not that much simpler than what we currently have. Yes...the tax code is an overly-complex maze of crap that tends to benefit those with the best team of CPAs. But we're better off fixing that without throwing out the entire thing and starting from scratch.
> It just don't make no sense. Other fields reward grayhairs. You see some sixty-year-old painter or architect or carpenter, you think he's probably pretty good. You see some straight-out-of-college twenty-something in . . . any other field, you think, "I sure hope he knows what he's doing."

It still works this way in tech. When you need someone who knows what the hell they're doing, you're going to consider hiring a consultant, and you're likely going to get one of those same grayhairs.
In the highly distorted US employment market, older employees are more expensive even at the same salary level as younger employees. Big factor I haven’t seen discussed in these comment threads yet is healthcare expenses. In average aggregates, older employees in the US will tend to consume more and more expensive healthcare services, products, and pharmaceuticals. Unless you are an outlier, and somehow signal lots of health oriented choices by mentioning struggling to maintain 15% body fat over the holidays, how proud you were to join the 1000 pound club as a milestone, or how you’re looking forward to the tough mudder in four months with your buddies, it is rational for the hiring side to be led by the statistics, and presume average American health complications at each successive age cohort.

I’ve yet to peer behind the curtains of corporate axings, though. So I don’t know when the lists of employees to fire are drawn up, whether or not the fully-burdened costs (especially medical insurance) are somehow accessible by line managers. The per-employee breakdown of medical costs is definitely available to companies.
I don't do any recruitment or hiring, and myself is well over 30.

I don't think discriminating during hiring is legal, or should be legal.

All I was saying that delivering hiring ads based on a certain demographic, that will bring you the most potential candidates, is a financially sound decision, as long as the hiring process as a whole is non-discriminating.
I think you've nailed it on the head but haven't realized why you've nailed it on the head.

`Why? These things have real consequences.`

To a business they see software/engineers as a expense. The whole focus as a business is to provide a service that people are will to pay more than it costs to provide said service.

Everything else doesn't matter, what does matter for a business is $$$$$ and making sure business doesn't get sued because bill touched jill with his #####.

For what my words are worth, I do think you need to take a step back and view it from a Business person perspective and attempt to align your goals with theirs. Get out of your cube and go and meet CEO's and CIO and talk to them about their problems and what their goals are. Then see if you two can work together to achieve their goals and bring value to the table.

Even writing this I've could think of 10 or 20 different business discussions you could have.
You can on FB
This is different in that it's a live game show, with a host, where everyone competes with each other in real time.
Not with the interface that exists now, no. And we wouldn't really want to leave it up to userspace anyway - there are various firmware-based issues that we want to work around in kernel, and relying on userspace to adopt policy there is unlikely to end well.
Third year CS??
I believe in their light field tech. I think there are a bunch of ways easier light fields that do good enough can be achieved at a price point here and now, but they are big dreamers and the leader with all that cash.

All that considered though, WHY IS THAT HEADSET MOCKUP SO UGLY? Forgive the caps but the industrial design on this thing; I'm not talking about the form factor or the fixed sizing, I'm talking about the bevels, profile, and texture. It looks like a knockoff ergo keyboard from 2001. Go Scandinavian minimal cyberprep. Like Frank Lloyd Wright designed a living room for Daft Punk. Failing that, go full cyberpunk and make this thing true to the prototype it is. Let me feel like it's my DNI to my Ono Sendai.

I know it's just a rendering, but they should find with some of them dollars an industrial designer with some teeth and an opinion. This is the most exciting thing ever if it works as advertised. If they are limiting because of constraints, them making it cooler to wear is even more important. They've been a hype machine; that TED talk for their launch was ridiculous. Design by committee Steampunk goggles that look like a couple 2002 MS laser mice want to breed on my face is boring and stupid.

Light me up Magic Leap.
What exactly would it mean to exclude features from an edition you provide the source for? Wouldn't anyone just be able to get a copy of the source and build the fully-featured edition anyways? How would these features even migrate - surely you could patch them back in to future version.
APL in a browser (with all the weird symbols too)
Acting and Religious Bodies have an opt out - your making excuses
The Roadster is the PR payload. The real payload is the set of all the sensors & transmitters in the rocket. They'll be getting a lot of engineering data whether it is a successful launch or not.
I think the idea is criminal courts, not civil. So prosecution would be free, but expensive to defend yourself.
Or just use VMWare. They have had a free edition forever, with less limitations year over year.
Early Experiences with the ARPANET and Internet in the UK
Is Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance Dying?
“Can’t be worse”.

Yes it can. The resolution of AR/VR glasses is less than my iPhone or my laptop monitor.

Now you’re telling me that plugging in a big bulky headset is somehow going to deliver a not worse experience than thee other devices that don’t require an unparalleled level of immersion (both a pro and a con) yet able to show less detail?
How to Talk to Your Family About Digital Security
The textbook is excellent and the course staff is almost always great at providing reasonable guidance. The earlier labs also do an excellent job of ramping up so that the increase in difficulty doesn't seem extreme. And being around dozens of other students in the same boat helps a lot, as well.

Several of the labs have a somewhat incremental process where you start out with an acceptable implementation and optimize in steps.
This article practically rips off my article as well as an article I cited in that post, which I submitted earlier this week. If you put both articles side-by-side, they have the same structure and a fairly similar approach to the problem. While this could be a coincidence (and honestly, I don’t care), I’m still a little miffed that the author didn’t bother to cite his inspiration.

The post in question:

https://applecrazy.github.io/blog/posts/protect-trivia-from-...

Proof:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944171
I think you’re assuming too much from the description. In order to be evil, when it’s chirping, the chirps are many minutes apart, not continuous.
Except http://www.who.int/csr/don/15-november-2017-plague-madagasca...
Dell xps15 (9560) running Windows 10.
Ignore completely if they get the skill match wrong or don't address me by name, auto-delete filter set up if they chase up still with the wrong skills/name.

Canned response if they don't list: Permanent role, Required skills, Location, Salary, Perks/Benefits, Paid time off

Personal response if they do list those, the job looks interesting, and pays well
Oh my you are persistent, are you still watching today?
Here's a nice repo with a "starting point" for hostnames and domains to block: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists
25 Years of Declining State Support for Public Colleges (check your own school)
So your argument is that it's ok to do it because strip clubs do it? If you try to get a job at a strip club and they turn you down for being the wrong age (or some other protected attribute) then you're welcome to take them to court. That doesn't change Facebook's risk exposure here.
Right, that's the point. People who want it all for free and don't want to pay citrix anything are free to do so by compiling it from the source. This is 'unsupported' by citrix and you are free to do whatever you want.

The binaries as provided by citrix come in 3 editions. These changes apply to those editions. These are 'supported' by citrix.
I'm pretty sure that guy just reinvented nearest neighbor.
WTF, from 1400mhz to 600?! This is a one hundred percent push of new product onto people with a good preemptive coverup!

If a person uses their iPhone regularly, they will go through the battery cycles that Apple defined and he or she is a loyal customer, hence the usage. No one knows that you "suppose to" update the battery and it's not easy. So, people just buy new phones.

I am amazed that everyone is just cool with this. It is an extremely clever strategy and results in billions in extra sales for Apple.
HTTP URL Path Parameter Syntax
I don't buy the Bitcoin as a store of value argument. If it doesn't have some functional aspect beyond value store it's not a value store.

I paid $50 to transfer $500 in BTC yesterday and it probably took more than an hour to confirm. There are too many coins that have already solved these problems for BTC to end up the winner.
Yes and even though I'm happy with my current position, I typically inquire if the position comes with a semi-unreasonable but still believable salary to help move the needle on wages for my fellow engineers.
> current tech is good enough for gaming

Honestly, even that is debatable. Gaming has been the most successful application of this technology, but that doesn’t make it good.

Like it or not, we’re still in the land of hype and tech demos.
You flagged a one sentence, polite, comment, just because you disagreed with its stance on Brexit? That’s a classic example of the pathetic intolerance of modern young lefties. Rather than engage, attempt to delegitimize and deplatform. (Spoken as an anti-brexit liberal myself).
The difference in size is huge 140000t to 64t.

A single core makes more sense, specially because you can put a bigger space ship on top for a rocket of equal power.

The 3 core design is only a economic way to get a bigger rocket with a existing design. Look at the Delta 4 Heavy for example.
You wouldn't believe how helpful "areas of interest" were for wandering around foreign cities. I was wandering around a city I didn't know, unable to speak the language, and yet I could easily connect corridors of interesting shops and restaurants.
That's very good.
The answer to that depends on your particular usage case and requirements. There is no simple, always-true response.
And such a person shouldn't be hired. I wouldn't hire me to work on a JavaScript stack. It's not because I don't or couldn't understand it in short order, and very much better than many (most, possibly all) of the 20-something hipsters they're using to fart out garbage. It's because I have strong biases against it and the kind of development style it attracts, some of which (as illustrated in this very comment) aren't really empirically or otherwise similarly justifiable.

They're just biases that haven't a good justification. I usually keep this sort of bias to myself because I recognize it for what it is. Honestly though I wouldn't apply for such positions, either, so the bias problem never surfaces.
Oh I'm aware, and you are clearly on the side that thinks it is 100% right and everyone better step in line with your beliefs, or else they're racist....oh sorry, on second thought, they just sound like someone who is racist.
> What would you make of it?

I can't tell you that, but I do can tell you: I have no clue what GP is even talking about.
For home - https://www.proxmox.com/

Nice simple web GUI.
Wow that's pretty cool! What library did you use for this? Because it would be cool to call out any Open Source projects you used, to give back recognition to the Open Source contributors
https://www.etymonline.com/word/pestle says of pestle:

> mid-14c. (as a surname late 13c.), from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum "pounder, pestle," related to pinsere "to pound," from PIE pis-to-, suffixed form of root peis- "to crush" (source also of Sanskrit pinasti "pounds, crushes," pistah "anything ground, meal," Greek ptissein "to winnow," Old Church Slavonic pišo, pichati "to push, thrust, strike," pišenica "wheat," Russian pseno "millet").

https://www.etymonline.com/word/palimpsest futher adds:

> verbal adjective of psen "to rub smooth," which is of uncertain origin.
Wow, maybe I was just lucky?

I worked on two different (energy) trading floors. One was a fairly large venture (30 or so trading desks + mid/back office + dev/ops/DC teams + management). The other was one of the huge banks. Both were in Stamford CT.

I spent well over 5 years there and never once did I see those sorts of shenanigans.

There was some stuff: the guy that liked to throw a football across the floor, occasionally smashing a monitor; the guys that bet $1000+ each over who could lose the highest % of body weight in 2 months (or was it one month?); and the occasional swearing, but nothing near the "like a sailor" level I hear about.

Pretty much everyone I worked with was highly professional. They were profit motivated (for sure), but even there I personally witnessed people making fair deals where they could have squeezed someone dry and unwinding deals at a loss to keep a good counterparty relationship.

I'm so glad I never worked with the handset smashing, drug abusing, loudly swearing, king of the world, type-A assholes that I hear about.
Let’s bury the hustle
Investing in Bitcoin is indefensible
What license is the source distributed under? I think any licenses that are truly open source would allow anyone else to distribute binaries too, so people could get binaries from such a distribution rather than compile themselves.

I guess there might be a reason compiling to distribute binaries would be a time-consuming pain? (Or compiling yourself, for that matter).
> I suppose I could generate a "dummy" family member account used just for the Sonos, but then it wouldn't have my playlists....

They really do need to set the stream limit for the whole family plan rather than 1 per account, but at least as a workaround: Can't you share playlists?
there's no standard for a screenshare. i wish there was
It's not the public's concern to promote alternative revenue models on behalf of businesses in return for blocking their ads - it's those business' concern to convince people to pay for their content.

They have every right to try to make money on the web, but they're trying to do so on a platform which was designed to be stateless, and which gives users arbitrary power to filter or block content and alter responses. The only reason ads on the web worked at all was that browser technology and ad blockers hadn't yet matured, and people weren't aware that blocking ads was possible. Businesses thought the web would behave like old media, only cheaper, but that's not really the nature of it.
Thinkpad W520 with 10GB RAM/128GB SSD running Ubuntu 16.04.
I finished 4th year CS in Aus, and I'd only needed to touch a compiler twice in those 4 years.

The US courses tend to be a lot more academic focused, teaching you actual CS. Whereas a lot of other places try and give you things they expect you'll need in a work place, which tends to be experience with Java, MySQL, Python, and web.
If a newspaper or radio put active barriers in place to prevent people from seeing things and they were grouped by protected classes, then yea they would be in the same boat.

When Facebook decided that they we're going to pick and choose what content people could access, for their own benefit, then they picked up more liability than someone literally broadcasting to everyone in range
You are extrapolating from a single fork that had a lot of specific circumstances behind it.

If you were right, we would have seen many successful copycat forks since then, but we haven't.
> Coinbase in contrast is a gold standard of professionalism.

I hope you're joking.
Quadriga has been near flawless for me as well. I've cashed out a fair amount with them without issue.

Their interface could use an overhaul but that's neither here nor there.
> What userland is it ? And why is it a problem for that userland to mount it itself ?

At the very least, efibootmgr. The problem with userland mounting it itself is that it has no code to mount it itself because even before systemd everybody mounted the filesystem read/write.

> Why would you even write to efi ? Maybe at boot, i don't know, but certainly not while running ?

A whole bunch of reasons. Maybe you want something that's tied to the hardware without relying on the OS (eg, tpmtotp). Maybe you want to be able to differentiate between a clean and unclean system shutdown. Maybe you want to indicate that the system should install a firmware update next time it's in boot services.

> In my opinion systemd is at fault, as they aim to be the "system" and yet every once in a while prove that they don't know shit.

At the time this issue was raised, nobody knew shit. We had no idea that removing certain variables might prevent a machine from booting. If we had done, I'd have written the filesystem differently.

> I'm not the one who knows best, on this topic

I wrote the code in question. I am one of the people who does know best on this topic. Systemd did nothing wrong.
I definitely find come Annie's that are selling th ngs to customers regardless of the customers country to be techies.
What is Verge? A privacy focused cryptocurrency
What I find interesting is the aversion to paying for what is essential a product mostly used by businesses.

I get the non-profit,school dilemma. and ideally, they do something about that.

but they aren't closing the source of their system ( everything is remaining open source ). They are removing some value add that for the most part, only business users care about. ( to the binaries they provide, are they forced to give you free compile time and bandwidth too? )

For example, I myself have been guilty in previous companies of spending $1M in hardware, and have used the free version of xenserver ( 120 huge vm node deployment, hybrid cloud ), to great success, and Citrix as a company has gotten zero of that.

So here I am, an user extremely happy with software that is being used to run a multi million dollar, profitable business, spending $8-15k per server, and giving zero to the company that made part of this deployment successful.

I gave hundreds of thousands to dell ( and indirectly intel, ram manufacturers, etc )
I gave hundreds of thousands to Arista ( including support and software licenses )

but zero to Citrix, because they gave me such a great free product, i didn't need their support.

License fees have certainly been out of whack with many of these companies ( per socket licensing for example ), but the fact remains, they are providing a business value, and should be compensated. ( and no, ovirt isn't quite there yet, vmware is, but that's even more expensive ).

Not sure what the answer is here, but I do feel that if you are a money making business, buying servers for thousands, a percentage of that should go to the software you use to make those servers useful.
They may have agonized about removing Milo’s check but they’ve been handing them out willy nilly for a few years now. There are tons of business people and friends of Twitter employees with the blue check. People who would not be known outside of their social circle yet they get “verified” as if they were under any risk of impersonation whatsoever.

My personal observation is that these random blue check people skew very heavy to the left of the political spectrum, but I have no data to back that up. Certainly the people I’ve seen are much less notable than Milo though.
The problem is that high speed rail is only cost effective when it is going between two dense cities. If it goes to low density suburbs not enough people will ride it for it to be financially viable.
American, but I used to FX in Canada using Bitcoin when it actually worked as a currency (like 2013/2014). At the time it was cheaper than dealing with bank rates or merchants that would be lame and only take USD at par.

I'd trade with a few people I met first on the OTC trading channel, then did initial small trades in person. Once enough trust was built up they'd just send me interac e-transfers for my coin. I had a Canadian bank account to receive it.

Nobody would trust randos online to send interac since it could be reversed. But the OTC web of trust worked well back then and I never got burned (unlike with centralized exchanges)
If you want to get promoted up, you might need to get promoted across first
Certainly, which is indicative of a larger, fundamental problem the US currently has in trying to be a nation beholden to the rule of law.