skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your dead wrong.

For years there was "no value" in discussing salary... but companies were allowed to ask you "how much did you make at your last job".

So we have/had a system that is "pro company" and "anti-worker" that took a LONG time to change and let a lot of things that we probably always would have been upset about go on.

There is value in publicly naming the company that didn't hire him. It stops someone else in his position from wasting their time. The only entity that benefits from him NOT disclosing the policy is the hiring company.

It "might" make a company look bad if it got out that they DO or DONT hire people who were once criminals - and then we get into a larger set of questions.

Is their policy a stealth racial bias? Is the purpose of the justice system to lock people up and then create social shunning or reform?

This is another case where tradition and the status quo does not make sense.
Engineering is largely about making trade offs. Battery life is just one (very important) variable for smartphones.

PWAs are generally going to be less efficient than native apps because they're just web apps running in Safari.

This performance penalty explains why PWAs couldn't replace native apps in the past. It would have hurt the user experience. But now that smartphones are so much more powerful, we should be able to take advantage of PWAs.
Once the Great Unbundling Event of the 2010s completes, I look forward to the Great Rebundling Event of the 2020s to begin.

But seriously, cable actually did solve a lot of problems. I've never paid for a cable TV subscription, but having to manage multiple services individually is not an ideal solution, either.
came here to comment on the name.
I rarely watch sports events live. Each sport has a fairly predictable timeline. For example, an NFL game is about 3.5 hours of clock time for what's an hour long game (skipping clock stoppage and half-time). So just start watching 2.5 hours after kickoff and you catch up with real time by the end of the game.
I concur about the steel chainmail. I washed dishes in a New Mexican Restaurant when I was younger. The worst was the 30 quart bean pot. The starch and the beans. The chainmail made short work of it.

But focusing in on the rivets, there are two ways to look at it. The remaining fat that has undergone polymer-type conversion due to heat is seasoning, not dirt. Or if you really want to get in there, probably an ice pick.
Biased data is the real danger of AI
I don't deny that some things can go wrong, and I don't claim the system is perfect.

But at the same time, in my 2 decades with Blue Cross Blue Shield, I paid through the nose (more than my mortgage!) and things still went wrong. Hospitals went out of coverage due to failed negotiations with insurance providers. I was charged for things I didn't receive, I was billed more than expected for simple visits.

I'm not saying everyone needs to switch to Christian healthcare. I'm saying, the switch has worked well for me so far and I have saved over $10k in the span of about 10 months.
Have you ever seen a MSB offer Euros, Yen, or Dollars in random amounts as a product? Does not seem like the actions you list are similar at all to this situation.
The dead-end projects can still be interesting and challenging, and you can learn a lot from them if you're just treating them as personal development.

My first involved preparing a user-generated-content website to scale to 200 hits/second. The second saw us attempting to squeeze an
HTML animatic editor (like storyboards, but with music and audio) onto a 7" tablet with severely limited memory and CPU.

Of course, as I mentioned above - sometimes just "this is gonna make me a better developer" doesn't quite cut it for two-three years. It's easier to find motivation if something is a challenge and you reckon it's got even a slim chance of making a difference in the real world.
"I think about how things might have been different if I had accepted that offer. It really calls into question the dominant Silicon Valley culture and narrative that we should join startups and change the world with new technologies."

You would have made them succeed. Without you, they failed.
> If ubuntu somehow ends up replacing windows in hands of the general public, don't be surprised to see the same update system to appear in it.

If that happens, don't be surprised when a fork of Ubuntu comes out without the forced updates.

> The majority of the windows user base is of people who do not understand and maybe do not want to understand the security issues. Windows had the option to manually control the update process in windows 7. The HN demographic updates on time, grandma and the guy in accounting don't. They won't update until a major security issue reaches the mainstream. Even then the majority don't update simply because unlike us, they do not have the knowledge to do so.

The choice doesn't have to be between 'update now' and 'update never'. There are more polite ways of pestering people into doing something good, than completely hijacking their system.

The choice doesn't have to be between 'security updates AND feature updates, together' or 'nothing at all'. The "feature" updates don't have to include ads and auto-reinstalled Candy Crush. The "security" updates don't have to auto-enable explicitly disabled telemetry settings of users.

All of the development machines in my office either auto-apply security updates or prominently nag us to manually apply updates that can/could not be automatically applied. None of them reboot in the middle of a development session. None of them auto-install feature updates or ads or sponsored apps. All of them run Kubuntu LTS.
It can also be called CRDB.
Maybe they could name it Elm.
I like this idea, I wonder if other individuals with similar phobias would benefit from it. Wasn't there one, or perhaps multiple ones, to change variations of Trumps name at one point?
Yes. Here's a little historical tidbit: if you have an older TV, you'll need to put your TV in CATV mode in order to watch cable. CATV stands for "community antenna television", referring to the practice of having one antenna to receive OTA TV and then using cable to distribute it throughout the community.
Immutability is easy to achieve. Anything distributed widely enough is effectively immutable. Anything published on the cover of Time magazine is immutable. Anything commited to the linux kernel is immutable. Anything distributed on thepiratebay is immutable. Anything put in the Ubuntu package repository is immutable.

You can amend it and publish new versions but you can be sure that somebody somewhere will have a copy. You want to make your paper trail immutable? Sign it and publish it widely using any medium you want. Burn it on CDs and mail them to random addresses. Tie them to balloons and release them.
The BBC in the UK airs the Superbowl every year, but the BBC is not allowed to show advertisements.

They show the main feed except when ad-breaks happen, at which point they cut to a studio with a host and a couple of pundits who talk about things related to/that are happening in the game.

Works pretty well. We used to get a VPN on and find a US stream to have a laugh at the absurdity of American advertising but these days the Beeb's coverage is more than fine.
I was able to fix it on my phone by disabling iMessage, disabling "Set Timezone Automatically", waiting a few minutes, and re-enabling everything. We'll see how long it lasts. My MacBook is still wonky.
Microsoft Unveils Biggest Reorganization in Years
Cool. They do have some beautiful photos on Bing
Surely a goal with Scala Native is performance and things like "direct memory control" (why else move away from the JVM?), which would very much dovetail with the work being put into Spark?
I vouched for this because it's a worthwhile criticism of a post. For the record, you're shadowbanned, by the way.
Outgoing Windows chief Terry Myerson's email to the troops
Data Privacy Concerns with Google
Yup, so it was either him or Adnan. If you ever played a deception game, when someone falsely accuses you, you go mad. Adnan is not mad and not accusing Jay back. He is guilty but didn't want to disappoint his community by admitting it, because they were so supportive during the trial.
I've seen contracts that say both "at will" and "14 days notice required". Not sure if those are in conflict.

It doesn't really matter, though. Always give 2 weeks notice, as professional courtesy, but also take any of your fragile or expensive stuff home first. Depending on your employer, you may not even get a chance to revisit your desk, and instead may be escorted to the door and met with a box of your belongings.

(Most employers don't pull that shit, of course, and instead are very happy to have you tie up loose ends and commit any relevant documentation before you go.)
The Art of Assembly Language (1996)
Still with cuda9.0 and not cuda9.1
Does Kotlin have anything approaching Akka or akka-streams?
Dude, thats a feature!
Even better, I have two Bluetooth adapters with identical names. At least they show up in a consistent order.
Vintage Space: The CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft
They don't know. Over on the east coast some of those far away tech companies sound exotic and prestigious.
Heh, this reminds me of how I've always thought that, for many people in many situations, Plan 9's "yesterday" was probably an ideal version control system. This is obviously much richer than that interface, but I think there's some merit to going to a simple rewind/restore over all of the complex DVCS branching semantics we've gotten used to.
I agree it’s a bit hyperbolic, but as I said, the US definately has very bad infrastructure in a large part while the other parts have good or very good infrastructure. On average experts rate it with a “D”

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure
That's just progress. At the time cable was deployed, the value-cost ratio was quite a bit better. For many people the Internet is deployed to them on the very same cables that were originally laid just for television.

A lot of people have cable because they've always had cable and now there's a generation of people coming up who've never had it.
Deploying Static Sites via Rsync and CircleCI
>I think we'd have to rephrase that as "all cultures"

Absolutely agree, but here we have the freedom to protest the government itself, and do so openly for as long as we need to to make a change. They literally have a dictator for life that just came into power weeks ago.
Netflix content has gotten so f&ing boring I'm likely going to cancel my account soon. I'm tired of 500 shows season 1&2. Would much rather prefer 100 shows with season 1-4+. At this point, it's clear they have recruited Hollywoods most seasoned producers, and with it, all the garbage that was already being produced.
No, 2 weeks is pretty standard and entirely appropriate for managed employees. If you're in a contracting situation it might be different.
You have a citation for that? Because last I checked Uber is bleeding money everywhere.
This is my general response to most criticisms of other's efforts: What is stopping you from doing something better? In other words, don't talk about it, be about it. Lead by example. The world has enough critics.
For some reason, I was so sure it was a sarcastic post, that while clicking to read it I was already half-smiling imagining the first topic would be:

- "First, make sure you write a public post announcing to the world that you quit Facebook/Google. What's the point of quiting if you can't tell anyone??"

Imagine how disappointed I was.
I don't know squat about electricity

If electricity takes all paths, then whats the point of the mantra? It includes the highest and least resistance, and everything in between. The mantra is almost deliberately meant to mislead?
So much salt in this thread. I for one, enjoyed the article. Walking away from a high-paying, generally respected job is not a easy decision for a lot of people and there are a lot of consequences to consider.

I think this writeup addresses them (to varying degrees of success), even if they don't apply to everyone and some folks may think they're arrogant.
Seasoned power users (most HN participants) will generally vastly underestimate how much time they spent learning how to get their OS of choice 'just right' and subconsciously use many tricks that would not be obvious to a layman.

Yes, my Windows just works as well, but not without tweaks and regular maintenance.
That went out in the 1980s. Suggesting a single income from 40 hours a week of work should be able to comfortably support an entire family is now akin to radical socialism. Not quite as extreme as it was originally (at the time it constituted demanding most employers raise their labor costs by 600% or more) but moving in that direction every single day.
> I would take any article like this with a grain of salt. There is not a lot of useful or technical information here, and I believe it is more designed as click bait and FUD to create shock value and hurt the public sentiment about Blockchain technology and investing in crypto currencies.

There's a wave of this sentiment lately— which is funny timing. Goldman Sachs apparently will have an operational cryptocurrency trading desk by the end of June.[0]

The TSX is slated to have a cryptocurrency brokerage desk with backing of the Bank of Montreal over the coming months sometime as well.[1] This came out days after BMO blocked all cryptocurrency purchases with consumer credit and debit cards.[2]

The more cynical side of me wants to guess that they're trying to establish a gatekeeping initiative. Knock everybody about, then when they want back in they have to come through you.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-i...

[1] https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/tmxs-shorcan-announces...

[2] http://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/bmo-stops...
Why President Trump Is Going It Alone on Infrastructure
I’ll float an idea that will cost me karma: you could raise taxes.
Right, which is why I think Olympus has had success with it. They primarily (maybe only?) make micro 4/3 bodies, so the resolution is still relatively low (some of their bodies are at 16MP, others 20). I don't photograph food, but I'd think that a stabilized m4/3 body would be very useful for that purpose if one wants to avoid bringing a tripod.
Good news! Florida is a FOR profit prison system. So, I am sure all of this will be looked at with thorough detail before plea deals are rolled out /sarcasm

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-kiss-off-privat...
Had my first experience playing with Scala Native a couple of weeks ago, for hacking together a simple vote-counter (https://github.com/tunesmith/condorcet-counter) and am enjoying it just because I'm able to do all the scala goodness I want (test cases, types), while also be able to run it quickly from the shell.

I couldn't figure out the IntelliJ tooling, though, that's still lagging. I have to turn off the scala-native plugin to get the IDE to recognize the code, and then turn it back on whenever I want to generate the executable.
What Microsoft's recent reorganization means for Windows
I think it would be awesome to see a version of, say, iOS 3 compiled to run on modern iPhone HW and see how long the battery life would be.
Instagram. If you're not on there promoting your food, then your restaurant is losing a ton of exposure.

If you're curious.

https://instagram.com/rocfoodies
You sound like somebody that doesn't understands the issue the author is conveying. While it might not apply to everyone, it applies to many people that work at top companies.

When leaving a company that has coddled you for years (think top offices, great food all the time, drinks, snacks, perks of traveling, people recognizing the brand, etc...), it can be a tough adjustment for the first two months. You might not miss the work, but you will miss the perks for sure.

Also, the two years salary requirement is a good rule of thumb. It gives you enough time to: 1) Relax, travel, and decompress for few months and 2) Start your own project, and see it to completion (any non trivial project will take at least one year).

I did something similar, and I think the author's advice is good.
Try getting a new battery. My 6S is a brand new phone after a swap. Always running the latest beta os.
Knowing how much Apple loves mixing Bluetooth and wifi for some products, are we sure that the Smart Keyboard is actually entirely wired? I mean, I know it has a connector, but is there any chance it uses wifi as well?
I guess will have to wait. The progress they made is obviously impressive but would really help if one could understand the overhead vs conventional RDBMS 5X might be OK
20X not so much.
Based on my experience with a pre-USB-C Macbook connected to multiple monitors, USB-C is not at all required to get them to do strange things, up to and including hard crashing, depending on the order and speed of connecting monitors and sleeping the system.
Nothing will change until people shop responsibly and not give their money to shitty companies. But for that to happen, we need reliable info on what places to avoid (how do I know if a particular place is owned by walmart, koch or whoever I want to avoid?).
I recently switched my family's main TV over from using the OS on the TV (WebOS, pretty good actually, which is why we used it this long) back to good ol' Roku. My youngest heard about this and burst into tears for a good 20 minutes.

Turns out, he thought "Roku" was DirectTV, which his grandparents have. He was sobbing about how on "Roku" shows keep stopping in the middle (ads, I assume), if you turn off the TV the show doesn't stop, and that if you don't watch a show in time, you have to wait weeks to watch it again.

Once I got everything powered up and he saw Netflix, Amazon, et all, he was just fine again.
Source code of UsefulPython.com: a Django based Python blog, news and tools site
Yeah, so much this.

There's a very sound principle within Amazon that one should "work backwards from the customer": pitch ideas for new products based on identifying a clear customer need, then inventing a product that will fulfil that.

But a lot of the pitches I saw were essentially working backwards from sales targets or existing tech - first, invent a customer with an insatiable desire to buy stuff in inexplicably odd ways ("I want to buy stuff by scanning it with my phone!") then invent a product to do that.

The Fire Phone was probably the biggest example of this. I think it just started as somebody deciding that Amazon needed a phone, to drive sales like Android drove web use, and then they chucked in all sort of flashy tech that they happened to have on hand. Such a gigantic pile of WTF.

At least the tablets started out with the idea that people were buying Kindles, listening to Amazon MP3, and watching Amazon Video, and perhaps somebody might want to combine all three in one device. The first Fire tablet was a shoddy pile of minimal-viable-product, but the later ones were fairly nice.
Same with my iPhone 6.
I honestly think it's a very interesting and plausible theory, but let's assume these are serious attempts of said companies:

I just think it's hilarious that these products (AMZN Spark, FB Mail...) are so bad that people believe in conspiracy theories rather than accepting a dry truth as an explanation.
At some point Netflix will realize that there is money in selling ads and soon Netflix will look like cable TV. It's just a matter of time.
What do people who are there in person do?

The screen can just show the players milling around, or show the fans, or the announcer can give random factoids.
Just so you know, it’s possible to overcome a phobia. In fact my startup Fearless helps people to just that, using VR. We have a module for cockroaches specifically. It goes very gradually, starting with a cartoon drawing, and progresses at your own pace. If you’re interested, http://FearlessVR.com

Also, I understand your complaint about the name, as I’ve encountered many, many people with all sorts of phobias at varying levels of extremity. It’s more common than most people think.
there's a dead comment from a new account that says this:

"1) regarding price, it's probably PV at those prices, as CSP today comes in at least 2x of PV installed capacity cost and that's taking a very aggressive estimation- although one could probably get CSP costs down to $1/watt with the design and procurement scale economies being talked about. 2) Regarding Venning's point about demand, even with significant amount of energy storage, this would create quite a bit more peak power on sunny days than their current grid demand can handle so announcement may be based on a couple (dodgy to me) assumptions: a) either they assume building it out in phases slowly over time to accompany some aggressive assumed demand growth or b) they are thinking about power exports in a region where Saudi Arabia probably doesn't have too many politically viable customers"
My wife makes her coffee in a moka pot. I still prefer an aeropress for mine. But she's making cafe con leche and I drink mine black.

You can make good cafe cubano using a moka pot too, but it's not really a proper substitute for an espresso machine.

Just about anything but maybe a percolator makes better coffee than a Keurig.
Apparently this document is controversial internally at WSJ:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4426176-Colleagues.h...
This depends on whether a human or a computer is setting the prices. I once lived in an apartment complex that had management software setting the prices, and one time when I got my lease renewal offer I checked the apartment's website and found another apartment that was basically the same for $150/month less. I asked if I could get that rate on my current apartment, but was told by the manager that there was nothing they could do. So I moved from one apartment to another in the same building.

Both sides lost - I had to spend the time and effort to move and they now needed to spend time and money to prep another apartment for rent - but I suppose the pricing algorithm takes this into account and figures that in aggregate the apartment complex still comes out ahead by continuing to squeeze people that don't want to move.
> Almost like employment where now the only way to get a raise is often to change jobs and not to stay.

This has always been so, it's nothing new.
Maybe it's only good at friendly fire?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/2877349.stm

Patriot: killing allies in the skies
and civilians on the ground since 1990.
Even the APFS final release still had a scaled roll-out I believe for safety.
It is (or was, I haven't checked recently) very difficult to actually just pay for HBO. I had wanted to get a subscription for a few different shows they offer and every way to get access to them involved paying for cable channel bundles.

I assume cable companies are shoveling money at HBO as fast as they can manage as otherwise it'd be a wise idea for HBO to just begin offering ala carte access to their content and get oodles of free money.
Show HN: Version control for everyone
Greetings friends!

We at Glitch have been hard at work on something very important to us: making software tools easier to use and more accessible. We all remember how hard it was to get started using version control (or maybe we've blocked it from our minds...) but Glitch Rewind makes it easy to get started. It's a fun, simple, and visual representation of your project's history through time. Though the interface is simple it still has the full power of git under the hood!

Our Medium post: https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-g...

Or try it out right now in the browser at https://glitch.com

I'll be around to answer any questions or comments :)
>you sound like an insecure child

Wow.