skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, but you are not a disinterested source on this.

You are an insider (C-level exec) who allowed someone to write a potentially conflicted PR piece without disclosing that the beneficiary of that piece has a non-trivial investment in your company.

I don't even see a clear disclaimer that says "Qualcomm is an investor in Cloudflare" in the blog post.

The SEC doesn't usually like a technical distinction on potentially-material information (huge win for Centriq!) about something that could move QCOM done underhandedly by a company that didn't disclose that it received a lot of investment by QCOM.
Your point about "language" isn't convincing to me, as everyone speaks English in the IT sector anyway. And what sort of "xenophobia" are you referring to?
The fact that you oppose something bad doesn't automatically make you good. For example, despite fighting a war against Nazi Germany, USSR still was an undoubtedly evil tyrannical regime.
Take a look at the open source projects parent mentions. Do you think they are putting their focus on marketing over content? OSS sites are made by real volunteers. While this project is neat and is a side project, all the contributors are paid by Google, right? So it’s perhaps possible to get 21% time. Or convince someone with some empathy to volunteer as well. The problem has been solved by many community driven projects.

Apache has amazing content as well as a “human” touch.

This site demonstrates that someone put some effort into the design, so perhaps the easy solution is to spend even more time on marketing and skip the design-o-tron.
As many others, I'm surprised at the price tag. Does anyone know more information of their revenue / top drivers of revenue? I work on a website in this space (leveling / salary information) and surprised to see how lucrative it is. We've monetized (https://www.Levels.fyi) with Ads so far and done very well with SEO relatively but 1B is a different league entirely.
This startup wants to be Airbnb for Gene Sequencers
You make less than $920/wk as a developer, before taxes? Are you in eastern Europe?

I worked in a diner ca. 2002-04 and was paid $3/hr from the restaurant but routinely was close to $30/hr after tips as an awkward male teenager. Even $23 back then is equivalent to $35 now.
I just had a quick glance through the paper and felt they didn't worry too much about explaining the hardware architecture.
That also sounds like a correct usage.
Pixel phones are end of life already. They were only guaranteed android updates for two years after 2016. This is another problem we have to overcome.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en

I have a 6p. It works great after a battery replacement, but Android P wont run on it.
Firefox 60 released
Tesla Panasonic Quietly Outmaneuver All Lithium Battery Manufacturers
Keep in mind this is going to be reported income only. When I was waiting tables nobody declared more than half their tips if they declared any at all. In fact a lot of folks just declared whatever amount they need to go to $10 an hour.
They could do a lot of things. The question is if they do.
Wow. That's actually mind blowing... I never would have thought that neural interfacing could be so cheap and affordable
Are you talking about a royalty?
Wow, that would do it.
Amen. Any time I’ve worked with dedicated QA people, their contribution was invaluable. But it has been probably five years sincerely I worked in a place that even had anyone in that role. It seems the industry has decided to go without.
Newspapers (and listening to heralds) are inherrently pull-based - I choose to engage with them. Robocalls and spam are push-based - you force yourself on me, wasting my time.
If true, it would be very ironic given that in 'Looking Back on the Spanish War’ Orwell wrote: ‘But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on the grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.’
Interesting to see new resources like http://levels.fyi which has more granular compensation data for companies on a level by level basis, wonder if the trend is moving towards completely open models where things aren’t hidden behind sign up walls
I recently had to develop a quick PWA for a small conference. I had no serious web-development experience prior (i know the basic of js, HTML and CSS) and decided to use ionic. I expected a lot of struggle, but I was seriously surprised, it was really easy. I can definitly recommend ionic if you want something app-like!

It's all open-source: https://github.com/hackundsoehne/talKIT-Event-App
beware, I was under a lot of pressure and often it's quick an dirty.

I built the whole thing in 2-3 days, including the backend.
If you turn on the gesture mode, it's still largely the same UI, it's just that the "App switcher" button is gone. The Back button is still there, in the same place as before (although it does disappear on the Home screen now, which is neat).

Tapping Home and tapping Back still do exactly the same thing. Long-pressing Home still opens Google Assistant.

Opening the app switcher UI is now done by dragging Home up (instead of tapping App Switcher).

Quickly switching to the last used app is now done by dragging the Home button right (instead of double-tapping App Switcher).
You're right, there's probably no need to care in this scenario.
You didn't mind the app launcher being full screen on all monitors? I run 3 monitors and its a jarring experience to open the gnome launcher. The deal killer for me though was the lack of a shortcut to maximize window top/bottom half of the display. I've been test driving KDE Neon and am pretty happy with it so far.
It's a nitpick - but both valid and interesting (I've never worked in startups and did not know that VCs commonly bought convertible notes)
> Spinners on the application or UI element level are more credible, but generally worse than a progress bar. They're still very useful as a comfort indicator for short delays.

Strongly disagree. A spinner on the web UI element that lasts longer than ~1 second indicates for me that the site's JavaScript broke again, and it's time to reload or wait for the devs to notice and fix it.
Many of the East European countries are not very open and friendly to foreigners. Speak Poland, Czech Republic for example. Travel there and see for yourself. Sometimes it is country specific (e.g. Russians and Germans in Poland) or Ethnic specific (Say Hungary and Poland) or sometimes they hate everyone (speak Czech republic). Travel there to see yourself. Try to bring a foreign looking girl friend. Enjoy.

People in Romania seem to be very friendly. GDP growth higher than China but not sure I see a basis for a silicon valley there. I don't know Bulgaria.
How about “sole proprietor” and putting a blurb about that in the description. If this achievement was a really big deal and it’s relevant to the new job, put it in your cover letter. Be sure to say why it’s important and how it relates to the position you’re applying for. Don’t assume the Hr person will make the connection on why it’s relevent unless you explicitly point it out
The reason why Amazon reduced their vendor program is because they were getting scammed. Here's an example:

Vendor sells Amazon 500 shirts at $4/unit, retails at $10.

Once in stock, vendor sells the shirts very quickly. They do this by either putting the shirt on sale for pennies, or by using hacked accounts to buy the shirts (or by paying people to buy the shirts).

What happens when Amazon sees that the shirts they ordered sold out in 3 days, and are going to take 30 days to replenish?

They buy more, and although the vendor may have initially been down the $4 * 500, when Amazon places that reorder for 5,000+ units, the vendor is up substantially and bails, leaving Amazon with a ton of inventory.
So froogle/shopping.google all over again? I think Google made the change in 2012[1] with no meaningful backlash in the US and a fine in the EU they are appealing. So I think the lesson is that Goog can do whatever they like with job searches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping
Fun fact, also the same plane(China Clipper) that Indiana Jones took in Raiders of the Lost Ark from San Francisco to the Philippines.
In true market economy fashion, the comfort noise is also a perfect advertising opportunity.

For instance, I frequently deal with ATM machines that display "please wait" screens between every operation. Those screens last usually between 1 and 3 seconds, and it's obviously because the operations take that long, and totally not because they also display a half-screen or full-screen ad...
This is plausible in either direction.

I once turned down the volume for a streaming service one evening probably to talk to a friend. The playlist played through the night and well into the next evening. Depending on the playlist, some tracks could have gotten 15+ plays due to absent-mindedness.

I can definitely see a music critic putting together short playlists (e.g. 3 songs) for work on a specific album, article, or project. 3 songs at 3.5 minutes each in a playlist would take 10.5 minutes to play and loop 5.714 per hour. You could get 96 plays out of all 3 tracks by continuously looping the playlist 16.8 times.

Again, I'm not saying the numbers aren't inflated, but it's possible for some of these to be false-positives.
Businesses will use orders of magnitude more than the pensioners. The fact that a pensioner might use more per capita than a young person doesn't matter. When the young person leaves the home for work, they're just going to a different building that is also consuming electricity, generating more pollution tax. Plus, there are more people per household in a young home because of children.
In the olden times, I used to look up a business in the phone book and call them to see what their hours were. At some places, every call was picked up by a recorded message that stated what their hours were.

Today, it is much easier to just put in your preferred time and rating into Open Table and see what's available.
And we went from SOAP to REST because REST with JSON was supposedly simpler.
Then they realized that they needed some type of way to validate the JSON so they introduced JSON schema.
Then they realized that they needed some method to make a REST Api discoverable so they added the Swagger protocol (OpenAI). Now we are right back to being as complicated as SOAP.

Except you can ignore the schema and swagger and have it just be simple, if that's all you need.

The biggest problem with SOAP is that it is too easy for the service provider to just dump their internal data structures without any thought to how it should be serialized for people using the data. XML is Particularly nasty in this regard, because it doesn't map well to the data primitives of most dynamic languages.

That said, I usually just treat SOAP APIs as if they were REST. By writing a class, and some wrapper methods for the parts I need. Instead of trying to consume the WSDL and use it the way they envisioned I would. Then again, if Python had better SOAP support I probably wouldn't even do that.
I think you probably did follow, but just didn't like it. I thought your post just read like technobabble and I was being stupid and snide and implying it had been written by a bot with some commercial agenda.
I don't know how they evaluated GlassDoor, but I would've bet the price is high as GlassDoor is basically an untapped gold mine for sales people.
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Sweden is undergoing a huge surge in violent crime, especially grenade attacks and rapes. The media can't report most of it because they're being perpetrated by migrants. Any media (social and mainstream) that's critical of migrants is being suppressed under threat of arrest under their hate speech laws. As a result, most of the people in Sweden are ignorant of the problem until they themselves become a victim.
I'd suspect the latency improvement is control over the entire path and not specifically about the propagation speed/delay.

Getting your data across a long haul undersea fiber requires aggregating it with everyone else's data at a central point before it gets sent out optically. This adds latency.

Even with the propagation variability of the wireless path you might be saving hundreds of nanoseconds.
If an array is the hovercraft, it can hold 4 billion "things" regardless of what those things are! So you need to fill that up to meet the requirements of the saying.
Day One app sync down since Monday
Qualcomm's primary revenue stream is patent trolling. They maintain a veneer of respectability by also selling chips, which they maintain by using anti-competitive patent bundling practices to kill off competitors before they can become competitive. (Intel & nVidia spent a lot of money trying to break into the wireless market but gave up because Qualcomm was selling a chip & patent bundle for the same price as just a patent license, essentially giving away their chips for free.)

So any read of this announcement must be viewed through that lens. How was this server business going to affect their patent license gravy train?
If you shutdown or cut power to the phone the file system key is gone and you can’t unlock the file system without the pin. That would gain you nothing.
That's just one step to the story in Avogadro Corp.
As someone traveling between Europe and Asia a lot and a former resident in Berlin. IMO Berlin is far from having an international Airport, it has two European airports but flying there means transiting somewhere. I appreciate Tegel tho, only airport in a capitol I've been able to make a flight when still in the cab 30min before take off. Less than 4h door to door between my appartment in Berlin and my friends in Stockholm.
Open for business: Firefox Quantum is ready for IT
I think you misunderstand how the CTAP portion of Webauthn works - once the root credential authenticates the user, they no longer have to use passwords for the user’s various accounts. The simple point is that if this credential became compromised for whatever reason, then all associated accounts are by definition compromised.
Disagree about the strategic loss.

It essentially killed passenger versions of B747. Because there was no competition in that niche of the market, before A380 Boeing was able to earn very nice profits making them. 747-8I is more than 3 times more expensive than B737 MAX.
Taught me something new.
You mean AT codes.. sounds familiar
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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
> Mark my words, Berlin will be Europe's Silicon Valley within a few years.

If Europe doesn’t pass more startups-killing laws, sure.
Sales people = recruiters? Or simply their display advertising? There's several channels to do the latter. The former there are also several channels though I agree they have a very targeted audience.
Two things not mentioned:

1. OS support (android at least) isn't that long. I suppose security patches are more important and might be worth fighting for somehow (extended security patch plans?).

2. i sometimes hear how repair shops have a hard time sourcing oem parts (having to go to chinese frankenparts which may be confiscated at the border). this should not be an issue and should work just like the car industry.
> people turn-into-singles device

How about "people individualisation machine" as an alternative literal translation?
It was Avogadro Corp. and I didn't find it bad. So to counter your opinion, I give my recommendation here as a light sci-fi with plenty of mocking of Google and Apple included, and AI that - unlike in most stories - makes sense.
Intel reportedly delays patches for new Spectre-like flaws
The greatest myth in sustainable energy policy is "every little helps". We get caught up on visible but irrelevant things, while ignoring massive systemic problems.

Apple publish high-quality, audited environmental impact reports for all their products. A 64gb iPhone 8 produces the equivalent of 57kg of CO2 across the entire product lifespan, from manufacturing to recycling.

A return flight from LAX to JFK produces ~580kg of CO2; the climate impact is equivalent to ~1100kg of CO2, because emissions at altitude have a greater warming effect.

Driving 10,000 miles in a typical sedan or crossover SUV emits about 3000kg of CO2; in a large pickup like a Ford F150, that figure is closer to 4500kg.

The food consumption of the average US household results in equivalent CO2 emissions of 8100kg.

Our carbon emissions are dominated by heating and cooling, transport and food. Keeping your phone for another couple of years is a rounding error in the scheme of things - it's equivalent to a two-hour car journey or a good restaurant meal. If we are to stand any chance of limiting the impact of climate change, we need to make big, difficult choices about our lifestyle.

We need to massively reduce the amount we drive and fly. We need to redesign homes to require less active heating and cooling. We need far more sustainable electricity generation. We need to radically alter our diets and our approach to agriculture, with far less meat and dairy consumption. This will be difficult, expensive and politically unpopular, but it's the only way we'll make a meaningful impact.

https://images.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/iphone/iPh...

https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=3

http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet

https://www.withouthotair.com/
I'll also link my favorite podcast who just did a piece on this. They probably have some different details and anecdotes than OP article.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/04/16/podcast-episode-19...
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we know. but they are vastly different.
By the same token... if you want to run Android applications the situation is much worse on x86 processors, because while Android is supposed to be agnostic the reality is that there hasn't been any requirement for developers to target x86 market wise for a long time, and anything that goes remotely near direct graphics rendering or video DRM tends to break quite badly.
Creating a 1.3M VCPU Grid on AWS
I wish I could use my phones longer than I already do. Unfortunately, the lack of software updates for older hardware turns that into a security risk as even critical issues are no longer getting fixed.

Likewise, the 'modern' web breaks things left and right. The heavy use of JavaScript for trackers etc makes it impossible to read even simple news web sites on an old iPad, even though the actual content is just static text. With Discourse and similar platforms gaining popularity, I'm getting locked out from more parts of the web unless I have up to date hardware. I don't understand why web forums became such complex beasts that a device capable of streaming video, realtime sound synthesis and 3D gaming is not sufficient to display what is essentially just text and some images.

HN is a positive exception, I sincerely hope it remains that way.
Forgot Cyprus? it was only 5 years ago.
You can install LineageOS after two years on many devices.
Some fun comments here, thanks!
For all those who doubt, here are some public documents (to be detailed on the blog soon) about antennas in UK, filed by a well-known "HFT" firm: https://publicaccess.southbucks.gov.uk/online-applications/a...
Mi is pretty much "my", and "mío" is close to "mine". "Mi aerodeslizador" is correct, and "El mío aerodeslizador" is as awkward as "Mine hovecraft". Source: I'm a native Spanish speaker.
The secret world of microwave networks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862789 (2016)

HFT in My Backyard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278 (2014)
> Travel there to see yourself. Try to bring a foreign looking girl friend. Enjoy.

The condescending tone is uncalled for. As for the advice, I don't really need to travel as I've lived in Poland for my whole life (minus a few years spent abroad / in the UK). I've also been to several countries in the region, and yes I have indeed brought quite a few "foreign looking" friends with me, including an Italian girlfriend.

I'm sorry if something unpleasant happened to you on such a trip - assuming you're speaking from first-hand experience, rather than just propagating negative stereotypes - but it still wouldn't entitle such sweeping generalizations.
Fair enough. This is valuable feedback. We have provided a more secure method on our home page and will provide package managed downloads as well, however the reality is that nothing is 100% secure. In the meantime, you can just download the script and inspect it (it’s pretty simple) and then do it all manually if you prefer.
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Walmart to buy controlling stake of Flipkart for $16B
Those are some things we don't have to deal with, but what's the connection with "stress"? Did people actively worry about getting leprosy or polio? Was that really a cause of "stress"? Perhaps it was; I don't know. For me, driving in bad traffic, when I'm late for an appointment, can be stressful, but thinking that I might get Alzheimer's, so perhaps I should sort out wills and power of attorney... not so much. And if we didn't have today's complex legal system, they'd be nothing to worry about at all, because what could I possibly do about it, except perhaps attend mass and say my prayers?
Yes, certainly. And in order to compromise that root credential, you'd have to physically steal the key, and either decap the chip and read the bits somehow, or find a vulnerability that allowed you to read the private keys through USB.

Needless to say, this is much, much harder than stealing someone's password.
I think the price was too high. However this is without the knowledge of the size of the operation, or their sales numbers. I think a lot of people are going overboard with the data is the new oil philosophy, as the rate in which data is being generated is growing exponentially. Since the supply of information has increased so much one would reason that its value should be decreasing, not increasing. (Presuming that there is no uniqueness or monopoly of the type of data)
If you don't hold the keys, you don't own the money!
Well the entire point of crypto is not relying on centralised institutions.

Also, Bitcoin is not a startup.
Plaintiff comes from plaintive
Intel, AMD, Samsung, Micron, Cavium, Broadcom.
Prague - yes, especially compared to (much of) the U.S.
I'm working for years as a developer building iOS applications. Apple got so strict the last months maybe last year it's just incredible. Lots of questions about monetization and background services, they really want you to have a solid business case for background location or just don't use it.

As a consumer I'm happy they take those steps though. My privacy is worth money. Either somebody sells it and gives me a "free" OS or somebody sells me an OS and I don't "sell" my privacy.