skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Esignature is a huge business and the incumbents have a high cost structure or a history of excessive price increases. (Would you want to build your strategy around Adobe?)

This gives Dropbox something to anchor against. Both Google and Microsoft improve every quarter, while Dropbox is mostly the same, with the same premium pricetag. I could move my whole company to Dropbox for a couple of million, OneDrive is $0.
This is probably better delivered as a separate app - it is probably competing for real estate with a lot of other fb properties.
LOL. Follow the money.

People only want a change if it benefits them in some way. Who hated Network Neutrality? What was in it for them?

Call me 'old and cynical' if you like. The older I have become, the more cynical I have become. It was warranted.
I saw a presentation about Facebook Watch last year where they had their stars up on stage to talk about their projects. There was a whole lot of talk about how they were inclusive of all races and genders, no talk at all of the content or what the shows were even about. I came to the conclusion that the content was probably not aimed at my demographic. Also, despite being a somewhat regular Facebook user I can't think of seeing a single one of their shows advertised on my newsfeed.
I'm only in my 50s, but this is very relateable. Did a couple dozen interviews a year or two ago before finally getting a bite. Somewhat amazingly, even passed the hiring committee at a FANG, only to get swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level.

In one interview, was asked to produce a class that could serialize and deserialize a list of numbers, to/from a string of chars. Sure, it's not that hard. Took maybe ten minutes? A few tests, it worked fine. They declined--"your skills seem rusty". Huh?

I'm in good health and much better financial situation than the guy in the story. But without being too grim, I've accepted that someday I might run completely out of money. If I can't get hired in tech, I'll give McDonald's a shot--it's honest work. Failing that, I'll make my graceful exit.
What I'm talking about are certain views that regardless of what evidence or argument you make, people will hit the downvote button, call you crazy, or flag the post.
I have experienced this myself. I am going on 50.

I am actually looking for work now.

And I have kept up and I am using modern tech stacks.

http://geoffreycallaghan.com
A whole talk about low latency networking and not a single mention about TSN (time sensitive networking)/AVB (audio video bridging) which actually does low-latency?
Programming/computing wages weren't that great years ago. I guess there were a few corporate exceptions, like Microsoft, but so many Programmers/IT guys were not paid well, and there were no benefits. This is when companies were called companies, not Start-ups.

When this current bubble of essentially free money ends, many of you will be in the same boat as this man.

And it does seem like once you turn 50-55 you are conviently let go.

This is the real America. There's a huge swath of 50-65 year olds whom just gave up. While the unemployment rate looks great, that number that measures the people whom are not disabled, but not working, is higher than ever.
It seems Fuller was one of 12 ministers who founded the BMS World Mission.

"BMS World Mission is a Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England in 1792. It was originally called the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen, but for most of its life was known as the Baptist Missionary Society."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMS_World_Mission

The original name didn't age well...
It's not like there's a big divide in generations... you go to a high school, there's people in an age range, and you can very well teach someone who is one year younger than you how to use something. Rinse and repeat.
> Just by reading Chinese news reports and textbooks, you will find there are lots of Chinese nationalist stories about their hero technician / scientists steal western technologies. They are literally proud of it.

Citations please.

These reports universally proclaim the protagonists‘ self reliance and preservation.

These reports might well be cover up of the stealing, but your statement is to me plain ridiculous.

Applying common knowledge, if Chinese nationals really is blatant to praise stealing on public news outlets, why do you still think any foreign company can make any money?!
So Facebook tries to clone someone and fails. Doesn’t matter one iota. They could fund 20 of these boondoggles with the results of cloning Snapchat with runaway success. Betting $1b on a 10% chance of making $11b is a good bet if you have the bankroll, even if the result is 9 mega failures.
I remember a few applications from that time period required a picture. Well, they didn't require a picture, but you know...
I mean, this is basically what happens to rock stars - so it seems an appropriate reference.
So they got an exclusive deal with a Counter Strike league (ESEA?) and I decided to watch some matches... Horible experience. Just god awful. Forced chat showing, emojis everywhere, no theater mode, like 15 FPS and choppy as hell. Pure crap. I’m real interested in CSGO and flat out didn’t watch any matches till they made their way to YouTube. Idk what they spent that $1B on.
It's easy to say crap like have 6 months of savings. My partner was laid off during an industry-wide crash. She was unemployed for a year, and it took her 7 years (a complete career change) to regain anything like her former earnings. Very few people have the savings to be out of work, or earning 1/4 of what they used to, for years on end.

Meanwhile, you've accumulated a life dependent on a certain income level. That's true even if you live within your means; going from making $200k a year to $40k a year requires a different apartment, a different (or no) car, a different gym, etc etc.

People on here should ask folks who lived through the dot com crash in sfbay what that time was like.
1) Have a friend (more better) who can hire you. It's usually better to look for programming work when you're employed.

2) Work (or rather, look for work) remotely; this is already mentioned.

3) Work through a contracting company, preferably owned by you. Let somebody else - maybe much younger if needed - do negotiations with customer companies. After those companies start seeing your work, age issues can be reduced.
I can see why people hated it, but I like things I can't predict.

Have to wait for S2, being edited currently I think.

I also liked the end of Lost, HIMYM, Quantum Leap, Mad Men, and BSG, so I'm probably just weird.
I don’t think that’s a fallacy so much as survival instinct. Doing the ‘right’ thing becomes disproportionally harder when the matter goes over $100.

Good is relative to average, and is a concept that society determines the baseline of.
Are they still doing the thing where instead of taking a photo it takes a screenshot of the display?
Why do people work on open source or give up time for charity? Not everyone is focused purely on collecting more money when their needs are already covered.
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It really doesn't help that a product that delivers digital video content has a name that makes it sound like it's something you physically wear on your wrist to tell you what time it is.
I wonder how deep the pipeline is between inputs and failing tests on the output? I'd guess they'd have quite a bit of inventory in flight before they realized there was a problem with the output, but hell, I don't know.
I wonder if he'd have an easier time as a architect/IT-planning consultant. Clients may perceive less financial risk and grey hair might actually be an asset. I'm acutely aware of my ticking career clock after reading several of these stories in the last year.
It came with some cheap plastic covers on the dropouts, nothing structural. That's a good thing to look for in future purchases though.
fyi, this may work better if you say where you are. I looked and am assuming NJ from the 908 cell.
> xinetd doesn't talk websocket

Why not extend xinetd so that it can interact with websockets?
I would take a different approach to reach a similar conclusion.

Assign a task to a junior dev.

- Efficient: copies blindly a solution from stackoverflow in 30 minutes

- Inefficient: copies the same solution but tries to understand it before committing it, taking 90 minutes.

The inefficient lad is on his path to become a senior engineer. :)
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LOL at reclaimed wood being twice the price of new wood. Wouldn’t be surprised if the carbon footprint of reclaiming the wood is higher than growing new bamboo too. It’s like an environmentalist taking a private jet to Davos.
I've definitely come across the word "grifter" as a synonym for someone who defrauds people ("marks") in en_US.

"Grit" is a perfectly valid en_GB word meaning the same (enduring hardship.)
You don't have to save as aggressively as the people working towards FIRE (financially independent, retire early) but given that the future is unknown, and that the industry does have ageism - saving as hard as you can from the day you graduate isn't a bad thing.
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This is lovely, we use Cuis University in the UNQ (and I know that it's used in the UBA as well), an argentinian university to teach OOP, and it's amazing how easy is to transmit the ideas. But also smalltalk in general is great to understand the full stack of a language, from the VM to the trivial libraries, including the GUI; and all using that powerful debugger!

Cuis is a fork of Squeak, like Pharo, but simpler.
Check it out
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
https://sites.google.com/view/cuis-university
Many of my clients (F500) use HelloSign and DocuSign. They are not DropBox customers. I think what follows is rather obvious.
It's tragic and I wish younger devs could have even a small understanding of how pernicious this phenomenon is. No, you won't escape it because you're awesome, or because you love learning new things etc etc.

I'm lucky: I switched into a role where deep domain experience is essential, I did a PhD, I'm one of the top experts in a growing field - I'm more or less insulated from this. Indeed, now I hire people and I'm actually one of the perpetrators of it. We get resumes, I look at them, and inevitably many of the younger people are both (a) cheaper and (b) more on-target with their skill sets. Then there is a much more subtle and non-explicit discrimination on top of that which involves a presumption that an experienced person will not be "happy" working in what they would perceive as a junior level role. That they would find another position and leave. So they honestly can't win - if they don't have the skills they don't get hired, if they do, it is presumed they are too experienced to be happy in the job.

There must be a massive wave of ageing developers that is coming that is 10x the size of what we have seen so far. Something will have to change somewhere, hopefully it will help us all discard some of these discriminatory practices.
This looks really interesting - but I have to admit it's gone completely over my head. Can someone break this down into simpler terms?
You should totally check out the whoishiring threads. They are packed with job listings (lots of remote too).

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
yup, it's subsidized for low income folks. honestly, i don't think this program will last long because it's relatively expensive and can't scale efficiently.

hopefully the electric scooter/bike companies figure out that a large business is literally right in front of them. it's low margin, but whoever captures it can turn around and use its scaling effects as a barrier to entry.
CSS tried to be great before it was good.
can anyone explain how sometbing like this can cost 1b?
Inventions could be publicly funded and then the findings be made available to everyone. We already pay for all the inventions we use indirectly so why not just fund them to begin with and actually have access to this information.
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I think it'd be foolish for any US or Canadian citizen to travel to China right now.
I imagine it's possible someone would have eventually cracked it that way. From my experience learning a few shorthand techniques though, I can see how it would be difficult regardless.

- many shorthands, especially phonetic ones, are abjads and lack the full metadata around vowels which make context extremely important to understanding meaning.

- It's typical for a shorthand writer to make have unique markings for words they write frequently which may not match the phonetic pattern (if that's even being used) which are hard to guess

- shorthand is hard to parse in general because the strokes typically value flow over precision, so secondary and third strokes are usually are formed in relation to the prior ones rather than any absolute positioning scheme

But really, I just don't think there are many people actually working on trying to solve old short hands with modern statistics + ML techniques. Maybe I'm wrong though and someone gave it a good go but something here really was particularly hard to solve.
The advantage is being first. If you learn in Tokyo that a stock is going to go up, you can buy all of the available stock in New York, or cancel your order to sell it. It's going to take you 50 ms to get that information to New York, but if your competitor takes 49 ms, you lose money; if he takes 51 ms, you make money. So 1 ms is important, and so is any time difference big enough to outweigh the noise in the exchange's ordering of events. I know people measuring and caring about speed gains of single-digit nanoseconds, roughly equivalent to replacing your two-metre cables with one-metre cables.

The end customer (whoever actually wants to buy stocks) doesn't need the price to update every millisecond. But no one has yet figured out a better way to run an electronic exchange than "first come, first served".

Source: also worked in HFT for a long time.
It was ESL, but you're not really wrong because ESEA was purchased by ESL a few years back.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/18/16903872/esl-streaming-par...
A key point of that piece in the Atlantic, if I remember correctly, was that there are no breakthroughs now because we already know, for the most part, what is there to be known. We know the most important ideas/theories about the world we live in (evolution, the standard model, general relativity, etc.) and so the 'rest is detail' now.

I've reached a similar conclusion about fundamental physics. At the very least we are stuck with what we have for a very long time.

This may seem to be anti-scientific or anti-progress but who proved that scientific progress is unbounded?
You can absolutely do that. It works between two parties especially when small very well, but doesn’t scale well.

It’s also problematic when you deal with an asshole, as it’s difficult to determine who has the correct version of the message.
I won't fault you for finding tables intuitive for layout, but please stop using the actual table elements to do it. You can use normal divs with table styling for exactly the same outcome: https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-table

Semantically it does make a difference, and can impact people using accessibility technologies.
i'm not really understanding the tech sector. There's often the criticism that we keep reinventing solutions to old problems. And here you are, with presumably 30 years of experience, and no one wants to take a chance?
LOL. A lot of pop psychology and very little mention of manufacturing variations, assembly variations, or situational variations (warped floors or weird humidity etc)
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The income and wealth plots seem misleading... No one has been aged 25-34 for nearly 30 years. And 65+ life expectancy has gone up.
Maybe a step in the right direction but I would much rather have the content from these entities still be visible, but flagged, so I could warn others.

Probably not possible without a custom twitter client, though.
USA has already been proven to be spying all over the world, tracking all our internet activity.

And the suggestion that US spying is benign falls flat in the face of shit like this: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/28/international-cr...
How about returning localized stories specific to cities and college campuses? That feature was so important to so many people, and it was just suddenly killed last year.
Who says that C++ didn't break through that barrier, though? Sure, the big popular OS projects like (I'm assuming) Windows and Linux mostly stick to C in their kernels, but Haiku (for example) seems to be doing quite alright being written predominantly in C++, including in the kernel: https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/system/kernel

Outside the kernel, C++ seems to have more significantly broken through that barrier.
I worked at a competitor of them, across the street from Huawei. It was common knowledge that they interviewed people without the intention to hire them, acted super interested, and asked increasingly pointed questions to get you to violate your NDAs, and describe projects you shouldn’t. And they would do the same to those they hired. These are personal anecdotes, but I’m not surprised by these accusations.
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I very much agree with this. We save >>50% of take-home in large part because I'm paranoid/convinced that this gravy train is going to make an unceremonious crash in the future.
This is about the most boring thing I've ever heard. This is trivial to accomplish today, hell, QubesOS does the whole concept much better.
Other people have different mobility issues than you. Sitting in a stool with their feet off the floor might not work for them.
The C and I presume C++ standard has been very carefully avoiding the idea of a preprocessor being separate at all. The standard was very carefully worded to prevent that being necessary, because most C compilers do not have a separate preprocessor. It is only Unix heritage compilers that really have one, and even they're not consistent about it.
It’s only free for a certain number of signatures per form. Then you need to buy some server side tool from Adobe, and $150/yr seems cheap.
I don't like this blaming of people for not having foresight. You can do everything right and still lose it all.

Let's say he started a 401K in his 20s and slid the meter all the way to right (riskier investments). He would have encountered:

- 1980 recession, the one that got Reagan elected.

- 1990 recession, the one that got Clinton elected.

- 2001 recession, this one mainly affected tech workers.

- 2008 recession, this is the major one.

The GFC in 2008 have left a lot of older workers in the lurch. Many are now coming up on retirement and they were heavily invested in the stocks and not so much bonds. In my case my parents have lost $80k in their 401K. They have only just recovered.

And that example is just 401k, IRA. We won't even get into other matters such as health, divorce, property, lawsuits, failed businesses.
Maybe criminalizing religions would be an answer. It is fascinating how perception of drugs changes over time. Even the Dutch royal family had a cocaine manufacturing site last century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandsche_Coca%C3%AFnefabr...
Impact on society doesn't mean impact on science. What scientific breakthroughs were due to the internet? Yet, the internet had/has an unprecedented impact on history.

On the other hand, when someone starts having public opinions on pretty much anything (from buddhism to AI), I tend to be very suspicious about their expertise.
Safari didn't remove or 'break' localStorage, it simply responded with QuotaExceededError, indicating there's no more space available.
> Those fabled 90 percent tax rates only bit at incomes over $200,000, the equivalent of more than $2 million in today’s dollars.

And the proposed 70% tax rate only applies to incomes over $10 million in today's dollars.
I had no idea that this was even a thing.
Did they forget to advertise it?
Once the windchill gets beyond -40C/F it doesn't really matter anymore. Any exposed skin is just as frozen. Your eyelashes are still sticking together.

It would probably be better to just report it as some sort of "scarf required" zone followed by "scarf required and it might be a bit uncomfortable" zone.
You've repeated one of the existing responses from 9 hours ago.
I think that had more to do with the important innovation of being free and open.
Adobe's failure to make this easy and free is the problem. How HelloSign gets away with not also embedding digital signatures is the amazing part. Physical signatures are terrible security, at least when we switch to digital make it better, not worse.
Having worked in media tech for the last 10 years, I can confidently say we're past the point where this is a technology problem. Short form, long form, live...it's all been solved to everyone's satisfaction (though not saying it's easy). It's all content and analytics now.

I think Facebook was counting on a "if we build it they will come" approach, but that doesn't work on me-too products. Your users won't invent the next big hit for you...not when content offerings on the internet are this mature.
In the past, I notice cold snaps affect southern homeless more. Those up north know how to prepare for -20, some down south might not survive an overnight freeze.
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Can't agree with this enough. The whole CSGO community hates this deal, and it's hard to believe that ESL has made up for the lost audiences with the money from Facebook.

Although, maybe not, it's also hard to believe they manage to monetize me watching CSGO, considering I already own the game, a tower, the best mousepad, the best CS mouse, a mech keyboard, and two monitors...
Yes, and 10 years after its deprecation, WebSQL is still shipping with Safari and Chrome (worth pointing out that these 2 browsers completely dominate the market).

Interestingly, neither Apple nor Google were pro-deprecation; Mozilla, and to some degree Microsoft, spearheaded the move to standardize on IndexedDB.

Moving forward now that Edge is based on Chrome, maybe there's hope for WebSQL after all. Not that it will be undeprecated, but if 98% of the browser market supports WebSQL then it's effectively a non-standard standard.
Facebook strikes me as being terrible at PR and marketing. They had years of growth with constant free buzz, lots of word-of-mouth, and little need for traditional advertising or PR work. This might explain why so many people didn’t know about Watch.
No surprises. I kept scrolling to find the “surprise”.

I would have been much more interested if you’d said “we can scrape Spotify: here is what we found when X”

As it happens I’ve “requested access” but nearly hit the back button because I was looking for the surprise and didn’t see it.
That is really what they do. Certain actions (screenshots, video, etc) are rewarded with trophies accessible in the app.
Obviously all people anti-legal-immigration are going to be anti-illegal. You're guaranteed that Venn diagram by construction.

People in favor of reducing or altering legal immigration are quite vocal about it.
I feel like there is less of a stigma for older contractors. Might be a good idea if you’re getting older in a tech career to shift from full time to contract work?
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Where do you find good sales managers if you are a startup?
I’m a founder of a startup that makes AI solution for B2B. I’ve been searching a sales manager with good experience and strong skills. I’ve posted this job position on indeed but haven’t got any relevant applications.
So share, please, have you ever had the same problem? How do you solve it, which sources or tools you use to find a good sales?