skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..but they don't leverage their MS Office dominance to harm the market. You can access MS Office with the open HTTP(S) standard. MS Office works on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and in WINE. It follows the OOXML standard which you can open in LibreOffice as well.

Apple -> These $%^&ers don't allow anyone to repair their own devices, they don't allow a different distribution method on iOS/iPodOS devices hence quickly evolve to unfair market advantage.

Amazon -> Undercut anyone at any cost while having the worst review system on our planet.

Facebook -> RIP privacy, just see the recent scandals.

Google -> Probably something involving Android...

Microsoft? Oh I can write a book about my terrible experiences with that company. I hated this company and everything it stood for for about 15+ years or so (at least 1995-2010). Recently though? Not so much.
So in a candidate response-based survey 54% picked the more palatable "Growth Opportunities" item but 42% also selected the far less attractive motivator of "More money".

Accounting for the "perceived gallantry" of these motivators I'd call that a statistical wash, but the article title "Want to hire the best programmers? Pay them the highest salaries." doesn't support the "best engineers / best companies" narrative very well.
I don't worry about ticks one bit in the Mojave, no annoying mosquitoes either. Maybe there's winter camp near Joshua Tree?
The linked article https://jpmens.net/2019/06/21/i-care-about-ansible/ describes my issues with Ansible, it's still the best for what I use it for but it's started to become very painful at times and the constant "You used foo, foo was deprecated use bar" where bar is some minor variant of foo.

That and yaml but that's a battle I'm losing (I really don't like yaml) mean I'm keeping an eye on alternatives in the hope something else will arise at some point.
I'm no FB apologist, but I take issue with this:

> fake account problem … Google Trends shows worldwide "Facebook" queries down 80% from their November 2012 peak.

Except that much of this downturn in people googling "Facebook" is explainable by the shift to mobile. Surely no one needs to Google "Facebook" to open the Facebook app on their phone’s home screen. (For that matter, one doesn't even need the app icon when one is receiving push notifications from FB. No legit notifs? No problem, FB will synthesize fake ones.)
My pet peeve with 73 being "best" number is that a lot of these properties relies on representing this number in decimal (or binary in case of Sheldon-Norris number). I'd like properties that were independent of base selected to represent the number.
Thanks! We do our best to make sure that people who want to get ahold of the latest Julia binaries are always able to. Our downloads page [0] always offers the latest stable builds, whereas the nightlies page [1] allows you to download binaries off of the tip of the `master` branch, which usually lag behind the github repository by only a couple of hours.

[0] https://julialang.org/downloads/
[1] https://julialang.org/downloads/nightlies.html
Google and Facebook; sure makes sense and considering their track records I am for regulation.

However Apple? They have the best record on privacy and clearly iPhone and Mac are not a monopoly. Thanks to Tim Cooks deplomacy they also happen to be in the good grace of Trump unlike the others.
Awesome, summary. Thank you.
> their a distant #2 in the cloud space

I'd challenge that assertion outside the SV world. 2nd place definitely, but distant no so much, at least in the circles I work in.
As long as it's not a requirement or expected, I think it's fine. If someone has side projects they're proud of, I think it would be helpful to both parties for them to be brought up.
Snapchat Ends Growth Slump, Adds 13M New Users
Isn't this the purpose of cruise missiles? Essentially a drone that flies to a target and kaboom.
But not Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I've had 2 family members get RMSF in the last 2 years.

https://www.cdc.gov/rmsf/stats/index.html
We're IN the phase of big tech being bad for consumers right now.
Of course, but I think a large part of the incentive for startups to do that is so they can hire high-quality engineers who aren't in SF, so that they don't have to deal with the crazy cost of living expenses when paying salaries, and of course their own costs for living in SF and renting/owning office space there.

So I think I would expect most early-stage remote startups to pay salaries which account for an employee's cost of living (rather than paying a full SF salary whether you live in SF or Montana). But maybe I'm wrong.
The “greased sled” theory of Stonehenge
I wonder to what extent Snapchat is attractive because it's not part of the giant tech conglomerates and seems to have a slightly more sane approach to privacy than the rest.
Apply your reasoning to other subjects and you are essentially saying fiction is a useless device to explore the world and yourself with... which I couldn't disagree with enough.
Could it be the big 5 returned too little amount of jobs to USA and are getting a wrath? Or is it just standard SV bashing to please the conservative voters? I suppose (as European) USA is getting heated up for another presidential election.
I wonder what they are using websockets for? I haven't seen push notifications on SO.
I think your point was lost because there's some scaling problems in the mental models used to formulate it.
Yeah that comment at the end raises flags for me too. Many happy couples watch porn together.

The video they link to at the end of the test the top of the description contains the following:-

> NOTE FROM TED: This talk contains several assertions that are not supported by academically respected studies in medicine and psychology. While some viewers might find advice provided in this talk to be helpful, please do not look to this talk for medical advice.

It also contains this:-

> Gary Wilson asks whether our brains evolved to handle the hyperstimulation of today's Internet enticements.

But that could be asked of anything on the internet to a degree. The dopamine hits we get from gaming be it match 3 mobile games or FPS's, the need to make those numbers ever increase on social media (subs, likes, points, etc), the joy of opening parcels from online shopping like opening presents.

Using the "any amount" argument basically means we should only use the net for boring work tasks and not even the work we enjoy (I love coding, I get a hit when people like the work I do for them).

Again as you say "everything in moderation" but I can not stand by an "any amount" argument.
Git Push and Pull
Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff
They may not have cancelled it but when the 2nd Bush administration came in the Justice department became much more lenient towards Microsoft than it was under the Clinton administration. The ultimate agreement was a sweetheart deal compared to what they were facing under the previous administration. It took the Europeans to impose anything with any kind of teeth.
> There literally were no users when the object system was created.

True, but it's odd that you say that as if it is disagreement with what you quoted.

> Javascript’s « prototypal » model is not in any way clean,

What's not clean about it?

> and all ES6 does is add useful and convenient syntactic shortcuts.

ES6 added shortcuts that are only useful and convenient if you didn't bother to learn the prototypical inheritance way of doing things, and wanted to do the things in the Java class-based style.

> The changes to the underlying model are improvements (eg official read/write access to the one lonely parent slot, ability to create objects without a parent, …)

Sure, agreed I guess.
It would be interesting if they performed the same survey, but using real values instead of a subjective, relative scale.

For example, instead of asking: how important salary is, ask how much money they'd like to make; instead of opportunity for professional advancement, ask what role they'd like to eventually have; instead work/life balance, ask about number of vacation days and % work from home, etc.

I'm willing to bet you'll see very different outcomes because senior-level people for whom "salary is not important" probably want like $200k/yr while mid-level people who say it is important might only want $90k.
Memory intensive apps in JS are largely OK so long as they use proper typed arrays and buffers. Besides, looking at the examples, there's a lot of WebGL going on in the outputs so it's not really JavaScript.
> The author has spent a decade fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms—and convincing those who don’t believe him that his illness is real

It is real. An illness caused by psychology is no less real than an illness caused by physiology.

Look up the work of John Sarno. You may be amazed that seemingly mysterious diseases which defy diagnosis can be cured by reading a book or watching a few lectures on YouTube.
If that's the intent then they've been failing miserably at it.
“Disclaimer: Richard Feynman was a colossal misogynist. I have a hard time separating this fact from his contributions to science.”

I have heard that Socrates was fond of the young boys whom he taught. Why mention an irrelevant bias of one and not another? Is the point to condone behaviour that isn’t yet fully condoned by present society?
Vulcanism has a ... generally ... bounded upper scale,[1] astronomical impactors do not, and demonstrably modest impactors have had devastating results, with numerous candidates existing. Fortunately they're sparsely distributed.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Volcanic traps caused by flood basalt eruptions being an extreme outlier upper bound, see the Siberian Traps, 500 million ya, as a notable example.

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

There have been 18 identified, most 100s of millions to billions of years ago, though as recently as 10 mya. Yellowstone is among the younger (17 mya). The events may be associated with meteor impacts as well -- evidence is poorly preserved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_basalt
> "if it's good for consumers it's legal" is short sighted

It's worse - the attitude has been "if it can theoretically lower prices in the short-term it must be good for consumers" - they've totally ignored all the perils involved in large scale mergers.
Fighting Hype in Quantum Computing
Of course encouraging people to try and get in the IT industry even without a degree is good too. I thought I said so in my comment. I am in no way a college elitist. I know not everyone can go to uni.

My whole point was that the truth of what it is to code for a living is hidden by those kind of sensationnal articles. Those who want to get into the industry are not encouraged to work on what matters (ie engineering skills instead of fancy frameworks) and end up disappointed with their opportunities or their skill set. CS universities tend to push students toward developping an engineering skill set.

I would really like to see people without a degree that want to improve to be encouraged to do the same instead of being encouraged to read 3 wordpress tutos and start selling their skills by manipulating small business owners into spending money they don't have.

I trained developers with and without a CS degree and I always nudge them into improving engineering skills.
> I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe?

Probably still going to need them. The person responsible for ripping and leaking nearly every big album of the aughts before their official releases was in the U.S.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-br...
A serial entrepreneur’s learnings from a partial startup failure
Microsoft enjoys a very close relationship with the DoD.
Images, voice search and text search could be split up into different competing companies. Youtube is the second most popular search engine. That could be broken off of Alphabet. GMail could be it's own company. Google Photos could be it's own thing. Google Drive/docs/sheets could be it's own company. There's a lot of ways to break up google.
Even if you told them,they don't care how you were treated. They want to know what exactly drove you over the edge and what better environment and opportunity the competition offered you.

Exit interviews help future "stay" interviews. So when another person turns in their notice,they now have a list of things they can work with to try and keep them.

Also, they know you will avoid saying negative things if you're smart so they look for patterns of things people who leave are not saying under that specific managment compared to other teams.
Well, it's human nature to try and efficiently summarize. You may have to adjust your communication methods to account for that. For example, I almost always try to write emails that contain one central point.
> There was a reply here, now dead, that I wanted to discuss

If there's a comment that's [dead] that shouldn't be, you should vouch for it by clicking on its timestamp and then clicking 'vouch' at the top of its page. When enough users vouch for a comment, it is restored to visibility. That's why the comment you're talking about is now visible (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495142), albeit also downvoted.
what about things like HUMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUMP!_(film_festival)) and the varieties of ethical porn initiatives?
This is a great article all about the tunnels and how they were constructed: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/underworld-mon...
Unfortunately for the current administration, it would be cheaper to remove them from office that it would be to comply with their investigation. A future administration may be much friendlier towards tech.

Big tech will likely drag this out as long as they can.
Hasn't antitrust enforcement/actions been pretty toothless over the past, say, 15 years at least? Think of telco mergers, airline mergers, ...
Yeah, this is exactly how I imagined it. They punch in "Caesar's Palace" then hit "yes", "Accept", and "Charge my stored card" before handing the phone back to the guy.

Then the guy is wondering how in the hell he got a $500 charge from Lyft on his credit card statement at the end of the month.
Well, it's a good thing that I never said that.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and posting unsubstantive comments. Please don't create accounts to do that with on HN. It eventually gets your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I feel like my relationship with Amazon is a pretty solid value proposition for me as a consumer of both retail and AWS.

It helps that Amazon is less overtly political than the other tech giants. Obviously their employees lean left, but with a few notable exceptions like refusing to sell Confederate Battle Flags they have been quite good about allowing different views to be expressed by content creators.

I'm starting to have my doubts about Google though. The quality of their search has been noticeably deteriorating, as has the gmail spam filter. The main reason I haven't switched to another service is that I didn't use a custom domain for my address. They are also overtly political with their YouTube demonitizing.
For downvoters and everybody else: can you help suggesting some viable ways to overcome the tradeoff?
The part about needing to continue your education daily is something a lot of non-CS/IT/programmers people don't understand. I know a lot of friends who want to get into a tech career (say, webdev) who don't get this. They think all they need to do is get a CS degree, or take a course and they'll be set for life.
Sure, not all FP languages provide encapsulation, and neither do all OO languages (e.g. in Ruby there's always some way to access an object's private parts).

My point was simply that the nice property you described can be achieved by using ADTs, and you don't need OO to have that.
Or maybe it’s just another overcomplicated model that’s ultimately a dead end, like, say, RBMs, which were also pushed hard by Hinton (before DL breakthrough in 2012).
As a physicist, it's been really cool seeing the awareness of Julia in the community gradually increase.

Large swathes of the physics community have been migrating their code to Python over the past few years but it really seems now that Julia is getting so many amazing features and packages that it can't be ignored.
> The Feigenbaum constants are as fundamental as e and \pi

I suppose its debatable how fundamental a constant is , but there is no way the Feigenbaum constant is even in the same neighborhood as \pi and e.
Plus, if he was a celebrity someone on the bus may have recognized him and made the trip totally suck.
On the phone right now so my answer will be short, but I use yunohost (https://yunohost.org/#/). The installation is a Deb package, mail comes out of the box. Nextcloud and other apps can be installed via cli, meaning they can be automated. Someone even wrote a ansible role to install yunohost: https://github.com/sylvainar/ansible-yunohost/blob/master/RE...
The enterprise engine is a superset of the community engine. They will ship concurrently with the same patch version based on the same code base.
Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

Remember the APC Bradley
Oh really, so why does the subject of sex not benefit from these qualities of fiction?
It is much less of a challenge than keeping your data away from Apple on iOS as my previous comment demonstrated.

> Oh even when the WiFi is off it will still scan for nearby SSIDs to get your position?

Again, this is opt in even on Google-flavored Android devices. There is no digging through settings required — the opt in checkbox appears in the setup flow. On iOS, there is nothing you can do to stop your device from doing this.
Freeways are the arteries and veins of the country. Almost everything in most people's houses and offices was on a freeway inside an 18 wheeler at some point.

I would even say they are so relied upon that arial bombing or terrorist attacks at major freeway intersections would cripple the economy for months and create a ripple effect lasting much longer.
Is this something similar to PLINQ in C# ?
The paper by McGee and Schmidt (1985):

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/198600...

"Discovery of the Kalman Filter as
a Practical Tool for Aerospace and
Industry --
Leonard A. McGee and Stanley F. Schmidt"
No arguments here. We should move away from text into more visual domain, but we lack a polished editing tool. Every visual programming language brings own tools, incompatible with each other and lacking basic features.

Here's my wishlist: completely keyboard-driven; automatic graph layout; constraint editing to tree/DAG/full graph; don't allow connecting incompatible types; declutter by showing only N neighbours from current node; support for extensions to integrate different programming languages. Sure it's a tall order, but this is the building platform for future of computing :)

Since this thread is about Nodes, I'll try to give some constructive criticism. Seems like too much manual work is needed to organize the code on screen. Non-trivial programs become entangled because of 2D plane constraint. It's somewhat unjustified criticism though, since text programs also require lot of manual arranging ("architecture") and easily become hard to read. I like the built-in visualization of processed data. Cool stuff.
Also, of all those companies, Microsoft is the only one operating a search engine in China.
Oh, sure; side projects that people have worked on for fun over the years are a good thing to have and should be a potential avenue to show off one's abilities.
Gmail, Google Docs, Photos, Drive, etc. would all be rolled into a separate company. There would be no good reason to make Gmail or Photos separate companies. Photos would be a horrific business standing alone.
Accessibility lessons: dealing with a large amount of form inputs
Since the driver would have had to dead head back to Chicago, if his expenses were a not unreasonable 0.50 cents per mile, the only profit the driver made was the tip.
Node v12.7.0 (Current)
Another possible takeaway is if you want a clean codebase, you should hire a woman to write it, since women apparently care about clean code more.
i'm self taught without a CS degree. I filled in many of the gaps by studying for technical interviews. I can rattle off every type of data structure, every type of classical algorithm (even the inefficient ones for historical reasons), write HLDs and LLDs and sequence diagrams and component diagrams, and can work my way through almost every problem on those leetcode type sites (if given enough time).

can i write a compiler or a lexical parser or am I versed in distributed computing and/or other highly specialized technical areas? not off the top of my head, but give me a few days/weeks and I know I'll be able to.
The Science of Science Funding
"write clearly -- don't sacrifice clarity for 'efficiency'"

"make it clear before you make it faster"

"make it right before you make it faster"

"keep it simple to make it faster"

From "The Elements of Programming Style" by Kernighan and Plauger

Other than that maybe that naming is one of the hardest and most important things to do.
The pharmaceutical industry would have us believe the cost driver is R&D and the money well spent. Aside from patent regreening and out of control marketing [0] I think the change in pricing methodology from cost-plus to value-based [1] explains most all of the delta.

[0] Advertising chemotherapeutic agents directly to the consumer ought to be disallowed as an expense under the tax code, IMO

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-based_pricing

Copyedited.
A bit tangential, but please for all that is good in this world, stop depending on static AWS IAM User keys in an integration product. https://docs.sendwithses.com/how/how-to-generate-aws-keys-fo....

You should absolutely be using cross-account roles which, with role assumption, vends ephemeral credentials when you need them. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/tutorial_cr...

A compromise of your vault (and hopefully not remote code execution) means the attacker at least can't blast a billion emails out at someone elses expense.
Does Lyft compensate you for the drive back to your home? I'm guessing not? Or do they seriously jack up the price if you go beyond a certain distance to compensate the drive for his almost certainly empty drive back?
You may be thinking of the Fields Medal in mathematics, for which recipients must be under 40.
...and they (1) altered their behavior because they were in those court proceedings AND (2) lost only to open source competitors (Firefox, Apache, Linux, etc). MS had already declared that IE6 would be the last version of IE, and only revisted that after Firefox brought out tabs and hit a 1.0 version that managed to reach the unthinkable portion of 10% market share.

Had Firefox been coming from a company that could be bought, it wouldn't have remained available to hit that 10%, and MS would have retained their chokehold on everything, possibly until the iPhone became significant (that arose from Apple, which MS literally invested in to be able to argue they still had competition).

MS today is indeed a different beast - but I've never been convinced the antitrust suits were misplaced. The market of competition was _broken_ and consumers suffered. Even if breaking up MS wasn't required to eventually rebalance the market, that doesn't mean all the steps along the way did nothing.
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