skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I wanted to say in response to his penultimate question:

"I can't imagine working for a big corporation again, but should I just give it up and get a "normal" job for a little while to build up some savings again before embarking on the next venture?"

There are plenty of small venture-backed startups that will pay you a good salary if you have the right skills. You just need to find the right fit.
Personally I find solace in this quote:

> That which you can control cannot hurt you.

It gives great clarity as to why we cling to technology (and other societal control structures).
I was going to make an app for this. You beat me to it, and it's pretty good, no reason for me to bother now.
I don't know, I work for a multinational manufacturing firm in the lighting industry and we have so many things tied up in Microsoft, it's hard to imagine we could extricate ourselves easily. Whether it's legacy Windows API applications still being used to track inventory or simply users' longtime use of Microsoft Office products, or ongoing development in a .NET environment, I do not think we (or many of our peers) are in any position to start moving away from Windows.

Your point may remain for consumer electronics, but much of Microsoft's revenue stream comes from corporate users anyway.
When Part of Apollo 13 Reached the Moon
Yahoo Eyeing Tumblr for $1 Billion?
Airships have the potential to carry Heavier loads, since there is essentially no limit to the size (no road/tire/landscape issues) - the gas bag can be built as big as you can conceive.

They can fly high above weather and be immune to local conditions - until they have to dock. Then even a moderate wind can delay/prevent landing and taking off.

SO the blocking problem is, you can't schedule Zeppelin service reliably. And in this day of FedEx/overnight/guaranteed delivery, the Zeppelin can't even get in the game.
You really have to ask how recording something that you could play back for everyone is worse than only viewing it in that one moment?
For some good ideas around mobile and internet you can try looking at http://firespotting.com it is basically a hackernews for ideas.
Note that the term "upskirt" came to prominence after cellphones became widely available. Who knows what the new violation term would be.
If only there would be something that detects the moment of snark forming in their head and snaps a picture of the commentator at that instant. Surely, there will be enough comedy material right there for everyone involved.
I use the void concept to explain my absurdity. I usually fall back on explaining the thought process that follows awakening in a void. The loss of identity, speech, motion, etc. Now, I wish I had taken a physics class.
I work in corporate where there is no admin access to my work machine and we're expected to use Notepad for small tasks and Word for big ones. The windows version of Gvim gives me all the familiar keybindings I have on my Linux box at home, with features my coworkers can't get in their editors (I use sed several times a day--what a lifesaver).

The unity in keybindings between my home coding environment and my work coding environment means there's very little cognitive dissonance--my muscle memory does all the work. People who don't spend their time equally split on vastly platforms probably don't understand just how huge of a godsend a cross-platform editor is (Emacs/Sublime have this too--not meaning to suggest there aren't other editors that have this).
Oh man, my pokemon Maxpages sites. I wish they were still around. I used to go back and check on the sites of my 10 year old self.
I use groovy for writing tests. Much better language for writing tests in general in my opinion but also has the benefit of ignoring 'private' so you can directly test your private methods in isolation without messing around with reflection.

To head off the 'only test your public method camp':

I often have bits of math or 'tricky stuff' in a private method, the public usages of that method may limit the input to the private method in some manor or map it in a way that offsets edge cases, i.e. an edge case for the public method may not exorcise the edge case in the private method. I'd much rather just test the full input range and edge cases of the private method directly than leave it up to the next person who comes along. The next person may need to tweak the application logic in the public method and then also figure out how to map the application logic inputs to ensure the edge cases of the private method are tested, seems less than efficient and also prone to being missed. It seems silly and fragile to expect that person to figure out the edge cases for the public method, all the edge cases for private methods and the map of public method input to edge case in private method(s).
I love it, thank you! I just tried it now. I have one suggestion, at the end when it's time for side plank, it is not clear when you should switch sides. I thought I would rest, and then the timer would tell me to do the other side, but at this time the timer was done. It would be better if the timer indicated when to switch sides, or had two segments, one for each side. Other than that, it was perfect!
i'm actually sad and happy at the same time. eclim just got usable for me for android development. i don't think you can run a headless intellij.

but i still consider intellij the better standalone IDE.
It's plausible that select banks would implement it for publicity benefits.

The problem then occurs, as always, on the end users steps in their own security....ex 'would people at a casino care about their security, or will they pay that $10 fee or whatever it is just to pull money out of that unsecured atm."
Ah, you're misunderstanding the term reference frame as it's being used here. A reference frame is like a coordinate system for velocity; it's not something physical.
No, to clarify, I mean just in public on the train or at a concert or a bar or whatever. The sorts of places where "mild" sexual assault of women by unfamiliar men is rather routine-- I'd posit much more common than assault of men by unfamiliar men in public restrooms, though I'm open to correction on that.

My underlying question being, at what point does looking put one in enough fear of touching that preemptive escalation to violence is warranted? Because from what I'm told by female friends, that fear is fairly commonplace in their lives, while violence is rather more rare.
Oh well, I do recall about 13 years ago you could see the Apache /server-status page and who was accessing what and there IP. Guess they are still learning.

That said in these days reuters could of got hacked and this is a spoof release, the mind boggles thesedays.
You get beaming effects, a moving Enterprise, and screens with Star Trek links.

It still works....
There are 6 now!
zalzane is also forgetting a big word: SharePoint. It's going nowhere, and it locks in companies to the Microsoft stack.
But with google glass, suddenly small discrete cameras will be everywhere! Not like today, where for a picture to be taken, a huge flash bulb has to explode, and the subject has to stand perfectly still for 10 minutes.
Credit cards are merely debt obligations, and therefore money printing machines. If I have a credit limit of $10k, there isn't actually a $10k account anywhere backing that limit. The bank pays the merchant, yes, but you can follow the trail of that money all the way up to the central bank which created it out of nothing for purpose of fulfilling debt obligations. The money is then destroyed when I pay the bank back at the end of the month.

To the consumer they appear basically the same (“they both have the VISA logo right?”), but in understanding the mechanics of what is happening, they could not be more different.
http://www.audiomack.com

Built it in our spare time early last year, went live around the end of Feb 2012. Been growing like a weed ever since, and this year it's just been too much work to keep making progress on AudioMack in addition to having a full-time job.

Never really plugged it on HN because it didn't seem like quite the right crowd and I feel awkward about shameless self-promotion. :)
(Good news: they made three more episodes :) )
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Too little too late?

I find this hard to believe-- as a current Rackspace customer (I'd kill to switch) I can say I've had nothing but horrible customer support. Save, one guy named Mark Lessel-- who is a fucking boss (had to give him props).

But I only get to someone like mark, once I've gotten so fed up, I start being an asshole and then, only then, does anything get done (they send Mark to help me). I don't like being an asshole, but spending 3 days going back and forth before getting a resolution is too much.

They've too often had people without technical ability (or it so it seems) attempt to assist me, then blow me off because they don't understand the true nature of the problem.

They say you can "move a slider" and increase the size of your VPS. Which couldn't be further from the truth; more often than not you have to get on the line with their support to figure out why the instance failed to build. Only to drag it out for another 30 minutes telling you to wait; before actually investigating the god damn problem.... Makes scaling quickly very easy (sarcasm).

Rackspace is made even worse by the outright lies about their 'fanatical customer support.' Biggest bullshit marketing lie from a, somewhat respectable, tech company I've seen. If they just advertised middle of the road support and service, I think I'd be less upset. It's just the lies that get to me. Don't over promise and under deliver, that's a bait and switch.

Maybe they should start giving away lipstick with every VPS; so we can all look pretty while we get fucked ;-)
Who's to blame for shadow IT?  Check the mirror
That doesn't seem like a specific use case at all. Where the person happens to be standing when they are using their phone is unrelated to the example, really.
We, at iKnode (http://iknode.com), provide a very powerful Backend Platform.

We focus on behavior more than data. So you can implement your logic in your browser. This doesn't mean we don't support data storage, we do, but our platform focuses more on what you can do with the data, more than just exposing the data through an API.

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The smart card I have requires only a PIN, and that PIN can be intercepted by suitable hardware can it not?
People have been predicting Microsoft's decline for years, but they just posted record revenues last quarter. They have a much more diverse set of profitable businesses than Apple, Amazon, or Google do - Office, Windows, SQL Server, Xbox, Visual Studio, SharePoint, Dynamics XRM, ... They have over a dozen different businesses bringing in more than $1B of revenue a year.

That's not to say that everything's rosy, of course, but people have lost perspective on what an impressive money-making machine Microsoft really is.
IMO, you can't really talk credibly about having "Fanatical Support for Developers" if you don't support at least one compiled systems-development language, i.e., C++ or Go. But I'm sure I'm in the minority.

(I vote for Go.)
I suspect Google's hiring process, while extraordinary for most of their purposes, is challenged at hiring those with the combination of breadth and depth of experience to prevent this problem.

They have to go outside that process to hire full stack tech + 360 degree user experience, which they only do if they pre-determined the hire (thereby bypassing the screens, interviews, and committees, which are made up of depth-first experts who naturally rate based on candidate depth within each interviewer's scope).

This selectivity problem (rejection of "Renaissance" women or men) could become increasingly apparent as their products attempt broader and more integrated reach.

On the other hand, perhaps management realizes there is an issue, as evidenced by more and more frequently reaching past their defined hiring process to poach pre-selected hires with broader expertise.

Maybe this bi-modal hiring is the answer, though their current approach misses out identifying and hiring talented prospects who aren't already valley famous yet could help address the very valid concerns buro9 raises here.
On the flip side, I'm excited by the idea that someone won't be able to punch me in the face for any reason without some fairly conclusive evidence testifying to that effect.

'Course that doesn't help me if I really did take a picture of his dick.
Oh, that's not what I meant. I meant use the reference frame from when you first woke up. But I'll make a more detailed scenario:

* Wake up in the void. Label your current reference frame R0.

* Notice that there is no real way to label 'speed' vs. void.

* We can however measure angular speed via tension on body parts, it seems to be 0.

* Accelerate somehow

* * for some magical reason it's forbidden to have more than one object, so I thought up a couple minimally-magic ways to do it that I am pretty sure don't cause physics problems by themselves.

* * * You could throw something then immediately pretend the thing you threw doesn't exist, forbidding it as a reference frame.

* * * You could make a punching motion and use magic to cause your arm to disappear.

* * * You could swing all your limbs away from your body and use magic to reverse the direction of one of them.

* Now you are in reference frame R1 because you accelerated.

* Hooray you accelerated without any other objects to compare to. If you insist on comparing to a reference frame, use R0.
I love this. Quick question, which browsers support this? It doesn't say on the website.
The alternative is that there's some fundamental reference frame. The obvious example is the theory of the aether I alluded to: light would propagate in different speeds in different reference frames.

More generally, you can't know that the laws of physics are the same in all reference frames until you actually do the experiments. If you think otherwise, you underestimate nature's ability to confound human intuition! A good example is is parity, which you'd think would be a good symmetry of nature, but is actually violated by some interactions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_violation#Parity_violati...
A lot of folks "smart enough to roll their own" have gotten hacked. A common, peer-reviewed implementation could be a long-term win.
I don't know if the design is effective... what prevents anyone from installing a skimmer on/within this device?
Proof of wait
And is it really necessary for Krebs to post private conversations about the 22 year old's depression? At what point is this even about security? Krebs's blog is starting to look more like tabloid journalism.
If the sample is people going to Glassdoor looking for jobs then it's probably not the keenest employees. However, that would also be true of the Top 10 companies listed, and they all score much better....
Actually, I do see more upside potential for MSFT than for Amazon or Google. Google seems to be already on its peak - same for Amazon (I don't think they will go down just peaked).

Here is my reasoning:

- Windows Phone: not really because they are great but retardness of Android phone manufacturers (especially Samsung) gives them an excellent chance to gain a significant market share

- XBox + Skype: they might become the central entertainment and communication system in nearly every living room in the world

- Yammer, SkyDrive, Skype, Web Office and other cloud solutions for enterprises: Definitely something companies are going to try.

As somebody else said, Microsoft is the best when they are underdog so I do understand why Larry is so concerned about Microsoft.
Interesting read and I like the concept, but I think the 4-letter rule added an arbitrary constraint that didn't necessarily make it easier to read or understand.

If the idea was "explain relativity simply" then it could have been done better -- word complexity (ie "reading level") is a better measure than outright word length.

If the idea was simply to see if it could be done with 4-letter words, well, mission accomplished :)
You keep using religious "hyperbole" and it is making it hard for me to understand your perspective. So let me just ask a couple of direct questions that are easily answered using TDD.

1. How do you determine what is a "unit" that should be covered by a test?
2. How do you determine what a given method/function's responsibilities are?
3. How do you determine where to put a given method or function?
4. How do you get feedback on if your design decisions are correct?

You've also yet to tell me what it is specifically that you don't like about TDD. I'm truly not trolling, I'm curious whenever anyone has such vitriol for a given software technique.

As for the linked article (and the underlying primary research) criticizing TDD, I had read both of those before and I think they speak to a problem with the primary research more than addressing TDD in any significant way (that's not to say you couldn't design a study that did prove TDD was harmful).

Finally, are you being ironic when you say that the original posted articles author is being cultish about TDD? The article specifically tells it's readers not to use TDD. I don't get how that is cultish.
Fair enough on the established thing. My point was more to the fact that before you even see a job description, or what they want from you, they lead with why they want to you

as an early startup, I'd be interested in why you don't have a programmer/technical cofounder? That's normally how you'd get that ownership you want. I know I sure wouldn't own a project (YOUR project) on the level you describe without significant equity.

Cause otherwise its a gig that will probably be gone in a year.
It's really cool to read about how a "simple" metal box could change this industry and many others so dramatically, talk about ripple effect...
Indeed, it'll teach you a lot about how the recent "modern" world developed; containers became important for the Vietnam War, but its mostly pure business and economic history, with sufficient detail---well, enough for me---on the technical side. Also the interplay of government laws and regulation, and shipping cartels, on the path this all took. And tells you why most of the historic ports of old faded away.

Absolutely fascinating.
Also http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/07/07/the-epic-story-of-conta...
USA consumes too many resources from the world. Something between 24 and 30 percent, depending on the category, while making up only 5 percent of the world's population. As other countries want to raise their share, and the USA wants to keep the status quo... conflicts arise.

That's why the US Government can't just "stay at home vs. making new enemies all over the world all the time?".

Imagine for a moment what would happen if they just stayed at home...

The simplified version:

- US industries would have much less resources for production. Imagine a drop from 30% of wold's energy consumption, to 20% - 15%. Power shortages, industries closed.

- Prices on raw materials, would raise, because other countries would demand to increase their share. (More demand -> higher prices).

- Local prices would raise even more (lower production -> higher prices).

- The economy would enter in a deep contraction and depression.

- Large layoffs would be common. Unemployment would reach new heights within the country.

- Social discontent would be too dangerous in a heavily armed country.

- Protests and more protests, demonstrations with large numbers of people claiming for actions.

- Police is ordered to suppress the demonstrations. Violence emerge. Sooner or later, a protester dies, unleashing more fury among the people.

- Larger and more radicalized demonstrations are organized.

- Eventually, the government falls (as happened in many other countries in the last few years).

That's why US troops can't just stay at home and grow flowers. Sadly for the rest of the world, changing the status quo will take a long time. And it's not something possible to do in just a few years. Any attempt in doing a drastic change would end up in violence and possibly war if done by a foreign entity.

So, sadly, more hate to the US Government will keep extending around other countries for a few more decades.
I was slow to warm up to blogging, but I love Tumblr! Paired with a mobile app it is killer. I hope this goes through.
If I had to bet, they end up going the IBM/Accenture route fully into services and maybe buy up one of the big Indian body shops.
Now who can describe the theory of relativity in only four words?

Similar to this: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
There's an alternative nifty counter implementation that doesn't use as much memory. See near the bottom of http://www.petebecker.com/js/js199905.html
That would require building consensus around such a language. I mean, yes, this is one of my own hobby projects, but Rust is the most fully-developed attempt made so far and it still doesn't have the kind of developer backing that C did in the BSD days.
The last time I tried IntelliJ it also had poor BiDi support and the font rendering was crappy compared to Eclipse (Eclipse uses the native platform font rendering, and IntelliJ does not).
I've heard of pinhole cameras being used in card skimming operations where PIN numbers are required.
If I saw a big metal thing attached to the front of an ATM I would run a mile. The turning mechanism really needs to be inside the ATM.
| That said, their arguments against Wayland were
| way off. Which was a very big mistake. Though I
| tend to attribute that to not understanding Wayland
| well rather than malice.

I don't necessarily think that it was malice (you can bad-mouth someone without malice), but it raises a lot of questions.

- Why was Ubuntu so misinformed? Why didn't they discuss things with the Wayland devs?

- Why haven't they admitted their mistake in their reasons[1]?

- Why is Ubuntu still going forward with Mir? Why not just use Wayland if the 'shortcomings' of Wayland that drove them to create Mir don't exist?

[1] Maybe they have, but I haven't come across it.
Not being secret != being public.

They are very different concepts and trying to force secrecy for privacy is against normal behaviour.

Go ask any old Russian about this.
SAP might help you with your manufacturing needs. AFAIK Philips Lightning is using their products (SAP Manufacturing Execution and ERP).
I don't think it will hinder his future employment prospects. He wouldn't be a fit for any company like Samsung, just as they wouldn't be a good employer for him.

It goes both ways. If a person takes a stand like that (basically stating not liking dysopian work environments, bad tools and major bureaucracy), he might make himself not available to such environments, but yet open doors to other ones.

The other thing you forget is that this guy is pretty young and still maturing up. Almost no level headed manager will read too much into it few years down the road.

As a co-worker, I like this type. They are more likely to reject bureaucracies, and seeking efficiency. These types tend to be more motivated on getting things done, and taking joy in their productive work, and not useless work.

Having seen myself how Samsung engineers work (mostly Korean teams), long hours culture, sleeping in their desks (shows you are working hard!), producing buggy code at night, then fixing their own crap in the morning (inefficient tail chasing), I would never work for that company either.