skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I'm only 40, not 80! ;) 2. These are actually remote interviews.
This is an empty, useless comment full of hot air, and using swear words does nothing to support the poor assumptions and reasoning that you made.

The "best" devices will never sell without marketing. And if RIM does move to Android, that signals that they gave up and tried to stave off their decline/death by exploiting the Android market. Not to mention that with the competition, RIM has even less of a chance.

I recommend thinking of a unique comment/argument that doesn't repeat what is already said. If you cannot think of one, then please don't post a useless comment that turns this into a Reddit thread.
I always just type stackoverflow.com and hit tab in the chrome address bar.
I'm really curious too, because I don't buy the explination of the problem myself.

> “The user hears this horrible scraping noise because the driver forgot to park the disc head before it cut power to the disk,” she said.

That shouldn't really be possible to cause that kind of damage, every modern drive I've seen (past 15-20 years?) has an automatic head return when powered off (usually magnetic or spring driven). This would be the same as just pulling the USB plug and having that result then.
I'm disappointed. I thought you would link to something where he told someone that they were wrong. Instead, he said conditionally that if the speculation pans out, then he "may be" wrong about a reason why something was observed. It wasn't a refutation, but just offering an alternative hypothesis.

That seems like a perfectly guarded statement, self-aware of its speculative basis.
Yes, but they said Saddam was a Hitler. A cheap, shabbier version, sort of like Hitler's wayward alcoholic brother. And minus the million-man German army, etc.
maybe wkhtmltopdf and then filesize-comparision?
This may be the first time I've every heard the "old school unix way" defined as (heh) "packing all related functionality into one command".

But use what you like. Just don't pretend that it's anything other than taste.
I don't have to go very far to see a pattern... (skipped internal and NSFW urls)

http://amazon.co.jp

https://<private>.beanstalkapp.com

http://campl.us

http://daringfireball.net

http://engadget.com

http://facebook.com

http://google.se

http://hockeyapp.net

http://itunesconnect.apple.com

http://japantoday.com

http://kjell.com

http://news.ycombinator.com

http://onion.com

http://prisjakt.nu

http://quora.com

http://reddit.com

http://translate.google.com

http://xkcd.com

http://youtube.com
This is just like NProgress except even better and easier to use - thank you for sharing this!

The only caveat I encountered with this was that I had to update the z-index in the generated css file to "999999" for it to work with bootstrap. Notable, NProgress has the same incompatibility with bootstrap.
There's no way that the other 4 eyes have "100% unrestricted access to the data" of the big one...
"Linux" is quite a misnomer here. None of these are actually in Linux.
Will *BSD projects eventually try appealing to the mainstream the same way Ubuntu and Mint have been over the last decade?
That's a really poor idea. If you're concerned about guessing attacks on your RNG seed, the right response is to increase the size of your seed -- NOT to slow down the function. To put it another way, adding one bit to the seed length is equivalent to doubling the cost of the attack. In other words, a 1000x slowdown in the generator is the same as about 10 bits of additional seed material. Not worth it!
Not to be a buzz kill, but how exactly are these "Linux" easter eggs? Do they constitute the typical definition of what an easter egg is?
It's a backdoor. The original paper describing the hole is (hopefully) entitled "On the Possibility of a Back Door in the NIST SP800-90 Dual Ec Prng"[0]. It's no longer a "possibility".

[0] http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf
This is great advice and it is fantastic because it is specific and actionable.

I would love to see one tailored for validating consumer products rather than B2B ones.

A good amount of this is definitely applicable to validating for consumers though.

I especially like the section recommending that a product and the problem it solves be described fully in text before any code is written.
although, to access AdSense, for example -- I type in 'ads'. for Analytics - 'anal'.
Why aren't HN comments collapsible?
I find it difficult to read comments on HN, and I think this mostly comes from the inability to collapse comments.

1) The top comment on a post gets hugely inflated with discussion.

2) Since scores aren't shown, I'm not sure what comments have value, so I tend to not read anything besides the first few comments.

Given that most other sites I have visited have this ability, I wonder if it was a conscious design decision, and why?
This sounds like a good approach. I've tried to do a little bit of this type of thing, but could probably use a lot more. I also kind of vacillate between wanting to asking questions and not wanting to seem like I'm hijacking the interview. Sometimes it seems like they just have their list of questions that they're plowing through so it feels more awkward to ask my own question in the middle of their laundry list.
There are a huge number of psychological tricks that can be used in interviewing, sometimes subverting the process entirely, and the one above is one of the better ones.

In successful interviews the other guys can do 1/2-2/3 of the talking. If you can focus on developing empathy with them, that can get you 100% across the finish line.
Is this meant to be a jab at multi-tasking in OSX? Because, I for one love Mission Control and multiple desktops.
I enjoy Slate, but: What is this, ValleyWag? Bravo TV?

I care about technology. If I want to hear about a character drama I'll watch TV. The intersection of both is boundlessly boring to me.

NOT. INTERESTED.
http://anchorage.craigslist.org

http://bootstrap.com (need to fix this one, it's because of frequent mistypings of getbootstrap.com)

http://cracked.com

http://docs.meteor.com

http://evangelos.in (e is apparently not used much)

http://facebook.com

http://gmail.com

http://hackpad.com

http://icloud.com (had my phone stolen recently, been checking Find My iPhone a lot)

http://julialang.org

http://kongregate.com

http://localhost:8000 (developer here)

http://movies.netflix.com

http://news.ycombinator.com

http://outlook.com

http://pinterest.com (not used much)

no q

http://read.amazon.com

http://salesforce.com (bad memories...)

http://toggl.com/track

http://uaonline.alaska.edu

http://vinescope.com (not used much)

http://wellsfargo.com

http://xkcd.com

http://youtube.com

no z
Their Galaxy S4 in the US uses a Qualcomm CPU...
TL;DR: a Turkish fast food point stopped serving [Turkish] coffee, because coffee drinkers tend to linger, buying only one cup.

Business reasons can outweigh technical considerations. Some things are not done not because it's hard to do, but because it does not make business sense. (Thank you, capt'n!)
Add-on Performance Testing via Power Usage
> the old scheme wasn't robust against probe order

Very true.

> and FreeBSD's isn't either

Very untrue. FreeBSD does serial enumeration which results in static devices each time. There is no equivalent tool in FreeBSD to udev or systemd because it isn't needed(although devd does a certain subset of some of their functionality). About the only place out of order probing can occur is with external disk expander where FBSD isn't doing the actual probing. In this case, labeling disks or using the cam wire down method. man 4 cam
A requiem for BlackBerry
TripleSec - Symmetric Encryption combining AES, Salsa20, and Twofish
If this keeps going they're going to end up as profitable as Minecraft!
Also, I know that there exist browser extensions to allow comment collapsing, but the problem extends beyond a mere functionality problem - since comments can't be collapsed, the actual comment structure changes, and that is something no browser extension can fix.
...a fault of the people rather than a fault of the law.

An entire philosophy of government, in a nutshell!

You know, it's actually OK to change laws that are bad for the people. For example, three of the four Alien & Sedition Acts were allowed to expire within three years (the fourth is only in force during declared wars), since no one actually liked them.
You can avoid pulling the repo everytime if you create a hook. In Ubuntu real quick, with default LAMP stack:

git init --bare --shared=group /srv/git/app.git
mkdir /var/www/app
chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/git/app.git /var/www/app
chmod -R g+rw /srv/git/app.git /var/www/app
vim /srv/git/app.git/hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
export GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/app
git checkout -f dev # dev branch
cd /var/www/app
# Run composer, npm, etc...
chmod +x /srv/git/app.git/hooks/post-receive

Whenever you push it'll checkout the dev branch in your public web folder. Now, that's instant deployment!
Keep in mind that the ARM processor space operates on razor thin margins, and Apple's iPhone business does not. Also it has been rumored for a long time that apple is moving most of its chip fab business to TSMC, but I suspect their waiting for the next process node before making the jump. A company that values reliability like apple prefers a mature process.
Recommend Quora? Remind me to ignore your recommendations in the future.

As for Apple contributions, you should probably check out the lawsuits vs Samsung.
It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted. Your statements in this thread are ethically rational.

Cheers to a free mind such as yourself who won't be lured into circular reasoning by the happenstance of being born subject to arbitrary policy, and to a free mind who recognizes that borders are inhumane comparatively, in a natural sense, irrespective of the policies of other groups that claim territory and dictate the travels of others.

Land grab has been a 'bumpy road' over the course of millennia, to say the least, yet mob rule within a framework of a [rule of law] does not make the effects of policy more justified ethically. Historically and presently, the lines are drawn under a simple premise: "might makes right." I believe it's eventually possible to change that mindset. It would take an entire "nation" to effectively lead by example, under the ironic creed of Lady Liberty. That's clearly a daunting prospect any time soon, at least for large nations. However, nurturing more people to have freer, conscientious minds who can extrapolate ethics from [law/might] are the important part of a path to getting there.
No, it wouldn't have slowed the attack on the Taiwan Cryptocards one bit. That and the related "Mining Your P's and Q's" research involved deriving the private keys from the public keys using bulk factorization.

They did not need to simulate the operation of the poorly-seeded PRNG that generated them.
Correction. Apple's A7 is fabricated by Samsung. It is wholly designed by Apple. They're just using Samsung's foundry.
I don't subscribe to the "if you are wearing a Niqab you are a terrorist" belief. You have a better chance of choking on your own vomit then being attack by a terrorist. Politicians use the "safety" concern argument to make you accept it, but just because the news lady tells you about a single incident about a person wearing a Niqab doesn't mean anything.

the unsavory things you speak of around the world, well, they aren't here.
Ingress Crochet Blanket
The part on Vic Gundotra reminds me of the real name fiasco on Google+:

http://slashdot.org/submission/1778830/google-is-gagging-use...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3161469
Pixsy - Command Your Internet
This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a while, thanks a lot for the tip.
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This is great. It's similar to this project built during the LAUNCH Hackathon a few months ago:
http://www.gowatchtower.com
I'll just say at 40 there are situations where I dye my hair.

I'm at the "salt and pepper" stage, and it doesn't look bad but certainly if you show up in a high pressure situation people will have a better impression of you.

Since I go heads down for months at a time and only get a haircut when I'm going on tour for some reason, it's pretty cost effective.

If this is really an issue of phone interviews if you contact me I can do a 10 minute mock interview and try to diagnose any communications you have that could be offputting to people.
At the time Microsoft was the single largest supplier of IT software to enterprises. Part of the appeal of Blackberry phones was they integrated well with the systems used in the enterprise.

In that environment, if Microsoft starts supporting iPhone like they support Blackberry (Exchange integration, a sharepoint app, what have you) then it is a strong signal that Microsoft has looked at the iPhone, and what it represents, and has decided its going to be a 'big deal' in the Enterprise space going forward.

It's an imperfect signal to be sure, but often treated like an 'outside opinion.' Using an example from my own history, I was trying to get NetApp to build a filer on the Opteron hardware and the lead marketing guy wouldn't believe the AMD64 stuff was "real" until Dell started shipping a server using it. That was a tool he was using to validate (or invalidate) my argument that AMD64 was the future of the x86 architecture.

So RIM, seeing Microsoft's response, might use that to "confirm" an internal opinion that the iPhone (and perhaps smart phones in general) wasn't a serious threat.

I of course have no way of knowing one way or the other, but I've seen it happen that way, and the hypothesis fits the actions as we know them today. I presume they could have started/done the BB10 "anytime" but only started once they had collectively internalized the threat to their market. So by that reasoning I speculate they didn't believe it to be a threat until much later.
But normal people are frequently only one switch away from likely death.

How often are hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously one (single) switch away from likely death?

Do you think that a switch on a device is more likely to fail/flip when that device has been dropped from a plane (than when it is sitting still in your garage)?
How would you determine whether or not that was true about the next company? What about business that is ended between companies due to overlapping interests? That happens all the time.
When you're dealing with a real job that people really need to fill, there's nothing wrong with hijacking the interview.

For the other kind of job, hijacking will doom you, but do you want that other kind of job?
at least we've moved beyond, "hatching new employees from their Swedish exercise balls." Like asexual alien predators.
The fact that my friends and I can't show up at your house unexpected and stay indefinitely must seem ridiculous to you as well.
People at DjangoCon asked for my song from last year - here it is.
I maybe naive, but I see an opportunity for a Turkish coffee stand.
my favorite:

alias amke=make
It doesn't only affect users who don't know better. I can't tell you the number of times I've hurried through an installer only to realize I forgot to pay closer attention and uncheck a checkbox.

If I download a program and install it then that's my intention. I don't intend to install other software along side of it.

Just saying, this isn't an issue about people not knowing how to use a computer. It's a dark pattern that hurts everyone.
Just tried it out. Still no packages.
I mainly ride mountain bikes (on roads), so that might be my disconnect. The tire-width thing makes sense. I also hadn't realized before this thread that road bikes don't usually use disc brakes. Seems odd.
If I was smart enough to understand what this comment meant, I'd respond to it. Maybe you could clarify? I can't find a way to reconcile it with its parent comment in a way that gives me anything to discuss.
sl is fun to install on a shared server.

Even better when you hear "What the hell?" from across the room when someone else runs in to it.

I'm going to turn on "Default insults" in sudo and hope for a similar result.
This article reads like an advertisement. You'd think Forbes would spend a little bit more time polishing up those press releases into something that they could at least pretend was journalism.
Heh, except the cost to develop is much lower. So they will probably never achieve the same level of profitability, even if they achieve better revenue.
I wonder when the two instances of "may" were included in that piece?
Oh man, I read this and get a sinking pit in my stomach. I don't care about a person's color, reproductive organs, creed or whatever, but I wonder if perhaps I care a little too much about their "similar thought process", "go out for a drink"-ness (gulp, and what does that say about age), and most nebulously, "comfort". I thankfully cannot think of a time when I turned away a candidate for any reason but pure technical skill, but one look around my current office shows a pretty age- and
"cool"- homogeneous group.

Where is that line?

Looking at something dumb, like TDD. Is it okay to hire someone who doesn't "believe in TDD" when the rest of us practice strict TDD? Somehow, almost certainly based on nurture of past jobs/mentors/failures (we all like to think it is nature, pfft) all developers look at the same facts of TDD, and yet some are on this side, some are on that side. TDD is an arbitrary bar. May as well be favorite color. But, when the house painting team is 15 guys who like red and so we only paint red houses, but you like blue... Maybe they just are not a good "cultural fit". Shrug. Would that one blue person "poison" the team? On the one hand, that blue person might open us up to new opportunities, get us to start doing both kinds of houses. Maybe they just end up fighting with everyone all the time, "CAN'T YOU SEE RED IS THE BEST WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" And so cultural fit seems like a way of saying, "people similar enough to our average skill to not make anyone mad, and similar enough to an average of our shared backstory so as to have basically the same conclusions about the Big Issues as we do: TDD, FP/OO, Pairing, NoSQL/SQL, IDE/Editor, languages, what goes on the Big Issues list, etc.

But in all that, aren't we really just saying, "I want to hang out with people like me"?
How we address a bad customer experience
In airplanes once you are behind the curve there is literally nothing you can do which will prevent you from eventually crashing. The same it true in companies.

I'm going to say the physics of aerodynamics is not a good analogy for business competition.
Could humans have survived 400 million years ago?
I'm surprised by this. We look at a lot of stuff. OpenSSL is far and away the most common crypto library we see. Commercial crypto libraries are way, way down the list, after "reimplemented all of elliptic curve by hand".

Thanks for the link. I would have just gone on confirming my own biases without it.
I can assure you all my prejudice towards c# web development comes from experience.
TSMC ships huge volumes, and that is indeed where apples manufacturing is rumored to be going. IIRC they recently signed a huge deal with them too. In this business though a mature process like samsungs 28nm High-K metal gate is quite valuable over a newer one like TSMC's 22nm.
He's in a tricky position. Imagine somebody in RSA taking decision years ago to follow "strong suggestion" of NSA, accompanied by millions of dollars, to choose certain algorithm as the default. Now current CTO has a choice:

1. say "we deliberately built the backdoor into our software, please never buy our products again if you value your security" and go live the rest of his life in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet,

2. say some embarrassing BS which gives him a veil of plausible deniability while raising doubts of his personal competency, but who cares, he's a C-type, they don't have to know all the details, right?
This is not a Forbes article. Forbes have a blogging platform that anyone can apply to publish on, this article was written by an unpaid contributor. Note "contributor" next to the author name.
at least Israel has the excuse of having enemies on its borders if not within. Not sure what my country's excuse is other than, we're too big to be failed.
Agreed. The Q10 is a great phone, and the OS is the best I've used on any smartphone (iphone, lumia). The touchscreen / physical keyboard combo is awesome and unique to BlackBerry. They have a winning product here.

I can't wait for the Z30. That should bring more people to the fold.
Are you referring to "just" bombs, or to Atomic bombs? If so, sources for what you claim? (not contesting, just asking)
Slightly off topic, know any details about MHacks only seeing start and end times on their website.
yes but I'm referring to the crucifix in the assembly.
Interesting idea be careful of this causing slowdowns: right now every time you `extend` any object the entire method cache gets blown away (https://charlie.bz/blog/things-that-clear-rubys-method-cache). I think this is being worked on but not sure of a target release for the fix.
Maybe they're trying to be modest by not mentioning the prices of their competitors which are $100K or more AFAIK.
Can I say content farm?
tptacek repeatedly assured everyone that this was absolutely not a big deal and meant nothing because nobody in their right mind uses the standard.

He was right. Nobody in their right mind does use Dual_EC_DRBG.

From this episode I conclude that RSA Security LLC was not in their right mind.
> "Ease of writing parallel software" was never the question we were arguing.

You wrote this at the top of the sub thread:

> If it was that difficult to implement parallel programming in imperative languages...

Now you want to make it about squandering. You seem more focused on being right than having a discussion.
They were ALREADY on first place, what you are saying makes no sense.
Good point. Maybe I'll should error on the side of trying to ask more questions in the future.
Facebook Engineering and Products VP Greg Badros to Leave Company
.. because nobody in their right mind uses the standard

Looks like that still stands according to the article we're supposed to be discussing here:

".. no sensible cryptographer would go near the thing"
Great career guide for Jr. Tech workers (especially compensation section) [pdf]
That's a subjective remark and one I completely disagree with. The BlackBerry OS is cleverly designed and the finger gestures make using it addictive even.
Can you build stuff that is useful and useable? That's the line. Not how many boxes you can check off.
The part you are emphasizing is not the part that anyone here is disputing.
Oh come on you party pooper, it gets the point across well enough
I've recently started making Turkish coffee every morning at home (thanks Turkish GF for introducing it to me!). I like it. It's stronger than regular coffee and you drink it like espresso. The big difference is that you don't strain it through a filter; the grounds end up at the bottom of the cup.

The preparation is much more time-consuming than traditional coffee, which I think is the other half of the phenomenon mentioned. You can really only make 4-5 demitasse cups at a time, and it takes 10-15 minutes of actively watching and stirring the cup. Compare this to brew coffee or espresso drinks which take 30 seconds to 2 minutes, tops. So, it's not surprising that Turkish restaurants, whilst adapting to a fast-paced Western capitalist model, lose motivation for going through the whole process.