skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this any scarier than running Microsoft Security Essentials and other removal tools like Spybot? At some point there has to be trust. Trust that the tool which is controlled by another party that it will do only what it's supposed to do. If someone don't trust anyone, then that person shouldn't even have their computer connected to the Internet so complaining about it is moot.

I trust Valve. They've given me no reason yet that they aren't trustworthy. They have to go after cheaters because hacks and cheats ruin online games so quickly. So it's damned if you do/don't in many ways.
>>Where is the disrespect?

There is a clear display on lack of honesty here. And such people don't deserve any loyalty at all. If a company can't be honest with its own people they will definitely cheat their customers.

>>so being upset is irrational.

Right, if some doesn't know they are being cheated. Cheating is now perfectly justified. In fact if they discover later what happened its wrong on their part to be refuse to be cheated further.
Your tone is incredibly rude and uncalled for. Where in my post did I ask anyone to intervene? You are imputing motives that I did not state. Furthermore you are interpreting my last comment in a way that I did not mean. I meant that there are limits to people's altruism. At some point, no matter how personally meaningful the job is, a sane rational person can't afford to limit themselves when they can do better elsewhere. I don't get to set the rates I pay software developers. I have no say in that at all beyond a very narrow band dictated to me. Nowhere did I state that I expect people to work for below market wages. I do not expect this and I do not begrudge anyone for making such decisions. It sucks for me when recruiting, but that is my problem.

My larger point is that there are finite numbers of employable people who write software and that it appears to me that it is becoming more and more professionally rewarding for those individuals to concentrate themselves in dedicated software companies. As this happens, it becomes harder and harder for non-software companies to employ such people.
I use my iPad almost every night solely for watching videos. Countless video streaming services (even minor ones) are now utilizing HTML5 video. I can't remember the last time I've come across a video I haven't been able to watch due to the lack of Flash.
Regulators and Hackers Put Bitcoin to the Test
CloudFront allows naked domains, so you can use naked domains for almost anything if you place a layer of CF before it.

For example, for this case of GAE, you can use

Naked domains <=> CloudFront <=> GAE
Any application you install on your computer and give the same privileges as Steam has these capabilities. Half of the applications on your computer are therefore scary, but I don't see you complain about those...
To apply or not to apply
Should I apply for a UI/UX Designer job at a startup that I'm interested in although I'm more of a back end developer.
I'm a student who has worked as a back end developer for most projects I'm involved in but I'm interested in switching to UI/UX designing.
Is it better to gather the required skills before applying for an opening or do you think I can mention my lack of experience and willingness to learn in a cover letter.
or not bother applying at all ?
Hold a compass straight in front of you. Now walk due east without re-orienting yourself. That is in essence what you are doing if you use the N star as a guide, but insist on orienting the map with east on top.
I agree. I've been using Ghostery recently to see the external libraries that are loaded on various sites and it's ridiculous. Some sites are loading more than 50 extern scripts.
Further-more, (i knew i'd find the damn quote eventually):

> Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-licensing&m=89249041326259&w=2
Maybe you should be pragmatic, since you can't have both. If you care more about the cheating, keep Steam. If you care more about scary Valve, remove Steam.
From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank
Lune.js – Calculate the phases of the moon
I agree that there are plenty of places that will pay you market when you are hired. I've (almost) never worked at one that was proactive one you were hired.

Only once in my career was I called in to my managers office and told I was getting a raise - and that was around 1991.

Manager: "We're adjusting your salary."
Me: "Um, up or down?"
Manager: "Up."
The old IIS is like you describe. But, the latest IIS is fast and easy.

In all honesty this is what I find from most unknowledgeable Microsoft bashers. They tried out the MS development stack with Classic ASP, Visual Basic 6 and SourceSafe 15 years ago. Then in their head they're contrasting that to the latest RoR tools with github. Many are not even aware of ASP.NET MVC and how different it is from ASP.NET.

Now, this isn't to say there aren't knowledgeable Microsoft bashers but this is what I find from many of them that aren't knowledgeable.
It has to do with the total angular momentum of a system composed of multiple smaller bodies. (Like the dust/debris cloud during solar system formation)

This minute physics video (about the shape of the solar system) explains it probably better than I can put into words myself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNXKqeUtJM

The relevent part starts at about 1:03, but I recommend watching the whole thing.
"any more would be gravy"

(although that's from old French, like a lot of English food words)
The disrespect comes in not figuring out what's fair.

If an employee asks for less then market price for their skills, I pay them market price. If I paid them less, I'd be taking advantage. Fuck that.
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the caliber of comments on hacker news for the borderline-tech articles.
I'd rather stay away from software jobs that want "rockstars" or "ninjas" or "gurus".
That's not what I'm saying.

If the cost of labor is increasing, the amount that funding gets you decreases, as I assume that most of what funding is used for is paying salaries. Equity is also a cost. If before you gave early hires 1% equity, now you have to give them 1.5% equity to make up the same dollar amount - so if you're using equity to offset lack of cash, you end up having to give up more equity.

5 years ago, $500K maybe was enough to launch a serious version 1.0 of a product. Now you might need $800k or $1MM. So what do you do? You either have to give away more equity in early rounds, or in lieu of salaries. If your company is worth $5MM, before where you were giving away 10%, now you're giving away 20%.

Anyway, I'm not saying it's a bad thing - I'm a programmer, I've more than reaped the benefit of this - just that it's worth thinking about.
Thanks for the share! Always great to read a post-mortem and glean wisdom and learning lessons!
> Surely there are other reasons to use these tools than just "explicit memory management?"

Sure, though he does mention he's biased by the projects he works on (generally web apps/services -- not device drivers, image processing, realtime anything, etc.).

> I suppose I could say, "I haven't used any JVM languages, because I haven't felt the need to gouge my eyes out over memory errors I can't control."

The phrase that bugged you wasn't cast as an insult, though, and yours is... mysterious; Java's GC is quite stable, so any memory-related errors are under the coder's control. "Memory errors" being basically just "using too much memory", as I've never seen any other type of memory error in Java.

Maybe you could say "I haven't used any JVM languages, because I've never felt the need for automated memory management"? That assumes Java has nothing else to offer.
I recommend PJAX. It degrades gracefully for search engine indexing.
This is good advice. Thanks. I do have a habit of overthinking things and spending too much time in my head. I'll try to stop taking dating (and myself even) too seriously.
Something I've been thinking about since Grub. An embarassingly distributed cloud coop, Bitcoin style using OpenStack, pools, and a compute exchange: https://github.com/StackMonkey/xovio-pool/blob/master/whitep.... I'm not the only one thinking about it: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=....

Doing it solo now, but I need help.
Right, exhaustiveness checking is how the compiler makes sure you handle missing values (option types) correctly. I guess you could say that's one of the bigger payoffs.
Are you upset with the fact they have a lot of data of you based on your view and search on Netflix or the missing movies/drama/shows on Netflix?
Trying to plot this it means that the crunch will probably really hit increasingly hard from about 2015 through 2016. You go from predicting two years out to one year out (two years later).

These aren't brick walls but the shortage is already being felt. I know that at Efficito, one of the reasons we switched hosting providers was that we couldn't get ipv6 connections working flawlessly to our backup connections before (meaning more ipv4 space required). I don't think we will ever hit exhaustion per se.
I'd agree with the GP. Heck, target a negative value to the company.

Realistically, you're going to end up with some small ROI. Let's suppose you end up with a 1.05 ROI for the company. For every dollar the company spends on you -- not just your salary and benefits, but also the cost of a desk for your butt and a manager for your ass and an HR department to cover their behinds when you start thinking too much about your coworkers' -- then they make a $1.05 back. If your company's owner has a hundred employees, he'll make five times as much as you, for doing nothing but owning it. If they employee ten thousand people, he takes home 500x your pay.

Why do you think your employer deserves more? Why should he get a 2x or 10x ROI on your labor?
What if he says no, and I don't have another job lined up? That's the advantage of looking elsewhere - if I'm rejected, i haven't screwed up my current position.
On the other hand, sharing context could be powerful
Interested in running a micro cloud? See comment above.
Seeing as it appears there is nothing that generates revenue on it, I'm going to say no, and that the estimate is just that, an estimate.
Flappy Bit (Flappy Bird on Arduino)
Dating models would be nice. If I figure out how to do that I'll be sure to let you know. ;)

In any case I'll think over what you've said here and try to be more social and stop sabotaging my dating life. Thanks dude.
Glassdoor isn't bad, but the gold standard is to apply for ten jobs ;)
I find it very hard for founders (who approve the salary of every hire) to not know what their people are worth. Maybe they can't afford to pay it, but that's not a knowledge issue.
There are people in the world capable of spoofing SSL one way or another (forged certs, suborned CAs, etc.), though it certainly does raise the bar past the script kiddie level.
Right on. I'll keep looking then. I sorta gave up after two told me the same story. Probably need to talk to someone bigger.
Dropbox is now unblocked in China.
Baker will probably be more motivated than Able who apparently started to interview for a new job.

That would be a big motivation for me, especially if his job is critical.
Thanks for arguing like an adult. It's greatly appreciated.

I do agree that I have a contradiction in my argument; you're spot on. I'm going to chalk that up to not fully explaining things.

The first gallon of water per day I REALLY NEED to drink. The next I'd really, really like to have to brush my teeth and wash a bit. The next 5 gallons I still really want for washing and cooking. The next 20 are for bathing and laundry. The next hundred don't do me anywhere near as much good and eventually the utility I get from an additional gallon of water goes below the $0.01 per gallon that I pay my utility, so I don't use more.

This kind of decreasing marginal value happens everywhere in the economy. For a lot of things (like energy) the demand is nearly flat but for large portions of the economy the demand is highly nonlinear. In other words, doubling the price might reduce consumption by 80% or more.

In those situations if you take the first marginally very valuable portion of the production away from the factory owners they have to raise prices on the rest to recoup their losses. But the increased prices bring volume down, which could potentially increase prices again.

I am sure that there are some situations where the 10% surplus really would be enough to provide for everyone's basic needs (however the hell you define that) and not totally fuck over the factory/robot owners. But there will also be large swaths of the economy where you can't.

I do think taxes are fundamentally immoral because I can't get past the theft-like nature of "pay the taxes or you'll go to jail" but I'm pragmatic and understand that taxes are better than a completely uneducated populace. And honestly I'd be much happier with a world where taxes were only 10% in total rather than the 20%-40% that they are now. I just don't think you can feed, clothe, shelter, etc the whole world on 10% of total production. It would be great and I'd love to live in that world but I really feel like there's something that would prevent it; I can't put my finger on it but I'm pretty sure it's there.
When there is a gold rush, start selling pick axes and blue jeans
Sadly, of the many things. The best way to grow in any company(Start up, large, mid scale) is to become your manager's pet. Go to lunch with them, play badminton with them on Sunday's, Help them buy groceries or whatever. The point is you need to become your manager's best man.

Unfortunately companies want innovation, rock stars, stellar growth and all that. But rarely have their growth/rewards/compensation system aligned with those goals.

I've seen CEO's and execs crib and whine endless for months and years about how difficult it is to hire and sustain good talent. How greedy good people are. For heaven's sake its not other people's job to sacrifice their lives to help you clear your BMW's car loan quickly.
Totally agree, but you still have the analytics/tracking problems. Unless you're not tracking clicks/activities/views on your various features. But if that's the case, you have bigger problems :)
I like this new thing.
I'm not following you. What's your point?
People like making up terms. We've been doing it for thousands of years.
If you can really get a 60-80k job out of high school, honestly, you're smart enough to get by without the degree. Seriously. Congrats on being awesome. (or believing you are)

But my advice as someone that didn't do the whole college thing... Go to college.

Go to college for the experience, both academic and personal.

You won't look back 10 years from now thinking "Dammit, I sure am mad at myself for going to college."
> As an Erlang programmer I often claim that “You can’t pick parts of Erlang and then claim you have the same functionality. It all comes together as a whole”.

I am guilty of this. I am relatively new to erlang programming and I have skipped on some of the features that make the language great. For instance I have neglected learning both supervision and hot code reloading.
In most organizations, the people at the top intuitively understand that you need to pay management and legal people market rates because that is part of running a successful enterprise. They are less clear about what it is all these "computer people" do. That makes it a hard sell.
Doesn't firefox use flash fine? Most android browsers support plugins. The main problem is the awkwardness of getting flash in the first place, and that's entirely on adobe.
There are also tons of little things. Here in Indonesia, I know my ISP (FirstMedia) runs IPv6 internally on some things. Their web sites are available over IPv6. But I can't connect from home over IPv6. Supposedly the consumer hardware on my side supports IPv6 but it doesn't do so very well and I haven't bothered trying directly through the cable modem yet.
Accepting the monthly $25 credit card payment for Candy Japan costs $1.31. This includes the payment gateway and middleware. If member pays by PayPal it is $1.15. Additionally there are monthly fees, which if split over the current 500 subscribers would add another $0.19 per payment. Puts it somewhere in the 11-25% bucket.
The rank dropping is fair. They should rank shit content lower and not recommend it.
Bravo!!!

The one thing you may find is that the old workaholism is hard to shake, but at least you own the calendar.
about:blank

Get off your computer. Go outside. Read a fucking book.
I think you would benefit from learning more about human psychology.
As a customer, I don't understand why you didn't do this earlier... ;-)
In my experience it isn't one, two, or even three killer features. It's the aggregate additional polish and productivity increase gleaned from 10 to 20 minor features that shave fractions of seconds and remove a click or two off of incredibly common actions. And I just use the default settings.
>> All the senior people in your company care VERY MUCH about their compensation.

I am shocked, so many people who don't realize this.

There are people out there who say money doesn't matter, and they want a 'great place to work at'(whatever that means).

Well the execs themselves continually spew this BS about how evil its to work for money. Yet they wouldn't follow the same advice themselves.
FUCK erlang
If you add your email to your profile I'll send you one
The boring life of Flappy Bird
And if the market rate lowers 20%?
I would usually disagree, but this is a fair point.
I was really hoping Microsoft would, and make Elon Musk CEO of Microsoft (back when they were looking still).

Musk is a Microsoft fan. Microsoft would get a much-needed visionary, and Tesla (and other initiatives) would get a much-needed cash infusion.

I don't think Musk/Tesla would fit in at Apple. Apple already has enough "vision". I can't see him wanting to answer to anyone, and I can't see Apple giving him the reigns from Tim Cook (like the article agrees with).
A Right And A Wrong Way To Design An Interface
The Blogger example doesn't seem fair: Any app can overload the user with too many animations or other distractions.

At Thinkful (http://www.thinkful.com/) we're building our student / education app in Angular, and are moving all browser-side code to Angular as well – both public and private.

In a lot of our splash or SEO-enabled content we're not making use of all of angular's features, but the upside of using it is that we have a single, unified codebase in which we can share libraries, team knowledge and design patterns. Simply put: Using Angular everywhere allows us to keep DRY. Testing the front-end using purely Angular is yet another core asset at Thinkful.

One framework for writing code and testing is much better than a hybrid of server-side rendering and Angular.

Our biggest challenge was SEO, but this was reasonably easily solved with using BromBone (http://www.brombone.com/).

There are reasons to stick with non-angular or JS frameworks, so it's not always a slam-dunk. For example, if Thinkful had millions of SEO pages that we needed to load as fast as humanly possible Angular would be a bit much... But that's not what we're optimizing for: We're building a phenomenal user-experience that we can support long-term, is well tested, can have a lot of developers use, and can have non-developers do their job inside our codebase (everyone at Thinkful codes).

For all this and more Angular has proven a great choice for both logged-in AND public sites.
Thanks man. Please, clone. I barely have any idea what I'm doing. ;)
I mean how much does an academic medical center pay their Doctors? At UCLA the head transplant guy makes $2 million or so. Why not pay engineers more? You could probably justify it by taking a product oriented approach, with external sales or patents or whatnot.
Certainly this would be the fastest path to automated electric cars, the hyperloop, the singularity and probably Mars.
Comcast and Us
Clown shortage may be approaching
How else would they up sell to the 64GB model? What if a device I bought 3 years ago could be still relevant by just upgrading an inexpensive flash card?

Not only is so restrictive as to be insulting, it harms the environment by forcing devices to die a premature death, I know my iPad 1 would be a whole lot more useful with a 64GB SDHC card in it.

I was super stoked to buy a Google Nexus tablet, after finding out there was no SD card slot, I forever declined that purchase.
Samsung Looks to Software and Services
Ah, very clever, omitting the question mark at the end of the title, thereby avoiding the imperatives of Betteridge's Law by technicality.

EDIT: And I see the actual article title got around the law in a different way, by asking the question such that the answer "No" is nonsensical! Still, I like the sound of that exchange:

Writer: What if Apple bought Tesla?
Me: NO
When I'm on a bad connection, I like to download the file on a server somewhere, then rsync it locally. As long as my server and the server I'm downloading from are on fast connections, the initial step doesn't take long, and this frees me from worrying about expiring cookies or URLs or whatever.
Someone buried the lede. The real story here is that someone posted to Google+.
Pure speculation, but it may be that MS is still regrouping after a less than stellar start to 2012. While it may be good for them to buy Tesla long term, its short term future (and therefore profits, which in turn will dictate other purchases) may depend on being able to refocus right now.

There's a lot of internal repair going on there and Apple may just be in a better position to do better with Tesla.
That sounds about correct. Apple, specifically, is pretty tight on discounts it grants (including educational). Still silly that there is no similar discount at MSFT company retail stores.
It's a crap addition that cheap people demand instead of buying phones that can hold more on flash. At least, that's the only argument I've ever heard for SD.
Say what you want about the Newton, but it probably had the most elegant way to deal with external storage.

I keep wondering how far the lock-down on new computing devices will go. I really wish someone would build an open device even if it isn't a phone (e.g. iPod Touch).
I absolutely love TBL's initial documents. They're utterly semantic markup. Which means that you can apply a minimal amount of CSS to have them appear in a pleasant-to-read format. Let's see if I can find that pastebin .... Here: http://pastebin.com/7sGiHBwF

But, yeah. If webpages would just revert to what TBL had created (yes, I'll allow for images and minimal other frippery) things would be so much more manageable.
Not only are they regular enough to make clocks, but they're 5 times more accurate than atomic clocks.
Quite a bit actually. Our experience at Efficito may be interesting.

We previously had backups located in Denver and production servers located in Europe, both through the same hosting provider (FDC). We never could get IPv6 working flawlessly (high packet loss, etc) intercontinentally and the problems weren't on our side.

We moved to Hetzner and have our systems spread throughout their datacenters (backups, and some backend systems on one side, customer data on the other) and have had absolutely no problems with ipv6.

What this tells me is that somewhere between the Czech Republic and Colorado there are routers which although they sort of support ipv6 don't do so in a usable way.
Every engineer should get better at negotiations, not only will you get paid more, but it also opens a lot of new doors for your career.
I'm not seeing the synergies - the in-dash entertainment center having similar styling just isn't cutting it for me. That sort of thing would be more suited for a partnership kind of deal.
I will wait for "Google Code Search for C#"