skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

- Eric Schmidt, 2009 as CEO of Google, on concerns about privacy and Google's insatiable appetite for info

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

Yes, people bring up this quote all the time so it seems cliche to do so ... but I don't care. I say choke him on his own words for being so casual about it in the first place -- when it affected others, that is; he had a very public hissy-fit when someone publicized details about him, even blocked Cnet.com from Google for a time if I recall right.
> Honestly, I felt more ageism because I was young at the time (contrary to this article) than than I ever do now as a 40+. I was getting paid a relatively low salary and was expected to work insane hours.

Interesting! Was it ageism or was it because you were inexperienced? This is tricky because I feel like even if younger developers are discriminated against based on their age, they might be less likely to attribute it to ageism. If this is true then I wonder if older developers are for some reason more likely to blame ageism for their career ills instead of skill obsolescence, hence making ageism seem like something that mostly affects the older devs...
Shouldn't Google fire Eric Schmidt now using your logic?
Microsoft would of broken up the company and integrated it into their own products. Facebook allows Occulus to stay Occulus which is probably a huge motivator for the people there.
The only reliable place I have found is jobserve.com. That was in the UK, but they seem to have US jobs as well. You might also find some contract jobs on the craigslist jobs sections (just tick the 'contract' option). The computer gigs section of craigslist is a bit hopeless.

Note that this is for medium-to-long-term contract jobs typically lasting 6-12 months.
Glitchr Creates Art by 'Hacking' Facebook
FTA:

> and session cookies don't default to http-only flags (allowing XSS attacks to steal them).

Can someone explain that to me?
People leave because of management most of the time.

Read this article and you'll thank me. http://www.hcamag.com/hr-news/people-leave-managers-not-comp...
Conditional on having an illegal policy, enforcing said policy in an effective manner similar to your enforcement of other (legal) policies should not earn you extra condemnation.
Smiling in the face of someone else's pain due to a career-ending mistake is close enough to the definition of "sadistic" as to make no difference.
McD's runs the most technically sophisticated operation in the industry.
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It's not possible to manage the data if no one has access. The SRE in question didn't "hack" into the data - he had access. The access was audited, so when it was abused, the SRE was fired with cause, and I think that the Google helped the prosecution.
Ask HN: Early employees – What won you over?
Early non-founder employees (first ten or so) at startups - what attracted you to the job? Why did you choose your company over other opportunities? How did the company find you? And what advice do you have for founders looking to make those first critical hires?
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How that lawyer can suck that much? He let someone who wrote an email get away in questioning by saying he was CCed and don't recall it. He wrote emails on the thread dammit.
Thanks. Good to know The Game is beatable in 10-15 minutes ;)
SJ was such a lowlife. Seriously...
I am a troll with short, black hair! And cynical too!
I didn't ask them to do anything special, they must have automatically done it when setting up my service. My ONT is inside my apartment, though, so that might make a difference.
How overachievers can avoid burnout
Demons by Candlelight
Developers choose a platform mostly for user reach, not revenue potential
How on earth?
Elon Musk is an immigrant, environmentalist, scientifically minded and an entrepreneur. The GOP have to let go of their opposition to the first three and embrace the last even if it's a french word.
One thing is that the Rift really isn't going to match well with Facebook the highly-mass-market product for a long time. I think the DK1's modest GPU demands have given people a misleading impression of what CV1 will actually cost to run. If Oculus takes the high road and ships a 2560×1440@90Hz CV1 before the end of 2014 then the total buy-in cost at launch could be $800-$900 even for most people who already have their own gaming PC handy: you'd need a powerful and power-hungry GPU, and no currently-existing SLI/Crossfire setup is going to cut it either.

With such uncertain prospects for going it alone it seems clear why Oculus would want to be bought by Facebook; like a typical FB acquisition, what's less clear is why FB would want to buy Oculus, since the Rift will have comparatively few owners at first even if all goes well. Three possibilities:

1) Zuckerberg is worried that Oculus and all the other VR efforts could fail, leaving FB without a Next Big Thing to evolve into in future years as VR becomes affordable

2) Zuckerberg is worried that Oculus could fail while Project Morpheus succeeds, leaving VR a failure on the PC but successful on consoles. Sony would love to have its own hit social network, or to make Facebook grovel to gain access to the PS4 platform; Facebook would not enjoy it so much

3) Zuckerberg is another starry-eyed Oculus-loving geek, but unlike all the others he has the spare change to make sure that the VR dream stays alive

My hunch is that it's some combination of all three. Other people are worried about FB wanting to exert proprietary control over the Rift "platform"; I'm less worried about that. If the Rift is a hit on the PC it will have competitors, which will put manners on Facebook and/or just give people somewhere else to go. If Oculus had gone it alone and failed, likely there would be no successful competitors for several years either, and FB logins would be the least of our concerns.
Of those, only Nest designs and builds consumer electronics at scale.
Richard Durkin vs. PC World
As dllthomas commented, 'p' would be better named "pivot".

xs is just convention. A variable containing an arbitrary number is often called 'x', right? Well, a list of such things is plural, so xs.

So pattern match a list, say the first item is the pivot, the remainder is just a list of arbitrary numbers, 'xs'.
Oculus CEO Describes Rapid Sale to Facebook
There are a lot of startups not based out of ATV.

Anyhow - signing up for this. Excited to see what could come of it.
Yeah, you're right. It has just never spawned more active instances than that slider is set to, for me.
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You seem to have missed the irony.

To paraphrase jobs:

:)
VMware View uses the same protocol (Teradici PCoIP) and has a linux client. Have any VMware View linux users here tried to connect to Amazon Workspaces?
"Outstanding" is a good one as well

e.g. The outstanding areas of a research project
Bubble? $13M in '13 revenue. $62M loss. Market cap: $2.3B
A factory vs. service example would help the article out some.
You would be surprised how fast internet can be even in remote parts of Laos. I use similar software and was easily able to use my workstation from there. I agree though that it can be hit and miss...
IANABP (..Business Person) but their 2 big acquisitions have increased their share of the social/data/identity pie considerably. Yes, these can be very ephemeral and the market can change on you (as MySpace will gladly tell you), but having 1.1B+ monthly actives on your core platform alone (plus however much instagram+whatsapp do) gives you a lot of room to try and recover when things start shrinking.

The oculus VR acquisition feels special, in that they aren't just buying users/reach, but something more substantial and forward looking. If they're smart, they'll let the oculus team work on the track they've been on, and let Facebook teams develop the "non-gaming VR experiences" they want to push.

Hard to think how much the landscape would need to shift for FB to be broke in 5 years. If Oculus delivers on their VR dreams, that alone could potentially bring an almost-bankrupt FB back from the brink.
> This is largely mythology built up around a misunderstanding of the grain of truth at the core of it.

I agree. I've encountered a few space leaks in my Haskell code, but it's always been pretty easy to track down: profile the memory usage and look for a conspicuously huge peak. It will usually be fixable by forcing an intermediate result, or using a different recursion strategy (eg. a fold instead of explicit recursion). Haskell functions tend to be so small and single-purpose that there are no knock-on effects of doing this refactoring.

I think there's a perception that 'Haskell is difficult to debug', whereas the reality is more like 'Haskell will reject all of the easy bugs'. In other words, the average difficulty of a Haskell bug may be higher, but the density is less.
There's no guarantee that you'll receive anything. If the product or project fails, you get squat, or maybe a t-shirt. An investor gets a stake in the company, if it succeeds their investment grows. A backer gets nothing extra if the project succeeds beyond the promised reward.
Hello everyone, I am currently taking a course in Artificial Intelligence and have been planning to implement the A* algorithm towards 2048. But seeing here that people believe that this isnt a "true" A* implementation, would the hackerNews community be interested in an actual working Javascript implementation of multiple AI methods? (i.e. having a dropdown selector for the method to use and implementation via a button)
Thanks for the clarification. You might be able to tell, that I am only in the first stages of trying to learn Haskell.
And echoed in the 90s by the likes of the Sun Ray series of thin clients.

Wait…thin clients…virtual reality goggles…are we back in 1995 again?
Truly bizarre that given all the TSA-hate on HN this is the top comment. We (society) all too often get exactly what we ask for. We don't want pervasive surveillance, but we want Google glass and Google web history and personalized search. We don't want full body scanners, but we want perfectly-fitting clothing based on full body scans. Is it really hard to predict that these technologies are going to be used inappropriately?
I'd start by reaching out to people that you already know through previous jobs and any other contacts you have (maybe avoiding people connected to your current employer).

Starting up a business is pretty simple from a paper work standpoint and doesn't have excessive overhead costs or paperwork requirements if you aren't doing any work through said company. Now you have a company ready to accept checks or payment when the work arrives.
Bitcoin could be an 'everyday' item 20 years from now
9 Soft Skills Every Web Developer Should Master
That's not true. It's a "single page app" with built in support for both pushState and hash-based URLs, so there's no reason anything needs to reinitialize just to update the URL.

I have written an Ember app that maintains a persistent websocket connection as it transitions around through many URLs.
It's hard to screen out for these aspects, unless you're told up front that the company got too much work to do due to business development overselling.

On the other end of the spectrum, you could be like me and pick a company that looks good on all these aspects, but adds great stress due to having to catch up on work to meet deadlines due to being understaffed for too long.
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You news reader example is a poor one. There have been a ton of vulnerabilities in XML parsing libraries over the years. Of course the attack surface is different (I need to engineer an attack that makes you open my vulnerable XML stream versus bang away on your web app), but the vulnerabilities are still there and as a programmer you need to be security conscious on every platform.
So, I gave this a try, if you are interested.

The UX for the account setup and workspace admin is pretty rough, feels MVP (but it works).

It took about 30 minutes for my machine to be provisioned. Then I got an email.
Downloaded the OS X client, about 30 megs.

Launched. Took about a minute to login and get my machine booted.

GUI performance for small area updates is great, dragging a window not so great. It is usable, but not fluid.

My connection is showing 70Mbps/10Mbps with 12ms latency on speedtest.net

Using a IE. Oh this is interesting – when going to Google, I am at google.tw

Where is this machine hosted? Showing an IP of 54.85.209.100 (US), odd...

Visiting Youtube, Youtube.tw comes up, video is a bit choppy, audio is fine.

Visiting nytimes.com. Loading is a bit slow, scrolling is very choppy. Text selection is very fast.

Downloaded some CSV, opens in Excel. This is fast, and very usable.

Disconnect.

Log back in, everything is just as I left it (of course).

--- continued ---

I download the client for the iPad, enter the registration code, and login.

There is a 13 part tutorial on gestures (way too many for me to remember) Fortunately you can drag a menu of commands from the left side easily.

I play around a bit, it works fine.

Now I login from my computer, oh bummer, my iPad session was disconnected.

You can only be logged in from device at a time. That is too bad. It would be nice to share.
So what are the secure by default web frameworks apart Django and Rails ?
Presentism: making sure one doesn't have to acknowledge history in order to advance one's own tribal ideology. Good job!
beef up the font, maybe i'm getting old, but i could barely track the numbers to know which one to target.
Theoretical vs Practical: How Startups are Blurring the Lines of What’s Possible
No, he means there has been loads of reports of such episodes with Steve Jobs, not not with Brin.
Is there any documentation on installing this locally (without Heroku)?
Thanks roberjo! We're hoping to connect with all the key players in the area and get every startup in the Atlanta area profiled.

Any tips like this are greatly appreciated!
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It's interesting how Games have such an overall positive rating distribution, while Entertainment has the overall worst ratings distribution with a peak at 3. Not so entertaining then. It's not because games are cheaper and therefore better value either, as Entertainment apps are typically equally cheap.
I maintain our internal GitLab instance so I definitely agree with that. :)

I'll take a look at yours, I already did the Mailpile bit.
> "Technology seems to move in circles."

VDI, Citrix, et al are less a reaction to how awesome mainframe/terminal architecture is, and more a statement about how utterly horrible it is to maintain an enterprise Windows image.

It's not unlike the architecturally-similar-situation with web apps exploding in popularity in the mid 2000s. People were primarily responding to how great it was to have "their stuff" anywhere they happened to sit down, and how horrible the native client experience was, on Windows.

And we've had a great natural test of that theory, with modern mobile devices: Now that people have their own machine with them, wherever they happen to be, with native client experiences that aren't nearly the hassle that desktop Windows was, web apps are playing second-fiddle.

Similarly, this VDI thing is going to run into trouble as enterprise further adopts BYOD and their desktop images are needed by fewer and fewer people.
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Tried this app out a few days ago. The measurements in it are surprisingly good. I was finding it about ~10% out at most.

All in all, it is a very good (FREE!) app that can be used to get a decent idea of what might be needed in home renovation.
This guy rebuilt Outlook in Qt Designer.
This is great news. They want to make digital currencies easier to use. We won't see big jumps until bitcoin gets past the crude stage that it's in now.
Thanks for that ... triggered some nostalgia to see a screenshot of Google.com circa 2005. I kinda miss those little icons letting you choose which "engine" you wanted to use (i.e. web / images / maps / video / etc)
The only way to avoid all of what you describe is to work for yourself though you may still bullshit yourself ...
> Conditional on having an illegal policy, enforcing said policy in an effective manner similar to your enforcement of other (legal) policies should not earn you extra condemnation.

Why not?
Just another flappy turd.
I'm curious how pantheon would have done in this test as it is the new kid on the block.
https://www.getpantheon.com/wordpress
Farmville 2014 with Oculus Rift
I tried. It's not a phishing website. Looks more like a parked domain with sponsored listings.
"Meet the new boss same as the old boss."
CEOs and companies can establish their own priorities. That may be profit or revenue, but it could be any number of other things like deliberately choosing "green" options even though it increases their costs and reduces their profit margin. Or even paying talent what they deserve. That isn't (by most standards) "best for the company", but it's the choice of those running the company, and in the long run may prove out to be the better choice. Quarterly thinking kills companies, and they deserve it for their short-sightedness.

And cutting wages and forcing people to stay, that might save money, but it's hardly "best" for the company. I've left two jobs because management thought that was a good idea. I was poor (a low, 4-digit bank balance poor) the first time, and I have no regrets. I'd do it again if put in the same position. Screw incompetent management.
This seems to be in the neighborhood of Johnny Lee's thinking in Project Tango: https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/ ... a lot of the information collected by the increasingly precise sensors is going to allow for next level of... something... I think Project Tango is an example of not knowing what the future is in sensing and looking for network effects to fill in the gap.
Creator of Oculus VR answers questions about the FB Acquisition on Reddit
The highest tile you can get is 2^17, 131072. Each doubling of the tile size requires another extra space, as you have to construct two of the previous tile, and once you construct one, it has to go somewhere. In the end, the final board will have a string of every power of two from 2^16 to 4, and then another 4 in the last empty space. The 4s then combine, then the 8s, and so on, rippling up like binary addition until you get 2^17. Hope that makes sense, I thought about this for a while but it's not the easiest concept to put to words.
The point is these actions aren't any different than if they were enforcing any other ethical and legal policy. These emails aren't really shocking at all. It just shows its business as usual.
Unfortunately consulting work doesn't solve any of his problems, he'll still be dealing with the same issues, just under a different employment contract.

The only way to really solve those problems and put yourself in a qualitatively different situation, is found your own startup where you'll truly be your own boss, or at least only have to answer to investors who care more about the big picture.
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The box model highlighter looks great. This was the only reason keeping me from switching from firebug to dev tools entirely. Also, the other improvements are great news as well. Good job!
Why does it matter, scaling realtime is just like any other programming related challenge. It doesn't take doctorate degrees, just a team of programmers who are willing to learn about the problem area.
It totally blows my mind that Wordpress powers (or claims to power) 19% of the web. I had never used it until this year (after using other CMSs like SquareSpace and Statamic) and wanted to blow my brains out. I really wonder how the CMS landscape will look in five years.
My first reaction was that Monte Carlo would be the way to go.
I think you are either 2 or 4 since i can relate to you and those options the most :p.
Take a look here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HttpOnly
For a lot of people, it is difficult to have a boss, especially a boss who you do not respect and is giving bullshit orders. There are a few options:

1) work for a boss who you respect

2) work for a manager who let you be your own boss most of the time

3) be your own boss - either start your own startup, or consulting

And on a side note, most people care about what's in it for themselves. The fact that you see bullshit coming from them means you are not understanding what they think. It's an important life/leadership skill to understand how different people operate, what motivates them, etc.
What is most remarkable is a lot of software developers love Google because they are so open and against patents and all of that, yet Google, Apple, and others are all working together to screw software developers out of getting paid more.

For as much flack as Microsoft took over the years for being evil, I can't say that Google or Apple have done much better, even for their own people.
This rebranding was done in order to market free software to businesses by removing the ethical and political arguments and replacing them with technical ones.

I thought the rebranding was driven by the Free Software people casting out those with insufficient revolutionary fervor.
author here. If/when I get around to doing an update of these tests there are a lot of companies missing (flywheel, mediatemple, dreamhost, etc). Pantheon added it while I was working on this, so I didn't even get a chance to consider them for this go. I will definitely keep them in mind though.
This made me laugh, because it's so true.
Just for your information, I've been on three separate management courses which say the contrary - when you're trying to set a cultural norm in your company, making a public example of infringers is practically considered the textbook response. The example given usually concerns sexual harassment. You make the punishment of the harasser public as a way of reinforcing that you're serious about the issue.

That said, most management courses will also tell you to privilege process over people - if something goes wrong it's because the process failed, not the person, and as such most of the time a public correction of someone making a mistake is not appropriate, unless it is felt that the person acted knowingly and deliberately against the rules... So unless the recruiter in question had already been corrected on this error, not only should they not have been fired, but they should not even have been reprimanded in public.
No. Even if they both have monitors that move with your head, they are very, very different products. One's a head-attached smartwatch. Another's a presence creator.
This is a fair point. However, keep in mind that loyalty to companies is generally one-sided: most firms will not hesitate to layoff staff if business goals/economics dictate.
Finding a good Startup is hard, really hard. Just think about how a top VC works with startups. How many startups they vet, out of which how many they invest, and then out of which how many of them they even expect to succeed.

How long did it take you to find your next startup when you were looking?