skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you seriously suggesting they have no expenses other than buying the USB drives? Shipping and handling have to cost something here, for one. And having an inventory.

EDIT: Also, from the article: "Mr Bahar and Mr Imbesi's plan is for locally employed workers to buy the flash drives on the open market, install the operating system and a few essential apps, and then sell them on for a small gain. The final price would be $7 (£4.15), delivering about a $2 profit on each device that would help cover wages and the further expansion of the project." - so the $2 profit doesn't even go to Keepod.
I agree. This is an organizational issue, not a legitimate job duty, irrespective of whether the rank and file should be allowed to leave when they've finished their work.
When .NET first came out, "write once run everywhere" idea presented a lot more value. There were a lot more CPU architectures being used in business. (The old Unix vendors and their proprietary RISC architectures were waning by then, but were still a force in the industry - see Java.) Macs were still running on PowerPC. And the PC platform itself was looking like it might take a turn for the hetrogeneous. IA-32 was still dominant, but the need to move toward 64 bit had been recognized. Intel's answer, Itanium, was a completely different architecture that came out less than a year before .NET hit the market. AMD64 had been announced and was expected to hit the market fairly soon. With Windows computers having a choice among three different architectures that weren't binary-compatible, and the possibility that enterprise customers might still end up sticking with SPARC or MIPS for the long haul, the bytecode option probably was the most strategic option for Microsoft at the time.

Even now, having an intermediary binary format's still fairly valuable. I could conceivably get a component from a vendor and put it into production on a slew of different platforms - Intel chips running Windows, Linux and OS X, phones with A5 or ARM chips, etc. without having to mess around with source code distributions, other people's funky build configs, etc. The ones going on smartphones would eventually be native-compiled, but getting bytecode binaries means I don't need to fiddle with separate native binaries for different target platforms.

It's also worth noting that what the Java and .NET platforms have achieved in terms of language interoperability hasn't really been matched by interpreted and native-compiled languages. That's arguably a result of culture rather than any sort of technical limitation. OTOH, the technical limitation that the .NET and Java virtual machines define object formats, function signatures, and whatnot does go a long way in facilitating interoperability.

Finally, the .NET and Java assembly languages are dead easy to target, especially compared to those of complex architectures like x86. Even if shipping native binaries becomes dominant in the .NET space, MSIL won't be going away. And it makes everyone's life easier to not have to reinvent the "native code generation" wheel for every possible programming language/CPU architecture pairing. LLVM's a big deal for the same reason, and to some extent the only really big difference between it and .NET or Java is that it doesn't encourage people to package bytecode up into executables.
> This is impossible to guarantee today. Certainly if you run the zero-day magnets known as browsers, and even if not, there is always some possibility of physical intrusion.

Bingo. Even if you go all-out with security and only browse the web with a pure text web browser through Tor running on a VM that you purge after every use, use full-disk encryption with plausible deniability, fully shut down your computer and wait until the RAM is cool before leaving, inspect your computer for NSA/other implants every time before boot, tape your webcam and mic, never use your real name, and whatever else you can think of, you're just going to go nuts from all the paranoia, as well as from realizing all the myriad ways your security could still be broken (don't forget to check the keyboard for a built-in logger and look inside your case for PCI cards you don't recognize, and hope they don't have any implants that look convincingly like something you'd recognize as yours). Never mind that this isn't a very viable way to do most things most people actually use their computers for, like personal email, online banking, social networking, and so on.
From using it on a daily basis, it's not even that great at uni websites. The killer failing as far as I'm concerned is the menu system - compared with WordPress or Drupal or any other content management system, it makes adding pages to menus such a chore...
I don't know of a linkable official statement to that effect. Unfortunately much of the information available (for example in the official onsite FAQ) is incomplete or outdated. The Wayback Machine gets only a tiny fraction of the product-management, public communication, documentation, end-user support, and fundraising that it should.
We use git-crypt (https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt) in our ansible repo for credentials. Credentials are stored as variable YAML files so anyone can work with them in templates, but only our deploy box and SRE team can encrypt/decrypt the credential files themselves. Generally works pretty well, but you do need to remember to run credential deploys on new boxes. Eventually we'll probably move to a HSM (hardware security module) for the actual storage, but those are pricey (especially since you need two of them).
> Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need to do anything??

Why do people start million dollar businesses now when they can work at McDonald's or work at a call center or or teach schools or be a policeman or or or...

It's almost like some people are naturally motivated to do certain things for reasons beyond just the desire to have food and a roof over their heads.

I don't understand why people think if you offer everyone, say, $20k a year to do nothing that nobody would ever want to work to achieve more, earn more, improve people's lives, etc. Sure some people would (especially people who currently live on minimum wage). But many would not be satisfied with such a minimal existence. And with nobody having to worry about surviving without a job, it also frees up many people to explore ideas they otherwise would never have had time for.
Aren't fuel costs local enough that trying to estimate it is futile anyway?
Unfortunately, projects such as DROPOUTJEEP confirm that the iPhone isn't to be trusted.

This is impossible to guarantee today. Certainly if you run the zero-day magnets known as browsers, and even if not, there is always some possibility of physical intrusion.

Today you can use OS's such as Tails to prevent most exploits from embedding themselves into your computer. This is what Snowden used, for example. But if hardware becomes compromised, Tails will offer much less protection.

Here's an interesting section of the article:

The department must describe the computer it wants to target with as much detail as possible. For example, an investigator may be covertly communicating with a suspected child molester and know an IP address, and then obtain a warrant to use malware to find the actual location. In the case of botnets, malware might be used to try to free the compromised computers from a criminal’s control.

Imagine if child molestors begin using Tails. The government response may be to try to set up some kind of "Tails dragnet" via compromised network interfaces. It should be possible for a network adapter to detect that Tails is running. At that point, since it has DMA access, and since few people use Tails at any given time, it should be possible to instuct a network adapter to search through a computer's memory for evidence of activities that the government doesn't like. Since Tails offers strong anonymity protection, there's no way to describe a computer "as specifically as possible" other than to say "it's running Tails while watching child porn."

The unfortunate conclusion is that in the future, someone like Snowden might immediately be caught. "If someone is using a strong anonymity tool and GPG to hide their conversation, we should probably configure their network card to monitor their activity."

Once hardware begins to turn against you, there seems to be nothing anyone can do to protect themselves. Encryption doesn't work against an adversary that has access to your computer's memory.
Last time I checked, the 4th Amendment was about "due process" and "but upon probable cause".

Everyone seems to forget about the "Probable Cause" line.
There are some assumptions here:

1. You need money to survive - Nope. Money is a medium to exchange for goods. All the money in the world can't save you if there's no food/water.

2. Starting a business solely on personal gain - A million dollar business, I assume, is you're example of a successful business. Though it will be true for a lot of people, please pose the question "Would you start a successful business if it would save millions of lives and billions of work hours?"

3. Supporting people that didn't need to do anything - There's an assumption that people that don't need to support themselves will be unproductive. Is this neccessarily true? Though it might be a small fraction of the population, there are people's interests that they pursue that would greatly automate jobs or help their society. Theoritical work that people pursue are abstract, but the research findings could give great insight into physics, biology, social dynamics, etc.

The heart of your statement is more philosophical in why communisum won't work. But would a purely capitalistic society be better? Where you know that near every action is derived from personal gain?
I can't get street view to work at all with the new maps. I just get a black screen whenever it tries. Is that happening to anyone else? I'm on Firefox beta (30).
The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it's impossible to guarantee the government can't get into your computer if it really wanted to.

The government has always had access to everything if they a) really wanted to and b) had just cause. That's why search warrants, tailing suspects, court-approved phone taps, bank account freezes, etc etc etc exist.

The notion that the government ought to not be allowed into your computer, ever, doesn't seem grounded in either reality or historical precedent.
There is an appendix to the paper describing how to install and run the author's script. I'd like to take a look at the source, but can't find an actual link to the code. Am I overlooking something?
Is that my version of "homing from work" ?
what about people who already wear glass? I guess I will still need to get contacts to use them
The problem is Apple Maps isn't usable outside an iOS device or a specific "Maps" app on Macs only. Share links open google maps, unless you have the above machines. This makes it less than useful for general use.
That's awesome. I've been looking into doing something like this a couple years ago.
"Their investors know that founders are integral to the company, and they want the founders to succeed."

You are always replaceable..even if you think you aren't. I know so many founders that gave up majority control and were kicked out of their own company and replaced by a VC-picked person.

A friend of mine hired the guy that ended up booting him out of the company 6 months later. The guy he hired removed all of his powers and then claimed that he couldn't manage the project any longer (after all of his powers were taken away of course).

To get his severance, he had to sign a piece of paper filled with complete lies about his performance.

People in business aren't nice and you need to do everything in your power to protect yourself.
I also strongly suspect that this entire "native" move was fueled purely by that top-of-the-bill Windows 8 computers take 5 seconds to start up the damn Weather app

Bingo. Especially on 64-bit machines, the time it takes for apps to launch can be downright embarrassing.
Surely the inverse slope - "rich people should be allowed to spend arbitrary amounts of money on things that markedly affect the direction of society solely out of self-interest without any oversight" - is equally slippery?
Yes – I had a good listen to a friend's Studio headphones in 2010. They were not bad and I understand why the sound appeals to some – I just thought they represented terrible value for money. IIRC they cost >£200 in 2010. This particular pair was stored in a hard case yet snapped due to fatigue in the plastic headband after a few months, although I expect their construction has improved a fair bit since then.

In response to your edit, the difference between the two companies is that Apple generally backs up the superficial appeal of its products with very good, if not market leading user experience, engineering and manufacturing. The iPhone is relatively expensive (part of the reason I own a Nexus device), but its quality is undeniable.
That's shocking. No manager I've ever worked for had this kind of mentality. If you needed to show up late or leave early, as long as you were getting your tasks done for the week, it was fine. Forcing people to stay until 6 or 7 is the fastest way to get developers to burn out.
I enjoy GNOME 3.

Have been using it for a long while now and really don't have any major complaints. Granted, I don't use many desktop programs (browsers, terminal, chat programs and nuvola player).
By that rationale, any website is a cancer.
> Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee.

We're getting bit off topic here, but my colleague has a 2-year old Sony Vaio laptop that has this. He also has a SIM card for it that came for free with his €50,- internet/tv subscription (incl more monthly GBs than he needs).
A lot of comments here seem to be equating various tea forms of mate with Club Mate. Club Mate is a soda as in it belongs on the self somewhere next to Coke and Red Bull. It's got more caffeine than Coke but only about 1/2 the sugar. I really liked it.

Tea made from mate is the same only in the sense that orange juice is similar to orange soda. As in they are arguably not really similar.

That's not to say anything negative about mate based teas. I drink those too. Just that, if you go get Yerba Mate or any other mate tea you're not drinking anything remotely similar to Club Mate.
Would that make Android development that uses XML layouts and the Dalvik JIT VM "obviously not a native app"?
I'm coming from a similar place and think it very important to preserve the peer-oriented nature of the Internet, so you don't have to convince me. But I disagree on the prescription, because in the long term, economics wears down regulations (and here in the good ole USSA it's short-circuited right from the start!)

I don't see the way forward being based on IP addressing (+dns) as identity, which is ultimately what you're talking about. First, the end to end principle arose out of engineering concerns, and IP does nothing to preserve data opaqueness against a network that wishes to categorize traffic. And given that there is little money in transporting commodity bits, yet some of those bits are quite valuable (work VPN session..), there is an ever-present economic incentive for discrimination.

Referencing UL=DL doesn't really make sense. Even with an ideal buildout of multi-homed homes mesh-connected through each other, there's still going to be a network "core" that has more long-haul bandwidth than the outskirts. If I wish to publish a file to many people, it makes more sense to send that data once to the core, and fan out through there (whether by a server, multicast, or some new method).

My ISP is Sonic.net - I wouldn't call them crooks, and given the competition wouldn't begrudge them an administration fee on a static IP. I said that to point out that it is not even worth $6/mo to me, and combined with their deletion of logs after two weeks, having a fixed address is actually a net-negative from my perspective.

So back to the real topic.. I'm definitely trying to analyze the big picture, and I've come to the conclusion that IP-as-identity is a complete red herring. I don't particularly see how it would encourage overlay networks, when the whole idea of an overlay network is to deprecate the underlaying network protocol to layer something better on top. Overlay networks work just fine over dynamic IPs, and only need a few underlying long-lived identities for rendezvous.

The way I see it, the real root of the problem is protocols based on authoritative servers which place undue importance on the reliability of individual hosts, and therefore their network links and administrators. As long as we're reliant on these, then the benefits of locating them closer to the core and having them cared for by a third party is going to outweigh the downsides.
Maybe! but sometimes the net productivity win comes from letting the frantic person spin their gears down until you reach a velocity where thinking clearly is possible
> No, my complaint is not about drag to zoom. It's about double-click to zoom (the words I used, but I know sometimes things can be looked as maybe just an expression or

It was clear you were complaining about double-click to zoom, but it was far less clear what about double-click to zoom your complaint was about. I guessed you might have been complaining that double-click to zoom was the only method, as Maps used (IIRC) to also support drag to zoom, but you have no clarified your complaint.

> This no longer works correctly.

IME, it always works correctly. Like most situations where you have both a double click and click functionality, variations in the speed of a double click sometimes result in accidentally getting the functionality of single clicking twice rather than the desired double click functionality, but that's nothing special to Google Maps.
There's an aspect of this frustrating, forced busy-work behavior that can get baked into software development, and it isn't going away anytime soon.

Technology innately gives rise to a behavior called yak shaving, and it's not limited to software development, but pretty much any form of technology-related behavior is prone to it, when layers upon layers of technology compound one another and accumulate their own accretion disks of cruft.

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...

A very simple example is needing anti-freeze to drive a car. If there were no chemical companies producing millions of gallons of anti-freeze a year, and no auto-stores to distibute periphery car necessities, and gas stations, and auto mechanics didn't supply anti-freeze, because it's beyond the scope of their expertise, how would I produce the right anti-freeze for my car on my own? Well, what are the requirements for producing industrial grade ethylene glycol?

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

A similar open-source software example would be dependency hell.

Just compare the differences in dependencies between two very popular open-source web browsers:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/web/chromium-browser

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/web/firefox

In order to accurately compare the two applications, how would you take advantage of the fact that these are open-source projects, and actually review the source code, and then build from source?

Each application is built upon many other independent software projects, each sub-project with it's own disciplines, specializations and dependencies. It's time consuming and painstaking behavior to dig into the source trees for these programs and all their dependencies.

How deep can you go before you give up?
I'm in the same boat. Some weeks I simply do not have enough work to fill the 40 hours I should work according to my contract. I'm just sitting around, looking busy, and billing those hours to the project I'm assigned to. If I report fewer hours than that I'm in trouble, because my billable hours go down and that means I'm getting a smaller bonus at the end of the fiscal year..

Yeah, the system isn't really working.
Libertarianism is the belief that the only valid rights are 1) private property, and 2) no initiated direct physical violence. The only time either of these rules can be violated is: the second one may be violated to punish those who violated rule 1 or 2 (notice: rule 1 can never be violated).

a pretty direct, if over-simplified, outcome: someone with a lot of financial might (say, an apple orchard), can deny another person with less financial might (say, nothing) access to food, leading to their death. as the second person was looking to violate rule number 1, and the first person didn't violate rule number 2, Libertarianism is totally fine with this chain of events.

Libertarianism, phrased a different way, says "the only time you can hurt someone is when they take your stuff. if you hurt someone by having stuff while they have nothing, that's totally fine." In other words, financial might makes right.
Quite simply, Mozilla would go bankrupt trying to run on DDG's available revenue share.
Thanks. I hope someone could look up a discussion on this soccer goalie example: I never really understood it.

Is the example above saying goalies would do the "more productive" thing of standing still more often if they didn't feel the pressure to look like they were doing something? If kickers evenly spread out their shots, you got a 1/3 chance no matter what you do. It wouldn't matter if the goalie went always left or always right or just stood there every time. And if goalies are being irrational, why aren't kickers exploiting it?

Though I agree that you shouldn't be penalized for standing still, that doesn't make jumping right or left "fake work".
You have changed my life, thank you.
"positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting" = "pointing at"

obfuscation is the name of the game

You wouldn't get away with horrendous babble like this in essay in any subject at any level of education.
An interesting and somewhat related (but only tangentially) article I read a couple of days ago found that nearly 1/3rd of World Bank reports are never read, not even by a single person: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/08/t...

It was submitted to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7715881) by another user, but probably never got traction because the title of the article is very vague.
14k listeners strikes me as an awful lot for college radio.
that is a perspective issue - my salary is annually negotiated , in compensation for an idea of what work will come up and how i will better myself and the company. It is not how many hours worked in a week. I don't get a "weekly" salary. having this different perspective in mind allows acceptance of the time shifting that comes along with knowledge work - inventing and creating are not on a linear scale.
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