skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that Comcast is already engaging in tortious interference, and then trying to charge the upstream provider for the privilege. Sure, they could file suit on those grounds, but the countersuit would follow very quickly, and it would be joined by everyone.
I'm not sure of a more eloquent way to say this. Comcast's customers are the CDN's customer's customers.
Internet of Things network to launch in UK next year
It doesn't really mention that Palmer Luckey was working with Mark Bolas' VR group at USC [1] at the time of the Kickstarter. The Rift isn't the product of a lone 18-year-old VR autodidact.

I'm not 100% certain regarding the timeline, but it's starting to seem odd how every article about Oculus seems to marginalize everyone but Palmer and Carmack.

[1] http://interactive.usc.edu/2012/06/12/mxr-lab-members-and-al...
Oh sorry, I thought the email field was available!

diminoten@gmail.com
Should You Get a Patent or Just Go to Market?
Twitter is Dead. Long Live Twitter
Yeah I watched the event and I didn't understand that part, he first called it fanless and then waxed poetic about how nice and hidden the vent is and how thin the fan is. Maybe marketing told him that it was okay?
...Or people will remember it more because of the funny pronunciation. I already did. Damn your ingenious marketing, sir.
It certainly exposes a flaw in Wikipedia, but perhaps not the expected one. Namely, it's not so much that anyone can edit the encyclopaedia and introduce false information, but that Wikipedia's faith in "Reliable Sources" like newspapers, magazines, and other forms of big media, is so entirely misplaced.

Evidently you can't trust "proper journalism" to actually be true or correct, since many/most articles are written by untrained, unskilled, or uninterested staffers blindly re-writing whatever they can find on Google. And that is perhaps the most concerning aspect of all.
A dating app where you need it most: When you're out
It sounds like a variant on the "how many CompanyX employees does it take to change a lightbulb?" joke.

But in all seriousness, if anything 11 managers and one developer to a team suggests the objective is for the managers to learn stuff about teamwork and prototyping and innovating and all those other buzzwords rather than actually getting any viable products ready to ship. If they wanted to get stuff built cheaply they'd be better off organising their corporate-controlled "hackathon" with a normal developer ratio after doing their market studies, and if they want developers to bounce ideas off there's plenty of agencies keen for future work they could be courting without picking up hotel tabs.

That doesn't mean the experience won't be odd or that the hotel tabs represent market rate, but the potential for "exploitation" exists just as much the other way round if one or more of the managers is convinced the idea is worth proceeding with, and you're the only person that knows to build it and available for hire at an hourly rate you choose...
It seems to cause some problems with the WOT extension?
The lesson is that the system is often more than just the computer software. The requirements may be more than just the software requirements.

I was fortunate to recognize that early at my current job. We have boatloads of software requirements documented, but the prime directive is not even spoken aloud: "Produce 40 billable hours per week, for each employee, forever."

And that is why the database is a mess and the code sucks beyond all reason. Any reduction in technical debt directly translates to a reduction in the perception of work being done. In short, the customer knows nearly nothing about software development, is willing to pay for status reports, process documentation, and meeting minutes rather than working code, and has a budget completely independent from the value of the work product.

Have you ever looked into some code and seen a WTF block, and it turned out to be a workaround for a bizarre bug? Here, the entire code base is the WTF block. The bug is in the human organization. I do not have the permissions to commit anything to that source tree. So I suck it up and send out resumes.

You don't fix anything until you first understand why it is broken. In the context of the CAD rendering, it is likely that some people had invested a lot of effort into convincing the management that their laziness was actually hard work plus frustration at their resource constraints. Think like Wally from Dilbert. That slow rendering is a system-enforced cap on productivity, slowing down the fastest workers.

In the psycho-clueless-loser model, that is the losers getting a leg up on the clueless. A psycho would have first manipulated the political situation for personal advantage before releasing the fixed code. A loser would have left it alone as already being to their advantage. Don't be clueless, folks.
The detailed descriptions on DDG and Google are both exactly the same size, 13px. I think the people complaining about these visual issues are imagining things.
If you put a blocking script at the bottom you're still stuck waiting for CSSOM. If you put a script-injected tag at the bottom you're also blocked on CSSOM and your script is not discoverable by the preloader. For more details , see the comparison table in the post.
Love this, especially if they get an Android app!
I am not an expert, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I think this falls into a bit of a gray area. One comment on a technical forum in response to an article where Axion Power was explicitly mentioned is probably OK. If the GP had a pattern of posting comments like this in many places, particularly investment forums, and under different usernames, it would be illegal market manipulation. Moreso, if that person was found to have bought, posted the comments, and then sold shortly after the market had gone up.
Ever since I moved away from C++ into JVM/.NET land, my work laptops have always been Windows based, regardless of the server environment.

For .NET projects, Windows dependecy is a clear one.

For JVM projects, thanks to the JVM portability, the operating system only matters in terms of whole infrastructure, but not really for the application itself.

So we are able to use all our GUI based tools, take the build artifacts and deploy it anywhere.

Thanks to the new BYOD policy, some guys moved to Mac OS X. But no one has GNU/Linux on their desktops, except on Virtual Box and VMWare instances.

We are all old enough to remember the days when GNU/Linux did not exist and quite comfortable in UNIX environments, however we don't feel like tweaking stuff any longer.
Schools Turn to Technology to Save Money
NYT Objective-C Style Guide
Authorities Detain 80 in International Cybercrime Operation
You should try the "Classic" theme, which at least shows results' titles as blue, but not all links.
The Robot Apocalypse
Which levels didn't load for you? I'll check it out. Sorry about that!

The campaign is certainly short a few thousand levels. It will take time for us to get there, since making good programming levels is a challenge even when you aren't trying to fit them into a cohesive campaign. We'll get there, though. Lots to do!
I am fine with it. The are alternative for most Google products. Personally, the only thing I miss is Youtube, which ironically MS made best version out there (No ads, downloadable video and worked without crashing) before Google forced them to take it out.

Interestingly, Google has all its products out for the desktop version on Windows 8.
And I think, like goto statements, there's a cost/benefit analysis to be done when making this choice.
Using mailp.in from Bash
Interesting idea.

I'm wondering if $25 a month just for the todo addon is worth it when there are so many standalone team management/todo apps out there?
That's the current state, but surely if they patented the no-nausea bit of tech, they wouldve earn millions just licensing it. It makes me wonder whether the Valve claim in the story is accurate or perhaps there is another story behind the official one.
Things that cannot be simply cut off:

- populist revolutions

Things that can:

- electricity

- the internet
The parallax and purported improvements in accuracy are a big deal though. Even with a >100 point calibration, the stylus on my Surface Pro gets weird tracking on the screen's edges or when the pen is held at off angles.

I was sold once Panay clicked the Stylus and popped up OneNote instantly. There's a lot of value in that for people like me who still prefer to use a pen to take notes.
Reverse-Engineering OS X Malware [pdf]
Would you consider someone calling you stupid offensive?
Shadow DOM hits Chrome 35 stable today
This needs more attention. Its total bullshit. I can't watch youtube videos in Firefox 29 because of this.. Well with RC4 disabled. Currently I use Opera for my youtube watching, and firefox for my general browsing. Its a hassle and should be fixed. RC4 is broken [citation not given because shouldn't be needed], its been broken for a while and isn't gonna fix itself any time soon.
No. You may be borrowing this stance from graphic design, which has a (mistakenly) rigid position on "spec work", complete with a "no-spec!" movement that generates complaints in any forum where the notion of a design contest is introduced. Graphic designers feel victimized by "contests" that were actual thinly-veiled attempts to solicit actual uncompensated work. When thinking about no-spec, you should remember that other professions --- particularly law --- routinely do speculative work in the hopes of inking long-term deals with lucrative customers.

There are exploitative contests for software developers. For instance, when a platform vendor hosts a "come up with the best new application for our platform!" contest; whether the contest is rigged or not, all those developers are doing gratis work for the platform, sinking costs that the vendor hopes will result in salable IP bound to their platform.

This, on the other hand, is a video game. The game happens to be controlled in terms of software. The best strategies and solutions for the video game have no value to anyone. Nobody's platform is being built up by gratis work generated by unsuspecting developers. Instead, time that might have been spent playing Netrek or OpenTTD is being spent on a more interesting game.

One way to tell the difference between an exploitative game and "just a game" is whether the organizer of the game gets something more than "publicity" and "stats on the people who played" (both of which are natural outcomes of running any online game). For example, in the exploitative platform game I alluded to above, the organizers got a raft of new applications for their platform that they didn't have to pay for.

I haven't looked carefully at this game, but I sure have run other games --- https://microcorruption.com is one of them --- and I'm happy to discuss them with you as long as you want until you understand that nobody is being exploited by them.
You do realize that static typing has nothing to do with code size (where did you get that bizarro idea from?).

Emscripten transpiled code is a bloated of redundancy in order to cover C constructs in Javascript code, for things that can be done shorter in idiomatic javascript. But you don't have to take my word for it. Check emscripten transpiled stuff that's out there and their sizes (even compared to the equivalent executable binaries for the same code).

Faster it might be (if it uses asm.js style tricks), but have you profiled to ensure that speed is lacking on that particular codebase we're talking about? Or that you can't just have a minimal asm.js/emscripten style base core and do the higher level stuff in pure high level js?
Ah: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1081755-do-you-like-or-hat...
You don't really need to pull in external deps to improve notepad.exe; nearly all of the low-hanging fruit would be a few lines of code in that application itself. Even busybox's vi implementation is a more capable editor, and it's one short C file (with a handful of trivial deps on the rest of busybox for shit like the allocator and random string functions.)
This article seems to be leaving out a lot of details which have been discussed many times previously on this site. Mainly with not complying with the specific narrow warrants for individual users, dumbing down the encryption and allowing user emails to be decrypted by admins in the first place, faxing over encryption keys vs. supplying them digitally, and other antagonizing things which required the government to broaden their request(s) for access.
> Interestingly, Google has all its products out for the desktop version on Windows 8.

Comparing Windows 8.x's desktop marketshare with Windows Phone's mobile marketshare might give a clue as to the reason why Google has apps for the former but not the latter.
Yea, I wonder if MS can bring it back in the next version of Windows.
"I tended to overcommunicate in those"

I found a clipboard, pen, and paper to be the simplest, easiest to use, and highest productivity system for this. Split the paper up by day and make sure to fill the fraction of a page each day, that's about right. Work on it through the day and its no big deal.

There is some politics involved, you don't want to explain later, perhaps at review time, why "contemplated use of XYZ technology" was not implemented. Never write down anything except what you actually completed. Your examples are good. If you don't want to use AngularJS never refer to it by name unless you can't avoid it.
This is actually pretty big. If I'm interpreting this correctly, Google arbitrarily stack ranked employees then dropped the lowest ranked one. Courts thought that process was unfair, opening up the door for every single ex-Googler in Ireland.

I'd love to have a protections like this in the US. I've had the same thing happen to me at a large company. Political ranking rather than performance leads to some incredibly insular work places.
How about you incorporate "flag as irrelevant" button next to each result? Or some way of users reporting back to you the order they would expect from your SE? I am not sure how you could combat misuse, but I'm sure there coule be some measures taken.
I was half expecting this to be about Apache Kafka.
Great article. I was just thinking "whoever told you that was high" when the author pivoted and said it was bad advice. The first comment was spot on...if the current is dragging you toward the drama, swim up the shore to a new gig.
The Stadiums of the World Cup as 3D Models
Not sure the point you're trying to make. I opened all of them at once and just scanned each of them and the one most appealing to me is the one with the detailed changelog and list of credits. The least appealing was the one with the superficial graphics and screenshots, which turned out to be yours. Maybe I'm biased since I don't really enjoy working on the front end, except for maybe a few games side projects (but I would never make games as a career).
Yeah, but the backlash against using "retarded" as a slur is barely noticed as an issue, which makes it sound like he's referring to "gay".
Yes, really. I have never seen the free market be offered as "the solution" to a metaphoric asymmetric conflict. It seems like there is an inherent existential crisis that has prevented people (up until now) from suggesting the free market as a solution to asymmetric warfare. Is it really a free market when such large asymmetries exist between market participants?

That being said I find the suggestion that the colloquial definition of "asymmetric warfare" is "a fight that's slowly playing out" to be even stranger. Do you think that is the definition of "asymmetric warfare"? I must be reading different works than you because I cannot remember seeing "asymmetric warfare" used--and most certainly not commonly used--as a placeholder for a fight that is slowly playing out.
Obama Should Fire His FCC Chairman
You would think, okay, if Comcast is terrible at maintaining sufficient peering for it's customers needs -- and if the OP proposal to throw Comcast out of peering exchange points happened, that would certainly lead to increased terribleness for it's customers -- then eventually it's customers would choose a different ISP. The market would solve it.

The problem is that in many many markets, Comcast (or another ISP) are pretty much the only choice. Customers don't have another option, no matter how much Comcast underfunds it's peering infrastructure or gets thrown out of peering exchange points.

So what is the consequence to Comcat for underfunding? What is the consequence to Comcast for even such a disastrous outcome as getting kicked out of the peering exchange point? Not a lot.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but 'regulate them as a common carrier' is certainly part of it, since they are a monopoly, and the common carrier regulatory regime was invented for exactly such a monopoly.
Anyone tried the keyboard on this model ? It's unusable, it's too soft. Did someone try another keyboard for the Surface ?
I almost used it, but I found a decent logo via reddit:

* http://www.reddit.com/r/freedesign/
Id honestly love a dock-able iPad with a sandboxed OSX app. <-- this is my prediction as to where Apple is going. They won't merge the two OSes. One would assume that they already have an arm version of OS X running, emulation probably isn't strong enough yet.
How is this different from any other common name? Somebody made it up.
The information is public and not misleading.

More information can be found on Seeking Alpha via John Petersen's articles or the shareholders' blog at http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/1631091-axion-power-host/2...
I don't know a single person that uses windows for development other than people writing windows specific(.net) software, judging by the overall vibe on HN and /r/programming I'd assume this is a general trend.
>basically expect to pay a low, ever-declining price for bandwidth, while someone else eats the costs of a growing network infrastructure

Are we though? Our bills have only been increasing. The amount of money they put into infrastructure has decreased[1].

The Telecoms did have to put a lot of initial investment into infrastructure, but that was largely from laying the wires. Most of them are already starting to see positive returns on those investments [2]. They already have the infrastructure to support traffic to consumers in the last mile. The peering infrastructure being upgraded shouldn't cost them even 1/10th as much.

So why should they get to pass their peering infrastructure costs on to the content providers? They should pass it on to the consumer if they must, after all it's us trying to get the content. But really they are going to be making such a large profit off us over the coming decades it's ridiculous for them to cry poor.

Net neutrality is fairly meaningless when it comes to the last mile. I doubt hardly anyone is saturating their last mile worth of bandwidth. I regularly have three streams going in my household and it doesn't saturate my bandwidth. That part isn't what needs upgrading.

[1]http://www.vox.com/2014/5/12/5711082/big-cable-says-broadban...

[2]http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/15/does-cable-really-have-a-9...
Intel challenges Labour Court decision on pregnancy case
The part about "let us help you find a job" sounds condescending, as if the industry wasn't begging for developers that can actually write code.

I would argue any developer that understands the Traveling Salesman Problem is turning down job opportunities left and right. Call me a skeptic but if you don't care about the code, then sounds like the ulterior motive is to screen/recruit young developers and get some publicity.

In any case, I'm glad you're concerned about my feelings. I'm not attacking you, I'm attacking the trend. The only type of contest I believe in is a contest for charity. Anyway, you knew the contest would be a risk when you came up with the idea, right?

http://www.quora.com/What-legal-issues-come-up-when-running-...
EventHub: Open-sourced Funnel analysis, Cohort analysis and A/B testing tool
Every computer has a GPU. It's two orders of magnitude slower with no GPU.
That doesn't show up if the window is too narrow. And "too narrow" is pretty wide.
Hacker News automatically downvotes/weighs down anything to do with the NSA, Snowden, and other keywords. I guess it's just not that important.
>> I don't use a touch screen or a pen.

Simply put, the Surface Pro isn't designed for people with your use case. And more likely than not, your laptop isn't useful for the people MS had in mind for the Surface Pro.
I think that the advice, if taken literally, is a bad advice.

But it does point to the fact that the system is not just the technology, but also the people around it

I think that a better way to go about it was to comment first with the proper people that you MIGHT be able to make it run faster before doing anything (all though you know that you already did it). And drop the case if they don't want it.

I can see that somebody might want to move the drawing calculation process to a more powerful box serving more clients, and distribute the client with a different license... in other words, there could be a business case for the original configuration, and knowing it might help you to discover the negative stakeholders (the people interested in the status quo)

Should you always stay out of others people code? I think not, I think that there is a place for it. But from there to modify and publicize the modifications there is a big distance. Some people treat their code as their baby, and no parent like their kid criticized.
Thanks to you and danieldk. We changed the url from http://boingboing.net/2014/05/20/kafka-meet-orwell-lavabits.....
That's an important corollary to the author's actual point, if you ask me. Sure you shouldn't make golden calves out of bad old code, but also don't be the guy that mercilessly hacks apart other people's code without allowing them to defend it. Instead have a socratic dialogue about the pros and cons of different approaches to the problem.
You see, Russia isn't that caring about copyrights, too. There were relatively recent (this happened after Windows XP release) industry lobbying that led to massive rewrite of copyright laws, but illegal copying is still nearly ubiquitous.
It never feels like it at the time, but you're better off winding up at a workplace that values your contributions over your political connections.
This would be an unmitigated disaster. Everyone would call Comcast, Comcast would tell the story their way, and things would be even worse than they are now. They'd probably get on national nightly news talking about how their "partners" "unfairly" "cut them off from the Internet".

It would be pretty interesting to watch the spin machine in action, though. 100% pure PR spin.
Local utility companies and cable companies typically have terrible reputations across the board. I'd rather have competition and bad customer service/experience than no competition and bad customer service/experience.
I think that is exactly what it was done in Viladecans, Barcelona: http://www.diba.cat/web/ri/newsletter_bcn_int_reg/-/butlleti...

But the telcos aren't going to like it: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/telefonica-urges-viladecans...