skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of us are just a single job loss, a single medical diagnosis, a single broken marriage removed from a swirling, chaotic, wholly uncontained abyss.

I completely understand that. I was transitioning from my old industry into tech and was hit with some surprise medical issues. If I didnt have the luxury of a large savings I would have been de-railed completely. I was also lucky that Lyft was an option in SF because I got rejected by several companies along the way. Now that I have a start in a new career I'm pretty keen on rebuilding to ward off the next random disaster.
Why do authors/sites insist on doing this:

https://i.imgur.com/aCAmbQ2.png

It is super annoying and adds no additional content by design. There's like four or five of these throughout the article.

As to the article most of the issues seem to revolve around a broken healthcare system (i.e. no public option, insurance through employers, unemployed pay more than employed, etc). Although the author does start to come across as a little entitled when she brought up her Harvard education and how people like her weren't meant to be in positions like this...

I liked the first 2/3 of the article, just the end is kind of irksome. Harvard, CEO pay, gender gap, etc none of this came across like the author likely intended. I bet she didn't customise her resume for "The Container Store" job and just forwarded her normal/writer one.
Mono (the code) and .NET Core will merge (per Scott Hanselmann)

Microsoft will (in partnership with Mono the project) ensure that .NET core and server stacks run on Linux and OS X.

They've just demonstrated deploying an ASP.NET MVC5 application on Linux, running inside a (Linux) Docker container and being remotely debugged from Visual Studio on Windows. Which seems to indicate that they are already pretty far down that road.
It's complex, but has that aspect of simplicity (unity). Lots of different applications as well, constructions of polygons and so on.
I'm not a mathematician, but when I first read that the number one has cube roots, fifth roots, etc I found it very counterintuitive and cool.
they have jQuery mobile for that. I've not used it but seems like thats what it aims to do.
The pull quotes are annoying.
As pragmatic as your solution of deleting the article is, I don't think that should be the action Fisher has to take here, it simply doesn't seem fair. If an employer takes issue with an article like that, then that's your indicator that they aren't right for you to begin with. But I have no experience with any of this so I can't conclusively say much.
> Because seriously, if an Emmy-award winning, New York Times bestselling author and Harvard grad cannot land a job as a greeter at The Container Store—or anywhere else for that matter, hard as I tried—we are all doomed.

If she actually put "Emmy-award winning, New York Times bestselling author and Harvard grad", of course it was rejected. Such an application is overqualified, and it looks strange that someone who actually has those credentials would want to do something like that.

If she didn't put that on the application, then it is not intellectually honest to say that an "Emmy-award winning, New York Times bestselling author and Harvard grad" was rejected. The person that was rejected was the character that is described in the job application, not the author who is hiding behind that character!

The people doing the hiring for this type of greet-the-public job are usually looking for "fresh faces" who project a certain image, which means, of course, that the jobs tend to go to attractive young people. Nobody cares about your bestselling writing, Harvard degree or Emmy award: unless perhaps the latter is in an "Oustanding Lead/Supporting Actor in ..." category because then, doh, you're actually famous, in the sense that random people in the public recognize your face!
This is not an active circulator, there are no amplifiers. It's a parametric-modulated circulator - the capacitance is modulated. Not a new concept in microwave engineering. Not very useful in real-life: the PR-heavy letter neglects to mention (1) the poor instantaneous bandwidth <0.5% (figure 4c), (2) the poor linearity / poor power handling: Vm and Vdc are few volts in high-Q environment, which translates into maximum power handling well below 0dBm (3) the high sensitivity to analog component variation (fig 4c again) - not something you want in mass-produced components operating at commercial/industrial temperature ranges.

They neglected to mention the power level they used to measure the S-parameters in the letter or the supplementary material. No self-respecting RF engineer would forget to mention power levels - it again hints at very poor linearity / poor power handling. Typical university "research".
US East typically gets the cool new toys first.

It would be interesting to look through the AWS service health reports for unrelated services to determine if it suffers more problems as a result of this.
Stairtower – JSON document database entirely written in PHP
"elitist, adolescent, and "secret society""

That pretty much sums up the people I have met that work in Google engineering. I have only met a few at conferences, but thanks for putting words to the initial feelings I got from them all.
That's true.

A talented C# dev will need to know co/contravariance as well as implicits considering they also exist in C#.

In Scala, being familiar with these concepts is practically a necessity, though.
> it works today

No, it works on a testnet, just as ethereum currently does.
I spent some time working with an early model Twiddler many years ago for a prototype we were building for an industrial application. I loved the idea and was able to get to a pretty decent speed with it, but it was really hard on my wrist. I would not recommend it for constant use. I've since developed some tendinitis and occasional trigger finger (all unrelated to Twiddler use), and I can say it would be a terrible idea for me to try to use one now as gripping makes it worse.
If you want to make a compelling argument to anyone that actually knows Scala, you need to drop the idea you can make it with scala.collections. Find another altar. This is a complete non-issue for the day-to-day Scala developer.

Outside of some pretty extreme examples (scalaz maybe), I don't think I've actually ever seen someone else's source that implemented a custom collection.

And you're purposefully trying to confuse people by digging into what might as well be "internal" signatures.

What do the actual, official docs say about SeqLike :+ ?

> def :+(elem: A): Seq[A]
> [use case] A copy of this sequence with an element appended.

Oh wow. Why does that look so much simpler than what you posted? Could it be you're exaggerating for effect and disingenuously implying that Scala developers will be routinely faced with the challenge of trying to parse such signatures? Of course you are.

Can you dig down further and find the CBF signature? Yes. Do you need to for anything outside of spreading FUD? Nope. Is it a bad thing that it shows how the sausage is made underneath the covers? I don't think so.
Voice of the body
This is both a witty and serious comment(and also, late): go play Kerbal Space Program.

You'll develop an intuitive grasp of this kind of thing.
Mostly becuase is sad to say, but mobile developers only test in Chrome these days, so MS is practicly being forced to use it.
For the record, jacquesm has been civil while detailing his criticisms of Microsoft. The irony of your post is that you are behaving like an asshole, but you don't see it that way because you are blinded by your loyalty to a singular entity or opinion/viewpoint. It's ok to disagree with someone (though I disagree with pg's stance on down voting b/c you disagree), but it's not ok to resort to name calling just to prove your point.
For one thing, all our writers are paid. (We believe that great writing should be valued.)

We're also trying to do a better job of driving targeted traffic to articles on our site. Since Medium accepts virtually all content, they can't make the smart investments in promotion and marketing that we're making. (We're also building some sophisticated technology for modeling these audiences across the web.)

Also, we offer editing services to all our writers. Hopefully this manifests in higher quality writing.
Chording keyboards [are] a poor idea that will never fly.

How then do you explain the success of stenotype keyboards, which use chording heavily? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype,
"a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy." I don't believe any non-chording-keyboard users can sustain a rate of 225 wpm.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510409 ("Plover: Text to thought at 240 WPM")

It would be interesting to know if these high speeds be achieved with a non-chording keyboard using sequential keypresses, if the keypresses were post-processed in a manner similar to the stenotype.
The site seems to be down (edit: it's back up), but http://twiddler.tekgear.com/ is up. If that dies, here's a direct link to the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG3SPSzWUv4

I spent a few months learning to type with various layouts on the Twiddler 2, but never approached my keyboard speed. Also, the joystick was inaccurate and slow. A clickable trackball in the same position would be so much better.

I think one-handed chording keyboards could be very useful in some niches, but they're a waste of time for most of us.
Formula 1: Go Functional
That's how it goes.

A Scala dev will look at the Scala type signature and shrug.

A C# dev will look at the C# type signature and shrug.

As usual, unfamiliar things are difficult and familiar things are easy.
> The pull quotes are annoying.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually personally sympathetic to that viewpoint, but our writers like using them to break up stories.

Would it be helpful if they weren't full width?
I heard that GHash.io was reaching the 50% mark a while ago and then the community decided to split off of a lot of their hashing power to rebalance the minering to other pools. Now this article is saying GHash is intentionally trying to take over? Isn't being part of GHash a volunteer effort?
Immutable Infrastructure Realized: Fugue Computing
I think he's talking about something like:

c = encrypt(k, m)
sleep(rand())
return c

Which is not what blinding is. Blinding is not really about adding a random delay as much as it is about preventing an attacker from controlling inputs to variable-time functions.

Also, it's not clear how blinding could be applied to AES.
That doesn't mean that it's actually Chinese users doing anything though. China has a lot of software piracy in their culture, where piracy is, malware and botnets are rife.
What in the third reference was intended to show unclean hands?
In the beta, it took me a while to get the cluster up and running. I'd say on the order of a couple hours.
I agree that the Container Store (meaning the company, the physical store, the people who work there) doesn't fit into the story very well. I think that for the author, the Container Store is a symbol of order and control in the author's otherwise chaotic and out of control life. Containers allow people to organize their things, so, to the author, the Container Store symbolizes taking control of and organizing one's life; placing each piece of it into the right "bin". The author feels like their life is out of control and the rejection from the Container Store thus reflects that symbolically. The author should have expanded further on what the Container Store means to her, but I think I have a reasonable interpretation.
I work in a 'top' neuroscience lab in which we study the nature of neural computations theoretically and experimentally, the kind of thing that you may consider Super Duper Really Serious attempts To Innovate.

The things being dismissed in this thread as 'toys' and 'old stuff made prettier' make our work easier.

Scientists communicate on twitter and via blogs; the open-access movement is picking up steam this way. It's much easier to decide to move across the world to work with a particular experimentalist if your mom knows how to use Skype and you can talk to your grandma from the hospital on her iPad.

Innovation happens in the world, not in a bubble. Making things easier to use and more appealing to the mainstream is real, extremely valuable progress.

Not to mention that all of the mathematics we use was developed by mathematicians purely as new, purposeless shiny toys. :)
The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998)
I'm gonna need this on Android. Do you have that planned?
I don't think AWS Config handles either of your examples. It records the state of various AWS resources, not the state of the software/environment running within an EC2 instance.
Could somebody please shed some light on this? I'm having a hard time digesting Thiel's book, and I see this development as a perfect example of competition being positive.
Electric Imp is trying to patent (something around) using a light and a photo diode for communication. That's not a good sign, but enough about that, the Photon (assuming they actually ship) and its price point are much more interesting to me as a hobbyist. They also have schematics and gerber files for their hardware which is more than I can say for Electric Imp.

> In particular the integration with Squirrel means that much more complex things can be done, more easily, and without touching the running hardware. The Spark (Core) on the other hand is much like an Arduino

Thanks for the clarification, I've never tried Spark before, though I will once mine arrives. :)

How much of the Imp's advantage here is due to features of Squirrel the language itself, and how much is due to their 'cloudification' of the ecosystem?
Isn't that information made clear up front so that a company can make an informed decision?

Maybe it'd be an apt comparison if the Trojan's put a big sign on the front saying:

"Acceptance of this horse constitutes acceptance of a (up till now) secret invasion"
Why do authors/sites insist on doing this

I suspect that apart from the uncontrollable desire to add something that is perceived to add some aesthetic value to the article, that there is some precedence to these enlarged excerpts actually resulting in increased readership. I don't have data to back this up, but I know that David Ogilvy regularly discussed his almost formulaic use of serifed bold headers, slightly smaller, bold subheaders, and images because they were shown to increase the readership of his advertisements.

My guess is that these are used for a similar reason.
There certainly seem to be inflection points in computing innovation.

The PC revolution starting with Homebrew, through Apple I and II to Macintosh, and the PC and Windows, was an unbelievable ride. But then there was a slower period of several years where innovation consisted mainly of Microsoft slowly assimilating the remaining interesting features of the Mac.

Then the ascendance of the web and Netscape, through Dotcom bubble, Google, Amazon, Facebook (and millions of other sites).

Then iPhone in 2007 launched the mobile software gold rush.

With smart phone innovation starting to slow down (getting harder to dream up can't live without functionality missing from today's phones), it's not clear where the next inflection point will come from.

Robotics? VR?
Buying SEO rankings by sponsoring OSS and tech conferences
Tiny MIPS COM Aims Linux and Android at Wearables
That technique is called a pull-quote[0] and is largely a relic from print publishing. It can still work well on occasion, but the example you cite is particularly bad because it's too long and interrupts the content rather than being floated to the side, allowing the content to flow around it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote
The core has been around for a while. Don't think there will be any issue at this point.
From Lord Chesterfield's letter encouraging his son to study history, a classic little essay on historical relativism, which he calls Pyrrhonism:

Nay, I cannot help carrying my Pyrrhonism still further, and extending it often to historical facts themselves, at least to most of the circumstances with which they are related; and every day's experience confirms me in this historical incredulity. Do we ever hear the most recent fact related exactly in the same way, by the several people who were at the same time eyewitnesses of it? No. One mistakes, another misrepresents, and others warp it a little to their own, turn of mind, or private views. A man who has been concerned in a transaction will not write it fairly; and a man who has not, cannot.

But notwithstanding all this uncertainty, history is not the less necessary to be known, as the best histories are taken for granted, and are the frequent subjects both of conversation and writing. Though I am convinced that Caesar's ghost never appeared to Brutus, yet I should be much ashamed to be ignorant of that fact, as related by the historians of those times. Thus the Pagan theology is universally received as matter for writing and conversation, though believed now by nobody; and we talk of Jupiter, Mars, Apollo, etc., as gods, though we know, that if they ever existed at all, it was only as mere mortal men. This historical Pyrrhonism, then, proves nothing against the study and knowledge of history; which, of all other studies, is the most necessary for a man who is to live in the world. It only points out to us, not to be too decisive and peremptory; and to be cautious how we draw inferences for our own practice from remote facts, partially or ignorantly related; of which we can, at best, but imperfectly guess, and certainly not know the real motives.

http://books.google.com/books?id=0_4kAAAAMAAJ&dq=do%20we%20e...

or http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3361/3361-h/3361-h.htm, but you'll have to ctrl+f for the text.
This rung a bell - the Container Store pays its retail workers extremely well (at least if you believe their numbers): http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/three-equals-one-contain...

If they're really investing a lot in their workers, then they want a perfect fit or ideal type of background. If they believed the writer was a risk to pack up and leave a year down the road, it makes sense that they wouldn't take that risk...
> Mind you I indiscriminately clicked on known "bad" advertisements

OK
Honestly, it sounds like during the best of times she spent each and every paycheck in full, and then when hard times fell upon her, she had nothing to fall back on. This is a common symptom in our consumerist society. An author of her magnitude would have been making enough $ at one point to stow away at least a few years' expenses if she'd just sacrificed a little more during the fat period.
They plan to change it, from http://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-and-xamarin-expand-global-...

Free Xamarin Starter Edition for Visual Studio Users –
Today, Microsoft announced a new, free edition to Visual
Studio—Visual Studio Community. Visual Studio Community
contains support for extensions, which means it will be
Xamarin compatible with from day one. We want to help make
Visual Studio Community a tool for anyone to create native
apps for iOS and Android, so we are announcing our plans to
enable our freely available Xamarin Starter Edition to work
with Visual Studio Community. We are also doubling the size
limit on apps that can be created with Xamarin Starter Edition,
so that you can build even more capable apps for free.
This will be available in the coming weeks.
When I said jquery mobile, I was more talking about the concept of pages which it has. I agree with you though.
Lollipop Factory Images for N5 and N7 Released
Roughly speaking, most advancements come in two stages

— initial technology breakthrough

— building massive companies for mainstream markets

These stages can be 10 years apart from each other.

Companies like Dropbox and Uber are commercializing advancements of the last decade. It's easy to criticize them as "lacking any serious innovation".

At the same time, scientists make serious advancements on materials like graphene. But few people at HN notice this progress because massive commercialization has not started yet.
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Ok the brief they submitted in the java case was just last year. they believe that APIs should be copyrighted and should be controlled by those who build the first implementation. Which is just great news for anyone ever building anything.
> Only some of us had the internet

Ten years ago was in 2004, not 1994 or 1984. In 2004 EVERYBODY had Internet and email, and most also had a mobile phone.

Since 2004 the only innovation that I use everyday is Dropbox... it improved my life but didn't "change" it. I used to copy files on portable hard drives, and I don't have to do this anymore, which is great, but that's it.

I have yet to step into an Uber car or (God forbid!) rent an apartment on AirBnB; I text to my friends (like I have done since at least 1995!), as neither them nor I use Snapchat or WhatsApp; I started a collection of mp3 files in 1999 and it's still growing, no need for Spotify (I did buy a Sonos system --in 2006-- that is still running unchanged).

I don't think I live in the past but I fail to see what great innovation happened in the last 10 years. To me, the last two were the Internet itself, and then Google search.
Images instead? Although peppering of stories with boring stock photos isn't great either. Original art is of course expensive, but that would be best.
I was going to respond to your magic-market fairy reference, but I see you removed it now just as I clicked reply. Oh well... I thought it was the norm around here to put little "Edit notes" at the bottom of your post if you edit it?
> and I can't imagine the metric system not being used by engineers regardless of nationality

You must be aware of the Mars Climate Orbiter incident [0] that metric people are quick to raise when dealing with this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
async/await is HUGE.

It opens an almost frictionless asynchronous pathway from your code all the way down to asynchronous capabilities of the underlying platform. Which was always the problem with leveraging async/overlapped IO: It was too complex and it turned your application logic inside-out because everything had to be performed in callbacks. async/await takes that on directly: You get everything executed in callbacks - only the callbacks are transparently created for you along with the necessary finite state machines so that your code still composes with exceptions, loops, branches working the way you expect - even across those "invisible" callbacks.

For server scalability as well as responsiveness on small devices (keeping number of thread low - even at one - while still serving the UI), that is really an advantage.

There is no "fakes" on the way - no extra threads being started just to wait for completion of an otherwise synchronous API. If the platform supports asynchronous IO/network/disk/database you can leverage that without any of the strange complexities of other languages.

Worth mentioning here is that Windows has an easier scalable and better designed completion oriented async model compared to the readiness oriented model of Linux - which is mostly limited to sockets anyway.

OS X has GCD - which is also a completion oriented model. I look forward to seeing how .NET with real global optimizing compilers from MS will do on OS X versus Linux versos Windows (on a Mac, obviously).
let go of frustration and what, die hungry in the streets?
Not sure I follow you here, rewrite what?
IoT for the People – Peerlyst
"hooked to Microsoft technology if you want to iterate quickly."

Why the hatchet comment? What basis do you have for saying this?