skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The division head asked something like "are we doing the right thing here?", and also said something like "we need to make money".

That's not the message I get from "At the end of the day, you should do what you need to do to maximize free cash flow for the device." The priorities are clear.
I agree with you on the Azure vs "nice things". I also think their long-term strategy doesn't rest with the .NET framework.

However, I think they know that if they completely abandoned the .NET framework, there would be a community of very upset devs that have spent their entire careers investing in Microsoft. Instead, they're doing a slow withdrawal and "giving it to the community".

I think that in the long term, they're going to be focusing more on Sharepoint, SQL Server, and Azure; less on .NET. That's just IMHO.
When it's pretty standard practice not everyone can just turn down the jobs. So I weight the risk versus the reward. Very low risk of them actually enforcing it on a peon like me. Reward is a keep a roof over my family's head. If I wanted to avoid noncompetes I could go to construction or go back to working in retail I guess.

I do believe that if everyone started refusing to work under NCAs then employers would be forced to change them but how many people have the ability to turn down so many jobs?
This is an interesting article in light of patio11's about doing business in Japan: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
I wonder if this isn't a little late to market. At this point, the major cloud providers offer such a large array of products and services that add value to their VM capabilities that I find it hard to imagine someone architecting a substantial system on this platform anytime soon.

That said, they will make a juicy acquisition target for someone who wants their tech. So I am not saying they wasted their time either.
So asking questions is also grounds for being down voted? I am confused ...
It's often claimed that politics in the US is run by / dominated by corporations.

I find the contradiction in that claim at times like this to be especially dramatic. The biggest corporations in America - Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc - are actively being harmed by the US Government. US telecoms are having the doors shut to business in Europe and Asia, because of this stuff. Countless billions in profit are at stake.

Another headline from today: corporations are holding $2 trillion overseas, because of the wonky corporate tax policies of the US. If corporations actually ran anything, that wouldn't be a problem.
Its not at all far fetched.

The very first people to sign up will all be budding security enthusiasts secretly looking forward to their prime time on Chaos Computer Club or BlackHat or whatever where they take apart one of these servers.
Ask HN: How to raise kids as entrepreneurs?
I have 3 kids (the oldest one is 5), and a niece of 9 that I care much about. I believe that making and selling products is something that is both mentally and financially rewarding, and something that they don't teach you in school.

In my ideal world, all 4 of them would build their own company selling a product that lies within their passion.

My plan is to set aside Sunday afternoon to 'build stuff'. Probably LEGO for a long time since they are still young. And maybe later let them blog about the progress. Are there any of you who also want to raise entrepreneurs? If so, how do you do it?
Smartphone Pwnage at Mobile Pwn2Own 2014
of course not, that would be the worker's council and the union.

you silly Americans :)

HR employees can be fired, hence are under pressure, hence are on the side of the company. Works council members in developed nations are protected, cannot be fired on a whim and get fully paid while fighting for you.

As a European working in the US it feels like time travel when it comes to work, health, banking. Just had a discussion about why Google Health has failed - while Austrian citizens already enjoy an electronic health record, tracking their medication across doctors.

So many patriots here will defend the US as the greatest country, no matter what - but actively oppose the very fabric of this nation, the government, with its rules and regulations to protect the people. Very hard to wrap my head around this.
Thanks, nice to know there's not just something wrong with us! We made exactly the same fix with the same tool funnily enough.
I would not describe the road as long and arduous, so much as long and joyful.

I have never used a language a fraction as fun as Scheme (except for Common Lisp, which is also quite fun).
If you're going to post your subjective opinion on something involving your employer vs a competitor it's best to include a disclaimer in future.
Well... Discover is fully aware now.
Are you coeliac or you just think that gluten is bad for you?
Since the Phantom's flight controller is closed source, this is speculation but I assume it calculates it based on the altitude delta from "home".

When you turn the Phantom on one of the first things it does is tries to get a GPS lock on its current position which it will use as the "home" point. This is a pretty important piece of data for the device to have (and the bright LEDs on the arms will light up red until it has it, warning you that taking off is dangerous) because if it goes into "return to home" failsafe for any reason (loss of connection to the controller, battery low situation, etc) the device will attempt to fly itself to that position (after first ascending to a programmable return-to-home altitude if needed to minimize risk of hitting obstacles like trees or houses).

The controller on the Phantoms also has a barometer which can be used for (relative) altitude change readings. I have no idea if it uses that at all in the 400 foot ceiling calculations.

It is extremely doubtful that the Phantom carries any sort of WGS 84 to local height mapping because that is a ridiculous amount of data (even at a fairly low resolution) to carry for the entire globe, and it has no link to any kind of lookup service for that, and if you based the height on sea level that would make the device pretty worthless in many places (eg. Denver which is more than 13 times higher than 400 feet above sea level at ground level).
> I find the situation where we grant rights to our citizens without granting them to foreigners (particularly citizens of our close allies, but also foreigners in general) bizarre and backwards.

I find the idea that subjects of a foreign state have any rights not arranged by agreement between our state and theirs fundamentally bizarre. That's what states are for, in a post-Westphalian world.
I remember having read long time ago that superposing B&W images took with those filters gives an also B&W image that our brain perceives as coloured. Does anybody know if this is correct or what's the name of that effect?
I'd bet the others had similar non-competes. However, Amazon is becoming notorious for trying to enforce them.
This isn't doxxing. Doxxing would be if we posted her address, po box, mailing address, etc.

What we are doing here is calling someone out on their bullshit in a public profile.
Totally agree overall. In general bordom to me is usually a state of indecisiveness for most people. And there are those who just can't figure out what to do next. In some cases I think it can also be a sign of depression too, not that I am an expert there, just something I feel I have seen personally many times.

I have major issues with the phrase "I can't". I raised my kids to never say "I can't...." because to me that is saying you failed before you even tried. Trying and failing is better then never trying to begin with. I am ok with failure and with "I need help on xyz", but not "I can't". To me "I'm bored" is in that same boat.
It seems like she claimed that she had both a Bachelors and Masters degree from Stanford when indeed she did not have both. Can she be pursuing a Master's degree when she had not completed a Bachelors?
Likely extreme mirroring + no keys actually kept on the unit. They just store N byte chunks of data which a master somewhere fetches an decrypts at its leisure would be the best approach. (with key value pairs stored on that said machine).

Best approach not necessarily being the one that was put into production.

The fastest approach would be to store your key value pairs encrypted on the host device, and do your map/reduce functions locally so you only forward relatively useful data.
Sorry, changed "spaces" to "columns".
Compare/Contrast: I worked at a startup where I was the only direct report to someone who spent the overwhelming majority of his day watching videos of women exercising (file this under "things I wouldn't have to know if we didn't have an open floor plan"). I spoke to _his_ boss (who sat two seats down from me, because it's a startup), who said the reason I had to go through those ridiculous hoops and charades and end up with an unusual workload was because the guy I reported to had been there a long time and, ya know, he deserved his fancy title and direct report.

Don't get me wrong, dysfunction at large companies is disproportionately large most of the time. But man, even smaller bits of nonsense can be extremely frustrating when you see them up close.
The wonky thing being that they would have to pay tax on that money if they take it to the US, but they've already made all that effort not to pay tax on the income in the country of origin! (sad face)
UK startups are hiring – and paying – more as tech scene continues to mature
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Comparing VC Deal Terms: Silicon Valley vs. The Rest of the US
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It works just fine on Mono. Use the current F# from git.
If Apple is actively being harmed by the US Government it sure doesn't seem it as they are making more than they ever have.
"if american companies agreed with american government"
Just as a reminder, The government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it did not immediately cave in and comply with the secret court order.
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/feds-yahoo-fine-prism/

This blog post could actually be Google's way of silently signaling us that the US gov't is still strong arming american companies, and it needs the help of public pressure in order to keep our information safe and secure.
Considering that a non-negligible percentage of hosts that offer WordPress as a service run out of date versions of WordPress, you're probably right.
The first time I encountered one of those machines was in our local Lidl in Ireland. I could easily have stayed all day slicing bread, hugely satisfying to watch.

Of course, the engineer inside me wondered how well the safety lockouts were designed such that there would be no risk of accidentally having ones forearms turned into neat evenly sliced pieces.
The dictionary in front of me disagrees:

"A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text."

Actually going back it means tabulation which was an early form of alignment of tables on typewriters. The tab key advanced the carriage to the next tabulation point. It was repurposed as a way of indenting code later and it has become an additional definition of that fact.

(I'm old enough to have owned a typewriter, a nice Selectric one as well ;-)
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Just had fun clicking on the other projects link and finding LodePaint and the esoteric languages and ... you go take a look yourself! :D
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The landing was the significant event, not the first photo.

The landing is also available on a vastly larger number of news sources, which dilutes the amount of focus it gets on any particular site. Upvotes are a proxy for the number of people paying attention to the story through HN, not the number of people paying attention that are on HN.
You must have a much lower expectation of "Hacker News" quality than I do. Has scribd ever had a good user experience? I've come across them once in a while for years and never liked it at all.
the non-compete was restricted to the area he was working in; he was told he would be working on kindle. It was not until he was hired that it was disclosed he was working in this much broader area of tablets (aka the kindle fire). Amazon presented it as a very narrow non-compete in the e-ink reader space before he was hired.
Female-only developer camps?! How utterly patronising!
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Why just EU? The EU delegates can pressure US to cover anyone under the act not just EU residents. If US bends to EU's demands about privacy but doesn't treat rest of the world similarly then it says something about US.
The calculations on business lost to the Snowden revelations, is tallied in at least the tens of billions, and it's likely to get more dramatic over time by encouraging new European and Asian competition (to build matching scale replacement services) where there previously was not as much.
I strongly disagree.

You will not experience elegance on the level of Scheme from any of the languages you list: not Python, not Ruby, not Scala, C# or Java. I would argue that even Clojure and Common Lisp are not nearly as elegant (though they come closer than the rest).

On the other hand, I think that each language has its strengths, and things that it does more easily or optimally than most others.

Learning to program in different paradigms (procedural, OO, logical, concatenative, etc) can really be a mind-opening expericence, and it's one of the reasons that I most value learning the Lisp way. But other ways are also well worth learning.
It's pretty easy to say that, but even if you are a customer of a company using US services this affects you. It isn't always obvious or user facing either; what if you go to buy a house and the estate agent uses Salesforce?
Artificial neural networks do both supervised and unsupervised learning. While this is a very rough generalization, unsupervised learning is good for building models and encodings of data, while supervised learning is good for minimizing the error rate when answering questions about data. The state of the art for training neural networks is to "initialize" the network with unsupervised learning, then "tune" it with supervised learning.

To me, a child learning from listening to the TV is like a form unsupervised learning. It probably helps them build an internal representation of language structure, but doesn't teach them much if anything about proper use of language. If I had to guess, I'd say it is probably mildly helpful when the child is very young (especially if the alternative is silence), but it probably stops providing any value fairly quickly (by about a year of age for the typical child would be my very uneducated guess). At this point, I'm guessing improvements in language facilities probably require focused interaction (supervised learning).
How do we not have freelance bioweapons developers? Would it be any more difficult to prohibit the development and auctioning of cyberweapons?

I don't mean to be evasive by answering your question with a question, but freelance development of weapons that can cause widespread damage seems to be controllable. Why not quash the development sold-to-the-highest-bidder cyberweapons by the same means?
Camera on the HTC one is really good.
The problem is not with the SSN being used for identification. The problem is
with identifier, which is not a secret by its very nature, being used in the
wild as an authentication mechanism.
In general, whenever it comes to human rights - or civil rights as Americans like to call it - it's appalling that they distinguish between citizens and foreigners (or aliens as they label us).

Imagine European countries denying human rights to non citizens: Okay to torture a Somali? No problem throwing Americans in prison without trial? Sure, let's wiretap cell phones of all Turks in Europe? I don't think so.
In Germany the privacy laws are incredibly strict but fair to consumers rather than corporations.
On your second point...

Yes but having a paid insider gives you a major advantage. You can now seed vulnerabilities, and derive a predictable income stream from these seeded vulnerabilities.

What is more scary to me is that big money is involved here. What if you can't get a developer to be tempted by money to insert vulnerabilities for you, and you start using a more heavy handed approach (death threats etc).

Also by paying developers to insert vulnerabilities, you no longer need experts looking for vulnerabilities. These experts are in short supply, so it might become a more viable path.

This is why I am uncomfortable with vulnerability markets...
good on them, they've worked hard for it
No its not "needed" but if you dont have an OLED screen it will have a noticeable impact on your battery life. Depending on which particular device this may or may not be an issue. If you have a device that barely manages to make it through the day as it is, ambient display is not for you.
I haven't tried out many alternatives, but there's something about nested <> that seems to throw me off each time.

I wrote a library of monads for C# [1], and implementing the SelectMany method is a good example of how messy it can be:

public static RWS<R, W, S, V> SelectMany<R, W, S, T, U, V>( this RWS<R, W, S, T> self, Func<T, RWS<R, W, S, U>> bind, Func<T, U, V> project)
{
}

I quite like F#'s alternative syntax for single type generics:

Option<int>

Can be written:

int option

Obviously it's a personal thing, so I doubt I would be able to suggest anything that would change your mind; I just had a quick go at an alternative, and I quite like this:

public static SelectMany R W S T U V ( this self : RWS R W S T, bind : Func T (RWS R W S U), project : Func T U V) : RWS R W S V
{
}

class Thing int
{
}

class Thing T : BaseThing T
{
}

It's moot anyway really, it is what it is. I've just found it cognitively challenging over the years.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/csharp-monad
Many of these PPLs use variational Bayes.
The Nexus 6 (Snapdragon 805, 2.7 GHz quad-core) have a slightly faster CPU than the Nexus 5 (Snapdragon 800, 2.26 GHz quad-core), but it only reflect the natural performance improvement over time.

The Nexus 6 (184g, 31g/inch) is heavier than the Nexus 5 (130g, 26g/inch), compared to its screen size.

While the battery capacity of the Nexus 6 (3220 mAh) is significantly larger then the Nexus 5 (2300 mAh), people reported the battery life of the Nexus 6 to be shorter.

I can't find any technical improvement that could explain a 1.75x price increase.
For some stats from the UK
http://www.techcityinsider.net/startups-paying-26-more-for-t...
From http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-employee-lawsuit-ki...

Varghese sued Amazon in 2012 following his termination
after seven months on the job. Although he won part of
his case in July 2013 — Amazon waived enforcement of an
18-month non-compete obligation and granted him all
rights to a patent application he’d filed — the trial
for the second part of the suit has been pushed back
until March 2015.
It means that at best, they've reduced the problem to safe cracking. And it's a "safe" that has to have channels for power, data, and hot water/air to go in and out and sits unguarded in the potential attacker's house for as long as they need.

No safe is "uncrackable", they just get rated at how much time/expense it would take a pro to break in and then you don't store anything in it that's more valuable than that.

If I'm a potential customer looking to process my data on these servers, I would want to know what the equivalent rating is.
It's good to see a contract written in clear, understandable language.
Source at gitorious:

https://gitorious.org/src-vcs/
Why can't they learn like the rest of us? Alone in our bedrooms
According to the article she admitted to a lot of this stuff in a deposition.
Startups paying 26% more for talent
The shopping experience has definitely degraded, and it's clearly a manpower issue. For the last year or so they've become quite bad at keeping product on the shelf. In my current lifestyle, I make a monthly trip and it's guaranteed at least one of my staples won't be there, or in inadequate quantities.

And they know it, the cashiers are no longer asking if I could "find everything I needed", and a memo touching upon this has gone public within the last few days.

Amazon still has my business because they're still playing straight with me as a customer, and that's vanishingly rare (outside of small companies that tend to have fragility issues). But I pay attention to stories like this because the potential for losing their customer first culture is there.
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I don't really understand this comment. What does "In-Home Streaming" mean in this context?
It's part of the absurdity that is the US tax code.

I think it was Bill Clinton (among countless others) that elaborated how the obvious thing to do, is to compress the corporate tax rate down to close to 20%, and eliminate most of the tax gaming (simplification).

We could continue to tax corporations at a reasonably competitive rate (vs the rest of the world), simplify the tax code drastically, and keep tax revenue approximately the same. That we can't seem to do something so obvious, which has lots of support from both parties, draws a pretty big sad face from me.
Sketch to App Store
Totally agree, but it looks like HN's Google Brigade doesn't!
Cool, what's a better summary?

Edit: Thank you for the feedback.
I just got the older generation Moto X (developer edition) because my Nexus 5 died (and the Play store is out of them). I really like it. It's a solid build. Not that much crapware, but since I'm rooted I disabled it all anyway.

Highlights: the screen and external speaker. The newest Moto X is a larger than the one I have. I think it's in between the Nexus 5 and 6, in size.

The only issue I have with the new Moto X: can't unlock the bootloader.
He didn't encourage anyone to lie. He said he would leave it up to his direct reports to figure out how to maximize cash flow. If a subordinate then decided to lie, that was the subordinate's decision.

Whenever you think your boss is telling you to do something wrong, the best possible thing you can do is to write them a letter (and keep a copy) explaining how you think it's wrong, and that you want them to confirm that they want you to do it. If they refuse to confirm it, don't do it. People do actually have free will, you know.
Microsoft just squashed a 19-year-old bug. How did it go undetected so long?
Poor corporations.. Maybe we should start non-profit to help them survive. You know, each us could donate few bucks to keep these poor corporations afloat. After all what can they do with a few tens of billions in cash?
This is a prominent example of how things can go wrong in big companies. That's exactly what happens in the (so globally hated) Greek public sector. The fact that it happens at companies like Amazon (probably MS, FB, GOOG, APPL, SONY, etc. ) says a lot about politics in big corps/orgs.

Unfortunately skills are not all that relevant after all in our modern liberal society.
That doesn't matter, people will up or down vote. It was, indeed a question loaded with my preexisting bias, but also a genuine question.
It's great if you can remember this, but the general public has a very short memory span. This is why I often think about some sort of site to document stuff like this, but there are obvious practical and legal hurdles. Would it be at all useful though?
Depends on usage patterns.

If there simply storing encrypted data then these servers might be unable to decrypt the stored information and reading their contents would be pointless.

If on the other hand these servers decrypt the data then encryption is of limited value.
There's the EU-funded FI-WARE cloud platform. Completely free to use for European start-ups and comes with 80 million euros in EU grants for start-ups using it. http://www.fi-ware.org/