skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I think a good way to draw that line is to not include employees who work for more than just the one company. Foxconn manufactures products for more companies than just Apple.

Major Customers of Foxconn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers
Well I enjoy playing GTA and killing people in videogames, I never hit anybody ever. It works with movies too.

Granted I'm talking about manga and comics, obviously not real material.
Samsung's $100M Internet of Things Bet
How far does Apple’s international support reach?
For HN discussion, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8951262
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how about it doesn't work at night?
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> Comparing objects of different types is a compile-time error.

Then use C. In OOP comparing objects of different types is key to inheritance. The reason their example works is because everything in C# inherits from object, so you'll always find some commonality to compare.

You could have the compiler generate a warning when object.equals is used (rather than overridden) but getting rid of comparisons between different object types completely is backwards and will reduce efficiency.
Yes, when I was on a remote island in Thailand. It actually felt refreshing being disconnected from the internet for several days.
I'm generally on the side of people who are just doing their jobs and have to do something shitty that is out of their control. Getting angry at a store clerk because of their store's return policy is dumb. But when your job is specifically to annoy me, you can fuck right off, and I'll let you know. I'd rather have these people on the dole than calling me.

You're right that it'd save me some effort being less rage-y about this, but if you're going to be distracting me and wasting my time, I'm going to give you some form of payback.
Easy, pay me more than the competition (big corporates, public sector etc)
Because of the increased risk of default, you have to offer more.
So convince seed/angel funders and then seek me
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"...huck the whole thing and rewrite it in assembly."

What are the functions in libc that you truly need and use?

How many of those routines are you incapable or unwilling to rewrite yourself?

I have asked myself these questions on many occasions.

The cruft laden operating system I use (which I imagine by many people's standards is "bare bones") is hopelessly dependent on "libc". But I find that the userland programs I truly need can be written using only a minimal subset of the many functions that are compiled into it.

Could I write any of these in assembly and create my own "libasm" to do the syscalls? This is a project I have contemplated many times.

To motivate myself to keep writing more assembly in the age of scripting language du jour madness, I write a small program in assembly language and then write the same program in C and then step through each compiled program (e.g., with ald). Seeing some of the overhead is an effective motivator.
> I would guess if you meet your tax obligations and employment law obligations you should be ok.

If its an audit red flag, that's a risk even if you aren't breaking the tax rules associated with that transaction -- it increases the risk associated with any tax rules you might, knowingly or not, be breaking.

Further, if you are using it to vet potential permanent employees in working conditions as much like the ones they will be working in as employees as possible, its quite likely you aren't meeting your employment law obligations when you designate them as contractors (and, because tax treatment is tied to that designation, quite likely as a result not meeting your tax law obligations.)

Certainly, the best advice is a domain expert working for you in that capacity, that knows exactly what you are planning, rather than your payroll company speaking in generalities, but in generalities the advice given doesn't seem all that bad.
Vacation up north a few summers ago. Brought my laptop, but there was no connection unless I went to a coffee shop in town.
I absolutely love this:

> Are Pinegrams really made from pine?
They're actually made from domestic Maple plywood, but the MapleGram domain name was already taken so I had to settle for PineGram
> We've hired no one because of this - its too hard to vet engineers without seeing their work.

I really wish certain segments of this industry would stop being so irrationally paranoid about hiring. I think so many of our hiring and talent problems are self-inflicted.
I generally come down on the side of copyright infringement is not theft - it's something different. If I copy the latest pop song, no one has been deprived of it.

However, in the case of plagiarism (and related forms of passing of another's work as mine...), there is something really akin to property theft: credit theft. If you take my words, and pass them off as your own, and get credit for them rather than me - well then it is pretty much the same thing as you taking my dollar: I am deprived of it.
You could build something like that in Javascript on top of HTML <video> and MSE, probably. The EME (DRM) spec is not really related to this.
Over here in the Netherlands i've never seen a check being used. I just checked my banks website, and they even stopped making them.
Probably not from any foreign countries but I would bet 110% that they are an open book to the US government.
I see the problem is in your statement

>If you have exploits available to you, you're making yourself attackable.

Do you?
This New York Times piece does a really nice job of cataloging all of the criticisms:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...
Sure, there isn't always a hard-and-fast line between spam calls and legitimate calls. Asking how a service appointment went seems personally relevant to me. Asking if I'd like to sign up for my ISP's TV service isn't. It's the latter call that enrages me.
There's a big difference between "got into the wild" and "caused harm to innocent users".
While I am certain there will be no evidence that parachutes have any impact on pilot behavior based on the small sample size, I am also certain that there is nothing magic about pilots and that they suffer from the same effects of psychological risk compensation as everyone else does. If parachutes make taking risks less fatal then more risks will be taken. It is as simple as that.
There was a fairly prominent comment in the Hacker News discussion of the original submission that was critical of the product and saying it lacked a very basic, essential feature. I wonder if that deterred many from buying? I know it stood out to me, and a friend who read the same discussion mentioned it in conversation too. Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8948414

The recent Lockitron discussion was quite damning and negative - I imagine that overwhelmingly negative feedback might have limited any sales from HN readers too. That discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8953457
Well, when I started programming, C and Pascal execution speed were looked down like managed runtimes are still nowadays.

Serious application development for consumer computers was done in straight Assembly. Anything higher than that was "scripting". :)
"If I were to connect raw traffic figures with sales
directly it would have equated with something around
~$25,000 in net revenue."

If success was as easy as writing content for HN we could all just skip to being millionaires.
I made clear at the time that the study claimed 80 percent of traffic to Tor hidden services related to child pornography, not 80 percent of all Tor traffic.

This is also a bogus number. An estimated 80% of Tor hidden service directory lookups are for those sites. Long-lived connections only make one lookup, and sites that people check multiple times in one session only get looked up periodically. The ones that are looked up the most often are the ones where people open Tor, visit the site, then close Tor. This does not correlate with volume of Tor traffic at all.
I am not sure, what possible ethical principle leads people to censor words and pictures which they deem unsuitable in any nation?
Great point. I just meant in the context of the languages I cited Rust doesn't offer similar abstractions.
Have you seen http://www.sohoassets.com/ or https://assetbox.io/
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I have worked on large games in both. UE4 is a lot more powerful,but it certainly is a lot more complex too. If you want to start on a nice, functional indie game, go with Unity. I would recommend doing that purely because of the Unity Assets store - when you are building your own game and don't have money to hire an artist, the selection on that store is absolutely fantastic.

Blueprint system from UE4 is actually very similar to what's used on huge commercial games, the scripting is top-notch and overall UE4 is definitely a batter tool than Unity. But like I've said above, it's much more complex and I wouldn't recommend it for starters.
What you say makes perfect sense, but in that context how do "contract to hire" places do what they do legally?
Last summer I did a cycle camping trip. No internet for 7 days.
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Do you store the user ids?
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For those who don't know the reference:

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sun.hardware/msg/24...
Alibaba defies Chinese authorities over critical report on trading practices
Given the ES3 style creation if components (which appears to have no "superclass"), can you also just do "class MyComponent" (no "extends React.Component"?)
If you're using rails, explore its libraries. Devise is an excellent gem for user auth/login/registration. On Rails, you should move fast to build MVP, and test the audience.
#BlamePutin is a knee jerk reaction that will get you upvotes amongst the fans of Western media. Of course for you Putin is an evil dictator despite the fact that no proof exists that he ordered an assassination of anyone, while Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winning leader of the "Free World" police states, legally kills people with drone strikes. Warped values in my opinion.
Similar situation here; this "peninsula" doesn't really exist:

https://www.google.com.ph/maps/place/23%C2%B047'02.5%22S+35%...

I always assumed that google uses some kind of algorithm to detect land/sea borders, and it messed up.
Not letting a country 'bully' or dictate a site like Facebook is one thing but a valid legal request that has been granted by a court in a given country is something completely different.

People seem to think that Facebook is doing this just to bow to pressure from certain groups but in reality it is just that they have been legally instructed to do so, if they were to fail to do this then access to Facebook would likely be severed by the Turkish ISP's under another legal order.
I work in the industry, so I kind of picked this up through osmosis. I will ask someone at work if they have any good literature.
You're right. I wasn't thinking when I wrote the comment.

Still, the CDC's page for the chicken pox vaccine doesn't mention its effect on shingles ( http://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/vaccination.html ), which suggests to me that avoiding shingles may be a great perk, it isn't the main reason behind requiring vaccination in school children.

With the caveats of believing Wikipedia, Wikipedia's page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine ) states both that being vaccinated reduces (but does not eliminate) the risk of shingles, and that vaccination of children raises the risk of shingles in unvaccinated adults slightly because the adults don't come into contact with the virus as often (near the end of the subsection on "Rates of immunity" and the second paragraph of the subsection "Rates of chickenpox").

Your case of shingles may, in fact, have been caused by widespread vaccination of children (I would expect that problem to disappear after a long transition; and, of course, it's impossible to say if your case was caused by this transition, but it's certain that some cases are).
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If you read Dave Miller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Miller)'s post that Cantrill responds to (http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html), it's a really well researched critique of Solaris SPARC performance, justifying the existence of a port of the Linux kernel for that platform. Cantrill's job title was 'Solaris Performance', so Sun and Cantrill looked pretty poor by responding with a personal attack.
I understand, and I admit I haven't done anything like that. But isn't it still easier to thoroughly test a day or week's worth of OS changes at a time than to test 6 month's worth or a year's?
This is about revenue, but every time I see Apple's financial statements, I remember that Apple (as of June 2014) has 160 billion dollars in cash. 2 years of _revenue_ (not operating expenses, mind you, but quite a bit more). I think Bill Gates was all about having enough cash to run the company without a single sale for a year, but apparently they have a 20% profit margin, so we're looking at almost 30 months where they could continue to spend everything, not get a single dime, and be "fine".

If that's not an example of the absolute failure of trickle-down economics, I don't know what is.
Who cares! Everyone knows that Putin did it! #BlamePutin
>How can Zuckerberg say "Je Suis Charlie", and then censor the very kind of content that Charlie Hebdo published?

Because PR.
I almost exclusively use utf8mb4_bin (for "human" text) and ascii_bin (for ID's or other "computer" text) -- they're basically the two 'extremes', and it's rare to need anything in between.

And then other collations like case-insensitive or accent-insensitive only when required, e.g. because the field is used for search.
It's pretty much a wooden plaque, but that doesn't sound very enticing so I was trying to frame it more as a greeting card type of product. You're right though, it definitely needs a more literal description right up front.
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How about the United States / China / Russia / Great Britain?
To survive long-term without getting massively irradiated you need, at a minimum, metres of rock between you and the sun (and as you say, lifting them from Earth is going to be expensive). Ideally a magnetosphere too. Gravity is also desirable for health reasons and random practicality things (e.g. in zero-g you have to sleep in a draught, as otherwise there's a risk of a dangerous bubble of CO2 forming around your head). And temperature can be a huge problem for spacecraft that aren't attached to a big heat reservoir - scorching in the sun, freezing in the shade.

Maybe ultimately we'll be able to construct nice habitats for orbiting stations, but with current engineering capabilities rocky bodies are the only safe places to stay long-term. I certainly expect we'll get to asteroids eventually. But for now, Mars is closer than the asteroids, closer in delta-V terms than the Moon, and much more promising in terms of having organic-y raw materials available for farming and fuel. It makes sense to go there (or maybe Venus, but aerostats would be a big chunk of new engineering) first.
Can we donate to support this specific initiative?
He's also the guy who's stated that he would fire an employee for using proper English: https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

Seems like an utterly charming fellow.
There is a need to launch a new round of sanctions against Putin's Russia.
That's exactly what my company did! My team's last boss was dropped from our company. He got a new job and we all quit and were hired en masse to work for him again. Since we already had great team cohesion, we hit the ground running and won Dev Team of the Year for our city. I think it's an awesome way to go -- kind of like an aqui-hire but you get more loyalty I think...
I still find the supposition that Facebook was supposed to defy a court order hilarious. Yes, I understand it's a court order from Turkey, not America, but you can't just flagrantly break the law in other countries simply because yours believes differently.

Or put another way: As much as Americans like to act like it, we can't enforce our ideals around the world without significant investment that I don't think anyone wants us making after the last couple of times.
Why don't big companies offer Canadian pricing?
I live in the UK and often see GBP as a currency option on big sites, along with euros, with the primary currency being USD. Why isn't CAD$ an option too?

I just went onto salesforce.com's Canadian page, and all their prices are in USD.

Is there a reason why it's standard not to offer CAD$ pricing?
A problem that is not exclusive to Facebook. In fact, all U.S. companies are open books to U.S. Government employees wielding the right documents.

My point was that a Tor Hidden Service provides anonymity to users in countries whose _links_ to Facebook's servers are policed.
Just doing what's best for business and keeping costs down, nothing to see here.
Foxconn could also just fully automate iPhone assembly without Apple caring.

http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/185960-foxconn-is-att... "Chinese site IT Home is reporting that Apple — the company most associated with Foxconn — will be the first company to use these new robots."

As to being Foxconn workers in name only the Chinese government makes it much simpler to higher Chinese workers though a Chinese owned company than directly employing them.
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Google announced that 56.1% of ads served on the internet are never even “in view”—defined as being on screen for one second or more

http://qz.com/307204/google-admits-that-advertisers-wasted-t...
Except that despite beautiful renderings of cities on the surface of Mars, the radiation would force everyone to live underground. And if we are going to build huge cities under the surface of Mars, we might as well try it here. But no one is doing it,because there is no point.
Software AG and Wipro provide real time analytics for Internet of Things
I find France's own crackdown on non-protected free speech during and shortly after their legendary march for free speech to be much more ironic than a business obeying local law.
MIT has some great youtube videos on Algos. and data structures - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw
It's horrifying to me that such a beautiful piece of real-time rendering should be marred by herky-jerky camera movement. Please, people: life is too short to use gamepads to control first person games when you don't have to (i.e. on a desktop). Get a mouse+WASD going, crank up the mouse smoothing if it suits the mood of the piece (as it would here), and give us an elegant viewpoint to match the elegant environment.
Back when digital, electronic computers were new, assembly was called "automatic programming".
It's possible, for sure. It makes me think about timing and if one can "prep" for these more like marketing campaigns... But that's probably impossible.
The 'organized ignorance' that is religion is exactly the principle you speak of.
Am I wrong in thinking that those are basically online spreadsheets? What's missing is the software agent that would track software installs.
How about the Nazi hunters? Herbert Cukurs was assainated by Mossad in the 60s.
That's actually one of the reasons I find the idea of a guaranteed basic income so promising. The biggest thing making an "everybody freelances" world a dystopia rather than a eutopia (sic) is that it would eliminate any semblance of income stability.

Don't forget health care. That plus a basic living stipend would be quite a revolution to the economy. We'd start to price activities more sanely, and use automation more effectively.

The people still driven by status will still work their asses off to get ahead, and in general I think things would still get done. With the energy resources and automation we already have, we can do this now.
Depends on the graphics. Sprite-based games are still perfectly playable; Super Mario World is still gorgeous 25 years after its release.

Meanwhile, polygon-based games show their age really, really obviously. You can see the difference between Madden 2005[1] and Madden 2015[2]. I wonder what Madden 2025 is going to look like. Hilariously, people note that Madden 2005 is probably one of the best in terms of gameplay. I don't think it was until 2013 that they actually tried innovating, and the innovations weren't very good.

[1]http://www.vgu.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Madden-05.jpg

[2]http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/madden-15/9...
About a month ago, on a bike trip with my family! Thailand has spotty internet :)
I think so, but you'll probably miss `this.setState`.

They are moving out `setState` into a sideways module[1] so I assume full-featured classes without React.Component should be possible in the future.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/ed7332c74921874cdcb...
Here are my observations as an initially non-technical person working on a relatively technical side-project that requires the help of others:

1. Non-technical people (myself included) often have a bit of a complex about being non-technical. They are well-steeped in the YC/Stanford/Valley zeitgeist and believe their project won't be taken seriously if it doesn't have legitimate engineering talent on the founding team. Depending on the product and the team's growth strategy, this may or may not actually be true.

2. I would posit that fear of not finding a technical cofounder (FONFATC, I just coined an acronym) is really three related, but distinct fears:
a. Fear of not being able to get the MVP / beta / 1.0 versions built.
b. Fear of not being able to raise money to grow because VC's won't take your team seriously if you don't have a technical cofounder.
c. Fear of not being able to recruit good engineers as you scale from, say, 3 people to 15 people. (The reasoning being, good engineers are going to have doubts about working for an organization that doesn't have a technical cofounder; both in terms of not wanting to be supervised by people who don't understand the technical fundamentals and in terms of working in a non-engineer-centric culture).

3. Non-technical people in some cases spend more time trying to find/recruit a technical cofounder than they would have to spend to learn the necessary technical skills to build a basic MVP. Not 1.0, ready-to-ship-to-paying-customers product, but MVP. Getting technical people to join your project is a less painful proposition once you have a product, even a crappy one.

4. Technical friends might not be willing to join your project as a cofounder, for reasons including: you can't pay them the salary they want/need; they're working on their own thing; they don't want to quit their sweet job; they think your idea is dumb. Even in these cases, you can get a lot of help from them if they are in fact your friends. They may not be interested in getting on your cap table, but they'll probably do a monthly code review with you if you ask nicely.
Does Facebook have a physical presence in Turkey?
> This seems more like spycraft than a politically motivated assassination.

Why would you poison somebody with polonium of all things, if not to send a message "don't defect or else"?

If "they" wanted him gone quietly almost all other solutions are cheaper, easier and less risky than polonium. Starting with organising a car accident.

BTW why wrtie "eastern block" if you only have example from 1 country (namely Russia)?

It's not like eastern block countries are similar to each other (except for 50 years of history ending 25 years ago). Compare Belarus, Estonia, Moldova and Czech Republic - completely different cultures, political systems.
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