skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dell’s Linux PC sequel still “just works”–but it adds 4K screen and rough edges
This is a puff peice about a modestly useful google product. Google Now is nothing more than a
glorified secondary notification pane.
Why would you not give 2 weeks (or really any reasonable time) notice? What do you gain from not doing it? (especially compared to the hassle for your employer and the potential of it coming back to haunt you)
Agreed, the only thing the employer needs is that you are leaving voluntarily and that means that you cannot sue them later because you lost your job. In some states it will also prevent you from collecting unemployment.

So your name, the fact that you are resigning, and your proposal for your last day.

And as others have said, when you submit that understand that your employer may ask you to leave immediately, so be ready to collect your stuff and walk out the door.
I love the idea. The product has a variety of directions it can take with emerging technologies and I can see it becoming a solid companion to viewing TV/videos.

Price is out of my range, but I don't think it's an unrealistic price tag, but at the current price, you'll only be gaining a certain portion of the market.

As for me, I don't watch TV and haven't owned a TV for about five years now. That's not to say I wouldnt mind trying this out when I'm watching a movie on my laptop, if and when thats be a possibility.
phi^n, where phi ≈ 1.618 is the golden ratio.
Maria Bustillos is great. A nerd with good politics and great skill at the craft of writing. She is also one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter for calling attention to other good writers.
I say we encourage them, because it is hilarious and I love a good laugh.
Interestingly, even Sam was not really a successful founder. He found success after he was hired by YC.
This, this, this!

Even if you're very friendly with the C-team at your company, DO NOT GIVE HONEST FEEDBACK. It can only hurt you in the future. I, myself, made this mistake a few years ago, and now I'm always worried a potential employer will ask for a reference from that particular employer.
HN Moderators: it's "Google Now", not "Google now..." thanks =)
"(Another thing, NEVER accept a counter offer)"

Over the years, I've heard this advice repeatedly, but with often wildly different reasons. I'm genuinely curious what your rationale for this advice is.
Let's hope this will revive and push these ideas even further.
Follow the advice in the rest of this thread: keep it neutral or positive. Maybe things turn around for you, and although you now think that you will never return at this company, in five or ten years time you might think differently. Your situation may have changed, the economy may have changed, the company may have changed, and either of these may make it totally different.
I want feedback, please
Terseness is quite a subjective thing, as I think TCC is not all that small among all the C (and C-subset) compilers that exist like Small-C; on the other hand, OTCC is in realm of "too terse" for me.

This one is more agreeable with my style (and I think the parser in it is amazingly concise and elegant):

https://github.com/rswier/c4/blob/master/c4.c
Work smarter, not harder.

Figuring it out though can be the difficult part.
Worse than being labeled "uninteresting" is being labeled an outcast.

That's why people closet their real interests when talking to strangers.
So... my home network's SSID needs to be set to "home" for that to work? You are just spoofing an SSID? That's not so bad. Usually when TWC, ATT, etc, give you a router/modem it is set to some random string. A lot of people don't change that (lived in 7 apartments in 5 years), so you'd only grab the people that literally set their SSID to "home" then.

Or am I missing something here?
Docker, Rails and Docker Compose for your dev workflow
Available in the latest version of Node or only io.js?
I can clone Snapchat in a weekend. So can couple of million other people. It's fall could be as rapid as its rise.

I cannot even begin to grasp the challenges of delivering canned soup around five continents.

Campbell solve hard problem. Snapchat - easy one.
Thanks for this feedback. This is why I regret my decision (to stay with my current employer). I kind of shit the whole situation by even entertaining a counter offer from my current employer. I wish I would've just stuck to my guns and taken the leap.

I would consider the move if I had some confidence it won't kill my relationship with my current employer and make Ippon think I'm afraid of commitment or making decisions.
Didn't Nintendo have a javascript game engine for web based games?

Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Web_Framework
Can we just not link to wsj.com? We can't read the articles.
I met Prof. Tanenbaum in 2008, when I pitched AWS (Amazon Web Services) to the university staff. (I was Tech Evangelist for AWS in EMEA at the time).

I only knew about him because of his "fights" with Linus Torvalds, and because I've studied on a couple of his books (which I found excellent).

Meeting him was a big surprise: extremely funny, friendly, provocative, very smart, and in general someone you could instantly like. I loved when he would think about something and just close one eye, raise the other one to the ceiling, and make one of the funniest faces ever.

I felt so happy afterwards, for the honor of meeting him, and for the joy that derived from that attitude of his.

I wish every professor was as enjoyable (and competent) as him.
How is this better than using a template?
feersum company name
"Empirically, you're wrong about that. There are now over a thousand YC alums who prove you don't need it."

Like Instacart (Amazon), Parse (Google), or Zenter (Amazon & GoDaddy)?

Or going beyond YC, Twitter (Google), FourSquare (Google), Instagram (Google), Quora (Facebook), Asana (Facebook), Cloudera (Google, Yahoo, Facebook), YouTube (PayPal), Yelp (PayPal), Palantir (PayPal), SpaceX (PayPal), Tesla (PayPal), WhatsApp (Yahoo), StackOverflow (Microsoft), Android (Apple), EBay (Apple), NeXT (Apple), Nest (Apple), Amazon (D.E. Shaw), Oracle (Ampex), and Apple (Hewlett-Packard)?

Empirically, having a "brand name" on your resume isn't necessary to found a great company, but it helps a lot. The companies above comprise almost all of the modern tech industry. The ones missing are almost all founded by founders recently out of a brand-name college or grad school: Google (Stanford), Microsoft (Harvard), Facebook (Harvard), Viaweb/YC (Harvard), DropBox (MIT), SnapChat (Stanford).
Thanks @markeroon, you're too kind. Always happy to help :-)
Google introduces age-based rating system for apps
Climate change is itself ideological.
Door Skimmer and Hidden Camera = Profit
What does it even mean for them to reject a notice? Were they going to insist on paying you even after you stopped showing up, otherwise?
Thank you for the kind words @thealphanerd, really happy to hear you're liking bitHound and the integration with Bitbucket!
When FB gives you a patent grant, it implies they have patents they could sue people over. An MIT or BSD copyright license alone could mean there are no patents to grant.
These Are the Top 20 US Accelerators
The GNU modes just enable additional features which conflict with plain C. Any feature which can coexist with plain C will be enabled in the regular C modes too. For example, __typeof__ is enabled everywhere, because the compiler is allowed to do just about anything it wants with a __ prefix, but plain typeof is only enabled in the GNU modes, since it could cause valid C programs using "typeof" for their own purposes to fail to compile.
It's actually a very useful and powerful Android tool: traffic info, flight info, package tracking, and more automatically collected and updated in a reference pane.
Okay, THAT was impressive.
This is because the LibreSSL group choose not to participate: http://lwn.net/Articles/601958/
Closed apps are a nightmare for an open source ecosystem
If they'd get rid of the ridiculous rent control, that would help a lot on both sides.

When I moved out there I considered buying a 3 story home out by Ocean Beach. Then to afford it renting out 2 of the 3 floors. After doing some risk analysis (researching the legal aspects) there was no way I could do that and expect to not get burned in a multitude of ways.

So it creates this really shady market for illegal rentals (you have to drive around to find them) and an adversarial way of living in this supposed liberal utopia.

Not my cup of tea, but I have many friends that love living in the city.
But god forbid you put a 30-second clip of you and your friends messing around, with a Beyonce song in the background or whatever.
One key point:

"During the joint press conference with DeNA, Iwata clarified that Nintendo will not port videogames created for dedicated consoles to smart devices."

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/03/17/nintendos-next-dedicate...
Yeah, and fair use doesn't exist on YT for all intents and purposes. Effectively ContentID is actually much more restrictive than real copyright law by far, and there's nothing anyone can do about it because YT is a private company and you don't HAVE to use them (although the lack of competition is disheartening).

It is an unfortunate situation all around, one that I don't see changing any time soon... Only legitimate competition could fix this.
And this is why you should use a VPN on wifi. The VPN handshake will fail if you're trying to spoof the security certificate.
Show HN: March Madness for Hackers (2015 edition)
Do you need a static ip for that kind of stuff?
But you don't carry the hotel room with you. A car is a piece of equipment. You use that piece of equipment in public. I don't see why there should be an expectation of privacy.

Most security features are used once the car is flagged stolen. Nobody is going to listen to you sing karaoke in the car.
20 fucking years. I'm sorry but this is so hopelessly obsolete, it is outrageous. Is there any hope for this to be universally reduced to say 5 years in the foreseeable future?
Scala has always been multi-paradigm -- that can be a strength or a weakness. Martin Odersky seems brilliant, and I've enjoyed watching some of the talks he's given, but he also seems to define words in a way that goes against the way I use those same words. For instance, he seems to conflate "module" and "object" to the point that any language with "modules" is also an object-oriented language, which is odd, since that would make Haskell and Erland object-oriented. I'm thinking of what he wrote here:

"Objects done well provide a lightweight module system (in the sense of ML). The requirement for a good module system is something that's often overlooked when all you do is a simple application, but its lack becomes painfully apparent for large systems and systems that are maintained over time. You can go the SML route and provide a module system and a functional core language. But then there's the pressure that you want to generalize your modules to be more flexible, which means you want them to become recursive and first-class. If you do that, you end up with a de-facto object system in addition to your core language of algebraic data types and functions. Scala's approach of unifying modules and objects is more parsimonious: The same constructs define the core language and the module language. So Scala is simpler, in the sense that fewer concepts are needed to describe the total feature set."

Others have already commented on this, and I have nothing more to add, but I do find myself doubtful about whether the "Scala is simpler" is justified. Scala has always been multi-paradigm, so I don't think of it as simple -- and, again, that can be a strength or a weakness. I'm reflecting on what was written here: http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/OOP-...
Nice to see a shout out to the greatest book ever written on being a good conversationalist! "How to Win Friends and Influence People" ought to be required reading in high school.

My wife struggles with introversion. She hates talking to strangers and non-friends, calls networking "schmoozing", and generally sees only the negative in meeting new people. I've tried to get her to read this book for years, but she fights me on it.
O'Reilly is wrong, though: Permissive licenses are more like Thelema ("do what thou wilt...") than Christianity.
As a result, their last two weeks were full of tense meetings, shouting matches, threats of lawsuit from both sides, and dirty things being said behind their back.

That employee was foolish to stick around. At the first sign of hassle from the employer you scoop up your things and walk out the door. Your local labor laws cover you as far as making sure your last paycheck is delivered within a certain amount of time.
But if it is so absurd then why have we switched from "global warming" (oops maybe not a good term) to "climate change" (oops climate always changes) to "extreme weather"? And why do we suddenly have superstorms? Because the storms are not sufficiently bad to be called hurricanes?

Being in science has made me very sceptical of a lot of science, especially science that is hyped and suddenly has a lot of money to divide among participating scientists. Publish-or-perish is very perverse stimulus.

And even here I see things like F-ing republicans. He man, we are supposed to be skeptical, you know, skeptic magazine is for the "in crowd", right!? But not of human induced climate change, noooo... And heaven forbid don't mention that you think things will solve itself with better nuclear reactors, solar power and such, Nooo, we are a bad species, we are a tumor. Even though we solved acidic rain and the hole in the ozon layer.

You know that 99% (scientist agree) is actually 97% of the scientists that express an opinion at all (about 33%)!
From: http://m.iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article

"We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW (anthropogenic global warming), 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming." ... "Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming."

Edit: Yes this post is a bit of an emotional rant but I hate how being a skeptic is bad depending on the subject.
142 Beautiful Photos of Blade Runner's Model Cars, Buildings
Goodbye, IE: Microsoft Is Dumping the Internet Explorer Brand
Special policies are for special people.

And all developers are not equal, but you know this. Treating them as such is destructive.
You make my point for me, 40% of the people will suffer, no citation necessary. This is not science.
You still buy the books through Amazon, and download them from Amazon. Technically they're not an IAP, since with "traditional" IAPs the app store/play store would keep track of what purchases a user has made; with Kindle, Amazon is keeping track of what you buy and they link it to your account so you can access it anywhere.
A Future with Perfect Price Discrimination in Software
Ambition for iOS
It depends. If you're "hot" in the market and/or if you have a big emergency fund, consider having a 1-2 month mini-sabbatical between jobs (you can even ask the new employer to postpone the starting date).

You will never get a chance like that. Of course, it doesn't always work, it really depends on the situation.
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The problem is when you cap gains at 1-2%, any time inflation is higher, that person is now getting a subsidy.

This is why CA has enormous debt and swaths of areas that have gone bankrupt. It's not sustainable.

Get rid of Prop 13 (or raise the limit) and rent control. I'd say cap it at 5% because if inflation is higher than that, well that's on the Federal Government more than local.

SF isn't making more land and they're also making it impossible to build up. Hell, my buddy looked into adding a deck onto his house. After doing research he figured it wasn't worth it (some people face years of delays getting neighbors to sign off on a deck on their own f'ing property).
nah, I presume like in everything else, one should strive for quality, not quantity. this being highly subjective, one does not want to be one of those people desperate to talk at all costs, just to avoid moments of silence.

people write here about being good listener, and encourage your counterparts to talk about them. this might be OK if you are trying at all costs to be liked by somebody else (ie find new friend). otherwise, be yourself, find interesting people that share your view with. and don't be desperate, worthy friendships take time to build, and are not meant to be had with everybody out there
Over my 14 years of work experience, I have occasionally encountered work environments that have turned extremely hostile for my last two weeks, simply because I decided to leave (I was once told by my manager at a DOE energy lab when I was in my mid 20s that he should "slap the shit out of me" for leaving, but that is a tale for another post).

"Reasonable" is up to you. As I said, notice is not (EDIT: as asked by other posters, this is US-centric advice. Please verify this applies in your jurisdiction) required. An employer is not required to provide you with any notice to terminate you, and therefore I only provide notice if I believe the work relationship will be amiable for the duration after I give notice.

Sometimes, you gain nothing from giving notice, and I refuse to allow fear ("hassle for employer", "coming back to haunt you") to drive my decisions.
All WPA or WPA2 secured networks use mutual authentication. Since you do not know the password of my home network, my device will refuse to connect to it. In particular the 4-way EAPOL handshake will fail, since the challenge-response algorithm detects that you don't know the password. This is "only" an issue if you have open networks in your Network List.
> 1 line/minute

I get that that's an upper limit, but that's still pretty shocking. Is there an overarching reason for this type of performance? Examples of this style of code?
"Richard's sort of like an Old Testament prophet, with lots of 'Thou shalt not,' and BSD is a more Christian approach, saying, 'Love your neighbor; make value for the world. Let the people do with it what they will!'"

Such a dud on O'Reilly's part. The analogy is totally confused from a theological and sociopolitical perspective, in its treatment of the Old Testament and New Testament as being mutually exclusive/opposed sets in the Christian religion, and the implicit assumption that most interpretations of Christianity are from a libertarian/anarchist perspective.
> Good job Maria Bustillos.

> Can't believe I just wrote that about an article in The New Yorker. :)

I put that more on the former than the latter, Bustillos is an excellent writer.
I like this other comment more..

"Nobody likes M.I.T. People respect it. I respect it. But like it? Does anyone like taking a drink from a fire hose? I am still in awe of the place."
APPEW: 'Pingz'
It blows my mind how the Wi-Fi workflow seems to be inverted in ways that are atrocious for privacy and security.

There was a devious little company called WiFast that provided WiFi hotspots to local businesses. You'd have to authenticate with e-mail or Facebook to get access. The devious part is that they could then match your device's MAC address to your identity and track you as you moved throughout any city where they had merchants in their network. They built personalized profiles by spying on exactly where you moved throughout the day. This model is a big reason Apple started randomizing disconnected MAC addresses in newer versions of iOS.

I don't understand why devices are responsible for broadcasting by default in WiFi. Naively, it seems like the default case should have base stations broadcasting their IDs, and your device should only try to connect when it recognizes one. (This also seems like it would be more efficient for battery life.)

Obviously, hidden could SSIDs pose a problem, but does anyone know why WiFi devices broadcast so much data before they've even found a base station to pair with?
> "Alabama bumpkins at cow colleges"

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here, exactly, but I am sure that I don't like it. We have enough problems with ageism and sexism in this industry, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at regionalism.
I'd pick Campbell's, that 2.77% dividend yield is nothing to sneeze at when interest rates are this low.
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No, but he may get off the hook wrt/ a speeding ticket.
You could call it a bubble, but it really doesn't matter to anyone if it pops. VC money is a rounding error in the overall economy.
Given the overwhelming majority view here, I'm going to do the opposite and write a spectacular bridge burning letter and post it publicly. No one will forget me.

Seriously -- thanks for the input, everyone. I'll keep it short, simple, and professional.
If your laptop is used to connecting to "home01284", it will send out a probe "hey home01284, are you out there?". Anyone nearby who gets this packet can respond, "yes, I'm home01284, connect to me!" They don't have to know a priori what SSID you were looking for, because your machine specifically advertises it.
This will not hide or remove your full history of connections. It will change your MAC so you'll look like another person who lives at your house and works with you. But the published list of networks remains the same.
There is an obvious hidden assumption that 20% rule results in a productivity decrease, which is true for coal mining or agricultural harvest work, but not so much for software development.

A bit less water cooler time talking about sports to avoid something boring, a bit less HN time, combined with fresh new perspectives and new techniques and new ideas can easily result in a net productivity gain. If as per other posts you do strict 40/wk then we all know that at 4:45pm most folks are stalling till 5 so if you officially let him whip out a book on cool new technology you've lost exactly nothing while gaining quite a bit for free. Only a madman or a fool would "start something big" 15 minutes before going home and you claim he's skilled so we can assume nothing of huge importance would be lost by whipping out a book at 4:45pm. Or on the other side of the clock we all know time is spent spinning up, some folks delete emails, some gossip or talk, if he spins up by reading "cool new tech book" or fooling around in another language for 15 minutes to get into the flow, again, you've lost nothing while gaining quite a bit.

Get there faster by going slower, kind of thing. If you're lost in the woods, running as fast as you can just makes you die tired, so slow down.

If it is just grunt manual labor like data entry, then it is probably too boring to be fixed under any circumstances, but you claim in other posts to never hire juniors etc so by your own definition you can't be that bad... probably.
How do you identify an IT security leader? By the way they hold their laptop
>the first step to good conversation is being genuinely interested in other people's interests

I'm skeptical of this advice. Coleridge was one of the most famous conversationalists ever (there are multiple books recording his after-dinner chats), and his "conversations" were pretty much monologues.

I think being interesting yourself is more important than being interested.
> Two weeks notice is a courtesy you're not required to extend to an employer, and you should only do so if you're on good terms.

This is an international site, you should be careful giving out US "at will" state advice like it applies to everywhere.

In the UK for example, you can in theory be sued for failure to give a "reasonable" period of notice[0] (although in reality this nearly never happens).

[0] http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1650
Or maybe we should find religious reasons why emitting greenhouse gases is evil.